socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

People are all now using their mobile devices to find products and services. That was backed by BVP and Draper Fishre Jurvetson, A-league venture investors, before YouTube got bought by Google and all the wind got taken off the ocean. We had a fine business in 1-800-DENTIST, our phone-based referral service. So, that's my story.

Startup 113

Startup CitySearch Outsource Development Organization 113

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. How are we going to manage the product roadmap? What do we build in-house or outsource?

Fractional CTO 225

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach 225

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. When you build a great solution or product, all you can think about is shipping more volume of your product to a larger audience.

Social Network 59

Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Your chores can be outsourced through Porter. That’s the only thing that is outsourced. We have played around Facebook; we are now going to do some Google AdWords and AdSense. ML: I think we see this with the big tech companies like Apple, Samsung, and Google. Google Glass, you can call a mobile, wearable hardware.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

We're enabling people with access to the channel, to add energy monitoring to their products. The whole product can be customized for a different OEM or different utility company which wants a dashboard a specific way. Google has its own home energy monitoring project, PowerMeter - is this competitive or different?

Startup 140

Startup OCTANE Outsource Development Google 140

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. Using your service or owning your product isn’t why a person buys, it’s the experience your customer will have. Valu e and Exp erience versus Price and Product.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. By doing the job. Where is it?

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple. I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” 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. It does not happen.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

“Recycled Bride” refers to the “recycling” of wedding items when they’re sold and passed from one bride to another, turning a one-time-use item into something with an extended product lifecycle. So she created the product that she would have wanted when planning her wedding. What inspired you?

Design 84

Design Social Media Sales Sites 84

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google. Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. How Quigo Went Head-to-Head With Google.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

Outsourcing ▼ April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. A move very similar to what Google is doing with DoubleClick today.

Google 40

Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Understandably, the pricing has to be excessive to provide sufficient margin for the product’s producer and an adequate incentive for the non-profit organization. Yet when a child attempts to sell such mis-priced items, the experience is often discouraging, due to the poor cost / value equation associated with such fundraising products.

Web 2.0 222

Web 2.0 Web Sales Outsource Development 222

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We own the celebrity birthday niche--we''re first in Google for searching for celebrity birthdays on every day of the year. If you look at Google Panda, they want you to be the best possible resource for a specific thing. That''s how you do well on Google, you become the best resources and site out there for a specific thing.

Google 236

Google Sites Startup Web 236

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Anybody who is able to create a customer relationship online can have some degree of success with Hydra, given that their product is desirable. It really doesn't suit a publisher well to have exclusive representation, except in some instances--for example, if a site has an outsourced sales agency. So, it's all over the map.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Anybody who is able to create a customer relationship online can have some degree of success with Hydra, given that their product is desirable. It really doesn't suit a publisher well to have exclusive representation, except in some instances--for example, if a site has an outsourced sales agency. So, it's all over the map.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Startups that sell innovative new products seem to get all the attention these days, but services may be the quicker way to larger profits and faster growth. Software is one of those entities that can be provided either as a product or a service, so this is where the movement to services started. Product sharing services.

Services 101

Services Startup Outsource Technical Support 101

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

We can all aspire to grow companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple, which have the aura of fun, while still improving your lifestyle and offering the dream of untold riches. They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review Outsource 87

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Focus Customers will only buy a simple product with a singular value proposition.

Company 40

Company Companies Startup Venture Capital 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

We can all aspire to grow companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple, which have the aura of fun, while still improving your lifestyle and offering the dream of untold riches. They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation.

Startup 102

Startup Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review 102

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Check Google , Yellow Pages , and local directories to ensure your business name is not taken. Set up an online phone system ( Ring Central , Google Voice , Onebox ) or set up a traditional land line ( Verizon , AT&T ).

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

We caught on with the right product, at the right time. Obviously, anyone except the largest five to ten content companies in the world, such as Google, Netflix, or Amazon, does not need to own their own CDN. Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast. I think that's what is the main foundational element of a Web 2.0

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

We can all aspire to grow companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple, which have the aura of fun, while still improving your lifestyle and offering the dream of untold riches. They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Offshore Startup Technical Review 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We can all aspire to grow companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple, which have the aura of fun, while still improving your lifestyle and offering the dream of untold riches. They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation.

Offshore 55

Offshore Technical Review Entrepreneur Outsource 55

socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We caught up with Satish to learn more about the company and its products. I have been working on the business side of the product at Motorola, and worked there for over ten years. We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. What is Clorder?

Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Social Media Outsource Development 100

SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

see When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? see When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? Labels and Structure One of the more interesting questions is what this ends up being called and how it gets structured.

Technical Review 170

Technical Review Technical Advisors CTO Coach Startup 170

InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

The bottom line is that the TaxJar team is happy - and because we're happy, we're incredibly productive.”. “We He then joined Picasa and was instrumental in its acquisition by Google. Our team has flexible schedules that allow them to spend time with the kids in the early evening and hit the slopes on a perfect powder day.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Email Outsource Development 100

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

our marketplace, you go to Fine Art America, join, and you get an online profile, much like a Facebook or Google Plus. website allowed engineers and engineering firms in the industry to advertise their products online, posts events, and. In addition, we outsource the actual production of prints to companies around the U.S.

Santa Monica 258

Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Yahoo Email 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

Once art had left my team, I had no control over the final product and it was creating too much tension. Rocksauce Studios treats our projects the same way a start-up company would treat that product. What are your thoughts on outsourced design vs. having in house creatives to work on design elements of the app?

Design 94

Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. We were successful because our product had, by far, the highest S:C ratio.

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development Product Advertising 40

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378