Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

I found another name for this low-tech form of long distance TV show sharing in the New York Times: “sync-watching.” Beyond a simple phone call, far-flung friends are using any technical means possible—like Skype and live tweeting—to duplicate that cozy experience of sitting in front of the same TV together. See how it works here.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Companies that do this best become market leaders. As a result, Google has become a verb, and the company is a tech giant with record growth rates and a revenue of $74.5 Smart entrepreneurs architect a value chain that includes customers, partners and vendors, based on market dynamics. billion in 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you raise millions of dollars from professional investors it is no longer “your” company but a shared company that you control. Reviewing financial & operational performance.

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Inverted Software

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Companies are waking up to a new reality. So which companies are ones seeing the most change in their sales as a result of Millennials making more educated choices? Here are the top 5 companies already seeing major decline in their business: Harley Davidson. percent in 2016. percent in 2016. million vs. 74.9

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In particular, one of Rincon Venture Partner’s portfolio companies, SimpleLegal, has had so much success mining LinkedIn for customers that the CEO was initially reluctant for me to name his company in this article, fearing his competitors will mimic their common sense, yet clever approach. It’s not about helping them use our software.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2017

We talked with CEO Marcus Filipovich to learn more about the company and its product. For the first time, in a long time, traffic deaths and crashes are rising, due to drunk and drugged driving. How did the company and its technology come about? What does Ocular Data Systems do? It's really a big problem out there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force longer, and according to a USNews article, will likely dominate the labor market by 2024. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 12/20/2016.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

If you're an employee in a big company, sometimes it can feel like you're not sure when your career is going. Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. How did you start the company? What is Fuel50?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2017

With the Identity Theft Resource Center® reporting a 40 percent increase in data breaches in 2016, there seems to be a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. I know companies who collect sensitive data from consumers all the time, and still seem to keep a squeaky clean image (Amazon.com, Ebay).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2016

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Many companies, including Patagonia and Zappos, have used their social focus to enhance their business, but highlight financial return when talking to investors. Terms “paradigm shift” or “disruptive technology” used more than once. Target market sizing higher than $10 billion. Skip the hype. None of these cases are credible.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

The company recently landed a major contract from Southern California Edison (SCE) to deploy thousands of the company's "Ice Bear" equipment--enough to store 25.6 We caught up with Mike recently to better understand the company's technology, why there's an interest in energy storage by utilities, and more about that deployment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. Market Size. Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

The CRISPR news this week doesn’t need a metaphor; the drama that MIT Technology Review reported can stand alone. —The FDA last summer approved two new cholesterol fighting drugs known as PCSK9 inhibitors, but so far the market has rejected them, resulting in paltry sales. Be our guest and try it.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor preparation. Equally bad is a full tutorial on your new disruptive technology. Investors are more interested in your solution and your business, rather than your technology. Skip the acronyms, history of the company, and the colorful autobiography.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. One company which has been working on solving the Flash problem is Los Angeles-based Addroid (www.addroid.com). Where do you fit into the mobile ad market?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

government’s Precision Medicine Initiative is an ambitious effort to collect the genomic data of 1 million Americans, and tech giant Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG ) is deeply involved. Alex Lash examined the company’s role, via its biotech subsidiary Verily Life Sciences, in the massive project. —The U.S. —David H.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

A business needs technical, marketing, financial and many other skills. Angel investors expect to review a short executive summary before booking time to hear an investor presentation or taking the time to analyze a full business plan. In addition, your company and social media names are key intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

Usually, no competitors means no market -- or it means you haven’t looked. If the market is new and competition is minimal, then the time and costs of educating potential customers probably exceeds your survival time and budget. Some entrepreneurs believe that being first to market will keep them ahead of competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2016

For example, Bill Gates founded and grew Microsoft, and Michael Dell built a great technology company, both with no outside funding until they went successful enough to go public years later and sell shares to common stockholders. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 06/01/2016.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

By 2016, app downloads are estimated to reach 44 billion and app-to-person messaging is seen to overtake text messaging. So what do people like about the mobile app technology? It is no wonder that the average apps user spends 139 minutes per day browsing them, according to a report by Flurry, a company catering to app developers.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In 2016, the renowned international university programming tournament — attended by student competitors, coaches, and parents — took place in Phuket, Thailand. In 2016, Rapid City was officially named ICPC 2017’s host city. Rapid City, South Dakota. ICPC World Finals 2017, held in Rapid City. Burgess agrees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

For example, even though we were leading an entrepreneurial effort within IBM, we found it a challenge to deal with the inbred mainframe culture, reverence for process, and accounting practices of a large company. The culture of a large technology company is to rely on internal development or large, stable, and proven external vendors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Much has changed in the past four months of the technology startup world and how outsiders value the business. As we noted in our survey of more than 150 VCs we know in the industry, many saw drops in Q4 valuations last year with nearly all of them projecting decreases in 2016. So here’s my take away. Start early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Bloomberg reports that forty-nine percent more companies went public in 2017 versus 2016. Investors showed an increased appetite for new stocks, with 18 percent of deals pricing above the marketed share price range. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

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