Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

As the rate of change continues to increase in business and technology, the more I’m convinced that marketing is the primary key to success for a new venture. Yet I find that many technical founders don’t feel they need it at all, or at best point to one person on the team who is marketing.

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Marketing Tips Technical Review Social Media 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

A Futurist Conference, AI & The Singularity will be held this Saturday, September 20, from 9:30am-5:00pm at Piedmont Veterans Hall, 401 Highland Avenue, in Piedmont, California. The conference will discuss, debate and imagine potential scenarios that could develop due to advances in Aritifical Intelligence.

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Artificial Inteligence Conference Technical Review Research 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Professional investors and advisors, on the other hand, usually refuse to sign these agreements today due to the risk of litigation and administrative workload, and will walk away. The same is true for people who may approach you at networking events or industry conferences. How can you make this a win-win opportunity?

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Ideas Tips Technical Review Patents 159

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

It surprises me that anybody would buy a car without this data because as most people know MSRP on cars is mostly an irrelevant data point used for marketing purposes. “Invoice price” is an equally meaningless marketing tool. It got me thinking about the tech industry. These are people at every conference.

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Conference Technical Review Truecar Software Review 398

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's technology industry. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? I remain VERY bullish on SoCal's tech community.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Fortunately, for those headed to SXSW, Startup Night SXSW 2018 , presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo, will be filled with investors from a multitude of industries who are looking to discover and fund startups building the latest solutions and tech innovations. He has over a decade of portfolio management in capital markets.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

The 17th Annual Milken Institute Global Conference wrapped up last month at the luxurious Beverly Hilton Hotel. Technology advocate and celebrity Will.I.Am. Technology advocate and celebrity Will.I.Am. He also briefly talked about a smart watch he was wearing that his team created which is due to launch this year.

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Conference Technical Review Education Startup 88

Tech.Co

AUGUST 27, 2017

It’s not about checking off as many technology trends, it is about finding useful and valuable trends that align with your goals and strategy for the rest of the year. Blockchain Technology. The Harvard Business Review recommends two low-risk applications of blockchain technology that startups can try.

Technical Review 67

Technical Review Startup Mobile Software Review 67

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But markets value high growth over short-term profitability. Where are we today?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

James (chairman of the Althea Foundation) and appointed Adam Sroka as Senior Vice President of Technology in a move to make business transactions simple and secure. . Jackson , “This financing round, coupled with hiring Adam Sroka as our head of technology, puts CapLinked in a position to further enhance our enterprise product offerings.”.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

They will often run all of the daily reports into them covering off for finance, sales, marketing, biz dev & HR. Many times they also pick up product and tech, too. Often times you find the CEO who really just likes to do product or tech. Similarly I talk to CEOs who can’t do a sales pipeline review with me.

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Startup Technical Review Sales Report 325

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2016

There has been a lot of worry recently in the high tech industry and from venture investors about "headwinds" in the technology market, particularly with valuations of "unicorn" companies dropping, investors shying away from investing in rounds, and even employees looking for safer jobs.

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Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Technical Review SoCal 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

I wrote a version of this post four years ago but given the hectic nature of today’s tech markets I thought it was worth revisiting and updating. As the day approached I noticed that there was a conference in LA that I wanted to attend. ” So I didn’t go to the conference.

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Conference Startup Century City Email 369

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Haven’t I learned by now that it’s better to be disciplined, focused in my office, at the computer, than “on the go” in a daze at a conference. It almost felt like I was there merely out of habit having gone to numerous amounts of conferences over the years being a business owner. That’s a conference worth going to.

Conference 88

Conference Networking Blogging SEO 88

Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. The Foundation was created in 1997 by tech pioneers, Jean and Steve Case.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

These authors speak from their own wealth of experience in creating and growing technology startups, marketing, and fundraising. Book smarts represent your current depth of understanding of technology and business concepts. Personal branding is how we market ourselves to others, and is very important in this Internet age.

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Help Mentor Paramount Technical Review 130

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Industry reviews. So the “VC associate” is largely a launching pad job for exceedingly bright and hard-working young tech professionals. a really wide angle view of the tech industry since you see so many concepts / so many pitches and REAL data points on how startups perform financially. Deal screening.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Unless you have a co-founder or two with the business skills to complement your technical ones, you need a friendly Advisory Board. At the very least, these board members extend your bandwidth to provide a presence at more industry events and networking conferences. The cost of a co-founder is usually fifty percent of your equity.

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Startup Technical Review Equity Entrepreneur 142

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

From apps to hardware, to KickStarter successes and international startups, we’re inching closer to finding out who will take home the title of Startup of the Year competition at our annual Celebrate Conference in October. Tech.Co: Since launch, what was the most challenging part of gaining market traction?

