socalTECH

MAY 19, 2015

On-demand, delivery startup Schlep and Fetch (www.schlepandfetch.com) wants to be the place you contact first to get practically anything delivered for you, whether that's a food order or something you forgot to pick up from home. Bryson Strauss: We are an on-demand delivery service. Need something--anything--delivered in Los Angeles?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2013

Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2014

As a business mentor, I sometimes feel besieged by people begging for my view and support of their latest idea. In reality, I like most ideas, but I have to tell them that the real challenge is taking the inspiration from a dream to a business. Now you see why no one should judge business success potential by the idea alone.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Such ideas require little-to-no capital, usually last for a relatively short duration and are of nominal size. Note that I am not purporting that these are particularly amazing or unique ideas. Investors invest in people, not ideas. If you just ask yourself, “then why bother?” – read on friend, read on. From Small to Tall.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2017

Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

In this context, I definitely agree with the need for new ideas and principles, as was expressed in a new book, “ Wild Thinking: 25 Unconventional Ideas to Grow Your Brand and Your Business ,” by branding though leaders Nick Liddell and Richard Buchanan. Treat employees like your most demanding customers.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2011

Great ideas are like earbugs, you cannot shake them. If you do not annoy your friends, loved ones and acquaintances by your incessant focus on your earbug idea, then it probably is not worthy of your time and attention. There is probably a very good reason the idea has remained in your thoughts for so long.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

There's a large number of on-demand services which have been appearing recently, to help people deal with almost every aspect of their life. Becka Klauber Richter: Helpr is an app for babysitters on demand. We're able to really put our idea into action, through their skill set. What is Helpr?

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The idea of video on demand has been around since as early as 1990 when GTE partnered up with AT&T to create the first VOD system. is suggesting offering recently released films on-demand seventeen days after debut for a $50 dollar fee. It relied on the use tapes as the source of video streams. For example, Warner Bros.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This new culture builds on hobbyist technologies, extends the open-source inventory of hardware and software, and bridges the gap into real business solutions with other advantages, as follows: Shortens the time and cost from idea to prototype. These ideas can grow quickly into real products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

Most of you aspiring entrepreneurs probably have long searched for that special idea that will catapult you and your startup to success. Yet, my experience as a business advisor and investor has convinced me that the magic is not the idea, but you and the execution. Every investor I know hears the same ones over and over again.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 2, 2023

You get the idea. Completion of a software project by the remote workers in (Philippines, Brazil, Armenia, fill in the blank… Just name a country whose daytime is our nighttime.) Now, even those late-night awakenings don’t bother me. I can get behind the excitement as well as anyone, especially when my money is riding on the outcome.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Imagine the room in which several graduate business school student groups have gathered, tasked with coming up with an idea for a business plan competition. The group starts with a blank sheet, and toils through idea after idea, trying to come up with a product or service that might become the next FedEx. A thought exercise.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The company's initial idea for a product is "Carry", a robot to be used to help farmers gather hand-picked crops faster and with less physical demand. Future Acres said it is seeking to raise up to $3M in seed capital via equity crowdfunding site SeedInvest.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2022

Why is it that his idea which seemed so fundable only months ago fails to attract investors today? The idea here is that following a process can actually force you to think. It's difficult to create a high-demand product by guessing. In all cases, be sure to distinguish between ideas and opportunities.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 26, 2022

Food Rocket uses AI-enabled technologies to manage warehouse stocks, forecast demand and optimize delivery time by predicting the closest store that offers the fastest delivery time and the lowest costs of putting together and delivering the order. We are creating new habits of customers. locations.

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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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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

How important is having a “big idea” for startups? Ideas can generate a lot of buzz and capture attention from investors and potential customers, but long-term success really depends on the capabilities of the team. This makes a lot of sense because if all you have is an A idea and hit an obstacle, the venture fails.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Successful startups are all about turning ideas into action. These actions must be the hard part, since entrepreneurs always seem to come to me with ideas, and ask me for help on the actions. That has always seemed strange to me, since the magic is supposed to be in the ideas, and the actions are the same for every business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are some key positives from an entrepreneur perspective: Shorten the time and cost from idea to prototype. These ideas can grow quickly into real products. Meet the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 29, 2020

And while it’s eerily quiet in Las Vegas right now, the idea behind these new regions is always to give companies the option to be close to their customers and offer them low-latency access to their applications, as well as the ability to distribute workloads across a wider geographic region. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In startups, it is the idea that “this solution is different,” without sufficient analysis of base anchoring features, differentiation features, or no new early adopters. Supply and demand ignored. We all believe that supply and demand meet to create stable prices (reflexive). Cheap money. Policy-driven distortions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

Perhaps they're way off in their valuation (usually far too high), or paralyzed by fear at seeing the other terms, because they have no idea what's normal, and what's worth a fight to the death (their startup's). Investors typically demand preferred stock, to give themselves certain voting and liquidation privileges over later shareholders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As an advisor to startups and entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that all new businesses must start with a great idea. I believe the best entrepreneurs start by finding a large opportunity, and only then use good ideas to capitalize on that opportunity. It takes a real selling opportunity to sustain a business idea.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2020

Everyone loved the idea but the actual growth was slower than we needed it to be.” “We got to iterate through every possible idea we had. Literally every idea we had was exhausted… We failed and that’s a bummer, but we got a fair shot,” he said. .

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2015

Los Angeles-based health startup Heal (www.getheal.com") has come up with its solution to that problem--a smartphone app driven service, which lets you schedule an on-demand, in-home visit with a doctor, who makes a housecall in less than 60 minutes. The doctors on our service love the idea of seeing their patients in a different way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2023

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Let’s take a look here some similar stages from a support perspective: Idea stage. The first step toward a business with any idea is to write it down, and build a business plan around it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

These are responding to the demands of this new world for collaboration, trust, and transparency. In the idea stage, get customers involved with an engaging contest. Shared ideas and rewards (open innovation). They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2021

They know there is nothing wrong with having passion for a new idea, but they don’t let it influence business decisions. Don’t look to customers for breakthrough ideas. They also are not hesitant to fire customers with unreasonable demands, or don’t fit their strategy. In other words, they don’t try to please everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2022

You shouldn’t be making this decision just because you are mad at your boss, or you would like to be rich, or someone else thinks you have a good idea. Right idea at the right time. Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2020

Being a visionary or an idea person is not enough; you have to be anxious to jump in and get your hands dirty. The best ideas for a new business are solutions to a real customer problem, rather than great ideas looking for a market. Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

They were early to that idea: Danna describes it as “creator tools for YouTube before YouTube built them itself,” and he said they came up with the idea for Boulevard out of a joke between them.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 5, 2020

Email readers, continue here…] A great idea often fails from the inexperience or inability of management to bring the idea to market. Third: Management risk. . Reduction or elimination of one or more of these risks increases the valuation of the company and certainly improves its chances of survival and growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” Congratulations!

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

All Raise chief executive officer Pam Kostka, who joined the business earlier this year, says demand for an All Raise presence in local geographies continues to increase: “Women are hungry for the support and guidance we provide,” Kostka tells TechCrunch. “I The idea was how do we hack the old boys’ network?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2021

In other words, the entrepreneur quality is more important than the idea -- in investor jargon, people invest in the jockey, and not the horse. High leaders continually challenged their own ideas and were quicker to adapt them to encompass new information, experiences, and meaning.

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