socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

OnSale said it had approximately 81 people working on the effort, and claimed that its expertise and experience in the online e-commerce space would help it in its effort. OnSale was previously one of PC Mall's computer and electronics e-commerce sites; the site's home page is now dedicated to signing up email addresses of potential users.

Torrance 170

Torrance Commerce Startup Sites 170

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Marty Zwilling

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media News 104

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Based on the best evidence I can find, the genesis of this trend and the advantages come from several evolutionary changes in the startup investment industry, and some innovations driven by the recession several years ago and the recent pandemic: Venture capital funds are regaining momentum. Mobile and web software apps may cost even less.

Guide 136

Guide Venture Capital Funding Class 136

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2015

One of the players in the battle--Lyft--has just raised $530M more, from Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten. LA has been a major, competitive market for both Uber and Lyft, as well as Sidecar, Flywheel, TaxiMagic, and Opoli, all of whom have targeted the LA metro area as a key battleground over the on-demand transportation market.

Demand 100

Demand Commerce Competition Mobile 100

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The merger is the first step of what’s a planned rollup strategy for PCH (also the nickname for the highway that runs along the California Coast), which aims to be the leading vertically integrated vice platform focusing on e-commerce, delivery logistics, and cross industry behavioral insights.

Company 188

Company Companies Los Angeles San Diego 188

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

Investors know that operational and employee expenses are always higher than anticipated, not to mention customer acquisition costs, capital expenses, and ongoing competitive initiatives. Today the most common and successful channel for new ventures is online e-commerce. Convince me that you understand your competition.

Funding 132

Funding Template Resource Competition 132

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. You need to evaluate the tradeoffs of getting investment capital from angel investors and crowdsourcing. They won’t find you. Secure outside expansion funding through investors.

Technical Review 142

Technical Review Social Media Conference Custom 142

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Marty Zwilling.

Tips 161

Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. No company has more value control points than Google, which spans advertising, e-commerce, social media, video and mobile, as well as a full suite of hardware products. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier.

Develop 138

Develop Development Platform Mobile 138

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. A lot of those brands, on the e-commerce side, are becoming more data driven. San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M founded in summer of 2017.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Commerce San Diego 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Financial institutions, for example, count on pure capital plays without innovation that can disappear quickly.

Startup 126

Startup Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Offshore 126

Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

Competition 78

Competition Screening Resource Startup 78

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM. Voice tech is rapidly becoming an end to end interface, not just a way to make a shopping list or check the weather.

Startup 124

Startup Press Commerce Southern California 124

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. Local capital matters. Local mentors matter.

Company 369

Company Companies Startup Snapchat 369

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Based on the best evidence I can find, the genesis of this trend and the advantages come from several evolutionary changes in the startup investment industry, and some innovations driven by the recession several years ago: Venture capital funds are still regaining momentum. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.

Funding 125

Funding Venture Capital Startup Class 125

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

One of the biggest complaints that local entrepreneurs have with Los Angeles has been a dearth of local sources of venture capital. However, the recent surge in startup activity has attracted a lot more capital into the area, including a significant amount of capital from LA's latest fund: Karlin Ventures (www.karlinvc.com).

Funding 253

Funding Startup Invest Commerce 253

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Online commerce is something these founders have experienced and understand. Large Capital Requirements – MBA’s, especially those from top schools, have access to significant amounts of capital, primarily through their alumni and peer networks. One reason is because many MBA’s come from a non-technical background.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Allegis Startup Competition 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital. Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce. We automatically add tracking and point those product references to e-commerce merchants. What we do is draft over the existing product mentions that happen a billion times a day, and point that into commerce.

San Diego 159

San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

The structure of Idealab has allowed us to test many ideas at once and turn the best of them into companies, attracting the human and financial capital necessary to bring them to market. eToys demonstrated the tremendous potential for online consumer retail and became one of the most recognized brands during the early days of e-commerce.

