Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2012

The evening boasts a full lineup of live music, nerd art, tech-savvy experiential exhibits, video game (of course) arcade, future technology show ‘n’ tells, and an exhibition style display of a whole slew of nerd lifestyle products to create a one-of-a-kind playground in between the stage performances.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

Tech Companies & Calls: I once read a quote on Twitter that said, If you use a tech service for free then product is you. Only 2 problems: - 94% of people hate paying for products even more (avg pay rate for ‘ad free’ tech products is < 6%). - It’s why people buy branded products. In fact, it is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. Building your home base with personal and product traction. Engage your customers through blog comments, product reviews, and personal customer service.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

Other people were convinced including Kleiner Perkins who lead their $30 million fund raising in 2012 (they had previously also invested in 2011). I almost don’t want to tell you because I love the product and would love for them to stay under the radar screen from investors. 500px is in Toronto.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant buying banner ads on Facebook, or buying a position on search engine results, or sponsoring some blog entries, but these doesn’t work anymore. By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012. In 2012 that number skyrocketed to 26%.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch. This team is talented.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

2013 was the year of wearable devices and physical products. Thank you to the team that had extreme success in 2012 and a more challenging year in 2013. Finally, thank you to the readers of this blog. Meanwhile while social networking was white hot 3 years ago it is now persona non grata unless your user numbers are insane.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We have a browser-based product, and an iPad app that's gotten an enormous amount of critical acclaim and user adoption. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2014

I saw that there were a few solutions out there people were blogging about out there, mostly about taping polarized filters on the cameras. How did you go from those prototypes to a real product and manufacturing? We saw growth from just 850 filters in 2011 to 7500 filters in 2012. I went--okay, I might as well try this.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. While the costs of starting a tech company have plummeted it still does take money to hire a team, launch products and market oneself.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

That was between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012. Cheerful Inc.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

That was between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012. Cheerful Inc.

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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. It’s a reminder that unless your prospect has a need to solve a problem they are not going to buy a product. Take for example the years 2010-2012 where every brand out there seemed to be buying Facebook “Likes.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

Yet I am amazed to see US Census Bureau data from 2012 that at least 50%, maybe up to 75%, of small businesses still have no presence at all. Finalizing the web site validates your product plan and sales strategy. If your business and product are as attractive as you believe, the traffic to your web site will build quickly.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Maximize your productivity together. This was by far my favorite film of 2012 and was totally unexpected. If you haven’t seen it – do yourself a favor and don’t read any blogs about the movie and don’t ask friends. Give regular breaks for people to get their email fix but live in the moment. Some way.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Production costs have fallen more than 90%. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. hours of TV / day. Distribution costs have, too.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. blog comments powered by Disqus. October 20, 2012 1:57 PM. October 17, 2012 1:15 PM. Social games. Interviews. Guest Post.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. billion by 2014.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

DelBene added ;”PPI’s large touch displays, when combined with hardware from our OEMs, will become powerful Windows 8-based PCs and open new possibilities for productivity and collaboration.” The Windows 8 OS will be relayed to hardware manufacturers in August and will be ready for consumers in October 2012.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The immediate goal is to reach 5M photos by early 2012, all accessible via their streamlined subscription-based service with real time celebrity photo coverage and older archives. All images are pre-approved for use in editorials, magazines, e-publications like blogs and pages, and personal prints.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

The giant search engine is set to end less used products or combining a number of them into more resourceful ones. Matt Eichner, General Manager, Global Enterprise Search in a blog post says;” Technology creates tremendous opportunities to improve people’s lives. Google has from late last year embarked on an in-house cleaning project.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

As one of the young company’s first employees (founded in January 2012 with their first hotspot product launch in 2012) she provides a great inside look at the inspiration that drives the company’s work and shares her own insights on how/why she ended up at one of the wireless data industry’s fastest growing innovators. .”

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

According to Andrey Doronichev, head of YouTube mobile in a blog post today said, “All diehard YouTube fans starting today can download the official YouTube app for iPhone and iPod touch from the App Store. In Quarter 2 of 2012, Google ad revenues were $10.96 Now Available on the App Store. Built by YouTube for YouTube.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 23, 2012

“Some say data is the new black,” laughs former Linkedin data scientist, DJ Patil on stage during the Mesh Conference in Toronto, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Product, marketing and sales analytics. We all do complex processing for mental algorithms that make predictions about ourselves and our environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. But honestly 10 extra hours in the office each day we would be there is way more productive.

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

The remaining neurology and pain sales staff will operate under the same management, a streamlining move that the company hopes will help the company better target the key physicians who prescribe the company’s products. That deal added Somaxon’s insomnia drug doxepin (Silenor) to the Pernix product mix. million net loss.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

Reflexion Health, a San Diego startup founded in 2012 at the nonprofit West Health Institute, is moving to commercialize Vera, its physical rehabilitation system based on Microsoft Kinect’s motion tracking technology. We’ve made the transition from product development, and turned the corner toward commercialization.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

Engaging in social media and blogging on a regular basis is a low-cost way to achieve visibility, and become the “go-to” person for that topic and the voice that people trust in your industry. Without social media, companies must rely on incoming calls and letters to address customer problems and concerns with products and services.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

We started building LoveIt at the beginning of 2012. We’re fortunate that our primary investors are also very active Board Members who are working with us closely to build a great product that’s engaging for users. Our biggest challenge has been to quickly build a product for a very competitive space that includes formidable players.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

billion for 35 funds during the first quarter of 2013, an increase of 22 percent compared to the level of dollar commitments during the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Venture capital firms raised $4.1 New focus on a sustainable planet.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Venture capital firms have increased their agtech investments by 80 percent since 2012, bringing total VC investment in the sector to a total of $3 billion in 2015, according to a new report from Boston Consulting Group and AgFunder, an online investment marketplace for agriculture technology. They also queried 15 VC firms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

It shows a return to cautious optimism despite growth lower than expected in 2012, and much improved perspective from the record-high pessimism of the last few years. Another approach is to diversify and broaden the product lines and services. Grab market share from competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Foursquare has raised more than $112 million in outside funding, on $2 million in revenue in 2012.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

The loss in productivity involved in transitioning a struggling employee out an organization, coupled with the time required to conduct a subsequent job search, can cripple a small company’s ability to achieve its strategic objectives. This phenomenal success led to a ravenous need to increase their headcount.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. I predict this will come before the end of 2012.

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