Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

Of course, neither this original mission statement, nor its current one, actually reflect how Facebook profits as a business — it primarily sells adverts to users. The company mission statement is, of course, a way to seize attention externally, and focus team members on the end destination. Are Startups Running Out of Big Ideas?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Audi has delivered 18,500 of its all-electric e-tron SUVs globally since March 2019 when the vehicle first came to market. And the company is hoping to grab more, and different, customers with the Sportback. The Sportback will come to Europe first in spring 2020. in fall 2020. The 2020 Audi e-tron Sportback has a 86.4

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

From its start in 2015, the number of registered users has “suddenly” climbed from 45 million in 2017 to a reported 300 million by the end of 2020. In today’s world of social marketing, it takes someone knowledgeable if not expert in understanding how to use available resources in promotion and marketing. Third: cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

Of course, most of you expect that raising money will be difficult, as well as staving off competitors, and handling that occasional toxic customer. You expected the difficulty of finding funding, but you never expected it to go so fast into unanticipated expenses, inventory, support, and marketing. Scaling a business is hard.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Energy Vault has recently attracted a lot of attention including >$100m from Cemex Ventures and Softbank (of course in todays climate that might not be the stamp of approval that it was 6 months ago) and apparently has a promising pipeline of commercial customers. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

As an entrepreneur, I understand your passion when pitching your solution to investors and customers, but passion alone won’t make one more technology pitch stand out above all the rest. Story telling allows these people to see the real you, outside the context of a marketing pitch for a specific business or solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Yet, in the interest of full disclosure, and an honest intent to save future entrepreneurs some grief and money, I would remind you that starting any business has key dependencies on at least five major elements, including product design and delivery, the right people on the team, adequate funding, a sizable market opportunity, and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Of course, as you work with contract players, explore the potential for a long-term relationship, and wait until your organization matures to pursue career positions. This lets you evolve your strategy with the market. Optimize staffing overhead and flexibility in a fluid market. Your success and growth depends on it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

As an aspiring entrepreneur, one of the most important things you need is a memorable “ elevator pitch ,” to communicate your startup value proposition and leave a great first impression on friends, investors, employees, and future customers. Lead with your best marketing pitch and conviction. Highlight the solution more than the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A broken process or a subtle quality issue can generate a flood of customer satisfaction problems, cost overruns, and loss of market share. Of course, this all has to start with you having the confidence and conviction that there is at least one solution to every problem, and that you can find it. Then pick the best one.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

But in the past two weeks I’ve heard many cavalier comments about: cuts, renegotiations, changing terms, “the market environment dictates this” or “never waste a good crisis” or “you just need to cut 25% of your staff” because it seems everybody is doing it. He asked for a few more weeks to gather market signals before enacting change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Others pivoted quickly based on customer need changes, rather than just spending more money on advertising and charging ahead. Smart entrepreneurs continually test their perceptions against those of customers, outside leaders, and experts. Of course, this vision must be continually tuned by new customer trends and technology arrivals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Of course, drivers have to be backed up by some realities, like necessary resources, adequate skills, relentless determination, and a market of people interested in supporting your dream. Investors, as well as customers, pay a premium for this approach. This is the genesis of all “customer-centric” thinking and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

Set up training courses that highlight agility, and adopt agile working practices. It’s important to note slippage indicators, including less internal feedback on requirements to fight competitors, and more focus inward than outward on customers needs and trends. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/03/2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2021

Of course, nothing beats learning from your mistakes , but that’s a painful and very time-consuming journey. We all probably thought that our initial ideas and the right products were the key, but realized later that business is all about win-win relationships with partners, team members, and customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

While this approach appears to cost more on the surface, it often actually costs you less, when you consider the hidden costs of rework, poor customer satisfaction, employee management, and training required. Direct customer-facing non-technical roles should be the last ones outsourced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

In my experience as an advisor to startups, the difference is almost always related to the founder and their execution strategy , more so than to the solution quality or the market. Initially, you may be able to do everything in your startup, including product development, marketing, and shipping orders.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2020

Of course, if a board is set up just to appease investors, or just for window dressing, the value may indeed be minimal or even negative. You need diversity and a broad demographic experience to prepare you for the range of customers in today’s markets, to balance your own views, no matter how experienced.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Like with many consumer brands geared toward women, we buy in not just because of the marketing, but because of the product itself. She stepped down from that company in 2020. And of course, those startups are by no means innocent when it comes to bad management. “If And who cares?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

The final clip is Fred & I talking about whether “the best product wins” and my assertion that the bias in today’s Silicon Valley dominated tech world there is probably too much emphasis on tech at the expense of how to sell, implement and service customers. You need to invest in good markets and bad.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

With computer science jobs predicted to increase by 22 percent by 2020 according to the U.S. Their Siggy Robot is a self-balancing robot that rolls on a pink segway and can be coded to dance, go through obstacle courses, and engineered for entertainment. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , where are these women to fill these positions?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2020

You see, inventing a business is about attracting money from investors and customers, rather than spending money on a challenging dream. Many inventors like to work alone, and are convinced that if their solution is amazing enough, investors and customers will come. It also increases your marketing and support costs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The obvious slight he made that went largely unnoticed was the lack of Latino representation and it’s a big freaking market gap that is set to explode. Large groups that are cut out of traditional representation are precisely the groups that achieve breakout successes by getting around the system and giving the market what they want directly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2020

Of course, these may need to be updated for cause, but it’s hard to get anywhere if you don’t have a specific destination. This ability to focus and get the job done is the only way to keep you ahead of competitors today’s in a rapidly evolving market with highly demanding customers.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

On January First, 2020, California will enact the toughest data protection laws ever, far outpacing Europe’s General Data Protection Act (GDPR.) Called the California Consumer Privacy Ace (CCPA), few of us are even aware of this and need to know. And of course, the fines are astronomical. First, the limits upon companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

Of course, ultimately you must appeal to real customers to survive. Institutional capital – markets, system of laws, stability. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/07/2020. Despite the reach of the Internet and cold calls, there is no substitute for warm introductions.

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