Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2010

Those are hard, since someone has to invent something innovative, but I do have some views on other ideas whose time has come and gone. I still get about one business “idea” per week for a new networking site, which will combine the “best of all the sites” into a new one. For some ideas, the wave has simply passed.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

You would think the obvious thing I would tell somebody is, “yes, of course it’s a great idea.&# You’d be surprised. In this particular case I wasn’t convinced it was a good idea from the limited information I had. A high level of confidence in your own ideas and ability to execute. Very decisive.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

So what Phonesheet.com does is takes that antiquated system and modernizes it, using a Web 2.0 Where'd the idea come from? Traditionally, they hand-write those messages and those message slips become clutter, become lost, and they stay in your office when you're not there. system where the assistant can log into the account.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. they released a new 2.0 We get it!

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

At 12.30pm in the afternoon the idea to create the video was hatched. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ One idea I’ve been searching for is a platform that enables the creation of serialized programs with audience participation. They taped it at 3.30pm for 2 minutes.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

To give you an idea, if you host your own store on CafePress and Zazzle, you're going to get a payout of about 10 percent on your sales, which ends up being $2 or $3. was community and content, we think Web 3.0 We're going to start out paying them $6, so every shirt you sell that's $6 to you.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

The existing space on Wilshire is heavily used by meetups, business networking groups, as well as local startups, and we thought we'd talk with Jerome to better understand what the whole idea is behind the space and coworking. What's the idea behind coworking? We have Sometrics, which is kind of a search technology for Web 2.0,

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Xconomy

MARCH 19, 2017

Heller founded Wrapify in early 2015 with the idea of creating a business that would pay motorists to wrap their cars in digitally printed advertising.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Zak had an idea for a screen writing magazine, and was trying to make it as a screenwriter, and found out there was a lack of good resources for people trying to scrap and get to the top. The idea, initially, is not to go after the Hollywood market.

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APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Was it David Cohen’ Idea? It was David’s idea.” “Well I didn’t know David. “Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. was starting. And how do you know David? “It

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

You would think the obvious thing I would tell somebody is, “yes, of course it’s a great idea.&# You’d be surprised. In this particular case I wasn’t convinced it was a good idea from the limited information I had. A high level of confidence in your own ideas and ability to execute. Very decisive.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

The trends are legit, but we have no idea what unexpected breakthrough in human interaction is going to change everything.” AJAX was one of the major drivers of the “dot com renaissance” that became known as Web 2.0. But I valued getting my ideas out there. A tough way to drive. ” Marcus T Cicero.

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JULY 15, 2009

What's the idea behind Quub? The idea is we do not want to go down the current path of the Web 2.0 Ruan and Patterson tell us a bit about the service and how it was inspired by Twitter, the company's experience spinning out technology from UC Irvine, and what its plans are now. What's the business model behind this?

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JUNE 17, 2009

SharesPost was one of the first ideas we had. Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0 We came back to BrightHouse as an interesting possibility. We put together a group of angels we'd worked with in the past, put some money to work, and prototyped some companies.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

A colleague working at the National Science Foundation said to me, "The lag time between fundamental idea and marketable product is usually longer than policymakers are willing to consider." One very encouraging note these organizations are trying to use "Web 2.0" An interesting anecdote about use of Web 2.0

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Ive noticed that a lot of people are afraid of getting their ideas out into the public. They are afraid of their competition finding out about the idea, a bigger company trying to steal it or some other entrepreneur doing it first. Sure, you need to take the proper precautions to protect your idea first (patents, copyrights, etc.),

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Frank Addante

MAY 20, 2007

I just started working on a new idea. My plan is to use this blog to share and document my experiences, as they happen, while I explore the new idea from its early inception… I’d also like to make this blog more interactive to get –your- input and collaboration. Thank you again!

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

." -- Robert Fischell, Inventor (Holder of 200 medical device patents) It is easy to come up with ideas. Convincing others to believe in your idea is hard. Ive found that a lot of people are interested in hearing about new ideas. they listen, they smile and nod, they say nice things and tell you its a great idea.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

Helpful Resources for Getting Traffic from Partnerships : : Web 2.0 Helpful Resources for Getting Social Media Traffic : The Social Media Manual and Promoting Yourself on Twitter (by geekpreneur ). Distribution Deals.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.), He is principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning New Media agency in Silicon Valley, and has led interactive and social programs for Fortune 500 companies, notable celebrities, and Web 2.0

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

I spent a lot of time watching the evolution of Web 1.0, Companies that come out of the back side are generally solid ideas. I helped start SportsLine, which CBS later bought, and I was aksed to take AltaVista from a search engine to a portal, and worked there for awhile.

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

Ill get into details on the business idea itself in later posts. If you have any comments, thoughts, ideas, insights, questions or concerns about the Internet advertising space, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit So, now the "what" part.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

The idea is to get other major sites to integrate some core functionality of your site into their own, as a value ad. Helpful Resources for Getting Traffic from Partnerships : : Web 2.0 Helpful Resources for Getting Social Media Traffic : The Social Media Manual and Promoting Yourself on Twitter (by geekpreneur ).

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 29, 2006

BTW - If there are any specific topics that anyone would like me to address or comment on, please email me with ideas or suggestions: frank@addante.com Also, please feel free to comment on any of my posts by clicking on "Add a comment" at the bottom of the post. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Lindsey Harper recently wrote about her experiences using Mechanical Turk to validate her startup idea. Where Good Ideas Come From - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 21, 2010 I've been reading my friend Steven Johnson 's new book Where Good Ideas Come From. Another important web 2.0 " Sponsor.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

Security (Today = 5; 5 Years Ago = 2): Security (of your ideas/code) used to be a big concern when outsourcing. They realize that stealing code and ideas could severely hurt their growth. They realize that stealing code and ideas could severely hurt their growth.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

I have found that if an idea is incredibly complex, it inherently requires more time to develop and is harder to explain to customers, users, partners, employees, etc. And if customers, users, partners and employees have a hard time understanding or explaining the idea, then it will eventually fail.

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Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

Zondigo was the perfect example of why all good companies must be “right idea&# AND “right time.&# As a matter of fact, we even pitched the idea to Coke about 5 years ago. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit We missed out on the “right time&# part.

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Frank Addante

JULY 10, 2006

Zondigo was an idea, a team and capital in search of a business plan. Tell Your Friends Subscribe Filed under: internet advertising , L90 , startup , StrongMail , Zondigo Newer Post Older Post Home No Comment Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Chocolate Candy Web 2.0 We were afraid to make mistakes. longer meetings.

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Frank Addante

MAY 8, 2006

(Startup 3.0) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LESSON(S) LEARNED: What you don’t know can’t stop you: Our team was very inexperienced and we had no idea what our limits were. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

I setup a nice little home office for myself and started dabbling with a few ideas. I started an incubator/holdings company called Addante and Associates to be the umbrella company for my ideas and consulting projects. I started dabbling with a few ideas around online advertising, search engines and other random projects.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

To be honest, I don’t know where my response came from because the truth was that I was very intimidated and had no idea how we would beat them. Just because a company gets big, ideas get bigger and the employee and customer count grows – it doesn’t mean that things need to become more complex.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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