Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Look for simple and free tools. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you. Start simple. Open an account with PayPal.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. At the beginning of the index, Guy writes, “I hope Robert Cialdini checks this index.” Like King, his writing style is breezy and engaging.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production.

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Course Startup Framework Marketing 280

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2010

Beyond wasted productivity and network bandwidth, here are ten additional reasons given by employers in a recent Network World article for why they continue to place these restrictions: Data leaks – social networks are all about easy sharing, and employees go too far. Flexible, easily customizable productivity tools.

Social Network 87

Social Network Networking Tool Sites 87

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. There are several competitors we’ve identified who have built a similar product. Our fitness events and mapping tool is a key differentiator.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

This morning's interview is with San Diego-based Kadonk (www.kadonk.com), a startup which is creating project management tools that work with Microsoft Project. We spoke with Dipanshu Sharma, Chairman of the firm, to learn more about the company and its products. There was a disconnect between the product and the sales process.

Startup 100

Startup Software Review Technical Review Software 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Our approach is often additive to all parties, resulting in ongoing, productive relationships. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: thinks his product is probably much easier to (use than) VoiceXML, but he is not sure that the ease of use will offset the market confusion. com> 4/25/08.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. LinkedIn has been my primary tool for keeping track of who to invite. * I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. How do you use LinkedIn?

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. I was learning Ruby on Rails just ahead of the students and wrote the tools to help them manage the servers in EC2. But throughout the transition I had my safety net.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Just as you would not ask your family physician to perform a coronary bypass, do not ask your corporate lawyer to help you write your patent application. I once received a very aggressive letter from a Fortune 500 BDC who felt that our remote access product was being used improperly by certain users to circumvent the BDC’s licensing scheme.

Technical Advisors 124

Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124