Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. When questioned, founders usually mention word-of-mouth, viral marketing, and a top quality product. Generate leads for your product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2014

back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. A hype cycle in Gartner''s interpretation always comprises five phases: Technology trigger. The first phase of a hype cycle is the technology trigger or breakthrough, product launch or other event that generates significant press and interest.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 2, 2017

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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2013

back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. A hype cycle in Gartner''s interpretation always comprises five phases: Technology trigger. The first phase of a hype cycle is the technology trigger or breakthrough, product launch or other event that generates significant press and interest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

I agree with my friend Lon Safko, and his classic book “ The Social Media Bible ,” which asserts your team can be successful at social without the cost of an expensive expert or agency, by following these five basic steps: Start with the dominant players. Get to know the five W’s of these – who, what, where, when, and why.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2016

What we do, is we give people access to the products they need, but don't own, or don't want to own, for great experiences. The challenge is, you still need products to have those experiences. If we can help people have access to the products they don't want to own, we enable those experiences. How did you end up here in LA?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2017

In 1999, I moved out to San Francisco to join the tech scene there, and worked at a couple of e-commerce companies in product roles. I worked in entertainment for five or six years, and film for 5 years, then at Scribble Press, which was a retail entertainment concept for kids, to let kids make their own books.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

The productivity at the studio is much better than the house for business and content.”. “ We’ve got to work five times as hard just to get to the bare minimum on any platform,” said Dean, a 31-year-old filmmaker. Black Founders Matter presses VCs to pledge commitment to diversity. View this post on Instagram.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2019

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. Working the circuit of big groups of strangers is minimally productive. Don’t waste your time following up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. A hype cycle in Gartner's interpretation always comprises five phases: Technology trigger. The first phase of a hype cycle is the technology trigger or breakthrough, product launch or other event that generates significant press and interest.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It got a little bit of press, and did fairly well, but eventually fizzled. I was their VP of Product. As I was gathering information, I was taking photos, doing UX and product work, and building the concept. We're in five cities right now, and everything in the app is curated. How did the company start?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Will (many more) millions help you get five years into one?&#.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2010

October” because of his consistent ability to hit home runs during clutch situations in playoff and World Series games, which contributed to his teams winning five Championships. In addition to his reputation as a showoff, Reggie was renowned for deriding his teammates in the press and initiating clubhouse fights. Cal Ripkin, Jr.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

In the last six weeks, I have been pitched by five entrepreneurs under 20. Mark encourages emerging entrepreneurs to be bold, yet he admits that with his first startup, he boldly pushed PR before the product was ready. But our product wasn’t ready for primetime. Getting press is sales. Do product meetings yourself.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

The insurance industry today is one of the last industries to fully jump into adopting technology for offering up their products, says Wayne Slavin , CEO and founder of SURE (www.sureapp.com), and just needs some help in getting there. Those brands have pretty good products. Wayne Slavin: That's a good question.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 2, 2012

In addition to his reputation as a showoff, Reggie was renowned for deriding his teammates in the press and initiating clubhouse fights. October” because of his consistent ability to hit home runs during clutch situations in playoff and World Series games, which contributed to his teams winning five championships. Cal Ripken, Jr.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2010

back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. A hype cycle in Gartner's interpretation always comprises five phases: Technology trigger. The first phase of a hype cycle is the technology trigger or breakthrough, product launch or other event that generates significant press and interest.

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Startup Press Cloud Computing Technology 91

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This was my second TCDisrupt conference, however my first attending as press. The visible press pass label is a people magnet – most people you pass want to talk, discuss, pitch. I received dozens of long emails each day with press releases, pitches, news and information. Most emails were nothing short of a report.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2017

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. Working the circuit of big groups of strangers is minimally productive. Don’t waste your time following up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2019

In the popular press, it’s easy to find articles that will convince you that companies with a good culture, such as Google, do it by lavishing perks and benefits , including some combination of free meals, trips and parties, financial bonuses, gyms, and a dog-friendly environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. Working the circuit of big groups of strangers is minimally productive. Don’t waste your time following up.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. Like any sale you first need to plan your “prospects” and qualify whether or not they’d be a good fit for your product?—?an

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Our tool is integrated onto their site.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2018

Alex Kazerani: There were several converging trends that we investigated, and this one had five things that we liked. So where is the product today? We launched nine weeks ago, with great attention and press, and we're now getting an onslaught of inbound interest. Why not your badge for your office? All that work has paid off.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2013

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. Working the circuit of big groups of strangers is minimally productive. Don’t waste your time following up.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". So naturally, we started getting all this product awareness, right?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

We observed that the Japanese consumer industry had been using QR codes for four or five years. Matthias Galica: My last role was as a product manager for another local startup, Woome.com, an online dating site. First of all, what's ShareSquare all about? However, one way the U.S. What's your background, and how did the company start?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Read more: HP Press Release , VentureBeat on P&L Sponsor Todd Bradley , TechCrunch follow-up. If you want to run marketing campaigns you need to know who influences whom and in which product categories and geographies. If these software companies each build this authority algorithm in-house then they may become a product.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. What we are talking about is a spectrum of how you restrict early communications around your business: Who you will talk to including the public / press / etc.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

Founded in 2011, Z Supply, LLC has created five women’s fashion brands with a sixth brand and extension into Men’s, launching Spring 2017. I ended up really relating to the nuance and intricacies of product supply and customer demand. That being said, we were getting inundated with inquiries regarding where to find our product.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

Los Angeles-based Netki (www.netki.com) is addressing that complexity, with a product called WalletNames, which replaces those long, complex, easy to confuse strings with easy to remember, domain-like text strings. What is Netki's product all about? It was a regional ISP, and got bough tout by Allegiance Telecom.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. What we are talking about is a spectrum of how you restrict early communications around your business: Who you will talk to including the public / press / etc.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". So naturally, we started getting all this product awareness, right?

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Without automation, you are going to be rekeying that two, three, four, or five times. Dustin got his orientation from the founders of Goldmine, and saw that there was lots of value in the fact that Goldmine needed to be integrated with products like Excel, Outlook, and other software. Since then, we've had a very strong growth record.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. For example, when Tumblr announced it would roll out Post+, a paid subscription product, the company used fan fiction writers as an example of a content creator who could profit from the product.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

At the time, the firm was working on--but not talking about-- their next generation product, which the company announced yesterday. We spoke to Steve Pelletier , the firm's Founder and CEO, about the new product: Tell us a little bit about your new product? Unlike AdBook, this product is literally available to anyone.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

One of the most repeated statistics trumpeted by the popular press is that “Four out of five businesses fail”. Product Name. State the anticipated name of your product/service. You might want to read: Lousy Product Names. How will your product/service look like? In your startup, you control your destiny.

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