Berkonomics

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Authors Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Oglivie have created a framework for creation of a new product or service – one worth spending at least a cycle of time for review. Can we rapid prototype this idea into a product and try it out on potential customers? Here is how to test yourself. What wows?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 5, 2020

The new moped is the latest effort by Bird to diversify its product offerings to capture more customers. The SXSW festival has not been cancelled yet, although numerous companies are pulling out over concerns of the coronavirus. Some companies were already operating these services; this action created a regulatory framework.

Technical Review 237

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2022

by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms. They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. This is media exposure from a neutral third-party, such as an unpaid news story on your product or service to highlight innovations or social value.

Marketing 127

Marketing Framework Social Media Media 127

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Rubicon says that RTK's solutions are build on the same, open source framework as its own, Demand Manager product portfolio, Prebid. The company says it plans to integrate the two solutions in the coming months. According to Rubicicon Project, it paid $11M in cash for RTK.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2015

That’s productivity. In a recent FranklinCovey study, respondents indicated that 40 percent of their time was being spent on things that were not important to them or their companies. That is a huge hit on productivity. Practice productivity planning with your key team members. Why is this so hard?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2023

Without a shared context, people will all create their own narratives for where they think the company is doing well and where it is struggling. Avoid being misled by flawed decision frameworks. Find any way you can to shift the framework. People have to know what is real. Listen to all the key people, then drive the decision.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

One of them is Movio , a two-year-old startup leveraging generative AI along with other machine learning frameworks like GAN to make videos featuring talking human avatars. do but for video production,” Xu said to TechCrunch, referring to two of the top AI content helpers of today. “We are doing what Jasper and Copy.ai

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2021

That’s productivity. In an eye-opening Franklin Covey study, respondents indicated that 40 percent of their time was being spent on things that were not important to them or their companies. That is a huge hit on productivity. Practice productivity planning with your key team members. Why is this so hard?

Framework 153

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2023

Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces: Intensity of competitive rivalry. Way back in 1979, Michael E.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 -- Maximizing Value Through Strategic Product Marketing. For many ventures, product management is the most powerful, value-creating and least understood discipline. s experience with hundreds of product and service innovations and the core insights of the leading thought leaders in the space.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

The Los Angeles-based app development shop, V/One , is giving away 50,000 free mobile app builds through the rest of April as the company officially launches its platform for would-be, LA-based mobile app moguls. Since its soft launch, December 20th of last year, the app development company has built over 100 new applications.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

In one of the newest "hackathons" to hit Southern California, a group of companies are looking to draw Orange County software developers to a new hackathon, geared around WebRTC, the open "Web Real Time Communications" framework aimed at helping developers create voice and video chat applications. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2016

That’s productivity. In a classic Franklin Covey study, respondents indicated that 40 percent of their time was being spent on things that were not important to them or their companies. That is a huge hit on productivity. Practice productivity planning with your key team members. Why is this so hard?

Product 60

Product Entrepreneur Framework Social Media 60

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces: Intensity of competitive rivalry. Way back in 1979, Michael E.

Competition 151

Competition Startup Framework Pricing 151

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Leaders who are able to optimize these find multipliers of 20 percent up to nine times the average productivity. Organizational silos, limited spans of control, and too many layers of management can dramatically reduce the productivity of even your best people. As a role model, what you practice is more important than what you preach.

Product 58

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

Framework Benchmarks. How much does your framework choice affect performance? Authors Note: Were using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. We have our own personal favorites among these frameworks, but weve tried our best to give each a fair shot.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

You are viewing the first round of web application framework benchmarks. Check out the new stand-alone framework benchmarks site if you are interested in the latest and most accurate data. How much does your framework choice affect performance? How much does your framework choice affect performance? Show me the winners!

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Berkonomics

JULY 26, 2018

Turning these into statements instead of questions provides a framework for the sales presentation from the highest levels of collateral materials and marketing support, to the salesperson on the front line. Is your product or service one that responds to a customer need, real or perceived? Why buy it?”. Why buy MINE? .

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, combines building safe high-quality products with philanthropic efforts to help the environment. In the name of this cause, the company donates time, services, and at least one percent of their sales to hundreds of grassroots environmental groups around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms. They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. This is media exposure from a neutral third-party, such as an unpaid news story on your product or service to highlight innovations or social value.

Media 95

Media Framework Social Media Metrics 95

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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Social Media Media Product Metrics 102

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. This is a very important to do when you first start a company. Invariably your first efforts at product won’t quite hit the mark – and this is OK. We called our methodology PUCCKA. Unique Selling Proposition. Key Players.

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Sales Startup Resource Customer 393

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, combines building safe high-quality products with philanthropic efforts to help the environment. In the name of this cause, the company donates time, services, and at least one percent of their sales to hundreds of grassroots environmental groups around the world.

Tips 174

Tips Framework Customer Custom 174

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

Every entrepreneur tries to maximize his startup growth by building and selling more product and services for the widest geographic area that he can support. Many entrepreneurs are paranoid about the partnership approach, and think that M&A is only an alternative for large companies who are flush with cash.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. Third party products are used appropriately. They were making some significant choices that were going to have lasting impact on their company. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The only way to build productive, collaborative, innovative, and cohesive teams is by resolving core dysfunction issues and implementing a structured process for innovation. In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Our first set of products started rolling out in May, and are a set of travel guides for children. Where did the idea for the company come from? Samantha Lurey: This is actually my third company. My last company was a consulting firm, which was on the Inc. That framework is beautiful in that way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2022

Business plans should be loose frameworks to be used as guidelines rather than detailed route maps. An even better alternative could be stock options, linked to the long-term success of the company. Assign innovation projects to production organizations. Plan in great detail and avoid things not in the budget.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Amos Schwartzfarb: I have been in and a part of early stage startup companies since the mid 90's, in San Francisco. I left HotJobs, and started another company, with Jake Winebaum, called Work.com, while he was running Business.com. I thought I'd swear off early stage companies, even though I ended up three or four more after that.

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Sales Startup Custom Development Framework 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. My observation is that many companies become Game of Thrones with warring factions and competing interests.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The toughest aspect of such opportunities is weaning your company off these “bad profits” and focusing on opportunities that may not have an immediate payoff, but will drive long-term enterprise value. If improperly administered, meetings become counter-productive, especially as an organization grows beyond its initial startup phase.

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Tips Framework Metrics Cloud Computing 223

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Authors Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Oglivie have created a framework for creation of a new product or service – one worth spending at least a cycle of time for review. Can we rapid prototype this idea into a product and try it out on potential customers? What wows? Would it wow them to action or anticipation?

Design 120

Design Framework Ideas Customer 120

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

While the management of a startup company deals with the day-to-day decision-making within the company (strategy, budgets, goals, tasks, compensation) ultimately the Board of Directors has the legal governing responsibilities for these things. Equally it could vote to increase the stock option plan to 99% of the company.

Startup 204

Startup Writing Framework Summary 204

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

The new information, gleaned from recently unsealed court documents , provides new insight into the company’s past activities and what that might mean for its upcoming IPO. There’s a new autonomous trucking company coming out of stealth. What else are we hearing? We’ll share more soon. Deal of the week.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

Talent – Every startup needs talents to give the company value. In reality, more important treasures often include intellectual property, the ability to innovate, and well-defined processes that can deliver great products and reach new customers more efficiently and effectively than competitors. The laws of the jungle apply to all.

Startup 112

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms. They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. This is media exposure from a neutral third-party, such as an unpaid news story on your product or service to highlight innovations or social value.

Advertising 66

Advertising Marketing Startup Framework 66