Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

And the market would still have DoorDash and PostMates duking it out as well as the potential that players like Instacart broadens its business one day or Amazon gets into food delivery. they just put up with the food delivery company fees. What is the Shopify of the restaurant industry?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2020

The long-standing rule of thumb that companies have ten years between significant disruptions was reset a few years ago to five years, according to experts Larry Downes and Paul Nunes. Get the right players on board and enable them to do great things. Today they demand it or walk to competitors, who are not far away.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. But many decisions were made within my company walls, and surely by competitors, based upon those numbers. Email readers, continue here.]

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object.

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Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2012

The following guest post is from Dan Monarko, Online Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Commitment . Success is like anything worthwhile.

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Coach Tips Competition Pricing 160

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 3, 2009

This is driving massive demand for new digital content distribution networks, in addition to an entirely new ecosystem of business and technology relationships. The competition is drawing players from diverse marketsincluding digital media, internet services, and Telecom/IP communications companies. See [link] (more).

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Tech.Co

JUNE 1, 2017

As a poker player turned venture capitalist, James Conlon, a partner at Bullpen Capital knows a thing or two about risk. Despite most Americans being in favor of legal cannabis, capital is hard to come by for a lot of budding companies, as most VCs are still wary of the risks. The Ground Floor. The Unique Risks. The Legality.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

For a big company, that might be through their own sales force, and for a smaller company it might be a small team which is operating the site themselves. We manage that competition through an aucton process. For instance, they might be selling ad space directly. They can sell those ads on a CPM, CPC, or CPA basis.

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OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

InfoChachkie

JULY 2, 2012

Temperamental Superstars – These individuals episodically perform at a high level, yet they constantly demand a high level of managerial attention to assuage and reassure their oversized egos. Give them conscribed assignments which compliment their talents, but minimize the degree to which they interact with the rest of the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2016

The old rule of thumb that most companies have ten years between significant disruptions has already been reset to five years, according to many experts like Larry Downes and Paul Nunes. Get the right players on board and enable them to do great things. Today they demand it or walk to competitors, who are not far away.

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Startup Organization Demand Customer 58

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. Market Size.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. In 2010, we sold the game assets and name PlayScreen, which we had acquired, and formed a new company with some solid financial and technology guys.

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Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

Los Angeles-based SaveFans (www.savefans.com) recently raised some funding for its take on secondary ticketing, so we thought we'd speak with founder Wes Brodsky about the company and where it's going. There is no real room for negotiation, or to let demand drive the pricing on the buyer side. Describe SaveFans and what it does?

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Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Activity 253

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The public storage market was $24 billion (now approaching $27 billion) in the US alone (> $50 billion worldwide) and the largest player in the space – Public Storage – had less than 10% market share. MakeSpace , the leading provider of next-generation storage for consumers, today announced an additional $17.5

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We caught up with Asher Hunt , CEO of the company, to learn more about how the startup wants to make finding a room while traveling more like Uber and less like traditional hotel booking. Can you explain how your service works? Asher Hunt: Overnight is a mobile app for travelers to book same day, last minute stays, with local hosts.

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Startup Los Angeles Mobile Pricing 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2013

However due to much controversy and competition, the same hasn’t played true while at large events (*cough* SXSW ). Today that changes as two major brands Callaway and Uber, partner to offer on-demand rides at one of the largest events in sports. This marks the beginning of what could be the next wave in event transportation.

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Software Review Technical Review Social Media Course 104

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link. What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Are “strategic investors&# (e.g.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. TV of the future will not always have linear stories. billion views. think Apple.

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Startup Media Content Platform 380

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. Fallacy: AdVentures tend to evolve once you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. 3) Attempt To License An Idea.

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Jason Nazar

APRIL 2, 2016

Build a team of A vs. B players. Make their product different and better than the competition. Great at generating PR and buzz for the company (ppt: Marketing and Publicity for Startups ). Have a strong sense of demand and how to extract it ( watch : put your big rocks in first ). Fierce competitiveness, hate to lose.

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Entrepreneur Tips Organization Sales 46

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. They were a juggernaut and Google was a small company. Overture (Goto.com).

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The “ TenHands ” name emerged from the concept and philosophy of John Wooden, the UCLA basketball coach, who emphasized the value of teamwork and insisted that all ten hands (five players) touch the ball before shooting. Who are the founders and their backgrounds? Co-founder and COO Jack Blaeser was President of BT Conferencing Inc.

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Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. The philosophy of OPEC has been that if they can limit the amount of oil supplied to the world they can maintain high prices in a world where demand and competition should naturally have downward pressure on oil prices.

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’ve always been a big believer that just a couple of key individuals make all of the difference in a company’s success. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. I’m looking to turn dots into lines over time.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. What does that mean?

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

Berkonomics

AUGUST 30, 2018

Apple, for example, was nowhere near the first to introduce an MP3 handheld music player. It did not hurt that Apple always seemed to trump the competition in design of the product and the product’s user interface too. I am a gadget freak, often purchasing new technologies in their first release. Cost to the user and to the producer.

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Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 120

Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2011

Email readers continue here.] Apple, for example, was nowhere near the first to introduce an MP3 handheld music player. I am a gadget freak, often purchasing new technologies in their first release. These early dives into new technologies serve a purpose for me. I had owned several before the first iPod was released.

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Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 214

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes.

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