Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Examples of companies well known for their winning cultures inside and out include Apple and Google. Winning organizations have a culture of no expectation of always doing what they are currently doing. A nimble organization needs doers and makers. Thus in every business, big or small, culture can make or break your success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Independent survey organizations know how to do this, and can help you avoid a common entrepreneur misstep, called the confirmation bias. For technical designers building innovative features, how to use them is obvious, and it’s very hard to see things as a first-time not-so-technical customer. Usability is often an afterthought.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 24, 2017

Luckily, you use design tools on your mobile device to help you with different aspects of renovations. The apps are useful to homeowners who intend to do renovations on their own and to professional constructors and designers. Here are some design apps for that HGTV-like renovation project to help.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 16, 2009

And I'm happy that they now have the concept of Saved Profiles and that they provide the ability to organize your saved profiles. This is how Google does things. Here's the Google Reader "folders" but really they are tags as you can assign them to many different folders. Well I should be a little more exact.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

Personal care is exactly that — personal and individualized — and therefore it’s been tricky for personal care specialists to use scheduling tools to organize it. The gap in the market that Boulevard is building to fill is that one-person bands, independent salons, and bigger chains all grapple with the same problem.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

My biggest take away from Startup Grind Conference 2016 is how genuinely the organization is committed to uniting and helping startups accelerate together on a global level. Marc is the CEO and Founder of Design Inc. Previously, Marc was the co-founder of North Technologies, fflick (acquired by Google,) TeeFury & DesignbyHumans.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 28, 2010

My flippant comment was, “If you do a Google search for Los Angeles web developer, you’ll find a LOT of people and firms.” Here were some of his particular issues: Most of the firms that come up are actually website design firms not website development firms. The result of web design are static pages as graphics or HTML.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Structured Data refers to information organized in a defined manner, making it easier to search and analyze. Here's a suggested approach: Ground Truth Creation: Design a test dataset with established answers or recognized documents to serve as a reference point.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

It’s established itself as a leading source of organic sales referrals and we find creative ways for brands to help keep it that way while seeing incredible results as far as significantly increased site visits, sales and brand awareness.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Google likes these entries, as evidenced by the significant organic traffic it consistently drives to them. Organic traffic. Organic traffic. Worst T-shirt Designs Ever. Surprisingly, not all of these entries were published in 2011. For instance, What Are My Options Worth? What Are My Options Worth?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). better than anybody we had spoke with and she had the marketing chops to know how to communicate this to her market once she designed & built her products. from Charter’s subscribers. Ariel understood her customer?—?the

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

It designs its own glasses, and sells directly to customers, cutting out the middleman and keeping prices low. A flat organization is one where there is no (or very few) levels of management in between staff and executives. Related: Design Your Office to Fulfill Employees’ Most Basic Needs. Warby Parker. SquareSpace.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

It designs its own glasses, and sells directly to customers, cutting out the middleman and keeping prices low. A flat organization is one where there is no (or very few) levels of management in between staff and executives. Related: Design Your Office to Fulfill Employees’ Most Basic Needs. Warby Parker. SquareSpace.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. If you don’t have somebody inside your organization who is setting the technology direction then I’m convinced you’ll never head for greatness. In summary.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Google had huge destination traffic. Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. Overture sold for $1.6

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 15, 2014

As a response to the growing fears over internet security, Google released a new network security tool in November called nogotofail, the goal being a safer internet for everyone. Nogotofail has been designed with more than just a small selection of applications of platforms in mind.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

One local startup, Chippmunk (www.chippmunk.com), hopes so, and believes that focusing on user interface design will help it win over its competitors. We organize savings online. One of the biggest issues, is that consumers typically find coupons through a Google search query. What is Chippmunk?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

On the flip side, we attract those candidates, based on their affinity group, such as Blacks in Tech, Latinos In UI and UX design, women enggineers, and other affinity groups that attract talent, making them accesible to companies that are looking to hire for diversity. It's a community of underrepresented professionals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Back in the early 2000s, the Maker Movement took hold in California, based on the emergence of such do-it-yourself (DIY) tools as 3-D printers, Google''s SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop, with all the tools you need to make almost anything. Low-cost design and fabrication tools are extremely valuable.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

The fund is organized into sectors and each VC forms forward looking themes within sub sectors. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business? (42:00 But Google is still showing great financial performance. 11:40-14:15). 42:00 – 43:50). 49:35-51:30).

