Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2021

The tighter the loop, the greater the value captured and the stronger the competitive differentiation. billion people in developing countries to support who need to be moving out of poverty and into industrial and service occupations by 2030. These will be your customers, and your competitors.

Startup 162

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Social Media 162

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Don’t be afraid to test your ultimate entree on customers. This means find some hungry people who would love a good dinner, and be willing to pay for it. Make them “feel the love.”

Startup 156

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 156

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Based on my experience, creating a new business is at least as difficult as creating an innovative solution, and it takes a knowledge of finance, operations, customers and the marketplace. If there is no competition, there is likely not a market. Competitors arrive rapidly these days, so make sure you look often.

Startup 99

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Develop a personal story as a visionary and learner. Founders who present themselves as a lone entrepreneur may develop an innovative solution, but building a business requires a team. You need to show you have a “Plan B,” and a never-give-up mindset, in handling any competitive threat or customer reaction.

Ideas 140

Ideas Entrepreneur Equity Resource 140

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. FabLab s is an example of a new class of facilities for entrepreneurs to start experimenting early.

Startup 124

Startup IBM IBM Examples 124

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Some recent jobs: VP of Business Development, RampRate - Los Angeles. The Vice President of Business Development reports to the CEO and is responsible for the direction and management of all worldwide sales operations direct and indirect, including market competitiveness, pricing, compensation, and distribution.

SoCalTech 124

SoCalTech SaaS Los Angeles Platform 124

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. We then went out to raise money, and got started on development.

USC 207

USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. Ariel understood her customer?—?the

Product 296

Product Course Customer Custom 296

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2011

Customers can send money online or via their phone. Jonathan Cooper: We were in beta for about a year, and we've now been serving customers all over the world. Jonathan Cooper: What makes this special for the consumer, is that it's much easier for a customer to send money worldwide. What is ATMCASH? It's not an easy thing to do.

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Class Monrovia .Net Customer 168

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Whenever I heard why we didn’t feel a sales process at an important customer was going well (or if we lost) I would get involved myself. Obviously to understand a “class” of people you have to make broad generalizations. They are as good at selling you as they are at selling your product to customers.

Sales 382

Sales Help Startup Pricing 382

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. No human or paper tracking systems are a competitive alternative.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Metrics Commerce Software 84

Berkonomics

JUNE 18, 2015

Making such predictions is a skill that can be developed, and here’s one method of doing so. Is there a market for your class of product at all? Not only is the enterprise threatened, but confidence is shaken among employees, suppliers, even customers. Fourth is competitive risk , which consists of two separate risks.

Competition 120

Competition Marketing Class Product 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The facts, as well as what motivates your peers, customers, and business leaders are changing daily. The question is how we develop our future role and potential, while satisfying all the business and personal demands on our time today. Smart employers look for these as they contemplate your competitiveness for new roles.

Examples 85

Examples Social Media Competition Guide 85

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

In addition, today’s customers judge a company by perceived people relationships through social media, phone conversations, and sales experiences. Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. People-centric leaders drive ownership and engagement down to their customer-facing team members. What goes around, comes around.

Coach 94

Coach Organization Mentor Startup 94

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. They also have a very smart and efficient approach to creative development that was critical to helping us scale,” she wrote. (If In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. The key takeaway?

Commerce 211

Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

seed and they are writing $1.25m of it you can expect them to require a board seat) The competitive landscape (If you have several sources of capital you can likely politely decline the board request or can grant them a seat but ask for it to be “common appointed” and those revokable if you need in the future). And importantly?

Startup 236

Startup Venture Capital Tips Capital 236

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Don’t be afraid to test your ultimate entrée on customers. This means find some hungry people who would love a good dinner, and be willing to pay for it. Make them “feel the love.”

Startup 81

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 81

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today.

Southern California 113

Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. A partnership was announced last year with the City of New York, to connect and grow NYC's startup ecosystem.

Startup 100

Startup IBM IBM Examples 100

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

For example, I work as a community partner with Surge Tacoma , a coworking space, to secure speakers and develop content for meet ups that pertain to startups and entrepreneurship. I participate as a guest speaker to Professor Andrew Fry’s class each semester, as well. Lee: From my perspective, location is Tacoma’s biggest asset.

Startup 70

Startup Class Resource Examples 70

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Whenever I heard why we didn’t feel a sales process at an important customer was going well (or if we lost) I would get involved myself. Obviously to understand a “class&# of people you have to make broad generalizations. They are as good at selling you as they are at selling your product to customers. Here are mine.

Sales 316

Sales Startup Pricing Customer 316

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This is class four for Launchpad LA. Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails. We’ve been blown away by the performance of the eight companies in this class.

GRP Partners 96

GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues. Trying to work without this person is like wanting to build a world class sky scraper but not having a great lead architect and civil engineer. They often aren’t great at planning development work.

CTO Hire 400

CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

If you can’t identify customer interest, it doesn’t matter how good your product is. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Don’t be afraid to test your ultimate entrée on customers. This means find some hungry people who would love a good dinner, and be willing to pay for it. Make them “feel the love.”

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 93

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. A partnership was just announced with the City of New York, to connect and grow NYC''s startup ecosystem.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Startup Examples 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

In addition, today’s customers judge a company by perceived people relationships through social media, phone conversations, and sales experiences. Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. People-centric leaders drive ownership and engagement down to their customer-facing team members. What goes around, comes around.

Entrepreneur 78

Entrepreneur Coach Organization Mentor 78

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Further Reading.

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

The firm recently raised a $15M series C funding, and we caught up with Kevin to learn more about why its customers, and investors, are interested in its technology. What''s the gap in the market which would make your technology important to your customers? What does OnRamp Wireless do? Kevin Hell: That''s a great question.

Technical Review 213

Technical Review Software Review Networking Technology 213

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. Although Eucalyptus is still a relatively small company from a personnel standpoint, it already counts twenty one of the Fortune 100 as it customers. To the casual observer, it may appear that Eucalyptus and RightScale’s respective solutions are competitive.

Cloud Computing 212

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2015

The tighter the loop, the greater the value captured and the stronger the competitive differentiation. billion people in developing countries to support who need to be moving out of poverty and into industrial and service occupations by 2030. These will be your customers, and your competitors.

Startup 100

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2018

The tighter the loop, the greater the value captured and the stronger the competitive differentiation. billion people in developing countries to support who need to be moving out of poverty and into industrial and service occupations by 2030. These will be your customers, and your competitors.

Resource 66

Resource Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 66

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. The company posted a Show HN entry entitled, " We built a better solution for customer analysis and support.".

News 198

News Sites Startup RSS 198

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. Back to the website, describe who the demographics are of your customers? One of those tips, is a half an hour walk, five times a week results in 33 percent less risk of developing Alzheimers. It's fun an effective. How is the firm funded?

Study 252

Study Startup Design Tips 252

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2014

As part of that, a healthy market for accessories for the camera has developed, including for the photo filters from Newport Beach-based PolarPro (www.polarprofilters.com), which makes special photographic filters specifically to fit the GoPro. I think a lot of it is because you can customize them on what you want to do specifically.

Startup 196

Startup Van Nuys Patents Santa Barbara 196

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. Sergey’s diverse experience as an entrepreneur, technology consultant and software executive qualifies him to lead amSTATZ’s technology development.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2014

The tighter the loop, the greater the value captured and the stronger the competitive differentiation. billion people in developing countries to support who need to be moving out of poverty and into industrial and service occupations by 2030. These will be your customers, and your competitors.

Resource 96

Resource Ideas Startup Commerce 96