Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

The combined company, which will operate in San Diego under the Carlsmed name, aims to create a platform that will use imaging recognition technology, 3D printing, and other tools to allow virtual surgery to be performed preoperatively to guide surgical workflow, including the development of patient-specific implants.

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San Diego Company Companies Startup 67

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

We'll use all the panel members' experiences to tell a "how to story" about bootstrapping to million. Most entrepreneurs fail because they start the business the only way they know how - thinking about. Startup Survival Guide: Beating the 800lb Gorillas. We're All Salesmen - The Truth About Selling. Alun Rowe, Pentangle.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The organization also recommends that interested businesses attend teleconference presentations to learn more about the process, alongside watching this YouTube video. Female entrepreneurs can apply anytime by telling their story, however, details about your company, industry, and market will help your case seem more competitive.

Technical Review 193

Technical Review Software Review Startup Competition 193

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

I’m not talking here about a small pivot. I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Unfortunately, the mainstream customers who can really drive revenue care more about price.

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Startup Pricing Cloud Computing Customer 116

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Acquisition. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Whats Hot Menu.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product.

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Metrics Venture Capital News Product 264

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The punchline is, I'm pretty excited about this story. Fair made its name early on subscriptions, can you talk a bit about the reason for the shift away from that? That really made us an extended rental car company, if you think about it. Let's talk about this deal with Honda, how did that come about?

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Startup Pricing Platform Study 124

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

[Email readers, continue here…] Once the names are filled in column one, we return to the list and use column two to have the group do its best to divine what it is about our company that would most attract the buyer if the potential buyer had perfect knowledge of our business and its resources. Final, quick completion of the exercise.

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Resource Sales Guide Email 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

I’m not talking here about a small pivot. I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Unfortunately, the mainstream customers who can really drive revenue care more about price.

Pricing 105

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 105

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

Rushing to a goldfield and casting about with picks and shovels, hoping one might “strike it rich” is not entrepreneurial. In fact, the San Francisco Wells Fargo Museum has been described as featuring, “a wonderful collection of letters from and to 49ers seeking their fortunes.”. A gold rush is essentially an adult treasure hunt.

Guide 145

Guide Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Course 145

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 14, 2011

Rushing to a goldfield and casting about with picks and shovels, hoping one might “strike it rich” is not entrepreneurial. In fact, the San Francisco Wells Fargo Museum has been described as featuring, “a wonderful collection of letters from and to 49ers seeking their fortunes.”. A gold rush is essentially an adult treasure hunt.

Guide 145

Guide Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Course 145

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I was pretty skeptical about the firm at first, but then I started talking with folks and getting to know the team, and saw how much revenue they were driving, and decided to make the leap. We were quite surprised to learn about the extent of your operations here. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). When to start PR?

Press 319

Press Startup Writing Training 319

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

I’m not talking here about a small pivot. I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Unfortunately, the mainstream customers who can really drive revenue care more about price.

Pricing 52

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 52

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model.

Startup 98

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 98

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I was pretty skeptical about the firm at first, but then I started talking with folks and getting to know the team, and saw how much revenue they were driving, and decided to make the leap. We were quite surprised to learn about the extent of your operations here. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. You mentioned that you've been growing the company recently, and made a recent acquisition? that agency sold to Omnicom Group about ten years ago.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

What's Swoop all about? I've known him for a long time, and in the early days he told me about what he was doing, and we spent a lot of time together on it, so I made the jump. Plus, they now have more rest or downtime, to think about making some bigger decisions for their company. The company recently announced $3.2M

SaaS 113

SaaS Startup Tool Doc 113

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is excitement about the possibilities of real change and an infectious “naive optimism” about how everything is possible. As companies get this initial customer feedback on their product they start to have to ask harder questions about unit economics: How much does it cost us to acquire a new customer?

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. Interesting to hear how you think about this. Vince: Not much.but what do I worry about? I’d love to get your thoughts at some point about writing for these publications vs. on your own blog. What keeps you up at night?

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Startup Los Angeles Twiistup Social Network 225

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Let me try to advance a few rules of thumb to help guide you here. An option plan should carve out an addition of about 15% of the “fully diluted” shares. How about the price per share? The board must approve the plan including this number, and shareholders must approve the plan as well.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. Posted byTony Karrer at 5:02 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning.

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CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

By now you will likely have read Andy Dunn’s scathing post about Venture Capitalists in which he decries the industry’s masses. After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. But VC is like congress.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Danielle goes through some commentary from Bill Gurley, Fred Wilson and Marc Andreessen about burn rate and then goes on to discuss her own burn rate and others publicly weigh in. if you have a good use for it and we’re excited about your company – fine. Be careful about ever dipping below 6 months of cash in the bank.

Startup 383

Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The acquisitions are meant to make the firm’s marketing platform better. Adam Blitzer, Pardot co-founder and chief operating officer said Pardot has been growing to to be the leading provider of marketing automation for clients in the small business and mid-market and the acquisition will help even achieve their goal faster.

Platform 56

Platform Marketing Social Media Web 56

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Especially fun when you get him telling stories about his pilot experiences. So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas. Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day. Includes content mobile guides, ie.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Gaming is about to take a decisive turning point thanks to smartphones, tablets, next-gen consoles, and digital downloads. The REACH event will bring together some of gaming’s most influential thinkers, creators, and developers who will guide us through their vision of the next evolution of gaming.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Ever fantasized about climbing Mt. How about hiking in Patagonia without carrying a 60-pound backpack and eating freeze dried food? Kurt and his crew can make these, and about 35 of other once-in-a-lifetime treks, a reality. How has this reality impacted your customer acquisition strategies? but we don''t.

Entrepreneur 187

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Resource 187

socalTECH

JULY 5, 2017

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Shaan Sethi to hear more about the startup, as well as Shaan's journey from investment banking to running an apparel startup. There were lots of things we did around investment and acquisitions. It was a deliberate approach, in all honestly, about raising and using capital. What is Jaanuu?

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Equity Legalzoom Capital 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

You can review all the specifics of this approach in a book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur''s Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Customer 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model.

Startup 64

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 64

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. So why would I have talked so much about the deck in my post? Let them guide you.

Venture Capital 299

Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 29, 2010

A friend once told me about a soccer game in which the opposing team deployed a frustratingly effective strategy. Optimistic About Tomorrow, Pessimistic About Today. Successful entrepreneurs have the ability to be optimistic about their long-term success while simultaneously apprehensive about their near-term failure.

Entrepreneur 193

Entrepreneur Course Startup Ideas 193

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

You can review all the specifics of this approach in a recent book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model.

Startup 118

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 118

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 29, 2010

A friend once told me about a soccer game in which the opposing team deployed a frustratingly effective strategy. Optimistic About Tomorrow, Pessimistic About Today. Successful entrepreneurs have the ability to be optimistic about their long-term success while simultaneously apprehensive about their near-term failure.

Entrepreneur 185

Entrepreneur Course Startup Ideas 185

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We caught up with Bong to hear more about his new startup. We break it down by a number of vertical categories, including Indulgent--all about food, wine, and alcohol; Active--outdoor athletic endeavors; and Creative, which is arts and crafts. We also have a number of other guys who are involved who I am pretty psyched about.

Startup 271

Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

This is not an article about the high moral purpose and the nobility of listening to your customers. It is an article about how to make your company worth a fortune by listening to your customers. They obsess about having the best search out there. Call three of your customers and see what they have to say about your product.

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Customer Custom Software Review SaaS 97