Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

With more employees and network-intensive activities, businesses must stay ahead of their bandwidth needs or risk bottlenecking their employees and reducing staff productivity. . One major challenge for an enterprise is finding a way to upgrade its infrastructure efficiently to quickly ramp up to meet new network demands.

Networking 88

Networking Services Design Demand 88

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

From a marketing marketing perspective, that allows filmmakers to quickly and easily promote their films through social media and build a fan base, and incentivize fans to support their films by offering access to exclusive content, livestream video chats, and production updates, as an example. Why is this important to filmmakers?

Hollywood 256

Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In my experience, the key steps I look for always include the following: Testing the idea against customers who have money to spend. I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there.

Ideas 94

Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. Plus, we provide all of the back end fulfillment--it's soup to nuts--from manufacturing, to fulfillment, to customer service. We have some minimum price points for every product they might want to sell.

Van Nuys 191

Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. Although the major crowd funding sites today, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo , don’t technically require a business plan, they do demand essentially the same information in a project format.

Technical Review 126

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 126

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2019

Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” Yet most products can be made dramatically cheaper as technologies improve.

Startup 80

Startup Ideas Competition Demand 80

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Less than a month ago, Snapchat opened custom on-demand geofilters to everyone. Industry news was excited, but for how amazing of a product they are, custom Snapchat geofilters have remained stunningly under the radar. So what’s exciting about this new product? This product is literally too good to pass up.

Customer 40

Customer Custom Snapchat Design 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

They are the classic case of the Innovator’s Dilemma because they fundamentally can’t innovate on their product and can’t lower costs or their business craters. And it’s easy to run circles around them as our product differentiation shows. Growing our Product Lines. Little old us. Sound familiar?

Startup 150

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Yet you can never forget the seasonal business cash flow and activity demands that are approaching, so to be prepared – you need to start the planning now. The continuing rise in the price of fuel, combined with the ongoing evidence of global warming, has highlighted the need for alternative energy sources, and green products.

Startup 86

Startup Tips Venture Capital Demand 86

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. He told me that there were a core group of inner Digg users who could control what got on the front page.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2016

According to most experts , business traction is evidence that somebody really wants your product. It’s business momentum, independent of whether you have a product delivered, proven the business model, or significantly penetrated the opportunity. Customers and investors alike measure traction by your formal advisors.

Metrics 57

Metrics Funding Startup Customer 57

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Our clients are retail, technology, consumer product goods, and other companies who are trying to address challenges with a very complex, digital marketing mix they face every day. As you might imagine, I started as a brand manager in the consumer product goods market. We''re growing and scaling to meet the demands of the market.

Marketing 196

Marketing Pasadena Platform Email 196

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

There''s a huge demand for a limited supply of employees, in particularly, there a large demand for product developers, and there''s a shortage of experienced people. If you look at the career sites and pages out there right now, they look like they were built a decade ago. Among those is accessibility of the product.

Design 174

Design Sites Cornerstone OnDemand Startup 174

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2017

Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” Yet most products can be made dramatically cheaper as technologies improve.

Ideas 55

Ideas Startup Competition Demand 55

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2013

Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” Yet most products can be made dramatically cheaper as technologies improve.

Ideas 99

Ideas Startup Competition Demand 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2012

Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” Yet most products can be made dramatically cheaper as technologies improve.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Ideas Competition Startup 102

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. Assistly “Multi-channel customer support and management service&# – this is another industry I love and I specifically love the team at Assistly. Enter P2P lending.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

Messenger : Jason Lehmbeck , Co-Founder and CEO of DataPop , former VP of Emerging Ad Products at Overture Services and Yahoo! The catalyst was that we saw the demand and it was confirmed by some of the leading advertisers in the marketplace. It takes more time because you’ve got more constituents that you have to get on the same page.

Yahoo 210

Yahoo Startup Advertising Summary 210

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Originally, you had a lot of government customers, and were just starting out with a few commercial customers. Our strategy was twofold--one, was to go out and get brand name customers, and to translate their content to such a high quality, with no human oversight, that they'd be willing to post that on the internet.

Software Review 145

Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2011

Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” Yet most products can be made dramatically cheaper as technologies improve.

Startup 92

Startup Ideas Competition Demand 92

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We have a great variety of skills in the team from Media, Marketing, Operations, Retail – all very focus on customer service, highlighting a product or brand in the best way for the least amount of money. We are talking to companies now about sponsoring the entire site – so their branding will be throughout each page.

Advertising 79

Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures. This is astounding and myopic in my view.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Here’s why that is important: when users are on your website you want to convert them to become paying customers. It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. It won’t be easy.”.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. Although the major crowd funding sites today, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo , don’t technically require a business plan, they do demand essentially the same information in a project format.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 109

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2013

But, the demand for video is really high. My background is at Paramount, in the film department, and I also ran my own production company. We had paying customers from day one, which allowed us to bootstrap to the point where we were more valuable, and could bring on a partner as good as Insight. How did the company start?

Ideas 243

Ideas Content Startup Web 243

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

All the while, you have product to maintain and a team to manage, but the very thought of hiring a VP or consulting firm makes you cringe. are reflected in their stable of on-demand, hourly paid consultants and freelancers for a number of business roles: Market Research. Marketing & Branding. Investor Decks. Due Diligence.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review Outsource 105

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

landing pages, etc. We came up with a positioning strategy that helps them sell value-added when recession-pinched customers are squeezing them for low rates. A post that I like is: " Tech Companies: Can You Explain Your Product to a Six-Year-Old? Personally: I grew up all over the world because my Dad was in the U.S.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value. Provide specifics on the customer business model.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ever had a meeting with a CEO who was really short with you, demanded the answer quickly and was fidgety while you spoke? You’ve got 20 slides and we’re only on page 3. Can we do a really quick run through your deck so that we save tons of time for a product demo & questions at the end?&#. Dude, I get it.

Slides 358

Slides Venture Capital Startup Summary 358

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2010

Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. A related “red flag” in a business plan is a missing competitive analysis section, or a short paragraph that essentially says, “this product has no competition.” Yet most products can be made dramatically cheaper as technologies improve.

Startup 48

Startup Ideas Competition Demand 48

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Even though their business model was tweaked a little while ago to give customers additional leniency, the business is still expecting to break $100 million in revenue this year, up from $25 million in 2010. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. You might know Demand Media better as the people behind Cracked, DailyPuppy, and GolfLink.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free. If you will be making a product to sell, be sure the cost of materials is minimal and beyond that it costs only your labor. As your services gain demand, your time becomes more valuable and you can charge more. Customer service is free.

Startup 92

Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We provide three lines of service, one is called Developer Advice, which is not a common service out there--where customers can have confidential discussions with our architects through a secure forum, so that they're not posting specifics about their customers or projects publicly. They all were very different companies.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350