Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked, Cloud-based enterprise platform for deal management and investor reporting, Wednesday announced a new suite of enterprise features in a move to take transactions mobile. But a lack of competition has also lead to a lack of innovation, resulting in low customer satisfaction and frequent complaints of difficult-to-use products.

Mobile 91

Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2013

San Diego-based WhatRunsWhere said today that it has launched a brand new service, which helps advertisers track what ads competitors are running into mobile apps for the Android operating system. Pricing on the new tool was not announced. WhatRunsWhere is headed by Max Teitelbaum. WhatRunsWhere is headed by Max Teitelbaum.

Advertising 138

Advertising San Diego Mobile Pricing 138

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2015

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

Startup 118

Startup Competition Patents Resource 118

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2022

These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books. New unmet consumer or customer needs.

eBook 111

eBook Metrics Examples Startup 111

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. What about mobile?

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

Startup 229

Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. What was appealing to you about the mobile app area? What's the idea behind Maple Media?

Media 153

Media Mobile Startup Acquisition 153

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2014

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Competition Patents Resource 110

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

They will have a short memory and no loyalty to “lowest prices” or “easiest to use.” Capitalize on the massive trend and power of mobile. Highlight how your brand supports mobile, for shopping, purchase transactions, usage, and support. You can’t win by being “just another” company that sells on price.

Social Media 73

Social Media Custom Customer Mobile 73

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). Public-company tech investors creates competition in late-stage financings and these investors can afford to be less price sensitive if they choose. and hasn’t abated.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Pricing engine helps publishers ascertain ad inventory pricing by analyzing ad transaction data from the market/exchanges. Competition: Pingg, MyPunchbowl, TinyPrints , PaperlessPost. OTHER DEALS: 1. BlockChalk. MetaMarkets.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Take electricity as an input and through a process called ultrasonic transduction to convert it to a soundwave that can be beamed from a transmitter to a sleeve on your mobile phone that would use and ultrasound receiver to convert it back to electricity and charge your phone. .” The approach was clever and novel.

Technical Review 418

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Apparently with a physical storefront where it can convince customers of the wonders of on-demand mobility. Instead, it’s the fierce competition from hometown startups like local favorite Bird that Lime wants to overcome through brick-and-mortar marketing.

Santa Monica 221

Santa Monica Startup Technical Review Education 221

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2018

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

Competition 51

Competition Patents Resource Entrepreneur 51

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2013

Cloud storage is a competitive market, with dozens of cloud storage providers hoping to gain a big chunk of the market. We also have a mobile version of the product, Idrive Lite, which is primarily used to back up contacts. Number two, is our pricing. We spoke with Raghu Kulkarni CEO/Founder of Pro Softnet Corp.

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Southern California Google S3 Symantec 133

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For instance, one of our targets are those who have large audiences, like mobile carriers. These large mobile carriers have audiences, but something they dont have content services to attract and retain subscribers to a mobile network. We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. Who are your core customers?

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

We're really focused on the consumer getting the right car at the right price. There's real competition in this area. There are lots of transaction costs which occur both on acquisition of customers and on returns, and those costs are real, and must be considered in how we price the products.

Startup 124

Startup Pricing Platform Study 124

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books. New unmet consumer or customer needs.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur eBook Metrics Examples 93

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. They have designed a digital, mobile product that engages parents and kids. Remember, it’s about Lines, Not Dots. Stanford MBA.

Startup 398

Startup Design Downey Activity 398

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2014

The initial company, Roam Mobility Service came to market in January 2012. Roam Mobility had the benefits of being first to market and being unique in their space. With this, we had an opportunity to create a competitively priced product for the US market with a simple model.” Click here for more info on Ready SIM.

Mobile 86

Mobile Startup Custom Customer 86

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

That's both voice and data, through a mobile application, and are also now looking to go into homes. Stephen Sesar: It's no major secret that telcos have been increasing their prices, and basically selling high volume wireless Internet packages to users, with 5GB or 10GB of data, when in reality, users are only using roughly 1.5

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

socalTECH

AUGUST 11, 2011

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. To start, why don't you describe how your mobile ads work?

Startup 177

Startup Mobile Culver City Los Angeles 177

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

If a company wanted to distribute software on a mobile device it need to sell via a “portal” (US term) or a “deck” (UK term) of a mobile carrier. As the desk-based Internet emerged it was initially sold through telecom carriers (after players like AOL and EarthLink innovated the market).

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Custom Customer 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

They have high-priced property and zero innovation. It tested our beliefs about pricing, products and marketing overall of our service. The above graphic shows our current pricing for NYC storage and you can see a direct comparison with our legacy competitor in NYC with the upper tiers used more for small businesses.

Startup 150

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. Nice sweep! But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition.

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Asher Hunt: Overnight is a mobile app for travelers to book same day, last minute stays, with local hosts. By that time, I had figured out the cadence of pricing for hotel rooms, and had been traveling back and forth between LA and San Francisco for three or four days each week. Plus, prices were starting at $180.

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Mobile Pricing 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

Many buying companies price these deals on the basis of $1 million per engineer on the team for an early-stage deal. Get yourself in a big demo day competition. So why not announce big, hairy audacious goals on recruiting the best mobile talent with sign-on bonuses and retention plans? Chief Vesting Officers)? Go do a startup.

Press 357

Press Startup Yahoo Venture Capital 357

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

See the Internet and now the mobile ecosystems are one, big competitive playground where globally some of the smartest minds are focused on how to make money by driving user growth better, faster and cheaper than others. When you find your wave you ride it alone for as long as you can until others discover it.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review SEM SEO Marketing 384

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2015

These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books. New unmet consumer or customer needs.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur eBook Metrics Startup 106

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

We spoke about my interest in cloud computing, digital media and mobile. If I’m in GroupMe’s shoes (and I’ve never met the founders) I think I’d be a seller at the price reportedly paid by Skype. Yes, the competition going forward will be strong. It’s about 10 minutes long.

Company 295

Company Companies Gogii Google 295

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2016

CES is a prime time for gaming companies to showcase their latest tech: There’s always a collection of the newest PC cases, the latest mobile tricks, gaming laptops, and gaming headsets. MSI’s latest mobile game machines are particularly impressive – and large. Laptop gamers, rejoice! New Gaming Laptop from MSI.

Mobile 40

Mobile News Course Competition 40

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2017

These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books. New unmet consumer or customer needs.

eBook 52

eBook Metrics Examples Startup 52

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2013

These changes can be cultural, like the increasing need to be social, spawning Facebook and a hundred others, or technological, like the explosion of mobile devices around the world. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books. New unmet consumer or customer needs.

eBook 95

eBook Metrics Startup Examples 95

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

They can also help raise larger rounds of capital and often at higher prices. 1 party = low price. Michael’s view (full details in the video) is that right now there often aren’t multiple buyers for consumer Internet companies and prices often aren’t what people hope for going into the process. ITA Software.

Venture Capital 242

Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Help 242

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. What exactly are your mobile social networking applications? We see a lot of off-deck, mobile social networking firms.

Social Network 113

Social Network Anthem Mobile Java 113