Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Today’s customers demand more than a good product; they expect a great customer experience. A few companies are leading the way, including Apple with their iPad and iPhone, offering irresistible stores with friendly experts, elegant packaging, and customer service that never ends. Experience using the product is only one stage.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

NASA and a clutch of startup and established companies are moving forward with plans to transform mobility in urban environments through the Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge. The Grand Challenge series brings together companies developing new transportation or airspace management technologies, the Agency said. AirMap, Inc.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. A recent survey of design professionals shows strong agreement, but 92 percent expressed some lack of confidence in their organization’s design vision.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 22, 2016

Wednesday, July 27, 2016 -- Day in the Life of a UX Designer. Curious about the role of Tech's Most Wanted role, User Experience Designer at different companies? Wondering where most designers start their careers and why they're the highest demand tech job? Generaly Assembly. See https://generalassemb.ly/education/day-in-the-life-of-a-ux-designer/los-angeles/27169.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Customer personalities define customer experience, and sets what they love, and what they hate. Customers today expect highly personalized and exceptional experiences to stay loyal and become advocates, rather than just conventionally “satisfied.” Add the extra mile to make the experience exceptional.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2016

People are confused by multiple messages, and employees are frustrated trying to personalize customer experiences. These days, the whole business experience is often more important than the product. The specifics and need for an overall service experience design were driven home to me in a new book, “ Woo, Wow, and Win ,” by Thomas A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In my role as a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I find that many of you have your most creative ideas for your company’s first big bang , but often get bogged down with details as the company grows. Sponsor experiments, and celebrate the learning. Yet building and maintaining a creative team is a tough challenge.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 8, 2020

“I love solving problems with design and entrepreneurship. ” With $10 million in financing from a slew of investors including Upfront Ventures, Alpha Edison, the general partners and founders of True Ventures, and a Korean family office, Share Ventures will look to launch between two and four companies per year. .”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Domain Experience – “Domain experience&# means that the founders have worked in the industry before. It’s not an absolute requirement for me that you have domain experience but if you do it’s a HUGE plus. He’s built two ad network companies – he knows what he’s doing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2021

With the advent of the Internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have changed. They tell their friends and the world everything, and a bad experience can kill your business. Company finds customers based on interests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Customer personalities define customer experience, and sets what they love, and what they hate. Customers today expect highly personalized and exceptional experiences to stay loyal and become advocates, rather than just conventionally “satisfied.” Add the extra mile to make the experience exceptional.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Online job and career sites still seem to be in another decade, when it comes to both design--and user friendliness. Can a startup gain a foothold in the competitive market by designing the right UX and user experience to make a job and career site for everyone? The company recently landed a $7.9M What is Workpop?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2017

With the advent of the Internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have changed. They tell their friends and the world everything, and a bad experience can kill your business. Company finds customers based on interests.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Often, older professionals in the workforce�especially those who are past retirement age�face job discrimination, despite bringing a rich set of experience and talent honed over many years. Sulgatti tells us how she hopes her service will help both those older individuals, as well as companies, connect. What is Tengia?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

One bad customer experience will kill not only one customer, but many future ones, who hear the message via social media and friends. Big companies and small, from Amazon to Zappos, have set the bar high along the following lines: Business must be available when and where you are. Company amazingly finds you based on your interests.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2020

Virgin Galactic , the space tourism developer which developed its space vehicles in Mojave, has unveiled the interior design of its SpaceshipTwo spacecraft, in a virtual event. The app is free for download, and runs on both Android and iOS. The app is free for download, and runs on both Android and iOS. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This week’s insight came from personal experience and from a good friend who advanced the notion of the “teacher-customer” years ago. I internalized this phrase, recalling the many times I had partnered with customers to design new feature-functionality into my hotel computer system back when such systems were brand new to the industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2017

As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. Design thinking” is a methodology used to solve complex challenges, such as the ones faced by every business in today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive environment.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Pack says it is developing what it calls "headless commerce", which helps brands create personalized shopping experiences. The company said the funding goes towards engineering, product, design, and go-to-market. The funding was led by Norwest Venture Partners, and also included Alpaca and Vanterra Ventures.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This is not necessarily the way we intend to behave as managers, but our headline reflects the reality of most experiences when viewed in retrospect. Don’t we most often hire based on experience? We carefully vet the potential hire for experience required. When experience meets cultural fit. and the point of this is….

