Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The author outlines eight necessary steps for every business and entrepreneur to capitalize on this movement to on-demand project teams, versus permanent hires. These steps are the new keys to driving business innovation, controlling costs, staying nimble, and getting better results: Build teams to meet goals rather than organization charts.

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Demand Training Outsource Development Entrepreneur 99

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

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Organization Startup Incubator Ideas 93

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

And when things didn’t go perfectly these organizations had huge leverage over us. Some companies / products are designed for large organizations from day 1. Deer are not so big that they can make huge demands on you for your development resources or customer support. We had to do intense training sessions.

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Startup Customer Custom Resource 389

Berkonomics

MAY 2, 2013

These include ensuring the continued health of the organization, setting the moral compass for your stakeholders, providing for succession by training and documenting, leading the effort in compliance of regulations and safety needs, and … elimination of all possible bottlenecks that impede the efficiency of your organization.

Organization 222

Organization Demand Satisfaction Training 222

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Los Angeles-based Clutter , an on-demand, self-storage startup which helps consumers store and organize their belongings, has raised $9M in a Series A funding. The funding came from Sequoia Capital. As part of the funding, Omar Hamoui of Sequoia has joined the company's board. Clutter said it has now raised $12.3M

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2010

A group of businesses and local organizations in Goleta, California, north of Santa Barbara, are looking to rally more businesses to join in their effort to spur new, direct flight support to San Jose, California, after a loss of the service in February.

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Santa Barbara SoCalTech Technical Review Commerce 202

SoCal CTO

APRIL 18, 2012

CTO Salary and Equity Comparison My guess is that most people who come here are going to be Founders, CEOs and CTOs who want to compare salary and equity of the CTO Position in their organization vs. their peers. Or they are looking at Hiring a CTO and want to see what salary and equity ranges look like.

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CTO Hire Equity Demand Resource 294

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

And when you achieve product / market fit your company often ramps revenue very fast and you need to build an organization to address it from demand generation (aka marketing) to sales discovery to implementation and after-sales support.

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Sales Startup Resource Customer 393

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

We caught up with Julie Schoenfeld , the firm's CEO, to hear about how the firm's offerings have evolved, an interesting comparison of the firm's software to what Demand Media is doing, and what this new funding will go towards. It's some of the kinds of things Demand Media does, except, for the newsroom. Congrats on funding.

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Marketing Funding Content Writing 232

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Organic Academia. Unlike most university programs that are over architected and underfunded, the TMP evolved organically, based on the demands of its students and input from the local community. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles!

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 27, 2021

If Angi and Thumbtack are the places where homeowners go to find services and technicians, then ServiceTitan is where those technicians go to manage and organize their own businesses. Based in Glendale, Calif.,

SaaS 292

SaaS Glendale Statistics Los Angeles 292

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 5, 2020

SXSW organizers said March 2 that the “2020 event is proceeding with safety as a top priority.” The scooters upended bike share, and prompted companies to take some of their bikes off the streets due to lack of demand, according to several city officials who spoke to TechCrunch during SXSW 2019. ”

Technical Review 237

Technical Review Framework Los Angeles Mobile 237

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

There's a large number of on-demand services which have been appearing recently, to help people deal with almost every aspect of their life. Becka Klauber Richter: Helpr is an app for babysitters on demand. So, we moved forward from there, and organically grew, creating a boutique agency. What is Helpr?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2021

As a backdrop, he defines the evolution already in progress from current Gen Y customers to a more demanding and less tolerant state (Gen D) that will make them even quicker and more technologically able to demonize and destroy your business, if it won’t meet their norms of interaction, personalization, and purpose.

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Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 173

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Santa Monica-based Boingo Wireless has inked a deal with a telecom organization to help provide its members with Wi-Fi offloading. The two said that Boingo will white label Wi-Fi solutions to CCA carriers as part of the deal.

Santa Monica 164

Santa Monica Demand Competition Networking 164

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Our mission is to organize all of the world''s real time location information. You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. What is Tilofy about? Ali Khoshgozaran: Tilofy comes from location and unify.

USC 236

USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2023

Continuing the process of planning… So now we’re getting organized. And I’s my favorite method of organizing a strategic plan. The structure combines the listing of your goal with a series of strategies and then tactics, each designed to support each other, each measurable and made public throughout the organization.

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Organization Metrics Demand Resource 156

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The author outlines eight necessary steps for every business and entrepreneur to capitalize on this movement to on-demand project teams, versus permanent hires. These steps are the new keys to driving business innovation, controlling costs, staying nimble, and getting better results: Build teams to meet goals rather than organization charts.