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

Modern-day entrepreneurs use Evernote, Google Keep, etc. to capture and organize their hunches. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2016

Examples of companies well known for their winning cultures inside and out include Apple and Google. Winning organizations have a culture of no expectation of always doing what they are currently doing. A nimble organization needs doers and makers. Thus in every business, big or small, culture can make or break your success.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

This tool is suitable for organizations that want to capture high-quality leads from among their website visitors — be it for capturing consulting inquiries, demo requests, or webinar signups. Connect your Google account with Milkshake to get started. Butler – up to 2500 leads/month, $99. Lead Capture Tool – Leadformly.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

We love Omar, our partner at Sequoia, who is an entrepreneur himself, and sold his last company to Google for $700M. It's designed to meet their needs, so it quickly got traction, without a lot of marketing dollars. We got a lot of organic signups via word-of-mouth. We actually got multiple term sheets from Tier One VCs.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2012

Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. The luck was Taylor Swift signing up organically in late 2009, which was our first major artist. You can do the work once, and it can go to iPhone, Android, and iPad, and a few other devices shortly.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide. and SVP, Branded Content & Audience Creation at nitetime.net.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The latest volley in the cloud price wars can best be traced to a promotion launched by Google this past summer. As Google released a new cold Nearline Storage service, the mega corporation also held a promotion offering companies 100 petabytes of storage space for free for the first six months.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2019

Come celebrate milestones the internet has made over the past 50 years at a special event called Net@50 on July 16 in Cambridge, MA, organized by the World Frontiers Forum and Xconomy. An afternoon forum at the MIT Media Lab will explore the big issues and challenges surrounding the internet.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

MBA’s are trained to design, organize and manage such large-scale, complicated operations. That said, a few tech-heavy exceptions include Wildfire, acquired by Google and Behance, purchased by Adobe. Consumer-facing ventures also rely on complex logistics and hyper-efficient distribution channels.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

CallFire today extended its position as a leading provider of text message and voice apps that help organizations grow, with the launch of a definitive next-generation platform capable of scaling to meet the exploding global demand for advanced cloud telephony features, services and capacity.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Santa Clarita Startup Weekend is a grassroots event, organized by five volunteers who currently live in the Santa Clarita Valley. This is a unique opportunity for software engineers, designers, and business-minded entrepreneurs to team up and build several startups in just 54 hours! Participants arrive the evening of Friday, Nov.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Essentially, it guides the author through a four step process to design, build, test, and publish their creation. If you're an expert in a certain technology--say, business process design--and have thought about publishing a book, this is a quicker, faster, and more comprehensive way to share it with the world.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

And I'm especially proud to have received our 501(c)(3) charitable designation from the I.R.S. In automation news, Google's Deep Mind AI taught itself to walk last summer. We also started offering Factory Tour Workshops to entrepreneurs, with nearly 100 applying for the pilots. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. For starters, as Josh Kopelman outlined in this excellent post on their Dorm Room Fund , many great innovations including Microsoft, Google & Facebook started in a dorm room.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

From tablets to smart phones to Google Glass , people are increasingly relying on their mobile devices to assist them in managing their lives. This refers to the use of game thinking and software design mechanics to make it more effective and friendly for people to engage with technology. Mobile Computing. Social Media. Gamification.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Be willing to work at all organization levels. A client relationship suggests that the consultant is in charge, whereas the customer designation recognizes the more modern model of the customer in control. Google and social media have transformed the business world. Leadership by example works at all levels of a company.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. The Past (1985-2002). provides you.

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