Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies. Total raised: $2.5mm – Read more: TechCrunch.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2020

The company offers up its direct-to-consumer jewelry designs on a "try before you buy" basis, providing both customized jewelry and sample rings and other jewelry, which it ships directly to consumers to wear and use before they decide to pay for those items. De Beers Group is diamond mining, retail, and trading giant.

Funding 113

Funding Sample Los Angeles Design 113

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

We will design and manufacture an apparel brand based on the inspiration of collective editors. We then take that information and find trends and metadata, and all that content and sharing, and use it to drive e-commerce, and to design and manufacture apparel products. The two sat down with us to explain the idea behind the company.

Startup 182

Startup Commerce Design Media 182

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

Last week, Pasadena-based Punchcard (www.punchcard.com) launched its mobile apps, which help local retailers provide rewards to loyal customers. It provides consumer rewards, and on the merchant side, it allows them to identify local customers and reacquire them by pushing them offers and incentives to come back. What is Punchcard?

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Southern California Idealab Startup Custom 245

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. Ariel understood her customer?—?the and a differentiated feel in terms of fabric, design, sustainability, etc.

Product 296

Product Course Customer Custom 296

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2021

Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample, or simply his gut feeling. Offer customized products or services. Big gorillas with deep pockets find it hard to scale products that are designed or produced to order. Choose a large market in a growth industry.

Startup 170

Startup Study Journal Sample 170

socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2010

Russell Stern: Most semiconductor companies have to have to do board designs anyway, for reference designs, and to further qualify them, certify them, and get them through agency approvals. What that gives our customers, is a great edge in performance. What a customer wants is to just have much better Ethernet and UDP multicast.

Networking 124

Networking Startup Design Customer 124

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Floravere , the first direct-to-consumer luxury bridal brand, is putting convenience back into the bride’s hands by delivering sample wedding gowns directly to their doorstep. Brides are able to select three samples from their collection to be shipped to their doorstep and mailed back with a pre-paid label within three days.

Sample 70

Sample Training Sales Email 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2012

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Iterate and improve the fit until your test customers are delighted, not just tolerant.

Entrepreneur 99

Entrepreneur Pricing Custom Customer 99

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

We've got a really cool, social product development formula, which is a fancy way of saying we'll be sending sample formulas to our customers in the second month, send out two formulas to them, and have them come back and vote on which one they like better. That's the one we'll mass product.

Dollar Shave Club 210

Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I was interested in the opportunity, because although the firm had been around for some number of years, they had an interesting product, great customers, and the legal market is a massive market. It seemed like we had enough assets there to do something interesting with the company. It's all delivered over the web.

Legalzoom 164

Legalzoom Startup Template Sample 164

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2013

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Iterate and improve the fit until your test customers are delighted, not just tolerant.

Product 94

Product Pricing Custom Customer 94

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2011

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Iterate and improve the fit until your test customers are delighted, not just tolerant.

Startup 93

Startup Pricing Custom Customer 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2013

Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample, or simply his gut feeling. Offer customized products or services. Big gorillas with deep pockets find it hard to scale products that are designed or produced to order. Choose a large market in a growth industry.

Startup 102

Startup Study Journal Sample 102

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Services entrepreneurs can more easily capitalize on the trend to treat each customer personally, whether entrepreneurs be interior designers working from home, marketing consultants, or offering Angie’s List to find the best local handyman. Here is just a sampling to give you the idea: Software as a service (SaaS).

Services 101

Services Startup Outsource Technical Support 101

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2012

Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample, or simply his gut feeling. Offer customized products or services. Big gorillas with deep pockets find it hard to scale products that are designed or produced to order. Choose a large market in a growth industry.

Startup 99

Startup Study Journal Sample 99

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Open to potential career pivoters and professionals of all levels, the panel consisted of the following panelists, whom entered their positions from backgrounds ranging from business to engineering to design. Jay Stakelon , VP Product Design, Fullscreen. You always want perfect data on what customers are doing. Jay chimes in.

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample, or simply his gut feeling. Offer customized products or services. Big gorillas with deep pockets find it hard to scale products that are designed or produced to order. Choose a large market in a growth industry.

Startup 92

Startup Study Journal Sample 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2012

The format of an NDA is simple, and you can download a sample from my website. A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not patentable, but gives you an economic advantage over competitors or customers. Trade secrets. Period covered.

