Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world. Personalize a simple web site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Every new business I know dreams of building momentum in their business, where growth continues to increase, customers become your best advocates, and employee motivation is high. Unfortunately, with limited resources, this isn’t possible, and it frustrates customers and the team. Focus first on finding more of the right customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 14, 2013

However, the right e-commerce technology and marketing is necessary to get your brand the exposure it needs to be seen. All of the e-commerce setup and marketing have already been done. You don’t have to worry about hiring web designers and marketing specialists to draw traffic to the site. Defining Your Customer Base.

Commerce 93

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Customers are people too, so customers tend to take their relationship with a brand personally. Proving the new model today are sites like Patagonia and Zappos. But how do you know if your brand is projecting warmth and competence to your customers? The price of progress. Brands are people first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. For example, if you have no technical background, you probably can’t create or sell an enterprise software product for a low price, even today.

Entrepreneur 162

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

Startup 136

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2014

Silicon Beach has been known in part for fostering and revolutionizing high revenue generating e-commerce startups. These companies focus on bringing the best selection and new experiences to customers. has a proven business model and a loyal and rapidly growing customer base.” e-commerce' Clearance.co Clearance.co

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

ReachSite helps provide search engine optimization, content optimization, and lead capture for companies, to help companies convert visitors into customers. That new service also has pre-negotiated prices, and the vendors are pre-screened and background checked.

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ReachLocal Woodland Hills Search Engine Optimization Services 178

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2012

We partnered with the world's largest distributors, Ingram Micro and others, to provide great services, prices, and products to consumers. There are more than 10,000 people in Japan, and they're the third largest site behind Amazon and eBay, doing over 15 billion, with a 14 billon market cap in Japan. That is growing nicely.

Sites 210

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2019

Customers are people too, so customers tend to take their relationship with a brand personally. Proving the new model today are sites like Patagonia and Zappos. But how do you know if your brand is projecting warmth and competence to your customers? The price of progress. Brands are people first.

Customer 91

Customer Custom Commerce Social Media 91

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding.

Tips 104

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Nothing is changing for our customers at this time, and we’ll be in touch with customers as and when we have further updates. That's not bad but it's miles off market leader Shopify which boasts millions of customers. To put it simply, Amazon is getting instant access to a market it used to operate in.

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Amazon used its popular affiliate program to spur additional growth, getting reviewers and publishing sites – including us here at Tech.co – to link to Amazon in exchange for a small payout whenever a reader bought something by following that link. The ecommerce site Bookshop offers a book-specific affiliate program.

Technical Review 129

Technical Review Buzzfeed News Networking 129

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

Startup 128

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 128

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world. Personalize a simple web site.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 18, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SteelHouse’s Behavioral Commerce platform increases online conversions via targeted incentives based on shopper personality and behavior. Well the people who really care about us are Internet retailers (because) we help them figure out what incentive they should offer each of the shoppers on their site.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2012

What has evolved over the past year or so, is I've been seeing that the e-commerce business is very strong. Braden Richter: LuxeYard is a flash sales site. You can take a picture, upload it to LuxeYard, and we can assist in finding that product, or something very like that product, for a fraction of that price.

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Sales Startup Sites Design 178

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100 if you are willing to do the work yourself. Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2014.

Startup 100

Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. For example, if you have no technical background, you probably can’t create or sell an enterprise software product for a low price, even today. Martin Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Commerce 104

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

We realized that one problem with event venues, is that each city has a wedding website, but no one can actually determine pricing and availability of those venues. Knowing what it costs to run special events for parties and weddings, that's an incredible price. Michael Jones: We love social e-commerce, and we love marketplaces.

Beverly Hills 203

Beverly Hills Incubator Commerce Los Angeles 203

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2016

These are, in fact, some of the best sellers on the world’s leading e-commerce site, Amazon. America’s largest online retailer connects the online shopper with both the mundane yet essential, and the weird and wonderful, offering a huge selection at low prices. CamelCamelCamel and Online Price Alert keep an eye on price drops.

Pricing 40

Pricing Commerce Sites Startup 40

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based MeUndies , debuted its subscription, e-commerce service for underwear and other basics. Jonathan Shokrian: My background is in real estate and finance, but I've also been very focused on photography, and did a bunch of photography in college.Most of the photography you see on the site are photos I took.

Commerce 201

Commerce Startup Design Los Angeles 201

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding.

Startup 87

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 87

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2017

Customers are people too, so customers tend to take their relationship with a brand personally. Proving the new model today are sites like Patagonia and Zappos. But how do you know if your brand is projecting warmth and competence to your customers? The price of progress. Brands are people first.

Customer 66

Customer Custom Commerce Social Media 66

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Every consumer out there who goes to live sports, music, and other events is used to the drill: pay lots of money to a ticketing site, pay lots of extra fees, or have to hassle with a shady ticket broker, or pay extra to get a seat to the event you want to get to. It's built to take advantage of the difference in pricing on the high end.

Entertainment 219

Entertainment Pricing Ticketmaster Startup 219

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. We provide artists with e-commerce infrastructure that fulfills digital and physical orders, anywhere on the Internet. What's the idea behind Audiolife?

Van Nuys 191

Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2014

The result of her efforts is an online service that allows brides to select their bridesmaids'' gowns, within a broad range of colors, styles and price points. The gowns are then dry cleaned and readied for the next customer, in the spirit of the emerging sharing economy in which goods are communally used multiple times.

Design 208

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2010

Yesterday, Los Angeles-based Biddees (www.biddees.com) launched a new web site, which combines gift cards, a reverse auction system, and microdonations to nonprofits. What is the site all about? Steve Adler: It's a reverse auction site that exclusively sells prepaid cards. Steve Adler: We were looking for white space.

Sites 213

Sites Startup Ideas Pricing 213

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2012

Every box is custom, and you can update that as much as you want as your kid grows. The next thing we can do, is because we know exactly what we're shipping, including the color, sizes, and what our customers want next month, that can help with a predictable model of manufacturing. How did it come about?

Acquisition 167

Acquisition Help Social Media Startup 167

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers.

Startup 105

Startup Entrepreneur IBM IBM 105

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Bryce Maddock: TaskUs is the best provider in the world of customer care and back office services for emerging growth companies. Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. We do a whole host of other back-office services in that space. Who are some of those companies?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2016

For example, you probably never heard that both Facebook and YouTube started out fully intending to be dating sites, but pivoted to something more unique when they found that dating had already become an over-crowded market. This confuses customers, and dilutes your marketing impact. Adapt to an emerging customer need or pain.

Entrepreneur 57

Entrepreneur Pricing Course Competition 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Equity 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Funding Startup Technical Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Use crowd funding.

Develop 70

Develop Development Product Startup 70