Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In the entrepreneur world, it’s still a popular misconception that the “idea” is everything. Even though investors, like myself, have long made it clear that we invest in people, not ideas, new venture owners insist on talking about their latest “ million dollar idea ,” rather than their “ million dollar team.”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

It''s Monday morning, and if you''re dreading the week at your current company--why not look at our online Job Board for something new and exciting? Or, maybe you''re looking for employees--why not join, and post your job for free (members can post any number of jobs at the company at no additional charge)? Image courtesy Bigstock.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2013

With software developed, tested and turned in, the results of UCLA Anderson School of Management’s DEV Contest were announced on Sunday afternoon to a room full of smiling faces. Everyone was talking, subjects ranged from comparisons of software to successes and failures of companies in the industry.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The idea behind the hackathon is to create in-vehicle experiences through application programming interfaces (APIs) that are available from such companies as Ford, Toyota, and Subaru. Details of the collaboration were not announced. The hackathon wil be at the Capitol Records Building in Los Angeles.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Enterprise cloud budgets are growing astronomically as companies adopt many cloud techniques. How did the idea for the company come about?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

For years software development worked on a “waterfall model” in which you did research, design, build, test, deploy and then watch how users reacted to your product. Often these projects took 12–18 months so by the time companies shipped product they often found out that the product didn’t meet customer needs.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. The evening will consist of a series of live stage demonstrations guaranteed to impress and inspire new ideas among all in attendance. View Larger Map. Diamond Sponsor.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

We tried to use third parties, but rich media companies are great ad serving agencies, but not so good at serving publishers. Why don't those companies serve publishers that well? Chris Tragos: Traditional rich media companies, like Seismic or Pointroll, and not fully integrative. What's the hardest challenge for your company?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

There are very few people in Silicon Valley who have such a precise grasp on what defines success of early-stage startup companies than Eric Ries. should companies do spreadsheets / plan / have a hypothesis for success? how do you handle internal company morale? 9:14 What was the root cause of the failure of your first company?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

For more than 30-years, Bill Gates has been at the pinnacle of the software industry. Like Steve Jobs, Michael Dell and Larry Ellison, he is one of the few startup Founders who remained at the helm of their respective companies throughout their entire maturation process. Great Startup Ideas Come From Everywhere. "At

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Get to know the developers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

We spoke with CEO and founder Jack Bicer --just back from DEMO--to learn more about the app and why he thinks the company has the solution to e-commerce shopping cart abandonment. Where are you in terms of launch, and what inspired you to start up the company? That''s a really dumb idea, go do your job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The traditional mode of starting a company has been to plan a serial process, where you complete once all the steps, leading to the “big bang” launch of the company. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

Now, they were able to raise enough money in the last 3 months to launch a product along with all the necessary software development to launch a pilot program for validating the idea. Now I feel like I was part of the team to build the company but equity valuation offered to me is not fair.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

Now, they were able to raise enough money in the last 3 months to launch a product along with all the necessary software development to launch a pilot program for validating the idea. Now I feel like I was part of the team to build the company but equity valuation offered to me is not fair.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2013

The traditional mode of starting a company is to plan a serial process, where you complete once all the steps, leading to the “big bang” launch of the company. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2012

The traditional mode of starting a company is to plan a serial process, where you complete only once all the steps, leading to the “big bang” launch of the company. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Xconomy

JULY 11, 2017

The company, which has some roots in San Diego, sells analytics software that combines weather-monitoring services with risk-assessment data analysis to give customers an idea of whether their truck or. That’s a problem that Austin-based Riskpulse says its data service can help resolve.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The trends are legit, but we have no idea what unexpected breakthrough in human interaction is going to change everything.” As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. A tough way to drive. the rest of the time.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 27, 2010

I received a follow-up question from an early-stage startup about the Founder Developer Gap that I’ve described before and that was part of the interview with Frank. However, many founders are challenged to engage with developers to make it effectively happen. Many founders are not equipped to evaluate the capabilities of a developer.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. For example, someone would book an appointment or service with an application, and the idea was that application would take a payment for that lead as their monthly payment.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2013

That''s when I approached Laura about the idea. Arye Barnehama: It''s a really exciting time for hardware companies now, especially because of crowdfunding platforms. What does that SDK allow developers to do? But we''re really excited to see how developers want to push the platform forward.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Dat told us about the issues with valuation, how his experience in a Big 4 accounting firm led to starting the company, and where the company is going next. What does your company do? Why did you decide to start your own company? I came up with the idea, mentioning it to the PwC partners a few years ago.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Take a look at other sites: [link] But the overall idea is to provide branded search in order to get merchandise from your artist, star, etc. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

It's not all that often that you hear of a local startup being acquired after only raising less than $1M in funding, because the company was growing so fast, rather than because an idea didn't pan out. Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2013

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. I’ve seen them too often, and they seem to be the same for every company (and every marriage) no matter how great the team is. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. Things go wrong.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I personally believe that there are lots and lots of good developers working inside of organizations who would love to work on the interesting projects that we work on all the time, yet they arent out actively looking, so its almost impossible to find them. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2012

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. I’ve seen them too often, and they seem to be the same for every company (and every marriage) no matter how great the team is. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. Things go wrong.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Making ideas reality : dependency. The term a gile development is defined, and the panel agreed unanimously that maintaining this mindset is necessary. ” SOME ANECDOTES AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES: Jen expresses her playful chagrin towards users when she’s been told they had no idea there was a new update/feature/product.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

But even if you came to me with that idea, Im not sure I would have bought it. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Why did YouTube win? Why did MySpace win?

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

One of the biggest areas where the cloud is transforming business is in small and medium sized businesses--where suddenly, companies are able to leverage software which wouldn''t be available, or are too costly for them to implement individually, but where the cloud access suddenly makes it affordable and easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2011

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. I’ve seen them too often, and they seem to be the same for every company (and every marriage) no matter how great the team is. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. Things go wrong.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2015

Created by Jonathan Wegener and his Co-Founder Benny Wong, the company has over 16M+ users. For instance, Software Developer Kevin Steuer noted that, “Working remotely gives me more control over a concentrated blocks of time each day to code. To dig deeper, I reached out to the company’s CEO, Jonathan Wegener.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

We are a technology company, not an ad agency, and we are really just a bunch of nerds who believe we can turn this thing upside down, and let people try those apps out before downloading. It all came back to this idea of on-boarding. This was before the App Store existed, and he was just unbelievably supportive of all my ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The traditional mode of starting a company is to plan a serial process, where you complete only once all the steps, leading to the “big bang” launch of the company. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

I tell them that if their idea or solution is technology intensive, they clearly need technology strength on the team. If you already have some technical people on board, like software developers, and need a new manager, you supply the candidates based on credentials, and let them do initial interviews and make recommendations.

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