socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. They wanted to get help getting their resume out there. That's been very effective.

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2013

Fast forward two and a half years later and ProProfs is one of the leading online tools that lets the public and private sectors to create online quizzes, polls, surveys, flashcards, and classes with an extensive list of options. Creating an online class or tutorial is simple on ProProfs.

Tool 77

Tool Class HTML Course 77

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. You need a trained CFO to fill the financial gaps on your team. Outside professionals are always available, but they may have their own agenda, such as building a career, making money quickly, or managing up the stock price for a quick exit. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 123

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Often these communities are built around special interest groups, where the members interact through social media, help each other, and trust each other, and the relationships go well beyond the transactions. Fertility can be helped by less restrictive ways for people to share their sperm and eggs. Healthcare.

Commerce 98

Commerce Social Media Platform Class 98

Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2011

Even with the usual discount of 10%, the margins on hardware were high, especially when applied to prices that exceeded $30,000 per sale. . In the early eighties, IBM helped the PC become a tool of the office, and the product crossed over from use by early adopters to the mass market.

Pricing 184

Pricing Networking IBM IBM 184

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

You have to help people get better, and not try to fix things. We'd do a Series A, and participate in the Series B, but when companies hit breakout, we would call a late stage VC and have them price the deal, and do all of that. When I talk to LPs, that's always the one or two major pain points of the asset class they talk about.

Southern California 113

Southern California Capital Funding Invest 113

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these “techno geeks” can pay. Having a highly functional middle class is good policy for long-term economic growth. We need to make sure our young kids have public schooling that trains them for the information economy. We have a responsibility to give back.

Education 417

Education Venture Capital UCSD Class 417

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2015

Often these communities are built around special interest groups, where the members interact through social media, help each other, and trust each other, and the relationships go well beyond the transactions. Fertility can be helped by less restrictive ways for people to share their sperm and eggs. Healthcare.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Commerce Social Media Platform 111

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 29, 2014

Not only are housing prices exorbitantly high in San Francisco, but with so many people here, it’s also difficult to find places to live. Craigslist can be very helpful, but if you’re not willing to dig that deep, you can also rent out spaces long-term from Airbnb. Get ready for packed trains. And when it’s rush hour?

Technical Review 91

Technical Review Newsletter Startup Southern California 91

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

However, one of the biggest beneficiaries of that boom-- TaskUs (www.taskus.com) has been far lower profile--but has grown from only five employees three years ago, to over a thousand employees today who are helping behind the scenes to power those startups. What caused you to rethink your business and pivot the business three years in?

Startup 231

Startup Technology Outsource Santa Monica 231

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. You need a trained CFO to fill the financial gaps on your team. Outside professionals are always available, but they may have their own agenda, such as building a career, making money quickly, or managing up the stock price for a quick exit. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 105

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 105

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

We've also been at a big discount to the other firms for the first seven years we were around, we were half the price of Kaplan and Princeton Review until last year, when they both dropped their prices to match us. What our program does, is if you get a question wrong, we help determine where you need help.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

You should already have a good feel for the customer pain, how you solve it, how your product differs from competitors and what the acceptable price points for your product should be. I always tell people, “hire somebody who wants to punch above their weight class &# (i.e. Most sales professionals start by carrying bags.

Sales 346

Sales Startup Technical Review Customer 346

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. You need a trained CFO to fill the financial gaps on your team. Outside professionals are always available, but they may have their own agenda, such as building a career, making money quickly, or managing up the stock price for a quick exit. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 57

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 57

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I was used to being allowed to fly business class and staying at nice hotels. I took business class on the Eurostar over and justified it because I could get more work done on my computer at bigger tables. I took business class on the Eurostar over and justified it because I could get more work done on my computer at bigger tables.

Startup 333

Startup Class Conference Product 333

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. You need a trained CFO to fill the financial gaps on your team. Outside professionals are always available, but they may have their own agenda, such as building a career, making money quickly, or managing up the stock price for a quick exit. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 98

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2016

Often these communities are built around special interest groups, where the members interact through social media, help each other, and trust each other, and the relationships go well beyond the transactions. Fertility can be helped by less restrictive ways for people to share their sperm and eggs. Healthcare.

