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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Some pundits argue that the E-Myth principle is now outdated, due to the instant access to information via the Internet, pervasive networking via social media, and courses on entrepreneurship at all levels of education. Perhaps an innate business savvy is no longer a requirement for starting a successful business.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

There will be demos, tutorials, and presentations on how to be safe.” Educate them on the benefits, educate them on safety, and provide helmets.” And with similarly cheap pricing, the decision of which to use comes down to brand affinity. They can make it clear that they care about the constituency there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2019

There are a myriad of other important ways that you can demonstrate your competitive advantages in your presentations, discussions, and business plan, including the following: Highlight your intellectual property. Reducing margins to lower prices won’t help your case. Present a clear differentiation and a laser market focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2013

Some pundits argue that the E-Myth principle is now out-dated, due to the instant access to information via the Internet, pervasive networking via social media, and courses on entrepreneurship at all levels of education. Perhaps an innate business savvy is no longer a requirement for starting a successful business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. These present a huge opportunity to take your first steps as an entrepreneur with minimal risk and maximal support. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2012

By taking a page out of STEAM’s playbook, Stacksocial seeks to provide instant gratification to its customers by offering software bundles at a price that’s easy to get behind. Not only do they get their intended program at a reduced price, they also get a chance to try out some new stuff for almost no additional cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. These present a huge opportunity to take your first steps as an entrepreneur with minimal risk and maximal support. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. These present a huge opportunity to take your first steps as an entrepreneur with minimal risk and maximal support. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

As our first time covering a 500 Startups demo day , we could only imagine the stratospheric levels of stress our Batch 8 founders must have gone through to get on stage and present their progress from their last four months of startup bootcamp. Today, we’ll be presenting our favorite ten of the day in ABC order.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Successful entrepreneurs make similarly educated guesses. While creating a new course for UC Santa Barbara’s Entrepreneurial Program entitled, “The Past, Present and Future of Entrepreneurship,” I was recently blessed to come across Steven Johnson’s PBS series and accompanying book, How We Got To Now.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. I think when you are talking about sales numbers, scientific instrument or not, it's no longer we have Widget A or Widget B, it's a much more convincing presentation. While the two systems use similar optical components, you have to choose A or B. READ MORE>>.

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Inverted Software

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Millennials are more educated about healthy choices, are price sensitive and environmentally friendly. So which companies are ones seeing the most change in their sales as a result of Millennials making more educated choices? Millennials are health conscious and nutrition educated. Ecommerce made up 9.3% a year earlier.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

years ago we read the “ RIP Good Times &# presentation from Sequoia. I can’t comment on its stock price – I’m not a public market analyst. But what about education? I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the proliferation of starutps in the past 2 years. It seems almost incomprehensible that only 2.5

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. I think when you are talking about sales numbers, scientific instrument or not, it's no longer we have Widget A or Widget B, it's a much more convincing presentation. While the two systems use similar optical components, you have to choose A or B. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. If nothing else you will create board cohesion and board education by engaging your board. Ask them for a meeting to review your pricing strategy with you. ” His argument is as follows. Assigns tasks. Already covered.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

This week, a panel of 28 scientists presented the National Cancer Institute’s National Cancer Advisory Board a set of recommendations and national priorities for basic research, clinical trial practice, and drug development. X : You don’t think that sequencing prices will come down enough? There are policy issues.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. This person was educated at the best US schools and had worked for a top-tier strategy consulting firm – one of the big 3. Your head of sales thinks she should fire somebody.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

Steve Banfield: Our goal, is we want to be the biggest and best way for people to find and present their identity online. With all those new releases, there are lots of new opportunities--you can preregister names, some people are holding back certain names as premium names, and there''s a lot of complexity in price points.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 1, 2011

We debated the merits of releasing two products, one at a lower price with fewer features, but we ultimately decided that the value proposition of the cheaper version was so minimal that it would potentially damage the GoToMyPC brand. . The key to launching a successful MVP is to properly define “minimal.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. Funny story, after Bill presented at TED (back when Amazon was still a small company) Jeff Bezos was in the audience.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

On the other side of that, although universities had not been very experienced with spinouts, where the researcher is also a person active as an entrepreneurial, active member of the team, although there is some back and forth, and universities have gotten hung up on price tags and terms--one by one, everyone has figured that out.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

One of his companies - Gluecode - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 17, 2014

Stop complaining about how difficult it is to encourage well-mannered, highly educated, civilized professionals to work together. The price these men were willing to pay with their lives more than offset their minor indiscretions. All present within the formation of the Dirty Dozen (DD). Dirty Team-Building. Stage One: Forming.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

We had more than 700 resumes, short-listed 65, interviewed 16 in one-hour meetings had 6 full-day interviews including a presentation by the candidate on a selected market opportunity and we did 3 finalist dinners to test cultural fit. I am a very big believer in education and especially higher education. What about strategy?

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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. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. You would think it would be better for M&A to be more active when the markets are down – better prices. M&A returned.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. Sangster lives in Los Angeles and is actively involved in improving early childhood education. RSVP: AGENDA.

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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. The logo presentation takes place during the venture’s first few weeks. In contrast to Paul Rand’s NeXT logo, the original Apple logo was created for free.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Our marketplace is organized like a used item marketplace, like Amazon or eBay, or Craiglist, in that a seller lists an item, picks a cause, and sets a price. We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. It's just like Craigslist, except the money goes to support causes. Where did the idea come from?

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 2, 2016

Negotiate Everything – When my father goes to Rite Aid , he’ll try and negotiate the price of his prescription drugs, and sometimes he gets a discount. Never accept the first offer or price. Whatever needs to get done, we do. Every dollar matters when you’re growing a business.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2012

Niche apps can usually demand a higher price point because there isn’t much competition out there. Truthfully, getting involved in the app market is more about creating a solution that solves problems which people want fixed, in a way that people aren’t presently solving them. If it’s in a niche market, that’s even better.

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Marketing Startup Software Review Competition 97

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

We have been holding off on this announcement for quite a bit and now we can officially announce Bill Gross of Idealab as our SuperDemo presenter. Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. Price: $25 (Early Bird). Event Details.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Thousands of people submit their panels for SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive) and only a handful will be selected to present. SXSWi is five days of presentations and panel discussions from some of the biggest thought leaders in Interactive digital media space. Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, education, MBA. .

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. Price: $15 (Early Bird). To help curate and show off the best that LA has to offer we called in a few friends.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2015

They generally are extremely well-educated with many holding numerous degrees and/or certifications, especially African American women. Women in sales or real estate, were more savvy with negotiation than those who weren’t and often asked for, and received, the better price as a result.

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