InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

There were no price guides, standardized rating systems or baseball card stores. In fact, in one instance, a dealer purchased all of our sets in order to “take them off the market.” As the collector centric hobby morphed into an investor-driven market, several card companies began producing multiple sets annually.

Pricing 138

Pricing Advertising Marketing Startup 138

Tech.Co

MARCH 7, 2015

Brad Seraphin is a technology startup veteran, advisor, and entrepreneur with a background in online marketing, project management, and product development. Brad has spent the past 10 years launching venture backed companies.

Guide 70

Guide Research Entrepreneur Marketing 70

Berkonomics

APRIL 13, 2017

Your vision for success must be solid and flexible enough to pass several critical tests if it is to guide a business enterprise to greatness. Is your market identifiable and accessible? How large a total market? Email readers, continue here…] Can you dominate that market? Ten tests for your successful vision.

Patents 291

Patents Pricing Ideas Marketing 291

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go next. Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Education – guided studying for targeted learning. billion by 2022.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Study Guide 99

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2021

If you don’t market your business, you won’t have one. Marketing and advertising are business realties. Every company has competitors, or there is no market for what you offer. Successful entrepreneurs know they have to fight not only to win market share, but to retain it as well. The marketplace is a war zone.

Entrepreneur 138

Entrepreneur Activity Guide Patents 138

Berkonomics

JUNE 6, 2019

If only newspaper publishers, book publishers, record companies, and movie producers would have had the vision to see their future as we now see it, we might have become a digital society with much less disruption and loss of jobs than we have experienced these past years – and continue to experience. It is human nature to avoid change.

Guide 120

Guide Commerce Sales Product 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Every entrepreneur has to deal with the realities of constant change in today’s market, and it’s much easier to pivot the pre-production prototype than to dispose of unsellable inventory. Show investors that you are committed, and past the idea stage. Without a prototype, most professional investors won’t take you seriously.

Outsource Development 110

Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 110

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Lee offers the following guiding principles to right-brain thinkers who need to balance their focus, but I’m convinced that the same principles apply to every entrepreneur-minded person: Be uniquely you and embrace your creativity. Don’t be afraid of using your intuition and feelings to guide you with customers, but don’t ignore real data.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Tips Guide Social Media 96

Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2012

If only newspaper publishers, book publishers, record companies, and movie producers would have had the vision to see their future as we now see it, we might have become a digital society with much less disruption and loss of jobs than we have experienced these past years and continue to experience. Dave’s book: Positioning.

Guide 176

Guide Entertainment Demand Product 176

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

She’s more qualified than I and I know she’ll eventually eclipse the things that Yves and I have built over the past couple of decades. Marketing, recruiting, building data products & tools, event management, analyzing the portfolio, etc. And all the platform stuff. Yves enjoys the same things I do?—?investing

Venture Capital 361

Venture Capital Startup Invest CitySearch 361

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

The largest and most successful businesses of the past have been traditionally driven by autocratic and powerful leaders who managed a highly structured organization of subordinates. Traditional command leadership allowed individual biases and ego to reduce team engagement and miss market changes and new competitors.

Organization 105

Organization Mentor Startup Training 105

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 15, 2010

This year's ICC, is a must attend event, coming on the heels of the financial turmoil over the past years. We believe the theme, "A Practical Guide to Financing in 2010 - Current Market Sources and Pricing", reflects what's needed most by corporate executives because the financing landscape has changed dramatically.

LAVA 100

LAVA Conference Capital Invest 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Branding / Marketing / Publicity marketing, PR, publicity. . Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. Why cater to a market that makes you eat ramen when you can slap on a suit and get budget for sushi? Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. .

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Eric Greenspan

MAY 14, 2013

As a newfound Dad Blogger and experienced marketer, I’ve begun offering a great new service that has been greeted by the Mommy Blogger community with great interest and the manufacturers of great products have responded equally well. My ability to recognize truly excellent products will guide me down this path.

Technical Review 135

Technical Review Product Services High Tech 135

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Every entrepreneur has to deal with the realities of constant change in today’s market, and it’s much easier to pivot the pre-production prototype than to dispose of unsellable inventory. Show investors that you are committed, and past the idea stage. Without a prototype, most professional investors won’t take you seriously.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 124

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

The interview was wide ranging and discussed everything from USVs investment thesis over the past 10 years to what some emerging themes are around blockchain and artificial intelligence. As by now you likely know they had a brief discussion about public markets including about whether Uber should go public. ” And we did.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Artificial Inteligence Invest Funding 150

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go next. Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Education – guided studying for targeted learning. billion by 2022.

