Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter. Brad Phillips entrepreneur media training meet the press startup' How to respond to media in a crisis. Marty Zwilling.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Product descriptions and listings require tedious editing to make them engaging - especially after the fortieth one. Are you a founder or CEO or head of product? Go through your product right now and look for empty text boxes. Each one represents a great opportunity to make your users more productive and happier.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Aided by salespeople from competitors and long memories from unhappy customers, the myth of continued quality problems in customer support bounced around the industry for those years, until finally good press, great experiences and an effective marketing campaign together overwhelmed bad memories to put this issue to bed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2015

That’s productivity. That is a huge hit on productivity. For insight, I recommend the details provided in a new book “ The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, ” by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne. Practice productivity planning with your key team members. That’s extraordinary productivity.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2020

Vive's beverage brand focuses on "cold-pressed wellness shots" which it claims boost the immune system. According to Vive Organic, it will use the new funding to expand its digital footprint, for its pipline, and to make it products more accessible to consumers nationwide.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Do you run a small business that ships products locally? We’ve listened carefully to our business customers to develop this program,” said Jakki Krage Strako, chief commerce and business solutions officer, in a press release. You're in luck. The US Postal Service has just launched a delivery service for you.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

AutoMobility LA is the industry's first trade show converging the technology and automotive industries to launch new products and technologies and to discuss the most pressing issues surrounding the future of transportation and mobility. AutoMobility LA 2018 will take place November 26-29 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

AutoMobility LA is the industry's first trade show converging the technology and automotive industries to launch new products and technologies and to discuss the most pressing issues surrounding the future of transportation and mobility. AutoMobility LA 2018 will take place November 26-29 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

AutoMobility LA is the industry's first trade show converging the technology and automotive industries to launch new products and technologies and to discuss the most pressing issues surrounding the future of transportation and mobility. AutoMobility LA 2018 will take place November 26-29 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

AutoMobility LA is the industry's first trade show converging the technology and automotive industries to launch new products and technologies and to discuss the most pressing issues surrounding the future of transportation and mobility. AutoMobility LA 2018 will take place November 26-29 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 18, 2017

Aldi, which mainly sells products with its own label, has almost 1,700 stores in 35 states, according to a press release. German discount grocer Aldi Inc. announced Monday that it plans to debut a grocery delivery service through Instacart in Los Angeles, Dallas and Atlanta later this month. About 15 of its stores are in L.A.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The company says its product is aimed at mowing large sized commercial lawns, and includes such features as GPS based mapping, computer vision, and machine learning capabilities. It's unclear what the full connection to Miso Robotics is, as the press release announcing Graze was issued by Miso Robotics. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

It is the bane of every startups existence because it takes up so much time, it is so competitive to sign people and it feels like unproductive time because it’s not moving the ball forward on product, engineering, sales, marketing, biz dev, fund raising. I’d want to secure permission from the employee to issue a press release.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2013

Stop reading their press releases or hearing their founder talk about he is crushing it. You see them in their tuxedos or cocktail dresses because you’re reading their press releases or following them on Instagram. Startups are filled with enormously talented people – often product people & engineers.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 14, 2014

Over the years, as I managed my several computer companies as CEO or executive chairman, I made the decision to go to market with a brand new product that had never before been exposed to my customer’s marketplace. Best possible press: too early to market. As a product marketing effort, it was a failure.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2019

According to the company, both its quarterly results and yearly financial statements should "no longer be relied upon", including press releases involving those financial statements. SRAX originally was developing Internet advertising technology, but last year jumped on the Blockchain trend and tried to create its own cyrptocurrency product.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Mintel is a marketing intelligence agency, and SPH Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Singapore Press Holdings, the publishers of The Straits Times. According to the company, it will use the new funding to launch a rebrand of the company and unveil a new product called Ad Graph.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

I think that’s a largely flawed fight to be picking and of all the uses of Senator Klobuchar’s I could think of some much more productive fights to be having. But the broader issue that hasn’t garnished much press attention is how the restaurant industry itself is being transformed and what tools a modern restaurant will need to compete.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

The problem with the TechCrunch bounce was that it often led the the TechCrunch free fall, as in your website’s precipitous decline in traffic and your products fall in users as that same 60-70,000 rushed to try the next product. Sure, some products were amazing and the crowds stuck around.

