Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about?

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Gogii Invest Blogging Startup 310

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

What's your product, and what is it used for? Our products are designed for use by warehouse workers, retail staff, employees in manufacturing plants, by airlines, any place where people are moving boxes, picking and placing, shipping products, or getting things ready for pickup. So where are you now with your product?

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Technical Review Startup Software Review CTO Hire 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. Frankly, I enjoyed the community so much that I would have continued to come back more often but my blogging pace has been such that evening time commenting on an answer website was time away from writing pieces like this.

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Blogging SEO Startup Writing 301

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

When those megastores started closing, I saw the writing on the wall, and handed Branson back his keys, and set up a digital agency to do for other companies, what we had been doing for Branson. Cricket Wireless had us design, develop, and operate that platform, which was one of the first subscription music services built into your home.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Content Platform 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

When those megastores started closing, I saw the writing on the wall, and handed Branson back his keys, and set up a digital agency to do for other companies, what we had been doing for Branson. Cricket Wireless had us design, develop, and operate that platform, which was one of the first subscription music services built into your home.

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Startup Content Platform Artificial Inteligence 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. What stage?

Startup 361

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

But the request this time was different: could we urgently help make realistic screen displays for a big Hollywood science fiction movie that was just about to start shooting? But I think having good science content—like, say, good set design—can help elevate a good movie to greatness. Writing Code.

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Hollywood Startup Screening Writing 81

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. What stage?

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Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

They spot opportunities that aren’t being met and the design products to meet these needs. They realized that they were selling a bunch of cool products but none that had enough economic value. We couldn’t cut product development (we had 23 people!) We committed to product features. I’m sorry.

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Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Customer 306

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. In addition to Seth, the core team he pulled together consisted of Elaine, a product person with front-end engineering skills and sharp design sense, and Sandy a back-end server engineer. Check out his website if you live in or are visiting New York!

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. We write and create our own content for the game. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens!

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

While we have become more productive as a society, with the advent of computers aiding our work, physical inactivity has become a high risk factor in contributing to chronic illnesses. AA: Most product and companies in the space today are focused on young, fit people who are already active. It could be a lot worse than just comfort.

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USC Southern California Activity Study 104

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., OP: myLINGO is a smartphone app where you can select and download an audio track of a movie in your preferred language and go to the theatre and have that audio track synchronize to the movie playing on the screen. her joint effort with her co-founder and brother, Adam Polak.

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Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

” I’m not a morning person; in fact, it’s 2pm as I’m writing this and I’m still in sweat pants, but for this, I’ll gladly be there. We’d sit in meetings and people would state {I don’t like this, I don’t like that, the design of this car, I kind of like it, let’s go with it}.

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Advertising Startup Marketing Mobile 97

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 23, 2012

If you forget everything else I write about creating an app, remember this: every app needs a hook. Once someone is using a product, they develop an affinity for that brand. From your name, to your user interface, to the tone in your on-screen instructions, you promote the concept of being wealthy and not being ashamed of it.

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Marketing Software Review Tips Competition 84

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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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Lisa and her team create media projects designed to move the social progress agenda forward.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on.

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Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Given how Apple’s products are normally delivered to near perfection it is likely to be a huge holiday hit this year. Torso TV - Television was designed for a mass audience in a single country. And meanwhile I’ve seen several LA startups focus on creating low-cost video production & distribution houses.

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