Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. In the early days (25 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Twenty years ago, it cost several million dollars to launch an e-commerce startup, which can be done today for a few thousand dollars. Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business. Some VC firms are bogged down by their own weight.
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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 4, 2022
My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. The most effective new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity. Use crowd funding.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Agoura Hills-based inQ, a provider of outsourced web sales services, has renamed itself TouchCommerce, the firm said today. inQ offers web chat services for e-commerce web sites, which helps to close online sales and guide users to select and find products. inQ did not detail reasons for the name change.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 6, 2019
My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. In the early days (25 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.
socalTECH
JULY 5, 2017
I moved down here to work as a large, $10 billion private equity fund with Ron Burkle, at Yucaipa Companies. The last piece, was we figured that we could disintermediate a broken, retail channel, by creating a customized, sophisticated, Web 2.0 As an investor, what made you decide to go from private equity to an operational role?
Xconomy
OCTOBER 16, 2016
After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It It also is a burgeoning sector.
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