socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2018

The ruling came in a lawsuit, filed by the Plaintiff, Allan Candelore, in a class action suit on behalf of consumers over 30 years old who were required to pay $19.99 Candelore had alleged that Tinder's pricing was age discrimination under the Unrah Civil Rights Act and the Unfair Competition Law. READ MORE>>.

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Class Los Angeles Pricing Competition 113

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

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.

Competition 60

Competition IBM IBM Startup 60

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For new entrepreneurs and startups, I recommend an initial focus on these six steps from the very beginning to set the right culture and save the tremendous cost of a transformation and risky competitive catch-up later: Start with an overriding top-down focus on customer experience. Set the expectation for continuous improvement.

Customer 106

Customer Custom Startup Competition 106

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Is there a market for your class of product at all? Whether it is you or a quality control manager, someone must assure that the product or service you send out to the world will not fail to perform at least to the level of customer expectation, if not to delight those customers most likely to be critical. Fourth is competitive risk.

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Competition Marketing Class Product 156

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios. Super angels are individuals or small teams using their own money. Super angels sometimes drive up valuations.

Guide 136

Guide Venture Capital Funding Class 136

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2021

One question I often hear from solo entrepreneurs, and she addresses directly, is “How do I set the right price for my services?” For more complex or creative projects, where required hours to complete the work are less predictable, your experience, work ethic, and productivity are competitive advantages. Know your competitive value.

Pricing 149

Pricing Mentor Entrepreneur News 149

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

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.

IBM 131

IBM IBM Startup Examples 131

Berkonomics

JULY 5, 2018

Most businesses fall into the class of those that can be sold someday to a willing buyer. Even small community service-providers can be sold to buyers hungry to get into a business already in revenue with a steady customer base. Is your business one that may be sold for profit someday? What creates value in a business? .

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Class Email Competition Entrepreneur 226

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2021

The tighter the loop, the greater the value captured and the stronger the competitive differentiation. Move physical products and services into the digital realm. billion people in developing countries to support who need to be moving out of poverty and into industrial and service occupations by 2030.

Startup 162

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Social Media 162

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. It’s important to stand up to competition and wear your reputation on your sleeve. Is your service being replaced?

Tips 92

Tips Startup Services Outsource Development 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. with demands for new products and services. The result is that every startup company now needs to consider every aspect of management, sales and service on a global basis. Reinforce your brand in international markets.

Patents 106

Patents Offshore Startup Demand 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Follow the “how to” instructions above for combining the ingredients, combined with you own “special sauce” (competitive edge), and I’m sure you will deliver a tasty dish, on time and with a profit. not a solution looking for a problem) Be sure you have a great team.

Startup 112

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 112

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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Help Startup UCLA Tool 195

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2015

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

Startup 118

Startup Competition Patents Resource 118

Berkonomics

JULY 23, 2011

There are five major classes or niches a company should examine and make its own in calculating positioning in the marketplace. Companies that compete on price rarely compete against others who emphasize service or quality. Nordstrom’s competes on service above all, quality second and price a distant third. They are: Price.

Pricing 197

Pricing Examples Class Course 197

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2014

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Competition Patents Resource 110

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios. Super angels are individuals or small teams using their own money. Super angels sometimes drive up valuations.

Funding 125

Funding Venture Capital Startup Class 125

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

It’s not hard to find people willing to write the narrative that “venture capital is not an asset class” or “venture capital has performed terribly.” Of course the concentration of capital in growth firms and the intense competition to fund the best deals leads to some risks.

Venture Capital 362

Venture Capital Capital Startup Writing 362

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Certainly, bootstrapping is a preferred method of funding growth if it does not hold back the speed of growth or hobble the quality of product or service to the extent that better-funded competitors can overtake the business. Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number investor classes into one.

Venture Capital 266

Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

McKinsey estimates, for example, that the upper middle class in China will grow from 14 percent in 2012 to 54 percent by 2022. Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. with demands for new products and services. Reinforce your brand in international markets.

Marketing 94

Marketing Patents Offshore Startup 94

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Follow the “how to” instructions above for combining the ingredients, combined with you own “special sauce” (competitive edge), and I’m sure you will deliver a tasty dish, on time and with a profit. not a solution looking for a problem) Be sure you have a great team.

Startup 156

Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 156

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

THIS ROLE REQUIRES DEEP EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND RELATIONSHIPS IN THE IT SERVICES, TELECOM, CLOUD AND HOSTING MARKET. Our proprietary CLX platform is an enterprise-class, SaaS automation capability set, that partners can private label to package, sell, deliver and manage a broad portfolio of products and services.

SoCalTech 124

SoCalTech SaaS Los Angeles Platform 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2019

In my experience the key attributes in any sector would include the following: A product or service with depth and a robust set of features. Customers don’t want to read instruction manuals these days, or attend a class to learn about features. In fact, customer experience can be a greater competitive advantage than your product.

Startup 91

Startup Customer Custom Examples 91

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

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. How profitable is my product or service? What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers?

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

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

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 6, 2009

Executive as a Service". In today's economic environment, business leaders must seek every possible competitive advantage and the most powerful advantage is ensuring that the right people are leading the way. This event will explore an often overlooked method of building a world-class company by using interim executive management.

Demand 100

Demand Technology Council TCOSC Class 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies. What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why? And then there is the lesson of WeWork.

Southern California 100

Southern California News Platform Class 100

Berkonomics

JUNE 17, 2011

Most businesses fall into the class of those that can be sold someday to a willing buyer. Even small community service-providers can be sold to buyers hungry to get into a business already in revenue with a steady customer base. What creates value in a business?

Equity 209

Equity Class Email Competition 209

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

If there is no competition, there is likely not a market. Every potentially successful product has competition, or an alternative, or customers with no interest in change. If you really believe your idea has no competition, perhaps you haven’t looked, or there is no real business.

Startup 99

Startup Competition Examples Ideas 99

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2011

We think ourselves as truly mobile, and our service and call centers operate in four languages. How long has the service been running? That means no more trips to an agent office, it's available 24/7 online and self service over the phone, and recipients have 24 hour, ATM access. How did you got into this? READ MORE>>.

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Class Monrovia .Net Customer 168

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone. Access to entrepreneurs-in-residence, business mentors.

Entrepreneur 55

Entrepreneur Capital Class Startup 55

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2018

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

Competition 51

Competition Patents Resource Entrepreneur 51

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. Product is simply about defining a physical good or service that would be valued by consumers of the product more than existing alternatives based on functionality, quality and/or price. It’s worth a quick read.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. Besides Sense, MuteSix’s former and current clients include companies such as Adidas, Petco, Ring and Theragun, to whom it provides a full range of marketing services, including top-notch direct response videos. The key takeaway?

Commerce 211

Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2014

The in-flight test, which will take place on a new American Airlines Airbus A321 Transcontinental (A321T), featuring three classes of service, individual AC power outlets and USB jacks available at every seat throughout the aircraft as well as Gogo’s upgraded ATG-4 Wi-Fi service, will showcase the next generation of wearable technology.

Technology 104

Technology Conference IBM IBM 104

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

McKinsey estimates, for example, that the upper middle class in China will grow from 14 percent now to 56 percent by 2022. Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. with demands for new products and services. Reinforce your brand in international markets. Marty Zwilling.

Patents 106

Patents Startup Offshore Demand 106