Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The biggest danger is to think that nothing matters except price, in an age where service is king. Safe choices are frequently old brands, like traditional banks and department stores, but even technology companies like IBM can fit this mold if they design themselves appropriately. The classic – top of the line, just the best.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

the people who buy companies) in Q2 of this year of technology & media companies. Buyers aren’t oblivious to the fact that funds need to sell older portfolio companies and an oversupply relative to demand means that prices should still be challenged going forward. with only 19% saying they would decrease levels.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

This is probably because many founders are product or technology people. You should already have a good feel for the customer pain, how you solve it, how your product differs from competitors and what the acceptable price points for your product should be. If this is you I think it’s really important to get over this hurdle.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Rufus Labs is a wearable technology startup in Los Angeles with a heavy focus on building devices for the industrial sector (EMS, police, campus/event security, warehouse, etc). Technology: Sensay is a human routing engine that makes anonymous peer-to-peer chat and transactions possible between strangers. IoT: Rufus Labs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Crowd Seats gets you in the crowd for your favorite games with ticket prices 50-90% off face value! in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Event Details.

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Frank Addante

MAY 23, 2012

Andrew also told me that his competitor bought a $95 yo-yo and therefore, doesn’t understand the needs of an average customer who buys a lower-priced yo-yo. Today, Apple is the most valuable technology company in the world. While Andrew had had to modify his offering and pitch, it seemed that business was doing just fine.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 23, 2011

Hipster-wannabes routinely wait in line for hours for the opportunity to buy exorbitantly priced drinks in an exclusive nightclub. As noted in Alliances , startups with compelling technologies can often form an alliance of partners around their unique solutions. As such, deals are not exclusive, they are excludesive.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Shouldn’t you just hire the most senior guy you can out of Oracle, Salesforce.com, Microsoft, EA or whatever your relevant industry is? I called him and asked him why and he said that he had scheduled a meeting with all of his top sales guys (we had about 8 by that point) to talk about sales pricing. Not so fast. WTF!! ?? !!

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Derek Wooden.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle. Below is a graph of the NASDAQ the US public barometer of technology companies. But of course public markets had begun gyrating.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

For example, it’s all too common for a technology entrepreneur to highlight a new battery technology as the ultimate power for smartphones, medical heart pacemakers, and home lighting. If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you have a big challenge that you can’t afford to meet.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge. LA and Seattle are in the second (or third) major wave of technology innovation.

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