Marketing 52

Marketing Commerce Social Media Entrepreneur 52

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

New employees are offered $2,000 to quit after the first week of training if they decide the job isn’t for them. It designs its own glasses, and sells directly to customers, cutting out the middleman and keeping prices low. Customers loyal to Southwest often point to happy and friendly employees who try hard to help.

Examples 100

Examples Company Companies Google 100

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

New employees are offered $2,000 to quit after the first week of training if they decide the job isn’t for them. It designs its own glasses, and sells directly to customers, cutting out the middleman and keeping prices low. Customers loyal to Southwest often point to happy and friendly employees who try hard to help.

Examples 100

Examples Company Companies Google 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. I hadn’t cried this much maybe since childhood. They wanted opportunity.

Writing 150

Writing Startup Design Training 150

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. That became our company Hit the Ground Running, which we launched in 2007 to help a number of Fortune 500 clients with our technology and methodologies.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

But what chapped my hide was that every early assignment at Accenture they divided teams, training and assignments into “technical” and “non technical.” I asked him if I could join his practice as the guy who could help him bridge technology & business. She was paid 15% more. That was the market. He took me.

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2008

We recently ran into Los Angeles-based Healthshoppr (www.healthshoppr.com), a startup looking to help change the way people shop for health care. Vijay Goel: We will be offering massage therapy to start, and pretty quickly after that will add personal training. Then, we'll go into fitness classes like pilates, yoga, and kickboxing.

Startup 100

Startup Technical Review Southern California Sites 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2008

We recently ran into Los Angeles-based Healthshoppr (www.healthshoppr.com), a startup looking to help change the way people shop for health care. Vijay Goel: We will be offering massage therapy to start, and pretty quickly after that will add personal training. Then, we'll go into fitness classes like pilates, yoga, and kickboxing.

Startup 100

Startup Technical Review Southern California Sites 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Premium window treatments and home decor basics at an accessible price. Premium window treatments and home decor basics at an accessible price. A membership program for Sports Fields, Gyms, Fitness Classes. He’s helped shut down more companies than he’s started. . Once he slept on a horse during a horse-riding class!

Startup 40

Startup Training SaaS Walnut 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Zareh Baghdasarian: My training is as an engineer. After that, I was involved in a lot of angel investing, starting companies, and helping entrepreneurs to get going. They were looking for someone to help and guide them. Class sizes are getting bigger, especially in lower grades, middle schools, and high school.

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2021

She speaks from years of experience mentoring and facilitating independent contractors and helping large companies, since well before the term “gig economy” was even coined. One question I often hear from solo entrepreneurs, and she addresses directly, is “How do I set the right price for my services?” Know your competitive value.

Pricing 149

Pricing Mentor Entrepreneur News 149

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class. I believe that you should always hire people are are looking to “punch above their weight class,&# which means to hire people who want to be one league above where they are today. Weight Class : Let’s take sales. I’m not one of those. Your solution?

Startup 327

Startup Sales Class CIO 327

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

She speaks from years of experience mentoring and facilitating independent contractors and helping large companies, since well before the term “gig economy” was even coined. One question I often hear from solo entrepreneurs, and she addresses directly, is “How do I set the right price for my services?” Know your competitive value.

Pricing 68

Pricing Entrepreneur Mentor News 68

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

He launched a business called Unsubscribe, which helped consumers deal with the deluge of email lists that one gets signed up to and get rid of them all. Jamie’s ethos led him to price at just $3 / user / camera / month at a time when traditional home security companies’ monthly fees were so unaffordable.

Startup 247

Startup Pricing Product Marketing 247

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

In order to combat the losses of traditional jobs we invested in education and training and public infrastructure that enabled the growth of the middle class. Of course it impacts jobs and we need to work hard to create a vibrant economy and find ways to funnel income gains to the middle and lower classes.

Education 150

Education Resource Class Course 150