ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Her company, Citizen Made , which makes tools to help companies sell custom products, won a L’Oréal Women in Digital grant , giving it the funding it needed to open a new office in New York City. About a year ago, Rachel Brooks was poised to bring her startup to the next level.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We invest in companies that sell to both enterprise/SMB customers as well as direct to consumers. We are a community of founders, team members and advisors that supports each other to share lessons learned and build products that millions of customers love to use. We have a passion for product and out-of-the-box thinking.

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Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

One class of clear business opportunity, which wouldn’t exist in an ideal world, is created by the service that seemingly makes it as difficult as possible for potential paying customers to make it take their money. When it comes to inefficient outcomes and customer dissatisfaction, it’s hard to beat the U.S. Hallelujah!

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Joel has one anchor customer right now and has validated his assumptions based on that case study.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

oWOW’s work is supported by many high-profile individuals like the former vice mayor of Oakland, California, Annie Campbell Washington, and Elaine Brown of the Black Panther Party. The ‘ Magic Sauce ’ so to speak is a flexible wall system which allows adaptable units to be built offsite and customized to specs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2014

The Power of Video Throughout the Customer Journey written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. The business benefits of video for brand discovery, web traffic and customer engagement have been widely documented over the years. Stage 1: Drawing them in. Stage 3: Building loyalty.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

Third parties generally include customers and persons visiting the business’ offices or premises. It reimburses a business for expenses such as forensic investigations, customer notification costs, legal fees, data restoration costs, and marketing services to restore the company’s reputation. and personal and advertising injury.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

Creating new industries is incredibly expensive, gaining customers when you have no prior track record is hard, and product or service performance rarely hits the mark immediately. These things take iterations and updating through customer feedback. But more often than not, startups are not new ideas altogether.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the military or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 26, 2010

Start-up costs are high, investors are keeping the purse-strings tied tight, and customers are not exactly spending with élan. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year. Even in non-recessionary times it can be difficult to get a new business off the ground.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 26, 2010

Start-up costs are high, investors are keeping the purse-strings tied tight, and customers are not exactly spending with élan. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year. Even in non-recessionary times it can be difficult to get a new business off the ground.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 22, 2014

Satya and I visited Blue Bottle’s Oakland HQ a few weeks back and I love talking with retailers about the way technology is changing their business (such as this previous post with a SF-based bakery owner ). I was a devoted customer and inspired by what he had built and his vision for the future. How do you pick locations?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

We'll be your first customer." Who were your customers in those early days? And our customer base grew probably. We had a superintendent at one point say to us, "Kris here, if someone can solve this and help bring a quality solution to the school space, sign us up. Kristin Groos Richmond : It has been. So it's been fast-scale.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 11, 2016

The Cost of Customer Acquisition: How Much Can You Spend to Earn New Business? Marketers spend a lot of time and energy looking at the metrics that illuminate the costs of finding new customers and keeping current customers. So what is the lifetime value of your average customer? photo credit Shutterstock. Do you know?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 6, 2020

For women looking for an expanding city that’s broadening its customer base, Raleigh has seen a population growth of over 22% from 2010–2020?—?the San Diego, California San Diego is California’s only representative in the top 10 (Oakland is next in 12th). The city scored especially well for filling their executive roles with women.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 31, 2017

If a participating startup offers a solution of interest, STiR makes a connection and over the next 16 weeks the startup works with government officials to develop a custom solution to the problem. For cities, this process can lead to significant innovation and quicker resolutions of issues.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. Get Your Customers to Do It For You. However, the interest in cat cafes stateside is certainly growing. See Also Shoestring Marketing Budget? Get in on the ground floor of an idea. “If

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 9, 2018

It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games?” Amazon book description: In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 19, 2015

Customers prefer video — in fact, one in four consumers actually lose interest in a company if it doesn’t use video. Use Facebook to engage existing customers with videos promoting special deals, exclusive insider looks at your products and short, fun clips that show off your company’s personality. Customer testimonial videos.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2016

Ward 6 Marketing was developed to help makers in technology, media, and creative fields traverse a sea of competition and land solidly with target customers. The name, Saranap dates back over 100 years when a commuter train cut across California, connecting Oakland to Sacramento. Thanks to Heath Fradkoff, Ward 6 Marketing. #10

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

As examples, Nnamdi cites his fund’s investments in Mindblown Labs , an ed-tech company providing highly engaging, experiential learning tools to teach young adults personal finance, and AbbeyPost , an e-commerce provider of custom apparel targeting the plus-size market.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 8, 2017

If you were watching the Oakland Raiders beating the hapless New York Giants (so sad about Eli) this past Sunday, you surely saw a scene like this one: Quarterback Geno Smith using his Microsoft Surface tablet to figure out how he added two more fumbles to this career total of 43. I bumped into the lesson thanks to their NFL sponsorship.

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