Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

Despite the fact that most of the CEOs I advise would claim to be in the first category, when I dig deeper I find that at best they are fast followers , due to the time consuming challenges of transforming any business in this digital age. They grew sales by 28% in 2009, while most companies were hunkered down and losing share.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

As the Global Customer Growth Evangelist at Salesforce, with implementation roles at many other companies, she makes a host of relevant observations for every business owner. These days, customers remember the total experience with a company longer than they remember the price they paid.

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Examples Customer Custom Software Review 67

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

How did the company start? As we move forward, we are hoping to personalize that relationship as much as possible, based on life events, and provide a customized experience. We curate the best products within each category of finance. We also work with high yield savings and investment, and also have an investment partnership.

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Content Social Media Startup Artificial Inteligence 124

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

Wearables are in fact much more than that, and the category is rapidly expanding thanks to the likes of big Fortune 500 companies, as well as small time startups and crowdfunded projects on Indiegogo. Custom ad deals and partnerships. What is a wearable? Contact us at sponsor@techzulu.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Now category is rapidly expanding thanks to the likes of big Fortune 500 companies, as well as small time startups and crowdfunded projects on Indiegogo. Custom ad deals and partnerships. So on November 13th, join us, and Byte into the Future of Now. Sponsorship Opportunities for Events, and other channels.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Nick filled us in on the company's business, his move to head up the company in the last year, as well as some lessons learned running a company in the time of a pandemic. Car rental companies, retail, all of the big chains have a need to be discovered locally. What is MomentFeed doing p>now?

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Google Santa Monica Networking Software 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

The companyin the spirit of Nestis hoping that consumers will help drive adoption of its product, which it expects to ship in January. We spoke with founder Manrique Brenes --a veteran of such companies as Skype and Cisco--to hear about Blossom''s products, plus its link to such companies at Vizio. What your product all about?

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Demand Startup Southern California Marketing 258

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2013

Yelp, the company that connects consumers with great local businesses, has acquired SeatMe, a web and iPad-app based restaurant and nightlife reservation service. The deal will see Yelp connect more restaurants and bars to customers through online bookings. businesses listed under its restaurant and nightlife categories.

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Class Web Pricing Customer 81

Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

Having the right domain name can make a big difference when it comes to attracting new customers. If the name of your company starts with the, a, or an, purchase the domain name both with and without those words. If your domain name gets too complicated to pronounce it’ll be harder for customers to find you online.

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SEO Startup Sites Research 70

TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

. “We launched a telehealth product in 48 hours, we converted the majority of our visits for the next month in person online and we had really, really great feedback and customer response — both in terms of adoption but repeat visits as well. ” “We really believe in building a clinical-first company,” she adds.

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Startup Los Angeles Platform Research 140

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I quietly watched their success from the sidelines and kept spending time with and telling the CEO, Scott Lahman, that I wanted to invest in his next company.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video. I mention this because Greg led our investment in a company that I have personally become addicted to called Draft.

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Startup Outsource Development Mobile Southern California 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars-Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. You mentioned a little bit about the mentoring, what what other benefits would companies get from becoming part of an accelerator?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. You mentioned a little bit about the mentoring, what what other benefits would companies get from becoming part of an accelerator?

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Mentor Startup Coach Ideas 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Andy Bilinsky , Co-founder and CEO, tells us why the company is targeting prescription lenses--but not frames--with the startup, and why the company thinks prescription lenses are ripe for innovation. Andy Bilinsky: Primarily, it's been finding a customer at the exact time they need a new, prescription lens.

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Customer Custom Pricing Services 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. What is one to do? Easier said than done.

Software Review 150

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Such playground friends serve to ensure the startup’s ongoing viability by providing resources, access to customers and technology and market validation. At Computer Motion, we created two alliances, comprised of a dozen companies with an aggregate market capitalization in excess of $28B.

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Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Startup Conference 168

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

In business, one important measure is the value of the company. That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

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.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The idea for exploreB2B resulted from my own experience in business development for a young consulting company and my brother’s enthusiasm for tech and social media. These articles are sorted into industries and categories. An expert system with “Expert” status in a chosen category (through published content and recommendations).

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Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

I literally have a Google Sheet for nearly every portfolio company who is in the process of raising a round. If you’re a SaaS company and the firm is a “consumer” firm (or vice versa) then don’t waste your time. The final pass is “have they invested in any companies in my space before?” The third-pass is geography.

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Funding Startup Venture Capital News 215

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2009

Eden Jarrin: The company was founded by Steven Ng, and was started about a year and a half ago. I was speaking on a conference and panel about branding and experience with my last company, we got along, and chatted. For example, it's Jessica's birthday, we're buying her an iPod--and you can send a custom messages to guests.

Startup 113

Startup Evite Organization Case Study 113

Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Online Partnerships / Distribution Deals. Social Media – Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Twitter.This is a separate segment of referring traffic that warrants its own category. To make sure you maximize the potential for traffic from partnership/distribution deals: 1.) Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press.

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Web Social Media Content Sites 61

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

And most companies don’t do enough between board meetings. For the record, this is not a secret, coded messages to companies for which I am on the board! I found that too often it was an update meeting for investors rather than a meeting for my company to get value. But that isn’t what this post is about.

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Startup Venture Capital Software Review Email 301

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

After some pre-game mingling, we began our evening with demos from companies that had been picked from months of company submissions. Crowd Seats came up first to give their two minute breakdown of the company. They also gave a quick tour of the dashboard that clients would be using to customize their now mobile ready sites.

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Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Wondering how, as a small business, you can reach customers in the YouTube age? Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. It doesn't matter where you are located.

Networking 150

Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

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. Patron Companies. The ingredients are all here.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

“If You Build It…They Will Come” may work for historical baseball ghosts, but it’s not a strategy you can rely on when starting an internet company. Online Partnerships / Distribution Deals. You can search Technorati to find the most popular blogs on the web across various categories. Search Engines. Social Media.

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Web Social Media Content Sites 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

Pretty much anything that goes into a business plan falls into one of these four categories: Opportunity : Every successful business exploits an opportunity. What kind of management team will your company require? What types of business partnerships will you need to forge? How much cash and profit will your company generate?

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Startup Oracle Entrepreneur Ideas 91

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

As one of our most fully stacked events to date, we thought it wouldn’t quite each of our five categories justice by recapping the entire event and skimming only for highlights. Mike Swords – Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives and Global Partnerships, UCLA. Cleantech, a Misnomer.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Seth attended UCSB but dropped out to start a denim company. . Without their buy in, we don’t get the opportunity to interact with end customers. Do you have any advice for emerging entrepreneurs regarding how they can be frugal without compromising their company’s value prop? It drives revenue & engages guests."

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Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Read more » Recent Press The New York Times April 22, 2009 - A Company Plans to Market Illiquid Assets CNBC.com April 8, 2008 - Social Stock Picking Reuters April 6, 2009 - Bit.ly Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.

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CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Mentor 28

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

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