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: 4 Tips to Maximize Internet Bandwidth. Lack of IT Staff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2022

Of course, it’s no surprise that most entrepreneurs don’t have a background in hiring teams, and don’t have a budget for training or human resource consultants. In the past, very little consideration has been given to finding people who share your purpose and values for the business.

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Training Case Study Resource Statistics 135

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2022

I remember too many once thriving and growing companies, such as Blockbuster and BlackBerry, who somehow changed their way of thinking, and were overtaken by more nimble and astute peers or newcomers, like Netflix and Apple. Don’t let all the data you now have on the past keep you from listening for changes in the market.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Metrics Netflix 154

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Yet, there are constant examples of new entrants into a niche that grow, prosper and sometimes even become dominant. In one industry I know well, the dominant player with 22% market share was acquired by one of the largest companies in the technology world. So when do we know which course to take? Quietly abandon a niche?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

First to market, for example, is not normally a sustainable advantage for startups. Startups simply don’t have the resources to keep ahead of large competitors who see initial traction and go after it. For example, “Company A is representative of many who provide commodity solutions in this space.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

For example, we all remember when Blockbuster realized too late that Netflix was stealing customers by offering videos online rather than via DVDs, but even then they were unable to adapt their processes and their thinking. To stay a leader, you need to find other breakthroughs on a regular basis, and not rely on a past legacy.

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Metrics Training Netflix Resource 71

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2021

What most often kills a company is the illusion (or delusion) that all is now stable and everyone can relax. The challenge is to retain the same sense of urgency, energy, commitment, and readiness in a mature company that you felt during the startup stage. Capture your own best practices and replicate them across your company.

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Tips Startup Mentor Press 170

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is defined as the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time – time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working. Extending the Runway book available at www.berkus.com.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

In 1976, at the age of 14, I Co-Founded a Sports Memorabilia company with my friend (and future brother-in-law). We pooled our resources and each invested $50 into the adVenture, which we named Capital Cards, due to our proximity to Washington, DC. It was a great time to start a sports memorabilia company.

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Pricing Advertising Marketing Startup 138

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2017

What most often kills a company is the illusion (or delusion) that all is now stable and everyone can relax. The challenge is to retain the same sense of urgency, energy, commitment, and readiness in a mature company that you felt during the startup stage. Capture your own best practices and replicate them across your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2021

He speaks from years of work with companies now leading the way, including Walt Disney, HBO, and Morgan Stanley. In my view, every company needs to follow all his action items, including the ones paraphrased here: CEO takes charge personally of improving engagement. Leaders walk the talk and use a democratic approach.

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Mentor Startup Training Resource 155

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

For example, it’s great to pursue a higher purpose, like feeding the hungry, but don’t forget that running any business is a hungry mouth you have to feed. For example, if you have ever watched the Shark Tank show on TV, they always ask about the cost of customer acquisition. Pitch a rational plan for expansion and growth.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Examples Metrics 162

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Only one-third make it past their tenth anniversary. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets. For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. Join a startup incubator.

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Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 128

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

For example, in my discussions with business owners, some have already used inflation positives to update their inventory values, take advantage of reduced mortgage rates, or simply making the price increases that they have long needed. Now is the time for those changes you have been putting off to balance resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

One would think that with all the sad stories and tools published over the past twenty years, this problem would be behind us. As examples, I present my list of ten of the most common ways entrepreneurs can be victimized by ignorance or greed, based on questions and stories I get from entrepreneurs and associates. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets. For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. These resources often include a cash investment, as well as office space, and consulting.

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Tips Startup Technical Review Equity 104

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

It's surprising how often we run into rapidly growing companies that not many people have heard of, here in Southern California, but that's the case with El Segundo-based. NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. What is Neogov?

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Software Review SaaS Startup Technical Review 243

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The first check I wrote was just over 10 years ago into a company called Invoca who just announced a new $56 million in funding led by Scott Hilleboe at HIG Growth Partners. I thought this was a good time to reflect on some lessons of the past 10 years. Over the past 2.5 We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?

