TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Both programmers, the two reconnected after doing stints as custom developers during and after college, and then when they were developing tools for their families’ businesses as residential contractors in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale. These kinds of technologies, unlike AI, don’t automate away workers.

Glendale 271

Glendale Los Angeles Startup Technical Review 271

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2011

This Black Friday we reached record retail sales at traditional brick-and-mortar stores, yet the merging Cyber Monday is proving to be a fighting younger brother. As customers shift online, retailers have no choice, to not only follow suit, but to adapt to their changing demands.

Customer 74

Customer Custom Advertising Demand 74

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2011

This Black Friday we reached record retail sales at traditional brick-and-mortar stores, yet the merging Cyber Monday is proving to be a fighting younger brother. As customers shift online, retailers have no choice, to not only follow suit, but to adapt to their changing demands.

Customer 72

Customer Custom Demand Advertising 72

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Look for validation from your mainstream customers. No matter how passionately you believe that everyone needs one, and positive feedback from friends and early adopters (false positives), before you invest in scaling the business, make sure you set and meet good metrics in cost of customer acquisition, recurring sales, and margin.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Case Study Mentor Software Review 131

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. “COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you. .

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. That's where Deal Current was born.

Platform 263

Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Your IT Reviewer. They’ve had years of business-unit managers buying software solutions they didn’t need and that eventually become shelfware. Your business unit buyer isn’t used to negotiating software and if you won over the IT team with your prowess then you’re feeling pretty good. They need some wins.

Development Team Review 293

Development Team Review Software Review Pricing Startup 293

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Automate to the max.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 97

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

This is true of any buying process where a customer has to make a large investment decision on your software or when an investor must decide whether to give you $5 million. I spend a lot of time coaching entrepreneurs through their fund-raising processes by doing “pipeline reviews” of all of the firms with whom they are speaking.

Funding 189

Funding Software Review Entrepreneur Venture Capital 189

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Automate to the max.

Startup 107

Startup Technical Review Case Study Software Review 107

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. How is it your first customer was in Australia? Los Angeles-based Fuel50 (www.fuel50.com) What is Fuel50?

Help 100

Help Southern California Startup Technical Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. Rinse & repeat.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Automate to the max.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Case Study 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2019

There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name. Don’t take shortcuts on these. Few people are paranoid about something they want and enjoy.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Symantec Social Network News 78

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Automate to the max.

Technical Review 99

Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name. The bad news for startups is that your company can lose big if it’s caught in the middle.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Technical Review Startup Social Network 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

This is set to complement Groupon’s efforts in yield management due to its 40 percent discounts for each table. Full Tables, Happy Customers. Groupon said it launched the system due to customer demands. “In Serves Over 1000 Top US Restaurants. Simplest and Lowest Cost Option. Follow Transaction History.

Software Review 64

Software Review Email Competition Acquisition 64

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2017

There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name. The bad news for startups is that your company can lose big if it’s caught in the middle.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Technical Review Startup Symantec 54

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Jonathan Neddenriep: So, the core of what we've built in Postie, is a machine learning stack that ingests who your current customers are, and figures out who across every household in the United States is most likely to become a customer based on that data. We build on those audiences, and find others that look alike. We raised $3.5M

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2012

There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name. Don’t take shortcuts on these. Few people are paranoid about something they want and expect.

Startup 85

Startup Technical Review Social Network News 85

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name. Don’t take shortcuts on these. Few people are paranoid about something they want and expect.

Startup 94

Startup Technical Review Social Network News 94

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site. Sunil Rajaraman: The screenwriting software has been, and always will be, free. What's Scripped?

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2010

There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name. Don’t take shortcuts on these. Few people are paranoid about something they want and expect.

Entrepreneur 85

Entrepreneur Technical Review Social Network News 85

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Application developers once considered their products as licensed in what would closely be allied to a single sale. Can you convert your model without losing your customer base? Have you noticed how many web apps and content have turned into subscription services during the last several years? Call it the Netflix effect.

Outsource Development 156

Outsource Development Software Review Content Netflix 156

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

I’m looking for somebody who can sell, but not better than our head of sales. You want somebody who can raise $15 million to build out your R&D, business development and sales organizations. She’s protecting them from the most intellectually demanding activities. Are you looking for a Phd wireless chip designer?&#.

CTO Hire 363

CTO Hire Technical Review Startup Demand 363

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. Many of the biggest customers wanted to be able to physically walk through our data center – how could I give up something so strategic? We raised $16.5

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343