Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

Traditional marketing may be adequate for linear growth, but it likely won’t catapult you to Amazon’s unicorn status , or make waves in the business world. For example, I usually hear about an aggressive marketing budget, with a plan to penetrate a few big retail chains, and some videos to catch your attention on YouTube.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

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. Of course, Just is not the first company to offer personalized auto insurance. ” In 2020, Root had a direct loss ratio of 82%. Image Credits: Just Insure.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Entity uses all this to curate not just what courses it provides and what goes into the curriculum, but also how best to supplement that learning. Today, Entity courses also include targeted mentoring from people working in the tech industry, as well as career coaching en route to finding a job. .”

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

The company laid off its entire retail staff and closed all its physical locations, including its flagship New York City store, in August 2020. The company’s website currently says customers should “stay tuned” for more retail store openings this year. It may not be as glamorous as D2C, but beauty tech is big money.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. On Funding?—?Shots

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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. The Sportback will come to Europe first in spring 2020. in fall 2020. The 2020 Audi e-tron Sportback has a 86.4 And the company is hoping to grab more, and different, customers with the Sportback.

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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 are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2020?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

She created and launched an overall brand and a swim collection , then came the book deal ( “This is Not a Fashion Story: Taking Chances, Breaking Rules, and Being a Boss in the Big City” is expected out May 2020). Naturally, the next step in Bernstein’s evolution from blogger to businesswoman was a technology startup.

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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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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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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kleiner Perkins , one of the most storied franchises in venture capital, has already invested much of the $600 million it raised last year and is now going back out to the market to raise its 19th fund, according to multiple sources. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020. We went out to market to LPs. ”

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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. Don’t waste time fixing symptoms.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Story telling allows these people to see the real you, outside the context of a marketing pitch for a specific business or solution. Unfortunately, most elevator pitches, product descriptions, and marketing messages are abstract, and include no characters at all. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/20/2020.

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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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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

JANUARY 4, 2021

Of course, nothing beats learning from your mistakes , but that’s a painful and very time-consuming journey. Keep your discussions centered on actual business and market challenges, in lieu of speculation on possible future problems. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/16/2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

Lead with your best marketing pitch and conviction. Of course, it’s always good to speak with conviction, but marketing terms such as “improved productivity” or “lower cost” won’t make your offering memorable. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/13/2020. Highlight the solution more than the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

Set up training courses that highlight agility, and adopt agile working practices. The authors recommend, and I support, the establishment of a transformation advisory board, including key board members, the CEO, and a couple of outside experts who understand the market, to set mandates, define milestones, and make funding decisions.

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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

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. This is the genesis of all “customer-centric” thinking and marketing. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/18/2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Of course, these new customer-facing strategies shouldn’t preclude you from focusing behind the scenes on reducing costs and broadening your product line to supersede competitors. This has to start with doing the customer interaction work to isolate the needs and drivers in the market you intend to serve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Even the smartest entrepreneurs have found that a well-designed market experiment will test a number of different hypothesis and variables at once, without a major investment, proving bad assumptions as well as validated ones as the experiment goes on. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/22/2020.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Of course, it still pays to consider the impact of cultural norms and languages, as well as time zones, particularly in areas that present your image to customers, such as customer service. In addition, they often find the need to pivot as they learn more out their customer needs and solution match to the market.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 26, 2019

Tech workers might chafe at any regulation, even when that regulation is in place for a perfectly good reason.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.” You need to invest in good markets and bad. You can’t time VC investing markets. That always stuck with me. .” That always stuck with me.

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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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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

over the course of 2020 (and their combined estimated price tag of nearly $100 billion), it’s not surprising that the Biden plan begins with a focus on resiliency. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Yves Sisteron , Stuart Lander & I (depicted in the photo below) have worked together for more than 22 years now and that has taken us through many cycles of market enthusiasm & panic. Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures A question I often hear is “how is Upfront changing given the current market?” The answer is: not much.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2015

The entry into this field of a start-up trying to capture market share by driving prices even lower could very well test the margins of all sorts of merchants, large and small, online and off. Of course, while these comparisons might be useful to industry observers, their influence on individual consumers is likely to be limited.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2015

According to Gartner , there will be nearly 26 billion devices on the Internet of Things by 2020. The market for connectivity solutions in vehicles is growing. But who’s the leader in the automotive market? In addition, he has acts as a business trainer and has won multiple marketing awar ds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2020

If you consider yourself the consummate inventor, but haven’t yet broken through on the business side, I urge you to consider the following alternative keys to long-term success that inventors before you have capitalized on: Team with a business and marketing partner. It also increases your marketing and support costs.

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