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. Where did you get the data to drive your assumptions of market size or market share? Email readers, continue here.]

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Metrics Startup Marketing Demand 239

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2020

Get the right players on board and enable them to do great things. Don’t wait too long to swap out players that don’t fit from a skill standpoint or a cultural perspective. Today they demand it or walk to competitors, who are not far away. Remove fear of failure, then demand and measure innovation as key to job performance.

Startup 138

Startup Organization Demand Customer 138

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.

Santa Monica 256

Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

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. Attend trade shows and network to find the right players and pitch your product.

Ideas 136

Ideas Entrepreneur Mentor Resource 136

Tech.Co

JUNE 1, 2017

However, federal laws still remain staunchly opposed to legal cannabis and there are more than enough politicians looking to keep cannabis from making an appearance in the market. As a poker player turned venture capitalist, James Conlon, a partner at Bullpen Capital knows a thing or two about risk. So as an investor, what do you do?

Invest 75

Invest Competition Training Media 75

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Tim, first off, for our readers who haven't heard of OpenX, explain what you provide to the market? We run it through our exchange, OpenX Market, which is in simple terms a stock market for online media. We manage that competition through an aucton process. Tim Cadogan: At its root, it's pretty simple.

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OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Picking a VC is hard. You don’t really have much to go on to decide who would make a good fit. Reputation of firm?

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 3, 2009

This is driving massive demand for new digital content distribution networks, in addition to an entirely new ecosystem of business and technology relationships. The competition is drawing players from diverse marketsincluding digital media, internet services, and Telecom/IP communications companies.

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Enterprise Forum CalTech IP Content 100

InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2012

The following guest post is from Dan Monarko, Online Marketing Manager at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. Commitment . Success is like anything worthwhile.

Coach 160

Coach Tips Competition Pricing 160

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We raised this capital in what has increasingly become a difficult market for fund raising so I’d like to share with you some details on how we get it done. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. When Sam Rosen brought me the idea of MakeSpace 3 years ago we both marveled at some obvious facts. Little old us.

Startup 150

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 150

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. How do you figure out how to get past all of that noise, and create a popular title? How did you get into iPhone development?

Mobile 216

Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market. The easiest way to think about it is that we're like the Priceline for the secondary ticket market. Plus, even when they do sell a ticket on the secondary market it's usually for a specific price.

Ticketmaster 253

Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Activity 253

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2016

Get the right players on board and enable them to do great things. Don’t wait too long to swap out players that don’t fit from a skill standpoint or a cultural perspective. Today they demand it or walk to competitors, who are not far away. Remove fear of failure, then demand and measure innovation as key to job performance.

Startup 58

Startup Organization Demand Customer 58

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The startup, which launched this week, is hoping to find both travelers and hosts who don't want to deal with long term plans, and who can respond immediately to finding and offering up a place to stay for the night. Can you explain how your service works? On a high level, it looks like a HotelTonight or Airbnb, but more like an Uber for Airbnb.

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Mobile Pricing 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

By now many of you know the Harlem Shake but what you may not appreciate is the broader trend behind the video and it has mirrored my general views on how TV will work in the future. Global audiences of prosumer video producers will create content that is viewed by global audiences in numbers far in excess of traditional TV. billion views.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2013

However due to much controversy and competition, the same hasn’t played true while at large events (*cough* SXSW ). Today that changes as two major brands Callaway and Uber, partner to offer on-demand rides at one of the largest events in sports. This marks the beginning of what could be the next wave in event transportation.

Software Review 104

Software Review Technical Review Social Media Course 104

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2015

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. Attend trade shows and network to find the right players and pitch your product.

Ideas 104

Ideas Mentor Resource Entrepreneur 104

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend a small fortune to protect it before I perform any market validation. Fallacy: AdVentures tend to evolve once you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. 4) Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis. 3) Attempt To License An Idea.

Startup 242

Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2014

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. Attend trade shows and network to find the right players and pitch your product.

Ideas 107

Ideas Mentor Entrepreneur Resource 107

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

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. Attend trade shows and network to find the right players and pitch your product.

Ideas 56

Ideas Mentor Resource Product 56

Jason Nazar

APRIL 2, 2016

Build a team of A vs. B players. Make their product different and better than the competition. Great at generating PR and buzz for the company (ppt: Marketing and Publicity for Startups ). Have a strong sense of demand and how to extract it ( watch : put your big rocks in first ). Fierce competitiveness, hate to lose.

Entrepreneur 46

Entrepreneur Tips Organization Sales 46

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. Summary notes, as always, provide below. It was a pleasure to write them myself. Overture (Goto.com). Overture was sold to Yahoo!

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The “ TenHands ” name emerged from the concept and philosophy of John Wooden, the UCLA basketball coach, who emphasized the value of teamwork and insisted that all ten hands (five players) touch the ball before shooting. Who are the founders and their backgrounds? Co-founder and COO Jack Blaeser was President of BT Conferencing Inc.

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. 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. Are you going to do all of this?

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product.

Hulu 292

Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. What does that mean?

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Berkonomics

AUGUST 30, 2018

But I have been on the other side of the early adopter development process several times in the past, and can attest that it is great fun, but rarely profitable to be the first with any new product that requires simultaneously evangelizing or teaching the masses within the industry and marketing the new product offering.

Artificial Inteligence 120

Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 120

Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2011

But I have been on the other side of the early adopter development process several times in the past, and can attest that it is great fun, but rarely profitable to be the first with any new product that requires simultaneously evangelizing or teaching the masses within the industry and marketing the new product offering.

Artificial Inteligence 214

Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 214

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes.

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Course Startup Framework Marketing 280