Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

In the early days this is expensive because the logistics & warehouses are amortized over a small customer base but with scale this infrastructure and the technology that drives it becomes a powerful moat and hard for new entrants to compete. years of software development.

Technical Review 268

Technical Review Funding Software Review Artificial Inteligence 268

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As inflation rates spiral and consumer demand takes a hit, business owners are forced to be more mindful of their bottom lines than ever. Create a membership here Deadline: Applications are reviewed quarterly 3. Due to its lower lending cap, businesses with a slightly lower credit score of 620 can be eligible for the loan.

Technical Review 193

Technical Review Software Review Startup Competition 193

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

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

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 124

Technical Review Case Study Software Review Startup 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. Currently, we have over a thousand customers, with customers ranging from anywhere from 100 employees to clients with more than a 100,000. In the past, we had been a one product company.

Software Review 243

Software Review SaaS Startup Technical Review 243

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

However, its unique-for-the-industry monthly subscription model has helped it maintain healthy profits from its loyal customer base in 2023. And with direct traffic making up 71% of Caledly’s total traffic, demand for the scheduling tool is likely to remain strong into 2024. Organic milk formula product Bobbie.

Startup 210

Startup Generative AI Newsletter Tool 210

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Design the full stack, not just a new software element. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. Even consumers here in the US are demanding a more responsible approach. Manage risk – don’t just “move fast and break things.”

Capital 138

Capital Marketing Ideas Venture Capital 138

Berkonomics

JANUARY 3, 2013

Most every business can take advantage of continuing, recurring revenues from its customer base. In examining mature software companies in vertical markets, one of my first questions is to ask for the percentage of total revenues coming from recurring sources – leased software, maintenance agreements, or monthly retainers.

Outsource Development 197

Outsource Development Software Review Sales Demand 197

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

Technical Review 343

Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2011

As customers shift online, retailers have no choice, to not only follow suit, but to adapt to their changing demands. Consumers demand an exact product suited to our exact needs and this time we do not want to be told what this is. It has gone beyond that as the online customer exerts their power.

Customer 74

Customer Custom Advertising Demand 74

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2011

As customers shift online, retailers have no choice, to not only follow suit, but to adapt to their changing demands. Consumers demand an exact product suited to our exact needs and this time we do not want to be told what this is. It has gone beyond as the online customer exerts their power.

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

Berkonomics

JUNE 16, 2016

An attack may involve a call demanding payment to the phisher for past due invoices from a legitimate supplier, or verification of credit card data to create facilitate the fraudulent transaction. Many websites are compromised and have been hacked with or set up with embedded nefarious software. Never enter data into a pop-up.

Anthem 120

Anthem Software Review Email Organization 120

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2016

I’m currently wearing a plain white t-shirt, which feels like the epitome of irony due in no small part to YoShirt’s colorful mission. Customization is a BIG TREND for millennials. All their lives, millennials have been customizing the things closest to them. First, there were polyphonic ring tones to customize phones.

Customer 40

Customer Custom Design Software Review 40

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

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

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

Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic, based in both Redwood City, CA, and Austin, TX, is one of the upstart companies benefiting from a surge of investing in the chip-making field, where the growing computational demands due to the use of AI are creating an opening for young entrepreneurs with out-of-the-box ideas.

Artificial Inteligence 77

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 77

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

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2019

For example, if you start a new business with a software product you developed, you really need to know the basics of marketing and finance, but you will probably never be the expert in marketing and finance you require. Their lack of trust and sharing will be noted by employees, vendors, and customers, and the business will suffer.

Software Review 98

Software Review Ideas Outsource Development Entrepreneur 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Design the full stack, not just a new software element. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. Even consumers here in the US are demanding a more responsible approach. Manage risk – don’t just “move fast and break things.”

Ideas 124

Ideas Venture Capital Software Review Technical Review 124

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

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

The instigators are all well-intentioned – executives talk to potential customers who “must have” a few more things; or the technical team edicts some “technically elegant” options that they can’t resist adding before release. Define milestones for cost review and sign-off. Implement and enforce a change process.

Technical Review 104

Technical Review Product Software Review High Tech 104

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. We are also pushing out updates all the time to our customers. One of our customers has 6,500 separate and distinct applications.

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

The instigators are all well-intentioned – executives talk to potential customers who “must have” a few more things; or the technical team edicts some “technically elegant” options that they can’t resist adding before release. Define milestones for cost review and sign-off. Implement and enforce a change process.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 110

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

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

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

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you had huge customer growth but just didn’t focus on revenue that’s a different story. And when you’re looking at even earlier-stage companies (as VCs do) you might be even more focused on customer growth than revenue growth. million in revenue three years later is, “So effing what?” Not necessarily.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

are reflected in their stable of on-demand, hourly paid consultants and freelancers for a number of business roles: Market Research. Due Diligence. “ Before SkillBridge, there wasn’t really a platform to provide work for white collar professionals on demand. Marketing & Branding. Investor Decks.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review Outsource 105

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). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software. NativeTung is a cloud-based platform, which includes some software which runs on the web site, which ensures synchronization of the translation at all times. Who would be the typical customer for this service? It also supports blogs.

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

The instigators are all well-intentioned – executives talk to potential customers who “must have” a few more things; or the technical team edicts some “technically elegant” options that they can’t resist adding before release. Define milestones for cost review and sign-off. Implement and enforce a change process.

Technical Review 96

Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 96

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

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The instigators are all well-intentioned – executives talk to potential customers who “must have” a few more things; or the technical team edicts some “technically elegant” options that they can’t resist adding before release. Define milestones for cost review and sign-off. Implement and enforce a change process.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 75

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

Software Review 145

Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145