Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2011

In a second, with Google, I can find a phone number that was assigned to you ten years ago, but it takes me an hour to find your phone number on that business card you gave me last week. Of course, you both need to have compatible smart phones with the software already downloaded. Commercial software. That’s just wrong.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Social Network 83

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then). Apps & Software Business Google AOL CrunchBase entrepreneur Free Use People+ Startups TechCrunch' People+ , developed by 3-person startup (Pro Populi, Inc.)

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Google 74

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 I think every startup entrepreneur (and angel investor) should have a good understanding of financing term sheets. Yes, even bootstrappers. liquidation preference. Surprised?).

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Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

Why does Google dominate search? MindBodyOnline is a terrifically succesful SaaS company, based in San Luis Obispo, that provides scheduling and transactional software for Yoga studios, hair salons, and spas. They read product reviews obsessively. Reviews are again routinely glowing. Why do so many of us have iPhones?

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Customer Custom Software Review SaaS 97

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. No one, including the engineers who work on Google’s constantly evolving search algorithms, fully understands how to reliably and consistently boost search results via artificial means.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 60,000 members around the world. With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. As an entrepreneur, simply enter your location online, and it will list the angel and VC organizations near you. Keiretsu Forum.

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Angel Keiretsu Organization Template 102

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2010

In a second, with Google, I can find a phone number that was assigned to you ten years ago, but it takes me an hour to find your phone number on that business card you gave me last week. I found dozens of software packages available on the Internet for free download, or a nominal price. Commercial software. That’s just wrong.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Social Network 48

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Zumbox was essentially the USPS online, where we had networked street addresses so that email cloud flow online the same way as it did offline. That might be check-ins, that might be photos, reviews, likes, all of those things are in one place. That was in addition to the social media work I'd done. It just snowballed from there.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. Let me be very direct.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2012

We have been serial entrepreneurs since we knew each other. But because we like perfection, we reviewed and tested before moving to the next development stage. Sometimes our name appears close to Flipboard or the new Google+ client. What made you decide to become an entrepreneur? So why Gabi? Is the storm over now?

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Social Network Startup CTO Coach Social Media 89

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

6 Entrepreneurs share their predictions for this year’s evolution of online industries, which will be key for small businesses across the globe in 2016. Efforts of product integration between online softwares are set to continue. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. 10GB for what 5GB costs today).

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Commerce Mobile Technical Review Google 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. Please email us reach@techzulu.com. Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Adrenaline Fueled Angel.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

The firm's founders are all experienced entrepreneurs, and come from Callwave, CrystalVoice, and Ideocore. That's what the Cogi service offering is all about--giving you the ability to capture, review, and share the content of your important conversations. For readers who haven't heard of Cogi, can you explain what your service does?

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Santa Barbara Startup Software Review Technical Review 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

CapLinked lets entrepreneurs focus on what they do best, while making sure their investors always stay in the loop. Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

BTW – if anybody at Twitter reads this you need to fix your “embed Tweet” code because as you’ll see from above it doesn’t properly embed when you have a quoted Tweet. **. How do you have time for all your entrepreneurs? I will call, email, text or see each one whenever they have something urgent going on.

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Blogging Writing Email Startup 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

It makes no sense to meet in August or December due to travel schedules of most investors. For the record, this is not a secret, coded messages to companies for which I am on the board! Make sure to send a monthly email to all board members / investors with a link to your spreadsheet saying, “I’ve made a few updates.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? The Past (1985-2002).

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. Passionate Entrepreneurs & Ambassadors. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Founder, Founder, Founder At Upfront we talk regularly about how 70% of our investment decision in Seed and A rounds is the quality of the entrepreneur and 30% is the quality of the idea. Jamie Siminoff is not only one of the single best true entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, he’s amongst the best we’ve worked with in the country.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. I never built Google. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 I learned how to do a pipeline review with sales people without getting bullshitted to.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 285

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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