SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." Investors demand more than that. For example, the iPod won not because of better features and functions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. Efforts to discourage scope creep are not designed to punish creativity. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Another $30 billion is designed to be targeted toward rural development; and finally the $40 billion in upgrading research infrastructure. Energy storage and renewable technologies are going to get a boost through a clutch of tax credits designed to accelerate their deployment. The administration doesn’t stop there.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Was there consumer demand? No brainer. Could we produce this at cost?

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 19, 2016

Next, came MIW II…but before we get to that part, let me explain why I’m writing this post. We started with Citrix again, but this time, it became obvious to us that the demand was coming from the residential sector. I got paid a few bucks and I left. We had a heck of a run, but it ended 11 years later.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. Efforts to discourage scope creep are not designed to punish creativity. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

So I have a short story to exemplify my credo and my friend Tyler Crowley has been telling me to write this story for a while so here goes. I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. Efforts to discourage scope creep are not designed to punish creativity. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. Efforts to discourage scope creep are not designed to punish creativity. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. We were crowd sourcing artists and design. We provide the software platform, and if a client needs some custom design we can quote them on creative and setup, or they can handle it on their own. It's similar to a franchise.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” If there was strong market demand for their product then this investment might pay off handsomely. One of them is profitability.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

I’m largely talking about whether to use an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and to some extent, how much to rely on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers or write your own application components. Most SaaS providers deliver end-user applications on-demand, as a service. appeared first on TechZulu.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I spent more time organizing my tax forms, keeping them safe, getting invoices together, getting invoice templates, then getting them out there and tracking down my payment for writing the article. The article can take 10 hours to write a good article and the paperwork can take five hours. You have Demand Media here.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

There are many signs to look for when receiving candid feedback from your customers, here’s a few examples of things Make It Work customers say and what we are doing about it: Customer (from a Delight Survey email): Why don’t you offer billing as an option, rather than require payment on demand at the end of the appointment?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

With more than fifteen years of leadership experience in information technology and business operations, Alex has successfully led a number of business initiatives that include developing technology solutions and bringing them to market, designing front and back office operations and managing day-to-day business, sales and support operations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2010

The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. Efforts to discourage feature creep are not designed to punish creativity. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Peek left Freshbooks to work with boutique UX design firm, Jet Cooper , which is another major staple to the Toronto tech scene.With a team of about 20 designers, Jet Cooper is well known in their city for their work. We had so much demand that we had to shut down the office for a week and draw shitty avatars.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. What inspired you? How does it work?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. Market Size.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5 He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite. He led and sold MySpace to Fox for $650 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. Many people are visual thinkers.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. As a result, consumers would go away after they hit that information.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Peek left Freshbooks to work with boutique UX design firm, Jet Cooper , which is another major staple to the Toronto tech scene.With a team of about 20 designers, Jet Cooper is well known in their city for their work. We had so much demand that we had to shut down the office for a week and draw shitty avatars.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. Performance marketing also demands accountability. How has your history with Jason Spievak , Colin Kelley and the rest of the former CallWave team shaped and benefited the company? In reality, they want to buy customers, not ads.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Additionally, the large differences between the demands of devices found in a home make this unlikely; what is good for powering communication to a low-energy-use doorbell is not necessarily going to work for a high-energy-use tumble dryer. Embrace Third Party Support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Don’t let your passion convince you that word-of-mouth and viral marketing will suffice against well-funded competitors and ever more demanding customers. I personally find that writing down my business plan is a good discipline to incent me to think through all the issues, and do the research on the alternatives available.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

I’d write to my professors and say “I’m so sorry, I have this meeting or I had this phone call that I had to take.”. myLINGO is designed to bring new users into the movie viewing experience. The film studios/distributors are an avenue for consumer adoption, but consumers can also create demand for your app. Skip classes.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

By Frank Addante Development resources are in high demand. There are a lot of people out there who can "write code", but very few good engineers. Personally, I think the best products are designed, architected and built all at the same time. (As Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

A high-performance application will be able to service a large number of requests simultaneously, staying ahead of the incoming demand so that any short-term queuing of requests remains short-term. A high-performance application is designed to perform well with a reasonable amount of hot data. High throughput. Scales with data size.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Just as you would not ask your family physician to perform a coronary bypass, do not ask your corporate lawyer to help you write your patent application. Appropriate patent “design” can allow you to later add related claims, yet still have the benefit of the initial filing date. Sometimes You Do Get What You Pay For.

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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?&#. I honestly believe I learned more by rising up the ranks and becoming the president of my fraternity than I did in the class room reading about supply & demand curves in economics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

It was a pleasure to write them myself. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers. His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations. Summary notes, as always, provide below.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Whatever the biggest, most challenging, most demanding, most important job we had at L90, I always turned to Tim. He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2020

Personally I believe that to fund more people of color you need to put check-writing authority in their hands the same way that if you want to see more women funded you need more women GPs. My greatest criticism of our industry is that women and people of color feel the need to leave larger VCs to create their own firms.

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