Demand 143

Demand Training Outsource Development Organization 143

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2020

Some firms have said that they’re going to turn to HBCUvc , a nonprofit organization that helps students from historically Black colleges and universities enter venture and tech. Among the strategies? Team up with Black firms already doing the work.

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Equity Technical Review Venture Capital Blogging 220

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

You need a faster and more flexible on-demand hiring strategy, based on the current gig-economy of remote freelancers, contract personnel, and specialists. Of course, as you work with contract players, explore the potential for a long-term relationship, and wait until your organization matures to pursue career positions.

Competition 168

Competition Startup Demand Training 168

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

Resource 171

Resource Startup Organization Incubator 171

Berkonomics

MARCH 26, 2020

These include ensuring the continued health of the organization, setting the moral compass for your stakeholders, providing for succession by training and documenting, leading the effort in compliance of regulations and safety needs, and … elimination of all possible bottlenecks that impede the efficiency of your organization.

Organization 156

Organization Demand Satisfaction Training 156

Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2017

You’re fighting to put out the fires from customer complaints, or incomplete work, or are suffering from an inability to focus upon new development or new customers before cleaning up the mess inside your organization. So, you stop work on the newest product or installation to complete unfinished work.

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Resource Customer Custom Software 243

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Ross Lipson, the chief executive officer and co-founder of the on-demand marijuana and cannabis delivery service, Dutchie, had thought he was done with the online delivery business. It had been only five years since Lipson sold a food delivery business he spent a decade building when the inspiration for Dutchie came to him.

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Services Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles 259

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Some customers and stakeholders don’t just prefer that an organization is socially responsible, but insist on dealing only with these startups. The anecdotal evidence is growing that consumers are willing to pay a premium for sustainability, and have started to demand a discount for ‘un-sustainability.’

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements. They are run by smart & shrewd people or they wouldn’t become leaders in incumbent organizations in the first place. The take aways for me are: The incumbent eventually realizes what is happening to them.

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Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. The client demand we are seeing as we have married our analytics with Jovian's engineering is staggering. I think we'll see a dramatic escalation of demand for the software this year.

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Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

They’ll push you on your uptime SLA, they’ll push for harsher penalties for non-compliance, they demand security reviews … heck – if you’re small enough they’ll push for “ source code deposits.” Organizations are not static. ” That can be brutal. Still, procurement must be fed.

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Development Team Review Software Review Pricing Startup 293

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2022

In the classic book by Christoph Lueneburger, “ A Culture Of Purpose ,” he details how to build this new culture, and why it is becoming more instrumental in bringing about success, as well as sustainability, in organizations as diverse as Unilever and Walmart. They also tend to stay longer with the organization, reducing costs.

Organization 143

Organization Startup Pricing Customer 143

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

"I let them talk me into giving them my internal benchmark suite, which was being written by a group called The Potrero Benchmark Organization. Number two (was) to create end-user demand and drive it into our sales channel. Well, marketing's job number one was to understand customers' needs, desires, etc. To talk to me.

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Marketing Startup Sales Customer 271

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

While much of GrubMarket’s growth has been — like a lot of its produce — organic, its profitability has helped it also grow inorganically. It has made some 15 acquisitions in the last two years, including Boston Organics and EJ Food Distributor this year.

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Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. The fuel for any good demand generation program is relevant, buyer-centric content. Demand generation revenue performance.

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Metrics Marketing Demand Paramount 101

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I don’t care if you’re a 10-person organization, a 1,000 person organization or a multinational corporation – often it is the few key players that change the dimensions. Community Leaders + Organizers. Perhaps somebody needs to organize it a bit better to go into more angel deals. That’s one model.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Santa Monica-based TigerConnect , which provides collaboration and communications tools for the hhealthcare industry, says it has raised $45M more in a Series D funding round, as it has seen surging demand due to the pandemic. The company says the new funding will go towards further investment into its platform to meet surging demand.

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Santa Monica Demand Tool Platform 113

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Apparently with a physical storefront where it can convince customers of the wonders of on-demand mobility. “You have to partner with local organizations both public and private, and real estate organizations because real estate developers are typically the most politically influential.”].

Santa Monica 221

Santa Monica Startup Technical Review Education 221

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

If sudden demand for a product takes management by surprise, having solved these key issues will remove the key barrier to ramping production and taking advantage of the opportunity. In a young company, the key issue is most often finding the way to start the revenue flowing from services and sales.

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Sales Demand Equity Email 166