Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Back in the early 2000s, the Maker Movement took hold in California, based on the emergence of such do-it-yourself (DIY) tools as 3-D printers, Google''s SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop, with all the tools you need to make almost anything. A recent California event packed in 100,000 people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

There continues to be an incredible demand out there for actionable, practical lessons in how to apply this emerging set of ideas. In the kelp beds off the coast of Southern California, one can find thousands of species of fish, but two of the most sought after by commercial fishermen are the California Halibut and the White Seabass.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Life is filled with stress and the average work day can provide a host of new triggers that add to stress, whether it’s a demanding supervisor, a difficult client or uncooperative co-workers, just to name a few. People can often feel tired during the work day, even if they don’t have a physically demanding job.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Finally, since no one would believe a set of benchmarks named after our company, we needed a façade of independence, so we named them after the street the company was headquartered on in Sunnyvale California – they became known as the Potrero Benchmarks. We were constantly creating metrics [.] there were words of encouragement on the package.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? What is the future of Pay-Per-View/Video-on-Demand (PPV and VOD)? Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1 How about Internet Video? Annual U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Balancing business and family, and ensuring demand for your product were key lessons shared by two veteran entrepreneurs on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. There was no demand in companies for using a wide area network like the Internet and they didn’t believe that the demand would ever be there so we got no funding.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Balancing business and family, and ensuring demand for your product were key lessons shared by two veteran entrepreneurs on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. There was no demand in companies for using a wide area network like the Internet and they didn’t believe that the demand would ever be there so we got no funding.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2018

We all know the dangers of the internet. Imagine if every time a party lost an election it would cry fraud and demand fresh elections. Right now, California is allocating a budget of over $134 million to exploring new ways of voting. As exciting as the idea might seem, there are a number of problems associated with this notion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

Having grown up in Northern California and living near a Japanese family when I was really young, I always had a fascination with Japan and wanted to live there. I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2015

The only consistent in the wants and needs of internet users is change. This has less to do with finicky temperaments and more to do with the change of the infrastructure of the internet itself. The gap in demands of internet users now compared to ten years ago is just as vast as that between the technologies of each of these two eras.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Robert McKenna III , a well-known medical malpractice lawyer , is a partner in the Huntington Beach, California law firm Kjar, McKenna & Stockalper LLP. Is their internet reliable? You have internet.’” Numerous advantages can be had from both setups, but they also have the potential to pose serious difficulties.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

VP of Business Development, DNAnexus - Palo Alto, California In the not too distant future, everything will be determined by your DNA--your job, what retro 50's decor you'll buy, how tightly you'll slick back your hair, whether or not you can date Uma Thurman. We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet.

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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. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). Get Physical!

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 14, 2011

Of course, those wanting to point to this as yet another sign of a tech bubble will have ammo here, but the data from the report demands a bit more of a nuanced assessment. Across all Internet companies tracked in the CB Insights' database, deals were up 28% year-over-year and funding grew 69% as compared to the second quarter of 2010.

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 6, 2015

The frenzy at these higher levels, and the continuous stories of first time entrepreneurs in their early 20s who magically start these amazing companies is creating a demand at the bottom of the funding market, like the pyramid schemes in Southern California in 980 (see below). Look out for this trend, put your wallet away.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Eloqua is bringing this revolution to the B2B marketers by providing on-demand applications and best-practice expertise for B2B marketers to execute, automate and measure effective marketing programs that drive revenue.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

You’ve built a sales organization and company that’s burning cash before you know if you have demand for your product or a repeatable and scalable sales model. To create this demand at first customer ship, marketing activities start early in the product development process. Build and they will come” is not a strategy, it’s a prayer.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2014

A municipal utility may be able to provide electricity that is cheaper or about as affordable as our current utility offers – or the city may waste millions of dollars trying, just as communities in Florida , California , and New Mexico have done recently.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

We think that the magazine industry is going through incredible change but that the Internet website experience doesn’t yet fulfill our magazine needs. We set up Formation Media to bring that experience to the Internet. My partner was in product management at Demand Media. Appendix: Practice what I preach.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. This is the most important sentence in this post and worth deconstructing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

My parents and my brother live in Southern California. He was talking about what he thought needed to happen in California and the fact that every state was going to need the kind of expertise was able to muster and probably wouldn't have access to that. I think that's happening all over the internet right now.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2012

 It implies that selling to the market is a task that needs to be accomplished, but that the business is focused on an existing market that has high demand for the product.  This tends to lead them down the path to market risk dominant companies, including a lot of consumer internet deals.       Search.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

The company has a large press event, and Marketing launches a series of programs to create end-user demand (trade shows, seminars, advertising, email, and so on). Reply Why Startups Die | Kikabink News - Internet Marketing News , on October 3, 2009 at 9:20 pm Said: [.] Marketing is at its peak.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 7, 2016

Keep in mind that I grew up in Texas and then lived in California. That represents a whole new format for creators and perhaps it’s the birth of a whole new economy for musicians who can best serve this new demand via a novel format. We are moving from access to executing on alternate realities at every level of the stack.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to learn what a VC investor thinks about “Internet scale” and how you can usually simplify your idea by charging a fair price for your product. Dan: The question is really directed towards the definition of Internet scale. It’s a fraction of the overall Internet market.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

This isn’t just Northern California touchie feelie; life goes in cycles and startups are a repeat game. I didn’t know anything about the internet, but I knew that he was a very smart guy, so I called him and asked if I could come. He said yes, so I found myself in Los Angeles during the first internet boom.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

This isn’t just Northern California touchie feelie; life goes in cycles and startups are a repeat game. I didn’t know anything about the internet, but I knew that he was a very smart guy, so I called him and asked if I could come. He said yes, so I found myself in Los Angeles during the first internet boom.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

consumer Internet) might have a really, really high bar of achievement for funding. Did the VC’s like your team ? Do they believe you have a big enough vision and market. Guaranteed Funding – Not Will this type of presentation guarantee you funding? Of course not.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive. The article explores some major players and their actions.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

See Also: When Ice.com—a Top 500 Internet Retailer—Uses Mentors, You Should Too. What if, as you’re getting ready to harvest your first batch, you then find out that all the demand for passion fruit is centered in Southern California, and not in Miami like you thought? It’s doable! Learn to farm as you go.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2020

According to CB Insights , the biggest reason early businesses fail isn’t passion or lack of money — it’s a lack of market demand. How do we pinpoint market demand, then? California-based Onewheel is a single-wheeled hoverboard that aims to shake up the skateboarding scene. What type of benchmarks measure market demand?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

A large number of these customers had mailed back their registration cards (this was pre-Internet) with their names, phone numbers, job titles, etc. I wanted to know if marketing was getting any bang-for-the-buck in spending its demand creation dollars. Has anyone ever spoken to a customer?” Which ones? Had they seen any our ads?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Then they move into demanding a person who demanded excellence of himself and others around him. I mean, there a lot of people that felt absolutely very demanding. John, it may not mean a lot to you today, but at the time it certainly did because most people had the question, what's the internet?

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

The Digital Dream Team Way before the Internet phenomenon, we had created “Rocket Science the brand ” that was much bigger in size and importance than Rocket Science the company. Companies in the entertainment business around the world knew who we were, and were interested in meeting us, if only to see what the hype was about.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

PeterLongBSCF : Peter Long is the President and CEO of Blue Shield of California Foundation, tweeting about making quality health care accessible for all. jcanales : Jim Canales, President and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, shares how they’re working to expand opportunities for the people of California.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. We’re the largest fund in Southern California.

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