Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2012

The biggest complaint I hear from investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. If you start by pitching your extended life story, that’s the wrong point. The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?”

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

The BB-8 app-enabled Droid had such a global adoption among kids and adults that it was named the number one Star Wars toy of 2015. Other Disney startups such as Atom Ticket , a new movie ticketing app, partnered with the next Star Wars movie and will continue to work with Walt Disney Studios on major film releases. “And

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2011

The biggest complaint I hear from investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. If you start by pitching your extended life story, that’s the wrong point. The first words out of your mouth should be “Can everyone hear me, and read the screen?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2011

Gartner says our market will be $50 billion in 2015.” Unfortunately, a startup with no brand name and no intellectual property is a sitting duck for the big slow company, as soon as they see you gaining a bit of traction. Sleeping giants do wake up. A startup's projections should never be conservative.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Planning on starting your new business during your final years of college, or soon after? You need a laptop that can easily carry you threw school while still providing everything you want to start running your first venture. Dell XPS 13 (2015 Version ). Prices go up to $1,600. Be careful when matching accessories.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

While Lift and Uber allow people to request a pickup and ride from screen tested drivers to transport them and their friends safely to and from their destinations, Buddytruck fills a void that the ride-sharing services are sorely lacking, hauling of items. TZ: What was the development schedule from idea to picking up your first haul?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital. I started with a list of companies already screened by the San Diego Venture Group’s annual venture summit, and consulted with investors and startup mentors to refine the list.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2010

I was recently a judge at a local event where the time limit for each startup was two minutes. Yet a big complaint I hear from investors is that startup founders often waste their time and forget to get to the point. If you start by pitching your extended life story, that’s the wrong point. Don’t forget to ask for the order.

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Tech.Co

JULY 31, 2017

While back in 2011, a cell phone user received or made 12 phone calls a day on average, the number has dropped to just 6 calls in 2015. And while we tend to embrace new and new apps to improve our productivity, we end up wasting even more time as those tools don’t work well together or require constant re-logins and switching screens.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2017

In a world where there seems likes there is a major, security breach every day, where usernames and passwords are just not enough because they keep getting stolen, and where hackers have even started to hijack people's mobile phones to break into accounts, what do you do? Jeff Kukowski: We started as an identity and access management company.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 28, 2018

San Francisco-based Puls, founded in 2015, offers to dispatch technicians quickly to a customer’s home or office to replace malfunctioning parts, mount a widescreen TV on the wall, or install smart home devices such as security systems, voice-activated assistants, and Internet-connected thermostats.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

It’s something of a sci-fi fantasy scenario: Driverless cars that show up at the touch of a button. We as car people are working towards building one-off accommodations that enable apps to work well in our cars while opening up our ecosystems to app developers. You feel conflicted when you start to see ads.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

2015 saw the introduction of the iPhone 6s, a minor makeover of the previous year’s iPhone 6. According to the same PFWTMs, Apple designer Jony Ive wants to get rid of the iPhone’s bezels and use an edge-to-edge OLED screen to make the device look and act like a single sheet of smart glass. That sounds cool, but tricky.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

When Arianna Huffington stepped down from her role at the Huffington Post to start Thrive Global, she said the goal of her new business was to help a generation “avoid the burnout that all too often comes with success today.”

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Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

That all changed with social media , and now everyone is glued to their phone’s screen. Last year, venture capitalists reduced investment into on-demand startups by 35 percent from 2015 which could indicate a significant slowdown in the industry. Read more about innovative startups on TechCo.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2016

I would be ecstatic to have a simple tool for my patients that could detect cancers like ovarian and pancreatic that currently have no effective screening approach. The most popular approach is screening blood for circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), which several companies claim to reliably detect at very low levels in the blood.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2014

If you come into a restaurant and normally order burgers, or maybe you prefer to order a salad, those are the things we''ll recommend to you on the screen. Your company started before the rise of the smartphone. Today, I think it''s much more important as part of the engagement, but by 2015, I think ordering volumes will pick up.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2019

Even Salesforce abandoned it’s silly “No Software” tagline, after the company had to explain in 2015 that it meant, “No legacy software, just cloud software.”. In the early 2000’s, my software startup was dubbed an Application Service Provider (ASP). You’re not a SaaS company, you’re a software company. ASP To SaaS To Software.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

Your social media feed was probably filled this morning with information about the 13-minute speech Kanye West made during the 2015 VMA broadcast, but only the objective big data behind Watson can really break it down scientifically. Kanye 2015 VMA Speech. IBM Watson Personality Analysis of Kanye West 2015 MTV VMA speech.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

Your social media feed was probably filled this morning with information about the 13-minute speech Kanye West made during the 2015 VMA broadcast, but only the objective big data behind Watson can really break it down scientifically. Kanye 2015 VMA Speech. IBM Watson Analysis of Kanye West 2015 MTV VMA speech. Adventurousness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2015

To confirm the value of checking yourself, I find more and more investment organizations and startup incubators, including StartupAmerica and CoFoundersLab , already use a formal process, such as StrengthsFinder , as part of their screening process. The Builder excels at constructing a business from the ground up.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In that vein, we wanted to prepare you for the festivities by showcasing a few speakers that will be participating in sessions on Tech & Startups. If you’ll be in Austin on Saturday, March 10th, RSVP now to join us and these 25 startups at SXSW Startup Night 2018 at the American Cities House located at Maggie Mae’s on 6th St.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

Starting back in 2015 and throughout much of 2016 people started commenting that my blog had become a lot more political. My blog has always been a mixture of what was on my mind and a blend of venture, startup life, tech views and current society events that related to my interests: Venture, startup & tech.

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