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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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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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

A huge example of this is playing out right now in California. the electric provider for the vast majority of Northern California, has not been responsible for proper maintenance on their power lines and facilities. According to Redhawk, businesses must embrace sustainability now. According to the San Francisco Chronicle , P.G. &

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In fact, the selling of insurance products (by brokers) has gone largely unchanged in recent history. And then there’s New York-based Lemonade, the most recent insurtech startup to make its way into California. That level of flexibility and customization draws in millennials in a way that no other insurer has managed to pull off.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. Since 2006, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, has grown by more than 65 percent. Personal relationships do count.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

One of the main challenges is understanding the customer, especially during the seed one funding space when they are still figuring out the market need, their product USP, and product marketing key messaging. Conversation Intelligence gives you access to answers to questions like: Competitor’s product features and pricing.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2022

Many shutdowns and market dry-ups resulted in domestic dependency that narrowed down where products could be found. Also, people in the chemical sector use several digital products and services developed during the past ten years. Knowde was established in 2017 in San Jose, California, by Ali Amin-Javaheri (caesium inc).

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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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ReadWriteStart

JULY 4, 2023

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted a California startup company called Alef Automotive the first-ever airworthiness permit for a fully electric flying car that is capable of both flying and driving on roads. This milestone event marks the beginning of a new era in the transportation industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

So why do I see some many funding requests for products along these lines? The hurricanes in the Gulf, the wildfires in California, and the monsoon floods around the world, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in climate control, forest management, and building design. Some kind of natural or man-made disaster.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most products out there suck so mom gets stuck with angst of wanting to have decorations, activities and chatzkies for other kids to take home. The honest truth is that we took on a little bit too much and so while we launched this beautiful experience we found ourselves without a broad enough set of products (skus) to drive repeat purchases.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2020

One of their products called the Tango Belt that has wearable airbags was something that caught my eye. This is one of the ideal products the company develops for people who cannot walk or might get into an injury by falling or due to reckless movement. The Wardrobe is an eCommerce app that lets people borrow luxury clothing.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2016

We’ve been working together for more than 20 years, and over the past 9 years we’ve served as leadership and executive coaches helping busy professionals improve their productivity – and their lives. We met in the front row of a history class at the University of California. What are the key themes of the book?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The company’s customer service chatbots can conduct natural, colloquial, real-time text exchanges with customers seeking to make returns, find lost orders, or inquire about products. AI should benefit the employee’s role, make results more achievable with the goal of streamlining productivity to meet company and customer needs.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

A global market enables the company to sell vastly more copies of its software without increasing its production costs. The same is true for Internet services, digital media and most products that involve significant up-front research and development (R&D) costs. A Borderless Talent Pool.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2018

Research from the Universities of California, Berkley and Stanford University found that a big problem for many failed tech start-ups was premature scaling, essentially businesses growing too fast. It’s therefore easily understandable why so many new companies push on to try and grow as quickly as they can. Source: Pixabay.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

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, and now sites such as SketchUp and Makerspaces have all the tools you need to make almost anything computer related. These ideas can grow quickly into real products. Diversity breeds success.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

– while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products. Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the story of a team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

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 A recent user community meetup at Kajabi’s offices in Irvine, California.

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View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2022

The production process is based on microbial fermentation which allows us to create proteins identical to those found in meat, being highly nutritious for the human body. Before starting Balletic Foods, Anita was the Director of Outreach at a California-based startup building software for scientists and lab optimization.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 7, 2020

You’d be expected to have a thorough knowledge of all the company’s policies, products, and services to be able to inform clients and potential clients of the options available. It’s important to know what products and markets you want to work with. It’s important because one product might appeal to you more than another.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Sutton learned midway through his pitching journey that what most impressed investors was telling the story of Mega Distribution, a California health supplies wholesaler which became an early adopter and rapt fan. A live demo of the product is essential. Tell stories, but back up the narrative with numbers.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

After former CEO Steve Jobs departed the business in 1985, Apple entered a ten-year downward spiral as competitors' lower-priced products notably Microsoft Windows, dominated the personal computer market. Joe Coulombe had an idea after running a small chain of convenience stores in southern California. 15- Richard Branson.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

Thanks to assistance from SBIR-funded research, iRobot was able to conquer the thorny challenge of moving a project from the demonstration stage to a marketable and profitable product. Since its inception, iRobot has sold over 30 million robots globally. Black Diamond — Skiing to success.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

President Obama plans to support this recovery and growth with the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership initiative, working to ensure that innovative products are created in the United States. Iowa and California in particular are experiencing the benefits of this growth, with Iowa adding more than 19,000 jobs and $176.2

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

So why do I see some many funding requests for products along these lines? The hurricanes in the Gulf, the wildfires in California, and the monsoon floods around the world, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in climate control, forest management, and building design. Some kind of natural or man-made disaster.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Fintech companies have therefore changed a lot of things in the traditional financial sector because as days go by, more transactions between consumers and service/product providers are being carried online or are cloud-based. . The San Francisco, California based company comes with a firm security system.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As it turns out, innovation is not so much systems and processes as it is about building a risk-taking culture, according to Tellis, a professor of marketing, management and organization as well as the director of the Center for Global Innovation at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

One of the main challenges is understanding the customer, especially during the seed one funding space when they are still figuring out the market need, their product USP, and product marketing key messaging. Conversation Intelligence gives you access to answers to questions like: Competitor’s product features and pricing.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

I was honored to give the commencement speech at the University of California Santa Cruz, right down the road from the ranch. Rather than my usual talks about innovation and entrepreneurship I shared a few lessons learned after serving seven years as a public official on the California Coastal Commission.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Elemind has dubbed the approach “electric medicine”, created through partnerships with multiple leading research institutions from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Imperial College London, Harvard Medical School and the University of California at Berkeley.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A few examples of well-known benefit corporations in the USA include Kickstarter, Etsy in New York, Patagonia in California, and Seventh Generation in Vermont. Socially responsible products typically sell at a premium price. I believe this option will continue to spread to other companies, states and countries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2023

The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. Entrepreneurs and startups are all about innovation, in business principles as well as in products and services.

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Brandanew

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Writing product stories, case studies and content in general around your product has one overarching purpose- convince and convert. Or simply be convinced to buy if you’re offering a product for direct sales. This is what you need to make your product story successful. How To Make Your Product Story Successful.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

He then said EXACTLY what he was going to be shipping first: A 100% online, fully-accredited Masters in Education degree with the University of Southern California. You can then talk about what your product actually does (or is going to do) and how that will get the company into a strong position to achieve its broader ambition down the road.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

Like over in California, competition here is hot, and demand for high-tech innovation from food, climate tech, and agri-tech is constantly growing. Timing entry and delivering a product or service that will thrive under these conditions will help entrepreneurs scale up their startups and grow within a fast-paced environment.

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