Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

I’m convinced you need to face reality – success with customers now requires developing a whole new relationship with your customers. A positive result of being a recognized category expert is that it gives you the credibility to broaden demand and start new trends, instead of waiting for outside influencers and other customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there are over 34 million registered developers in 2022. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

an on-demand repair app for electric vehicle charging stations, has seen these issues firsthand. Demand for ChargerHelp’s service has attracted customers and investors. While ChargerHelp is couched as an on-demand repair app, it is also acts as a preventative maintenance service for its customers. Powering up.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2021

Back in December, Swell Energy said it would be raising $450 million to support the development of distributed power projects in three states. Residential renewable energy developer Swell is raising $450 million for distributed power projects in three states.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2020

When it first launched nearly three years ago, Fifth Wall had a vision of leveraging capital limited partners from across the real estate development and construction business to back the technologies the industry needed most. These questions were motivated by three main concerns from commercial and residential property developers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Here are the key internal characteristics that McKeown and I both see as critical to your growth from a technical expert who can develop a great solution, to the recognized business leader you need to be to prosper: Measure yourself on how much you have learned lately. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/04/2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 20 million registered developers in 2018. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Interestingly, that demand has grown a lot during the pandemic, with demand for new homes as much as four times higher than demand for buying “existing” homes. ” That subsequently has put more of an emphasis on the sale of older homes to meet demand.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 28, 2019

If JetBlue’s investment offered Recharge access to the demand side of the equation, then the company’s new investment partner, Fifth Wall Ventures , gives the company new access to supply.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 18, 2012

You then make selections around aspects like Founder Status, Job Title, Headcount, Revenue, Development Stage, Capital Raised, Funding Round, etc. Or they are looking at Hiring a CTO and want to see what salary and equity ranges look like. Well the easiest visualization to use is to go to the Benchmarks Tab. Anyone else a little surprised?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

The proposal sets out four big initiatives, including zero-emissions vehicle manufacturing, assembly and adoption; zero-emissions infrastructure investments; commitments to public transit investments; workforce development; and job training.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Look at the business and determine what's going to make sense from a development perspective in the short-term, longer-term. Do you really have control of the development? I've talked about this before in Startup CTO or Developer.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2013

It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

There could be more demand for electric vehicles post COVID-19 crisis, believes Energica founder Livia Cevolini. One of those is greater demand for EVs after the pandemic. Before the health crisis shutdown most of Italy, Energica had already seen larger demand for its high-performance e-motos, with a price range of $17,000 to $23,000.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2018

In startup-land, however, the presumptions about where housing demand is going looks a bit different. The early developers of the U.S. And housing shortages in major cities indicate there’s plenty of demand for non-Airbnb options. About two-thirds of new homes being built in the U.S.

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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. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control.

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Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2017

The technique, “OST” (objective, strategies and tactics), is a very good way to organize your effort to find guideposts and then develop metrics to measure progress. Create a hosted “software as a service” or “on demand” addition to our product line by end of (next) year. What is a strategy?

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

TechEmpower has been instrumental in developing chatbots like these, utilizing generative AI to sift through internal documents and user manuals, enabling them to provide precise answers to customer service questions. It also facilitates rapid prototyping, allowing for quicker iterations and thus shorter development cycles.

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Berkonomics

MAY 25, 2017

Assign our development manager to localize design and oversee the needed enhancements to our product and support materials for each new territory. Seed demand in each new territory with at least two corporate marketing events in partnership with each distributor.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Manrique Brenes: What we''re developed is a smart irrigation controller. Most controllers out there now are timers, which basically do not react to water demand. Instead, we run a model in the cloud based on the weather and calculate actual water demand, and we adjust the schedule on a daily basis. We do this differently.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

AirCo, a New York-based startup that developed a process to use captured carbon dioxide to make liquor, shifted its efforts to making hand sanitizer for donations in communities in New York City. After that, we’re going to meet the demands of Canada,” INKSmith CEO Jeremy Hedges told the Canadian news outlet Global News.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2022

Remember that good relationships take some time to develop, so don’t assume that your first discussion will seal the deal. The most common challenges involve time and accessibility demands on either side, or the level of help expected. Agree on specific objectives and time frames. Constructive conflict is good.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2014

He has a long career in developing products and companies (such as Pogo, Excite@Home, Demand Media, The Daily Plate and now TasteMade) discussed much about his career choices and lessons. In the most recent episode, I interviewed Joe Perez , Founder of Tastemade. If you don’t know Joe, you should.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2019

One year after a $38 million Series B valued on-demand aviation startup Blade at $140 million, the company has begun taxiing the Bay Area’s elite. Uber too has lofty plans to develop a consumer aerial ridesharing business , as do several other privately-funded startups.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

“As content production continues to accelerate across the globe, visual effects studios are increasingly turning towards the cloud to keep up with demand for high-quality content,” writes Google product manager Todd Prives in today’s announcement.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Pitching app developers with a new way to convert app browsers into actual customers, AppOnboard has raised $15 million in a new round of funding, the company said. Now Zweig is back again… this time pitching app developers a tool that can help convert browsers into buyers for new applications in app stores around the world.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2021

For today's interview, we sat down and chatted with >Zeb Evans, the founder and CEO of San Diego-based ClickUp (www.clickup.com), the developer of a workplace productivity software platform which is based by such companies as Google, Airbnb, and Nike. Zeb Evans: Holistically, there's a huge demand for more flexibility or remote work.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. big requirements for development, release, and QA engineers. (Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!). The now-public. LiveNation.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Unlike most university programs that are over architected and underfunded, the TMP evolved organically, based on the demands of its students and input from the local community. Derived from uneaten plant material, the company has developed an invisible "peel" that significantly improves produce quality and shelf life. Organic Academia.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2017

You’re fighting to put out the fires from customer complaints, or incomplete work, or are suffering from an inability to focus upon new development or new customers before cleaning up the mess inside your organization. So, you stop work on the newest product or installation to complete unfinished work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2021

As a backdrop, he defines the evolution already in progress from current Gen Y customers to a more demanding and less tolerant state (Gen D) that will make them even quicker and more technologically able to demonize and destroy your business, if it won’t meet their norms of interaction, personalization, and purpose.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The author outlines eight necessary steps for every business and entrepreneur to capitalize on this movement to on-demand project teams, versus permanent hires. Build an on-demand team of strategic do-ers. The on-demand specialized talent pool already includes nearly 100 million people not interested in being full-time employees.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. That number is expected to double to 500 next year, Schwab said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.” In my journey to better understand the sales process, my management team and I developed a sales methodology.

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Berkonomics

MAY 15, 2014

Angel investing is rapidly evolving to the same state of development, as a result of networking, industry associations, and deal sharing between angel groups. His Strategic Exits Corporation provides M&A advisory services, and he is much in demand as a speaker at angel and entrepreneur events worldwide. . Raising money'

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

The company explained that its program allows local students to take courses and learn in-demand skills, in exchange for 15 percent of a students' post-graduation salary over four years. The company says it was developed after it found that students had difficulty in enrolling fulkl time in its intensive engineering program.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 18, 2018

[Email readers, continue here…] I was chairman of a company that had been offered an investment by a Fortune 500 company offering to make a strategic investment in our business, which would be capable of driving new demand to the large company through a series of new web services creating a greater need for the large company’s products.

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