TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

The pair posed as UCLA students doing research, Danna said, going from salon to salon asking questions about what worked and what did not with scheduling in their workplaces. They decided that this would be what they would tackle and build as a business. Things then took an investigative, plainclothes turn.

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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. Learn to speak a new customer-specific dialect based on current research and homework. Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

By contrast, Edison persevered and designed a working light bulb after thousands of failures. Research has found that people with low resilience are four times more likely to experience burnout, or even premature death. The business world today is very competitive, and customers are more and more demanding.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

. “From the invention of the semiconductor to the creation of the Internet, new engines of economic growth have emerged due to public investments that support research, commercialization, and strong supply chains,” the White House wrote.

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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. The listing was first spotted by Nathan Pope , a transportation researcher for consultancy Steer, and later by Cheddar’s Alex Heath.

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Santa Monica Startup Technical Review Education 221

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. Learn to speak a new customer-specific dialect based on current research and homework. Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap.

Marketing 97

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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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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2012

If you are simply interested in making money in the app space …then your first step is to start researching what kind of application you are interested in making. Niche apps can usually demand a higher price point because there isn’t much competition out there. Do Your Research. Having competition isn’t a bad thing.

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Marketing Startup Software Review Competition 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2017

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. Learn to speak a new customer-specific dialect based on current research and homework. Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

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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Customer Custom Startup Services 92

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. If you’re going to offer convenience as your biggest selling proposition you need to make it easy not only to book an appointment and pay for it but also to research which vendor to select based on reputation. Nice sweep! So there you have it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

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. Learn to speak a new customer-specific dialect based on current research and homework. Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap.

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Technical Review Tips Marketing Entrepreneur 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2013

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. Learn to speak a new customer-specific dialect based on current research and homework. Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap.

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Startup Marketing Social Media Technical Review 103

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

There are a million ways to either research your industries market size and you’re likely to have to do some basic estimations to figure out much of that is addressable to you. But not doing basic research makes no sense. Competition. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make? And how much do others providers make?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

We have a long relationship with them, and have been funding research in their labs, and have a continuing relationship. That makes solar panels as a product not competitive at all, if you removed government subsidies. Woolas Hsieh: We certainly feel that flexible solar cells, particularly our plastic solar cells, are very competitive.

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UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Our civic center actually had to upgrade their broadband because we needed a really good Wi-Fi with the competition being done on computers. On the final night of the competition, Visit Rapid City treated competitors, coaches, and parents to a reception at Crazy Horse Memorial. We were able to get all that accomplished.”.

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Coach Technical Review Carson Networking 75

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. Call out your top competitors, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantage, including patents, trade secrets. and trademarks.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Simply, there are thousands of agencies, design shops and communications firms across the world, all. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. Bootstrapping design thinking, Entrepreneurship, opportunity analysis. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Customers, research, startups. . Sure, there’s room.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them. When I was reading the Fab.com website I noticed that the CEO refers to Fab’s “one thing” as being design. They’re the place focused on design. They think design wins. You need to create a sense of competition. Meet in person.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Creating Incremental Strategic Value - Ask the Angels , June 17, 2010 We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value. Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. Which button do you press?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 30, 2018

The cost of such attention-seeking and research is relatively low for me, and certainly the reward of being sought out as a speaker addressing the trends in technology is enough in itself. It did not hurt that Apple always seemed to trump the competition in design of the product and the product’s user interface too.

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Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 120

Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2011

We designed and produced special cards for the TI that would allow Apple Macintosh workstations to be used, with their handsome graphic user interface. I partnered with Texas Instruments, producer of a LISP computer, the TI Explorer.

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Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 214

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments.

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