socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

I started my first business, bringing a product directly to consumers online via the internet, in 1998, so I've been touching products online for a really long time. How are you clients adapting as there's been more a shift with new direct-to-consumer brands? Direct-to-consumer is just part of that. It makes you rethink things.

Artificial Inteligence 140

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

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.

Resource 126

Resource Commerce Social Media Platform 126

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

What Consumers and Businesses Want. Marketing techniques have evolved to work beyond the everyday concept of an ad presenting a good, service, or brand and telling the consumer or business what it is. This emphasis on engagement is helping many businesses stand out from the onslaught of advertisements that can plague consumers daily.

Advertising 69

Advertising Training Customer Custom 69

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Ventures In Which An MBA Education Is A Plus. Sieva and his team will be well served to consider the following common characteristics of successful MBA led startups when vetting their deals: Consumer Focus – NextView Ventures has determined that 45% of the MBA unicorns focus on consumer Internet and ecommerce. “When M.B.A.’s

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Allegis Startup Competition 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

In the move to online commerce, one of the latest areas of interest by online retailers has been the use of online video, to showcase products and provide training and instruction. That might be consumer electronics, children's products, or home improvement, the areas that we target. Or, we can also product this soup to nuts.

Guide 113

Guide Training Platform Product 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

It''s really about empowering consumers and individuals, and anybody who wants to be able to reduce global poverty in their every day life, with something as simple as purchasing a product, gift or other item you love. What is Enrou? That''s really what I wanted, and what I saw that my friends and the community wanted.

Commerce 140

Commerce Help UCLA Organization 140

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Successful entrepreneurs make similarly educated guesses. Example: Cell phones were initially demonstrated in 1973, but not commercialized until 1983, 20-years before massive consumer adoption was attained. Innovations Evolve From Industrial To Consumer Uses. 130-years later, scientists discovered X.

Examples 100

Examples Startup Press Entrepreneur 100

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

It’s a bedrock assumption in American economic policy that innovation and entrepreneurship drive job growth and lead to greater productivity, efficiency, consumer choice, and wealth. Or maybe it’s healthier in the long run when the government imposes more progressive taxation and puts the funds into education, social programs, and R&D.

Education 40

Education Platform Training High Tech 40

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

While cybersecurity training seems to be experiencing a groundswell moment, (e.g., BT Security recently partnered with ISC(2) to train security staff), solving this problem will take years, and the skills challenge will likely get worse before it gets better. Invest more in training and optimizing the usage of existing staff.

Training 40

Training Outsource Organization Resource 40

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

However, if you talk to a lot of people about who Vantage Media is, a lot of them think we''re still an agency, specifically focused on for-profit education marketing. That technology underpins marketplaces in auto, health, life insurance, and even education. However, that''s who we were in 2002, and stopped being in 2010.

Media 162

Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

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.

Commerce 98

Commerce Social Media Platform Class 98

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2018

For us, that theme is cultural investing, which is taking a hard look at global popular culture, and identifying emerging and overlapping consumer behavior trends. It was a great training ground to learn the business of venture capital. We take a thematic approach to investing. We make our investment decisions based on that.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Invest Capital Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This technology is not only spawning a new generation of entrepreneurs, but is also changing the educational landscape, all the way down to early grade school. Makerspaces and hackerspaces have sites and events, including education and training, where people with common interests can meet, socialize and collaborate.

Ideas 61

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Education 61

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2012

I agree with John Spence, in his book “ Awesomely Simple ,” that in a world of nearly limitless product options and highly educated consumers with instant access to price, features, and benefits of almost every product, delivering consistently superior customer service is the only differentiator left for creating loyal and engaged customers.

Customer 104

Customer Custom Startup Organization 104

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. Real estate consumes 40% of all energy.

Startup 229

Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Polar boasts a ‘smarter training experience’ through offering you guidance on how to develop your training as well as feedback on your workout performance. Furthermore, nutrition apps such as MyFitnessPal and LifeSum help users become more educated about what they are eating.

High Tech 40

High Tech Training Education Research 40

Xconomy

JUNE 8, 2016

What’s remarkable about the popularization of hand sanitizers is that a simple technological innovation achieved better results than years of training, cajoling, and admonishment about handwashing ever did. Implementation of a time-consuming safety innovation like a checklist requires a major cultural shift.

Technical Review 72

Technical Review Press Examples Training 72

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Building any business is hard, all-consuming, frustrating and fraught with personal challenges. We educate and train and test for a set of skills designed to succeed in 1950. When a founder is “opportunity driven” it’s too easy to quit at the first bump in the road. Fundamentally the system feels broken.

