Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Too many startup businesses, especially in the technology world, are built upon brand new concepts that have not yet been proven in the field against products from other companies that already have revenues flowing. Market research is critical, even with revolutionary products or concepts. The critical question no-one asked.

Marketing 120

Marketing Class Startup Research 120

Berkonomics

APRIL 13, 2017

If your vision is for a product or service that fills a need in a mature industry, you may be flying against the prevailing winds as a market shrinks over time, taking your business with it. Email readers, continue here…] Can you dominate that market? Is it the advantage of time – years of development ahead of any competitor?

Patents 291

Patents Pricing Ideas Marketing 291

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

I thought this post might be of interest to some of my readers, as it offers a glimpse into my approach to teaching entrepreneurship. . Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO.

Class 231

Class Startup Santa Barbara RSS 231

Berkonomics

JUNE 2, 2015

You can be the one to develop a product or service, promote it, and support it when you are a small operation. But what if you need to repeat the process of positioning, selling, and supporting your product ten thousand or more times as often as you do today? Don’t be alarmed by this next statement. That’s relatively easy.

Class 120

Class Customer Custom Email 120

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Too many startup businesses, especially in the technology world, are built upon brand new concepts that have not yet been proven in the field with products from other companies that have revenues flowing. Email readers, continue here.] That’s a valuable lesson.

Class 149

Class Product Marketing Demand 149

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? We got over 400 applications for the ten slots we had open in this class, and we picked ten amazing companies. So far, eight of the ten companies in our current class have raised outside funding, and we're really happy with how it's gone so far. We're really excited for the next steps.

Class 261

Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

Berkonomics

JUNE 18, 2015

Making such predictions is a skill that can be developed, and here’s one method of doing so. Will the marketplace accept your product? Is there a market for your class of product at all? Email readers, continue here…] Second is product risk. That discussion is for a future time.

Competition 120

Competition Marketing Class Product 120

Berkonomics

JULY 26, 2010

The format also calls for the CEO to examine his calendar over a period of time and report classes of activities by percentage of total time spent, so that the group may add comments about use of CEO time to the critique. Email readers continue here.]

Class 120

Class Organization Customer Custom 120

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition.

News 198

News Sites Startup RSS 198

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

This is where you find the superb Rails coder, and the world-class information architect, and the consummate sales guy, and the persuasive business development person, and the brilliant CFO. Each of the functions is crucial, and each is required to bring the good idea to fruition.

Startup 189

Startup Sales Ideas Entrepreneur 189

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

The videos on our web site have some proprietary techniques you can't find elsewhere, and we have thousands of heavy science videos on the site -- everything from Nobel prize winners, to National Geographic, to class videos on science and related to science, and even to things students are doing in high school.

Journal 124

Journal Technical Review UCSD Web 124

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2010

Yesterday, the X Prize Foundation (www.xprize.org) announced the finalists in the Progressive Automotive X Prize , a $10M competition geared at advancing automotive technology and developing 100 MPG automobiles. For our readers who haven't heard of the Progressive Automotive X Prize, can you talk about what it's all about?

Competition 153

Competition Southern California Technology Class 153

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The irony is that currently both these onetime best in class companies are now in deep trouble. The result is that I, the reader, had no interest in what was being sold in the ad yet I am a consumer in both verticals. In fact, Customer Experience (CX) turns the product development chart upside down. How does that happen?

Customer 72

Customer Custom Blogging Startup 72

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. His product auto-posted a testimonial from Dave Morin into Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg called the tactic “lame.&# Develop Trusted Advisors. Good PR will help you punch above your weigh class.

Startup 329

Startup Press Training Media 329

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. But I’m opposed to using data to “prove&# unprovable facts because I know that readers are often susceptible to this kind of data manipulation. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer.

Startup 289

Startup Statistics Entrepreneur Study 289

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. Explain what your products do? Unlike Walmart, you don't have to walk through a reader or interrogator, because we have an active tag with a five year asset life, saying here I am.

Startup 113

Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class. I believe that you should always hire people are are looking to “punch above their weight class,&# which means to hire people who want to be one league above where they are today. Weight Class : Let’s take sales. I’m not one of those. Your solution?

Startup 327

Startup Sales Class CIO 327

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. Programming should be the middle class job of the next 20 years. Ryan’s long-term goal is to help large populations of people train themselves at young ages with world-class online teachers. Full product out shortly.

Invest 295

Invest Carson Technical Review Education 295

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

Excel at classes that interested you and perform poorly in those which did not. No matter how fast and efficient you and your team are, products take time to develop, markets take time to mature and customers take time to understand and appreciate your value proposition. Partake in high-energy, extreme sports.

Entrepreneur 153

Entrepreneur Ideas Writing Startup 153

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. While customers will be willing to try your product, they think two steps ahead. Upon graduating, he went to work at Microsoft.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership. How to be a successful iPhone developer - 47 Hats , July 20, 2010 I came across this YouTube video of Brian Greenstone from Pangea Software talking about how his company made $1.5

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

They were a movement in England during the Industrial Revolution who had the objective of ruining machinery that was used to build products at scale. They thought factories were a threat to custom assembly of products and ultimately to the agrarian way of life (as more people were moving to urban environments). Industrialization.

Education 150

Education Resource Class Course 150