TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting ahold of an appointment for your hair or another treatment…that’s a different story: The bespoke nature of a lot of the work has meant that a large swathe of the professionals providing these services have stayed offline when it comes to interfacing with customers.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

This week, we saw the interconnectedness of major institutions as crypto lending protocol Celsius stuttered and brought down Ethereum prices with it as investors feared a price collapse brought on by reportedly over-leveraged players like 3 Arrows Capital. Three Arrows Capital, Pantera Capital and Dragonfly Capital.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

First, few startups can use that much money today with all the virtual services available and increasingly inexpensive methods of development, prototyping and marketing. Third (if you’re keeping score), it is not wise to dilute the founder’s ownership greatly in the first round of financing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2022

For example, the e-commerce trend, driven by the Internet, has boosted many companies to success, but Covid and more recent customer demands for customization, easy returns, and instant delivery have made to model very difficult for many businesses. Capitalize on a continuing market demand trend.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As a rule, creating a product that does not fit into an existing space, cannot be defined against one or more competitors, or which needs a long description to understand, will require considerably more market research, more marketing capital, and entail much more risk than one that follows an existing trend, even if an emerging one.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As a rule, creating a product that does not fit into an existing space, cannot be defined against one or more competitors, or which needs a long description to understand, will require considerably more market research, more marketing capital, and entail much more risk than one that follows an existing trend, even if an emerging one.

Marketing 120

Marketing Class Startup Research 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

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. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

Is the product or service possible to produce at all, let alone economically enough to compete in the marketplace? One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2021

Here is our list of key reasons to use inbound marketing as a focus for the next generation of your business and your customers: Modern customers trust only self-service marketing. Consumers are doing their own research and don’t want to engage a pushy salesperson or message. Pull marketing is more effective with consumers.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

First, few startups can use that much money today with all of the virtual services available and increasingly inexpensive methods of development, prototyping and marketing. Third (if you’re keeping score), it is not wise to dilute the founder’s ownership greatly in the first round of financing.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

Is the product or service possible to produce at all, let alone economically enough to compete in the marketplace? One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer.

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Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 200

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

After researching the field for seven years, the brains behind the company have figured out a way to optimize the efficiency of the process by using fuel cells. Straight off the bat, Callin was able to raise $12 million in funding from investors including LAUNCH and Goldcrest Capital. Sign up to Tech.co's weekly newsletter today.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Platform Newsletter 118

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

These authors bring a broad range of experience and practice in business leadership, as executives, consultants in the real world, and academic researchers. The support currently provided by product service can become inadequate to satisfy new customers, as your growth and image becomes better known.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

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. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

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Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review Outsource 87

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

As we went from a small band of missionaries hell bent on making our idea a reality, raising capital, getting press, and selling to customers – we were all having fun. We built a business with $36 million in bookings and real customers who relied upon our service.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

By making it easier to capture value for goods & services that ordinary people provide and by creating a means of storing value today that can be used in the future — currencies have literally changed society and the world. I provided a short reading list in the Appendix if you want to read directly about the history of money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2019

Teixeira, based on his recent Harvard Business School research. Uber and Airbnb managed to remain “under the radar” of the giants by snatching up excess demand until they had their own foothold in the market. Capitalize on offline and low-cost strategies. Instead seek out customers they can’t or won’t serve.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

VW Group, Intel’s computer vision subsidiary Mobileye and Champion Motors said in November they plan to deploy Israel’s first self-driving ride-hailing service in 2019 through a joint venture called New Mobility in Israel. Some companies were already operating these services; this action created a regulatory framework.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Maneesh began his career conducting research at Brown University’s Experimental Pathology Lab to determine the effects of HIV on the Vitamin D pathway. He also has product strategy and business development experience in the areas of video-on-demand services and RF CMOS components. Sean Ellis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Capitalize on the massive trend and power of mobile. Position your products as delivery for on-demand services. Characterize your brand as one that builds relationships through personalized products that provide service. Allow them to contribute to your message, and ask them to spread the message to friends.

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Social Media Custom Customer Mobile 73

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2017

Last week, Los Angeles-based iExhale (www.iexhale.com) announced a seed funding round, to bring its mobile, mental health service to life. Aaron Robin: Essentially, iExhale is an online, on-demand, wellness and mental health platform. So where is your service now, and where is it available? It's essentially a three-fold service.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

You need to research the possibilities in a new landscape but your personal research has been well, a bit fruitless. Perhaps it’s time to raise a round of Venture Capital funding and want a pitch presentation a bit more composed than the dusty Keynote you put together last year for your friends and family round.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review Outsource 105

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

We caught up with Julie Schoenfeld , the firm's CEO, to hear about how the firm's offerings have evolved, an interesting comparison of the firm's software to what Demand Media is doing, and what this new funding will go towards. It's some of the kinds of things Demand Media does, except, for the newsroom. Congrats on funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

For example, it may seem quicker and more effective to hand your service desk employees the store policy manual, and tell them to follow the rules, rather than spend time coaching them on how to really listen to customer feedback, and use their strengths to build customer loyalty. Don’t fixate on team weaknesses – capitalize on strengths.

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Coach Technical Review Satisfaction Examples 95

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

It's been a good summer for Laguna Beach-based venture capital firm Okapi Ventures (www.okapivc.com), which recently saw its first portfolio firm exit last month in Carlsbad-based Helixis , which was acquired by Illumina for $105M. which have lots of interest, government dollars, and smart minds researching products around them.

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Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. But not doing basic research makes no sense.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2019

San Diego-based Wheels (www.takewheels.com) was co-founded by Jon and Josh Viner, who were the co-founders of Wag, where they raised nearly $400M in venture capital. How is this different from the many other on-demand, last mile transportation companies out there? Wheels currently operates in Los Angeles and San Diego.

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San Diego Startup Study Los Angeles 113

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

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. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

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Startup Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review 102

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys, which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints. Hank: Seco Sys has developed a range of web services that are dedicated to managing all types of water.

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Startup Technical Review Patents Services 105

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys , which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints. Hank: Seco Sys has developed a range of web services that are dedicated to managing all types of water.

Startup 119

Startup Technical Review Patents Services 119

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

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. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Offshore Startup Technical Review 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

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. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

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Offshore Technical Review Entrepreneur Outsource 55

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2017

Here is our list of key reasons to use inbound marketing as a focus for the next generation of your business and your customers: Modern customers trust only self-service marketing. Consumers are doing their own research and don’t want to engage a pushy salesperson or message. Pull marketing is more effective with consumers.

Marketing 76

Marketing Social Media Content Media 76

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

Signaling an overall shift away from costly hardware in favor of affordable cloud-based voice and text messaging services for the commercial and non-profit sectors, CallFire announced that it has surpassed 50,000 users. Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital.

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Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We raised this capital in what has increasingly become a difficult market for fund raising so I’d like to share with you some details on how we get it done. I’m a stickler for focus, being efficient with capital and building out operational excellence, so our strategy initially was very constrained. The Early Years.

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Startup Pricing Marketing Product 150

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

We thought we'd get the background on the new effort directly from Jason Nazar , CEO and founder of Docstoc, to learn more about the new service. There is a huge demand from people, who have gone there to buy products. We're leveraging that huge demand we have for people looking for documents, to build this marketplace.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

In light of their ease with technology, they are in a prime position to spot opportunities for products and services that will improve people’s lives. Even if a teen’s first stab at an entrepreneurial venture doesn’t do well, research shows that if that person is tenacious enough to try again, he increases his odds of success.

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