socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. That's the framework we've build with Evolution.

Invest 113

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media News 104

socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2013

The company said its software is based on the open source Bootstrap framework which was developed by Twitter. The company said it hopes to create a tool for the web development market as Adobe's Creative Suite is for visual design. READ MORE>>.

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Web Software Framework Web Development 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

These authors speak from their own wealth of experience in creating and growing technology startups, marketing, and fundraising. Here are the key elements of the strengths framework they have developed, with my own insights and experience added for your consideration: Money: the capital you have, or can easily raise.

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Help Mentor Paramount Technical Review 130

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

It’s what I call “ the evangelical phase ” of a company in which you’re out trying to persuade customers that a product you’ve designed is going to meet their needs better than other solutions on the market. Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.”

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Sales Startup Resource Customer 393

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Look at the business and determine what's going to make sense from a development perspective in the short-term, longer-term. Do you really have control of the development? I've talked about this before in Startup CTO or Developer.

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Technical Advisors CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 332

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

Tips 161

Tips Startup Social Media News 161

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Samantha Lurey: Our first product shipped in May, and we now have five towns in the market. We're launching five more over the next couple of months, as our team builds out the technology framework. They're developing the content, loading it into the framework, and getting it into the marketplace.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The reason why, is my experience is in early stage sales and more specifically, in early stage customer development. Certainly, both inside the programs I have run at Techstars, as well as outside, I've always been that person where if someone has a question about sales or early customer development, they would direct them to me.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

We recently chatted with Debra Domeyer , CEO of Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), a Los Angeles company which provides both domain monetization and runs vertical, consumer lead generation and marketing sites, to hear about the company. With app marketing, instead of an advertisement, we're showing and application ad to mobile users.

Mobile 224

Mobile CTO Hire CPC Web 224

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2022

Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. Markets and needs change so quickly these days that the view we had last week can be out of date today. Make sure people take time to look for new opportunities.

Ideas 111

Ideas Framework Summary Organization 111

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2023

Martin, decision makers need to develop and practice the art and science of strategic decision making early in their career to thrive in this complex business world. The author defines a detailed framework and process that fits all three of these to make the best decision possible, whether it be strategic or operational.

Framework 86

Framework Entrepreneur Startup Examples 86

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Martin, decision makers need to develop and practice the art and science of strategic decision making early in their career to thrive in this complex business world. The author defines a detailed framework and process that fits all three of these to make the best decision possible, whether it be strategic or operational.

Framework 152

Framework Entrepreneur Startup Examples 152

socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

Tell us a little bit about Mob Science, games that you develop? We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company. That's really our focus.

IP 217

IP PHP Design Startup 217

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t.

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Help Startup Competition Framework 303

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

But we all know that these are not solutions by themselves, but require integration into an innovative framework to solve real customer problems. Mentors and advocates will keep you focused and positive, and will develop your ability to speak to investors and customers with authenticity, credibility and confidence.

Startup 134

Startup Artificial Inteligence Ideas Entrepreneur 134

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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San Fernando Los Angeles Commerce News 217

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should you start a company?

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

That’s why I started the Sales & Marketing Series and at one point I will do a bunch of posts on the sales methodology we developed at my first company called PUCCKA. You need somebody who can lead evangelic sales and get referenceable clients that can be marketed later when you have your journeymen. Enough said.

Startup 350

Startup Sales Framework Organization 350

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.

Develop 280

Develop Development CTO Coach CTO Hire 280

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Futuredontics is the consumer marketing division, and inside that is Dentistry.com. To their credit, they were able to carve out an investment so we could develop this. I ran Bugleboy.com for a couple of years, and then I moved into purely online marketing. So what specifically do you do?

Startup 113

Startup CitySearch Outsource Development Organization 113

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. How did you get into this? So, it's quite new.

SaaS 113

SaaS Startup Customer Custom 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. Markets and needs change so quickly these days that the view we had last week can be out of date today. Make sure people take time to look for new opportunities.

Ideas 94

Ideas Framework Summary Organization 94

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

Today I’d like to give that advice in more tangible terms and with a framework to think about your tasks – the funnel. Meeting a lot of candidates to find your head of marketing is all well and good but if 2 months later you still have no one in the role you’re still down a person. Opening is easier than closing.

Startup 150

Startup Framework Sales Venture Capital 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

They over think the decision framework. And just as my gut feel about the likely success of startups is often determined by looking at their velocity of product development and market progress of their product, so too is recruiting a factor in my assessment. Check your legal framework. But here’s the thing.

Startup 335

Startup Technical Review Framework Entrepreneur 335

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Cyber & nuclear threats, disruptive innovation, and increasing competition for market share will continue to reshape how members view their memberships. This data is playing an increasingly important role in strategic planning and product development. The National Association of Independent Schools.

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Research Organization Help Product 140

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ria Consulting is hosting its 3rd annual Dallas Day of Dot Net on February 8-9, 2013 at Sheraton Market Center in Dallas, Texas. It’s OK, You Can Create Kick-Ass Web AppsAre you tired of getting verbally beat up about developing web and HTML5 apps? It’s OK you can fight back.

Training 65

Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. When they promise to help you with marketing, sales, distribution, integrated product development, etc. And I had 2 “strategic&# investors in my first company. it sure is tempting.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur Framework 279

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Most often, these roles revolve around a company’s major assets, including intellectual property, leading brands, key production assets, and unique routes to market. In today’s dynamic markets, it’s virtually impossible to enact and update rules with sufficient frequency. Develop leaders who deliver results and inspire.

Product 58

Product Startup Guide Framework 58

Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

It also takes only an hour to develop your own using a rapid development framework like CakePHP. After focusing on your site, it’s time to use an email marketing platform and move on to lead nurturing. In addition to heatmaps, Crazy Egg can also help you track clicks and how far visitors go when scrolling down a page.

Tool 39

Tool Customer Custom Sites 39

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

Croquet is developing software for collaborative applications, which has applications in virtual worlds and augmented and virtual reality. The big win is, first of all, since it looks like a single computer to the developer, they just have to program their software as a single computer. David Smith: That's a very good question.

Platform 168

Platform Startup Examples Web 168

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The remaining members came as personal referrals – Alex Ross, Zach’s roommate (also a programmer) signed up a day later to become their lead developer. “We’ve built an app framework. Because we’re now focusing on building a framework, it allows ut to be flexible. All the best for their ongoing success.

Social Media 106

Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 106

Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

Nervana Systems co-founders (and Qualcomm expats) Naveen Rao, Amir Khosrowshahi, and Arjun Bansal set out to develop new artificial intelligence technology that emulates the human brain, where thousands of synapses transmit information between each neuron.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence San Diego Framework Venture Capital 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

For those of you that may not know what the Microsoft PDC conference is all about, it is a developer event focused on the technical strategy of the Microsoft developer platform. This could be considered the Mecca of sorts for all Microsoft developers. One of which was the support for open-source frameworks.

Framework 40

Framework Conference Technical Review Tips 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

A financial model forces you to think through all of the variables that affect the potential profitability of your business from staffing and professional service requirements to sales and marketing costs. Your job is to create a numerical framework that complements and reinforces the vision you’ve painted with words.”.

Startup 85

Startup Acquisition Invest Framework 85