socalTECH

MAY 19, 2015

On-demand, delivery startup Schlep and Fetch (www.schlepandfetch.com) wants to be the place you contact first to get practically anything delivered for you, whether that's a food order or something you forgot to pick up from home. Bryson Strauss: We are an on-demand delivery service. Need something--anything--delivered in Los Angeles?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Today’s customers demand more than a good product; they expect a great customer experience. Much has been written about product design, but designing the total experience from the front rarely happens yet. Human-experience design always supplements technology-driven design, and environmentally sustainable design.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

eCommerce for example grew 39% just last year - so there’s simply more demand. This is accomplished through aggregated, anonymized competitive benchmarking, market-level performance data across the major social and ad platforms, and curated news and conversation from industry leaders.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As inflation rates spiral and consumer demand takes a hit, business owners are forced to be more mindful of their bottom lines than ever. While free money may sound too good to be true, there are hundreds of grants available to small businesses in 2024 designed to make financing more accessible to business owners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Source: hibobbie.com The company also raised an impressive $70 million in funding in June to acquire the legacy pediatric nutrition brand Nature’s One, bringing its total kitty up to $142 million and helping to secure its competitive advantage in the industry going forward. Calendly calendar screenshot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

It must be understandable, written down, and verifiable, with regular measurements and metrics to make it real, benchmarked against the competition. A well-designed service delivery process will make you easy to do business with. Make your service deliver process “happy.” Service people need this as required team support.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2020

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. The biggest error in planning may not be spreadsheet calculation error. Or cost estimation. Sources for your data. TAM, SAM, SOM?

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

The rebound that Boulevard saw in the pandemic is another sign of the demand in the market, and perhaps a signal that its customers and the industry in general are more recession-proof than some might have assumed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Today they demand it or walk to competitors, who are not far away. Normally the best innovations come from the people on the front line, rather than a top manager or designer. Remove fear of failure, then demand and measure innovation as key to job performance. Recognize that customers care about the whole experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. They will call you back.

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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. The biggest error in planning may not be spreadsheet calculation error. Or cost estimation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2020

Today they demand it or walk to competitors, who are not far away. Normally the best innovations come from the people on the front line, rather than a top manager or designer. Remove fear of failure, then demand and measure innovation as key to job performance. Recognize that customers care about the whole experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

By contrast, Edison persevered and designed a working light bulb after thousands of failures. The business world today is very competitive, and customers are more and more demanding. He went on to start many successful companies, including General Electric. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/10/2022.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Without the proper capacity or availability to carry the necessary traffic, telecoms will have trouble attracting new business and remaining competitive. A carrier-grade network can help carriers overcome those challenges by providing carriers with a highly tested and dependable network that is scalable to meet future demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2022

As a business advisor and investor in new startups, I see how difficult it is to make any process work, no matter how well designed, if the team is dysfunctional. Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive. Of course, some balance is required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

The ARPANET, as it was called back then, was designed by government, industry and academia so scientists and academics could access each other’s computing resources and trade large research files, saving time, money and travel costs. We are currently still suffering from those shifts.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Before that, I was at a multimedia design academy in high school. I've always been a mobile enthusiast, in technology and design and user experience. Eli Aizenstat: I entered into the Design Accelerator, which is an accelerator run in conjunction with the Art Center College of Design and Caltech, in the summer of 2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Steve Jobs proved it with the iPhone, and Elon Musk can’t produce his electric cars fast enough to keep up with demand. However, such changes don’t yet happen automatically, so it still takes proactive strategies and key actions to create new demand where none exists. Use social media and the media to build demand for change.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. and a differentiated feel in terms of fabric, design, sustainability, etc. Ariel understood her customer?—?the

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 21, 2019

Rather than selling dresses for $25, Ida’s designs were now selling for over $300. If Ida had been a prima donna designer, she might have rejected this request out of hand. Products such as the Symington Side Lacer were designed to flattened women’s breasts. In contrast, Ida’s designs accentuated women’s feminity.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Apparently with a physical storefront where it can convince customers of the wonders of on-demand mobility. The design could hint at what Lime wants to do with its retail store branding. How can Lime differentiate its scooters and bikes from the piles of Birds and Spins filling Los Angeles sidewalks?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Design a product or service that you can sell. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. The challenge is not to undermine growth by a blind focus on profits.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech). Brilliant web and iPhone app design. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative. You can expect some strong competition, but it’s unlikely that there will be 5 great scooter companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

Marketing 67

Marketing SEM Startup Blogging 67

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2019

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. Yet I see many technology entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. They will call you back.

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2014

There are several new things happening, including the maker movement, crowdfunding, and the democratization of innovation, which will mean more startups and more demand for manufacturing. To some people, automotive might be surprising, but we''re the leading center for automotive design and automotive accessories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

Marketing 99

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Based on my own years of experience in this space, I would like to highlight a critical subset of his key ingredients for success, to save you from the frustrations and setbacks we both have felt: Implement real competitive differentiation. Shape your business by design, not by default. Picking a niche is another good way to focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

As a business advisor and investor in new startups, I see how difficult it is to make any process work, no matter how well designed, if the team is dysfunctional. Customers demand more engagement and flexibility. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive. Of course, some balance is required.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. Quora is one of the better designed new products of the past few years in my opinion. It seemed to be purely speculative. This is total bullshit.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Another $30 billion is designed to be targeted toward rural development; and finally the $40 billion in upgrading research infrastructure. Energy storage and renewable technologies are going to get a boost through a clutch of tax credits designed to accelerate their deployment. The administration doesn’t stop there.

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Inverted Software

JANUARY 2, 2019

GPUs are designed for graphics and image processing and are extremely good at math calculations, in fact, their highly parallel structure makes them more efficient than general-purpose CPUs for algorithms that process large blocks of data in parallel. Nvidia, if you didn’t know is the largest maker of GPUs (Graphics Processing Unit).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

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Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 95

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Was there consumer demand? Here is where having Marc Berte and a team out of MIT who have designed systems like this for years gave one confidence we could do something others couldn’t copy and at price points that could make us market leaders over night. No brainer. Could we produce this at cost?

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