Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

Marketing 139

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 139

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

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Web USC Course Guide 93

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Beverly Hills-based MySpace , the online social networking site, is set to debut a new new site design and logo, the firm said late last night. As part of the redesign, MySpace has changed over its logo, and will center its web site on "bubbling up" fresh content of interest to users.

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Sites Beverly Hills Social Network Entertainment 124

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

Andy Wilson: Innovate Pasadena is a grassroots effort to engage a cross section of the innovation, design, and entrepreneurship community in this part of Los Angeles, here in Greater Pasadena. So, I thought I''d see if there was an interest here to active a community in town. What is Innovate Pasadena?

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Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

Marketing 107

Marketing Invest SEM Startup 107

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. And the reality is that you might be better off doing less activity but doing “the right&# activities really well.

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Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. Jon describes how he's creating a "next generation", web-based contact manager which takes into account the social nature of the web today.

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Google Tool Email Sales 216

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

It was good to see someone else who actively thinks about the world from the user’s perspective.” He is the author of various best selling books including Practical Information Architecture, Web Dogma ’06 and Usable Usability. “Great presentation. ” -Testimonial from an attendee at the L.A.

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Culver City Design Content Writing 105

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Amazon was only able to garner several hundred active users at the time — significantly less than its competitors. Runs Shopify close with great sales features and has a Free Trial , but a small knowledge base and weaker website design let it down. A good alternative to BigCommerce with better web design.

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News Acquisition Platform Sales 136

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The day will include an introduction to Javascipt, Jquery, Knockout JS, HTML5/CSS – Responsive web design, Nodejs, Javascript Patterns and many more!! The following are a few of the expert speakers you will learn from: Nathan Totten , a technical evangelist at Microsoft specializing in Windows Azure, web development, and Node.js.

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JavaScript Long Beach Java .Net 93

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. We felt we'd have more impact over time, if we instead focused on people who are one generation younger, still working, and are active. So Nolan is behind the design of the games? How did you end up starting the site?

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Study Startup Design Tips 252

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

It’s not that they’re particularly negative but the fact is that supporting roles at investment firms are designed to show the partners the risks in deals and the “upside case” always requires huge assumptions to be believed. I never thought of this until I became the Founder & CEO of my first startup company. Wait, there’s more!

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2009

They are generally the senior most person responsible for custom software development, database design, database administration, web development, etc.

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Southern California Software Development Software Develop 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In his quest to better connect with new friends, Alex Capecelatro had a problem: none of the existing social networking sites were really designed to connect people with who you didn't know, and might share your hobbies and interests. But, today's web isn't optimized for meeting new people, or meeting people with similar interests.

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UCLA Culver City Startup Social Network 187

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

Marketing 67

Marketing SEM Startup Blogging 67

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Deone Sulgatti: It's really the industry's first service and matching platform, designed specifically to connect Americans 65 plus with skills-based opportunities. There's a potential for those individuals, to continue to play an active role in the economy, rather than seeing them as out of the way of the workforce. What is Tengia?

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Help Startup Design Resource 100

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? Does the site need to throttle potential malicious activity?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 396

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

Marketing 99

Marketing Entrepreneur Startup SEM 99

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Web application performance is a broad discipline. A high-performance application is designed to perform well with a reasonable amount of hot data. “It was running fine.”

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Web Technical Advisors Framework Technical Review 200

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

Webdoc is a web platform that allows you to easily create interactive posts mixing different web contents through a simple and intuitive drag & drop interface. Think YouTube but for creating and virally sharing rich web creations and going beyond broadcast. Think Minority Report meets the web. Give Us the Fast Pitch.

Startup 97

Startup Web Content Media 97

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? Does the site need to throttle potential malicious activity?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 384

SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

in terms of the activity, with not only jobs aplenty, but offers and counter-offers hitting good talent. In Los Angeles Web Developer , I talked about the issues with finding developers in Los Angeles based the experience that one startup founder had. One recruiter tells me it’s “like 1999? Sorry, I wish I could be more help.

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Develop Development TechEmpower Southern California 175

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). You need executive buy-in, committed budgets, and education for the whole team on objectives and activities. Above all, don’t forget to observe your competition and their social media activity.

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Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded early by one of the 318,000 active Angel investors in the USA alone. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. If the founders are not experienced, find a couple of advisors from the business sector to fill the gap.

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Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

These days it seems like a professional is needed to interpret a business’ web analytics. That’s why Canecto developed a cutting-edge, AI framework designed to be a web analytics assistant and help provide owners relevant insights around their customer base and learn how visitors interact with their content.

Startup 79

Startup Mentor Platform Help 79

Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

The new tracks are: biotech (BioSD); craft beer (BrewSD); cybersecurity and defense (SecureSD); graphic design (DesignSD); and San Diego’s crossborder synergies with Tijuana (CrossSD). This year’s Startup Week also has added five new tracks intended to highlight San Diego’s strengths as a startup ecosystem.

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San Diego Guide Tech Coast Angels Startup 74

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

After graduating with a degree in advertising and design, I started a web development consultancy, where I oversaw user experience, brand design, and business strategy for internet-based startups across the country. What’s your role in the greater Milwaukee area startup ecosystem?

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Startup Mentor Design Web Development 70

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2011

DueToDos is a web based business productivity platform that seeks to save you time and increase efficiency whether you’re solo or on a team. Enter Duetodos, primarily designed for those who are heavy email users, probably on a team and likely have lots of follow up. The real question is whether or not it’s really that simple to use.

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Email Platform Web Summary 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail.

Marketing 95

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 95

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

The bad news is that Finding Developers is Tough Here in Los Angeles and even people willing to pay have a hard time finding Web Development in Los Angeles. Most of them suffer from lack of activity, but it's worth a shot. Hire a Product Design Lead First Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications. Simply put LA has a lack of GREAT product, UI/UX, and design talent.

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Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. Despite the number of employees, recruiters also cited. the "startup culture" at the company as among reasons to work for the company. Edmunds was also one of the companies.

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Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

andi lets you 1) multitask on screen with live panels and transition to and from multiple task sets, 2) browse offline docs and apps in the same multitask environment as online activities, and 3) organizes and manages unlimited panels and queues in a single active session. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100