socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Designed to put automation in the hands of all data workers-from line-of-business users to skilled analysts and data scientists-the human-centered platform transforms how businesses leverage their data assets, optimize their processes and upskill human talent to generate workforce efficiencies, top-line growth and optimize costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

Others are really marketers out to make money fast, and believe that they can entice customers to any offering. Picture the graphic designer, the IT expert, or the independent accountant or attorney. External forces (competitors and customers). Some just want to change the world and make it a better place.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2016

co), to learn District2 is looking to both create a marketplace, and a community, around independent fashion designers, helping them to find resources, vendors, factories, and contractors help them bring their designs to life, and help the whole industry move into the modern age. We help apparel designers connect with factories.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The best prototypes will enter into a 15-week program at Wearable World to further incubate the concept, and work with potential customers and corporate partners to help achieve product/market fit. Wearable World, Inc. , Nominations for the IoT Innovation Council are currently being accepted now through November 30.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. What is BloomNation? It''s sort of an Etsy for flowers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Thus entrepreneurs began building prototypes and designing new products without the traditional huge investment. Low-cost design and fabrication tools are extremely valuable. Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, like lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Milk & Honey has had shoes designed by Rachael Ray, Ginnifer Goodwin, Malin Akerman, and Kate Mara amongst others and has appeared in People, Redbook, Inked, Lucky, Bridal Guide, InStyle, Marie Claire, and numerous other publications. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

However, if you think about IT security, all the systems everyone is familiar with, ERP systems, web, and email, and other basic network systems, all those systems that are designed to run companies, my history and background is in securing those platforms. We've now exited the incubator and actually have an office at Microsemi.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

It’s like a bar crawl, but with startup/Accelerator/Incubator offices instead of bars. Each venue will host a group of developers, designers, entrepreneurs and other startups in their office for 45 minutes or so then feel free to move on to the next stop. Custom ad deals and partnerships. What do you do on a Tech Crawl?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

It was a finalist in Marshall ’s New Venture Seed Competition and it has earned a place within IncubatriX, a startup Incubator through USC’s Grief School of Entrepreneurship, which currently houses over a dozen USC startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

It all starts with a customer perspective to uncover problems and frustrations, and then design solutions from the customer backward. But customers also tend to think linearly, so they don’t always know what they want. Back away for a while to let the problem incubate in the unconscious mind.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We need to see a company which has already verified their use cases, has customers, has some form of revenue, or something that shows us that they can differentiate themselves, plus have the right team. But, can you really get out there and get customers, and get those customers to repeat orders?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 8, 2012

It’s like a bar crawl, but with startup/Accelerator/Incubator offices instead of bars. Each venue will host a group of developers, designers, entrepreneurs and other startups in their office for 45 minutes or so then feel free to move on to the next stop. Custom ad deals and partnerships. When: August 30, 2012 6-11pm.

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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. Quora is one of the better designed new products of the past few years in my opinion. Rinse & repeat.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Because of technology and the Internet, we're able to cut many of those links, be a manufacturer, and make our own brand, selling that brand of high quality basics to customers. How difficult was it to handle the back end of design and manufacturing? Then, we will really let our customers tell us what they want to see next.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 23, 2012

It’s like a bar crawl, but with startup/Accelerator/Incubator offices instead of bars. Each venue will host a group of developers, designers, entrepreneurs in their office for 45 minutes or so then feel free to move on to the next stop. Custom ad deals and partnerships. When: November 9, 2012 6-11pm. Where: Hollywood, CA.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

It’s like a bar crawl, but with startup/Accelerator/Incubator offices instead of bars. Each venue will host a group of developers, designers, entrepreneurs and other startups in their office for 45 minutes or so then feel free to move on to the next stop. Custom ad deals and partnerships. When: October 4, 2012 6-11pm.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. This leads companies in the open source ecosystem to encourage collaboration across traditional boundaries to the benefit of customers, operators and developers.”. Six Reasons Why The Time Is Now.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered. That's why we built FanMix, to solve our own problem, and help our SocialEngine customers to promote their own sites. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems in the world which need to be solved. Look for competitors that have the same capabilities as you in a different market area, or for different customers.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Sign up today, and you'll get the chance to use the latest Microsoft design, development, and productivity tools for up to three years. Not only that, but you'll connect with a nationwide community of BizSpark Network Partners, including incubators and investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2016

It all starts with a customer perspective to uncover problems and frustrations, and then design solutions from the customer backward. But customers also tend to think linearly, so they don’t always know what they want. Back away for a while to let the problem incubate in the unconscious mind.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Those that try generally agree and remain customers – but since we are initially asking Clinicians to change the format of their practice delivery, the initial sale can be challenging. We spent our first year designing the product with our world-renowned science team.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. I don’t believe it.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

By using SteelHouse, ecommerce sites can use live data to instantly respond to a customer’s wants and needs for stronger transaction values, increased conversion rates, and an overall better customer experience. Incubator: Amplify LA. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

ChowNow came out of incubator LaunchPad LA. ChowNow offers restaurants a suite of customized branded interactive apps to make online ordering a snap. ChowNow also offers snazzy tablets that digitally track to-go orders, automatically email customers their order info and wait times, while building a customer database.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

For many founders, getting noticed by investors, potential customers, incubators and other companies, is a necessity to take your product to the next level. If you love making custom herbal remedies at home, then Altopa has a gadget for you. We.Stream designed a secure mobile Wi-Fi hotspot for travelers and business people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems in the world which need to be solved. Look for competitors that have the same capabilities as you in a different market area, or for different customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

Spearheaded by Alex Donn , the event was designed for both technical and non-technical attendees to build apps over the course of a weekend at Io/La , an incubator/co-work space in the heart of Hollywood. Kudos to the rockstar developers and designer in my team. We ended up earning 1 st place for using AT&T Cloud Architect.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. Smart investors think a lot about what we call “unit economics” or what is the economics of service one customers. Choose that market. Microeconomics.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys, which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints. Hank McCarrick, CEO and founder of Seco Sys. Can you tell us more about your company. Our platform can be used worldwide.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys , which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints. Hank McCarrick, CEO and founder of Seco Sys. Can you tell us more about your company. Our platform can be used worldwide.

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