Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell. Doubling revenue each year is a good target.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Preaching What You Live. One of the best students I ever had. Enter Eric Ries .

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2020

Based on a classic study by the Wharton School of Business , in a survey of 11,000 MBA graduates over many years, those running their own businesses ranked themselves happier than all other professions, regardless of how much money they made. People see you as great for demanding customers and team bonding.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. This is probably because many founders are product or technology people. I only found out through customer meetings.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

All the while, you have product to maintain and a team to manage, but the very thought of hiring a VP or consulting firm makes you cringe. We discuss everything from outsourcing, MBA’s, and business, to the lessons learned in building their marketplace for connecting business professionals with the companies who need them.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

Buck Jordan: Miso Robotics is bringing the power of automation to commercial kitchens, and addressing one of the biggest challenges of the food industry, which is increasing production with the expansion of the delivery market, while also safely decreasing human contact. Speaking of customers, can you talk about who they are now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2013

In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Missions and products that are too broad confuse your team, your customers, and potential investors. Product development chasm. Customer support chasm.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

When you start your company the very first question you need to ask yourself is which kind of customers do you want to serve. Many start-ups (and even growth firms) lack this discipline and they therefore serve customers off all sizes. These are really massive customers. We knew how to land huge corporate customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Missions and products that are too broad confuse your team, your customers, and potential investors. Product development chasm. Customer support chasm.

Startup 101

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 101

socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

For our startup interview this morning, we caught up with Satish Varma , co-founder of Torrance-based Clorder (www.clorder.com), which is developing restaurant ordering software. We caught up with Satish to learn more about the company and its products. What is Clorder? Satish Varm: Clorder is short for cloud ordering.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. There''s lots of technology development behind what you do - can you talk about that?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. I worked with the head of each product area, such as YouTube, on how to drive more value for our large partners. We have our product in the market, and launched our beta in January. One of our customers is Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Missions and products that are too broad confuse your team, your customers, and potential investors. Product development chasm. Customer support chasm.

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Marketing Entrepreneur Technical Review Customer 95

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2010

In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Missions and products that are too broad confuse your team, your customers, and potential investors. Product development chasm. Customer support chasm.

Startup 90

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 90

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

According to a study by the Wharton School of Business , in a survey of 11,000 MBA graduates over many years, those running their own businesses ranked themselves happier than all other professions, regardless of how much money they made. People see you as great for demanding customers and team bonding.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Organization Customer Custom 101

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

The insurance industry today is one of the last industries to fully jump into adopting technology for offering up their products, says Wayne Slavin , CEO and founder of SURE (www.sureapp.com), and just needs some help in getting there. Those brands have pretty good products. Wayne Slavin: That's a good question.

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Southern California Technical Review Startup Commerce 244

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2018

According to a study by the Wharton School of Business , in a survey of 11,000 MBA graduates over many years, those running their own businesses ranked themselves happier than all other professions, regardless of how much money they made. People see you as great for demanding customers and team bonding.

Entrepreneur 66

Entrepreneur Organization Customer Custom 66

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell. Doubling revenue each year is a good target.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Pricing Sales 102

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2014

According to a study by the Wharton School of Business , in a survey of 11,000 MBA graduates over many years, those running their own businesses ranked themselves happier than all other professions, regardless of how much money they made. People see you as great for demanding customers and team bonding.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Organization Customer Custom 102

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. It is simply the most important way to proactively control your career development and how the market perceives you. He took me.

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Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. The product focuses on the in-store behavior of consumers. And of course we had, TheMan. Watch this space.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

This is where she first developed sales skills. To be effective at sales you need to really understand the business of the person who will buy your product. I provided information for my customers to make their lives easier.&# Really understanding the business of your customer matters. Start early.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The REACH event will bring together some of gaming’s most influential thinkers, creators, and developers who will guide us through their vision of the next evolution of gaming. At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Before Harrison Metal, Erik was most recently vice president of product management and strategy at TripAdvisor, the largest travel community site on the Web. He was also an early member of Accenture’s first practice group dedicated to Internet strategy and development in the mid-1990’s. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. Minimum Viable Product (MVP). It suggests the minimum features to allow the product to be deployed and get feedback, and no more. Startup accelerator.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus. I could go on & on.

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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. Dinesh’s passion is developing VoIP-driven startups and creating unique online growth strategies. in Computer Science and his MBA from UC Irvine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? How do I measure the return on my development and marketing investments? This applies to startups as well as big companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

From my perspective, projecting financial returns is part of the homework every business person needs to do in sizing customer opportunity, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value, before expending their own resources in a highly risky venture. Quantify overhead and growth costs.

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Pricing Startup Entrepreneur Invest 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? How do I measure the return on my development and marketing investments? This applies to startups as well as big companies.

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Startup Examples Organization Training 92

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The REACH event will bring together some of gaming’s most influential thinkers, creators, and developers who will guide us through their vision of the next evolution of gaming. At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He stood up, grabbed the mic and gave a heartfelt overview of his experiences in experimenting with new technologies to build relationships with his audience, get feedback on his product quality and to market his music all the way to the top of iTunes. There are many analogies here for software development.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

Michael Chasin: I did my JD/MBA at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. One day, I was talking with a friend who was trying to develop and app for a school event, and had created his own app creation company. That''s how we ended up developing this technology, to take that initial step out of the process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2010

I see it happen almost every day with startups trying to sell investors and business leaders, mostly of another generation, on the value of a new product or service. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Data security. Executives need more l data accessible to their team anywhere, but at what cost?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

I treat each of my classes as a product that the students are paying a lot of money to consume. When I was an MBA student at the University of Pennsylvania''s Wharton School of Business, I was frustrated that most of the Professors in the Entrepreneurship Department had never been entrepreneurs. Hands-on And Practical.

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