Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. Yet, with so many tools vying for the attention of business owners, navigating the over-saturated market can be overwhelming. From its 4.3-inch

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2012

How do you crack the code and make online video easier to find and use? Last week, Los Angeles-based Chill (www.chill.com) made a stab at that, debuting a new front page meant to guide user to the most interesting videos on the web, through an easy-to-use interface. It's exactly what it sounds like, a front page of video.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Through a free base product, you give the first taste of the service or game away for free, get users hooked, and then convert as many as possible to paying customers. Commoditize complementary products.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has forced Energica to hit the brakes on production of its battery powered machines that can reach top speeds of 168 mph. “I don’t want to look only at the negative…Maybe there are things that are positive that come out of this bad crisis,” Cevolini told TechCrunch on a video call.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2016

For the past few months I’ve been doing nearly daily “Snapstorms” or short videos with startup advice released on Snapchat. Not since the initial popularity of Twitter in 2007 has a product so befuddled people. If you’re not on Snapchat — but still want video advice — Snapstorms.com is for you. Why would a VC do that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2022

For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

Gone are the days of heading to your local video store and snatching up a cool indie flick or two to pair up with your take out and your summer blockbuster action flick. Shows on the site are handpicked by a team of editors and organized into several categories. boasts more than 3 billion video views. The folks over at Blip.tv

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

The companyin the spirit of Nestis hoping that consumers will help drive adoption of its product, which it expects to ship in January. We spoke with founder Manrique Brenes --a veteran of such companies as Skype and Cisco--to hear about Blossom''s products, plus its link to such companies at Vizio. What your product all about?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). This 1-minute video shows exactly what Invoca does. It’s why opt-in marketing databases can be so incredibly valuable for companies like Gilt Groupe, One King’s Lane and AdoreMe. But phone calls are dead?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). And we wanted a head of global marketing. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

You can jump into social media with a poor brand definition, poorly focused content, unrealistic expectations of customer service, or be killed by malware or viruses. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Wondering how, as a small business, you can reach customers in the YouTube age? Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. Where do those videos get distribute?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Through a free base product, you give the first taste of the service or game away for free, get users hooked, and then convert as many as possible to paying customers. Commoditize complementary products.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

Viral videos are great -- attracting millions and millions of views, and spreading far and wide--but how do you monetize those viral videos? And, even more, how to do you manage the jump on the viral video train again, and keep those viral hits coming? We then acquire those videos directly from content owners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Unfortunately, in this age of vacillating customer trends and a wealth of new competitors scratching and clawing for a piece of the action, long-term growth requires constant focus. The new strategy here is to focus on unmet new customer needs, rather than enhancing the offering you have – product, price, promotion, and place (4Ps).

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

Borenstein became frustrated when she realized there were no high-quality instructional videos, it was even difficult to aggregate the few videos in one place. So step by step, she began the works on what is now Grokker.com , the expert video network, to address this need. That was 2012. Why is it called Grokker?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

On Saturday February 9, Demo Video Lab is holding a one-day event to teach secrets to successfully launching a crowdfunding campaign. It is the most viable way to not only get project funding but more importantly to get customer validation. Demo Video Lab will prevent you from making those common mistakes. Consumer Product.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Here is the video link or click on the image above. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. So it is a combination of markets and people. The contextual ad market was attractive. ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. Thank you. (if

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. That's been very effective. Explain what you mean about branding in the employment area?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

Last week Fred Wilson and I sat down in Santa Monica for an hour+ discussion with the video cameras rolling. ” Here is a three-minute video with Fred answering this question. ” Here is a three-minute video with Fred answering this question. You need to invest in good markets and bad.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

You can jump into social media with a poor brand definition, poorly focused content, unrealistic expectations of customer service, or be killed by malware or viruses. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). The “product” value is difficult to quantify, the costs are nebulous, and entrepreneurs have to clone themselves to scale the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

You can jump into social media with a poor brand definition, poorly focused content, unrealistic expectations of customer service, or be killed by malware or viruses. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

Steven Sesar: FreedomPop is all about bringing the freemium model to the wireless Internet market, and disrupting the telephone companies. There's massive inefficiency in this category. Currently, users pay up front for data packages, and there are inefficiencies in that market. Instead, we use the Internet model.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number. Time and time again, entrepreneurs are tempted by one of these application categories.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. If you’re interested in sports tech (or want to argue with a 49ers fan) you should definitely follow Greg.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

You can jump into social media with a poor brand definition, poorly focused content, unrealistic expectations of customer service, or be killed by malware or viruses. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media may be low on your list.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2015

For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I often tell people that in some ways it’s easier to build great companies in down markets. ” But as entrepreneurs you don’t get to sit these years out and as investors we don’t get just let a few years pass and return back to the market. .” One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

You can jump into social media with a poor brand definition, poorly focused content, unrealistic expectations of customer service, or be killed by malware or viruses. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. But a certain amount gets lost in the headlines – especially when not everybody actually heard the video and knows the nuance of the message. Fair enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

You can jump into social media with a poor brand definition, poorly focused content, unrealistic expectations of customer service, or be killed by malware or viruses. Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list.

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