Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Gumroad Gumroad is a web-builder and ecommerce platform that lets creators sell products directly to consumers. Writesonic Writesonic is an AI writing tool designed to help writers overcome writers block and level up their skills. Brightwheel is a SaaS childcare management solution that provides technology to preschools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

Most business advisors I know will say that writing a business plan is the first step to starting your own business, but I believe that a better first step is to do a self-analysis of your real drivers, strengths, and assumptions before committing to this lifestyle. You can’t really succeed in life if you are not happy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In fact, I think the evidence is clear that many entrepreneurs started their journey while still in college, and capitalized on all the resources there, before moving on: Extend your technology focus with business basics. Write a business plan and pitch deck for learning. Build a web site and incorporate while in school.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In my experience as a business advisor, one of the best ways to get all of these, is to publish a book on the technology, the journey, or some relevant lessons learned. In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2011

By Bob La Loggia, CEO StormSource Technology is like a banana. Just like technology, a banana has very distinct phases. Eating a green banana is like introducing a technology for which people aren’t ready. Either the customer isn’t ready or the technology isn’t ready or the market isn’t ready. The anguish is unbearable.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. What does Confident Technologies do? The Confident authentication suite of software, which also includes out of band technology.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. Do you have a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One ? What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles.

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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. This is not a new model, and it makes no sense,” says Narasin.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Invoca is now doing 10s of millions in recurring revenue and is growing > 75% year-over-year but it took the first 3 years to really build out the technology and acquire our initial enterprise clients. We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 15 million first checks but we also have three growth funds.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? Bruce and I met at the Art Center, and that was when I first discovered the web. How did that change things?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Our submission technology is what powers Scripped.com, who you interviewed earlier. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. What kind of writing and writers are you targeting? I had lots of international projects in China.

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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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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

In government, there''s often superficial talk about adopting technology and working with industry--most of which is out of sync with the actual technology industry and reality, and is more window dressing than reality. He wanted to looka t how technology could help with the problems that we all face, and help to solve those problems.

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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. Right now, we're a web-based solution, and we have additional game engine solutions going forward.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

SVP at Cloud Technology Partners. Linthicum, senior vice president at Cloud Technology Partners, is an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader. He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. Dave Linthicum (moderator).

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Working in the film and event industry for many years, Taylor Freeman decided to put his career on hold and travel around Europe reflecting on what is important and discovering his true passion, technology. “My Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. And UploadVR was born.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Yet we took this document, the business plan, because we knew nothing else and said, ‘Go write one of these.’. You can get feedback almost instantaneously and the cost of iteration is as close to zero as technology will allow us to get.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We caught up with Gil to hear more about the round and what he's hoping to do with the large amount of capital Factual has just raised, as well as how the firm's technology is being used by such companies as Facebook for their local information. Gil, thanks for the time today. They're most interested in the place database we're offering.

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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. People write their thoughts knowing that anybody else can see them. The currency of the real-time web is, for now, your Twitter address. Tags: Social Media social networking startup technology Twitter.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Web application performance is a broad discipline. Performance in your technology selection process. “It was running fine.” What do we mean by performance?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 14, 2016

Targeting students, journalists, content markets and the technology-literate, Optimal Access makes it easy for users to organize their web destinations according to their needs and also offers curation features for saving, organizing and sharing curated content online. Evernote Web Clipper. Find it here: Evernote Web Clipper.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format. Instead, what we have tried to do, is turn the social web into a sort of representative democracy. Chris Lyman: The way the technology manifests itself, is we have a database of two million names.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 15, 2012

And by obvious I mean – the slowness of Palm’s response to having email has got to go down as one of the most obvious blunders in technology history. I was jealous watching all my friends surf the web on their iPhones. I used it to browse the web. And email was the most obvious thing they were missing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

The Knight News Challenge is a contest which highlights digital news experiments and technology, and is closely watched by those in the news industry. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. Were you able to get over that technology hurdle? It ran in April of 2008. So what's next?

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2009

I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever.

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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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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I had problems with reading and writing and comprehension and a lot of social abilities. In 1995, Lynda wrote one of the first books on web design, Designing Web Graphics. Similarly, Bruce’s short-lived career in sales reinforced that his talents were better applied creating technology, rather than trying to sell it. [10:10]

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. lynda.com was born from my desire to share new technology with others. Value Prop Twitter Style : Lynda.com is: “The best, new, online way to learn how to use your software.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. lynda.com was born from my desire to share new technology with others. Value Prop Twitter Style : Lynda.com is: “The best, new, online way to learn how to use your software.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

Everywhere, technology is starting to percolate into an otherwise prosaic, non-tech industry—apply big data, apply machine learning—and revolutionize it.”. Rao added, “With this acquisition, Intel is formally committing to pushing the forefront of AI technologies.”.

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