Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Our marketplace is organized like a used item marketplace, like Amazon or eBay, or Craiglist, in that a seller lists an item, picks a cause, and sets a price. We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. It's just like Craigslist, except the money goes to support causes.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

After a year in which Biogen’s share price has fallen by more than a third and one of its top drug prospects failed, Scangos, who has led the company since 2010, has announced plans to step down. Biogen is holding a conference call this morning to discuss its quarterly earnings. [ Updated, 9:20 a.m. Reprints | Share:

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. LA has the annual Monty Conference. And of course Foundry Group is the original masters of this with perfectly organized ambassador trips to Boulder.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

It designs its own glasses, and sells directly to customers, cutting out the middleman and keeping prices low. A flat organization is one where there is no (or very few) levels of management in between staff and executives. Related: Design Your Office to Fulfill Employees’ Most Basic Needs. Warby Parker.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

It designs its own glasses, and sells directly to customers, cutting out the middleman and keeping prices low. A flat organization is one where there is no (or very few) levels of management in between staff and executives. Related: Design Your Office to Fulfill Employees’ Most Basic Needs. Warby Parker.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 24, 2012

Participants spend their time soaking in hot springs, eating delicious and healthy organic Ayurvedic inspired meals, stretching out each morning with two hours of yoga, staying grounded through guided meditations, exploring new ideas in workshops, writing, drawing, sharing in group discussions and being present. You have many prices?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 10, 2007

We ended up choosing a space that would last us 6-9 months, based on price, the "feeling of the space" and availability. We turned one into a conference room and another one into a "lounge" with sofas, ottomans and comfortable, funky chairs and a flat-screen TV. Being a startup, of course, we needed to design on a tight budget.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. Mostly, Google just had way better organic results (“the loss leader&# ) so it was always preferred by consumers.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

We're looking to choose a design put together by one of our readers as the official t-shirt for OnStartups. The design should be unique, include a slogan related to entrepreneurs, and something stylish. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.).

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 6, 2011

Early in his career, he devised a clever strategy for making a splash at the Broadcast Design Association tradeshow, one of the most significant gatherings in the motion graphics industry. Pricing should be positioned as a show special and you should give your prospect an easy out if your solution does not satisfy their needs.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 6, 2011

Early in his career, he devised a clever strategy for making a splash at the Broadcast Design Association tradeshow, one of the most significant gatherings in the motion graphics industry. Pricing should be positioned as a show special and you should give your prospect an easy out if your solution does not satisfy their needs.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

It’s the one feature that stuck with me the most from the F8 conference this past September. This is a core fundamental function of all web design that deals with “conversions” Ads work this way, shopping carts work this way, and Facebook’s OpenGraph absolutely works this way. What is OpenGraph?

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