Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2023

According to a classic Harvard Research study, first inventors spend at least a third more on their initial technology than later innovators. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors. Attract investors who fear pioneers catching arrows.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Movio’s user base is currently in the lower hundreds of thousands, with paying customers nearing 1,000. It has so far raised around $9 million in funding from investors including IDG, Sequoia Capital China and, most recently, Baidu Ventures.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Los Angeles-based e-commerce service provider Onestop Internet --which is backed by Bessemer Ventures and Fung Capital USA--said it has run a new consumer survey, which shows that Amazon is a "serious threat" to its customers, apparel brands. The company said it tapped Survata for the study, which interviewed 501 online respondents.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2020

According to a classic Harvard Research study, first inventors spend at least a third more on their initial technology than later innovators. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors. Attract investors who fear pioneers catching arrows.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Even without B-Corp status, entrepreneurs are speaking out more on the positives to support business models that benefit not just shareholders, but customers, workforce, the environment, and the greater community. Social responsibility opens the door to a broader customer base. It is easier to recruit and retain human capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2023

According to an MIT study a while back, only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. Find enough venturesome capital. Look for customer-focused value creation. It doesn’t always work the other way around. Innovate or die.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Smart investors, competitors and smart customers, will listen and watch carefully as you position your new offering. Here are my thoughts on the right steps to prepare for these discussions and how to capitalize on your strengths: Declare and file your innovations early as intellectual property. It’s always smart to take the high road.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

According to an MIT study a while back, only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. Find enough venturesome capital. Look for customer-focused value creation. It doesn’t always work the other way around. Innovate or die.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

According to one study a decade ago, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Recent studies indicate that less than ten percent of business leaders show this balance today. Here is my list of key principles for creating and capitalizing on a balanced focus as a business professional or an entrepreneur: Start by marketing your vision and purpose. Listen to customer feedback and tune your vision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This might be the recognition that competitors are surpassing your own results, financial growth has disappeared, or the pandemic has eliminated loyal customers. Yet if you think back to when your business started, you capitalized on change as your opportunity. Keep an open channel to customers and influencers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Applied research is still primarily scientific study, seeking to solve practical problems, but doesn’t yet focus on a commercial product. The technology is now embodied in a solution that can be replicated to reliably solve a real customer problem. Commercial product prototypes. Expanding the product line.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2023

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. Twitter and GrubHub are just a couple of examples where CFOs have been asked to absorb COO responsibilities in the last few years, to capitalize on individual strengths.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 3, 2019

Study the literature about companies that have succeeded in their acquisitions, finding how and why such successes rose to the top twenty percent of all acquisitions when measured by the acquiring company CEO satisfaction ratings after a year. How about those less-experienced buyers? So, this insight is simple.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 3, 2019

Study the literature about companies that have succeeded in their acquisitions, finding how and why such successes rose to the top twenty percent of all acquisitions when measured by the acquiring company CEO satisfaction ratings after a year. How about those less-experienced buyers? So, this insight is simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

While I do agree that many attributes of a good entrepreneur, such as curiosity, confidence and determination, are largely determined by early-life experiences, a good education is critical in understanding the elements of creating a business and wooing customers. It’s never too early to stop studying and start doing it for real.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2021

These relationships include investors, an operational team , and customers. The world around you is moving faster and faster these days, and not moving fast likely means you are not keeping up with the people and customers you need to succeed. Learn from reality – test new ideas and get feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Generate revenue around the clock.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2021

Startups are the corporations of the future, so I have long believed that entrepreneurs who study existing corporate models, rather than ignoring them with disdain, will likely profit from the exercise. Customers and employees are the new stakeholders for every business. Stakeholder power. Demographic shifts.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 16, 2020

Now, the company has added to its haul with new capital and the cybersecurity expertise of Kleiner Perkins’ deep knowledge in the space through investors like Ted Schlein and Bucky Moore, who will be taking a seat on the company’s board of directors. The core functionality will be available for free under an Apache 2.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Applied research is still primarily scientific study, seeking to solve practical problems, but doesn’t yet focus on a commercial product. The technology is now embodied in a solution that can be replicated to reliably solve a real customer problem. Commercial product prototypes. Expanding the product line.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

This might mean helping customers buy traffic, arb’ing deals, helping with RTB pricing or trading, etc. Minimize Any Custom Work That Will Not Feed Back Into Your R&D. While I’d like to say that you should never do custom work that changes the scope of your product that’s not wholly realistic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2022

One 11-year study of over 200 companies over a decade ago, detailed in the book “ Corporate Culture and Performance ,” found that those working on their culture improved revenue by 516%, and increased net income by 755%. Building an ethical business is more than just compliance and meeting legal requirements, and it has big paybacks.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Last week, I wrote about an alternative to venture capital called revenue-based financing and before that, I jotted down some notes on one of VCs’ favorite spaces: cannabis tech. The Los Angeles ecosystem is $76 million stronger this week as Fika Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm, announced its sophomore investment fund.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

These leaders not only recognize team members who have high potential, but they willingly and selflessly customize their coaching to what these special protégés really need. They are always on the lookout for talent by peer networking, studying competitors, and working with top university contacts.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

According to financial columnist Daniel Solin, “One large study looked at more than 15,000 predictions by 237 market timing newsletters over a 12-year period. At the end of the period studied, 94.5% of the newsletters went bust.”. As noted in Now Is Never Too Early , successful entrepreneurs are not inclined to wait. Hard Knocks U.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. Back to the website, describe who the demographics are of your customers? An example of that is we have built in daily tips, which we have put together after going through 17,000 medical studies on what to do to reduce early memory loss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

According to a classic Harvard Research study, first inventors spend at least a third more on their initial technology than later innovators. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors. Attract investors who fear pioneers catching arrows.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2018

According to an MIT study a while back, only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. Find enough venturesome capital. Look for customer-focused value creation. It doesn’t always work the other way around. Innovate or die.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2021

Most people don’t recognize their own strengths, and need your help, as well as strength assessment tools, to capitalize on them. Every study shows that people are really engaged in their work, if they feel that it has value and purpose. Strive to practice strength-focused leadership. Show people the meaning and purpose of their work.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and others have had to raise tons of capital and have super-solid foundations to go with the hyper-local play. In this industry, customer acquisition costs are super high. That's a great question.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company. I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. Optimize the total customer experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). That is how great businesses are built.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Study the literature about companies that have succeeded in their acquisitions, finding how and why such successes rose to the top twenty percent of all acquisitions when measured by the acquiring company CEO satisfaction ratings after a year. So this insight is simple. Emulate the actions that are appropriate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2014

According to a recent Harvard Research study, first-time inventors spend at least a third more on their initial technology than later innovators. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors. Attract investors who fear pioneers catching arrows.

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