Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

He opened the first of many PanIQ Escape Rooms in Hollywood, California, and today, they have locations in San Jose, Phoenix, Miami, NYC, Dallas, Nashville, Chicago and many more. Tell us about your products and services. It only seemed logical for Akos and his partners to bring this concept to the US. How do you help clients?

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Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Cool student entrepreneur story out of San Jose State University where students and recent alum use the school’s business plan competition to raise basic funding and launch a beta product for their student note sharing service.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

In other words, the arrival of a product or service like Uber will have zero impact on the overall market size of the car-for-hire transportation market. As Uber becomes more established in a market, pick-up times continue to fall, and the product continues to improve. It now has high liquidity from South San Jose to Napa.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

We really will have no clue until we ship the product and see how it''s accepted." There''s a reason why people such as Larry Ellison can keep the San Jose airport open late for his private jet while you and I are munching peanuts on Southwest Airlines. At least that entre­preneur is honest.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 18, 2011

To event organizers, make it easy for attendees to meet before the event, it makes the actual event day more productive! This year, iOSDevCamp was held at PayPal in San Jose. It helped me figure out who had what skills and what ideas, but generally it was nice to meet people too.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 2015 Nerdwallet.com chose it as one of the best places to start a business, as well as the #1 city for female entrepreneurs, and for good reason: It’s an affluent urban center and was ranked as one of the top 20 most productive metro areas in terms of GDP. San Jose, CA. San Diego, CA. Here are some additional U.S.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. His goal in building the company was to spend 3 years building value and find a good home for the engineers and product. Bootstrapping 101.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2017

This technology is being tested now, as I experienced a few months ago while driving north on Highway 101 from Los Angeles to San Jose. A recent Los Angeles Times article suggested there is great likelihood that robots – or driverless trucks – will eventually replace 1.7 million truckers over the next decade.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

This crusade was fun and absolutely rewarding, but certainly affected my academic productivity. I was inspired by the ability to create products from openly accessible datasets and open source tools, and how this can empower anyone, located anywhere, at anytime, to make a difference. Related articles.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Our business customers can generate more revenue, increase engagement in their apps, and differentiate their product offering by integrating with our innovative video technology. Fantag was started in San Jose and moved to Sacramento to take advantage of this ecosystem. How did your team come together?

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ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2017

Product type. Your goal is to serve them with relevant offers where you cross-sell and upsell related products. Here’s the logic behind his thinking: He uses the opportunity to get customers engaged, and generates some social proof for the product. Your goal is to cross-sell and upsell relevant products. Purchase value.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Typically, the L&D function includes onboarding new employees, mandatory employee training (think about topics such as harassment, diversity & inclusion, etc), leadership development, new product training, and enrichment curriculum. James began his career as a technical recruiter in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence. Wondering how do I get in touch with you - I am founder of a company here in San jose, CA and would like to invite you to be part of our advisor team. I will come back for more.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

Product testing. When a company produces their new and exciting product, it is important that they give the customers the best possible option. Companies need to run tests and reviews so that they can know for sure that their product is at the best level that it can be. California, San Francisco. California, San Jose.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2016

Actually we wrapped two Caltrain cars that shuttle daily between San Francisco and San Jose. Software products vs. platforms. Many of our existing customers, including Constant Contact, Freshbooks, Infusionsoft and BuilderTrend, are software companies that have successfully made the shift from product company to platform.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

What’s your favorite thing about being based in San Jose, Calif.? This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. What has the startup experience taught you about life? Don’t be stressed?—?tomorrow

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

As for the pitches, first , Eddie Godshalk from San Jose, California, presented QuantGeo , a geospatial data service for real estate investors, property buyers, banks, etc., We discussed a strategy to get this validated ASAP before raising any further capital, or investing any more money in building the product.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If we mention a product or service that we received for free or other considerations, we will note it. San Jose Mercury News: Maker Faire Mixes Business With Wackiness. Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients. Small Business Blogs. Entrepreneur Magazine Blog. NPR/KQED Forum: Self-Employed.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2011

I especially urge you to attend the Venture Showcase on Thursday evening , where all of the teams are present, standing beside small demonstration tables, speaking about their products or services. I, for one, am hoping to see some novel apps and other mobile products and technologies this year.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

All product, all the time. You can always check out the current and prior product demos at the DEMO site. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. There wasnt a lot of buzz in the air. This was the 20th Anniversary and possibly the last. DEMO has always been one of my favorite tech conferences.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

If I buy a product from overseas in China, I’m having faith the shipper will operate on good faith but scared of being ripped off, that’s what make me human. Natural language is “buy product ABC from cube XYZ” or “setup customer CDE in cube JKL” on the blockchain. I don’t want a world where “trustless” is enforced, that’s boring.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

I strongly believe (at least for very early stage technology ventures) that you will get diminishing returns and arguably negative returns once you get past an initial threshold of team, product, market and financial diligence. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

MAY 10, 2010

Networking events happen every day of the week and are mostly in the Palo Alto/Mountain View area and San Francisco, sorry San Jose folks, you have to make the trek up north, but it’s worth it! Don’t spin your wheels on finding the perfect solution, just build the minimum viable product.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2013

Before a customer even buys our product, we started setting expectations that we would ask them for a referral (when we deliver on our promise). On the sales pages and other pages about our products, we explain that our mission is to make them so happy and successful they will want to tell their friends and co-workers about us.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

However, the NIF forces the students to focus on their idea and ability to communicate its need, kind of like the Demo conference is all about the product. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. to share their passions and projects.

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Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

I’m no UI/UX designer or product manager, but I do work with entrepreneurs daily. Entrepreneurs building new products and services are passionate about them, wanting more than anything to beat the pants off the competition and dazzle potential customers with their creations such that they willingly part with their hard-earned money.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

One day the company sent me and an engineer across the country, to a city none of us had ever heard of – San Jose, California – to install a process control system in a Ford Assembly plant. (We We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I’m not suggesting that there aren’t lots of hard technical problems being solved in today’s startups… nearly any developer worth his or her salt could build Facebook or Twitter like products for a few hundred users, but few can make them scale to hundreds of millions. Filed under Uncategorized. link] leehower.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

One day the company sent me and an engineer across the country, to a city none of us had ever heard of – San Jose, California – to install a process control system in a Ford Assembly plant. (We We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

How would you show them minimal viable products if not in person? Minimal Viable Products. If you can get the product quickly, cheaply, and without using a lot of funding, you need to do that, because that’s going to get you a lot further along in terms of what you can learn from a customer development perspective.

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dickey.xxx

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The idea of taking the extra effort to build products with likeminded people immediately struck a chord with me. I attended another Startup Weekend in San Jose shortly after the one in Seattle that helped me network with people. Typically the products will have a smaller scope and target more specific challenges.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 16, 2004

We worked on the plan at San Jose airport last night, watching the behavior of customers for this exciting new product. Our “secret sauce” will be the label – yes, it will be our company name and logo that will differentiate our product from Evian, Vasa, Fiji, San Pelegrino and those many other indistinct brands.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Why not, at least, show me "Current Deals from San Jose" (my closest airport)? They are full of nonsenseware – cross-sells and up-sells, all kinds of seals and logos, irrelevant other products, promotions, mobile app pimping and so much more. Shows me again if the product is in stock. Sad, right?

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Professor VC

JULY 2, 2010

Never one to propose popular or easy plans, Andy suggests rebuilding our industrial infrastructure and employment through financial incentives and taxing products of offshore labor and using the proceeds to incent companies to scale their American operations. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004.

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