Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Second, almost no professional investor will consider putting that much into a startup until there is proof of market demand, product viability or some other mitigation of failure. Third (if you’re keeping score), it is not wise to dilute the founder’s ownership greatly in the first round of financing.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Your first customers for any product or service form your reference base, the important group of allies that your marketing and salespeople rely upon when attempting to create buzz and make a mass market for a new product. Be ready to over-allocate resources to a launch. What if my resources are limited?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

Ironically, as a startup investor and mentor, I have seen too many failures caused by just the opposite – too much money spent too soon, taking time to get product perfection, and assuming customers will wait. The result, called resourcefulness, allows entrepreneurs to create opportunities in the face of scarcity. Marty Zwilling.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Time bankruptcy results from the deliberate over-commitment of core resources. Here is one example: You take on a new customer, customize programs or services as needed, and install perhaps an 80% completed system, product or service. So, you stop work on the newest product or installation to complete unfinished work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2015

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. Waste in a startup is any activity that spends resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Bottlenecks to team productivity. The result is lower productivity all around. Lack of communication.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas The role of a CTO varies as the company matures.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Los Angeles-based SOA Software said this morning that it has launched a new product. SOA Software said its new product, the SOA Software Datacenter API Platform, is aimed at the "software-defined datacenter", and helps its customers abstract data center resources from applications. Pricing on the new product was not announced.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

How do you make your product go viral? What are the elements needed to focus upon in making the attempt to take a product viral? In today’s world of social marketing, it takes someone knowledgeable if not expert in understanding how to use available resources in promotion and marketing. Third: cost.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 19, 2023

So, let’s bend the meaning to help us focus on resources while preserving those words. and apply it to our management of corporate resources. Here is a way to think about resource management as we make critical decisions that obligate our personal and corporate assets for growth. Take, for instance , time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2014

You can start a new e-Commerce site on the Internet for as little as $100, with cheap smart phone apps, new technology innovations, or tapping the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. Upgrade, reuse, or recycle every product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2018

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. Waste in a startup is any activity that spends resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Bottlenecks to team productivity. The result is lower productivity all around. Lack of communication.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2011

Each decision you make to commit resources affects the future value of the business to some degree. Minor decisions, such as replacing employees who have left the company or equipment needing updating, are usually considered operational in nature, and unless the business is changing direction, not relevant to this analysis.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2020

Torrance-based Phyn , the Belkin spinoff which develops very advanced hardware used to monitor the usage of water in the home, has expanded its portfolio of products, the company said over the weekend at CES. According to the company, it has added two new products to its XL series of products, the Phyxl XL 1.5" and Pyn XL 2".

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socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2015

Los Angeles-based Akana , the developer of enterprise API management tools, said this morning that it has launched a new product into the healthcare space. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

With the financial constraints on every business today, it is easy to convince marketing and development that they are competing for resources, rather than working together to offer the best solutions for customers. Relationships are key to happiness and productivity.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But a small excursion caught early and corrected saves massive corrective resources later. You can just reject the components, especially if coming from an outside supplier, or you can get to the root of the problem by examining the cause and reengineering the process or product quickly, saving you and perhaps your supplier time and cost.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). If you know of more resources on this topic, or want to talk about anything startup or tech related, we’d love to hear from you. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Don’t worry about scaling just yet.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 -- The BioTech Forum's BioTech Resource Roundup. This very timely BioTech Forum event will provide valuable information to the life science/ biotech industry in the form of resources available in the region.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2020

Remember the concept of minimum viable product (MVP), which is designed to test viability and interest before you burn through too much of your energy and resources. Your productivity can be severely compromised by lack of balance, making you ineffective in managing key tasks and people around you.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2009

Brea-based IMS Company , a manufacturer of in-flight portable entertainment players and related products, said Friday that it has acquired Flight Deck Resources, a provider of hardware for flight deck management on airplanes. According to IMS, Flight Deck Resources will become a new division, which will be known as IMS Flight Deck.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2014

San Diego-based video-based, driver safety products developer Lytx says it is rolling out a new product specifically aimed at mid-sized, commercial fleets. According to Lytx, the company''s new DC Protect program is aimed at fleets with less than 350 vehicles and limited safety resources. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 3, 2022

Quality” products and services…. should not be positioned as “cheap,” or your potential customers will question your message from the start and will be more critical of the delivered product than if offered as one or the other, but not both. And boy, does it apply to most of us and our offerings. Let’s define “fast.”. But beware. .

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Berkonomics

MARCH 18, 2021

And entering the fight without the proper resources usually assures defeat. Resources such as money, experience, statistics about your target, experienced marketing and sales talent, and especially a compelling need and attractive product are all important to the ultimate success of an enterprise.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 19, 2023

If the problems had been in product stability and customer service together at the same moment, there might not have been enough time and resources to recover. Your reputation hinges upon delivering a quality product at the moment of release and maintaining product quality throughout its life.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Specifically, they should know about, and help with: Asking and answering the 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators Knowing when and how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? , Then, a month later, the product is still 90% done. And six weeks later – 90% again! innovation

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. Waste in a startup is any activity that burns resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers. Bottlenecks to team productivity. The result is lower productivity all around. Lack of communication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2019

Successful businesses require innovative people, who have built an abundance of innovation capital, to win support and resources for their ideas. Successful business innovators excel at networking, through both strong and weak social ties, to get the resources and support they need. The cycle repeats.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 4, 2021

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. Do you have the resources to evangelize?”. Even Apple rarely attempts this, with all its resources.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Here’s one for executives of any company with next generation products in mind. Don’t draw your visionary resources into the incremental fight. It is up to you to decide if research and development for advanced or next generation products is a strategic priority for you and your company. First, let’s recognize the problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2021

Ironically, as a startup investor and mentor, I have seen too many failures caused by just the opposite – too much money spent too soon, taking time to get product perfection, and assuming customers will wait. The result, called resourcefulness, allows entrepreneurs to create opportunities in the face of scarcity. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2021

Today you can start a new web site business for as little as $100, produce cheap smart phone apps, or lead the effort to tap the multitude of opportunities brought by capitalizing on our concern for dwindling natural resources. Upgrade, reuse, or recycle every product. Optimize existing product efficiency, safety, and reliability.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , the developer of talent management software headed by Adam Miller, said today that it has launched a new set of products. The firm said that the cloud-based versions of the software will make it faster to deploy and easier to scale than on-premise systems. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2017

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand has launched a number of new products today, including Cornerstone Realize, a software implementation service, and Cornerstone Engage and Cornerstone Benchmark, two products aimed at employee engagement and benchmarking.

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Berkonomics

MAY 20, 2021

Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time – time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working. But first, identify what those critical resources are in your company.

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Berkonomics

MAY 13, 2021

Several years ago, I wrote a book entitled, Extending the Runway , using parallels to piloting a plane to equate to the process of creating and building a small company, making maximum use of resources to get to and beyond breakeven. The five resources boards and investors can add to a company. It is worth revisiting the most.

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Berkonomics

JULY 13, 2023

Assign our development manager to localize design and oversee the needed enhancements to our product and support materials for each new territory. Note that the strategy calls for cooperation between business development, sales, marketing, product development, installation, and support. But it is not written in stone.

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