socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2019

For this morning's interview, with caught up with serial entrepreneur James Citron , the founder of Pledgeling (www.pledgeling.com), a startup which enables any business to help connect their business with social causes. Citron previously founded and sold Mogreet, a developer of mobile marketing software, among other ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Not so long ago, every business assumed that the keys to success were the highest quality product, the best value for the buck, and the best customer service. Exploit your product and service differences. You must be able to highlight these differences between your products and services, and those of your competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2015

New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. An ethical culture deals with managing values between the individual and the company, to best handle the inevitable conflicts that crop up in every business. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 99

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

The data consistently confirms that: (i) venture capitalists are typically not adventuresome, and (ii) most startups lack the three intoxicating factors which cause venture capitalists to pull out their checkbooks. This concentration is partly due to natural causes – successful startups spawn other successful startups.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Technical Review 233

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. This term is currently applied to recent startups who profess a current valuation which exceeds $1 billion. Could your startup be the next one? Sweat equity.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recommend you first review Dharmesh’s article and then listen to Naval’s thoughts. Value Prop Twitter Style : AngelList is the productization of raising startup funding. 6) Naval, why does the startup world need AngelList and Venture Hacks? . “As AngelList is the productization of that.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. In all of these new product and cost-focused new trends, a big problem has emerged that all of these movements have not addressed.

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2019

New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. An ethical culture deals with managing values between the individual and the company, to best handle the inevitable conflicts that crop up in every business. Marty Zwilling.

Software Review 77

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

LP’s who invest in funds are typically university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, large corporations and very high net worth individuals called “family offices.&# To give you an indication of how bad, for example, university endowments are suffering check out this chart.

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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. I never implied that startups are all great and job hoppers are all at fault.

Startup 285

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Tech.Co

JULY 24, 2017

Especially in the early days of your startup, when you’re often only months from running out of money, hiring the wrong person can be disastrous. And if, like us, you spend the first six months of your startup under a rock, your social capital may begin to dry up. 4 Ways Startups Can Structure Job Interviews to Avoid Bias.

Networking 82

Networking Startup Software Review Conference 82

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ria Consulting is hosting its 3rd annual Dallas Day of Dot Net on February 8-9, 2013 at Sheraton Market Center in Dallas, Texas. It’s OK, You Can Create Kick-Ass Web AppsAre you tired of getting verbally beat up about developing web and HTML5 apps? This session starts from scratch and primes a new ASP.NET MVC 4/.

Training 65

Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2013

New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. An ethical culture deals with managing values between the individual and the company, to best handle the inevitable conflicts that crop up in every business. Marty Zwilling.

Software Review 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. An ethical culture deals with managing values between the individual and the company, to best handle the inevitable conflicts that crop up in every business. Marty Zwilling.

Software Review 66

Software Review Summary Examples Offshore 66

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. Thus, while we maintain a healthy degree of optimism, we begin each funding discussion knowing that most nascent startups are not worthy of an investment, until we prove them otherwise. Unicornless.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

This morning's interview is with San Diego-based Kadonk (www.kadonk.com), a startup which is creating project management tools that work with Microsoft Project. We spoke with Dipanshu Sharma, Chairman of the firm, to learn more about the company and its products. There was a disconnect between the product and the sales process.

Startup 100

Startup Software Review Technical Review Software 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 60,000 members around the world. Or does it? Keiretsu Forum.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The first round of pitches are due this week. “We have a window of opportunity to start incorporating security measures on the front end.” “We have a window of opportunity to start incorporating security measures on the front end.”

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

For our interview today, we caught up with Al Eisaian , CEO of Pasadena-based IconApps (www.iconapps.com), which is developing mobile applications for the iPhone market. We caught up with Al recently to hear about his latest startup. How did you end up in the mobile market from last running an enterprise software firm?

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Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Maybe this meme will help.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Everyone knows what it means to have a “dot-com”, and most people have heard of a “dot-net” and a “dot-org.” Over the past few years the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has created a flood of new gTLDs covering a wide variety of concepts, locations and products.

Conference 77

Conference SEO Software Review IP 77

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo. AGN was sold to Net-TV pioneer Pseudo Programs and Rubin served as VP of Games and Sports programming. Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN).

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo. Make sure to tune in!

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Johnnie Cochran was an effective, albeit smarmy, defense lawyer who would say or do anything to defend his clients (anyone up for a glass of OJ?). Yet, despite his exceptional courtroom theatrics, you would be foolhardy to hire good old Johnnie to review your software cross-licensing agreement. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124