Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Be sure it matches your business, and get a hosting agreement from one of the popular providers like GoDaddy. Open an account with PayPal.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

Using social media to increase your company’s touch and reach with each of your customers may be the most important reason to jump in to this game changing strategy. That said, when a customer posts on Facebook that you should lower your prices by 50%, perhaps this is not something you should spend too much time on.

Social Media 214

Social Media Customer Custom Media 214

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

From entry level garage bands, to international superstars, they all understand that cultivating your fan base online has a huge impact on your career. The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. Talk a bit about your recent funding.

Van Nuys 191

Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

You need to find lead gen tools that will convert leads, fill your sales funnel, and increase your revenue effectively. Build a stack, an all-in-one solution if you may, out of your favorite tools. Your registration comes with 60 credits. After that, you have the option to pick a plan that fits your needs.

Tool 81

Tool Startup Help Template 81

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. How has your history with Jason Spievak , Colin Kelley and the rest of the former CallWave team shaped and benefited the company?

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Be sure it matches your business, and get a hosting agreement from one of the popular providers like GoDaddy. Open an account with PayPal.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2012

There are lots of sites, with different codes to choose from, some of which are expired, some of which are for product that you aren't buying. We've taken that whole search process and turned it into one button in your shopping cart. Ten or twenty seconds later, you have your answer. Where are you sourcing the coupon deals from?

Google 233

Google Pasadena Commerce Southern California 233

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 2, 2011

One of the beautiful things about the Internet is endless amount of websites designed and dedicated to those who like to be the first to know and share information. Joining “means that all of the sites you choose to track are tethered together in your profile. Founded by Nick Frost Startupli.st Startupli.st

Help 85

Help Sites Design Social Network 85

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Entangled Media has released their public beta to Younity , a new utility that provides spontaneous access to your data across devices. Younity’s new mobile product lets you bypass that hassle while offering several other benefits. It is still in beta and their mobile product is already poised to dominate the market.

Mobile 98

Mobile Media Screening Software 98

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. Suddenly you had security risks, confidentiality problems, privacy concerns (think about your medical records being distributed), etc.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Determine whether your business name needs to be trademarked, and if does Trademark it at the USPTO. Protect your written works and code through the Copyright Office. If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Vet your idea with the idea checklist.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

TZ: In our last interview you said that you were about 25% at capacity of your original vision for Miigle. A year and a half later and post-public launch, at what capacity do you think Miigle is today of your original vision? Once you have logged in to your Miigle account, the first step is editing your profile.

SoCal 104

SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2012

So far, I’ve covered how to decide which type of app you’re looking to create and how to use your market research to decide what features you want your app to have. Think of it as a short story about someone picking up your app and walking through it to get something done. User Stories can be dry or lively.

Marketing 84

Marketing Screening Social Network Startup 84

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2011

Have you ever been working on something at work, and suddenly realized what you were doing was applicable to something completely unrelated in your personal life? She was going back and forth from Target, using things like a Sharpie, glue, pictures, and other things of that nature, to design her own shirt.

Pricing 247

Pricing Design Startup Ideas 247

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Industry news was excited, but for how amazing of a product they are, custom Snapchat geofilters have remained stunningly under the radar. In case you’re just getting into Snapchat, a geofilter is like a normal Snapchat filter: a design you can overlay onto a photo you take in the app. So what’s exciting about this new product?

Customer 40

Customer Custom Snapchat Design 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Let's talk about your product first, tell us about your hardware? We use a Camera SLR camera, which works with any of our three products out there. Our first product had challenges, but we moved very quickly to change that up, and ended up with our current product, the Bookdrive DYI.

Google 100

Google Startup West Los Angeles Content 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2012

So far, I’ve covered how to decide which type of app you’re looking to create and how to use your market research to decide what features you want your app to have. Think of it as a short story about someone picking up your app and walking through it to get something done. User Stories can be dry or lively.

Marketing 53

Marketing Screening Social Network Email 53

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome (www.sendmehome.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a free service to print out labels which attach to your item, and where you can register items in case they are lost. Andrew Lee: The front page is designed for people returning items, and is easy to use. How do you get those items back?

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Startup Writing Ideas 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. Insider Pages.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Pitching stories and getting your name out to various companies and editors requires a lot of work. No matter where I worked, I never found any sort of product that managed the workflow between editors and writers and it is the number one problem in the publishing world. Freelancing is a tough gig for many writers. It’s standardized.

Journal 90

Journal Startup Writing Media 90

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads. Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! Now let’s move on to the first couple topics: Step 0: Pre-product. The main things I like to look at are new versus return visitors, top content pages, what pages are causing bounces, etc.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Webtide is designed to be a company which is the expert on using Jetty in companies. We also provide production support, and we're also very proactive in monitoring items that might affect them, supporting the specific versions of software they are running. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If that’s not enough, ShoeDazzle runs charity shoe programs, making the company good for your closet and the country. Elbaz’ AdSense accounted for 28 percent of Google’s total revenue, or more than $2 billion. His second venture was Tesla Motors, creating the first production electric car of the modern era. Post navigation.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. Who are your customers, partners or suppliers? accessibility.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. These days, with Sarbanes-Oxley and all the new SEC regulations, an MBA does not begin to cover the accounting, process, and tax knowledge needed to steer a company’s finances.

Startup 99

Startup Report Equity Resource 99

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2013

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. These days, with Sarbanes-Oxley and all the new SEC regulations, an MBA does not begin to cover the accounting, process, and tax knowledge needed to steer a company’s finances.

Startup 95

Startup Report Equity Resource 95

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Forget the Valley—pack your bags for Google L.A.". » More.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2011

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. These days, with Sarbanes-Oxley and all the new SEC regulations, an MBA does not begin to cover the accounting, process, and tax knowledge needed to steer a company’s finances.

Startup 93

Startup Report Equity Resource 93

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. More on whom to follow later.

Snapchat 150

Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210