Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2023

Every business, especially startups, needs all guns blazing quickly on every opportunity or insight into the market. I recommend that every entrepreneur and small business investigate and implement as many as possible of his seven new business force multipliers that I will paraphrase here: Information sharing through social media networks.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

They’ve created a marketplace, similar to eBay, where suppliers list their products with SKU information, availability, volume and descriptions. to develop some sweet inventory-planning software. We have seen a lot of stuff in inventory management but most of it are tools for one side of the market,” Kaden added.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2016

Note: I invest almost exclusively in b-to-b software companies. My goal isn’t necessarily to make a Founder uncomfortable during a pitch meeting, but the experience is typically more rewarding and informative for all parties when we have a give-and-take conversation. Don’t Demo Me Bro. Customers Are All That Matter.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Sharpening its focus on the electronic discovery market, Pasadena-based X1 , the enterprise search tools provider backed by Idealab, has split out a new company called X1 Discovery , headed by John Patzakis, the former President of eDiscovery at X1. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

Tim Grace , who co-founded San Diego-based PointPredictive with Frank McKenna and Joe Jackson, is a startup veteran, who sold BasePoint Analytics to CoreLogic in 2009, and is a former executive from HNC Software. We talked with Tim about how they're now applying this to a new market. What is PointPredictive?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Her argument is that if Uber buys Grubhub (which itself once merged with Seamless) it would mean that Uber Eats / Grubhub would control half the market and that with DoorDash the two together would control 90% of the market. You lose the ability to up-sell and cross-sell products. ChowNow is simply a SaaS enablement product.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2016

Based on ratings, reviews, and price, designers are able to hire a factory or contractor from our platform. There's a lack of information on materials, design, types of products, minimum order size, and other information on different producers, which makes it difficult for designers to find who can manufacture their garment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). Everhart distills his leadership insights from many decades in one of the largest business-to-business marketing agencies, working with companies across the country.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

With the ITRC 2021 End-of-Year Data Breach Report revealing a 68 percent increase in stolen sensitive personal information, there is a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. Don’t take shortcuts on these.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

TrueCar--which offers up automotive pricing information and automotive configuration and quoting software--said the sales came from more than 5,500 dealer partners. TrueCar had announced it 500,000th vehicle in March of 2012.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2020

Every business, especially startups, needs all guns blazing quickly on every opportunity or insight into the market. I recommend that every entrepreneur and small business investigate and implement as many as possible of his seven new business force multipliers that I will paraphrase here: Information sharing through social media networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2021

Here is an entry-level benchmark for the new software personal assistants: Simple and intuitive communication. A good assistant know how get things done efficiently, recognizing user hardware and software limitations. Of course, many are still fighting it as well, due to privacy concerns. Technology environment savvy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

They don’t realize that these are still rare, require a large risk, and may not be the best way to keep up with change in the market. As an alternative, I usually recommend more incremental innovation , derived from recognized market changes, done on a regular basis, without the big-bang expectation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

If you are the hot-shot technical innovator that invented your solution, make sure you have an equally adept business and marketing expert to complement your skills. “If If we build it, they will come” doesn’t work in today’s worldwide information overload. The market is unpredictable and changes fast.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2020

With these insights you can make informed decisions and boost repeat customers, without having to invest too much money. Field Service Software. Fortunately, field service software is designed to keep track of all this and more, so you can focus on the big picture. Get started with field service software today.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I promised to do this post as a follow-up to the session to provide additional links and information. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. Review the code being built. It had a passionate group of 50 people attending. WordPress is pretty easy to hack. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers. We actually have a very big Wordpress user base, because of the work we''ve done with Wordpress, contributing code and integrating them into our platform. That has grown very nicely, even those we''ve not been overly aggressive with marketing.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 You would have met many smart people who live a mediocre life. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number. I do sometimes get impatient when the investment proposal has little or no information on the exit path. There are MANY of them.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

West Hills-based Peloton Document Solutions , a company developing software which helps investment bankers, private equity investors, and companies to communicate financial information via interactive documents, has scored a strategic investment from R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. According to R.R. According to R.R.

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StartUp Beat

JULY 26, 2017

Users can enter their zip code and let the algorithm t rawl through184 million rows of data with information about different providers, including prices, speeds and reviews from other users. Nick Reese, Co-Founder and CEO at BroadbandNow. “By

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Companies like DogVacay solve a real need in the market. They can read reviews, see pictures and even talk to the family before confirming. I typed in my brothers zip code and ton of houses popped up in his area and I was able to search out on a map view. I told her the story of Aaron, the company, the reviews, etc.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2014

However, Redondo Beach-based StaffRanker (www.staffranker.com) has rolled out a system to help those companies better manage what is a notoriously difficult segment of the labor market, which has a lot of turnover and which just doesn''t match existing, corporate performance management systems. How did you start the company?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2012

Smart technology doesn’t work without clever software to make it useful. Or do you toss your hat into the ring with an already existing concept, making a clone in hopes to snatch away market share? Do you need to take the time to learn coding or should you search out a firm to help bring your idea into reality?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 6, 2013

Kuapay prevents merchants, or anyone attempting to eavesdrop, from accessing consumers’ sensitive payment data as user information is securely stored in a heavily encrypted Kuapay vault, accessible only by device-specific tokens, which are also encrypted, stored on the user’s phone. With first-to-market patent-pending security technology.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

It's the same as when I've created financial models and then have it reviewed by a hard-core CFO, sophisticated investor or similar kind of expert. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. It's fine to send out documents that have older information.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2013

However due to much controversy and competition, the same hasn’t played true while at large events (*cough* SXSW ). Few have tried in recently months with little success; generally due to city regulations on competing with the local taxi services, but Callaway’s social and brand presence should help this be success.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

In emerging markets and the developing world, access to banking, capital, and financial resources is fare more difficult than here in the U.S., due to a less developed financial system, lack of credit tracking, and oftentimes and informal economy. Shivani Siroya: Tala is a data company that is working in emerging markets.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

According to Nathan Wenzel, SimpleLegal’s CEO, “In 2016, where information is available on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, blog posts, and more, there’s no excuse to not know what is going on in your customer’s business and in their professional lives. It’s not about helping them use our software. Bro Benefits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Movies are selected, or recommended to customers, based on past reviews, related interests, or analysis of Twitter comments.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

TechZulu caught up with co-founder Calvin Schemanski chat about their upcoming launch, their product and why Long reviews suck. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review. Unlike typical review sites, our platform does not use star ratings or long reviews. What is myfab5?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices. how to market our products and company.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies. OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

This is true of any buying process where a customer has to make a large investment decision on your software or when an investor must decide whether to give you $5 million. I spend a lot of time coaching entrepreneurs through their fund-raising processes by doing “pipeline reviews” of all of the firms with whom they are speaking.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 23, 2012

You should cull this list to the best of the best, those that have a large number of high ratings and gushing reviews. Choosing something completely outside the norm forces users and reviewers to make note of how distinct you actually are. Your research through apps will compile a large list of competitors. What is their hook?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Businesses stopped hiring for lifetime commitments some time ago, as markets change so rapidly and companies need to tune their workforce for changing economic conditions. Simply defining yourself as a specialist or professional minimizes the stigma of a consultant role (think marketing specialist or staffing professional).

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