Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

This year at CES 2018 Eureka Park, the mega startup hub of the conference, the hottest early-stage startups from around the world will showcase their products and services aimed at disrupting their respective industries. Meet the startups showcasing at Eureka Park Startup Arlington this year at CES 2018: BooleanGirl.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2018

As a long-time advisor to aspiring entrepreneurs, and a technology fan myself, I still meet dozens of techies with great solutions who assume they don’t need marketing to change the world. In fact, with today’s information overload, modern marketing is the key to raising even the most innovative solution above the crowd. Be specific.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

And while that cliché has been said about everything in the Lone Star state for years, it rings particularly true for the hottest startups showcasing their big innovations at SXSW Startup Night 2018 presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo. These days it seems like a professional is needed to interpret a business’ web analytics.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

As the rate of change continues to increase in business and technology, the more I’m convinced that marketing is the primary key to success for a new venture. Yet I find that many technical founders don’t feel they need it at all, or at best point to one person on the team who is marketing. The result is no deal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The market is changing so fast these days, and if you are not planning a solution today for tomorrow’s customers, you may be setting yourself up for failure and don’t even realize it. There are many free generalized tools, including Google Trends , which can be used to track customer behavior in looking for things that don’t exist yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

I’m still amazed at how many technical entrepreneurs don’t have a business pitch, and offer me their product pitch or product spec instead. I’m a technologist, so I always love to learn about the product, but every investor needs to make sure you have a business, as well as a product.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2019

David Wood: It's been about a year and a half now, we launched it in 2018. Why would someone use your software versus all those other event planning software products out there? David Wood: We're going really after two different markets. David Wood: We're going really after two different markets.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. Organic milk formula product Bobbie. 2023 hasn't been an easy year to be a startup. Runway AI user interface. Gumroad homepage.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has forced Energica to hit the brakes on production of its battery powered machines that can reach top speeds of 168 mph. In 2018, Energica was named the sole manufacturer to the MotoE Worldup — an electric version of MotoGP motorcycle racing. MotoE riders use the company’s EGO model as their base bike.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

What are you looking forwardtomost in 2018? Techand the markets overall--has enjoyed a surprisingly long stretch of prosperity. In many sectors, 2018 needs to be the time for many companies to either sell or make meaningfully aggressive moves to expand. The attractive by-product is that I am reading more and working out more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In this age of constant market evolution and new technology, there is no such thing as a static business that is self-sustaining. Specific measures that go beyond the traditional linear thinking include the following: Develop new products for your existing segment. Too many businesses only think of new products when in crisis mode.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

I just finished a new book, “ Shortcut Your Startup ,” by the entrepreneur brothers Courtney and Carter Reum, and I like their summary of five critical changes in the market that every entrepreneur should capitalize on: Pervasive computer usage is now the great equalizer. Brand scaling is driven by customers, not by business, large or small.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 20 million registered developers in 2018. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Commoditize complementary products. Above all, don’t forget to develop a comprehensive marketing and promotion strategy.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2019

Afterwards, we heavily engaged with the solar cell community to identify product-market-fit. At the beginning of 2018, ETC Solar spun out of Caltech with the mission and the goal to bring these optimized contacts for large scale deployment within the solar cell industry. How far along are you in bringing this to market?

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2022

And, in addition to the sellers themselves suspending sales, the strikers are urging Etsy customers to boycott this week as well, by avoiding any purchases through the platform. The April 11th price hike moves the cost of a transaction up from 5% to 6.5%, and it follows a previous increase in 2018 that moved that same fee from 3.5%

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Most of the entrepreneurs I advise today are ready to declare success when they get that first surge of traction with a real customer. You need to find investors for funding, vendors for volume manufacturing, processes for repeatable execution, as well as marketing and distribution to attract customers far beyond your pilot rollout.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2019

The company recently hired powerhouse executive Abby Coleman, the former vice president of marketing and strategy at Quidsi and head of e-commerce at Diapers.com as its new chief executive and is now looking to expand its footprint and unique approach to meal delivery beyond its current geographies. Meals are $10.95 Meals are $10.95