Idealab 70

Idealab Paid Search CitySearch Resource 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. No company has more value control points than Google, which spans advertising, e-commerce, social media, video and mobile, as well as a full suite of hardware products. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier.

Mobile 126

Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2019

Amazon exemplified this approach by first becoming the premier source of books online, and then expanding their scope to having the greatest depth of all e-commerce offerings and features, while still maintaining their lead in online purchasing and delivery services. More diagnostic tools to fix problems may not be competitive.

Startup 91

Startup Custom Customer Examples 91

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Commerce and trade are fundamentally based on exchanging asymmetries in one another’s ability to produce value at a given cost. As such, commerce intrinsically creates mutual value. Moreover, the option to trade with more parties creates more value by fostering larger volumes of and more competitive trading.

Google 76

Google Artificial Inteligence Course Commerce 76

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The Raza Development Fund created a new $1M loan fund from money remaining from a 2013 JPMorgan Chase grant from the PRO Neighborhoods competition. At the Techstars Startup Week Phoenix 2018 powered by Chase for Business , the Raza Development Fund and JPMorgan Chase announced a $1.1M

Invest 70

Invest Entrepreneur News Tips 70

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Financial institutions, for example, count on pure capital plays without innovation that can disappear quickly.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review Outsource 87

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Capitalize on the massive trend and power of mobile. Do the research to find your best competitive advantage, and then highlight and live the differentiation. For e-commerce solutions, people remember your brand when they see instant delivery. Use analytics to assess your efforts and your competition.

Social Media 73

Social Media Custom Customer Mobile 73

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2014

You can start a new e-Commerce site on the Internet for as little as $100, with cheap smart phone apps, new technology innovations, or tapping the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. Upgrade, reuse, or recycle every product.

Resource 96

Resource Ideas Startup Commerce 96

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

As disruption examples , the rise of ride sharing, e-commerce, and social media were clearly driven by changing customer trends, more than technology. I like the five strategies that this author recommends for capitalizing on future rapidly emerging customer needs: Win with current customers before chasing new ones.

Custom 54

Custom Customer Technical Review Design 54

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Based on the best evidence I can find, the genesis of this trend and the advantages come from several evolutionary changes in the startup investment industry, and some innovations driven by the recent recession: Venture capital funds are still recovering from the recession. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.

Angel 104

Angel Funding Startup Venture Capital 104

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

There are lots of ad-tech companies, which don''t have lots to differentiate themselves, and e-commerce isn''t super differentiated, but we are also getting lots of more truly technology companies, around video, analytics, and things like that. E-commerce is a great example. But, there have really been very few e-commerce exits.

Southern California 124

Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

This week I sat down with Chris Dixon, co-founder / CEO of Hunch and Partner at Founder Collective in the most recent installment of This Week in Venture Capital. 3. We then addressed competition in the context of SiteAdvisor and how it is important for journalists, customers, and the companies themselves. West Coast”).

Technical Review 281

Technical Review Venture Capital Startup Artificial Inteligence 281

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

And of course since machinery costs money and lowers the number of people required to produce a product it pitted labor vs. capital. People who failed to industrialize, however well intentioned one’s goals, were at a competitive disadvantage to those who had. And they will eat our lunch. And that somebody is China. And Russia.

Education 150

Education Resource Class Course 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Financial institutions, for example, count on pure capital plays without innovation that can disappear quickly.

Startup 102

Startup Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review 102

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Also at Startup Night will be 25 diverse and innovative startups showcasing their latest products, competing for prizes including: $1K from LaunchKC , Business Extra Points from American Airlines , and a fast tracked spot to the Startup of the Year semifinals competition at Innovate Celebrate 2018. Joanne Chen, Partner at Foundation Capital.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. No company has more value control points than Google, which spans advertising, e-commerce, social media, video and mobile, as well as a full suite of hardware products. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Competitive advantages are rapidly vaporizing on these. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Financial institutions, for example, count on pure capital plays without innovation that can disappear quickly.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Offshore Startup Technical Review 105