Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Much has been written about product design, but designing the total experience from the front rarely happens yet. In the classic book, “ X: The Experience When Business Meets Design ,” Brian Solis details how to design the whole experience, rather than just the product. Make user-centered design processes iterative.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2013

We''ve put a spin on this, where you can use your own personalization or custom designs for your own Bluetooth headset, just like you would create a personalized case for your smartphone. I got a lot of pushback--none of them wanted to change their designs, and no one thought anyone would wear a flower. This is a crowded market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2022

As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. A classic survey of design professionals shows strong agreement, but 92 percent expressed some lack of confidence in their organization’s design vision.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2020

Its goal is to give hypebeasts a chance to collect virtual versions of their physical objects of desire and win points to maybe buy the gear they crave, while also providing a showcase where brands can discover new design talent to make the next generation of cult collaborations and launch careers. View this post on Instagram.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

From apps to hardware, to KickStarter successes and international startups, we’re inching closer to finding out who will take home the title of Startup of the Year competition at our annual Celebrate Conference in October. Among the dozens of participants that applied for the online competitions, only a few progressed into the semifinals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. A recent survey of design professionals shows strong agreement, but 92 percent expressed some lack of confidence in their organization’s design vision.

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Berkonomics

JULY 27, 2017

I internalized this phrase, recalling the many times I had partnered with customers to design new feature-functionality into my hotel computer system back when such systems were brand new to the industry. This week’s insight came from personal experience and from a good friend who advanced the notion of the “teacher-customer” years ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

and there was certainly less competition from everybody pitching local merchant solutions. The more people that use the product the more it is designed to improve the utility to everybody as we convert “request an appointment” services to “book it now” city-by-city, vendor-by-vendor.

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

The new design comes as many in the industry have pointed to a new, competitive era, due to the rise of mobile platforms, tablets, and a move away from the traditional, desktop web experience where eHarmony made its mark. eharmony design dating matchmaking couples marriage online redesign' READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

As an EV venture, Energica is located in the famed Italian motor valley and positions itself similar to its neighbors — Lamborghini, Ducati, Ferrari — in offering a merger of sleek design and elite performance. The venture is also one of the few e-motorcycle companies drawing engineering tips from competition.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2017

Let’s examine the relationship between time, quality and competitiveness. The lesson here is a bit obscure, since it is not clear whether the kind of testing then common in processor design would have surfaced the error. We have heard the “haste makes waste” ditty since childhood. There is little need to reinforce the obvious.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trust, which today has announced a $9 million financing (Upfront is an investor), is a platform designed to help make the most of marketing investment by providing both analytics and a community of likeminded executives to share what’s working, and what’s not, across platforms.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 13, 2012

However, at most startups, competitive advantages are derived from a combination of invention and innovation, as described more fully in Inventor Or Innovator – Which Are You? Startups often out-maneuver their larger rivals by changing the key parameters upon which competition has historically been based. The Berkoff Blastoff.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2012

AngelHack, the self-proclaimed leader in hackathon competitions, completed its Fall 2012 season this past weekend with contests held simultaneously in five cities: Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Toronto and Paris. In Santa Monica, Hackathon first-timers and veterans all gathered at CrossCampus to hack almost 30 products within 24 hours.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

Getting the agreements signed are the first step in a multi-stage process that will culminate in the challenge’s official competition in 2022. It is designed to allow U.S. Developmental Airspace Simulation: The companies will test traffic management services in NASA-designed airspace simulations for urban air mobility.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Los Angeles-based nonprofit XPRIZE --which runs prize competitions to help advance technology and solutions to world problems--said on Tuesday that celebrity Pharrell Williams has won the top prize in its latest "Visioneering 2019" annual gathering.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Shawn Peterson: I am a residential designer, and so I have been designing houses in the hills of West LA for about 10 years now. It''s very inconvenient for a designer to go to a house and try to answer all of a client''s questions. What we''re worried about is competition popping up.We How did you get into this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Much has been written about product design, but designing the total experience from the front rarely happens yet. In the classic book, “ X: The Experience When Business Meets Design ,” Brian Solis details how to design the whole experience, rather than just the product. Make user-centered design processes iterative.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. This is my third company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Premium invitation cards and event stationary that is designed online for online distribution or paper print. Founded by Shawn Gold (ex-MySpace CMO).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2012

The firm, headed by Ziv Eliraz, explained that the service is designed to make the process of employee referrals more enjoyable and competitive. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2012

The firm--which has recently been recruiting t-shirt graphic designers to help develop t-shirts for both men and women--is reportedly launching Thursday. crowdsourcing (think Threadless.com), competition (think American Idol), social networking (think Pinterest), and celebrity (think Shoedazzle.com)."

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. Fall quarter of Sr. Along with taking Sr.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 25, 2011

How are they different from the competition? So, among the many questions I ask my client contacts before starting any stories, there's one that's chief: If you could design the perfect case study what key messages would it include? Going into projects, I want to understand. 1 - The client's business. What do they do, for whom and how?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2019

Sweep is in a very competitive market--there's already cutthroat competition among independent contractors who go "Bird hunting", being paid to charge scooters and return them to designated spot in the morning. Sweep says it already has operations in Long Beach, Denver, Detroit, Washinton, D.C., Dallas, and Charlotte, NC.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2019

According to XPRIZE, it asked teams to design new technology with the ability to detect chemicals in the open ocean and trace them to their source, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) offering a $1 million prize for the most successful team. READ MORE>>.

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Marina Del Rey Competition Design Technology 133

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

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The only “sustainable competitive advantage” in business is self-awareness. I was struck by this assertion in a new book, “ The Messy Middle ,” by Scott Belsky, who has spent more than a decade leading in the worlds of technology, design, and startups. It’s a recipe for disaster.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In fact, just yesterday, Twitter rolled out a new design which embeds images and video directly into streams, a serious threat to third party providers like TwitPic, YFrog, and others. Twitter has rolled out its own mobile applications in competition with third party Twitter clients; its own link shortener; and its own advertising service.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The robot puts the firm in direct competition with Roomba. The company said that its design of the Mint makes it better able to clean along edges of walls and corners, unlike competing round robots. Evolution's technology has previously been licensed and used in products from Sony, Bandai, Sharper Image, and KDDI.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

It remains to be seen if that advantage lasts--Los Angeles startup founders and investors still complain it''s near impossible to find good technology talent in the area, even without competition from Facebook or Google--but it''s an interesting change in attitude in the industry. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 29, 2022

From their book, “Designing for Growth,” they iterate a four-question matrix, each with steps for creation through launch. What is? What if we could do it better, do it in a new way, do it to attract new customers, do it to distance ourselves form the competition? Then let’s design it so it will wow. What wows?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Goleta-based semiconductor Transphorm , which designs and manufactures gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors, says its technology has been used in a new product from Inergy. According to the two, Inergy and its design partner Telcodium used Transphorm's semiconductors as a key part of its new portable solar generator, the "Kodiak Extreme".

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Santa Monica-based eHarmony --which has been in the midst of a major refresh of its externally facing design, apps, and business to cater to the new, mobile user base--said this week that it has also completed a major, IT infrastructure refresh on the back of its services. architecture. READ MORE>>.

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