Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

Irvine-based Broadcom is buying Israeli optical networking firm BroadLight , the company said this morning, in a deal worth $195M in cash. BroadLight develops fiber access PON (Passive Optical Network) processors.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based CurbStand (www.curbstand.com) is hoping to change that, by offering up a mobile app which connects you with the company''s network of CurbStand valet parking companies, which offers on-demand retrieval of your car, mobil payments, and on the valet parking operator side--lots of business analytics tools and reporting.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

Los Angeles-based HelloTech (www.hellotech.com) wants to be the service that you refer all of your friends and family to, instead--by offering up low cost, on-demand, in-home technical support. First and foremost, it's an on-demand, in -home technical support service. I think the big challenge is going to be customer acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product.

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Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 123

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2022

It’s what every customer looks for in every transaction. In today’s marketplace, junior staffers are often the most intimately connected to the market, technology, and the customer network. Again, you get what you demand and reward. Employees will lose focus on their work.” Sales will be the organization’s sole focus.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” Congratulations! Tune your investor pitch and funding expectations accordingly.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The company said that in the last two years it added more than 700 homes and 80 new destinations (some in part by way of six acquisitions that it has made in that time), and it grew revenues 10x. “Customers are starting to meet the demand from an experience perspective in rental homes,” he said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” Congratulations! Tune your investor pitch and funding expectations accordingly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product.

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Startup Pricing Cloud Computing Customer 116

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. Brett Rossman: ConsumerTrack is a performance-based, online marketing company. We do that methodically.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and maybe even Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product.

Pricing 105

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2019

It’s what every customer looks for in every transaction. In today’s marketplace, junior staffers are often the most intimately connected to the market, technology, and the customer network. Again, you get what you demand and reward. Employees will lose focus on their work.” Sales will be the organization’s sole focus.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product.

Pricing 52

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 52

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002. Now you have real customers who can quickly turn off hundreds of potential customers if you ignore their feedback. Trust your gut, and ignore naysayers.

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Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic, based in both Redwood City, CA, and Austin, TX, is one of the upstart companies benefiting from a surge of investing in the chip-making field, where the growing computational demands due to the use of AI are creating an opening for young entrepreneurs with out-of-the-box ideas.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 77

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Think Glendale.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

I want to understand how many units the company is selling, whether this is increasing over time and how well they’re doing at retaining the customers that they do acquire. Do 20% of the customers make 80% of the revenue or do the top 3 customers represent 80% of the revenue. My first priority is to understand “growth drivers.”

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socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100

socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. We are seeking a Product Marketing Manager, who plans, develops, and implements marketing programs designed to increase product penetration of commercial customers. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Startups Made Simple.

SoCalTech 100

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Fast Pitch Los Angeles is one of the best start up networking events of the year. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Think Glendale.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. We are seeking a Product Marketing Manager, who plans, develops, and implements marketing programs designed to increase product penetration of commercial customers. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com).

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SoCalTech Orange County Southern California IP 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network.

Southern California 140

Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 140

socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Startups Made Simple.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” If you had huge customer growth but just didn’t focus on revenue that’s a different story. million in revenue three years later is, “So effing what?”

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. You’re right.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Our “hot deal of the week&# turned out to be more of the “hot theme of the week.&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. They have done 3 startups in the customer support space and one that wasn’t.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network.

Advertising 113

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Is Bird really defensible? Couldn’t anybody launch a competitor?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2017

It’s what every customer looks for in every transaction. In today’s marketplace, junior staffers are often the most intimately connected to the market, technology, and the customer network. Again, you get what you demand and reward. Employees will lose focus on their work.” Sales will be the organization’s sole focus.”

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Startup Training Sales 69

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2014

It’s what every customer looks for in every transaction. In today’s marketplace, junior staffers are often the most intimately connected to the market, technology, and the customer network. Again, you get what you demand and reward. Employees will lose focus on their work.” Sales will be the organization’s sole focus.”

Startup 105

Startup Training Sales Entrepreneur 105

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. This event brings together diverse companies and provides an outstanding opportunity for networking. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

SoCalTech 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” Congratulations! Tune your investor pitch and funding expectations accordingly.

Startup 73

Startup Ideas Equity Invest 73

socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2013

There''s always more demand than capital. David Field: One of the things we have come to learn, is that as you develop new techniques and lower the cost of customer acquisition, you can significantly drive down the cost of solar by 25 to 30 percent. That''s a really high cost of acquiring a customer. READ MORE>>.

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