Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. A recent survey of design professionals shows strong agreement, but 92 percent expressed some lack of confidence in their organization’s design vision.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I took a job in corporate finance as an intern my junior year at First Interstate Bank and I did system design on the side, as my main job was corporate planning.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The companies said that Volvo Group has been studying and analyzing a large number of accidents involving trucks, as part of its design and development efforts. Volvo Group said the investment came due to DriveCam's complementary position to its position in the global truck manufacturing market. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

“A study by Microsoft showed just how lethal interruptions are to productivity. Why not tell them you're implementing a new tool designed to make THEM more productive. In the comments section Bill DAllesandro offered some insight that he had seen from Microsoft on "interruptions”. Chances are they'll love you for it.

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JUNE 13, 2012

Break said the new site is designed as a new tool for brand marketers, to help them gain "actionable intelligence" about the male demographic. The new site and research is garnered from Break Media's various male-focused websites, as well as third party studies, and more.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

There have been many studies done on the topic including looking at twins raised in separate families. There have been studies of adopted children to their natural parents versus the parents that raised them. I have also seen studies on “birth order.&#. There’s no question that both factors are involved.

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APRIL 30, 2011

In the IAB study that revealed the graph above, brand advertisers indicated that their number one objective in online advertising was “creating awareness&# followed by “creating purchase intent&# or “likelihood to recommend&# the product. As evidenced by the eye-tracking studies – they will remain in the stream.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 30, 2012

The sunburst design around the circle is no accident. In one study, 56% of the subjects were twice as likely to complete a survey sent by someone with a name similar to their own, versus 30% of the subjects in the control group. The model’s name might actually be Kathy Jones or possibly a real “Kathy Jones” wrote the testimonial.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2019

Earlier this year, Spartan, the French manufacturer of a silver-lined underwear designed to block EMF radiation from cell phones and wireless routers, relocated to the U.S. Indeed, there are no studies that definitively prove a link between radiation emitted by cell phones and cancer.

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JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. They’re tasked with doing … marketing. You get a lot of traffic – not always results. I love that saying.

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JUNE 13, 2013

It’s what I call “ the evangelical phase ” of a company in which you’re out trying to persuade customers that a product you’ve designed is going to meet their needs better than other solutions on the market. This is a very important to do when you first start a company. Compelling event answers the final question in sales, “Why buy now?”

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

That research is starting to pay off as the companies now look ahead to pivotal studies testing that compound in several inherited forms of the disorder. The study was small and was not designed to show statistical significance. The study was small and was not designed to show statistical significance.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2009

Aliso Viejo-based Buy.com is looking to convince consumers that buying stuff online is greener for the planet than driving to your local store: and is backing it up with an academic study.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2020

Reneo Pharmaceuticals has encouraging results from an early trial of a compound it is advancing for rare diseases characterized by impaired mitochondria—our cells’ energy generators—and the company says it is now designing a large global study of its drug candidate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2021

In that context, I came across an old study of 27 startups featured in Inc’s annual “Anatomies of a Start-up,” done for “The Journal of Business Venturing,” and published by George Gendron in Inc Magazine. As it turned out, 17 of the 27 companies were still in business seven years later, which is at least double that of other studies.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Just about every Startup at some point and especially if you do not have a designer, is going to need icons to help spruce up those websites. Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. We both studied at Copenhagen business school.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But audience size and consumption is massive and growing plus; Study Innovator’s Dilemma ( my cheat sheet here ). It requires writers, actors, film crews, lighting, costume & set designs, make-up artists, post production, sound, editors and so on. And investing in content companies won’t return money!

