SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Ben Casnocha: The Blog , April 15, 2010 Everyone I spoke with loved the idea. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? For me to do either of these, I certainly need to really believe in the idea and it has to be something that won’t consume all of my time. How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea Another option is sweat equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. So if you’re reading this on Facebook (or on my blog!) Twitter was my public chat board, my place to share blog content, my place to ask public questions and to debate.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I began publishing my blog in 2008. I was hesitant to use my own name, as I did not want my blog to be perceived as a self-promotional vanity project. By early 2010, I found my stylistic voice and identified my audience of emerging entrepreneurs and thus dropped my penname. Ideas Are Worthless. I was not disappointed.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Of course, one of the best ideas around this is to have Negative Customer Acquisition Costs.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 8, 2010

This year BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2010 is set to be their biggest yet. Scott Stratten - President of Unmarketing - This session covers the ideas that blogging with passion and emotion, not frequency is what makes a blog great and the ability to take a stand on topics is what separates you from the rest. October 16.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

It all started in 2010 with Klout. And ff Venture Capital cleverly has created a blog where their portofolio companies contribute. It seems obvious enough – have a centralized place for ideas which can drive more viewership than only blogging on each startups own website. I wasn’t a believer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

In person and in 1-on-1 meetings I’m a broken record on the topic and even though I’m very on-the-record that 70% of my investment decision is the quality of the entrepreneur more than the idea – I simply won’t fund if I don’t believe the entrepreneur is authentic and passionate about the problem he or she is solving.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2011

We liked this idea so much we decided to steal it from True Ventures. Just as we launched a 2010 site they go all 2011 on us! I wanted to be whimsical and have a blog as cool as Spark Capital. I have some ideas. Just as we did they took it down from their website. I still loved it. Next I might steal this. Thanks, guys.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

When Xconomy gathered a handful of life sciences visionaries in 2010 to predict what the local life sciences landscape would look like in 2030, biotech CEO John Mendlein talked about the intertwining ingredients of people, money, and ideas—how they work together to strengthen a life sciences ecosystem. “We

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups. Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

These days, every business needs a blog, so sign up your domain names accounts on TypePad, Wordpress, and Blogger, or all of the above, before someone starts blogging in your name. Remember that ideas cannot be patented, only novel implementations. Trade secrets with employment agreement.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

Blair Harrison: Frequency was borne out of a frustration of mine, which is having to visit many different places to consume video, from a combination of social networks, to blogs, to apps. To give you an idea, we're indexing over half a billion social posts every day, and over 5 million new videos every single day.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 The Social Web Challenges of 2010: A List What are the challenges with the social Web today?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

If anyone has ideas on how to reach into to find candidates or other ways to find good people, I would love to hear it. Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

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JULY 20, 2015

It was a very ambitious idea, and we spent a good time around it. So, by 2010, we decided that DotSpots was not going to work, so we pivoted, to a new startup called Gripe. That was between 2010 and 2012. Second, we could pivot into something else--but we were just fresh out of ideas. So, that didn't scale well.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

It was a very ambitious idea, and we spent a good time around it. So, by 2010, we decided that DotSpots was not going to work, so we pivoted, to a new startup called Gripe. That was between 2010 and 2012. Second, we could pivot into something else--but we were just fresh out of ideas. So, that didn't scale well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

If you haven’t already followed me on Twitter, that’s the fastest way to get blog updates. Take for example the years 2010-2012 where every brand out there seemed to be buying Facebook “Likes.” ” In truth many companies had no idea why they actually needed Facebook Likes but there was still a pain point.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

But even if you came to me with that idea, Im not sure I would have bought it. Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. Why did YouTube win? Why did MySpace win? Certainly MySpaces tie-in with music was a genius move.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. ” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I loved the idea of “mobile first” but something always bothered me. My wife showed it to me.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Take a look at other sites: [link] But the overall idea is to provide branded search in order to get merchandise from your artist, star, etc. skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

These days, every business needs a blog, so sign up your domain names accounts on TypePad, Wordpress, and Blogger, or all of the above, before someone starts blogging in your name. Remember that ideas cannot be patented, only novel implementations. Trade secrets with employment agreement.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

And coming to the end of 2010 I feel a sense of reminiscence of some of the trends from a decade ago. Often when I meet them the idea seems at odds with what others are doing and as long as it’s the right team with a well-thought-through plan I kinda like that. I love that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. Doxo (November 2009 financing, just announced in May 2010 as company exited stealth mode).

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Back in January 2010, I wrote a post that's one of the most popular on this blog: When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

The idea of aggregation is powerful in a world where your social communications are fragmented and increasingly hard to manage. Given how much progress they’ve made since last year I look forward to tracking them and seeing where they end up by the end of 2010. The pro’s (for me) – the UI was simply beautiful.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!]. I try hard to find that balance.”.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

Its a good idea to set up a sandbox such as this so you can try out the functionality before using it on a real site. Posted on 9 September 2010 | 3:27 pm Thanks Andre - Ive updated… Thanks Andre - Ive updated the post. Posted on 9 September 2010 | 3:25 pm Hi Ben. Once the code is on your site, youll need to test it.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

“Today, everyone engages with computers, mobile devices, photography, movies, audio, visuals – digital skills are no longer just for the elite few, the industrial revolution has come and gone, and the idea revolution is in full force.”. 3) Imagine it is 2010 and Lynda is a 20-year old, digital native who wants to start a company.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

. “Today, everyone engages with computers, mobile devices, photography, movies, audio, visuals – digital skills are no longer just for the elite few, the industrial revolution has come and gone, and the idea revolution is in full force.”. 3) Imagine it is 2010 and Lynda is a 20-year old, digital native who wants to start a company.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!]. I try hard to find that balance.”.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The main idea, being that today, social networks have become really amazing tools and a platform to interact with people you know--your family, friends, and followers. Alex Capecelatro: I went to UCLA and graduated in 2010. In a way, we're solving the issue that faces blogs. What is Hyphos?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

For most of us, though, the idea of investors or even securing financing may as well go the way of the corporate ladder. Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free. He has published extensively on branding, and often shares his thoughts on the Logogarden.com blog. People can help you if you help them.

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