InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

For more than 30-years, Bill Gates has been at the pinnacle of the software industry. "The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. They also internalize their professional failures while externalizing their team’s successes.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system. I tell people regularly that I only invest in companies where the DNA is software.

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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). The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. Market Size.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

There have been many studies done on the topic including looking at twins raised in separate families. There have been studies of adopted children to their natural parents versus the parents that raised them. I have also seen studies on “birth order.&#. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

As a teenager he experimented with writing & producing his own rap music and received a lot of feedback from elders that he had a talent with words. He studied the errors that other people had made and tried to improve on them. There are many analogies here for software development. I study it every day.&#.

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JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. Between the mid nineties until 2007 wireless carriers around the world religiously protected the software that went on to phones and they guarded the end consumer relationship by controlling this software.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. Is that when it became big?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

I was happy to see a real focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, “ Start a Successful Business ,” by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges. Tomorrow is never mentioned in the pitch.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

We were looking at it, and saw that if we could take all these off-the-shelf sensors, and put it all together, and write some code, and make a user interface, it''s basically done. Our first project was 3D imaging of the heart, so that doctors could study a pacemaker and defibrillator recall from the Alfred E.

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Startup Competition Software Review UCLA 262

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

You recently conducted a pilot study. Can you share with us how the learnings of this pilot study impacted your strategy? HV: It was a research study that was conducted through USC, but the sites were at the Oasis Active Adults Community and we also worked with the Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

In terms of where we offer to our customers, we have 250 different areas, from early childhood to studying for an MCAT or the bar. The software does most of the job of vetting the tutor, but once that tutor is visible and our team knows they are interested in the job, that's where the hands-on touch comes into play.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Those companies are ones they don't have time to write about, or don't have an interest in, or who they just don't have the resources to write about. And, 85% of the people in the study said they understood that it was sponsored content, but were interested in scanning the headlines and reading anyway.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Jim Armstrong: It's broadly technology, from consumer Internet, to marketplaces, from Internet infrastructure to enterprise software. You'll see we have several enterprise software companies already in the March portfolio. We can now write $20M, $25M, and $30M checks to existing, breakout companies in our portfolio.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

I myself have been involved with computational thinking for nearly 40 years now—building technology for it, applying it in lots of places, studying its basic science—and trying to understand its principles. So when you write in it, you’re doing programming. So how do we prepare the kids of today for this future?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2012

We have a configurable alarm that reminds people to write down their dream when they wake up. Dream Writer is the app that people can only write down their dreams without any features. In stage 3, we hope to collaborate with professional and academic institutes and help to create a valuable database for researches and studies.

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Template Social Media Media Research 82

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Let’s assume you run a Customer Support software company. You have no choice but to jump into solution mode for a bit to see if your case studies on a successful implementation at other customers opens up the person you’re meeting a bit. But how to apply “listening&# in a sales meeting?

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JULY 23, 2013

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. In my next post I will take on the topic of how to control your brand.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

As a VC I’m acutely that a “yes&# decision to support an entrepreneur can do just that, yet I only write 2-4 of them per year and maybe another 3-4 as an angel. years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. My closest friend from high school, Rob Sowers, had studied abroad in Spain during college.

Startup 352

Startup Help Blogging Entrepreneur 352

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. If you can’t get product released and validated then do user studies. The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. Product : You should build a product or a prototype. How much to raise?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. Up until a few years ago most software companies used the ‘waterfall’ method of development that required lots of documentation (detailed marketing requirements specifications, functional and design specifications, etc.)

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). You can write an angry email to get your emotions out but you shouldn’t necessarily send it (or wait 1 hour and then make a decision). Looking back, what did you learn and what would you have done differently? (0:14:15).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

I’ll write that post one day – it is a very interesting story. You have beautifully executed software. Again, from my favorite OpEd columnist David Brooks in a wonderful piece about happiness : “Over the past few decades, teams of researchers have been studying happiness. But I met them with a prototype only.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Apps are also able to send advertisements through push notifications, which a customer is 50 percent more likely to open a than a promotional email, according to this study by Responsys. App development agency NN4M writes in its blog that customer conversion rates are 1.75 Apps offer loyalty programs as well.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

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. Some might be from banner ads and others may arise from an email campaign. . As described more fully in Thrill The Messenger.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

As of writing, my twin and I serve as the Co-CEOs and Co-Presidents at LAGbook. These are all great tech people, who have changed the world of computers, internet and software. LAGbook is based in Lagos-Nigeria, with operations in Yaba and Festac Town. Who are the founders and team and their backgrounds? We’re a team of 5.

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