SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. What's you believe is your biggest technology risk, if any? What Is This? Send brief bios.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2011

What we all need is a digital tool that can extract data from business cards, as well as sync it with your cell phone, your email, and the social networks you use. Finally, we want it cheap (of course). Here’s the latest technology. Of course, you both need to have compatible smart phones with the software already downloaded.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Highlight interviews and reviews from recognized industry sources, and news sources. Of course, too many or obnoxious advertisements are especially harmful to a site’s credibility.

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Inverted Software

JUNE 15, 2018

He would often break the build, so around 3:15PM the entire development team would start getting warning emails and would be unable to deploy. The unlucky ones would miss the emails and accidentally get the latest code base into their local machines. Experimenting with Bleeding Edge technologies. Developers love to experiment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many. So I often try to stay off of email during the day. It made me laugh because the technical world has this exact phrase to talk in computing sense about the need to block out interruptions in order to complete a task.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. Of course the 4-hour work week and DL plan is a gross over generalization and meant to be shocking. If not now, then when?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. He’s committed to getting through every email. It’s not because I don’t want to respond to all emails – I do. I get way too many emails – many of them unsolicited.

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Email Blogging Venture Capital Writing 287

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

The firm, which underwent a significant restructuring over the last two years, went on an investment tear over the course of 2019 as new partners went out to build up a new portfolio for the firm — almost of a whole cloth. Kleiner Perkins gets back to early-stage with its $600M 18th fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. Of course I could go on and on. I’ve done that 20 times so I gave her my quick feedback on terms. Roger Ehrenberg. Fred Wilson.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It’s obvious that we can be too late to these decisions of course. If — and it’s a big if of course — they can do that on the cheap, then why should an LP care at all? Pro tip: take on the mantle of book editor for a major tech publication, and the publishers will mail you books for free. Quality tech news from around the web.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2014

I reviewed a deal for a friend of mine tonight. He wanted to know what I thought of his technology deal. My email back to him was a version of. I got an email recently from a VC who had invested in a company a small amount in a seed round. Of course I ask more politely that than. But I always ask.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and attract entrepreneurs and investors. Of course – some people can be remote. He of coursed required me to lobby on his behalf as well. He sent me a few nice emails.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I’ve remained a skeptic about the BBB and as a result of an email I received a couple of weeks ago from them, I have raised the skepticism threat level. So here’s the email I received: Eric, My name is Chad Ratliffe emailing from the Better Business Bureau. That’s how we do business at Make It Work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Highlight interviews and reviews from recognized industry sources, and news sources. Of course, too many or obnoxious advertisements are especially harmful to a site’s credibility.

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Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 88

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

The board’s job is to review the company’s financial performance and strategy and help provide counsel to the executive team. Communicate frequently and proactively The most effective CEOs that I’ve observed send regular, short, board update emails every few weeks or monthly just to give the board a sense of what is going on.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

You go to a review site and the search engines to find local vendors, where they are dozens. We made the process very thorough and very simple, and built the technology platform to put the consumer, merchant, and technician on the same system. What we found, was it was so fundamentally broken, that it could be made better online.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

There are many things a VC is looking for in reviewing your business plan but beyond things the like the quality of revenue, margins, OPEX and CAPEX there’s a really simple rule I call, “Cash In, Cash Out, Milestones Achieved.” Note: If you enjoy or are learning from this series please subscribe by entering your email below?—?it

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

Visions pan of endless cold emails and long days attending meetups and pitch nights while your operations/tech team grind away. Not that good old fashioned leg work isn’t still required of course.). But of course, this isn’t to be mixed up. You’ve built a great business, your customers love you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2013

What we all need is a digital tool that can extract data from business cards, as well as sync it with your cell phone, your email, and the social networks you use. Finally, we want it cheap (of course). Several of these have good reviews, including PIMEX, Diasho, Enhilex, and Advanced Contact Manager. Even email is a problem.

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Software Review Social Network Email Google 99

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2010

What we all need is a digital tool that can extract data from business cards, as well as sync it with your cell phone, your email, and the social networks you use. Finally, we want it cheap (of course). Several of these have good reviews, including PIMEX, Diasho, Enhilex, and Advanced Contact Manager. Even email is a problem.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Social Network 48

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2014

Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. Lists of project milestones and technical issues are created, but nothing happens on time, because follow-up on issues is missing. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. Product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2012

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

This month’s big question is Examples of Big Impact from Technology and I’ve taken it as an opportunity to go back and look at the elements of different projects that I’ve worked on over the years that have had a big impact. I’ve seen that in courses and in design specs many times, and it’s a HORRIBLE IDEA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2013

Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. Lists of project milestones and technical issues are created, but nothing happens on time, because follow-up on issues is missing. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. Product development.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 110

InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

The following guest post is from Eric Greenspan, Founder and CEO of MakeItWork, a consumer facing, in-home tech support service. Then came the weekend, our lease payment and payroll was due Monday. Of course). Entrepreneurs are inundated with success stories, but far less is written about ventures that do not succeed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

According to a recent Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. Don’t use the same message on Twitter you developed for email blasts and postcard blitzes. So print it off and deliver it to a friend who is not so high-tech.

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Social Media Media Startup Social Network 115

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Shervin Pishevar, another person who I respect wrote the following on Twitter, “ Saying you don’t like @AngelList is like saying you don’t like Email. As Shervin said, it’s just email. I have now put a filter on my email so it is auto-filed in Gmail. It’s a communication tool. Isolated incident?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Value is created through diligent hard work. Once you prove that a substantial number of people are willing to pay more for your solution than it costs you to provide it, you can then consider licensing your underlying technology. What matters is how effectively you change course after each mishap. Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2011

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. Highlight interviews and reviews from recognized industry sources, and news sources. Of course, too many or obnoxious advertisements are especially harmful to a site’s credibility. Advertising presence.

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Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

Our other shows are about sports, entertainment, movie reviews, university news--all of the things that fit under the umbrella of news. There, of course, trying to do my brand of independent programs on MSNBC ran into issues. They sent me back skeptical emails saying that it would never work. How did the network come about?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

So I’m drawn to UGC reviews. I started reading the comments of reviewers. And of course I know that some 25 year-olds are thinking that they’d rather stay in somewhere more hip, more alive at night & probably a bit cheaper. But, oy, is it serious effort. So there it is – the St. I thought it would be nicer?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Highlight interviews and reviews from recognized industry sources, and news sources. Of course, too many or obnoxious advertisements are especially harmful to a site’s credibility.

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Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising SEO 54

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2011

After 10 minutes I felt like we were old buddies because we had both been through the trenches of startup tech land and had had similar experiences. When you haven’t been decisive in years, when you botched a profitable exit, when you hired a non-visionary CEO and then fired her by email – it’s time to get out of the way.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 17, 2015

As memorable as one may think he or she is due to their strong work ethic, they may actually be lost among the others in a sea of co-workers. Companies applaud those employees who spend their own time taking a course either online or in a traditional classroom setting. Nowhere is this more true than when in the workplace.

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