Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As a self-made entrepreneur and former chairman of Diamond Resorts International, he asserts that the five biggest companies by market value today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, aren’t really tech, but hospitality companies. Improve the whole customer experience, as well as the product.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Gil is one of the founders of Applied Semantics, the firm acquired by Google for its AdSense technology. How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3? Gil Elbaz: Amazon has made public some data sets, which is great. That became the underpinning of several products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2019

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Focused and confident.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Why tell someone about your product if you can give them a demonstration, and what better way to make that demonstration irresistible than to make it free? The entire shareware industry was built on this principle, and more than a few contemporary businesses from Hulu.com to Amazon use this technique to great effect. Sites like ww1.novarad.net

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction. What else is out there?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2015

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Focused and confident.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Offline / Online Integration: Think about it, when you shop at Nordstrom they should know as much about you as Amazon does when you’re shopping online. They recommend up-sells and cross-sells of products. Purchasing high-value or complex products is still way more effective person-to-person. They’re not.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. After all, when I’m in Facebook they know one hell of a lot more about me than Google does.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2014

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Focused and confident.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2017

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Focused and confident.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. The product focuses on the in-store behavior of consumers.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Now, you can give Amazon a credit card and have any size system you need in minutes. Company : FindTheBest. How do you stand out?”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Now, you can give Amazon a credit card and have any size system you need in minutes. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The Partnership on AI , formally unveiled Wednesday, includes Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Google and its 2014 acquisition DeepMind. Microsoft, meanwhile, announced a new 5,000-person group Thursday dedicated to the development of AI technologies and products that use them. Not pictured is Ralf Herbrich, Amazon.).

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? All businesses need to have access to the scale, cost structure, and flexibility that the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world have built internally. Cats or dogs? Freedom: neither”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

View Staff Page. Download the TechCrunch App for Android in Google Play. Software Engineer, Front End Games.com Mid-Senior Full Stack / Front-End Engineer (HTML5, CSS3, JS, Ruby) John McNeil Studio Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer Universum USA Product Manager - Local Business Products Yelp. Headphones. CrunchBase.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple. I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube. So, online video was right in my wheel house.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Think of the advertisements that follow you around various sites for days and weeks after you visit the first site and look for a product.) Most of us create our data stores to identify trends both geographic and product-based, stripping individual contact data from the mix. (But You’ve got to be kidding. Whew again.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Now let’s move on to the first couple topics: Step 0: Pre-product. Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience. Step 1: Prototypes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. The Exit Problem.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Google. The southern migration is taking place as companies like Google. A substantial portion of Venices real-estate boom is attributable to Google. Like Googles other locations, it offers amenities like a climbing wall and an outdoor movie theater, as well as bicycles and surfboards that can be rented during the workday.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Simply click on the title of the panel you like and you will be taken to their SXSWi panel picker page. Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. .

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