SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. What set of functionality would make your company launch-ready? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both?

Develop 396

Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. What set of functionality would make your company launch-ready? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. When asked what their objectives are they cite some form of “improving customer communications” by a long margin. When web browsers (the programs that can read and interpret HTML) were popularized they were “dumb.”

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Jonah was working on his masters thesis and he asked Nike to produce a customized shoe with the word “Sweatshop” on it. Others are skeptical, “Ha!

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. He had a few early customers ready to go. Have you done all you can on paper? Do you have wireframes?

Guide 349

Guide Startup Mobile Framework 349

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

A while back I emphasized how important is to have a company website these days ( Startups Without a Website Won’t Start ). Unless someone searches for your company by name, it won’t show up in the results. Yet my random poll of a dozen company sites found 25% were missing even the most basic tag info.

SEO 48

SEO HTML Search Engine Optimization Web 48

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

In the Beginning … This is a very important post to me because I find myself giving this advice all the time and if you don’t follow the basic advice here you can cause yourself much heartache down the line – even if your company ultimately becomes über successful. It’s hard enough to build a successful company.

Startup 365

Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas 365

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Winning customers is sales. Learn HTML. I wasn’t attending enough sales meetings, I wasn’t looking customers in the eye and seeing their reaction. I lost a degree of feeling for what really was happening in the company.” Go see customers yourself. Focus On Customers – Nothing Else Matters.

Entrepreneur 272

Entrepreneur Startup Conference Santa Barbara 272

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Rahul Sonnad: It runs on iPhone, Google Android, and will be running on a netbook with a major OEM this April, and in the near future you'd expect it to run on HTML alone. I founded a company called thePlatform, which is sort of industrial strength video publishing. Can you talk a bit about your prior background?

Clearstone 124

Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. He had a few early customers ready to go. Have you done all you can on paper? Do you have wireframes?

Guide 296

Guide Startup Mobile Framework 296

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

Developers were allowed to code in any language they were most comfortable with including Objective C, Java, Javascript, HTML, C #, Dot Net, and XNA. This in turn creates a supportive ecosystem for the entrepreneurial minds to create a company from vision to concept, if not that weekend, but in the near future.

Hollywood 82

Hollywood Mobile HTML JavaScript 82

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Social Networking in Web 1.0. We all wanted intros.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

introNetworks is still going strong and has some of the biggest customers in the world, like NASA and McCann World Group. Our roots are in Flash, and in fact the company came about as a project for Macromedia. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack. Mark Sylvester: That's a great question. We love data visualization.

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I know you’re not a tech guy and haven’t done anything other than an HTML course you once took, but if you’re inspirational and a leader you’ll find somebody to moonlight for free to get your prototype built. Great companies are built by having great products. That’s OK. of people aren’t.

Angel 291

Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. companies versus the Web 1.0

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Right now we're working on a multi-platform sales support program for Daylight Transport, a mid-sized LTL (Less Than Truckload) carrier and logistics company. We came up with a positioning strategy that helps them sell value-added when recession-pinched customers are squeezing them for low rates. It launches November 16.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Businesses deal with countless data points, leading to decisions affecting their companies in various ways. Collecting and analyzing the right data can easily find faults and successes lying within the company’s walls. We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications.

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85