Design 150

Design Ideas Startup Writing 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Out of 41 companies who submitted their software for approval, only three were accepted--us, McGraw Hill, and Peoples Education. Since then, we've been really strongly focused on building our software business, selling that software to school districts and direct to consumers. Ramit Varma: We talk about it in two different ways.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2015

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.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Commerce Social Media Platform 111

Xconomy

JUNE 2, 2016

As a startup CEO, I also went wondering whether and when Spare5 might engage Cuba and Cubans—as suppliers of the human insights we source, and customers who need high-quality data to train artificial intelligence engines. The short answer: not any time in the foreseeable future. Once both the U.S.

Startup 63

Startup Artificial Inteligence .Net Guide 63

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

So you figured out after engaging with your customers that you needed to move from the consumer side to the enterprise? We are opening up our software to higher education, to campuses, to the general leisure industry, which for us includes convention centers and even working with a few different fast-casual restaurant chains.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Sales Mobile Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I agree with John Spence, in his book “ Awesomely Simple ,” that in a world of nearly limitless product options and highly educated consumers with instant access to price, features, and benefits of almost every product, delivering consistently superior customer service is the only differentiator left for creating loyal and engaged customers.

Customer 90

Customer Custom Services Startup 90

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2012

I think these tough economic times and social networks have re-awakened consumers to the fact that there is more to a business transaction than price. Educate your customers on your business. Employee loyalty starts with good communication and training on their role, as well as how to better interact with customers.

Customer 104

Customer Custom Startup Competition 104

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.

Marketing 52

Marketing Commerce Social Media Entrepreneur 52

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The majority of our users are highly educated, young professionals between 25-39 years of age. Unfortunately he didn’t own a car so, in order to visit her, he had to shell out a lot of money each weekend on expensive train tickets. Ideally, we want carpooling to become as easy and as precise as checking the bus or train schedule.

Training 82

Training Marketing Competition Platform 82

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2014

Whatever your perception may be, an estimated 15,000 attendees showed up for this year’s DefCon 22 , an annual event with talks, contests, vendor-booths, charities, workshop training areas and more. From the FTC’s press release, “The FTC receives more than one million consumer complaints about robocalls every year.

Technical Advisors 107

Technical Advisors Press Examples Training 107

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

But consumers don’t always want to buy that way. This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. Mobile, social and video are changing consumer behavior and advertising as we know it.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

An electrical engineer by training he has built embedded medical devices, consulted on lean/agile, founded a couple of (failed) startups, worked as a VC, and has advised and invested in a small handful of early stage companies. Prior to joining WellnessFX (consumer directed health technology), he completed his MBA at Stanford.

Technical Advisors 89

Technical Advisors Design Education Study 89

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2010

I think these tough economic times and social networks have re-awakened consumers to the fact that there is more to a business transaction than price. Educate your customers on your business. Employee loyalty starts with good communication and training on their role, as well as how to better interact with customers.

Satisfaction 49

Satisfaction Customer Custom Startup 49

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

I then really quickly race through looking for some minimum qualifications such as companies for which they worked, education, grades, etc. And as you know it is completely all consuming to find great new employees. It is soul destroying to have to train “yet another head of QA.&# It is bad on team morale when good people quit.

Startup 392

Startup Geni Google IBM 392

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The International CES is produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) , the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the consumer technology industry. CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

He launched a business called Unsubscribe, which helped consumers deal with the deluge of email lists that one gets signed up to and get rid of them all. Were we SURE that consumers would buy a video doorbell? It was a novel concept well before the major players did this for you. Jamie is truly a visionary and a focused executioner.

Startup 247

Startup Pricing Product Marketing 247

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Matthew Clough is a social entrepreneur and creative professional who has dedicated himself to helping children get the educations they deserve in Tanzania, Africa. He is the founder of Benson Backpacks , a company that sells backpacks and supports children’s educations in Tanzania with each purchase. Ryan Born – Founder of AudioMicro.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Users can be advertisers, consumers, sellers, or passengers.

Netflix 54

Netflix Social Media Competition Customer 54

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

For innovative solutions, marketing is the education consumers need in lieu of experience. The first airplane faced major competition from trains and automobiles. Even the best technical solutions often fail due to lack of good marketing. Paradigm-shift solutions have no competition."

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Startup Social Media Competition 60

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

The consumer Web continues to drive social business While some advances in social media are happening in the enterprise space as well, the real story continues to be the Web as it continues to forge quickly ahead in terms of sheer innovation and raw output to shape the latest developments in social computing.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29