socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. Definitely Software as a Service (SAAS). We are going to see a real explosion in companies offering software for a subscription price. Oh man this is going to be big.

Southern California 168

Southern California High Tech SaaS Social Media 168

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur eBook Metrics Examples 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2019

For example, in a small town with no other hardware store, you may be lulled into complacency as customers flock in at any price, but soon a competitor will pounce. This is often more important than your product or service, and it requires letting the “real you” show, really listening, and responding.

Technical Review 107

Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup Customer 107

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

If you buy in bulk, the price of 1,000 Twitter followers is about $1.75. Just as tools exist to quickly and cheaply create counterfeit minions, inexpensive services also exist which make it easy to ferret truth from fiction. The Cost Of Fake Fame. Perhaps the relatively low cost of faking a following is part of the problem.

Social Media 274

Social Media Media Technical Review Software Review 274

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2015

For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur eBook Metrics Startup 106

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Show the timeline, milestones, costs, and people required to produce the product or service.

Product 92

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 92

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2017

For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books.

eBook 52

eBook Metrics Examples Startup 52

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2013

For example, if it’s getting harder to charge a price premium for the product you’re marketing, or others are offering your subscription service for free, it may be time to start thinking in a new box. Another example is seeing substitute versions of a product, like eBooks, for a low price displacing hardcover books.

eBook 95

eBook Metrics Startup Examples 95

Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

The HOPii is a countertop sized, high-tech fermentation device for your homebrewing needs. Lishtot is the first IoT network of consumer products that can test drinking water for contaminants within seconds for an affordable price. The company has been selected as a CES Innovation Awards 2018 Honoree. HOPii (San Jose, CA).

Startup 70

Startup High Tech Product Design 70

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Show the timeline, milestones, costs, and people required to produce the product or service.

Product 93

Product Entrepreneur Outsource Development Competition 93

socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

We thought we'd learn a bit more about the practical barriers in taking many eco-friendly technology innovations into the market, plus the contrast between the construction and architecture business and the high tech investing world. Marmol Radziner provided the design for the modern, green mobile homes at affordable price points.

Santa Monica 190

Santa Monica Venture Capital Anthem Design 190

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these “techno geeks” can pay.

Education 417

Education Venture Capital UCSD Class 417

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

Along with Amazon, Dell was also an early pioneer of web-based customer service. These two areas of operational innovation allowed Dell to defeat a number of tech-centric competitors which spent significant money researching and developing technological features, ever briefer product lifecycles. Look around.

Tips 247

Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Explain how your service works?

Startup 124

Startup Zag Venture Capital Equity 124

Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

A company official told Xconomy the drug would be priced in line with standard of care enzyme replacement therapy, which costs around $300,000 per patient, per year. The drug has a list price of $69,350 per patient, per year. —Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: JAZZ ) agreed to pay $1.5

San Diego 62

San Diego Patents Acquisition News 62

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Show the timeline, milestones, costs, and people required to produce the product or service.

Product 48

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 48

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company.

Company 257

Company Companies Startup Study 257

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. Are you super sure you want to import your contact information for your friends into a service that won’t let you get it out? Put likable, competent and passionate people on the front line. This doesn’t make sense. Vision Needs Traction.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. The spending contraction is inevitable in a period of declining real prices of housing, high unemployment and tightening credit.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298