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APRIL 3, 2012

Beyond that, for a really social game, you have to have a whole underlying economy and data structure, which needs to be really well designed. We have a dedicated system game designer, whose sole purpose it to design our economy, and to design the flow through the game. That's a really critical piece.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

” Maven was designed to bring and expand several of GM’s existing test programs under one brand. It was an important launch for GM and its Chairman and CEO Mary Barra, who used a study commissioned in the wake of the ignition switch engineering scandal to accelerate her plans to transform the culture and operations at the automaker.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2017

As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. Design thinking” is a methodology used to solve complex challenges, such as the ones faced by every business in today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive environment.

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MAY 19, 2016

This may sound straightforward but to test for conditions with extreme accuracy and speed requires designing a small hardware device that is capable of creating a chemical reaction with food, interpreting the results in real time and doing so for a cost that is acceptable for consumers.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

I’m studying TasteMade to form my own views of the future. So you either need to invest millions or partner with a “tools company” designed to help you promote and distribute video. Set design. FullScreen has long been investing in technology to support content producers. As have BigFrame and Machinima.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The company said it tapped Survata for the study, which interviewed 501 online respondents. The company said the margin of error for this study at a 95% confidence level is 4.4%.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2021

San Diego-based "ARS Pharmaceuticals, which is developing an epinephrine nasal spray designed to better treat severe allergic reaction, said today that it has raised $55M in a Series D funding. The funding was led by SR One, and also included RA Capital Management, an un-named US healthcare-focused fund, and Deerfield Management.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

A trial is designed, conducted according to that design, and then results are analyzed. Making changes in the midst of the study was a no-no. In recent years, regulators have showed openness to clinical trial designs intended to make drug testing more efficient. Clinical trials have historically hewn to a rigid format.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

There are many studies that tell us how various industries reward employees for achievement above a base pay, or beyond expectation. But how about listing the basics for designing an excellent incentive compensation program? Next, some form of rewards should be designed to be immediate. But back to the money issue….

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

million from new investors, including the New York-based Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, following the results of a clinical study of its experimental biomarker monitoring device. Biosensor startup Biolinq said Thursday it has raised $4.75 The company began focusing on the technology it is currently developing in 2015, Tagney said.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 7, 2017

However, in recent years, studies have echoed that the open floor concept might be a trap. Consider the following scenarios when you decide whether to pursue this workspace design for your startup. In a 2005 study , researchers examined the effects of things like flexible use of workspace on job productivity and team cohesion.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

By having reputable people from reputable businesses listed in case studies, on the website with quotes and/or willing to take phone calls makes all the difference in the purchasing decision. In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different. Why Buy Now?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

It is surprising to find out about what both web designers and marketers often miss, which are key ingredients of what your audience can see and not see on the website. With our panel of experts, we will cover the basics of usability and the role this concept plays in making these efforts successful with LIVE CASE STUDIES.

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MAY 8, 2017

It's really hard to do the study which requires you to drive weekly to a clinic, find parking, deal with traffic, and wait in a waiting room. Belinda Tan: Most of our trials are Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies. We're now starting to plan to open this to Phase 4 studies. All of these barriers are very hard barriers to overcome.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. She focused on her customer.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Early next year, twenty students will have the opportunity to study machine learning for 10 weeks with Google engineers, college professors, and coaches—free of charge. The bootcamp-like machine learning course is part of a broader Google initiative to bring computer science instruction that it designs.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Will Henshall: Focus@will is the first, ever music service which helps with focus and distraction, while writing, reading, and studying. If you think about that, it's entirely logical, because commercial music is designed to be engaging. Explain what Focus@will is all about? That's why you like U2, or why you like Nat King Cole.

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JANUARY 11, 2014

We go through case studies like how Mint.com & Magento drove large audiences through great content marketing strategies. Assigning technically savvy marketers to not only help find new growth channels for the business but to be deeply embedded into the design of your product, testing features, usage, referrals and retention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

For example, your quality problem may well have both design as well as manufacturing elements. Ultimately, every problem and every issue needs a decision and a solution, not more study. Search for the multiple dimensions of a problem. Don’t oversimplify – most issues have a scope greater than one dimension.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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