socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Looking to tap into the developer community, Santa Monica-based car information site Edmunds.com said today that it has opened up a new application programming interface (API), which will allow software developers to access its full database of new car and used car specification and pricing. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2010

Irvine-based Kofax , a developer of document capture solutions, said today that it has appointed James ("Jamie") Arnold, Jr., Arnold was most recently Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Nuance Communications, and also served at VP and Corporate Controller at Cadence Design Systems. as its new CFO.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2012

His talk was especially intriguing, as he attended UCSB, but dropped out to start a clothing design company. Chaos By Design. Seth is a design-oriented entrepreneur, with little desire to document details. The key is to document and challenge the veracity of your ideas at the time they occur to you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. Reduce the time to production and rollout.

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Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 110

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Irvine-based Solarflare Communications , the developer of 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters, said today that it has released a new app acceleration middleware product targeted at financial services, geosciences, biosciences, weather and other high-performance computing (HPC) applications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Startup and development stage. The development stage normally begins with designing and prototyping a product or service, and creating the company legal entity. Market research and a business plan should be the focus at this stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 110

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The difficult decision comes when trying to decide if you should license an outside API or develop one internally. Citrusbyte is a full stack, design and development firm that specializes in helping companies get the APIs they need to run more efficiently.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

If you're like the typical device user today, you've got a smartphone, laptop, desktop, not to mention a dozen cloud accounts where you're storing your documents, music, video, and other files. Erik Caso: I've been designing software for 16 years, and am attracted to difficult problems. How do you track where those files are?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

We all have hunches, but if we do not diligently document them, we risk losing them. His talk was especially intriguing, as he attended UCSB, but dropped out to start a clothing design company. Chaos By Design . Seth is a design-oriented entrepreneur, with little desire to document details.

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Ideas Startup Technical Review Santa Barbara 69

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. Reduce the time to production and rollout.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 124

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Have you ever found yourself in a conversation with developers and found yourself lost or even overwhelmed with new information? In a collaborative effort, Ria Consulting, LLC and Los Angeles Net Developers Group are hosting this event on November 10th, 2012 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2012

When I started my first tech company in 1999 I had pretty good tech chops and had led teams but had very little exposure to many other things that matter in a startup including sales, marketing & business development. And for which I was sure were designed to screw me. You get back a document that has 5,000 redlines on it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

Startup and development stage. The development stage normally begins with designing and prototyping a product or service, and creating the company legal entity. Market research and a business plan should be the focus at this stage.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Satisfaction Summary 127

socalTECH

MAY 26, 2009

Pasadena-based X1 Technologies , a developer of desktop search software, announced today that the firm has raised new funding from backer Idealab, plus made a few executive changes. X1 develops enterprise search software designed to search desktops and company networks for documents. X1 did not say if prior investor U.S.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

There was a lot of passion in the room last week when I presented Working with Developers at the Stubbs Precellerator. I guess it should not be a surprise that Founders have lots of challenges working with developers. But my developers want to go into way too much detail. In fact, they often don’t really understand the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 96

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Cases Where a Mockup is Not Enough There are a few cases where mockups or clickable prototypes may not be enough: Usability, interaction design, etc. As Steve Blank likes to say: A Startup Is a Temporary Organization Designed to Search for A Repeatable and Scalable Business Model The unfortunate reality is - an MVP is not the above!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 75

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). I didn’t have first-hand experience in document management systems other than as a user and nobody had SaaS experience – the market was too new. I’ll always point out when I am.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Develop your business plan. Product development process. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Funding process.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

In addition, a BDC may have developed derivative IP that on a standalone basis infringes on the startup’s IP. Another factor that impacts a patent’s value is its type, of which there are essentially two: utility patents and design patents. Design patents make up the majority of non-utility patents.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues. They often aren’t great at planning development work. They don’t love documentation. Most often they are not. But barely.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Much like Twilio allows developers to access APIs in telephony, CallFire allows businesses to access and manage their telecommunications in text and graphical user interface. Dinesh Ravishankar: We were doing software development for various companies in Southern California, out of my condo in West LA. What's your next growth area?

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West Los Angeles Customer Custom Tool 176

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

This week we’ll focus on the city of Austin, gain insight into Uber’s spending habits, do a little scooter number crunching, the Tesla Model Y, and the so-called “race” — an overused and inaccurate term — to develop autonomous vehicles. ONM … There are OEMs in the automotive world. Cymbal clash!)

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2015

There are various tech savvy groups of people that can assist businesses in their development, implementation and use of technology. Network engineers and programmers are essential in designing platforms and up-keeping them. These roles might include Designers and Creative Leaders. Challenges. Technology.

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Web Cloud Computing Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development 40

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

Instead of using things like Excel documents to track guest lists, or Word to track table numbers, we've automated and applied technology to make what has been a mundane and very manual task. You start to work with designers, but you soon realize that within five months, that design you spent hours and hours on starts to look old.

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Social Media Seed Funding Startup Design 174

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Develop your business plan. Product development process. Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Funding process.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

A simple differentiation is that a product plan is designed for internal use, to get the product out. A business plan is an “outward facing” document for external investors, or for C-level executives within your own company. The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market.

Product 92

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 92

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

IPPLEX researches and develops pioneering cross-platform applications and services focused on interactive communication – between people and the information, contacts and places they need to access through their mobile phone, PC, and other devices. We have helped many other startups through our carefully designed investment model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. Define and document the service process you sell. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented.

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Satisfaction Patents Outsource Development Services 91

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. Reduce the time to production and rollout.

Ideas 107

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Tool 107

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2012

SkyDrive API for developers was also enhanced with better capabilities for developers as the firm takes its shot at having a billion people on SkyDrive, the numbers are expected to go up with the forthcoming launch of Windows 8. The update also allows one to rearrange their documents as they like or drag and drop them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

A simple differentiation is that a product plan is designed for internal use, to get the product out. A business plan is an “outward facing” document for external investors, or for C-level executives within your own company. The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market.

Product 93

Product Entrepreneur Outsource Development Competition 93