Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

He provides dozens of ideas and examples to illustrate how this discipline can work, and the power it brings to any organization. An example is the evolution of computer control to screen touches and gestures, versus keys and mice. Brainstorm with the intent of changing these assumptions, and radical innovation will follow.

Entrepreneur 158

Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Design 158

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the LA event, for example, they will not only have a selection of great LA VCs but also 10+ senior VC women from the SF Bay Area will be coming down for it. 8% of VC partnerships, for example). The importance of screening this film is to raise the awareness of bias within men!” LA Female Office Hours. You don’t get it.

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Venture Capital Examples Screening Help 256

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

Chartbeat is a relatively young company and product. I was recently over at the Mahalo offices in Santa Monica and I noticed that they had a great big screen TV with Chartbeat displaying their traffic data. It’s fun when a story is blowing up to see the right hand side of your screen light up like a pinball machine.

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Blogging Google Screening Mahalo 287

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2023

Cisco Systems, which was ranked by Fortune magazine as the world’s best place to work in 2022, keeps the focus on employee happiness through putting people first, free counseling sessions through the company's employee assistance program, including a companywide Day for Me. New life experiences have more impact than reward objects.

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Product News Activity Startup 110

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

For example, Elon Musk says he seeks out innovations from his team by constantly asking them how they can make things better, how often they get out of internal meetings and into customer shops, and actively encouraging them to try new things. Remember, satisfied employees are always your most valuable asset.

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Tips Satisfaction Coach Mentor 159

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. Some companies are solving for this problem algorithmically. I’m forwarding it to all of my portfolio companies). More on that another day.

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Media Advertising Screening Content 288

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

We are often asked how companies get funded, why VCs make the decisions we make and what we’re looking for in entrepreneurs. I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. But I’m guessing the narrative is similar elsewhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2020

Unfortunately, I suspect that there is no simple formula that will work for all companies. If you want to emulate Salesforce’s success as a great place to work, and as a successful company, maybe it’s time to think more like they do about employee happiness. million in bounties paid out last year for great new hire referrals.

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News Activity Startup Summary 173

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Companies typically rebrand themselves for two distinct reasons. Such attempts are seldom successful, as rebranding typically does not address the systemic issues causing the company to fail. RIM''s management made the brilliant decision to change the company''s name to BlackBerry, Ltd.

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Technical Support Marketing Advertising SaaS 250

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” The power of large screen real estate. Here’s my view: I support a “mobile first” strategy for many companies.

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Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Throughout the 90′s the PC became much more popular in corporate environments, so companies began to replace dumb terminals with PCs. It’s central standard was HTML (hyper text markup language) that described how we would show data on computer screens. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Eva Helene Yazhari: The cohort goes through a process and the education of selecting, screening, and analyzing those companies, and selecting a company in which they want to place their collective capital. It''s a struggle for them to come to the table, say they want to invest in a company, and say why.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 13, 2012

This gave him an initial filter to screen candidates. Compensation- The compensation plan focuses on aligning the interests of the salesman and company. Since the company aims for a long-term, growing relationship with each client, the salesman gets a percentage of revenues for a specific time period. What are the next steps?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2020

In 2017, the company was recast as an electric performance brand aimed at producing exciting and fun-to-drive electric vehicles — a niche that Tesla was the first to fill and has dominated ever since. COVID-19 has affected how Polestar and its parent company operate. Polestar was once a high-performance brand under Volvo Cars.

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Product Google Startup Los Angeles 103

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

If they are trying to acquire audiences and attention, for example, on the Westwide of Los Angeles or West Village, New York, we go after very acute areas and try to drive more grass root efforts, but doing it in a programmatic fashion. Where are you now as a company, understanding that lots of things have changed due to this pandemic?

Marketing 113

Marketing Los Angeles Zag Startup 113

InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2014

Prior to the digital age, high-profile people deployed brute force to screen out unsolicited, inbound communications. Sam trusted his Assistant to set his calendar and screen out irrelevant encounters. Review the company''s press releases, the recipient''s LinkedIn profile, etc. Old School Charm. Congratulations.

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Networking Software Review Email Press 241

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2019

Even Salesforce abandoned it’s silly “No Software” tagline, after the company had to explain in 2015 that it meant, “No legacy software, just cloud software.”. You’re not a SaaS company, you’re a software company. However, moving companies to the cloud was an exhausting process. Vertical Artificial Intelligence.

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SaaS Software Artificial Inteligence ASP 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

It’s why long before you ever want press coverage you need to spend time actually helping journalists, respecting their profession, taking their calls (not having your PR department screen them) and knowing what interests them. Some practical examples. He would offer his time to Launchpad LA companies.

