SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Will you tap into geolocation services provided by the browser or license a third-party lookup table? Are there specific landing pages? Wireframes?

Develop 396

Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? Will you tap into geolocation services provided by the browser or license a third-party lookup table? Are there specific landing pages? Wireframes?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It is a platform that allows anyone who offers a service to advertise it for free – we promote this profile on the most popular social networks such as Twitter , Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest, Stumbleupon and many more. Show the photos of their work and actively promote themselves across the internet? What is ProfileTree?

Advertising 79

Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

Darren Marble: At the core, we are a virtual film studio, that empowers filmmakers to actively build, engage, and monetize their online audience. The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience.

Hollywood 256

Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

What I don’t see often are new solutions that force me to rethink how we work together, or really use AI to make the collaboration process more productive. From the work and feedback, you will learn much on how your solution will fare with customers, before building the product Tap expert sources in other domains for ideas.

Startup 134

Startup Artificial Inteligence Ideas Entrepreneur 134

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 107

Marketing Invest SEM Startup 107

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2018

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). How many do you have at the top level, and what are you doing to actively develop more? This is where most business relationships start and remain. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 93

Startup Guide Help Course 93

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

There are lots of resources available for the challenge of that activity, including the Internet and mentors like me. I love good causes and social entrepreneurs, but a recent pitch to me about eliminating world hunger with a new product (harvesting algae at low cost) seemed to forget that really hungry people don’t have any money.

Ideas 94

Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. I see too many investor pitches, and even executive summaries that ramble on for many pages without a clear message. Be assured that the best investors are actively scanning blogs for new entrepreneurs and new ideas.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 20, 2013

Google announced it will retire its Reader service July 1 to the disappointment of many, and many were out already looking for the best alternative. However, Google had something else in mind, launching a service that might even be better than Google Reader. No More Sticky Notes on the Fridge. Evernote & Pinterest Rival.

Google 75

Google Screening Software Engineering Web 75

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. As I outlined in my talk, I believe the greatest Internet companies created over the past 15 years have been “deflationary” meaning they are driving down the prices or goods & services.

Marketing 361

Marketing Course Pricing Networking 361

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. Free and freemium products need a solid base. What does traction really mean to investors, and how much is enough? First of all, a definition.

Startup 106

Startup Metrics Customer Custom 106

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). How many do you have at the top level, and what are you doing to actively develop more? This is where most business relationships start and remain. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 97

Startup Guide Help Course 97

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. DueToDos, is a full featured web based utility where users can also assign and track tasks, manage users on their team, receive web notifications, and daily activity summaries.

Email 102

Email Platform Web Summary 102

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Sales is simply defined as income from customer purchases of goods and services, minus the cost associated with things like returned or undeliverable merchandise. Operating productivity.

Metrics 100

Metrics Technical Review Sales Customer 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This morning's interview is with Billy Fried , co-founder and CEO of Kijubi (www.kijubi.com), a new startup which is looking to help people find travel activities. I was always perplexed at finding fun activities out there to do. The firm is launching itself today at TechCrunch50. It's been around for the last six years.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 67

Marketing SEM Startup Blogging 67

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

According to Patrick Vlaskovits another proselytizer of the term, “Growth hacking comes after the early stage chaos and post-product-market-fit.”. If you build it, they may not come : So, you’ve launched your product, and people use it and seem to like it. It’s the whole conversion flow.

Hulu 111

Hulu Startup Social Media Organization 111

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. Beware of no-cost and low-cost marketing.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

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. Build a prototype product. Investors expect a one or two-page executive summary sheet for the initial screening, backed up by a ten-slide Powerpoint investor presentation. Close at least one initial customer.

Angel 104

Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

Many people don’t post about their experiences, but still routinely check first to see what others are saying about the brand and the product online. If you refuse to play by their rules, they have the power to easily find alternatives, and actively pull other potential customers away. One example of this is Nike’s shoe size page.

Customer 103

Customer Custom Marketing Social Media 103

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 99

Marketing Entrepreneur Startup SEM 99

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. How long has this new product been available?

News 124

News Advertising Press Sites 124

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

It was good to see someone else who actively thinks about the world from the user’s perspective.” Attendees will learn a method for evaluating and improving products and services in a truly lean and agile way – a way that. “Great presentation. ” -Testimonial from an attendee at the L.A.

Culver City 105

Culver City Design Content Writing 105

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. But he also says that it wasn’t a negative regarding M&A activities with competitors – this is sometimes seen as one of the pitfalls of strategic money. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. Blippy is a service that allows you to automatically share your credit card transactions as you make them. As with any new service that makes information more transparent there is obviously going to be some public concern.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2013

You need something specific from the other person – a loan, or product order, or help solving a problem. Real same-page connection (fourth floor). How many do you have at the top level, and what are you doing to actively develop more? This is where most business relationships start and remain. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Startup Guide Help 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Once we understand the target customer and value proposition, we need to know how many of these customers exist and how often they will buy the company’s products or services. There is no product idea good enough to overcome bad partners. Repetition will kill an otherwise acceptable business plan. Partnership.

Funding 106

Funding Startup Entrepreneur Activity 106

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

We create a profile page, which allows referrals to be sent out, to allow businesses to request things from their customers. As a result, I came up with the service as a way to help solve the problem, and not burden friends, who might have goodwill but who weren't able to help solve the issue. How far is the product?

Startup 193

Startup Newsletter Customer Custom 193

socalTECH

MAY 26, 2011

Jake's latest venture is Brighter (www.brighter.com), a service which is aimed at helping consumers find pre-negotiated rates on dental care. Donnelly is a large, yellow page publisher, and we found that one of the largest categories in the Yellow Pages is dentists. He's also on the board of hot Silicon Valley startup Gigya.

Startup 249

Startup Pricing Southern California Networking 249

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 95

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 95

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? We were in the center of the activity and thus would soon race against everyone else, many with much deeper pockets. doing sports, and many other activities.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

In the last few years, Southern California has been a key market in launching mobile applications and services, due to a huge, mobile-savvy consumer population. So, it''s no surprise that the area--specifically, San Diego--was chosen for the pilot launch of a new service from eBay, called Close5 (www.close5.com),

San Diego 100

San Diego Mobile Marketing Sites 100

InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

In addition, a number of advertisers have invested significant resources into creating libraries of video content which effectively communicate brand and product attributes but are incapable of eliciting a particular action, such as: clicking to a landing page, completing a lead form, or initiating a purchase.

Custom 226

Custom Customer Entrepreneur Advertising 226

Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

. • Management will have to be willing to forgo millions in revenue in the short term by giving up the coveted advertising on the login page, to rebuild a compelling user experience. Music – enable a dead simple player on band and profile pages that lets users upload their songs and have them purchased for any price they set.

Development Team Review 76

Development Team Review Content Sites eHow 76

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

For example, goods for sale – people add items that are for sale, their contact details, images of the product. Now that there is activity happening on this board – the board creator can do a few things with it. Using our quick export function – he can embed this on a website or facebook page. www.umuntumedia.com ).

Advertising 91

Advertising Media News Content 91