Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2013

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. This smart phone app places all your contact information into a single QR code image. Commercial software. Even email is a problem.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

I'd suggest: Startup CTO or Developer , Startup Founder Developer Gap , Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO. Interviewing them is also tough, especially if you are not yourself technical. Get a Technology Advisor that can help. This happens A LOT among technical people. This is a must.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. It may be that all the doomsayers are right.

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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. Here’s the latest technology. Of course, you both need to have compatible smart phones with the software already downloaded. That’s just wrong.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Silicon Valley, in a proverbial hornet’s nest of legal intrigue has been buzzing with one of the biggest (and possibly unsettling) displays of indian giving that the tech world has seen this year. Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. 1 st Street Partners provides strategic management services to technology, entertainment and consumer goods companies.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Emails can take days to reply or be simply forgotten and phone calls can get irritating; the text messaging system is a quick and simple solution for means of communication. A whole overview of the transaction process is then sent to both parties as a PDF through email and can also be viewed online. Why only through the app?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia).

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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2012

One of the worst things for an entrepreneur to have happen to them is to lose communication due to battery life. Software Platform. MMS, SMS, Email (Corporate Sync, Google Mail, Push Email, Yahoo Mail) IM (GTalk), WebKit w/ Flash. MotoCast™, Google Mobile Services, Google Talk™. It also boast 4.3-inch

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. That tool is being used to drive traffic and acquire emails, which is why it's a part of Deal Current. In April of 2010, we put up Dealcurent.com, and we started indexing number one on Google for daily deals software.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

He launched a business called Unsubscribe, which helped consumers deal with the deluge of email lists that one gets signed up to and get rid of them all. Hardware + Software The world is filled with investors who will tell you, “We don’t do hardware.” It was a novel concept well before the major players did this for you.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

” And due to empowerment, the consumer too wants to be addressed as a unique individual – not ‘marketed to’as part of some mythical mass audience. Speaking on the launch Jon Siegal, Founder & CEO, Fan Appz Inc said, “The fun of counting Likes, comments and retweets has faded. Siegal added,“Social data holds the key.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally. The ingredients are all here. He’s why I came this week.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

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. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. I was dead wrong.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

The controversial CISA bill passed in late December, despite outcry from the tech world, now means large corporations will be able to share personal online data with government agencies. Efforts of product integration between online softwares are set to continue. Data Security Concerns Dominate. 10GB for what 5GB costs today).

Commerce 40

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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 was really my first experience working with a technology that was merging the digital and physical worlds. That was in addition to the social media work I'd done. Rob Reed: Exactly.

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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. Angels like to “touch and feel” their investments, so they are generally only interested in local opportunities. Keiretsu Forum.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 This is something that Google is attempting to do with its Wave format and remains an approach to watch.

Web 29

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. " The Bible Code predicted the Sept 11 attacks 5,000 years ago."

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Stewart Roberts , President of Orange County of Tech Coast Angels. Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. Most people facing this problem resort to mass text messages, and long, frustrating email chains. Panel speakers: Paige Craig , aka.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Stewart Roberts , President of Orange County of Tech Coast Angels. Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. Most people facing this problem resort to mass text messages, and long, frustrating email chains. Be sure to tune in at 5:30pm PT.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

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. I can review it myself, both in audio form, or text form, and share it with others. How much technology automation is involved here, or is there just lots of labor involved?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

In terms of sectors, it's going to be Internet, Consumer Internet, Software-as-a-Service--though in that area, not enterprise as a Salesforce, but along the lines of business productivity tools and customer acquisition--and also digital media. Finally, what's the perfect company for you, in terms of team, technology, etc?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

It’s also a very exciting time here in LA Tech with over 6 accelerators and incubators springing up over the past year. Teams reconvened Saturday morning at 9:00 AM and continued to code and build their startup throughout the day. Startup Weekend LA has grown to become a very special event here in Los Angeles.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2012

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. We also have feedback from some of our users, we receive emails like, “Gabi makes me fall in love with Facebook again.” Is the storm over now?

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