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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Richard Wolpert is the author of A Soul Of A Deal, a book on deal making, and is also a longtime angel investor in Southern California's technology industry. On Demand).

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The tools that it has built include Voyage, its proprietary operating system to manage properties; a concierge app to help its guests with services before, during and after stays; its front-end booking platform; and a recently launched real estate platform. “It has always lagged hotels by a wide margin.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. That would have been laughable.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Without the promise of riches or with reduced interest in blockchain-based exclusivity, where will consumer demand go? Levie explained to us how he manages to walk the fine line of being a crypto critic without landing in the bulls’ bad books. . I don’t even think digital assets [are] an asset class. follow the money.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 9, 2013

I rarely see such a change in my life from simply reading a book, but this is one of those times and I had to share it. She even wrote the book “A Parent’s Playbook for Learning.” But this book I scanned extra hard. Instead of demanding he do his work, I jumped in and worked with him.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

I treat each of my classes as a product that the students are paying a lot of money to consume. For instance, I assign an Ombudsman in all my classes in order to gather anonymous feedback. Thus, diligent students leave my classes with insights and tools they can directly apply to their jobs after graduation. Challenging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

In fact, I was impressed with the classic book, “ Upside: Profiting from the Profound Demographic Shifts Ahead ,” by Kenneth Gronbach, which is full of specific facts on demographic changes over the past few years, and what they mean for some of the major business segments out there today. Autos for drivers: Waning market demand.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

After repositioning the company as a developer of high-end, premium products, Steve was excited to execute a marketing campaign. However, he stopped in his tracks when he learned that the engineers had only created a single product, rather than a family of graphics cards. We repackaged them and branded them as different products.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

functional workgroups vs. product workgroups). And make sure to pick up a copy of his book. 8:17 How did you decide to go with either shrinkwrap or web only product? 22:53 Eric’s book: The Lean Startup. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. when is the right time to go big with PR?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. This is a new class of software that can adapt in real time to market changes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2019

I’ve always been looking for the specific behaviors required to make the change, so I was pleased to see some real guidance in a classic book, “ The Melting Point ,” by Dr. Christian Marcolli, a world-class expert on sustainable high performance. Establish boundaries and say ‘no’ more often. Learn to delegate more as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

Image via Pexels Every business needs repeatable processes to grow and thrive, but modern business processes need the right people to make them efficient and productive. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

The concept comes from a Stephen Covey book called “ First Things First ,&# which is a worthwhile book ( Wikipedia overview here ) but if you haven’t read his seminal book “ 7 Habits of Highly Effective People &# you should start with that. That’s why productivity wasn’t tough for me as a CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

The millions of immigrant workers who silently wash dishes in restaurants, are prep cooks, pick the agriculture that feeds us, build our houses, clean our houses, watch our kids and do our gardening are vilified as criminals by those currently in power to exploit the fears of working-class white, non-Hispanic, Americans. Invisibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

In fact, I just finished a new book, “ Upside: Profiting from the Profound Demographic Shifts Ahead ,” by Kenneth Gronbach, which is full of specific facts on demographic changes over the past few years, and what they mean for some of the major business segments out there today. Autos for drivers: Waning market demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

Every business needs repeatable processes to grow and thrive, but modern business processes need the right people to make them efficient and productive. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

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. Their product the Boolean Box , is an all-in-one, hands-on, kit that can introduce your child to computer programming.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2017

I’ve always been looking for the specific behaviors required to make the change, so I was pleased to see some real guidance in a new book, “ The Melting Point ,” by Dr. Christian Marcolli, a world-class expert on sustainable high performance. Establish boundaries and say ‘no’ more often. Learn to delegate more as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The most memorable businesses, like Starbucks and Apple, no longer sell products, they sell ‘experiences’ with a product at the center. The challenge is to transform and hardwire your entire team to think in these terms, rather than the default focus on distinct towers of product quality, closing the sale, or fixing a complaint.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Most VCs are book smart. In fact, book smart can be a negative. I’ve been involved with SaaS companies with VCs who don’t understand demand generation, lead qualification, sales coverage ratios, sales forecasting or frankly when deals should be inside sales vs. outside sales. Smart is simply not a differentiator.

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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? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

On Demand). Successfully negotiated ground breaking deals with several of the major media companies whose content became the basis for many of these products.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This is one book-end of the cycle. There is a lot of pent-up demand. There has already been at least one high profile funding from this class, which is Thread – a product that raised $1.2 VC’s are working hand-in-glove with the investment bankers to prepare for IPOs or create auction-style trade sales.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We manage user login so businesses can focus on core product and engage customers faster. A membership program for Sports Fields, Gyms, Fitness Classes. The first online marketplace for successful Kickstarter, maker & hardware startups products. Once he slept on a horse during a horse-riding class! AngelList: [link].

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., But this feeling sort of dies out when you’re working with the product every day, and talking about your product every day. Skip classes. We decided on LINGO for our product but there was a trademark issue with it so we went with myLINGO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2021

If you are thinking of joining the rush in this direction, I found some practical insights for success in a classic book, “ Thriving in the Gig Economy ,” by Marion McGovern. Like product companies, your pitch should quantify value to clients, rather than your costs. Charging by the hour only makes sense for commodity work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Some investors are team focused, others market focused, others seems to look for product / market fit. Only then can I even care about product, market or their nebulous “fit.&#. I want somebody who can inspire you to produce great products but not know your trade better than you do. Is it book smarts?

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. I developed a technology product called DHARMA (stood for Dynamic Hybrid of Advertising and Response Management Applications). Build a SWAT team 3.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

If you are thinking of joining the rush in this direction, I found some practical insights for success in a new book, “ Thriving in the Gig Economy ,” by Marion McGovern. Like product companies, your pitch should quantify value to clients, rather than your costs. Charging by the hour only makes sense for commodity work.

Pricing 68

Pricing Entrepreneur Mentor News 68

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

At the time, they had just come out with their new book " Rework " had downloaded a copy to my Kindle, but hadn't had a chance to read it yet. Pivoting - Chris Dixon , June 14, 2010 My Hunch cofounders and I frequently ask ourselves: “If we were to start over today, would we build our product the same way we had so far?&#

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller. "Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says on its website. It will open later this year. clients, brokers say.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. Especially to a company that sells books! And then came the debate about storage.

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