Startup 97

Startup Patents Sample Ideas 97

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2010

At the time, we had a couple of customer buying chips from us that were processor chips, used for doing energy measurement in commercial meters. We've got four generation of parts in the market, with three in production, and the fourth sampling--with a fifth in design.

Equity 124

Equity San Diego Startup Activity 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2011

The format of an NDA is simple, and you can download a sample from my website. A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not patentable, but gives you an economic advantage over competitors or customers. Trade secrets. Period covered.

Patents 90

Patents Sample Ideas Entrepreneur 90

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2010

I recommend that you design a standardized form broken down into high level criteria such as, “Intellect, Work Experience, Personality, Attributes Required for this Job, etc.&# If it’s a job that requires writing you could ask them to submit a sample in advance. and then sub categories underneath. Who introduced you?

Startup 301

Startup Examples Sales Pricing 301

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2013

The format of an NDA is simple, and you can download a sample from my website. A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not patentable, but gives you an economic advantage over competitors or customers. Trade secrets. Period covered.

Ideas 92

Ideas Demand Patents Entrepreneur 92

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

AudioMicro - Are you a composer, publisher, songwriter, musician, independent band, sound designer, or audio engineer? License your original work on AudioMicro - we accept for review and potential licensing representation all content that meets our minimum quality and sample rate standards and Terms of Service.

Stickam 71

Stickam Technical Review Draper SoCal 71

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

You can fill out your profile anonymously, and get that information, and once you actually do the testing and are comfortable with the provider, that's when you're providing your detailed personal information, and in fact a DNA sample. There's really two customers here: the consumer, and we serve the test seller. Talk about your round?

Content 150

Content Services Resource Sample 150

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2010

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Iterate and improve the fit until your test customers are delighted, not just tolerant.

Tips 48

Tips Pricing Custom Customer 48

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

AudioMicro - Are you a composer, publisher, songwriter, musician, independent band, sound designer, or audio engineer? License your original work on AudioMicro - we accept for review and potential licensing representation all content that meets our minimum quality and sample rate standards and Terms of Service.

Stickam 60

Stickam Content Draper Web 60

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

AudioMicro - Are you a composer, publisher, songwriter, musician, independent band, sound designer, or audio engineer? License your original work on AudioMicro - we accept for review and potential licensing representation all content that meets our minimum quality and sample rate standards and Terms of Service.

Stickam 40

Stickam Draper Technical Review Sample 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2010

The format of an NDA is simple, and you can download a sample from my website. A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, or compilation of information which is not patentable, but gives you an economic advantage over competitors or customers. Trade secrets. Period covered.

Startup 48

Startup Patents Sample Entrepreneur 48

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 6, 2010

AudioMicro - Are you a composer, publisher, songwriter, musician, independent band, sound designer, or audio engineer? License your original work on AudioMicro - we accept for review and potential licensing representation all content that meets our minimum quality and sample rate standards and Terms of Service.

Stickam 40

Stickam Technical Review Draper Venture Capital 40

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

This biotech company developed Xplore-PATHO as a service to test samples for the presence of pathogens – everything from bacteria and DNA virus to parasites and fungus – in a single test. For retailers, this will mean selling more product, fewer returns and happier customers. Culpability (Atlanta, GA).

Startup 79

Startup Mentor Platform Help 79

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products. AudioMicro - Are you a composer, publisher, songwriter, musician, independent band, sound designer, or audio engineer? Custom ad deals and partnerships.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2010

That's what we licensed from Caltech, and now, with our own people, we've been able to take it to the next level, not only from the technology but also the design perspective. In the battery space, there are three factors that go into things, including materials, the fundamental science, as well as the design. READ MORE>>.

CalTech 168

CalTech Technical Review Azusa Venture Capital 168

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This means selling at least 5-10 customers in advance, before it is even built. Offer the customers a discount for buying in advance. Ask for is code samples. Try to identify developers that are flexible in their design. This will prove your product is worth building to you and to the developer.

CTO Hire 81

CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop Development 81

InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

I sort of had that gene in my DNA, having started a couple of businesses earlier in my career, one in college to sell my lighting designs and sculptures, and one as a young product designer to sell myself as a consultant to Silicon Valley startups. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

Mentor 100

Mentor Pacific Palisades Startup Class 100

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. See a sample reprint in PDF format. We cover commercial and residential topics, including housing, mortgages, design and architecture. WSJ Editor.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44