TechCrunch LA

MAY 26, 2018

just past the AMC Center) , the virtual reality game-maker Survios planted its first flag in the market for location-based gaming. But that’s still a far smaller market than the 10 million game consoles that were sold in the U.S. Standalone virtual reality headsets are expected to push the market to 7.6

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. So if you add people like me the target market is tens of millions. Far from it. Lots of it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

Michael Dubin: My background is digital marketing, and a little bit of editorial. After that, I went to a digital marketing for a firm which provided marketing for Sports Illustrated and other big brand advertisers like Gatorade and Nike, driving video views of social video. How do you expect to win consumers over?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 24, 2015

He has won many over (including me) through his hustle, his relationship, his service approach to venture and the fact that he is, frankly, a very likable and humble guy. Matt joined Lowercase by working the scene at SXSW on behalf of CAA where he worked in business development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? It was the best marketing campaign ever. It didn't take more than a few weeks and suddenly there were three other projects developing alternative technologies for MySQL. They all invested. We took an investment of 2M Euros.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Features don’t win or lose sales – especially in nascent markets. If it wasn’t you, I guarantee you they were influenced by your competitor – either through their sales efforts or through marketing. The marketing guys blame the sales guys who can’t close their leads. People are buying YOU.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

I have never sat in a room with an individual where I felt more inspired and humbled. It really doesn’t matter if you are playing the role of a VC, entrepreneur, inventor, CEO, executive, developer or any other position at any company at which you work. Raising Venture Capital Tech Market Analysis'

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Product Development: philosophie. Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. Marketing: SteelHouse. Part accelerator, part lab, and part café, Hub LA is a diverse community working for social good.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Entrepreneurs can emulate de la Guerra’s strategy and make their adVenture appear far larger than reality and thus increasing its influence and market reach while discouraging competitive threats by creating an industry alliance. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

This might get slightly longer the more you’re in market but really you should never really have more than 15–20 potential investors you’re actively working on none will get the time / attention / focus they need. Be humble, sit down. So best to be humble. I measured twice and cut once. The meeting was great! Not get mad.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2014

I do not expect everyone I speak with to be a fan of my humble blog. Rather than ask for my opinion on particular companies, he wanted me to do his market research for him, asking, "What''s going on in Santa Barbara? It is acceptable to politely ask for something when you are networking. Research? –

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 10, 2018

If you as a founder don’t think that appealing to women should be a part of your marketing strategy, you are wrong, and will lose. A company can have the best marketing message, tactile strategy, and more, for their product, but it’s important to gain a deeper understanding of the target market. – Rose. domain here.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

By focusing on what he would do differently now, he was able to humbly convey a number of impactful lessons to a captivated audience of budding entrepreneurs. Mark implores the students to seek startup opportunities which allow them to develop what he believes to be the two most important startup skills, programming and selling.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

I have written about people who live by strong social contracts in Humble Pride. Your traffic growth is tracking over 40% month-over-month – on a fairly big base – despite spending zero dollars on marketing. I am looking for Java developers and database experts. I am also looking for some bus dev and marketing help.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

The Dave I know is very humble. The Dave I know is very insightful about marketing, channel management and building developer ecosystems. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. Tourette’s Dave who loves a good fight is the Dave you know. Not the Dave I know. And thoughtful.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Some investors are team focused, others market focused, others seems to look for product / market fit. Only then can I even care about product, market or their nebulous “fit.&#. You want somebody who can raise $15 million to build out your R&D, business development and sales organizations. It was magic.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

They also partner with business development experts to help participants transition from idea to intellectual property into partnerships and startups. A common question Monti receives is who would own the intellectual property rights if an employee develops a new product or service at the accelerator. We should embrace that.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 14, 2012

As I note in Lousy Startup Names , in their early days, startups should obsess on developing their value proposition and avoid paying over-priced consultants to devise clever logos. After much debate, the company agrees on their number one priority: to deliver a compelling product to the higher-education market by the Spring of 1987.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2013

Sometimes the companies with the biggest social good impact, move in a humble motion, creating waves of excellence. As a start-up mobile app development company, ROAR focuses on the non-profit and church verticals. ROAR.pro does not only focus on mobile apps they also provide social media marketing strategy for companies and events.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. Customers, press and the market responded positively. ‘ Here are some steps in the Inside Out organization.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 8, 2011

This instalment of the TZ Startup Hotseat is with Jeff Morris Marketing Strategist with Zaarly. Zaarly is a proximity based, real-time, buyer powered market where buyers make an offer for an immediate need and sellers cash in on their local marketplace. What is the market opportunity? Also sign up for the beta HERE.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Auto-interfaces are clunky, and when a lot of these big tech companies IPO’d, a lot of them developed products that were endemic to the car industry – navigation, social graphs, etc. ” CHANGING THE FACE OF AUTOMOTIVE MARKETING. As they became adopted by millions, they leap-frogged us in terms of capability. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

He’s also candid, humble and helpful. Pricing engine helps publishers ascertain ad inventory pricing by analyzing ad transaction data from the market/exchanges. Developer of Appsaurus , a mobile app recommendation engine. We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, you must first create the playbook by which an independent sales rep can readily sell your product, including: identifying objections and developing strategies to overcome them, creating reference accounts and establishing meaningful customer adoption. 4) Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis. 7) Hire A Consultant. Fallacy: Yes.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Developed first floppy disk operating system. Kildall’s story than whether or not Microsoft competed fairly against his CP/M PC operating system, which by 1980, was overwhelmingly the market leader. By adopting an attitude based on Humble Pride , Digital Research could have taken advantage of IBM’s ignorance.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

According to the SEC we’re not allowed to market the fact that we’re fund raising, so I won’t. I don’t want you to have to eat humble pie with your friends next year! Develop a thick skin for it. I promise you that won’t be a bit market for us. And so it goes again. Raise money. Need money.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

.” “[Founders underestimate] how difficult it is to get a deal done, and how few deals get funded out of how many deals that are pitched,” said Thomas Flake , Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of bcause , and who has been on both sides of the table. It’s validating that there is a market for their idea. Know Your Stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

You cannot be just a biz dev type, salesperson, marketing genius or whatever and divorce yourself from product. Market validation – This one is optional but important. At an angel round you can get away with no market validation. In LA we have www.socaltech.com but in every market there’s some sort of database.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. Yet, without realizing it, John and Kyle had begun to build a community of virtual stakeholders who eventually developed an emotional bond with the company.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2009

We actually invite them in, to help with stores, because they have a great knowledge of the local market. The television content on TV and quality is very poor, and marketers are trying to direct everything that is happening. The population is tired of that marketing. It takes longer with company owned stores.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The next time you open a beer, a bottle of wine, or break bread, salute the humble yeast that helped make it, and give a thought to Lindquist, who saw a world of possibility in that yeast. —The new wave of so-called PCSK9 drugs to treat high cholesterol, once expected to flood the market , have barely caused a ripple.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

And for my own good I vowed to have relationships in China and knowledge of the local markets. This company is back on the market raising money again. It’s brilliant, reflective & humble. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

And for my own good I vowed to have relationships in China and knowledge of the local markets. This company is back on the market raising money again. It’s brilliant, reflective & humble. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

John Lusk, along with his Co-Author Kyle Harrison, leveraged their humble company''s newsletter into The MouseDriver Chronicles , a New York Times bestselling book. Yet, without realizing it, John and Kyle had begun to build a community of virtual stakeholders who eventually developed an emotional bond with the company.

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