Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Every technical entrepreneur is an early adopter of technology, so naturally they build things with people like themselves in mind. The good news is that early adopters are never reluctant to sign up as beta customers and will provide you early feedback on product quality. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Every technical entrepreneur is an early adopter of technology, so naturally they build things with people like themselves in mind. The good news is that early adopters are never reluctant to sign up as beta customers and will provide you early feedback on product quality. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Here are key maxims that I believe indicate a growth mindset rather than a fixed mindset: A need to learn from customers, rather than educate them. They build a startup culture of working for customers rather than pushing a product. Traditional push marketing is losing effectiveness due to information overload.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. Best Communication Tools for Startups Communication tools refer to any type of technology that helps businesses stay connected. From its 4.3-inch

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many product innovations come from quality improvement focuses, like the Japanese Kaizen initiative. Current research indicates that innovation is a discipline, it can be maximized, measured, and managed through formal processes. Innovation must be driven top down by visionary leaders. Innovation is random, and can’t be orchestrated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. If you as an entrepreneur are not “listening” to your online reviews, and not moving quickly to make changes, you are losing ground. An agile business doesn’t wait for their current product line to fail, before planning some enhancements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2021

Many product innovations come from quality improvement focuses, like the Japanese Kaizen initiative. Current research indicates that innovation is a discipline, it can be maximized, measured, and managed through formal processes. Innovation must be driven top down by visionary leaders. Innovation is random, and can’t be orchestrated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

I see it as an opportunity to find new ways to attract customers , make long-needed changes to improve productivity, and lower your own costs of doing business. While they are looking, you can benefit with new services or an expanded product line. Innovation is not all about break-through technologies and big financial investments.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 24, 2017

One of the major shifts we have seen in consumer behavior is how reliant they are on reviews and third party recommendations. These social recommendations often come from third party reviews, like bloggers and other influencers, leaving company ads less desirable. In fact, two out of three Millennials use ad blockers.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

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. It’s a gathering of friends and tech enthusiasts of all stripes. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

As a result, Google has become a verb, and the company is a tech giant with record growth rates and a revenue of $74.5 Continuous improvement applies to the business model as well as the product. Every team member needs the motivation, training and authority to make day-to-day decisions without review and approval.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

help you integrate your product with other systems making it harder for your product to be replaced by competitors. Only Work on Projects That Support Your Core Product Effort. In the Ad Tech world PS revenue often means providing “media services” as a value-add to using your product. rollout support.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 4, 2012

At the inception of a company the entrepreneur typically focuses on product development, RandD, customer relationships and sales and marketing.Often, accounting and taxation are overlooked. Join us to learn how to minimize future headaches and risks and maximize potential future benefit, by taking simple, yet cost-effective measures.

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Failing to choose the right network solution for your organization can result in detrimental financial costs, lost productivity, and angry customers or employees. This allows for increased productivity across the organization due to less network downtime 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The event is a 2-day training in.Net, HTML5, Windows 8, Asp.NET MVC and other Microsoft technologies. In addition, world renowned speakers are invited to discuss the latest trends in technology. This talk will go deep technically, show practical examples, and connect all the concepts with the costs.

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LATechDigest

MAY 12, 2016

Santa Monica-based talent management software firm Cornerstone OnDemand announced the launch of its suite of people analytics products at its annual Convergence Conference. Cornerstone Planning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. If you as an entrepreneur are not “listening” to your online reviews, and not moving quickly to make changes, you are losing ground. An agile business doesn’t wait for their current product line to fail, before planning some enhancements.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

In some instances, it will be appropriate to grandfather ongoing payments due regional distributors for their past performance. Craft terms which ensure you will not beholden to the BDC with respect to your ability to subsequently deploy and profit from jointly developed technology. Do Not Relinquish Joint Intellectual Property Rights.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup. how to market our products and company. Defections of large swaths of talented employees due to low morale.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

BDCs often ask to “private label” or “white label” a smaller company’s technology. This generally involves the BDC selling the startup’s technology under the BDC’s brand. Do not allow your adVenture’s technology to be buried in the bowels of another company’s product, without reasonable attribution.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

BDCs often ask to “private label” or “white label” a smaller company’s technology. This generally involves the BDC selling the startup’s technology under the BDC’s brand. Do not allow your adVenture’s technology to be buried in the bowels of another company’s product, without reasonable attribution.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

People said this about Ring (which went from startup to selling to Amazon > $1 billion in around 5 years), Facebook, YouTube, Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Instagram and many other great behemoths of the technology industry. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! There is nothing viral! Anybody can launch a scooter service! Not really.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

It performs "due diligence" before it makes "investments" and it measures results as a "return on its investment.". The main difference is that we aspire to maximize our social impact rather than achieve a financial return. ABC is applying entrepreneurial principles to the art of charity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Before booking a hotel I always check out Trip Advisor and read reviews. It’s hard for angels to assess whether or not to invest because they often have day jobs and can’t commit to the kind of due diligence that most VCs go through. Obviously I’m assuming that you have a great product and/or strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The remainder of this article will deal with this decision but it comes down to the different economics of DVD rentals due to “ the first sale doctrine ” which gives Netflix a complete library of films and the fact that the first-sale doctrine doesn’t apply to digital downloads. The big price increase : 5 out of 5 stars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). The “product” value is difficult to quantify, the costs are nebulous, and entrepreneurs have to clone themselves to scale the business.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Len Short is truly an online marketing pioneer, heading up marketing at Charles Schwab, AOL and then (PRODUCT)RED. Despite this technical glitch, I opted to publish our discussion, given the high-quality content of his comments. Len later joined (PRODUCT)RED as its Founding CMO. It is kind of rabbit-ear television.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

Our focus was to utilize new technology for streaming over the internet, broadcasting underserved sports which normally don't end up on TV, in HD quality, for viewers across the country and world. The revenue or distribution model for us, is how we can maximize revenue after creating one piece of content in the field.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2013

I’ve been involved with technology product design in one form or another for nearly 25 years and seen one mistake consistently repeated. The single biggest mistake most product teams make is building technology for what they believe the user would want rather than what the actual end-user needs. The “ Normal.”

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

It’s a promotional video for a technology company. We talk tech, get a reminder of GumGum’s goals, and get some additional info on what they’re working hard on. Ophir gives us a look into what’s going on in the ad-tech industry. ” Wait, what? And they do what? In-picture advertisements?

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

By tracking each channel and managing your overall acquisition costs such that they are less than the customers’ lifetime values, you will maximize the growth of your Pour and Stir business. No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” It does not happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Many product innovations come from quality improvement focuses, like the Japanese Kaizen initiative. Current research indicates that innovation is a discipline, it can be maximized, measured, and managed through formal processes. Innovation must be driven top down by visionary leaders. Innovation is random, and can’t be orchestrated.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Idris Manley: NativeTung is a global management solution that allows websites to maximize their global audience, reach, and engagement. Help us understand your technology--is this focused on the automated language translation technology, or on the process of localizing a web site? It also supports blogs.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

We also want you to use and understand this valuable product so that you may attract and retain customers. One immediate step you can take to maximize your company’s rating is to ensure that all information we publish on your company is accurate and up to date. I emailed Rick: Rick, I’m very concerned about two matters.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I review these tenets with my entrepreneurial students at UC Santa Barbara at the beginning of each quarter to reinforce many of the key topics we will cover in the following weeks. As noted in How To Maximize Your Value At A Startup , I also held a variety of positions while at Expertcity. The Two Pizza Rule.

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