Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Before you act, shut up and listen to employees, customers, and futurists. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.

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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. His framework seems to be picking up some traction, and is already in use informally by several entrepreneurship platforms, universities, and even high school programs. External forces (competitors and customers).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

What's the difference between an incubator, Maker space, and other accelerators and what you do? Noramay Cadena: People often compare us to incubators, but the biggest difference is that in an incubator, you are incubating technology. It's about figuring out your market, building a product that resonates with customers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2020

    The biggest news of the year for us was in unveiling our enhanced analytic process automation (APA) platform, which unifies analytics, data science and business process automation in one, end-to-end platform.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. Ross Levinsohn of Fuse Capital also is involved in incubating Tecca. So, we decided our initial focus should be on the mobile platform. Second, we're going to launch it cross-platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Earlier this year, Embodied announced a $22 million round for its personal robotics platform focused on healthcare and wellness, while InVia Robotics collected $20 million for its own take on the robotics industry. Elementary Robotics has raised $3.6 Beyond that I can’t comment further right now,” the chief executive said.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2013

Can tapping the power of the crowd not only help you find customers and help fund your project, but also help you shape your startup idea and find funding? Dirk Ahlborn: We are coming out of the nonprofit incubator, the Girvan Institute of Technology, which has been around since 2002, and is funded by NASA Ames. What is JumpStartFund?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

to hear about how the program is both helping the studio tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community, as well as helping those startups find new customers in the media and entertainment business. These companies were each offering a product or platform that really addressed one of those areas. Are you going to do this again?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Southern California has seen a surge in accelerators and incubators looking to spawn new startups in the region. The challenge for those manufacturers is providing a software platform for those devices to run on for the consumers. We are charging a platform license fee so they can distribute that application with their devices.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. We've taken all of the logistics and headache out of defining a campaign for our customers. Photo: Dave Fink on left, Jonathan Neddenriep on right.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. We''re very much a global footprint company, and we have customers from all over the world who fit that type of description. Right now, we have around 380,000 customers, with about a third of those outside the United States.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. I think, now more than ever, Flippy meets the distinct challenges and can help our customers spur new growth. He thought that was b t, and he said-if you are able to do this, he told me he'd be my first customer and supply us with seed capital.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. We think it''s really powerful in our platform.

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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. I have such respect for other platforms and technology.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

SVB and MasterCard said that they also added New York-based customer data API company Alloy, and Nevada-based mobile authentication platform provider LaunchKey, as well as un-named mobile company, as part of the four month program. Commerce.Innovated said this is its fourth class for the accelerator.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

We can point the customer directly in that GPS all the way to a retail location or advertisers. Once we figured out the idea, and once we launched, it also provided a huge platform, from the perspective of hiring, for hiring, and giving us access on the business development side. We had more customers, and more repeating.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

ChowNow , the turnkey interactive food ordering platform, just raised $3 million in additional funding to launch new products and expand national operations. ChowNow came out of incubator LaunchPad LA. ChowNow offers restaurants a suite of customized branded interactive apps to make online ordering a snap.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Our partnership with Wearable World will help us realize a vision that is about the common good, and our goal for San Francisco is to create a platform of real products and solutions that improve people’s day to day lives.”. Wearable World, Inc. ,

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2016

Designers go on to our platform, post a production projet, and contratosr and factories bid on those projects. Based on ratings, reviews, and price, designers are able to hire a factory or contractor from our platform. Our platform also provides project tracking and customer relationship management.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. This runs on a number of platforms? How did the incubation part come about? You're funded, correct?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2014

“At American, we’re extremely sensitive to our customer’s evolving needs, and wearable technology is a quickly-growing market,” said Phillip Easter, Director Mobile Apps at American Airlines.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

In some cases, we also leverage what we called our tiered device platform, the brand and company Rami has built over the last two decades plus, which is a supply chain, logistics, and distribution company and brand. But, can you really get out there and get customers, and get those customers to repeat orders?

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APRIL 22, 2016

We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. The other, interesting part of our platform, is it integrates with all of your contacts. Who are your typical customers? How does Giftagram work?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

Startup 61

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

I immediately was recruited out into another company in webcasting, CTM Marketing Group, building out their platform for them. After that, I said--you know what, there's huge potential here--and around 2004 I decided to take all of that experience and build a platform for myself. Unfortunately, that firm's partners had a falling out.

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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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Disney also made a deal with MakieLab --one of the companies whose founders are moving to Los Angeles as a result of the accelerator--to let little girls create custom clothing and accessories from Disney properties, such as Frozen, for MakieLab's highly customized, 3D printed dolls and characters. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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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. Clinicians must be convinced that this positively disruptive technology will indeed help them provide better treatment.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

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. They care about the quality of what is build more than they care about end customers. I don’t believe it.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Michael Jones: Earny, a bot that tracks purchases, files and redeems price protection/adjustment claims automatically for customers. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year? It's the app everyone needs but don't realize it, as there are millions of unclaimed dollars each year. READ MORE>>.

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