Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Here are a few: Business networking. For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. Effective marketing. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2013

The platform allows investors to do their due diligence on their own time, network with other investors and execute deals with little overhead.” It also has free virtual due diligence sessions, investment dashboards, an advanced data room and virtual boardroom features.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Jackson added, “FinTech has traditionally lagged behind the innovation that’s happening in other areas of enterprise software. 25 Years of Writing Code. Established In 2010 By PayPal’s First Head of US marketing. Founded in 2010 by Eric M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2020

Every business, especially startups, needs all guns blazing quickly on every opportunity or insight into the market. I recommend that every entrepreneur and small business investigate and implement as many as possible of his seven new business force multipliers that I will paraphrase here: Information sharing through social media networks.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? ,p> As brick-and-mortar businesses closed and re-opened at limited capacity, our team of digital marketing strategists updated hours on more than 1.3 million local listings, a record number.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

Full-service Pinterest marketing and technology startup – HelloSociety recently announced it had driven $30 million in additional sales revenue for its over 350 brand clientele through Pinterest. HelloSociety’s successful marketing and branding campaigns run on Pinterest for a reason. million followers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers. We actually have a very big Wordpress user base, because of the work we''ve done with Wordpress, contributing code and integrating them into our platform. That has grown very nicely, even those we''ve not been overly aggressive with marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

get the attention of the market they choose. For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kleiner Perkins , one of the most storied franchises in venture capital, has already invested much of the $600 million it raised last year and is now going back out to the market to raise its 19th fund, according to multiple sources. We went out to market to LPs. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020. ”

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 24, 2013

We’d like to think the successful testing was a result of diligence in our communication and persistence with our test users, but in reality we were just lucky to have the perfect test group. The post 7 Keys to Using Your Network to Test Your Product appeared first on TechZulu. How was the group assembled?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. Young people naively enter their pictures and personal data for fun on social networking sites, ignoring constant feedback from the media that these are bad practices.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. James Segil: EdgeCast is the fastest growing CDN in the world.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell. Our initial target is with utilities, with oil and gas next, and lots of other markets which are getting traction. We also provide extremely long battery life.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created by the leadership team from Code Fever to accelerate and support the innovation of black communities through training, networks and funding. “ Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market. Memphis, TN).

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2013

Michael Lum: We were all semi-independently looking at mobile, due to the growth projection and potential there. There are lots of players in this market, why you are different? Michael Lum: There are definitely a lot of mobile ad networks out there. Is that due to your prior experience in this market?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

He noted that, " Throughout the year I review my Twitter followers looking for bots, accounts that have been abandoned, or that are tweeting links with viruses and I remove them. The social media industrial complex is fraught with digital marketers and consultants who puff up their abilities and accomplishments.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2013

The first was our business model, the second was our network of dentists, and the third was our patient experience. The healthcare market is the only market where you have to pay to access affordable prices, and it''s the only market where you don''t see what a service costs you until that service is rendered.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2013

However due to much controversy and competition, the same hasn’t played true while at large events (*cough* SXSW ). Few have tried in recently months with little success; generally due to city regulations on competing with the local taxi services, but Callaway’s social and brand presence should help this be success.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2011

We answer these questions and really dive into the LG 4G Thrill in our review below. The LG Thrill 4G runs on AT&T’s HSPA+ “4G” network. If you all remember our impressions of the Nintendo 3DS review , it was fun but the gaming experience on a few titles was hard to tolerate. Sporting a 4.3-inch For the $99.99

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Just as SimpleLegal has success ousting competitors, its Customer Success team must be diligent to avoid being likewise a victim of employee churn. It’s not about helping them use our software. It’s about helping them achieve their objectives and make a strong first impression.” Bro Benefits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

I second his list of top innovation challenges and strategies to capitalize on untapped global startup opportunities: Create new markets rather than disrupt existing ones. Design the full stack, not just a new software element. Indeed these principles are good for all startups Connect ideas and networks from around the world.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

Anyone looking for signs that the economy is turning around, might want to look at what appears to be happening in Southern California's technology jobs market. We're getting more aggressive in recruitment," explains says Kirsten Mangers , CEO of Irvine-based Webvisible.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Andrew spoke to us about TrackStreet's brand protection software and artificial intelligence efforts. We then allow them to understand the true potential velocity of markets online. I saw an incredible opportunity with technology, which we could apply to solve their problems and close the gap between them and their market.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It’s true that we also fund more mundane stuff like B2B software aimed at productivity improvements but we want some big bets in every fund where we feel we can contribute to “making our own little dent in the universe” as the saying goes – by backing ambitious entrepreneurs with that same goal. ” Enter Grove.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2019

For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product. Now, with powerful high-level tools and open source software, winning smartphone apps can be built by a good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

So, how is it you ended up going from a technology infrastructure entrepreneur at SkyPipeline, to the consumer market with Visalus? I had a sales force when I was at SkyPipeline, selling telecom, networking, and broadband wireless products. My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

It's the biggest portion of our revenues at our company, and our clients include the Buffalo News, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, JDate, Spark network, and many entrepreneurs. We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. How do clients license your software?

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Xconomy

JANUARY 25, 2018

Roughly every three years, someone steps up and boldly claims the security software industry is going away, and they are probably right—much like there is a strong chance of the cold energy death of the universe. Security isn’t a single industry nor is it a single market. However, neither is likely tomorrow. That’s the problem, really.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

get the attention of the market they choose. For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

He has over a decade of portfolio management in capital markets. Felicia is the cofounder of Black Tech Week, Code Fever, Tribe Cowork and Urban Innovation. Siggi is a principal at Samsung NEXT in San Francisco, where she focuses on early-stage investment in frontier tech software companies. As the President of Start Co.,

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2019

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? The macro climate will be volatile due to uncertainly from an unstable president, a slowing overall economy and the China America trade negotiationsas well as the inevitable slowing of a 10 year run.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2009

socalTECH.com has just signed on as a Network Partner in an exciting new program called Microsoft BizSpark. It only takes a few minutes, you get almost instant access to the software, and your only obligation is to pay Microsoft a small fee (USD$100) due at the end of the three years (or end of participation in the program).

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

He also spearheaded a number of fundamental software breakthroughs, including creating the basic hardware / software architecture which resulted in the creation of the third-party personal computer (PC) software industry. Designed CD-ROM filing system and created Universal Software Bus.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recommend you first review Dharmesh’s article and then listen to Naval’s thoughts. These days, thanks to code and community, we can productize almost any process done by humans. The core business we have built on is taking out-of-market startups and introducing them to investors. AngelList is the productization of that.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

As I like to say, “If you’re really on to an enormous idea then other people in the market are going to spot that and want to compete with you. If you have a market lead then raising capital and making investments now will help you as others enter the market. If you don’t, somebody else WILL!”

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