Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.” This is a very important to do when you first start a company.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. How did you get into this?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

In billing we literally started thinking about all of the types of bills that would be generated for customers: full payment, partial payment, split payment, senior discount, student discount, level pay plan, etc. I’m never right the first time so I spend time adjusting my frameworks. I started by doing billing systems.

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Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

It also takes only an hour to develop your own using a rapid development framework like CakePHP. This means paying attention to factors such as page loading speed, web copy, and design. It’s basically the only thing you need to make future design and layout changes on your site. GetResponse.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

In many ways, this was like all the other Tesla events I’ve attended: the pumpy music and mood lighting, the designed-to-inspire kick off video, the Tesla superfans (pictured below), and the long lines for a brief test ride. Some companies were already operating these services; this action created a regulatory framework.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2022

As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. A classic survey of design professionals shows strong agreement, but 92 percent expressed some lack of confidence in their organization’s design vision.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

We had a little success with Coffee Bar, Magic Mall, and Sony's Infinite Anarchy, and those games keep getting better and we kept learning about the framework, and added more talent to our team. Michael Witz: We've been a customer of Joyent for a number of years, and have developed really good relationships with those folks.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.” It’s harmful and hurtful to the startup and those that lead it. ” Of course I agree with this. So I would get ANYTHING I wanted within the confines of my budget.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. This helps to add some constraints to the design process as everyone has a clear idea of what the product isn’t.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. We pushed to find out how we could add value to the business/cafe/bar owners who we consider our customers and stakeholders.” “We’ve built an app framework. “We’ve built an app framework.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

In a self-described “sweeping generalization,” he declared that the new generation of iterative algorithms in computational mathematics that are being applied in machine learning, directed evolution, and generative design “is the most important advance in engineering since the scientific method.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. A recent survey of design professionals shows strong agreement, but 92 percent expressed some lack of confidence in their organization’s design vision.

Design 97

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. When asked what their objectives are they cite some form of “improving customer communications” by a long margin. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. We pushed to find out how we could add value to the business/cafe/bar owners who we consider our customers and stakeholders.” “We’ve built an app framework. “We’ve built an app framework.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

You should be presenting data to your VCs and framing the decisions that you’re trying to make into cogent frameworks that will allow a group of experienced people to help you with decision making. Don’t try to defend every process you have or every design choice. Let them see data.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

I ended up going to Lockheed Martin as Chief Innovation Officer, doing AR and VR work, creating a virtual framework used for training by the defense department. You're not going to be able to take a platform like Android and take it to 5G, because Android is not designed about 3D, and not around communications collaboration.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Audiolife was built on a framework to handle all the back-end work through store fronts allowing musicians to focus on what they do best. Seeing all the different t-shirts at the walk, and knowing the hassle put into each one from creation to design and distribution, Brandon saw an opportunity. Online Awareness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2017

As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. Design thinking” is a methodology used to solve complex challenges, such as the ones faced by every business in today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive environment.

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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. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

On one end, entrepreneurs who have (at minimum) built something customers love and are willing to pay for, and the other hand, investors who are looking for the very companies who fit that profile. You’ve built a great business, your customers love you. And those who have gone through the process, know. Where SeedInvest Sprouted.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

That’s why Canecto developed a cutting-edge, AI framework designed to be a web analytics assistant and help provide owners relevant insights around their customer base and learn how visitors interact with their content. For retailers, this will mean selling more product, fewer returns and happier customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The entire event is meticulously designed around thought leadership and fostering open discussion between the industry’s leading mobile businesses. What’s the most valuable kind of customer? Hence the emergence of Source13, a new mobile conference produced by Flurry. What are companies doing RIGHT to maintain users?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. The creative process - Whenever I need to do any task that requires insight I have to be able to visualize – to literally SEE the decision framework. Many people are visual thinkers.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? Get in front of customers as often as you can.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. Are you looking for a Phd wireless chip designer?&#. What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? They fund people with no customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2020

I share her view of the ten key elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other. Conversing: engaging in a dialogue with others.

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Framework Social Media Software Review Social Network 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2023

I share her view of the ten key elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other. Conversing: engaging in a dialogue with others.

Social Media 112

Social Media Media Software Review Social Network 112

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2018

I share her view of the ten key elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other. Conversing: engaging in a dialogue with others.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Technical Review 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

I share her view of the ten key elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other. Conversing: engaging in a dialogue with others.

Software Review 90

Software Review Social Media Social Network Technical Review 90

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

I support her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other. These have the added benefit of being searchable and discoverable.

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Social Media Entrepreneur Software Review Social Network 102

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2012

She outlines her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other. These have the added benefit of being searchable and discoverable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Others are really marketers out to make money fast, and believe that they can entice customers to any offering. His framework seems to be picking up some traction, and is already in use informally by several entrepreneurship platforms, including StartupAmerica , and CoFoundersLab. External forces (competitors and customers).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2010

She outlines her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other. These have the added benefit of being searchable and discoverable.

Social Media 89

Social Media Startup Software Review Social Network 89

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. That said, Apple will remain a closed system designed to drive media consumption through a closed iTunes system and a take a toll for media distribution. Torso TV - Television was designed for a mass audience in a single country.

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