TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Urban Movement Labs, launched in November 2019, is a public-private partnership involving local government and companies to develop, test and deploy transportation technologies. The company previously said it plans to unveil its full-scale eVTOL later this year and is aiming to begin volume manufacturing in 2023.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

You will see that I believe innovation is only one of many factors that ultimately determine your position with customers and your own legacy: Ideas are everywhere – success is all about execution. Search for customer pain rather than high margins. Look for technologies to adapt from other domains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Most business professionals I know have been conditioned to think of inflation as highly negative, driving up their costs, and reducing customer buying. I see it as an opportunity to find new ways to attract customers , make long-needed changes to improve productivity, and lower your own costs of doing business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Potential customers these days rely more and more on name recognition for credibility and new brand adoption. These days, customers are drawn to support worthy causes, such as saving the environment or feeding the hungry. Focus on a customer pain that your solution satisfies better than any competitor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

These haven’t changed much over the years, but still seem to be often overlooked by business professionals and leaders in their haste to keep up with peers, competitors, and customers in today’s volatile environment. Timely follow-up on customer and team member requests. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/16/2023

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For example, the development of reusable rocket technology by SpaceX and Amazon, who could not match NASA supplier budgets, has opened huge new opportunities in space travel and exploration. People respond to positives, such as new growth, versus problems implying costs and loss of customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2023

Ask questions of your customers, team members, and experts now to determine what the landscape will look like in the next five or ten years. Leverage digital technology to grow relationships. Use social media, video, and other channels to build new relationships with customers and other constituents.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2023

New digital technologies, business models, and regulatory rulings are forcing all of us to think outside of our silos and rethink what it means to operate effectively. It is fair to bring in outside technology to reduce the risk and speed the implementation. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 1/9/2023

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Steve Reich

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Josh made a number of unique and sometimes controversial points: Community bankers know banking and customers. FinTechs know technology and fundraising, not customers. Treat working with a FinTech as free customer acquisition–their venture capital money can bring you new customers and detailed data about their activity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The real value of a written business plan is that it forces you to think through all the elements of a new business in specific terms, to balance your focus on aspects you love, perhaps technology, and not overlook the ones you dislike, such as financials and hiring. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 09/14/2023

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built. Steve Jobs still walked from his house on Waverly to the Apple Store on University Ave.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

Thus they are blindsided and try to react quickly when a new competitor starts stealing customers. For example, we all remember when Blockbuster realized too late that Netflix was stealing customers by offering videos online rather than via DVDs, but even then they were unable to adapt their processes and their thinking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This promotes more psychological safety, better relationships, and allows all to work effectively in uncomfortable situations with customers and peers. With remote workers, you need to learn how to effectively use the new software technologies, such as Zoom and Slack , to get the engagement and commitment you need.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here are the key recommendations I offer all my clients for learning and moving forward in the business arena, based on my own experience and listening to business leaders and professionals in technology, as well as services: Define your success objectives early and don’t stray. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 1/5/2023

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In addition to defining the problem, she makes concrete suggestions on how to change work for the better, taking advantage new technologies, and new thinking brought about by this new era. Work intensity could be anything from number of meetings in a day, to number of production line emergencies, to number of angry customers during a shift.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Its target customers are millennials traveling in groups or families swayed by the size and scope of the accommodation — typically five times bigger than the average hotel room — as well as the price, which is on average 25% cheaper than a hotel room. . and globally to 25 markets by next year, up from 12 today.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The resulting sales volume and cash flow have allowed Amazon to fund a variety of initiatives, including a drone delivery service that should help Amazon attract and retain even more customers, and thereby continue growing. As the technology advances and production costs drop, UAS should open a new frontier for e-commerce.

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