Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The pervasiveness of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” I share her view of the ten key elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in.

Software Review 90

Software Review Social Media Social Network Technical Review 90

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More importantly, start cultivating networks of friends who have a sense of pulse on the frontiers of the economy. Pro tip: take on the mantle of book editor for a major tech publication, and the publishers will mail you books for free. Quality tech news from around the web. Ditto people you met a while back. What a boring mess.

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

Visions pan of endless cold emails and long days attending meetups and pitch nights while your operations/tech team grind away. What companies like SeedInvest and its peers are doing to help connect investors to startups. And in doing due diligence on hundreds of companies, we know exactly what to look out for.”

Invest 100

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. Review the code being built.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” I support her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in.

Social Media 102

Social Media Entrepreneur Software Review Social Network 102

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2012

The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” She outlines her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Social Network Software Review Social Media 97

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Matt sold his last startup, Thriva, to Active Network, and was part of the team that build up Active Network until its successful IPO in 2011. Matt Ehrlichman: Porch is really the first, home improvement network. I actually started my first technology startup out of Stanford twelve years ago. What exactly is Porch?

Startup 133

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. It’s worth a quick read.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The emergence of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “Open Leadership.” She outlines her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in.

Social Media 89

Social Media Startup Software Review Social Network 89

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Mallavarapu calls Blipboard a social map that gives you location based alerts in a follower network, not unlike Twitter’s model. Internal cross promotion within their own portfolio of apps, the marketplace and network as well. How do you discover the right people to follow? Where does the mobile interest graph come into play?

Mobile 71

Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

After I left DivX, I chose to go forward with a concept that leveraged that experience I had in the past, with a way to help software developers increase their distribution and make money with their software. But, due to lack of visibility or lack of resources, or lack of know-how around marketing, they lack distribution and monetization.

Software Review 100

Software Review Software Startup Examples 100

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. This helps to add some constraints to the design process as everyone has a clear idea of what the product isn’t.

Startup 78

Startup Design Customer Custom 78

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What are the biggest areas of technical risk? What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? How can we address this risk?

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