Social Media 70

Social Media Study Guide Examples 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2015

Lee offers the following guiding principles to right-brain thinkers who need to balance their focus, but I’m convinced that the same principles apply to every entrepreneur-minded person: Be uniquely you and embrace your creativity. Don’t be afraid of using your intuition and feelings to guide you with customers, but don’t ignore real data.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Guide Social Media Ideas 109

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. The have to also go to market with a turnkey solution, which is cost effective. READ MORE>>.

Guide 113

Guide Training Platform Product 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2019

If you don’t market your business, you won’t have one. Marketing and advertising are business realties. Every company has competitors, or there is no market for what you offer. Successful entrepreneurs know they have to fight not only to win market share, but to retain it as well. The marketplace is a war zone.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Activity Guide Patents 92

Berkonomics

MAY 29, 2014

assess past performances. Included in a business plan are financials, competitive landscape, marketing plans, and projected sales to name a few. As your business grows, a business plan serves as a guide to help you track, monitor and evaluate your progress. Will the cash flow? Did they make any headway?

Startup 166

Startup Guide Help Mentor 166

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

According to earlier studies from Forbes Insights , many entrepreneurs and small businesses not only feel the lessons learned during the past few years have helped them survive, but the recession also exposed flaws in their business strategies that they were able to fix. This should be core for you.

Study 102

Study Entrepreneur .Net Guide 102

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go next. Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Education – guided studying for targeted learning. billion by 2018.

Entrepreneur 103

Entrepreneur Social Media Study Guide 103

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Lee offers the following guiding principles to right-brain thinkers who need to balance their focus, but I’m convinced that the same principles apply to every entrepreneur-minded person: Be uniquely you and embrace your creativity. Don’t be afraid of using your intuition and feelings to guide you with customers, but don’t ignore real data.

Startup 59

Startup Entrepreneur Guide Social Media 59

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2014

Lee offers the following guiding principles to right-brain thinkers who need to balance their focus, but I’m convinced that the same principles apply to every entrepreneur-minded person: Be uniquely you and embrace your creativity. Don’t be afraid of using your intuition and feelings to guide you with customers, but don’t ignore real data.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Guide Social Media Ideas 104

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? How profitable is my product or service?

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Custom Customer 286

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2019

I’ll paraphrase several of his guiding principles here: Recognize when fear is disguising itself as procrastination. One of the best ways to improve as a decision maker and leader is to ask people you trust to analyze your failures, and guide your learning. Remember to approach “risk-of-failure” intelligently.

Guide 70

Guide Examples Ideas Blogging 70

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

At the Upfront Summit this past week there was an electric interview of Fred Wilson led by well-researched and artful Dan Primack of Fortune Magazine that ended up making news. Of course you should read the book so I don’t bastardize his arguments but two (of the six) guiding principles come down to competition and science.

Competition 150

Competition Venture Capital Invest Organization 150

Frank Addante

JULY 26, 2013

It’s a huge priority for our innovation agenda, and the market is responding well. REVV Connect is growing faster than we expected, with publisher adoption blowing past our goals year-to date. We’re really concentrating hard on Connect this quarter, in advance of the busy holiday advertising season.

Case Study 65

Case Study Guide Study Advertising 65

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2010

Around a month ago I heard people talking about Twitter’s bucket test ( definition ) of their new personalized suggested user list and this past week I actually got to experience it myself. In the past week I’ve noticed 7 or 8 new followers with whom I’m friends and who have large follower lists.

Technical Review 287

Technical Review Startup Press Guide 287

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Market Opportunity. But what about markets? We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. One of the common refrains that I heard was that investors were looking for “large markets with lots of white space.&# This annoyed me to no end.

Entrepreneur 330

Entrepreneur Marketing Venture Capital Hulu 330

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2011

Just yesterday, a new study “ The PNC Economic Outlook: Survey of Small & Middle-Market Business Owners ” was published. It shows a return to cautious optimism compared to this past Autumn and much improvement from the record-high pessimism of two years ago. Add new revenue streams, and more aggressive marketing.

Study 89

Study Startup Pricing Guide 89

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

As time has gone on, the company then shifted into the ridesharing market, essentially operating as a car availability platform for Uber and Lyft drivers. That's not 100%, but we do offer other options like subscriptions, which Honda Finance wouldn't have offered in the past.

Startup 124

Startup Pricing Platform Study 124

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

So, you’ve been thinking about starting your own firm for the past ten years. The times have changed, and many of the sources available in the past have become risk averse or moved on, but there are new alternatives. Your business plan is ready. Your family is all for it.

Funding 192

Funding Entrepreneur Startup Invest 192

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. However, innovation-driven corporations often have the urgency to act (or risk losing market share, relevance, etc) and resources to deploy.

SoCal 140

SoCal Southern California Startup Venture Capital 140

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should you start a company?

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202