socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? Bruce and I met at the Art Center, and that was when I first discovered the web. That's how we really started.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

I recently spoke with Steve Blank, author of the new book The Startup Owner’s Manual. So the fact that it is a badly edited, missing sentences, complete your own and finish your own sentences (book) – basically we can blame it all on Eric. Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. Does minting those stories as NFTs affect the copyright of those stories?

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web. “If There are 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web, in no weighted order they are: 1.) The web is interconnected, and traffic flows between sites that interlink.The more sites that link to you, the more sustainable traffic you build overtime. Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

“Hiring managers go wrong by not putting the time in up front to really consider what they’re looking for in a replacement or a new hire,” said Barbara Mitchell, co-author of the The Big Book of HR. “If The act of writing job descriptions will help them verbalize and understand what they need to see in a candidate.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. Pro tip: take on the mantle of book editor for a major tech publication, and the publishers will mail you books for free. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). An informal writing style is generally recommended.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

He is the author of various best selling books including Practical Information Architecture, Web Dogma ’06 and Usable Usability. Reiss will sign copies of his recently published book, Usable Usability: Simple Steps for Making Stuff Better after the Usable Usability — Lean UX starts right here workshop.

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Jeff Bezos didn't get to be the world's richest man by writing a lot of checks, and one recent way to keep Amazon's profits healthy has been to cut its affiliate commissions scheme. Amazon started with books, so we will too. The ecommerce site Bookshop offers a book-specific affiliate program. But Narrativ isn’t for everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). An informal writing style is generally recommended.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

panel at the dawn of what people began calling “web 2.0.”. But poly sci taught me critical thinking and writing skills that I didn’t get in my econ classes. He writes about the fabric of American life, often from the perspective of his Jewish, New Jersey roots. He talks about this early in the book as a foreshadowing technique.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

He is not a technical person, but is somewhat web savvy. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. You likely are writing your first one of these. Towards An Integrated Approach to UX Design You should definitely look at Steve Blank's book and review his blog.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The book Summerhill School greatly impacted Lynda as a child. I had problems with reading and writing and comprehension and a lot of social abilities. In 1995, Lynda wrote one of the first books on web design, Designing Web Graphics. Frustrated Students Create A New-Fangled Learning Company .

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). An informal writing style is generally recommended.

Blogging 96

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Kanye West.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Back then there was no “cloud” so we had to plow money into hardware, software licenses and web hosting. Why will people invest 5x the money to get book smart and struggle so much to take a big salary cut to get real life experience? So even after raising a $16 million A-round I still paid myself a paltry salary.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Cialdini who is also author of a very well received book called “ Influence &# (which I plan to read). You should, too. (no, This is all explicit decision making.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web , in no weighted order they are: 1.) Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site. Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Most VCs are book smart. In fact, book smart can be a negative. Think of web vs. mobile. Smart is simply not a differentiator. Traditional software vs. SaaS. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. It’s not you.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. If you're doing freelance writing, have a story you're trying to sell, there's a whole process of finding out where you're doing well, not doing well, and what responses you have received.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

And make sure to pick up a copy of his book. 8:17 How did you decide to go with either shrinkwrap or web only product? 22:53 Eric’s book: The Lean Startup. 41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. There are many in this episode. 00:45 Intro to Eric. 01:17 Background, before the Lean Startup. 31:10 Mozy Pro Ad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). An informal writing style is generally recommended.

Blogging 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. 8 ) I love the fact that you literally “wrote the book” on web design, because it was a book you wanted to read and it didn’t yet exist. Meredith Publishing.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. 8 ) I love the fact that you literally “wrote the book” on web design, because it was a book you wanted to read and it didn’t yet exist. Meredith Publishing.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

I love the web and love Internet marketing. Although the web offers amazing chances for organic growth, you have to do something amazing. We realized that the way the web was heading, was that if you don''t do something amazing, someone will do it better. What''s your background and how did you decide to start the site?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. Frankly, it’s the life of ANY executives with whom you want to sell product, do a business development deal with, execute M&A, a journalist you want to write about your company?—?anybody.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Lead investors and follow investors can both win equally but in each case you know why you personally are writing the check. It’s sort of like having an Encyclopedic history book before just launching your product and seeing whether anybody uses it. Basically, I’m talking about being an angel leader and not follower.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Bill has survived multiple cycles in the game industry, and writes here his thoughts about his longevity in a volatile niche. Berkonomics books available at www.berkus.com. Now we’re doing it again with various Web toolkits, since everything we do now has a heavy back-end component.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. If I check Twitter it’s usually because I’m waiting for a meeting to start and I never write posts during the day. that it’s sometimes hard to know when to pay attention and when to keep your head down.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

I moved into writing software to analyze audience data, and wrote a lot of computer graphics software. Along the way, I co-authored three books on one-to-one marketing ( [link] ) to help marketers learn how to built and nature relationships with their customers. I've been following both of your blogs for a while. Great stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. I’m starting to spend my time evaluating companies that can help brands simultaneously build within the fortress but also maintain social value in the open web.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. It has links to supporting web site and resources.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Dave has authored 13 books on computing, the latest of which is Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise, a Step-by-Step Approach. Alex is a proven web entrepreneur, having led and sold multiple successful startups. SVP at Cloud Technology Partners. Alex Kazerani. Chairman & CEO at Edgecast.

SaaS 92

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Customer conversations are easy today, through responding to customers on social media, web live chats, and interactive applications on mobile devices. If, for example, you’re writing a blog post aimed at professional investors, you don’t need to stop and explain what an entrepreneur is to them.

Marketing 91

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

Technical Review 282

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

The evolution and the real value of curator are outlined in a great new book “ Curation Nation ,” by Steven Rosenbaum. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.” They write and tweet every day, with the single guiding credibility and personality that the new social culture demands. OnStartups , by Dharmesh Shah.

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