Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, My philosophy emanated from my days of programming and later designing corporate software in the early 1990′s.

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Tech.Co

MAY 16, 2024

In spite of these roadblocks, there are a growing number of Black-owned business grants available, designed to help close the gap and make the business landscape more diverse. Applicants also need to operate in the consulting or food service industries and be headquartered in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, or Texas.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Targets Are you developing a native app and/or a web app? Can you do a hybrid web/native application? For customer service? Does it tap into geolocation services provided by the browser or rely on a third-party lookup table? Customer Support Do you need specific interfaces and support for customer service?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2017

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW ), the Santa Clara, CA-based giant that provides cloud-based IT services, is boosting its emphasis on human-centered design with its acquisition of Telepathy , a San Diego specialist in customer experience and design. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ServiceNow likewise emphasized.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2024

There are thousands of grants up for grabs through government website portals, but since this type of financing is designed to support the public, their eligibility criteria tend to be quite specific. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) 🔎 Want to browse the web privately?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Professional user-friendly site design. Studies have shown that consumers gauge credibility in large part based on the appeal of the overall visual design, including layout, typography, font size, color schemes, no broken links, and correct language usage. Follow-up for customer satisfaction.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In it he asserts that the web is dying and in its ashes will see the rise of the “App Internet.” The web is dying and will be replaced by “the App Internet.” Enter the World Wide Web (WWW). As George appropriately describes in his video, the Internet and the Web are two different, but related things.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2014

Sucuri develops the CloudProxy Website Firewall, which is designed to provide firewall and intrusion detection for websites, in addition to protectin gfrom distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Financial details of the link were not announced. READ MORE>>. maxcdn firewall network content delivery sucuri ddos'

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

CrowdStrike , the developer of endpoint protection software and cybersecurity tools with a big presence in Orange County, is extending its software to Amazon Web Services, the company said today. Pricing on the new service was not announced by CrowdStrike. The new software is billed, much like AWS, on usage metering.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Irvine-based Devise Interactive , an interactive agency providing web design and other services, said today that it has been acquired by Vincit , a publicly traded company based in Finland. Vincit provides UI/UX and software development services. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing service of Amazon, has launched anew Los Angeles zone, which will give local customers and companies much faster access to the AWS cloud.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

La Mirada-based Crazy Egg , which develops a web analytics and visualization tool for tracking web site visitors clicks, has released version 2.0 of the web site. Crazy Egg provides web designers with input on what elements users are clicking on through visual "heat maps".

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Los Angeles-based cloud and web hosting operator Media Temple said this morning that it has named Lou Kikos as the company's new Vice President of Marketing. Kikos was most recently at iRise, and also had served at CC Information Services, and co-founded The Magis Group.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based TheBouqs (www.thebouqs.com) thinks so, with its new, cut-to-order online flower delivery service for the iPad generation. The third part of this is the subscription service we offer. There are lots of online flower delivery services, in a pretty established market. What is the Bouqs? Closing this $1.1M

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Los Angeles-based web hosting provider DreamHost has expanded into the cloud computing services market, saying this morning that it has launched a new OpenStack-based cloud computing platform called DreamCompute. Pricing on its new cloud based service was not disclosed. Pricing on its new cloud based service was not disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage.

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socalTECH

MAY 1, 2013

The service says it has more than 30,000 profiles of famous people, with quick facts about them. The startup--the brainchild of Evan Britton--has been ramping up its efforts recently, having just launched a brand new responsive web design which optimizes the site for mobile phones and tablets, in addition to desktop web browsers.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Just about every Startup at some point and especially if you do not have a designer, is going to need icons to help spruce up those websites. Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. It’s basically Google for icons.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

Now the city’s enterprise tech scene can claim a really big winner with Signal Sciences , the security monitoring and management company that is getting bought by Fastly , a provider of content delivery networking services, for $775 million. Signal Sciences secures $35 million investment to protect web apps.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2011

Messenger: Dan Engel, Co-Founder and CEO, SaaSy, Co-Founder and CEO, FastSpring, former Marketing Manager at Google, VP of Market Development at Picasa Value Prop Twitter Style: SaaSy is: “the 1st all-in-one payment & subscription management service designed for SaaS, Web.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

The ARPANET, as it was called back then, was designed by government, industry and academia so scientists and academics could access each other’s computing resources and trade large research files, saving time, money and travel costs. On the one hand, it has led to valuable services of great value.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2014

Lynda.com , the online video education site which offers up a large library of video tutorials in computer software, business skills, design, and other areas, is in a big expansion today, saying that it has started offering up its products in Southeast Asia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The founder explains that the product or service is so “buzz-worthy” that the merits will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth.

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socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

The Santa Monica-based company said that it has launched a next generation site, which it had codenamed "Malibu", to drive new growth and new members for the service. Warren recently returned to head up eHarmony as CEO, and the company has been making a concerted push to grow its services. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

in a venture capital funding, to launch its social platform for trading goods and services. TradeYa''s platform focuses on letting users trade electronics, gift cards, sporting equipment, vacation homes, as well as services like cooking, web design, medical care, and more. The startup is led by Jared Krause.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Los Angeles-based web and cloud hosting service provider Media Temple said Thursday that it has launched a new, shared hosting solution, which is based on its existing shared hosting platform, Grid. The company said the new offering specifically is targeted at freelance web designers, developers, and small and medium agencies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2019

you can sign up if you want to try the service. It is how sales reps talk to prospects about their products & services to try and gain buy-in for a sale. You know when you want to grab an image off of the web and you can’t quite size it so that it fits in Keynote or Powerpoint? What are some examples? Yeah, this sucks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Yet I am amazed to see from recent data that nearly 36 percent of small businesses today still have no web presence at all. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer. Viral marketing needs a website.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2013

Los Angeles-based web and cloud hosting provider DreamHost looks to be readying its OpenStack cloud offering, DreamCompute, for wider consumption, after showing off the service at the OpenStack Summit in Portland last week. DreamHost has been offering the service in beta since October of last year. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup. Wabisabi Design : an augmented reality game studio focused on bit-sized titles. . Mogul Millennial : a media startup sharing professional resources for Black entrepreneurs. SketchAR : an augmented reality drawing app with social tie-ins. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 24, 2010

So you have an amazing idea and the back end of your site works flawlessly, but no one wants to use it because it looks like a 5 year old did your site design. For a lot of sites the design can make or break a the success of the website. We all know that most programmers are not the best designers. Elegant.ly Elegant.ly

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Los Angeles-based CrownPeak , a developer of web content management systems (CMS), has raised $1.75M in a Series C funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. CrownPeak, which is headed by Jim Howard, develops software used by companies to easily modify and maintain web sites, without requiring web designers.

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