Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

As a business advisor, I have to recommend even to established companies that they review and revamp their competitive strategy now, even if it appears to be working today. Features, availability, and brand are just the price of entry. Create a team culture for personalized service. You need to be part of a larger ecosystem.

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Competition Software Review Social Media Customer 142

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The two said they are linking EdgeCast's CDN software, along with PeerApp's caching platform, to help operators cache all content on their networks. The two said the link will help operators improve quality of service and reduce costs. Pricing and other details of the combined offering were not detailed by the two companies.

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Santa Monica Software Review Content Networking 145

StartUp Beat

JULY 26, 2017

Broadband access in the US has come under both scrutiny and criticism recently with a lack of competition being blamed for sub-par services. Users can enter their zip code and let the algorithm t rawl through184 million rows of data with information about different providers, including prices, speeds and reviews from other users.

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Software Review Technical Review Competition Statistics 40

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

If you buy in bulk, the price of 1,000 Twitter followers is about $1.75. 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. Each social media platform enforces rules which punish fakers.

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Social Media Media Technical Review Software Review 274

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. We want to create the right mix of the types of activities, price points, and make sure we have high quality content and high quality activities. Who are your other cofounders?

Startup 271

Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

However, in the long run, entrepreneurs always benefit from delivering Maximum Utility for a fair price. Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. The more a customer utilized WebEx’s services, the more they had to pay.

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Entrepreneur SaaS Pricing Cloud Computing 225

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

Bridging the Gap and Redefining “Work” Recently, we discovered an interesting NYC-based company who had a simple hypothesis: W hat if you could bring elite business consultant talent to the table without the traditional price and hurdles? Due Diligence. Marketing & Branding. Investor Decks. Training Materials.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review Outsource 105

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We sat down with Brett Crosby (who founded Urchin Software, the company which became Google Analytics) and Brew Johnson , the co-founders of the company, to learn more about the company and what it's working on. Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. in a funding round.

Southern California 100

Southern California Google Technical Review Manhattan Beach 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. We have quite a few people using the platform, even though it was just publicly launched. Photo: Dave Fink on left, Jonathan Neddenriep on right. What is Postie?

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

As social media becomes a platform for online extremists, valid questions regarding freedom of speech, monitoring and censorship have arisen. However, before these dreams become a reality, what price will the online consumer expect to continue pay for private carrier service as our online dependence increases?

Commerce 40

Commerce Mobile Technical Review Google 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. TCA is a not-for-profit organization.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Xconomy

AUGUST 3, 2016

Nearly every retail industry has a presence online, making prices and other information easily available to digital shoppers. On average, prices vary between pawn shops by nearly 260 percent. Pawn shops were increasingly aware of the business they were losing online to other services, like Craigslist and OfferUp.

Help 40

Help Technical Review Customer Custom 40

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

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. The "Questions" post is probably the most important. Plan for past the initial MVP.

Technical Review 338

Technical Review CTO Hire CTO Coach Software Review 338

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google].

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. This Thanksgiving it might seem that there’s a lot less to be thankful for.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. the Rubicon Project The Journey Startup 6.0: Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Zondigo, Inc.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Consider just how much exposure the Austin community gets every year due to SXSW. But who else is going to get out there and close your big biz dev deals with you? Are you going to do all of this?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

We bypass the middle person for services and information. We use QR codes to simplify the process. The mobile web will become what desktop Internet became in the 1990’s – the standard platform for anyone doing business. 62% look at online peer reviews. And 39% compare prices across alternatives.

Mobile 156

Mobile Commerce Software Review Yammer 156

Both Sides of the Table

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