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Venture Capital Press GRP Partners Blogging 407

socalTECH

MAY 16, 2019

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Isaac Garcia , a serial entrepreneur who previously founded and sold his last company, Central Desktop, and now is working on a new startup, Sales Insider. How did you start Sales Insider from your past company, Central Desktop, after you sold it? It's very, very specific.

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Sales Startup Software Marketing 133

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

We use AWS too, and those companies are able to use resources created for cloud storage and processing. So, for example, if you find you don't have enough storage on your laptop, we'll have your desktop do the heavy lifting. I use my desktop when I need the screen real estate or processing power. Is the service available yet?

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Screening Resource Services Mobile 230

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

He provides dozens of ideas and examples to illustrate how this discipline can work, and the power it brings to any organization. An example is the evolution of computer control to screen touches and gestures, versus keys and mice. Brainstorm with the intent of changing these assumptions, and radical innovation will follow.

Startup 105

Startup Outsource Development Entrepreneur Ideas 105

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Since then, the San Diego company has built a thriving business as a contract research organization (CRO) that tests experimental drug compounds on bio-printed liver tissue. As Murphy put it recently, “We don’t think of ourselves as a bio-printing company any more. Now Organovo is expanding its capabilities.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Here at Sparkhouse in southern, California, we aren’t aware of a decrease in literacy (though the replacement of emoticons for words might say otherwise), but perhaps it tickles a certain part of the brain that enjoys the easiness of visual stimulation over reading all those words on that tiny screen. Video is popular. Create for Social.

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Social Media Media Tips Screening 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

So I’ve spent the last few years checking out companies that are trying to solve for this problem. One company that I previously wrote about trying to change this industry is, Solve Media , (I am not an investor) has created an interesting ad unit designed to drive up brand “engagement&# and recall. Oh, sacred cow.

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Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2012

One for each of the main Hero Screens you have in your application. A Hero Screen is defined as a major application screen, from which additional screens will branch out. User Role Examples: UR – Sally Jennings: Sally is a 25 year-old account representative working for an Austin, Texas start-up company.

Marketing 84

Marketing Screening Social Network Startup 84

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

and then took the lid off of the product by announcing the company – I wrote about that here. If you want to get a quick sense of the app there’s a short screen cast here that make it obvious what it does. We have an entire dev team dedicated solely to calendar integrations, for example.

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Development Team Review Course Mobile Writing 324

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

For example, Elon Musk, while being a highly respected and successful entrepreneur for years, still readily admits to regular 100-hour work weeks, no social life, and sleeping under his desk all too often in the Tesla factory. Only then can you start to adjust your time and your company to let it run without your constant involvement.

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Resource Examples Design Entrepreneur 60

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Four companies which utilize this business model include, Vitrue , Sideqik , AppFolio and Invoca. AppFolio supplements its SaaS revenue with add-on services for customers that include background (credit / criminal) screening and credit card processing, both of which generate transactional revenue.

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SaaS Pricing Sales Customer 215

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. Ryan Costello: We're a software company. How did you start the company? For example, we have said not to QR codes.

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Sales Santa Monica Startup Orange County 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

We caught up with Helen, the co-founder and COO of JOANY, to learn more about the company. For example, should anyone need help fighting a bill, finding a doctor or specialist, finding a medical center, or figuring out what is medically covered, we help and find that for you. How did you start the company? What is JOANY?

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Startup Customer Custom Help 138

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2014

For example, the Harvard Business Review a while back included an analysis of hundreds of studies showing an average of 31% higher productivity, 37% higher sales, with creativity three times higher. Unfortunately, I suspect it’s a little more complicated than that for most companies. Marty Zwilling.

Product 105

Product News Activity Entrepreneur 105

socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2013

We spoke with CEO and founder Ben Katz about the company''s prepaid debit cards and mobile apps (featuring such brands as The Walking Dead, The Three Stooges, Star Trek, and Garfield), and more. I have a background working with many of those same companies, because before this I had started a company called Cover.

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Help Startup Mobile Southern California 262

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We spoke with Michael Tringe , one of the startup's co-founders, to learn more about what the company is getting set to launch. I cofounded the company with a partner of mine, and we went to film school together. An example is Melissa Rundle, who was been writing for the industry doing FunnyOrDie type comedies.

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Web Content Startup Education 187

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

These technology solutions allow large companies to utilize software products to source, screen and select hiring candidates. Companies can now customize complex algorithms to find the exact candidate through the power of cutting edge software. Here are four ways that big data is affecting the hiring process. Increased Security.

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Software Review Statistics Technical Review Screening 40

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2017

We spoke with SecureAuth's CEO, Jeff Kukowski , to learn more about what the problems are with cybersecurity, and how the company is attacking the problem. In 2015, for example, 60 percent plus of attacks were somehow surrounding the root cause of misuse of stolen credentials. Our company is all about going beyond second factor.

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