TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

” The PBV, which Hyundai showcased last month at CES 2020, is a pod-like vehicle that the company says can be used for various functions in transit, such as a restaurant or clinic. The platform will be used for future Hyundai and Kia electric vehicles as well as the automaker group’s so-called “purpose built vehicles.”

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 2, 2022

Among its fastest-growing challengers is Cider, which, like Shein, relies on China’s responsive clothing manufacturers to sell affordable, trend-led pieces to customers around the world. But keep in mind Cider was only founded in 2020 while Shein started out over a decade ago. Cider has racked up roughly 7.4

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

In our personal lives we’re having to change our routines and figure out how to remain productive?—?often In the words of my friend and a CEO with whom I work, “Yeah, I know I need to make some cuts because our demand has changed, but I want to do this with a scalpel and not with an axe.” What do we eat? Where do we shop? What is safe?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2020

According to studies , the alternative of acquiring new customers still costs you five to seven times more than retaining existing ones. But customers today are fickle, instantly aware of every new alternative, due to the Internet and social media, and not afraid to change. Appeal to all your customer senses all of the time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

You need a faster and more flexible on-demand hiring strategy, based on the current gig-economy of remote freelancers, contract personnel, and specialists. Today you need that budget for market fluxuations, pandemics, and product updates. Thus they feel more fulfilled, more productive, and more in control of their lives.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

Endless West announced this morning that it would shift production away from its distillery to begin making hand sanitizers. The two-ounce bottles will be donated to local restaurants and bars that remain open for delivery, so that employees can use them and distribute them to customers. We are in clinical trials with two.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

GrubMarket , which provides software and services that help link up and manage relationships between food suppliers and their customers — which can include wholesalers and other distributors, markets and supermarkets, delivery startups, restaurants, and consumers — has picked up $120 million in a Series E round of funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

Yet I find a big difference between “starting a new business” and “creating a new product.” In my experience, most successful entrepreneurs have indeed created a new product, but most people who claim to be inventors have a hard time starting a business. Ability to raise money, manage it, and think in financial terms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2020

In my work with you as an entrepreneur or small business owner, I find that most understand the need try out new business models and product innovations, but trust their intuition rather than running a disciplined business experiment first. Experiments on customers without consent is unethical. There is a better way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Here are some of the key indications that you might be a good match for a lifestyle business, for you to compare and consider against your own objectives and strengths: Enjoy interacting with customers and products every day. If your passion is customers, you definitely will be happier as a lifestyle entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

You must never stop looking for ways to get more traction with fewer personal hours, and more productivity, efficiency, and momentum from the team. In my view, it’s really unfortunate that most employees in business are still paid by the hour, regardless of their productivity. Provide incentives to focus everyone on real results.

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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. Startups all need that flexibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. Although his focus is naturally on bigger companies, I contend that his recommended strategies apply equally well to entrepreneurs and startups: Demand a mindset of deep thinking for the long term.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2020

These days, customers expect to hear and see social and environmental value from a new business, rather than just a new technology or profit. They position competitors as a base for their solution advantages, and an indication of existing market demand. They talk positively about how customers will appreciate value.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 7, 2020

Comfort and community are two of the main aspects that the business seems to strive for, offering modern clean environments with all mod-cons, as well as regular community events for customers, including networking meetings. Designed to inspire, motivate productivity and promote ways to thrive digitally. But that's not been the case.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

This almost always starts at the top, based on a founder’s dream and passion, without the proper homework on sizing the market, or assessing product realities. It’s easy for you to blame someone else in the organization, economic conditions outside, or even overly demanding customers, when things are not going well.

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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. What you don’t expect is to feel out of control , or to always be fighting the many demands for your time. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/17/2020.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

With more employees and network-intensive activities, businesses must stay ahead of their bandwidth needs or risk bottlenecking their employees and reducing staff productivity. . One major challenge for an enterprise is finding a way to upgrade its infrastructure efficiently to quickly ramp up to meet new network demands.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

There's lots of noise in the on-demand tutoring space, especially connecting people virtually, however, in my experience, it's in the best interest of consumers to get in-person, local tutoring. In terms of where we offer to our customers, we have 250 different areas, from early childhood to studying for an MCAT or the bar.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It should convince you that no matter how much you know about technology, leading a team, as well as vendors and customers, is a whole new challenge. True leaders are never satisfied with what they know about their leadership, as well as their products, and are always in pursuit of new learning.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JULY 31, 2020

In the modern age, businesses rely heavily on networks to host and run their daily processes and applications, allowing employees to be productive and efficient. Not having enough bandwidth can limit what an organization is capable of and can limit overall productivity of the business. Benefits of Increased Bandwidth.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Secondly, even if everyone loved this vehicle and Tesla was poised to take advantage of these perceived efficiencies gained from sharing at least 75 percent of the parts with the Model 3, the Y isn’t coming until fall 2020. Where Tesla chooses to produce the Model Y is perhaps the most important, unanswered question. Take bike share.

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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. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value. Provide specifics on the customer business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Every new business I know dreams of building momentum in their business, where growth continues to increase, customers become your best advocates, and employee motivation is high. Unfortunately, with limited resources, this isn’t possible, and it frustrates customers and the team. Focus first on finding more of the right customers.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

So, in February 2020, with little to no funding left, the company completely pivoted to its current link-in-bio business. In addition to a standard tipping tool, Snipfeed allows users to sell digital goods, like on-demand video, e-books, access to livestreams and one-on-one consultations. ’ ” Image Credits: Snipfeed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2020

In addition to personal focus, I find that the best entrepreneurs build and demand a culture of focus and excellence in their team, their investors, and even their advisors. Every investor will tell you that they invest in the person, more than the product, because they have learned that people with focus find success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2020

Most small businesses I advise still rely on traditional advertising models, assuming they can create enough media “noise” to get customers attention and sway them. Instead, it publishes actual customer “Photos of the Day,” highlighting the customer’s thrill of adventure purpose. These engagements well accepted by all.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. I’ve written extensively on the topic , but in a nutshell it is: an RSS reader, a chat room, instant messaging, a marketing channel, a customer service department and increasingly a data mine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

In other parts of the world, innovators often need to develop both the ultimate product or service, as well as the enabling infrastructure that underpins it. Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2021

Yet even I have been known to recommend that approach, in cases where you have a highly innovative product, speed is of the essence, and no clear existing market is available. There is no substitute for talking to customers, analyzing your competition, and honing your solution to meet a target market segment.

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