SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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JUNE 6, 2012

In the boxes he writes: 1. Manage the present. ” Govindarajan segways by showing the use of box one, but pointing out that by no means should you be 100% focused on managing the present (processes for efficiency) as the world is moving to fast to lean on the present. Selectively forget the past. Create the future.

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MARCH 11, 2010

Let me assume for this discussion it’s a garden variety 2010 IT or Internet business (as opposed to something requiring capital equipment or a life sciences project). And how do you think the next person who’s thinking about writing you a check going to feel about that sort of cavalier attitude with their money? What to do?

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JANUARY 16, 2010

Yet 2010 is already showing me how connected our lives and our health are starting to become. Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. So as I contemplated the kick off to 2010 I thought again about Weight Watchers. 5 companies presented and all were talented.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

ExplorerB2B is a free to join exclusive network of experts who share information that matters to you and make sure you expand your professional network, interact with a relevant audience and present your expertise. We launched the first publicly available (German) Beta Version of exploreB2B at the end of 2010.

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JANUARY 6, 2011

Except that without providing the Twittersphere any scope for write-in votes 9 people actually said to go to Jim’s instead. And then the snow storm of December 2010 rolled in ruining everything. So I asked Twitter a simple question: The results were clear. and got back about 10 awesome recommendations.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. Why the name? The name just stuck! When was it launched?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. Matching Algorithm ► October (15) eLearn 2009 Presentation – Twitter Along Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics Online Business Networking Los Angeles Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospec.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

In April 2011, the Association of Coupon Professionals held an Industry Conference in Atlanta to address the present and future state of couponing. The coupon industry specifically saw record growth within the digital realm, and by 2010 “49 million people [had] used an online coupon.”. Paul Breummer, Search Engine Land.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Just hand over the link to your page and, in some cases, a title and you’re presented with a simple form to complete and submit. On January 15th, 2010 at 3:37 pm , Josh said. What I write here is protected by a Creative Commons License. Just a thought. You make a good point but here’s my logic. whats the process?

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Alcohol wasn’t consumed in enormous quantities (ok, well, occasionally it was) but it was an ever present fixture in our socializing. So no prizes for guessing my New Year’s resolution for 2010. I plan to be 25 pounds lighter by December 31st, 2010. I’m normally too cool to write posts like this.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected.

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MAY 18, 2014

Passion is also the featured heavily in nearly every presentation I give to entrepreneurs or on college campuses or in talks with MBA students. We first met five years ago through serendipity as I described in this 2009 blog post and elaborated on again in more detail 2010. The reality is quite the opposite.

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MAY 15, 2010

In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? has demonstrated both high user engagement and better than average conversion rates of 1%-3.5% (versus 0.05% for traditional display advertising) for February 2010. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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Frank Addante

DECEMBER 5, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Dont get in the habit of "re-writing" code (a natural tendency of engineers), its dangerous.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! StrongMail Systems, Inc. Relaxing 2. Incubation 3. Go-to-Market 5.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures - Gabriel Weinberg , July 25, 2010 I was once a wannabe entrepreneur.

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