Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2021

Really listen for danger signals and bad news. Too many CEOs today like to talk, trust their gut, but fail to listen to their team or the customer. They overlook danger signals, and make excuses for bad news. Manage the conflicting demands of leadership. Every day is a good day to start honing your skills.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

The two-ounce bottles will be donated to local restaurants and bars that remain open for delivery, so that employees can use them and distribute them to customers. After that, we’re going to meet the demands of Canada,” INKSmith CEO Jeremy Hedges told the Canadian news outlet Global News.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As inflation rates spiral and consumer demand takes a hit, business owners are forced to be more mindful of their bottom lines than ever. Small Business Administration, but the lenders competitive interest rates and flexible repayment terms still make it a great option, especially if you're an existing Bank of America customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions. Don’t demand or assume immediate and certain answers.

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Tech.Co

MAY 6, 2022

Get the latest news delivered to your inbox faster than Shopify's fulfilment network. Together with Deliverr, Shopify Fulfillment Network will give millions of growing businesses access to a simple, powerful logistics platform that will allow them to make their customers happy over and over again.”. Why Shopify Wants Deliverr.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2018

In startup-land, however, the presumptions about where housing demand is going looks a bit different. A Crunchbase News analysis of residential-focused real estate startups uncovered a raft of companies with a shared and temporary housing focus that have raised funding in the past year or so. Seeking roommates and venture capital.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2011

As customers shift online, retailers have no choice, to not only follow suit, but to adapt to their changing demands. The rise of ecommerce giants EBay and Amazon.com has shone a light on a new path to consumerism. Consumers demand an exact product suited to our exact needs and this time we do not want to be told what this is.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. When you see a story from the LA Times, you know there is a certain level of quality, and that it's written by a news publication you know about.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Verifying Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? Bobbie’s growth snowballed after caregivers sought new sources of baby formula during the nationwide shortage in 2022. However, its unique-for-the-industry monthly subscription model has helped it maintain healthy profits from its loyal customer base in 2023.

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

By popular demand, Round 6 introduces a plaintext test that uses HTTP pipelining, implemented in 14 frameworks so far. Also in response to popular demand, we ran the plaintext test with higher client-side concurrency levels than other tests. This new chart type compares frameworks versus their underlying platform (e.g.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

That means that starting soon, our doctors, hospitals, eldercare, hospice and even death care systems are going to face unprecedented demand. Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. That’s good news for all business segments and the economy. Technology won’t solve this one. With 330 million people in the U.S.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2022

And, in addition to the sellers themselves suspending sales, the strikers are urging Etsy customers to boycott this week as well, by avoiding any purchases through the platform. Getting rid of this mandatory program is another demand that the strikers are holding out for, in addition to dropping the transaction fee increase.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Above all, this news points to a big shift in the podcast industry. The news was a long time coming. The news comes with three big benefits for Spotify. Spotify’s big competitors, Pandora and Apple Music, might all have the same music, but they don’t have podcasts to attract customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2020

The result is that you often take a big financial hit, and lose key customers, before you realize that the change didn’t work. For example, several years ago Apple was so convinced that their new Apple III model would be a winner that they rolled it out broadly, rather than do a controlled release first with some key customers.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? And in addition to streamlining biofuel production, Reversion is also developing ways to improve energy storage for when supply exceeds demand, taking a multi-pronged approach to sustainable power generation. . Sign up to Tech.co's weekly newsletter today. Please fill in your name.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2019

The situation at EVelozcity became so toxic that after the two men left, Jia accused them of “ malfeasance and dereliction of duty” The company was launched in secret, but news of its existence came to light after Faraday Future filed a lawsuit accusing the new company of the theft of trade secrets.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 7, 2020

Comfort and community are two of the main aspects that the business seems to strive for, offering modern clean environments with all mod-cons, as well as regular community events for customers, including networking meetings. These events are key to the Labs approach to fostering a sense of community in its spaces. With losses of $1.4

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

They don’t realize that they are missing out on a great opportunity for “free” promotion, as well as taking a great risk by not listening to what customers are saying, and not monitoring or responding to undeserved challenges to their reputation. Demand professional business skills and customer advocacy.

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socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2013

We caught up with CEO Jordan Ramer , who has previously been at NanoH2O and Aerovironment, to hear more about how EV Connect is hoping to make it easier for companies to offload all of the issues behind installing electric vehicle charging stations for their employees and customers. Who are your customers - parking providers?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Catch up by reading the first edition here or check out last week’s edition , which offered the gamut of mobility news from Lyft and Bird to Waymo’s laser bears and cybersecurity. And here, (wait for it) there are ONMs — original news manufacturers. Sometimes that disruption can hit the new new thing too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2020

They don’t seem to realize that investors can be the most demanding bosses your ever had, since it’s their money you are using and potentially losing. I have to explain that if you really want to exercise total control of a new venture, they you need to do it without external investors, bootstrapping your way with your own resources.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Steve's first question was, “Who are our customers?" I) took the 300 latest cards, personally wrote a questionnaire and called 300 customers. SuperMac's main customer base were color desktop professionals. All of a sudden I now had customers telling what market, how to reach them and what applications are important.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Here are eight Southern California companies and the experienced, successful entrepreneurs heading up their efforts, who haven't had any problems finding investors--or customers--for their firms. Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Does it mean the right thing from a customer perspective, societal impact, maximizing business returns or personal benefit? The good news is that none of these need be mutually exclusive, according to recent studies of market trends. Don’t let day-to-day demands take the reins and drag you off course.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

What was the big news for you or your company this year? We are seeing SaaS companies more and more are competing against other SaaS companies and experiencing more churn, price resistance and customer demand for customization. One area with headwinds are non-mission critical SaaS niche solutions showing slower growth.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

I saw that, if you build a good product that customers love, that people love to use, how you need to market it, how you need to run that project, and so forth. On YouTube, you end up having to pick a new video every time you finish one, and that's just not the right experience. It started to feel like the Matrix to me.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2019

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions. Don’t demand or assume immediate and certain answers.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Not Really At first you may be thinking that this is all bad news. However, the good news is that for most investors, you can certainly change the question and get a lot more information without ever building the MVP. Investors demand more than that. That's an even tougher hurdle. Yes, that's correct.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2022

As for their business model, Grifin doesn't rely on any kind of monthly fee from their customers. Jeenie is looking to fix this problem by supplying language interpreters on demand. For example, if a user spends $3.95 at a Starbucks, a dollar of their money will go into Starbucks stock, meaning they spend $4.95 If they spend $23.95

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Less than a month ago, Snapchat opened custom on-demand geofilters to everyone. Industry news was excited, but for how amazing of a product they are, custom Snapchat geofilters have remained stunningly under the radar. So what’s exciting about this new product? If you wanted one, you had to apply.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2023

Key factors gating your success will always be your level of competency in your chosen field, level of demand for that skill, and how easily you can be replaced. Today you need to talk with, not at, your customers and constituents to get ideas. You have to clearly understand what you want to achieve before you are likely to achieve it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2019

Leaders today need to understand and utilize the algorithmic compute power of artificial intelligence that supports the hyper-personalization in everything from shopping to news delivery to dating today. I found some real insights on this direction in a new book, “ The Algorithmic Leader ,” by Mike Walsh.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2009

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. The company is actually based out of LA, too, but has completed its initial launch in Minnesota, where there’s greater demand for short-term bus travel.

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