TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently. Below is a screenshot of the email sent Tuesday morning to Maven customers. Maven had paused service due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Image Credits: Screenshot/Maven email.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Los Angeles-based LiveXLive Media , which operates a livestreaming and on-demand audio, video, and podcasting service, says it has signed an agreement to acquire Custom Personalization Solutions, LLC , in a deal worth up to $6M. LiveXLive said that CPS had approximately $19M in revenue in 2019. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2019

Is your marketing focus product-centric or customer-centric ? With a wealth of products now available, customers look for the most memorable experience , not just the best product. Amazon is very customer-centric, but it can make all the difference in retail as well as online. Status factors are more important than demographics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2019

After working in business at all levels, and consulting to entrepreneurs for years, I’m still surprised to see so many situations where things that should be easy are painful to customers, and lead to customers hating your business. Get out and meet your customers to learn what turns them on these days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2019

Many notable recent successes, including Airbnb and Uber, have done it by finding disruptive customers, with essentially no new technology. They seek customers willing to decouple from accepted buying models, or are actively looking for a better total experience. Instead seek out customers they can’t or won’t serve.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. As companies get this initial customer feedback on their product they start to have to ask harder questions about unit economics: How much does it cost us to acquire a new customer?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

. “Cognitive computing,” artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics are evolving companies’ understanding of their customers in game-changing ways. The Device-Agnostic Customer Experience. Customer expectations now demand seamless and satisfying user experiences.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

“We’ve spoken to what amounts to billions of dollars in potential demand for the company over time… They need a faster, better, cheaper solution.” Relativity Space signs the satellite transportation company Momentus as a new customer. Relativity is building a 3D-printing rocket manufacturing hub in Mississippi. ” .

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

My simple answer is that they keep their focus on customers, rather than technology. Jeff Bezos has kept his focus on customers. In my view, every startup in today’s world would do well to adopt a management system with the same key objectives: Start with a customer-obsessed business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

A recent high-profile one, Theranos , the blood-testing company, had no trouble getting customers, but promised more than their technology could deliver, Another, Shyp , an early on-demand delivery platform, blamed their demise on premature scaling. Demand continuous innovation to keep up with change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

A platform is a business model and capability that can be accessed and customized by external users. Create and practice an obsession over customers. Make sure everyone knows it’s their job to maintain empathy and exceed customer expectations. Institute deep metrics measuring all aspects of the customer experience.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

Don’t get me wrong, it’s always great to see that first surge of customers, but that’s just the beginning of your work. With the real data from that surge, you need to take a hard look at business model realities, cost of customer acquisition, inventory costs, and other key metrics. Ramp up your communication efforts and vehicles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2019

What we learn in school hasn’t kept up with the demands. Rushing into analysis with a vague problem statement is a clear formula for long hours and frustrated customers. In this age of instant and total communication, you can’t fool customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/21/2019.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In 2019 market conditions often are such that founders retain control of the board through the A-round, usually in a 2–1 (common to investor) ratio but sometimes it’s 3–2 (common to investor). The board also needs to be mindful of the interests of other “stakeholders” including debt holders, employees, customers and suppliers.

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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. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/18/2019. They then ask me to help them find investors who can provide the funding they need.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Spotify’s big competitors, Pandora and Apple Music, might all have the same music, but they don’t have podcasts to attract customers. The podcast will look even more like an on-demand version of radio than it already does. The news comes with three big benefits for Spotify. First: better differentiation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2019

Some people call this the emergence and development of a new type of leader, called the algorithmic leader, who can steer the course through the world of big data, machine learning, and the constantly changing demands of new customers and social trends. He anticipated his future customers and what they might want.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2020

Polestar will only sell its vehicles online and will offer customers subscriptions to the vehicle. It previously revealed plans to open “Polestar Spaces,” a showroom where customers can interact with the product and schedule test drives. COVID-19 has also affected Polestar’s timeline. Image Credits: Screenshot/Polestar.

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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. That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. It started to feel like the Matrix to me. That's the idea that sparked Pluto TV.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

For example, it may seem quicker and more effective to hand your service desk employees the store policy manual, and tell them to follow the rules, rather than spend time coaching them on how to really listen to customer feedback, and use their strengths to build customer loyalty. Your people will expect more coaches than bosses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In my experience, the key steps I look for always include the following: Testing the idea against customers who have money to spend. I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2019

In this era of rapid change, you can’t afford to stop learning, or you will find that your competitors, your customers, and your team, may soon be following someone else. Most people agree that leadership is primarily a set of behaviors that capitalize on relationships and a current market and customer understanding in a complex world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

A theme I often hear from the entrepreneurs and startups I advise is that once they see that first surge of traction from customers, they can relax and enjoy life for a change. In today’s world of growing competition and customer evolution , holding your own, and growing to the next level is a constant challenge that can never be ignored.

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Southern California Edison Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Media and content creation businesses expanding their services to meet future content needs require a network that can support growing media content demands. In 2021, the average person will spend an estimated 100 minutes watching online videos each day, a 19 percent increase from 84 minutes per day in 2019 2. in 2018 was 228.8

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2019

You need to make believers out of your board, employees, prospects, as well as customers. Proactively seek out product, service, industry, and customer perception fears rather than suppressing them. They marched firmly ahead with their existing model, rather than reinvent themselves in the face of customers demanding change.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

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. . million-strong market of digital nomads (up almost 10 million from 2019) has proved to be a smart move for the Austin-based company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

They are very few and far between, partially because the demand is not out there. Kos Galatsis: The biggest lesson I've learned, and have been told numerous times by people much more experience in this field, and in venture capital and startups, is to engage your customers as soon as possible. Finally, what's our next big goal?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The right strategy for branding these days is to create a most memorable total customer experience for customers, rather than a focus on hyping the product and the company name. Here are some key recommendations for building your branding plan: Find out who your customers are through social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2022

Yet the 2019 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. All relationships bring increased demands for your time, and bring expectations and pressures during any changes in your life, or at work. Some people find that they have much in common in workplace duties and perspectives, but have nothing in common outside of work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2019

Business founders who are paranoid of other people, or have an ego that demands total control, are doomed to a life of isolation and frustration. Their lack of trust and sharing will be noted by employees, vendors, and customers, and the business will suffer. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/09/2019.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In our case, on a positive note, the founder did meet regularly with new potential customers. A clear symptom of founder’s syndrome is more excuses, more demands, and more direction without input. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/28/2019. Project reviews are “ad hoc,” based on the latest crisis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2019

You need healthy conflict to get people to face their limitations, and to fully understand customer and operational issues. In fact, in today’s digital age, with a rapid movement to new generations of workers, and equally rapid changes in technology and market demands, your business may not survive without it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Another approach is simply repurposing used items, or simply passing them down to less demanding users, like the ecoATM story with used cell phones, tablets and MP3 players. This not only reduces pollution, but it makes things much better in the process, and adds value to every customer. Reduce waste from new production automation.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

Customers are demanding denser coverage and higher speeds in expanding areas. T-Mobile and Sprint, for example, invested billions of dollars in 2017 to bring 5G service to customers in the US by 2019.¹. The demands on carriers are consistently changing as customers search for higher performing services.

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