InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

3) If you were writing your book Pitching Hacks today, how would your advice differ ? You can cast a much wider net, the nature of the pitch can be a lot simpler, you can get funded with just an executive summary and a good conversation…without having to put together a business plan or even a deck. The whole environment has changed.

Startup 273

Startup Software Review Summary Technical Review 273

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. The post amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder appeared first on TechZulu.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I realize that I am privileged to have the time and professional network to provide meaningful favors. Even favors that do not net positive results should be acknowledged and verbally appreciated. In writing this essay, I am not hoping for an avalanche of gifts from the many Donees I have helped in the past. Meredith Publishing.

Entrepreneur 210

Entrepreneur Help Networking Startup 210

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. How do you use LinkedIn?

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog.

Startup 285

Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 285

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Banner or AdSense style ads placed either at the top of the page or down the right hand side (often called a skyscraper) would only net Twitter money for users that log into Twitter.com. People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. But I don’t think so.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

As I write these words I already imagine my next deposition in which I’m asked to read this out loud. I started writing about problems when founding a startup years ago but the problem has gotten worse. Be very careful with everything you write in an email or send in a text message. *. Lawsuits. It is insanely common.

Startup 150

Startup IP Writing Ideas 150

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Derek Norton: I just closed on a new fund, worth $5M, which I raised from a group of high net worth, high profile LPs. We are going to write checks of between $100,000 and $500,000, and we are going to invest in what we are calling first institutional capital. Tell us about the new fund?

Invest 145

Invest Funding Capital Startup 145

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Company 2 might represent an “ad mediation company” where the company gets paid by ad networks for running ads on publisher websites and the company in turn must pay the publisher 85% of the revenue it collects. Many software companies have 85–90% gross margins, which is why it has historically been a very attractive industry.

Startup 227

Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I grew up a computer programmer, a builder of computer networks and fascinated with infrastructure so in many ways I felt like I existed at the inception of many of these great technologies. With all of those companies gobbled up the market is now focused on the next generation startups like TasteMade, MiTu Network, StyleHaul and so forth.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Xbox LIVE has nearly 40 million members, making it the biggest social entertainment network in the living room. 5. We’ve all used Microsoft at one point or another, whether it’s when we run Windows on our laptop, write up a report in MS Words, play the last game on Kinect, or send an email to a coworker through Exchange (using Outlook).

Writing 88

Writing Training Email .Net 88

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

On balance I usually prefer to recruit people from my network both in terms of saving costs as well as hiring people I know & trust. That said, there are times where you need to cast a wider net. Recruiters : I have always had close relationships with executive recruitment firms. I value the service they provide. Highly ethical.

Venture Capital 319

Venture Capital Pricing Startup Outsource 319

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

As noted in Net Profit Score , salespeople have used references as a means of establishing credibility with strangers for hundreds of years. Thus, cite quantified results, such as percentage growth in revenue, number of new accounts closed, Net Promoter Scores achieved, etc. Start by writing a draft of your reference.

Startup 113

Startup .Net Organization Networking 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. Budding entrepreneurs and home-based businesses should be writing business plans before they start, so they understand and can manage the tasks ahead, but no outside investor need ever see the plan.

Commerce 99

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 99

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. But throughout the transition I had my safety net. I’m sure we missed out on a number of great people, but the net effect is that everyone in the team is focused on the same mission.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. Budding entrepreneurs and home-based businesses should be writing business plans before they start, so they understand and can manage the tasks ahead, but no outside investor need ever see the plan.

Startup 100

Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2012

“The idea was to build something that ‘shows’ and ‘enchants,’” which is, in fact, what the Japanese word Miselu translates as. “Since music is the one thing that everyone loves, the company started to focus on ideas in that field with the goal to entirely change the way music is experienced.

Press 100

Press Ideas Product Activity 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. Budding entrepreneurs and home-based businesses should be writing business plans before they start, so they understand and can manage the tasks ahead, but no outside investor need ever see the plan.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Investor and customer attention spans are short, and both will write you off quickly. A new easier to use social network may not get anyone excited. The net value of this solution from the customer’s perspective. That may sound obvious, but as a new venture investor, I rarely see it happening.

.Net 73

.Net Examples Customer Custom 73

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. Budding entrepreneurs and home-based businesses should be writing business plans before they start, so they understand and can manage the tasks ahead, but no outside investor need ever see the plan.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

You’d be forgiven, then, for assuming the city is seeing a net loss of tech workers. users and the over 3 million job positions the professional network fields each month. Writing in March, the New York Times’ Kevin Roose had an answer that will hit Bay Area-bound tech workers where it hurts: Their wallets.

Report 70

Report .Net Template Writing 70

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2017

You can also establish authority by writing and public speaking. Facebook initially capitalized on exclusivity by allowing only Harvard students to join their social network. The net effect is that influencers can rely more heavily on the less expensive “pull” marketing, rather than traditional “push” marketing.

Social Media 58

Social Media Customer Custom Entrepreneur 58

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We also want to create more capital for women entrepreneurs to increase the chances of being funded and connected to a bigger network. We get a lot more emails from women entrepreneurs who say they are a high net worth in their community and we should come and help boost the number of angel investors in their companies.

Mentor 84

Mentor Invest Entrepreneur Startup 84

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: The iPhone had been launched about 10-months earlier (tying users to an exclusive carrier with a crappy network) and most of the smartphone apps that had reached scale were games. John Greathouse <john *@ *.com> com> 4/25/08. to Jim, Kevin.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 19, 2010

Integrates SMS, Social Network Services, email, and calendar accounts. Swype, Write & Go. The on board web browser made it easy to surf the net. The reception even on the AT&T network worked great and the multimedia capabilities on the phone are very strong. The Basics. HSUPA 900/1900/2100. SOCIAL HUB.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Screening RSS Web 40

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

There is an exemption from the requirements that these investors be accredited with net worth or income minimums to qualify legally to invest in your company. The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), and similar organizations in other countries including Canada, all have web sites with directories of angel groups that are local to you.

Equity 156

Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2010

Based on a survey just last year by Robert Half Technology , over half of today’s companies block social networks completely, while another 19 percent only permit it "for business purposes." Social networks have become a great vector for Trojans like Zeus and URLZone. and tinyurl) obfuscate sources, masking malware installs.

Social Network 87

Social Network Networking Tool Sites 87

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Unsurprisingly a whole generation of first time stock traders became jaded about not just Internet stocks but the entire public stock market system as many people lost a large portion of their net worth.

Course 280

Course Startup Framework Marketing 280

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. However, if you’re going to start a company and be an entrepreneur, you need to network and you have to hustle. to find someone they know who knows an investor, network and get an intro. Net neutrality (1:09:00).

Angel 302

Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302