Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose. The list goes on and on.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

We caught up with EcoMom CEO Jody Sherman , to learn more about the company. To do that, we've gotten pedestrians, doctors, and eco-experts involved in the company and helping us to determine the criteria we have published on the site. We're very transparent on what products we are approving on and our filtering process.

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Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Cho, a former sales manager for Nikon Instruments and Vala Sciences, founded Echo Labs in 2014. He told the audience Revolve sales had generated $1.8 The San Diego group also hired its first executive director, Ashok Kamal, and has been working to improve its operations by restructuring and streamlining its due diligence process.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review San Diego Software Review 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

I know companies who collect sensitive data from consumers all the time, and still seem to keep a squeaky clean image (Amazon.com, Ebay). Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. The bad news for startups is that your company can lose big if it’s caught in the middle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2017

I know companies who collect sensitive data from consumers all the time, and still seem to keep a squeaky clean image (Amazon.com, Ebay). Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. The bad news for startups is that your company can lose big if it’s caught in the middle.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Startup Symantec 54

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

The hardest thing about starting a company is that from day one you emerge as this completely vulnerable entity trying its hardest to project success, power, trajectory and inevitability while you secretly know that you’re one knock-out blow from extinction. It’s a Hobbesian calculation.

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Startup Google Software Review Snapchat 150

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Facebook just hit 1 billion active users globally and that was great but a new social payment application is set to make Facebook users across the world get more from their connections and even allowing companies to sell or receive payments from their pages. As we know, developers always give their product a code name.

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2012

I know companies who collect sensitive data from consumers all the time, and still seem to keep a squeaky clean image (Amazon.com, Ebay). Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. The bad news for startups is that your company can lose big if it’s caught in the middle.

Startup 85

Startup Technical Review Social Network News 85

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. It combines all of the approaches, from a market point of view, that companies like Starbucks, McDonald's, or Walmart would be interested in. How did the company come about?

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Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 upon us, and the recent financial woes, there seems to be a growing population out there worried about all the people and companies watching to hurt them. I know companies who collect sensitive data from consumers all the time, and still seem to keep a squeaky clean image (Amazon.com, Ebay).

Startup 94

Startup Technical Review Social Network News 94

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Companies want to see their social media investment drive sales.” ” And due to empowerment, the consumer too wants to be addressed as a unique individual – not ‘marketed to’as part of some mythical mass audience. That’s how social can help build customer lifetime value.”. Close The Sale.

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Platform Help Custom Customer 82

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose.

Startup 109

Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 109

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2010

I know companies who collect sensitive data from consumers all the time, and still seem to keep a squeaky clean image (Amazon.com, Ebay), and others who are always a bit suspect, or have been hit hard by their mistakes. Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks.

Entrepreneur 85

Entrepreneur Technical Review Social Network News 85

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose. The list goes on and on.

Sites 59

Sites Startup Technical Review Oracle 59

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end. That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. Especially to a company that sells books!

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose.

Startup 102

Startup Technical Review Oracle Entrepreneur 102

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Consumer approach to software for business users.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. Great companies are built by having great products. One great company, AppFolio , filmed all of this user interaction and made the DVD available to me. They are people who built and sold companies and have a bit of money.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291