Berkonomics

AUGUST 14, 2014

Over the years, as I managed my several computer companies as CEO or executive chairman, I made the decision to go to market with a brand new product that had never before been exposed to my customer’s marketplace. Best possible press: too early to market. As a product marketing effort, it was a failure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2023

Even though many of these can be mitigated by testing and early customer feedback , you will find that it pays big dividends to do your homework before building and rolling out every new initiative: In today’s customer data overload, marketing is essential. Even more important than solution marketing is building your brand.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2018

El Segundo-based Mattel , and Chinese Internet technology and video game developer NetEase , said this morning that the two are in a new joint venture to public mobile games and education apps. Financial arrangements of the joint venture were not announced. Financial arrangements of the joint venture were not announced.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 8, 2009

Thursday, May 14, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Strategic Pricing. Learn how to develop pricing tactics to increase profits and position against competitors, assess pricing opportunities, capture value, understand the implications of product and market life cycles, and determine how and when to stem price erosion.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2017

Los Angeles-based educational robot developer UBTECH Robotics said today that it has rolled out a new, interactive robot kit, the Jimu Robot BuilderBots Kit. The new product is aimed at the STEM education market. The new product has a retail price of $99. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2022

The feed shows videos of homes on the market, as well as a price tag. When you enter the Playhouse app, you immediately see a vertically-oriented video feed that directly clones TikTok’s interface (it’s not as though everyone else hasn’t cloned it too).

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2018

Los Angeles-based UBTECH Robotics , which develops humanoid-like rbots for the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) market, said on Wednesday that it has launched a brand new programmable robot called the Yanshee. Pricing on the new robot was not announced. According to UBTECH, its new robot--aimed at the U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 19, 2019

Mullenax told me he became interested in this market after working as a finance and operations analyst at Bonobos, where he “fell in love with the [direct-to-consumer] model.” ” He argued that the market has room for more than just “one winner or two winners or five winners.” Paul Munford.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

My partnership was pretty bearish and scratched our heads a bit at price tags. I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. The market had tanked. The market was actually off 40% from its Oct ’07 peak.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In reality, resource constraints should be seen by startups a competitive advantage, by forcing them to develop new markets, and to think differently and act differently than existing players. Constraints are the best motivators for finding new approaches to solving a problem, building a product, or crafting an effective marketing campaign.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 11, 2022

To even make marginal improvement, one would need to thread the needle of education and accessibility — and perhaps place compassion over profits and growth. Kindbody appears to be one of the few startups in the space well on its way to tackling this behemoth of a challenge. The company today has 12 outlets in 10 cities in the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2023

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. In today’s information overload, marketing is everything. Use every marketing channel available.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. In today’s information overload, marketing is everything. Use every marketing channel available.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

2U , an online education company which has significant operations in Los Angeles, has had a successful IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market, debuting Friday morning as TWOU. 2U''s first, online degree program was with USC''s Rossier School of Education. 2U priced at $13.00, at the high end of its $11.00 percent at 13.95

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Redpoint USC Southern California Education 166

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2021

In reality, resource constraints should be seen by startups a competitive advantage, by forcing them to develop new markets, and to think differently and act differently than existing players. Constraints are the best motivators for finding new approaches to solving a problem, building a product, or crafting an effective marketing campaign.

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Startup Resource Entrepreneur Competition 164

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P. It is very important for service companies to use and market peak load pricing, seasonal, and customer scheduling without impacting relationships. If your services business isn’t innovating with the market, it’s falling behind. Marty Zwilling.

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Social Media Technical Review Media Services 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2021

Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. Many businesses have found that raising the price of a product to give it status can win more customers than a price war.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. Depth in a specific business area, such as marketing or accounting, is important in understanding the internal and external processes of a business.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2021

So in its first years of existence, Welcome Tech has focused on building out a platform that provides educational resources, information and services that “they need to thrive in a new country.” Gardiner Garrard, co-founder and partner, TTV Capital, points out that the Hispanic market represents the largest minority cohort in the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

But why did Ring succeed when the entire market kept saying that Nest was going to be the winner? Why did Ring become an enormous success when it produced a hardware product and the market keeps saying, “hardware is too difficult to scale?” Here are my views … 1. we were sold on the concept immediately. We weren’t sure.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these “techno geeks” can pay. But you have to admit that we live in a skewed system in which the elite educated population gains disproportionally from our change from an industrial to an information economy. We need to provide better education for the masses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P. It is very important for service companies to use and market peak load pricing, seasonal, and customer scheduling without impacting relationships. If your services business isn’t innovating with the market, it’s falling behind. Marty Zwilling.

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Services Social Media Technical Review Media 128

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. In the second stage, marketing and sales are highly specialized functions. Marketing shapes the concept, branding, packaging, pricing, and positioning. Leaders are needed to coach each salesperson, keep the team on message, and spur new growth and goals.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market. The easiest way to think about it is that we're like the Priceline for the secondary ticket market. Wes Brodsky: The ticketing industry, since its inception, has been on a fixed price model.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Educate them on the benefits, educate them on safety, and provide helmets.” He explains that scooter companies have thought about expansion too purely from the standpoint of acheiving market saturation. And with similarly cheap pricing, the decision of which to use comes down to brand affinity.

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Santa Monica Startup Technical Review Education 221

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I spend hours thinking about the products, competitors, market opportunities, recruiting and financing of these businesses. I work with two companies that aim to change education but both are indirectly aiming to do so. How else can I begin this multi-year journey if I’m not in love? I feel personally committed and engaged.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

However, in the long run, entrepreneurs always benefit from delivering Maximum Utility for a fair price. Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. WebEx’s predatory pricing made it vulnerable to a new entrant. Arbitrage Is Fleeting.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2012

Or do you toss your hat into the ring with an already existing concept, making a clone in hopes to snatch away market share? You have to know your markets, you need to make sure you have qualified people creating the product, and you need to find something that’s going to make you stand-out in comparison to all the other noise out there.

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Marketing Startup Software Review Competition 97

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

To grow your startup, you need to analyze the market forces in the industry you want to invest in. Finding an Opportunity in the Flower Market. Through her passion, she discovered an opportunity in the flower market. However, 45 percent of the flowers are wasted even before they reach the market. grown flowers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

These seasoned executives and educators bring a pragmatic mix of scientific research and real-world experience to guide you, with my additions, through the following seven decision-making steps: Re-affirm every case and need for a change decision. Another extreme may be the impact of doubling the budget, or cutting the price in half.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In this age of constant market evolution and new technology, there is no such thing as a static business that is self-sustaining. Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings. Populating new domains to sustain your market. Too many businesses only think of new products when in crisis mode.

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Examples IP Acquisition Social Media 99

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2016

Although the sharing economy isn’t really new, here are a few of the arenas that Stephany and I believe are still ripe for disruption: Education. With US student debt at over one trillion dollars, startups like Skillshare and Udemy provide top-class vocational training for the price of a Harvard hoodie.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2019

First of all, you need some convincing market research that your solution addresses a real and growing problem. Skip the fuzzy marketing terms, like “easier to use” and “more functions.” Avoid the temptation to narrow the scope so far as to conclude that you have no competitors, since investors might conclude you have no market.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Our annual conferencefocused on educating our community on growing valuable tech enterprises-- set a record with over 500 attendees and our best attendee feedback to date. Techand the markets overall--has enjoyed a surprisingly long stretch of prosperity. What was the biggest personal lesson you learned from 2017?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. In today’s information overload, marketing is everything. Use every marketing channel available.

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Product Case Study Custom Customer 95