Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

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Social Media Media Startup Platform 126

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The Facebook parent-company saw its stock price get bludgeoned after a bad earnings report showcased that Apple’s ad-blocking changes are shaving billions off its books and the company’s crown jewel — the Facebook platform — has stopped growing and actually shrank this quarter. ” my colleague Aisha notes.

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Marketing Newsletter Technical Review News 246

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 3, 2018

The company’s technology works as a middleware including an SDK and a contract notification and monitoring service. If a dispute cannot be self-resolved, parties then graduate to a dispute resolution marketplace of third party vendors,” Wan writes. Thus, we are dispute process agnostic.”

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Software Review Outsource Development Services Technical Review 159

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. If the authors are inviting fans to write fan fiction about a universe they created, who owns the derivative works? Another unabashed proponent of fan fiction is N.K.

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Writing Outsource Development Technical Review Examples 196

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. One issue is do we need regulation on the full platform companies.

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Technical Review Startup Chief Technology Officer Social Media 144

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The challenge, as with all new technologies, is to make it work effectively, and avoid wasted effort and expensive mistakes. Several free blog platforms, like WordPress , are so flexible that you can configure them as a website, as well as your blog, without separate hosting. An informal writing style is generally recommended.

Blogging 135

Blogging Services Search Engine Optimization Web 135

TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

They’ve also had suppliers sell perishable goods as well — a vendor sold 80,000 dates on the platform a month ago. “We’re Ghost is not alone in developing technology focused on inventory. million in new funding for its predictive inventory recommendation platform, joining other similar companies, including Zippedi and Inventa.

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Product Funding Technical Review Equity 191

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

The other nice thing about that, is as things are happening on the same computer, there is no server code to write. It's really simple to write an application, compared to the complexity of an application that is multi-user. We created Croquet as a platform to create these amazing kind of applications you just couldn't do before.

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Platform Startup Examples Web 168

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Shut out of the Republican party's televised debates, Republic Presidential Candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson has taken his campaign online--using the technology of Santa Monica-based Yowie. Yowie said the town hall will be the first ever in a series of chats with politicians and pundits.

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Santa Monica Writing Blogging Platform 249

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

A high-performance application (notably, one based on a high-performance platform) will be capable of performing modestly complex algorithmic work on behalf of users without necessarily requiring the construction of a complex system architecture. Performance in your technology selection process.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 James (chairman of the Althea Foundation) and appointed Adam Sroka as Senior Vice President of Technology in a move to make business transactions simple and secure. . CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

To our delight, technology has evolved and improved in many ways over that time. Technology evolution can be cyclical, with some branches looping back to the past with surprising vigor and without much self-awareness. Platforms eschew threading and then re-invent threading anew. We love technology, but.

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Web Platform Technology JavaScript 200

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

Social Media 79

Social Media Media Invest Platform 79

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2020

If you want to follow two great Black executives who work at the intersection of technology and venture capital make sure to click on those links and follow them on Twitter. Valence is led by a talented CEO, Guy Primus and was the brainchild of my partner, Kobie Fuller. So what exactly is Valence and why does it matter?

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Funding Venture Capital Entrepreneur Networking 314

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective.

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Demand Media eHow Content 240

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

We spoke with Zach about the company and its technology. Zach Zalon: Super Hi-Fi is a platform to help music experience companies, like digital music services, to deliver much more compelling, much higher quality music experiences to their audiences. We ended up building a lot of digital music platforms. What is Super Hi-Fi?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. Naturally, the next step in Bernstein’s evolution from blogger to businesswoman was a technology startup. Danielle Bernstein is just 27 years old, but she’s been running her own business for 10 years.

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

We spoke with Zach about the company and its technology. Zack Zalon: Super Hi-Fi is a platform to help music experience companies, like digital music services, to deliver much more compelling, much higher quality music experiences to their audiences. We ended up building a lot of digital music platforms. What is Super Hi-Fi?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment to be hard hitting – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Use strong communication and writing skills.

Social Media 58

Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients. We see those three products working together, as features of one platform which both can be used independently, as well as together. So, we took that contest and crowdsourcing platform, and started ArtisticHub. What's the story behind Deal Current?

Platform 263

Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals. There are large sums of money to be invested and if investors can get comfortable with “downside protections” they’ll still write checks.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Writing 263

socalTECH

MAY 20, 2016

In particular, there are many platforms who enable taking ticket payments for sporting events, donation payments for non profits and rent payments for property managers, who don't fit into the current legacy way payments are handled. In the middle section are platforms like Uber, Airbnb, or Taskrabbit. What is Digitzs?

Platform 113

Platform Startup Ticketmaster Writing 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly always require an investment, sometimes large, in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

Social Media 66

Social Media Media Tips Platform 66

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

The challenge, as with all new technologies, is to make it work effectively, and avoid wasted effort and expensive mistakes. Several free blog platforms, like WordPress , are so flexible that you can configure them as a website, as well as your blog, without separate hosting. An informal writing style is generally recommended.

Blogging 88

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 88

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. ” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Final example.

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Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. but: Something is Still Missing.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 101

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata rights are one of the most important rights of a private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. For starters some funds are small and thus while they put $750k into your company to own 10% of your company they might not be able to write another $2 million if you then raise a $20 million round (10%).

Guide 336

Guide Venture Capital Startup Writing 336

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

We're a content curation platform, software-as-a-service for content, and we are focused on helping companies engage their customer more directly using content. We found that aggregation technology was very keyword driven, and relevancy was not that strong. It's all about what is happening on the realtime web.

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Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. Yet, the ways that enterprises and businesses are monetizing that user interaction is sort of archaic, compared to the evolution of the technology.

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. My intuition is that this is why when Twitter initially took off (around the time of SxSW in 2007) it was an open “publish to the world” platform and the trend continued. So why is this important for businesses?

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Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Now some never see the people they support, but are experts on the technology involved. Writing specialists. With information technology (IT) and requirements changing so fast, it’s definitely cheaper to find specialists rather than hire young employees and train them. Then your apps need to run on the new iPhone platform.

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Entrepreneur Services Search Engine Optimization Startup 106

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Startup Platform 95

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

The challenge, as with all new technologies, is to make it work effectively, and avoid wasted effort and expensive mistakes. Several free blog platforms, like WordPress , are so flexible that you can configure them as a website, as well as your blog, without separate hosting. An informal writing style is generally recommended.

Blogging 69

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

Authors Note: Were using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. We aim to know the upper bound being set on an applications performance per unit of hardware by each platform and framework.

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Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Communication and writing skills are required.

Social Media 93

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 93