Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

Here are a few specifics on how to be part of the solution, without the costs, rather than part of the problem: Put a personal face and address on your site; don’t hide behind an “info” email address. Use video and audio, rather than jargon, abbreviations, and computer lingo on your site. Don’t take shortcuts on these.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Looking to enhance the advertising units on its network of sites, Santa Monica-based Demand Media said today that it has launched a new set of "social feed ads" to its advertisers. Demand Media said its new Social Feed ad management tools allow its advertisers to deliver customized, social media content via live rich media ads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

In addition to obvious economic challenges, the emerging generation of customers is determined to radically change the rules for customer engagement. He makes a convincing argument that it’s time for every company to get prepared for the next customer generation, or your company is heading toward life support.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online content publishing firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, reported its second quarter 2012 financial results on Tuesday afternoon, saying that both its revenues and pageviews grew from year to year. Demand Media said it had total revenues of $93.1M Demand Media said it had total revenues of $93.1M

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Applying that solution to our job matching site made perfect sense. That’s why we’re planning on building most of our sites this way in the future. Profile Blurbs and Writing Prompts Let’s look at our job matching site in more detail. So instead, we fill it with a completely custom blurb, written just for him: Hello!

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, disclosed today that the firm has signed on auto manufacturer Toyota as a customer. Tags: demand media toyota trailtracker offroad vehicle content. Financial details of the win were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Los Angeles-based Squeegy , an on-demand, car wash service, said Wednesday that it has officially launched its service in Los Angeles. The company then dispatches a mobile car wash to a customer's home, office, or other location for an on-site car wash. Squeegy's on-demand app currently runs only on iOS. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

an on-demand repair app for electric vehicle charging stations, has seen these issues firsthand. One customer assumed that poor usage rates at a particular station was due to a lack of EVs in the area, Terry recalled in a recent interview. . Demand for ChargerHelp’s service has attracted customers and investors.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. What is Demand Media doing nowadays? For Legalzoom, it's a very different model.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Postmates is now rolling out what could be the biggest update to the company’s service in a long time — adding a retail option for users to shop local stores and for local merchants to set up a virtual on-demand storefront in the app. “ Most of the LA metro area will have access to the tab. Image Credit: Postmates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Back in the early 2000s, the Maker Movement took hold in California, based on the emergence of such do-it-yourself (DIY) tools as 3-D printers, and now sites such as SketchUp and Makerspaces have all the tools you need to make almost anything computer related. Meet the new consumer demand for customization.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Online job and career sites still seem to be in another decade, when it comes to both design--and user friendliness. Can a startup gain a foothold in the competitive market by designing the right UX and user experience to make a job and career site for everyone? Los Angeles-based Workpop (www.workpop.com) thinks so.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2014

In addition to obvious economic challenges, the emerging generation of customers is determined to radically change the rules for customer engagement. He makes a convincing argument that it’s time for every company to get prepared for the next customer generation, or your company is heading toward life support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2015

In addition to obvious economic challenges, the emerging generation of customers is determined to radically change the rules for customer engagement. He makes a convincing argument that it’s time for every company to get prepared for the next customer generation, or your company is heading toward life support.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

Using social media to increase your company’s touch and reach with each of your customers may be the most important reason to jump in to this game changing strategy. Social media can help bridge a long standing gap between customers and the companies they trust with their hard earned cash. 40,000) to join me on Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2022

Unfortunately, in this new age of rapid market change and harder-to-satisfy customers, you can’t assume that what worked yesterday will work tomorrow. Innovative product and process solutions are only temporary, as they quickly become a commodity in the minds of customers and competitors. Capitalize on a continuing market demand trend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

If you aren’t yet adapting to the market and your customers, you are falling behind. I define business agility for my consulting clients as the ability to change your business rapidly to meet customer and environmental changes, with minimal organizational disruption and cost. Demand and reward speedy analysis and execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

You need a faster and more flexible on-demand hiring strategy, based on the current gig-economy of remote freelancers, contract personnel, and specialists. That means starting your search through contract services sites, rather than conventional career hiring sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Relationships are a function of customer culture.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The Battle Is For The Customer Interface. If anyone is aware of the massive market potential for leveraging on-demand services, it’s Kalanick. On-demand food startup Sprig is shutting down today. While the two companies have similar visions, they’re currently pursuing different initial customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Every new business I know dreams of building momentum in their business, where growth continues to increase, customers become your best advocates, and employee motivation is high. Unfortunately, with limited resources, this isn’t possible, and it frustrates customers and the team. Focus first on finding more of the right customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2012

They do it because engaged customers become loyal advocates and buyers. It’s a dynamic customer environment out there. Motivate people, including your customers, to do something to improve your marketing today. Ask your customers and partners for ideas, try them all, measure results, and scale up the ones that work.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Nothing is changing for our customers at this time, and we’ll be in touch with customers as and when we have further updates. That's not bad but it's miles off market leader Shopify which boasts millions of customers. But Amazon faces a serious problem: Consumer demand is changing.

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. By popular demand, Round 6 introduces a plaintext test that uses HTTP pipelining, implemented in 14 frameworks so far.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Relationships are a function of customer culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nice to have” sites like Facebook and Twitter look attractive, but they are much higher risk, and a thousand fail for every one that succeeds. 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.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

The two-ounce bottles will be donated to local restaurants and bars that remain open for delivery, so that employees can use them and distribute them to customers. After that, we’re going to meet the demands of Canada,” INKSmith CEO Jeremy Hedges told the Canadian news outlet Global News. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2023

Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app for a few thousand dollars, but getting market penetration requires a lot more. Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. Don’t let this contamination infect you, your team, or your disruptive venture.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site joint venture of Demand Media and Lance Armstrong, said this week that it has launched a new, iPhone application geared at helping users quick smoking. Livestrong said its new MyQuit Coach iPhone application--which costs $3.99

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Are you tired of booking that "luxury room" on your favorite vacation rental site, and finding it''s really a dump? What''s hovelstay.com, and how is it different than all the other vacation rental sites out there? Michael Womack: We are creating a site that has the adventurous and budget traveler in mind. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2011

San Diego-based VMIX , the developer of online video management and hosting services, reported today that it has launched a new product aimed at helping its customers rent videos on the Facebook social networking site. Pricing on the new offering was not announced.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Cable provider Comcast appears to be taking aim at online video sites, and has demanded that Internet Service Provider Level 3 pay the company fees in order to transmit Internet online movies and other content to Comcast customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The best opportunities are recognized from painful needs, plus a growing population of customers with money to spend. With the widespread popularity of social media, I now see many businesses looking at niche market interest groups, such as sites for travelers, hunters, cancer support, and crafts.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2010

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site run by Demand Media, has updated the firm's MyPlate lifestyle management tool, the company announced this morning. The firm said the new tool also now integrates with LIVESTRONG Loops, the site's tool for finding local walking and running routes. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

Customers are demanding denser coverage and higher speeds in expanding areas. T-Mobile and Sprint, for example, invested billions of dollars in 2017 to bring 5G service to customers in the US by 2019.¹. Local infrastructure providers already have the sites carriers need. The telecom industry is rapidly transforming.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Pasadena-based Foodme (www.foodme.com) is one of the first, external startups funded out of Idealab's New Venture Group, and is looking to help connect restaurants with customers using a CPA model. We don't cannibalize their existing customers base. John Delacruz: Right now, people come to our web site and tell us what they want.

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