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Los Angeles-based media company Tastemade has launched a brand new set of services this week, called Tastemade Makers and Tastemade Experiences. The second, Tastemade Experiences, allows its creators to offer up ticketed in-person and virtual experiences.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Los Angeles-based Go Disco announced this morning that it has launched a new, experience and entertainment discovery app, which is designed to help individuals find "cool things to do" in their area.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. But our experience suggests it doesn’t usually work out that way. And you certainly don’t want to be the company that spends time and money building something you could have picked up off the shelf. Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2020

Its goal is to give hypebeasts a chance to collect virtual versions of their physical objects of desire and win points to maybe buy the gear they crave, while also providing a showcase where brands can discover new design talent to make the next generation of cult collaborations and launch careers. View this post on Instagram.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 9, 2021

Mythical Games , an NFT games startup based out of Los Angeles, has banked a $75 million raise from new and existing investors betting on the startup’s aim to expand the ambitions of their first title and locate a substantial platform opportunity amid helping developers build blockchain-based gaming experiences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

More than just spending, you need to create an “experience” in this digital age which sets you apart from the banner ads, email blasts, and old-school websites out there today. It’s about re-imagining content to create blockbuster experiences that cannot be attained through any other medium. Don’t repurpose, re-imagine. Want control?

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2015

Created by Jonathan Wegener and his Co-Founder Benny Wong, the company has over 16M+ users. Timehop recently executed a radical experiment. Even though the experiment did not yield the results the management team expected, many of Timehop’s employees enjoyed the experience. As a company, we always strive for better.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2022

This summer, parent company Niantic is unveiling Campfire, a social app designed to help mobile augmented reality (AR) gamers connect. Of course, GPS shows you where you are and what’s around you, but VPS adds another layer, showing you user-generated experiences designed to enhance your real-world experience.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Empathy comes from experience. Over fifty years ago, I was CEO of a record manufacturing company in Hollywood. As founder and CEO of the then public company, I was expert in several of the “clean” processes such as studio recording, record mastering, cover design and photo lithography.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Every mature company I know is looking for more innovation from within. They are painfully aware that tenure on the list of S&P companies is shrinking – from thirty-three years back in 1964, down to twenty-four in 2016, and predicted to be just twelve by 2027. In this context, strategy deviations can keep the company on track.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2021

San Diego-based Qualcomm announced on Wednesday that it has acquired NUVIA, a company that develops next general CPU designs. The company said the NUVIA has Systems on a Chip (SoC) expertise, experience in high performance processors, and more. Qualcomm said it will pay approximately $1.4

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Virgin Galactic , the space launch company backed by Sir Richard Branson, has inked a contract with the Italian Air Force , to conduct science experiements in microgravity in Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity space plane. Financial details of the contract were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

After operating in stealth mode for about two years, First Resonance , a company founded by former SpaceX engineers, is finally showing the world their software toolkit designed to let manufacturers make things using the processes employed by their former boss.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Most designers, at least the ones I know, hate to network and rarely do it. The key to networking in the tech world is you do not need to be the best in the world, you just need to be passionate, willing to learn and in a lot of cases be the best designer or developer that people know. Reach out to people you want to meet.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

This AI-centric approach transforms sales into a data-driven field, emphasizing efficiency and personalized customer experiences. At TechEmpower , we’ve used LLMs as part of marketing strategies where you can find and classify companies, personalize outreach campaigns and have personalized drip campaigns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Customer personalities define customer experience, and sets what they love, and what they hate. Customers today expect highly personalized and exceptional experiences to stay loyal and become advocates, rather than just conventionally “satisfied.” Add the extra mile to make the experience exceptional.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

Small- to medium-sized businesses may lack the resources and IT expertise to manage, protect, and upgrade their networks effectively compared to larger, more enterprise-level companies. Top Small- to Medium-Sized Company Network Challenges. Small Budgets. Read More: Top Strategies to Reduce Network Cost. Slow Internet Speeds.

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