Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

That’s a reason why some are quick to portend “a new bubble” but this post sets out to show that would be a misunderstanding of the market and in fact by historic levels this may be amongst the best times to invest in seed and early-stage funds. More on that later. If you look even more closely you’ll see just how skewed the data really is.

Venture Capital

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

Sales

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition.

Startup

Xconomy

MAY 9, 2019

It will be hard to top last year’s flurry of biotech companies joining the public markets, but this week is shaping up to be the busiest for life science IPOs in recent memory. Five biotechs priced their IPOs and at least one more is coming. To date in 2019, 23 healthcare-related companies have gone public, the most of any sector.

Pricing

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 14, 2019

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 3, 2019. Price could be revealed as well. borders and into other important markets such as China. Model Y, being an SUV, is about 10% bigger than Model 3, so will cost about 10% more & have slightly less range for same battery.

Los Angeles

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

million since its January 2019 inception. For now, it’s only available in Arizona, although the company plans to expand to other markets such as Texas, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Georgia. “The [Just] per mile price that a customer gets can change every month. Image Credits: Just Insure. year to date so far.

Startup

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

News broke in May that Bird was looking at a SPAC-led debut on the public markets. That’s precisely what the company will be worth in light of Switchback II’s share price declines, but the number could be lower than the headline figure from early merger disclosures. billion for Bird when it began to trade.

News

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 -- LAVA Healthcare Presents: The ins-and-outs of celebrity partnerships and how it can increase your company's value. Brand endorsements from celebrities and athletes have been proven to have a powerful economic impact on stock prices (Forbes 2016).

LAVA

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The e-tron Sportback reveal ahead of the LA Auto Show follows the launch earlier this year of Audi’s first all-electric vehicle, the 2019 e-tron. Audi has delivered 18,500 of its all-electric e-tron SUVs globally since March 2019 when the vehicle first came to market. The base price of the Sportback is 71,350 ($79,000).

Design

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

Starship raised $40 million Series A led by Morpheus Ventures back in 2019, and last January according to Pitchbook data also raised a further $17 million with strategic backers TDK Ventures (the investment arm of the Japanese electronics giant) and Goodyear Ventures among the investors. We are chasing delivery services around the world.

Invest

socalTECH

JULY 19, 2018

The company says it plans to launch in Southern California, plus additional states, in 2018 and 2019. READ MORE>>.

Southern California

Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2019

Even as Uber, Lyft, and other high-profile initial public offerings underperformed out of the gate, the average share price of companies that have gone public in the US this year is up by almost 33 percent. percent compared to their offer price at IPO. On average, those companies’ shares are up 32.6

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

Customer expectations of a relationship and personalization are stretching every business today, and pervasive use and confidence in social media by customers can override all your image building and marketing messages. Pushing yourself on customers by touting features and price doesn’t work anymore.

Customer

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data. Continuing incidences of personal identity theft , as well major personal data breaches , including Capital One (2019), Marriott/Starwood (2018), and Yahoo (2014) still weigh heavily on their decision process.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2019

Traditionally, you just worried about the quality of the sales transaction (price, speed, service), but the “customer experience” now includes ease of pre-sale shopping, post-sale support, with a connected relationship throughout. This can save them grief, as well as reduce your own marketing and sales costs.

Customer

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data. Continuing incidences of personal identity theft , as well major personal data breaches , including Capital One (2019), Marriott/Starwood (2018), and Yahoo (2014) still weigh heavily on their decision process.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2019

I still see too many aspiring business leaders highlighting their technology, product features, and price, more than customer value and usability. People want to connect with and learn from people like them – not from edicts, anonymous brand marketing material, and white papers that allow no interaction.

Customer

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

It reportedly paid a hefty $230 million to acquire the podcast publisher and network startup Gimlet Media, and has also acquired the podcast monetization platform Anchor for an undisclosed price. Finally, podcasting is a growing market. It’s the biggest podcast industry acquisition ever, and Spotify isn’t done.

Acquisition

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2019

First of all, you need some convincing market research that your solution addresses a real and growing problem. Skip the fuzzy marketing terms, like “easier to use” and “more functions.” Avoid the temptation to narrow the scope so far as to conclude that you have no competitors, since investors might conclude you have no market.

Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2019

Sizing the market, projecting revenue, and calculating break-even points are critical, even for a coffee shop. For example, in a small town with no other hardware store, you may be lulled into complacency as customers flock in at any price, but soon a competitor will pounce. Don’t forget to stay a step ahead of the market.

Technical Review

Tech.Co

JANUARY 6, 2020

2019 was the year podcasting turned into a major industry. Today, major media prognosticators including market research company Forrester and the Interactive Advertising Bureau foresee podcasting as the next billion-dollar media market , with a report from the latter saying that one-billion-dollar mark could be surpassed as soon as 2021.

RSS

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Bounce, which is known for its cheap rental costs, along with competitors Vugo and Yulu are trying to carve market share away from ride-hailing companies like Uber. The big attraction isn’t necessarily price either. Evelozcity rebranded as Canoo in spring 2019 and unveiled its prototype electric vehicle several months later.

Newsletter

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Of course, nothing is totally free, and I have heard the horror stories of relatively small companies finding thirty or more employees spending most of their time scanning and using social media for promotions, or engaging high-priced consultants who never seem to be able to show any real return for all of their efforts.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2019

Image via Flickr by Phil Gyford Starting a new venture still costs real money, even though the entry price has come down dramatically in last few decades. Most entrepreneurs realize and budget for the additional costs of incorporating a business, marketing, equipment costs, and manufacturing. Don’t get caught short.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

Image via Pixabay As a mentor to many small business owners, I always caution them that you can never relax completely, just because your initial solution or product set appears to be getting traction, and the market buzz is positive. Control costs and adjust prices to maintain your margin.

Metrics

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

In today’s world of constant change and information overload via the Internet, content marketing and branding are often more important to success than product quality or technology. Contrary to a popular myth, word-of-mouth and viral marketing are not a substitute for more basic branding activities.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I recommend a ten-slide pitch to start, reviewed by friends and advisors, to be expanded to a ten-to-twenty-page business plan with opportunity sizing, cost and price details, competitors, marketing and sales strategy, financial projections, and resources required. Prepare your marketing story for customers and investors.

Ideas

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Now customer support is called the “customer experience,” and everyone is expecting you to actually anticipate their personal needs, and totally delight them with all aspects of the shopping experience, price versus value, as well as help with any follow-on questions or problems. The marketing metrics covers support as part of experience.

Customer

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Investors realize that the resources and risk required to hit both markets concurrently are great, so they will likely look for focus, or a staged approach. A niche market sizing or a shrinking opportunity may make a good family business, but is likely not of interest to investors.

.Net

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2019

Is your marketing focus product-centric or customer-centric ? These days, a fun shopping experience, or no-question returns, often tips the scales over extra product features or a lower price. These days, a fun shopping experience, or no-question returns, often tips the scales over extra product features or a lower price.

Customer

Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

. “Marshmallow first began by providing car insurance cover for UK-based expats, a group who had historically been quoted insurance prices that were 51% higher than the market average. ” Sharper Startup Focuses Warrant Investment.

Startup

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2020

Grega longtime veteran of venture investingalso shared his thoughts on the current pandemic, how investors are viewing the current market, and what startups can do now to survive through these unusual times. We closed in January of 2019. Tell us what you're up to now? It's really a win-win-win product.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2019

They have no problem shopping in retail to see and test items, yet order online for a better price, and jump to another company for add-ons or support. Uber and Airbnb managed to remain “under the radar” of the giants by snatching up excess demand until they had their own foothold in the market.

Customer

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

Price: $1.99 Their four products include an e-commerce shop, social app, content and a multi-genre convention (QuickCon coming in Summer 2019). Their reverse auction platform lets the user set the budget and needs for an event and the food and beverage market will bid for your business. Quirktastic Media (Durham, NC).

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. What happened? People were building.

Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Every new business dreams of growing from a startup to a global market leader in a few years, like Amazon.com, but that goal is elusive. Their pricing algorithm crawls the Web daily, and adjusts prices to always match the lowest price found anywhere, offline or online.

Marketing

TechCrunch LA

MAY 23, 2019

That’s still a steep price for customers to pay out of pocket. Ezra initially came to market with a single test to screen for prostate cancer using machine learning to diagnose the screens coming off of an abbreviated MRI scan that takes 20 minutes. Insurance companies won’t pay for Ezra’s screens… yet.

Artificial Inteligence