Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Nevertheless, we can all benefit by understanding a collective view from investors on the high-risk elements that every new business has faced historically based on the team, as well as in the marketplace. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

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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

JUNE 28, 2018

That has allowed the company to launch in many markets, build amazing applications, design future versions of the scooter and monetize while many companies are still just drawing up their go-to-market plans. When you think about the category of scooters you think about Bird and that becomes a brand your friends want to try.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

One local startup, Chippmunk (www.chippmunk.com), hopes so, and believes that focusing on user interface design will help it win over its competitors. One, is most of our team has worked together in this business for several years. What''s the background of your team? The company recently raised a $750,000 seed round of funding.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Before that, I was at a multimedia design academy in high school. I've always been a mobile enthusiast, in technology and design and user experience. Eli Aizenstat: I entered into the Design Accelerator, which is an accelerator run in conjunction with the Art Center College of Design and Caltech, in the summer of 2014.

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MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

In a book a while back by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie from the Columbia Business School, “ Designing for Growth ,” the authors encourage managers to think more like designers. In most other respects, design thinking is the opposite of business thinking. Myth: Measure twice, cut once. Let others validate. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2012

In a book a while back by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie from the Columbia Business School, “ Designing for Growth ,” the authors encourage managers to think more like designers. In most other respects, design thinking is the opposite of business thinking. Myth: Measure twice, cut once. Let others validate. Marty Zwilling.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

There are many investors who are not looking to build enormous businesses who value the fact that you can run a business profitably). The characteristics of somebody who should NOT focus on profitability include those who: Have or perceive that they have the opportunity to build an immensely scalable businesses. Internet scale.

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JUNE 28, 2011

million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. Enter Amazon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Nevertheless, we can all benefit by understanding a collective view from investors on the high-risk elements that every new business has faced historically based on the team, as well as in the marketplace. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2011

In a recent book by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie from the Columbia Business School, “ Designing for Growth ,” the authors encourage managers to think more like designers. In most other respects, design thinking is the opposite of business thinking. In most other respects, design thinking is the opposite of business thinking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Nevertheless, we can all benefit by understanding a collective view from investors on the high-risk elements that every new business has faced historically based on the team, as well as in the marketplace. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video. The Draft team will answer questions there and so will Greg and I if you have anything for us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2013

Jim Stengel, in “ Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit ” chronicles a ten-year study of the world’s fifty best businesses, including Apple, and concludes that those who centered their businesses on a culture of improving people’s lives had a growth rate triple that of competitors in their categories. Get your team right and do it quickly.

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MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I wish Paul & team could see my views in why Demo Days are right for me as more of my style than anything I think is wrong with them. They know how to build pitch decks. What kind of deals should I be doing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2012

Jim Stengel, in his latest book “ Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit ” chronicles a ten-year study of the world’s fifty best businesses, including Apple, and concludes that those who centered their businesses on a culture of improving people’s lives had a growth rate triple that of competitors in their categories. Train all the time.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Industrial networking is a new category for me, personally, and I only started here two years ago. However, your 75 other plants worldwide which were building products were running on completely different networks. Those were discrete manufacturing processes, intelligent devices like robotic arms, to build products.

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MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. It’s ok to target a small market and you can probably build a niche business that is extremely valuable to you as an individual. Market Size.

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APRIL 23, 2011

Highland Capital did a systematic search for who could build a stand-alone contextual ad search company and met with six or seven companies including Mike. Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. 40:30 –41:30). 1:04:00-1:06).

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

I don’t think it takes book smart people to build great companies – sometimes it’s a hindrance. They spot opportunities that aren’t being met and the design products to meet these needs. They realized that they were selling a bunch of cool products but none that had enough economic value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Nevertheless, we can all benefit by understanding a collective view from investors on the high-risk elements that every new business has faced historically based on the team, as well as in the marketplace. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I wish Paul & team could see my views in why Demo Days are not right for me as more of my style than anything I think is wrong with them. They know how to build pitch decks. What stage? What price?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

It''s a poor experience, and people don''t feel that it''s something they want to associate with, because of many shady, anonymous transactions, and categories on the site which are not family friendly. As eBay, we have the ability to really focus on a more, family friendly experience, and put more customer service behind our product.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We recognized that it was a large business, with American Greetings having about an 80 million dollar a year e-card business, and we thought we could bring some hipness and freshness to the category. We've been able to build a really meaningful business there over the past number of years. So, we launched JibJab eCards.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

In terms of the problem, is the majority of tools available today to help people with their money have been designed by financial times, for people more like them. In 2009, I teamed up with my partner, co-founder Eden Warner. That's compared to other financial products, which are designed for managing money, and just feel like work.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Today, we support four categories: house cleaning, dry cleaning – pickup and delivery, wash and fold – pickup and delivery, and dog walking. We started building the project in March and we built for four months. One guy was a designer, two guys were Ruby engineers, and I included – not an engineer. We are building a team.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

At the Technovation Challenge LA Pitch Night hosted by Iridescent , we saw six teams of high school girls from various Los Angeles City Schools pitch a number of mobile app ideas to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Team Rise, and their app to help teens manage their budgets and time. Musical Gears – BUSavvy.

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JULY 5, 2017

We would have the design aesthetic of contemporary brands, combine that with performance-based fabrics to the like of Lululemon, Underarmor, and Nike Drifit. I really wanted to go build a lifestyle, premium brand. We created a world class team, and are scaling the business in incredibly rapid fashion.

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MAY 5, 2009

We have six key categories of what we do. One, is we build and design websites. The second, is we provide fulfillment services, such as product shipments. The fifth is product photography--we actually have an in-house photo studio, including doing things like Photoshop and color correction.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Building a strong tech industry to rival that of Silicon Valley is definitely no easy feat, but the overall feeling within Cal Tech’s Baxter Hall at last week’s event certainly bodes well for the year. Their presentation ended in a quick trivia round about science, a category which (of course), the techy audience chose.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

I also read - The Difference Between Apple and Microsoft Marketing that tells us: Apples marketing is designed for Time Poor buyers, while Microsofts is designed for Time Rich buyers. I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We recognized that it was a large business, with American Greetings having about an 80 million dollar a year e-card business, and we thought we could bring some hipness and freshness to the category. We've been able to build a really meaningful business there over the past number of years. So, we launched JibJab eCards.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills). Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup. photo credit to Brian Solis].

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Yet, I couldn’t duplicate what I had very easily, so I went back to the drawing board and came up with a new design and Cojoin is that new design. A really good example is a product that is sold offline, where the marketing is done online. MW: The good times have to be putting the team together.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

“Choosing to bootstrap over raising venture capital has forced us to build a profitable business,” he said. CallFire will continue on a strong growth trajectory throughout the remainder of the year, driving revenues for the company as we work to transform the telecom category.”

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. The Curation Team. Lots to learn from him.

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