ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

Canoo, an EV startup based in California that debuted its futuristic-looking electric van in 2021 , is having a hard time making ends meet. The business is currently working on the production of a number of electric vehicles (EVs), including the Canoo Pickup Truck and the MPDV (multi-purpose delivery van). Q: Who founded Canoo?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2020

While the lessons have often been harsh, they have also introduced new opportunities for forward-thinking entrepreneurs to develop innovative systems, services, and products that will help both businesses and consumers in this new environment.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

By disrupting the Service Provider space, DriveNets effectively offers operators many more solutions to cost effectively scale up and achieve organizational goals. This Israeli start-up was established in 2017, with dual offices in Israel and California. The founders of Varada include David Krakov, Tal Ben Moshe, and Roman Vainbrand.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2020

A recent study from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business states, “Executives variously defined culture as a company’s tone, operating style, standard of behavior and even the “invisible hand” that guides a firm”. However, achieving topline objectives remains most organizational leaders’ top priority. Bottom-line.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

Next, we had to figure out how we could deliver that while staying drop dead simple to operate. Yes, your investors are sometimes the best source of strategic advice and even operational direction, including efforts in improving customer-facing product features in your software development cycles. “We

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2018

Our product is delivered electronically; sales tax doesn’t apply to us.”. “We For example, the state of California asserts that a company with gross receipts within the state of $561,951 or more for tax year 2017 may be subject to income tax based on economic presence. The sale of software isn’t subject to sales tax.”.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. Frank Robinson of SyncDev has been helping companies figure out their minimum viable product and pivots since 1984, long before I even knew what it meant. Massacre at IBM.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. And to today, when its major product is simply innovation. 39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

However, when it comes to MLM product development, marketing ideas and compensation plan strategy, being a creative copycat could be a legal and ethical shortcut to achieving your business goals for your new MLM, party plan or direct selling company. The same goes for new MLM product development. And it is downright dishonest.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

First: They’re all based in California, and more specifically, in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Menlo Park, respectively. They’re All in California. The city I call home, Boston, is not known for its social products. Any of these ring a bell? A Story of Impact. I left my hotel and gave my taxi driver the address.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

After Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky had launched Experiences (a service offering city tours and the opportunity to meet up with locals), he made the bold plan to 4x his production from 12 cities to 48. It was also unable to manage the complex handoffs and workflows for the Experiences coordinators and three production teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

He’s thoughtful about markets, investors, products and is always very well reasoned in his arguments. 5. We then went back to talking about how to choose the space in which your startup is operating. The firm focuses on early stage companies in the Northeast but occasionally invests in California startups.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2024

military space port on the coast of California As a Titan IIID rocket blasted off, it carried a spacecraft on top that would change everything about how intelligence from space was gathered. For decades Land’s unerring instincts for instant products delighted customers. December 1976 – Vandenberg Air Force Base, U.S.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”). Ability” vs. “Knowledge”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

State Department and see what products you can come up with to solve them. The time difference between Washington and California often doesn’t help. So the idea that students with engineering or other technical backgrounds might create actual tangible products for diplomatic ends feels fresh, novel and necessary. “A

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 13, 2020

There have been many suggestions for how we can expand the product, but we want to keep it simple and easy to use. It’s a standalone tool that facilitates communication within an organization, which is one of the most important aspects of any operation. MCALERT currently is being used by 15 to 20 communities around the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

At its essence, it’s all about creating opportunities and cultivating relationships that will help you increase revenue streams, reach new customers, or expand into different markets for your Topanga, California business. Another strategy is product development, which involves creating new offerings to satisfy customer needs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.

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Gust

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Having taken stock of the main legal documents and actions involved in forming and operating a new startup, let’s crack open the “case” (disregarding the warnings about voiding your warranty) and examine a few of the steps, documents and key decisions to be made in getting a new startup ready for business.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product. In most other companies a product-marketing department was responsible for the pricing, positioning and promotion of the product.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2017

Even if failure can be educational and productive it is not an exercise to be repeated. The entrepreneur must have a clear vision & focus, must operate in an optimized environment and, most importantly, must work with good people who share the vision. What problem does my product/idea solve?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 27, 2015

Product reviews are an insightful part of a consumer’s purchase process. Before a consumer buys a certain product, they will want to know what other people have to say about that product. If people who have consumed the product have good things to say about the said product, the consumer will see this as a go-ahead.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

If you promise to deliver specific products and services, add in a few extra perks. If your business operates digitally, consider renting a small office space that can be used for collaborative meetings and external client gatherings. When you are making a plan of action with your client, do not bite off more than you can chew.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2022

Studies show that not only do free snacks at work boost employee morale and productivity , they also have a low impact on bottom-line expenses compared to health insurance or 401(k) matches. and has rapidly growing operations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, New York City, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

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Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

When I retired after 21 years working in 8 startups, I was invited to be a guest lecturer at the business school at the University of California Berkeley. government is still operating like a 20 th century organization while our adversaries are operating at 21 st century speed. Let me give you an example.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics. You need to be able to understand how to take advantage of the market you’re operating in, including how to take advantage of corporations. .

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2016

An unrelated article by Morton Bennedsen and Nicolai Foss in the California Management Review attempts to draw links between family assets and firm innovation based on extensive historic examples from around the world. Hamel and Tennant offer four specific ways to encourage the pre-requisite thinking. Challenging Orthodoxies.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. In the race to build a great software product, engineering talent is oxygen. Hiring is what enables you to execute your product roadmap. Ditto for Apple. Don’t participate.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2013

“With the winning money I decided to invest in creating a patent for my product and start the first steps of creating the first prototype,” Ismael said. “We’re so happy that the judges believed in the potential of our product as much as we do.” ” Meet Freja Nelson, 38, of Freja’s Foods.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When it launched in 97 it was a DVD rental business whose only real value proposition was the mail-order element of its operation. The founders eventually created custom cereal boxes to raise funds so they could continue to operate. Nowadays, every single country is familiar with Apple products, whether it be the iPhone or the Macbook.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. This is why there are FCC restrictions on the operation of spark gap radios today.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

California can be appealing to California-based investors (particularly fast-growth tech companies) despite high income and corporate taxes, and franchise fees for all businesses regardless of size. Don’t let an overly-specific name restrict your product offerings later. . Be flexible: Think about your future.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. During the first year of the fund they took forty-eight trips to California! Is a completed product necessary to get funding? But Howard comments wire frames or some progress toward a product should be achievable given how inexpensive it is to produce.

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