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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I plan to write a whole separate blog post about this quote because it’s always stuck with me. An external consultant helping the procurement team overturned the decision and got the company to select a small software company owned by the consultancy. Continue to meet with senior executives at the buying organization.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Writing 247

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. We hired the ex-CTO of Sears, and other senior executives out of Disney in software. It was a great software team, and although we were really a tech company, we looked like healthy lifestyle company. Execution is everything.

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JUNE 17, 2013

In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA. Having a methodology instead of just going on random sales visits helped force a bit of rigor and honesty amongst team members about how well or not we thought we were doing. This article initially appeared on Inc. Click here.

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Sales Slides Startup Custom 367

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system.

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system.

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

We help them identify products that are safe and health for them and their families, from organic baby food, to household items. To do that, we've gotten pedestrians, doctors, and eco-experts involved in the company and helping us to determine the criteria we have published on the site.

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Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

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JANUARY 28, 2012

I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. But on the other hand if you have a product with a very high gross margin (software, virtual goods, etc.) Try reading a bunch of reviews, checking 5 different restaurants to try and compare the differences.

Web 334

Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

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AUGUST 23, 2010

And to give credit where it’s due (in addition to the content that Fred producers) a lot of the discussion works well because of the Disqus commenting platform. Fred talks about it here – he beat me to the punch because I always wanted to write about how awesome this is. It’s an awesome implementation. Engagement.

Blogging 301

Blogging SEO Startup Writing 301

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. The second thing it allows them to do is save money, because the app helps them with couponing, through partnerships and local deals we have.

Mobile 168

Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

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AUGUST 15, 2009

We helped the write out their requirements for a system. We met everybody in the organization. We felt this was a marquee account and one that would help us take our collaboration tool global as Thames owned assets all over the world. They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

Startup 151

Startup Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review 151

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Not too many people are aware of the success and story of Lynda.com (www.lynda.com), started by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin , and how the firm's now grown to a double-digit, multimillion dollar business which is known as THE source for online training on such things as web design, graphics software, animation, video editing, and much more.

Startup 242

Startup Web Design Writing Web 242

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2018

I have sold companies of my own, companies I have invested in, and helped companies I've run or invested in with corporate development partnerships to help their business. That's why I organized it into these 10 sections. Steve was trying to show that the Mac was just as much or better software than Windows.

Startup 147

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review 147

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. That changed very quickly. And covered we did.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks is trying to make that whole part of your life more efficient, and much more manageable and organized for everybody. If you've taken a course, and need an application to do chemistry or math analysis, there's a store where you can write, share, sell, or buy those applications. Talk about your background?

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

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AUGUST 14, 2009

I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. Don’t worry if they can’t help in your daily business. Don’t worry if they can’t help in your daily business. How much to raise?

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

If u see an article or write a blog post, email us or leave a comment below with a link to your story and we’ll add it in. Code Monkey Hackathon song (VIDEO ABOVE). Thanks to students and organizer UCLA comp sci Ph.D Due to overwhelming support of everyone asking “When’s the next SBF!” Geeks Unite.

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Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers. Unpaid Search – Never pay a consultant to help you achieve a higher search ranking. Cost Per Click (CPC) or Download (CPD) – As the name implies, advertisers pay only for clicks on its advertisements or when a user downloads its software, case study or whitepaper.

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Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

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MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? I don’t care if you’re a 10-person organization, a 1,000 person organization or a multinational corporation – often it is the few key players that change the dimensions.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

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MARCH 22, 2010

. - Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - The more she got to know more the more she called me for help with stories. It started socially.

Tips 307

Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was mostly timing.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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JANUARY 28, 2011

You want somebody who can raise $15 million to build out your R&D, business development and sales organizations. They often are very good at getting information out of people, helping create a framework for making decisions and pushing for support amongst the organization from those that back the decision and those that do not.

CTO Hire 363

CTO Hire Technical Review Startup Demand 363

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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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Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285