socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

We'd make 500 samples, and about 150 would be picked up by consumers, who became huge evangelists for the brand. There's not a lot of true customer demand at any point in that process, to figure out what is on-trend and what is stylish. Right now, most of the brands and most apparel design is done in a top down way.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2023

Every business owner and entrepreneur like you I work with wishes they could better predict product demand and sales, for managing inventory and long-term business planning. I was impressed with the analysis and recommendation offered in a recent book, “ Trust the Plan: Demand Management For Business Leaders, ” by Greg Spira.

Metrics

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

For those of you who don’t have time to read the whole book, here is a sampling of a few key points that should get you thinking in the right direction, and maybe just keep you a step or two ahead of your big competitors: Add a platform that provides self-service growth. Create and practice an obsession over customers.

Commerce

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. A sample of three views is adequate. If your investor is unknown, or peers offer no positive attributes, take it as a red flag.

Technical Review

Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Software that uses cloud-based infrastructure also means customers can store and analyze a nearly infinite amount of data at low cost. Furthermore, improvements can be made instantaneously when new features are developed, ensuring that customers receive new functions and upgrades immediately.

Artificial Inteligence

socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2010

What that gives our customers, is a great edge in performance. At theend of last year, we decided we needed to get into the business, because of that demand. What a customer wants is to just have much better Ethernet and UDP multicast. That's what customers are using in this environment. Why do you need that?

Networking

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

If you are not able to keep up with demand due to lack of funds for production, and your company is too young for banks to be interested, you will find that investors love these odds, and are quick to go for a chunk of the action. On the other hand, there are clearly situations where your needs call for investors. You need a prototype.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2013

If you are not able to keep up with demand due to lack of funds for production, and your company is too young for banks to be interested, you will find that investors love these odds, and are quick to go for a chunk of the action. On the other hand, there are clearly situations where your needs call for investors. You need a prototype.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. Configure every decision step into real-time software. The efficiency gain is tremendous.

Artificial Inteligence

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Here is just a sampling of the latest terminology and lingo that I gleaned from Dave, and from some additional research on the Internet, that I think every entrepreneur should know, who may be looking for funding now, or down the road: Micro-VCs. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Business accelerator.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

Here is just a sampling of the latest terminology and lingo that I gleaned from Dave, and from some additional research on the Internet, that I think every entrepreneur should know, who may be looking for funding now, or down the road: Micro-VCs. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Business accelerator.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you are not able to keep up with demand due to lack of funds for production, and your company is too young for banks to be interested, you will find that investors love these odds, and are quick to go for a chunk of the action. On the other hand, there are clearly situations where your needs call for investors. You need a prototype.

Technical Review

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Marketing is considered an art by many individuals because it requires keen insight in how to approach a product, service, or brand, and how to effectively deliver those things to customers. Overall, in today’s economy, businesses demand marketers think beyond the everyday ad and try to think outside the box for ad campaigns.

Advertising

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. A sample of three views is adequate. If your investor is unknown, or peers offer no positive attributes, take it as a red flag.

Technical Review

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2010

At the time, we had a couple of customer buying chips from us that were processor chips, used for doing energy measurement in commercial meters. We've got four generation of parts in the market, with three in production, and the fourth sampling--with a fifth in design.

Equity

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

I put sample implementations on GitHub in case you're curious what these overrides might look like. The iterable.spliterator() method is critical when it comes to stream performance, but writing a custom Spliterator from scratch is a non-trivial task. keySet,values,entrySet}().forEach(action). forEach(action). iterator().forEachRemaining(action).

Java

InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Thus, demand “Powered By” branding status to ensure that end-users will be exposed to your brand and alerted to the fact that your technology is a significant component of the BDC’s solution. The resulting credibility will help you establish future business development and customer relationships. Do Not Surrender Arbitration.

Outsource Development

InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Thus, demand “Powered By” branding status to ensure that end-users will be exposed to your brand and alerted to the fact that your technology is a significant component of the BDC’s solution. The resulting credibility will help you establish future business development and customer relationships. Do Not Surrender Arbitration.

Outsource Development

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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