Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

But while competition remains fierce, the advancement and accessibility of smart solutions are making it easy than ever for startups to find their feet. Not only does it boast a sleek ergonomic design, but it also X every single feature you'd expect from a top-tier internet phone system. From its 4.3-inch From its 4.3-inch

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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. It's competitive though – last year 18,000 applicants competed for only 12 slots. You can unsubscribe at any time. Apply here Deadline: Monthly 5.

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Phishing attacks are attempts by a malicious attacker to get the end-user of a message or email to provide sensitive information. One common type of phishing attack is an email claiming a user’s account is stolen and then asking them to enter their login credentials into a website owned by someone looking to steal their information.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 15, 2016

From their book, “Designing for Growth,” they iterate a four question matrix, each with steps for creation through launch. 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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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

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Startup Generative AI Newsletter Tool 210

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. Email readers, continue here…] It’s easy to find someone to quote a size of market estimate. Or cost estimation. TAM, SAM, SOM?

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Company Companies Metrics Resource 156

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Competitive sportswoman. Kara on one side of the table showing me market sizes, competitive dynamics, product roadmaps, pricing plans for physical products with COGS and gross margins. Showing me designs. Soleil returns emails at 1.30am. They have designed a digital, mobile product that engages parents and kids.

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Startup Design Downey Activity 398

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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UCLA Social Media Social Network Santa Barbara 253

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Email us at editor@socaltech.com and tell us why we should listen to your own quick pitch. 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.

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West Los Angeles Startup Report Design 228

Berkonomics

APRIL 30, 2015

Salaries or hourly wages must be within reasonable limits set by the industry and matched by the competition, both regionally and for the same job classification. And there are some industries where tools such as stock options are considered mandatory for a company to be competitive. What a title. Of course money motivates.

Design 120

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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. Email readers, continue here.] The biggest error in planning may not be spreadsheet calculation error. Or cost estimation.

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Metrics Startup Marketing Demand 239

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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Startup Competition Activity Class 198

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 28, 2010

Presented by the TriTech SBDC SBIR and STTR programs are designed to help launch technology companies towards success by providing initial or supplemental research capital. The proposal process is extremely competitive and only the best of the best proposals get funded. Wednesday, February 3, 2010 -- Win an SBIR / STTR Award.

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Email Competition Research Design 100

Berkonomics

APRIL 25, 2019

It is the one skill, process or advantage you have over your competition. Consider your core. Then think of all the things you do to surround that core with people and assets that complete your company and allow you to release your product or perform your service. Which of your IP assets is your core? So – what is your core offering?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Yet, in the interest of full disclosure, and an honest intent to save future entrepreneurs some grief and money, I would remind you that starting any business has key dependencies on at least five major elements, including product design and delivery, the right people on the team, adequate funding, a sizable market opportunity, and marketing.

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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. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

For example, in a conflict over the right branding logo , it may help to understand who and how the ultimate decision will be made, including key elements driving the decision, such as targeted customers and competition. Don’t let it be just a conflict over graphic design. Evaluate conflict win-lose versus win-win potential.

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Activity Organization Examples Satisfaction 145

Berkonomics

AUGUST 30, 2018

It did not hurt that Apple always seemed to trump the competition in design of the product and the product’s user interface too. We designed and produced special cards for the TI that would allow Apple Macintosh workstations to be used, with their handsome graphic user interface. My “way too early” story. How it worked.

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Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 120

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

Dave is terrible with email. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. He doesn’t email you. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. I doubt he owns an item of clothes worth more than $20.

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Startup Venture Capital Email Writing 309

Berkonomics

APRIL 7, 2010

Here we examine the relationship between time, quality and competitiveness. Email readers continue here.] The waste from haste in this example was in not pre-thinking of enough testing scenarios for a new product. There is little need to reinforce the obvious.

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Software Review Examples Competition News 159

Berkonomics

MARCH 10, 2010

Email readers continue here.] This is not to bend this insight into a claim that a company should wait to develop new, groundbreaking products and services until a customer asks for them. This insight came from personal experience and from a good friend who advanced the notion of the “teacher-customer” years ago.

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Customer Custom Design Conference 149

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Here are some observations I have from this exposure: If a company moves from strength-to-strength with predictable outcomes, easy financings, low staff turn-over, limited competitive threats then the composition of the board probably doesn’t matter as much. I call these “filibuster” boards.

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Startup Venture Capital Layoffs Resource 269

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. Amplify Mentor Panel in full swing.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. When I get these inevitable emails or calls I respond the same way, “It’s a shame for me that I’m too late to your process.

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Mithril is struggling to compete against ferocious competition in the growth-stage equity market. If there was a process or bidding war or something resembling a competition, he would just walk,” the employee said.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The basic concept has to make some kind of sense given the technical, market and competitive environment, otherwise nothing else matters. Coding, design, production, sales, finance, operations, marketing, and the like are all execution skills; and without great execution, success will be very hard to come by.

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Startup Sales Ideas Entrepreneur 189

Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2011

Email readers continue here.] Apple, for example, was nowhere near the first to introduce an MP3 handheld music player. 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 had owned several before the first iPod was released.

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Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 214

Tech.Co

AUGUST 22, 2017

That’s why I had a quick conversation with Christopher Adams, CEO of Levium , an all natural drink designed to reduce anxiety. Tech is a very competitive, macho environment in which anxiety is rarely understood and is usually perceived as a weakness. Those with anxiety feel a need to people please.

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Technical Review Competition Startup Design 50

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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Social Media Pricing Technical Review Demand 56

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. ” When merchants sign up MyTime then helps them with marketing activities through marketing automation tools they’ve build across SEM, social, and email. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product. Nice sweep!

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. We’re a tool for hackers, designers, and entrepreneurs - effectively everyone who reads Hacker News. For us, the audience was perfect. Share and Enjoy.

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News Sites Startup RSS 198

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Defy Ventures runs business plan competitions and has people like us who attend and give business advice and feedback. But if you commit one simple day of your life I literally promise you that you will email or Tweet me a “thank you” and tell me you’ve been moved. You can go. You SHOULD go. Here is how. Please take that small action.

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Writing Startup Design Training 150

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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Organization Customer Custom Tips 280

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

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Startup Writing Southern California Email 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

We review the old tried and true strategies from the days of Hotmail putting a tagline with a link at the bottom of every email to the more modern cases of Airbnb driving traffic through Craigslist, Zynga through Facebook and DropBox through incentivizing referral marketing behaviors. But I still believe Sean Ellis was right.

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Technical Review SEM SEO Marketing 384

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. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. He looks for artists in their craft programmers, graphic designers and UI folks (tends not to do hardware). How investors’ risk differ (0:22:45).

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