Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2022

Participate in industry conferences and expositions. Finally, key national conferences will show you improvements you need to make in areas that can create multipliers without breaking your business. These multipliers also are no substitute for a highly engaged and trained team, supplied with the right tools and leadership.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The event is a 2-day training in.Net, HTML5, Windows 8, Asp.NET MVC and other Microsoft technologies. You’ll learn how to manage multiple environments with Git and Visual Studio 2012 so your small teams aren’t pushing to production and jeopardizing your site’s stability. This won’t be one of those talks.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). It super charges a business that is closer to product delivery.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

A Silicon Valley conference is a room full of suits, with the occasional skirt suite. A 50 car line stacked up the street from the conference entrance filled with women idling, applying mascara, brushing their hair, and finishing early morning conference calls. Don’t build a product they like, build a product they love.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

with a variety of support, training, and certification options for VARs and others. As part of that partner program, it said it has signed Logical Choice Technologies, a national provider of educational technology solutions, to help it reach schools, colleges, and universities with its product. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The best of you train yourselves to show emotions sparingly and strategically, while the rest are convinced that emotions cannot be controlled , and are a function of culture and genetics. Find time in your work schedule for networking, working lunches, and business conferences, where you can test your ideas, learn, and generate support.

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LATechDigest

MAY 12, 2016

Santa Monica-based talent management software firm Cornerstone OnDemand announced the launch of its suite of people analytics products at its annual Convergence Conference.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

He observed that the process we follow to be humane in our handling of under-performing employees, manage the risk of future lawsuit, finally then move to separate the employee, define the open position, recruit the candidate, train the new hire and count the new hire as up to speed in the job can take all of eighteen months.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

’ It’s pretty terrible to have to go to conferences… with people who are talking about… stuff that not only do I know nothing about, but I could give two $hits about.” Mark encourages emerging entrepreneurs to be bold, yet he admits that with his first startup, he boldly pushed PR before the product was ready.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2022

In my experience with business leaders, real innovation thinking is rare, compared to the urge to add just one more feature to an existing product, or make a small tweak to an existing business model. I call this linear thinking , and it’s a sure way to be ultimately overrun by your competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 29, 2008

From digital cinematography to color correction, web video production and lighting for film, video and HD: The DV Expo conference program will deliver the strategies, tools, tricks and training you need to succeed in today's highly competitive digital video industry. Tuesday, November 4, 2008 -- Digital Video Expo.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Then he met Jonathan Ellman at the Summit conference in Los Angeles. The outfits with the most votes are the ones that the influencers will keep… training their audiences on the mechanics of how to shop as they market the product. “ We met at a party. At midnight,” Ellman says.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

You’d imagine that companies selling tons of shelfware would quickly meet their deserved fate in the market, yet the spin around a category of software can fool buyers into thinking they “must have this product to compete.” Did they do a major training program? How frequently they’re using the product?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

While I have some sympathy with not investing too heavily in sales people until the product has properly been tested and commercialized in the enterprise environment, in the end it’s a fact that it takes sales people to move product through large organizations. I believe it’s flawed. How do you get referenceable customers?

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

What's the secret to creating a profitable, successful, physical subscription based business--and to do that at the scale of large, consumer product goods (CPGs) companies? xWe spoke with a few companies in the recurring revenue area space, ahead of the Recurring Revenue Conference ([link] which we are helping to sponsor next week.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

My first cofounder, Eric Olson, and I launched “Tech Cocktail” events to connect the Chicago startup and technology ecosystem before products like Eventbrite, Twitter, and other social and organizational tools were readily available, yet we quickly amassed crowds of hundreds at each event. I’ve also shared a few Tech Cocktail and Tech.Co

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2014

Highlighted Panels (for full list, go to the conference agenda ) : The Future of Smart Footwear to discuss connected shoes and the use in sports. 15 Startups to pitch their products – 2 winners to be announced. Live demos including a demo on extreme wearables used by a trained wolf. Paul Crandell – VP of Marketing, GoPro.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. Makerspaces and hackerspaces have sites and events, including education and training, where people with common interests can meet, socialize and collaborate. These ideas can grow quickly into real products.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2018

It was a great training ground to learn the business of venture capital. If you look at it from a business and product perspective, it's pretty well documented that the more successful companies in the world are all strong from a diversity perspective, in all industries. I led a number of investments for that company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals. I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020. How Do I Advise People When Raising Money in a Hard Market?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. If you sell a product direct to a customer – in person or on the phone – you need to understand what their pain points are and position your product benefits against those pain points.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

I think many board members (including VCs) were trained 10+ years ago when life was very different and their advice often comes from an outdated lens. If you believe you have a market-leading position in your product space I would worry a bit less about it. ” An angle can be, Starbucks is piloting this product in 500 stores; or.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

For many founders, getting noticed by investors, potential customers, incubators and other companies, is a necessity to take your product to the next level. The event is open to tech enthusiasts and CES conference attendees, and offers an opportunity to see some of the hottest, early-stage, tech startups before CES begins.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

In recent years, one of the more common ways to share information, conduct training, or pitch your company to other has been through online, web-based webinar and conferencing. It's to help us grow quickly and to bring this product to the huge, small business market. What are your specific plans for the new funding from the angels?

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created by the leadership team from Code Fever to accelerate and support the innovation of black communities through training, networks and funding. “ Having the pitches and showcase as part of the conference is a nice feature for the startups, so the whole thing isn’t just about the pitch.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2013

gaming and mobile tracks others took advantage of during the course of the three-day conference held consecutively at ROC , Cross Campus and Santa Monica Place. One such entrepreneur was Adam Miller , Cornerstone OnDemand , CEO, who kicked off the conference at ROC. 4 P’s of Success. Meet The Accelerators.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2015

You can spread the word by attending conventions and conferences relating to your field of business. A good website allows you to sell your products and services online. Learn as much as you can about each customer and their current product or service providers online. Social sites are a great way to advertise your business.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2011

He observed that the process we follow to be humane in our handling of underperforming employees, manage the risk of future lawsuit, finally then move to separate the employee, define the open position, recruit the candidate, train the new hire and count the new hire as up to speed in the job can take all of eighteen months.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 9, 2010

I was chairman of a company that had been offered an investment by a Fortune 500 company making a strategic investment in our business, which was capable of driving new demand to the large company though a series of new web services creating a greater need for the large company’s products.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2015

While in years past that technology had much to do with production, today’s technology has more to do with marketing, Intel and communication. Other members often include: financiers, strategists, personnel experts, product marketing specialists and new product designers and engineers. Images via Shutterstock.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

If you have board members you respect you owe it to yourself to run more productive sessions where board members contribute. He’s better at it than I am and it makes sure we don’t train valuable time and rush important stuff at the end. That’s why I like web conference over telephone — it keeps people more honest.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2015

One of the oldest and most-popular developer communities, IBM’s developerWorks has announced today a first-of-its-kind premium subscription model, developerWorks Premium , geared toward maximizing developer access to IBM’s software, tools, training and partners at a fraction of the cost. Developers today are constantly trying to keep up.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He stood up, grabbed the mic and gave a heartfelt overview of his experiences in experimenting with new technologies to build relationships with his audience, get feedback on his product quality and to market his music all the way to the top of iTunes. To stay the crowed was “wowed&# was an understatement.

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