Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required. Develop viral content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2023

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Just for clarification, I characterize a product plan as a formal description of your product or service, with a quick business description at the end for effect.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2015

There''s been a major, market battle in Los Angeles over the last few years, between on-demand ride services such as Lyft and Uber , not to mention local taxi and transportation companies. percent stake in Lyft, investing $300M in the company as part of a larger, $530M Series E funding for Lyft. The funding follows a bigger, $1.2

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Here are some ways we both recommend to beat the odds and thrive in today’s app ecosystem: Sell a digital service through your app. You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2022

As an active angel investor, I still hear entrepreneurs asserting large opportunities with minimal risk and no competition. Then you walk the delicate balance between burn rates, revenue flows versus expenses, investment in marketing, and employees. Look at marketing as an investment, not an expense. Operational.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

“The climate-oriented investment in Biden’s new plan would be roughly ten times what came through ARRA,” wrote Shayle Kann, a partner with the investment firm, Energy Impact Partners. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. Now, Snipfeed enters the ring with its own $5.5 ’ ” Image Credits: Snipfeed.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

Professional investors will probe these five risk areas and make the decision to invest based upon their comfort with each. Is the product or service possible to produce at all, let alone economically enough to compete in the marketplace? And fifth: Competitive risk. . First: Product risk. . Second: Market risk. .

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Even more likely is eventual technology disruption where drones deliver foods and make it hard for existing car delivery services to compete. So when delivery services came along many were willing to pay the fee to try and increase business. I have some compelling data that suggests it may just become ChowNow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2020

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Just for clarification, I characterize a product plan as a formal description of your product or service, with a quick business description at the end for effect.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

There are an awful lot of Internet music services out there nowadays--how does a startup try to compete with all that noise, and do it ad-free? Los Angeles-based Radical.FM (www.radical.fm) thinks it has a new formula for Internet streaming, and can take on Pandora and others in head to head competition. They should be much higher.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Here are some ways we both recommend to beat the odds and thrive in today’s app ecosystem: Sell a digital service through your app. You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

If there is no competition, there is likely not a market. Every potentially successful product has competition, or an alternative, or customers with no interest in change. If you really believe your idea has no competition, perhaps you haven’t looked, or there is no real business.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

Professional investors will probe these five risk areas and make the decision to invest based upon comfort with each. Is the product or service possible to produce at all, let alone economically enough to compete in the marketplace? Are you ahead or behind the market with your product or service? First: Product risk.

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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. Identify the total investment required for profitability.

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2010

A group of businesses and local organizations in Goleta, California, north of Santa Barbara, are looking to rally more businesses to join in their effort to spur new, direct flight support to San Jose, California, after a loss of the service in February.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It is a platform that allows anyone who offers a service to advertise it for free – we promote this profile on the most popular social networks such as Twitter , Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Stumbleupon and many more. The service provider – create a profile, multiple adverts. What is ProfileTree? What inspired you?

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Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Telecom carriers may face several network-related challenges ranging from high costs, security concerns, and downtime, however managed network service providers (MNSPs) can provide telecom companies with the guidance and support they need to succeed. Overcome Telecom Challenges With A Managed Network Services Provider.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Let me not bury the lede. The company was called Red Beacon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2021

Find out if something very similar is already selling, and who your competition would be if you proceed. Be wary of crafty shysters who will flood your mailbox with official-looking mail offering to help for a fee, or demanding fees you forgot to pay. Now get real (cook it). Before you get too excited, it’s time to do some homework.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

As an active angel investor, I still hear entrepreneurs asserting large opportunities with minimal risk and no competition. Then you walk the delicate balance between burn rates, revenue flows versus expenses, investment in marketing, and employees. Look at marketing as an investment, not an expense. Operational.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2019

The last fundraising we did was use to prove out our technology, and weve now had head-to-head competition with our competitors and others in the space to prove out our technology, our unique capabilities, and our unique approach to solving this problem. Were completely sold out, and theres more demand than we can keep up with.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. In a larger public company, it’s all about making your quarterly numbers, versus investing in strategic growth alternatives that may not pay off until several quarters later.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Despite that apparent hunger, two scooter operators – Lyft and Spin – recently exited the Los Angeles area, blaming a lack of favorable regulations and too much competition, which apparently made it difficult to turn a profit. No major city in the world that introduced a shared e-scooter service has permanently banned them,” she said. “In

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. So, yes, you can buy a best seller.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JULY 31, 2020

An organization’s current network may be adequate for the current number of users and applications; however, businesses looking to expand their staff size or service offerings will require increased network capacity. In some cases, increasing capacity doesn’t require a new network or additional investment. Optimize Network Processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation. Pick your niche, and continually invest in improving your expertise and keeping up with trends. Build relationships to attract future business or roles. Be an advocate for change in your current role.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Middle Market Investment Banking. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How profitable is my product or service? What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs. We have been able to build deep customer insights on product, pricing, service, geography, competition, etc.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. The reason they do that, is we solve the peak demand problem they have on the grid. Explain what that peak demand problem is for the utilities?

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Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

These tailored services allow a variety of industries to exceed business requirements and goals as well as stay competitive in their respective spaces. Dark fiber is the most secure and customizable form of network services. What industries can benefit from dark fiber?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). The challenges for making money and survival in these professional services worlds are different, maybe even tougher. Shape your business by design, not by default.

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