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Venture Capital IP Startup Google 223

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

From his leadership consulting with a host of companies, clunky and innovative, he explains why owners and executives fall into traps of inertia and he details the critical pragmatic leadership skills needed to regain the required momentum. The result is a business damaged past the point of recovery, instead of just dented.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Too many startup businesses, especially in the technology world, are built upon brand new concepts that have not yet been proven in the field against products from other companies that already have revenues flowing. If others have created awareness of the market, you need only compare yourself favorably to those companies.

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Marketing Class Startup Research 120

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Too many startup businesses, especially in the technology world, are built upon brand new concepts that have not yet been proven in the field against products from other companies that already have revenues flowing. If others have created awareness of the market, you need only compare yourself favorably to those companies.

Marketing 120

Marketing Class Startup Research 120

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2015

Back in 2012 when the Flame virus was wreaking havoc across the world, the need for army-trained hackers became a whole new frontier for IT software companies. The worst thing that can happen to any company is waking up one morning and finding out all the data has either been stolen or tampered with.

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Training Software Company Companies 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC. In the late 90′s I saw a dangerous trend creeping into the startup world, which was that companies were suddenly raising huge amounts of money too early in their existence. Over funding often produces bad behavior in early-stage companies.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

It requires you to expend your two most valuable resources, your time and your money. However, to a Big Dumb Company (BDC), a startup’s IP is a thing of beauty. As such, they are hesitant to acquire a company which has not sought formal protection of their IP for two reasons. An example of design patent is shown at left.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Companies all around the world use Trello to help manage projects and coordinate team tasks and responsibilities. You can also use Table to provide the big bosses with an overview of progress towards company goals as you can easily collate lots of initiatives in one go. Here's everything you need to know about the new-look Trello.

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Software Review Guide Technical Review Class 152

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime.

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Marketing Course Pricing Networking 361

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2014

While Internet and startup companies have widely adopted the cloud for both their computing and storage needs, enterprise companies are only now starting to widely adopt cloud services. Many of our customers are software-as-a-service companies, and don''t know upfront how many customers they will have. It''s a huge difference.

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Startup Customer Custom SaaS 193

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Please help share this widely so that more women become aware of this important resource that is being run nationally. For the LA event, for example, they will not only have a selection of great LA VCs but also 10+ senior VC women from the SF Bay Area will be coming down for it. 8% of VC partnerships, for example).

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Venture Capital Examples Screening Help 256

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Dave’s note: Our guest author this week is John Huston, founder of the 300+ member Ohio TechAngel Funds and a past Chairman of both the Angel Capital Association and the Angel Resource Institute. . There are only two types of companies -those which have achieved positive cash flow and those which have not.

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Layoffs Sales Acquisition Startup 120

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” Here’s my view: I support a “mobile first” strategy for many companies. The power of large screen real estate.

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Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The TMP is an example of lean academia. I watched the process firsthand, as I have been an entrepreneurial Instructor in the Program for the past eight years. Lettuce - After taking orders on a homemade inventory app at a tradeshow, my former students realized that their app was generating more excitement than the company''s dog toys.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2019

Of course, it’s no surprise that most entrepreneurs don’t have a background in hiring teams, and don’t have a budget for training or human resource consultants. In the past, very little consideration has been given to finding people who share your purpose and values for the business.

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Training Case Study Resource Statistics 73

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. It is clear to me that both approaches work.

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Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

For example, I work as a community partner with Surge Tacoma , a coworking space, to secure speakers and develop content for meet ups that pertain to startups and entrepreneurship. Shadrach: I am the founder and CEO of cloudPWR , which is a six year-old software company headquartered in Tacoma. Shadrach White, CEO of cloudPWR.

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Startup Class Resource Examples 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets. For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. These resources often include a cash investment, as well as office space, and consulting.

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Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 87

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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Help Startup Design Resource 100

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

In past insights, we explored the need for a tangible goal and strategies that are measurable as steps toward achievement of the goal. Here are several examples of tactics from my recent experience with companies where I serve as board member. . Tactics direct each department in very specific ways.

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