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2020

So, an eight-year product veteran from Facebook and an internationally renowned barista walk into a coffee bar… It’s not a joke. ” Taika includes a phone number for customer feedback on the packaging and the company is constantly tweaking its formulations. ” Image Credits: Taika (opens in a new window).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Examples cited include biometrics, tool productivity, environmental control, social visibility, relationship data, and brand insight. This shrinking group is willing to share location, brand history, and tool productivity data, but is still reticent to share social, biometric, and environmental data. Reluctant consumers – 44 percent.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At productboard we aim to bake best practices of product management straight into the interface, so you can improve the way you manage your products right out of the box. In the meantime, we’ll continue publishing thoughts and ideas we’ve learned from great product managers here. Why has product management be so slow to adapt?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Based on my experience, creating a new business is at least as difficult as creating an innovative solution, and it takes a knowledge of finance, operations, customers and the marketplace. If you don’t have all these interests and skills, even your most “disruptive” products will likely fail. Don’t try to be all things to all people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

With the speed of change and volume of market feedback today, as well as the advances in machine learning, Amazon, Alibaba, and others have proven the value of software driven strategy decisions. Only smart software can plow through the volume of live data, recognizing trends, customers, and match offerings to reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

As the Global Customer Growth Evangelist at Salesforce, with implementation roles at many other companies, she makes a host of relevant observations for every business owner. These days, customers remember the total experience with a company longer than they remember the price they paid. Pursue strategic alliances and partnerships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As a self-made entrepreneur and former chairman of Diamond Resorts International, he asserts that the five biggest companies by market value today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, aren’t really tech, but hospitality companies. Customer needs and expectations are changing faster than ever these days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2018

The intent is to indicate that founder passion is not a substitute for real customers buying the product. The challenge is to convince investors that your business will attract real customers, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses. Marketing is everything these days.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Of course you’ve probably known of Meg as a business leader for many years, formerly as President and CEO of Hewlett Packard and the CEO of eBay before that, but since late 2018 she has been the CEO of Quibi (joining founder Jeffrey Katzenberg as the first employee). Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2018

All entrepreneurs have multiple masters to serve, including customers, investors, and your own team. You need to enjoy working and learning from all the people around you, including customers. There are no excuses when the economy or the market changes. Have you really analyzed the market and competitors?

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Glossier affirmed our inherent beauty, then reminded us that we can be even more beautiful if we buy their “Boy Brow” pomade, which sold one tube every 32 seconds by 2018. Like with many consumer brands geared toward women, we buy in not just because of the marketing, but because of the product itself.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

The product is an app, available for them. In terms of artist side, the reason they use us is an alternative to radio promotion and marketing. It's a vehicle for marketing new releases, no pun intended. We recognized the struggles that artists have getting their music to market. So how far along are you on this now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2018

As a long-time advisor to entrepreneurs and business owners, I rarely find someone who doesn’t proclaim that the business world is changing rapidly, with new technology, new customer expectations, and new cultures. Others still routinely have phone hold queues for customer contact that can last up to an hour, with no alternative options.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2018

Starting a new venture and thriving in today’s economy is hard, but the best have figured out that customers and employees need to feel that you have a sense of purpose, to complement the company’s pursuit of profit. A great product or service as a solution is necessary, but not sufficient.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

The product is an app, available for them. In terms of artist side, the reason they use us is an alternative to radio promotion and marketing. It's a vehicle for marketing new releases, no pun intended. We recognized the struggles that artists have getting their music to market. So how far along are you on this now?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. Remind our readers, for those who aren't familiar with your company, what your products are all about?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

And while the market’s reaction was negative, there were folks who noted that the Model Y’s likeness to the 3 meant it was getting serious about selling vehicles. billion investment in 2018. I hired a pedicab during my stay and the driver confirmed my observations: they’re waiting much longer for customers now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

On the other hand, everyone is doing it, so that means more competition, and the market and technology are changing faster than ever before. Validate your solution with a prototype and real customers. You need something real that investors and customers can touch and feel. Ideas are not enough to gauge business potential.

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