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Competition Mobile Startup Technical Review 120

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party. A Silicon Valley conference is a room full of suits, with the occasional skirt suite. Hunt strives to improve product search with crowdsourcing through product questions, comments, and reviews. likely relate to.

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Conference Startup Technical Review Software Review 77

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Some people do the conference circuit too much, get involved in lots of side projects and attend every entrepreneur dinner. When I was running startups I felt like a horse with blinders on because I was super focused on the content management market and ignored many other markets. At least for the best entrepreneurs.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

It is YouTube marketing at its best. The largest YouTube for business conference is coming up this week, Vid Con. They had the YouTube general community do video reviews on their Orabrush tongue cleaner. Here is a YouTube marketing case study they did. If we apply that.01% That’s the power of video. A great script.

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Dollar Shave Club Customer Custom Marketing 101

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2018

However, it remains fairly rare within the tech world. Intrigued, I conferred with Brett after the meeting and identified a number of advantages (some obvious, some less so) that a tech company can derive from a non-traditional fiscal year, especially one which does NOT end on the last month of a calendar quarter (i.e.,

Technical Review 89

Technical Review Startup Resource Organization 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

Professional investors and advisors, on the other hand, usually refuse to sign these agreements today due to the risk of litigation and administrative workload, and will walk away. The same is true for people who may approach you at networking events or industry conferences. How can you make this a win-win opportunity?

Ideas 106

Ideas Technical Review Patents Entrepreneur 106

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 So, definition: when I talk about a business plan I’m not talking about a 40-page Word document outlining your market approach.

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

I know that advertising is important to inform consumers of offers – the same reason many tech companies use SEM. In-Stream rewards the content producer, Contextual just the technology provider – The funny thing about contextual search like that in Google is that it benefits the tech company and NOT the content producer at all.

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Advertising Technical Review GRP Partners Google 277

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2017

They seem shocked to learn that most professional investors and advisors, myself included, routinely decline such requests, due to costly litigation and administrative nightmares. Potential investors don’t need this data, except perhaps as part of a final due diligence after an initial signed agreement.

Technical Review 61

Technical Review Patents Ideas Social Media 61

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ria Consulting is hosting its 3rd annual Dallas Day of Dot Net on February 8-9, 2013 at Sheraton Market Center in Dallas, Texas. The event is a 2-day training in.Net, HTML5, Windows 8, Asp.NET MVC and other Microsoft technologies. In addition, world renowned speakers are invited to discuss the latest trends in technology.

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Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2013

gaming and mobile tracks others took advantage of during the course of the three-day conference held consecutively at ROC , Cross Campus and Santa Monica Place. One such entrepreneur was Adam Miller , Cornerstone OnDemand , CEO, who kicked off the conference at ROC. 4 P’s of Success. Meet The Accelerators.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Santa Monica Technical Review Startup 93

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

Marc Friedmann: SciVee serves the STM - Science, Technical, Medical - market. It's largely a publishing market, and has been around for hundreds of years. We provide rich media to the STM market. They were looking for a technically knowledgeable person who had a strong business background.

Journal 124

Journal Technical Review UCSD Web 124

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

How do you take a new, genetic test to market, and how do you bridge the gap between research and the market? Where was the technology for this developed? Alan Horsager: We started selling the test in October last year, when we launched at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, at their annual conference.

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USC Technical Review Startup Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

And of course the most successful technology companies: Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com [duh], Oracle, Microsoft all have loads of sales people. Referenceable means they are willing to be part of your sales collateral, willing to take calls from key leads, willing to speak at your conferences, etc. We only want software revenue.”

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Startup Sales Software Review Technical Review 403

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior. Yet talk with people at Twitter these days and many seem to feel like they are part of a movement – and that doesn’t just come due to product success. Those are the easy cases.

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Startup Technical Review Course Press 340

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I have never felt prouder of the team & product at awe.sm ( please visit to check out our latest & be ready for our next big product announcement due out in next month or so) and yet we just brought in a new CEO to the company, Fred McIntyre. ” We had inbound M&A requests from some of the biggest names in tech.

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Startup Technical Review Product Blogging 303

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

We're not talking publicly about that yet, but the idea is to get away from the annual review, away from the quarterly review, and give everyone within and outside a company the ability to recognize people, up and down the chain, for doing great things in the workplace. Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition.

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Startup Technical Review Software Review Platform 216

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata rights are one of the most important rights of a private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. Also, because the entire industry has changed because it is cheaper to start a tech company these days – there are simply way more angel rounds. ” So now the fight often happens.

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Guide Venture Capital Startup Writing 336