SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars. Isn’t it time that you joined the movement?

Entrepreneur 162

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.

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Startup Venture Capital Tips Custom Development 279

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars. Isn’t it time that you joined the movement?

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Commerce 104

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I have a good friend who spent years building relationships with senior executives at media companies. Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. Another example. The exact same team had worked on 2 previous customer service startups (and 1 non-CS product).

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? 10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 16, 2010 I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back in the enterprise software game.

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