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Tech.Co

MAY 6, 2022

The two companies are a great match, according to Shopify's press release about the deal. In the end, the benefit to the merchants who use Shopify is an easier, streamlined, and dependable way to get their products into buyers' hands. Easier two-day delivery and end-to-end control over the ecommerce process. Why Shopify Wants Deliverr.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

His product auto-posted a testimonial from Dave Morin into Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg called the tactic “lame.&# Never Blame the Press. The most tempting thing for inexperienced entrepreneurs to do is to attack the press. But don’t pick a fight with the press. All press isn’t good press.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 24, 2017

Aided by salespeople from competitors and long memories from unhappy customers, the myth of continued quality problems in customer support bounced around the industry for those years, until finally good press, great experiences and an effective marketing campaign together overwhelmed bad memories to put this issue to bed.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2012

Amazon--which has been heavily promoting its press event on September 5th to tech press--started listing the Kindle Touch as out of stock Monday, and the Kindle Fire today, a very, very strong hint that those two devices will be seeing an update announced at the event. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

ScoreStream said the funds go towards new product enhancement and extension of its platform. ScoreStream's software is used to crowdsource scores and other information from local high schools and other local sports leagues, which it makes available to media outlets such as broadcast television groups, iHeart Media, and the Associated Press.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 16, 2023

Teaching about the five types of resources In my book, “Extending the Runway” (Second Edition, Berkus Press 2014), I explore the thesis that there are five basic types of resources an entrepreneur must exploit in growing a successful business: time, money, process, relationships and context. Let’s test your flexibility.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). It super charges a business that is closer to product delivery.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers. If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

It has even gone so far that we now have evocative headlines in the tech press such as “ Buy or Die ,” which is what got me thinking about this post. But the press (and I suspect many of the senior execs of these companies) don’t really explore the corrosive downside of these acquisition. Woo the press.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Feelings were hurt over who should serve as the public face of the company when talking to the press and potential funders. Bitter disputes emerged over each change to the product being developed. But soon after the scientist and CEO began working together, problems began. Worst of all, mismatched expectations.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

You may have gotten some articles that covered your product launch or may have gotten into industry rags but this might be your first time on TechCrunch, AllThingsD, PandoDaily, GigaOm, Business Insider or the equivalent. But succinctly this press places a marker in the ground for your company. That used to be the standard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2023

Many entrepreneurs are so enamored with their product vision that they believe their own hype and are convinced that the market for their solution is so huge that no one will ask them for independent market research data. These are also important for your product positioning in the competitor section of your business plan.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

She served as VP Product at Petstore.com and two other early stage e-commerce companies, before transitioning to Los Angeles where she started a talent management firm and produced two feature films. In 2006 she sat next to a woman on an airplane who became her business partner in her next startup, Scribble Press. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

According to Mertado , a social shopping service which links users with home and kitchen products via Facebook said Wednesday that it has raised $2.3M A key part of Mertado's service is video content, whre it has syndicated content from Food Network, Fine Living, and Better TV to promote home an dkitchen products in its catalog.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Entrepreneurs get so used to friends and family congratulating them on their press coverage that they forget sometimes that this isn’t real. Press doesn’t mean anything other than free advertising. Our call recovered and we spent the rest of the time talking about the development of their management team and their product.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2011

In today’s economy it is counter productive because the best employees have options.” I recently was reviewing a press release for a company in which I’m an investor. I told him that I thought the press release was crap (I think my words, exactly). It’s counter productive. ” My response?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Are you cynical about their chances in the market just because they seem to be hot in the press and that bugs you? I’m a news junkie and love to watch the Sunday morning talk shows like Meet the Press, This Week with Christiane Amanpour or Shields & Brooks on The News Hour on Fridays. I hear views like this all the time.

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