Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For example, many investors I know tell me they look for business plans that allocate the largest portion of a requested investment to marketing, but most often see the top “ use of funds ” to be further product or service development. Always test the relationship before signing a contract.

Marketing 133

Marketing Customer Custom Outsource Development 133

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

More specifically, we are a real time bidding platform which enables marketplaces to be set up, where an advertiser can bid on consumers who are in the process of buying a particular product. Real time bidding allows advertisers to bid on users in a particular market, who are likely to be purchasing that company''s product.

Media 162

Media Advertising Startup Platform 162

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Entrepreneurs who like to be argumentative, complaining, or disagreeable, will have a hard time closing a contract, investment, or a customer contract. Great leaders develop a good relationship with good people, who are then inspired to follow. Show your admiration. If you want to be a leader, you need to inspire followership.

Outsource Development 96

Outsource Development Ideas Customer Custom 96

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

One of the promising companies that participated in Startup Boosts Fall 2018 cohort  Lawgood (link: [link]  uses AI as part of their service to provide review and authorship of legal contracts. It is a complex area delivered as a simple, elegant, and highly accurate solution.

Technical Review 157

Technical Review Software Review Startup Coach 157

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. I've been in product, product development, marketing, and management.

Santa Barbara 113

Santa Barbara High Tech Outsource Development Startup 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Entrepreneurs who like to be argumentative, complaining, or disagreeable, will have a hard time closing a contract, investment, or a customer contract. Great leaders develop a good relationship with good people, who are then inspired to follow. Show your admiration. If you want to be a leader, you need to inspire followership.

Ideas 99

Ideas Outsource Development Entrepreneur Customer 99

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Chris Tragos: Typically, with an advertising RFP, a campaign will come pre-loaded with a standard ad spot and creative. At Spin Media, we tried to do that ourselves, but that really sucked up product and development resources, who really should have been working on building the user experience, rather than ads.

Buzznet 100

Buzznet Outsource Development Design HTML 100

socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software. It was the guy we'd outsourced as CEO. What are TenFarms and PhotoPoll? What happened there?

Mobile 233

Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Is there a way you can make direct mail perform more like digital advertising channels? We then allow you to use the print cloud, where we develop, print, and mail pieces very easily. We spoke with Dave Fink , CEO and co-founder of Posite, and Jonathan Neddenriep , co-founder and CTO of the company, to learn more.

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. Google’s market capitalization is in the stratosphere for a reason – keyword search advertising is highly effective. John Wanamaker.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

It was a logical system to start offering up cloud-based systems like those we had developed. But what they also did is figure out, is instead of talking about whether something is a good product, how it works, and how much it costs, they always have advertised how that product makes you feel. That's actually what we've done at OceanX.

Startup 145

Startup Product Customer Custom 145

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.

Startup 108

Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media Outsource Development 108

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2013

Entrepreneurs who like to be argumentative, complaining, or disagreeable, will have a hard time closing a contract, investment, or a customer contract. Great leaders develop a good relationship with good people, who are then inspired to follow. Show your admiration. If you want to be a leader, you need to inspire followership.

Customer 102

Customer Custom Startup Outsource Development 102

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. What's the business model behind the site--it looks like this is advertising driven? Dan Yomtobian: 100 percent of our revenues come from advertisers, and from people clicking on sponsored listings. It's pretty much been all organic.

PPC 113

PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Entrepreneurs who like to be argumentative, complaining, or disagreeable, will have a hard time closing a contract, investment, or a customer contract. Great leaders develop a good relationship with good people, who are then inspired to follow. Show your admiration. If you want to be a leader, you need to inspire followership.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Ideas Customer 107

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. What our company is doing, is it is developing an online tool for people to find addiction treatment to meet their needs. Adi Jaffe: It is tough.

UCLA 204

UCLA Research Tech Coast Angels Offshore 204

Frank Addante

DECEMBER 5, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

YouTube today announced its new app for iPhone and iPod touch weeks after its license with Apple to develop and preload the app in the iPhone iPod touch expired. Five Year Contract. Now Available on the App Store. billion From Ads.

Google 69

Google Outsource Development Screening Mobile 69

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M That system allows us to arrange shoots and coordinate with contracted talent to produce that content.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2010

Entrepreneurs who like to be argumentative, complaining, or disagreeable, will have a hard time closing a contract, investment, or a customer contract. Great leaders develop a good relationship with good people, who are then inspired to follow. Show your admiration. If you want to be a leader, you need to inspire followership.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Ideas Customer 92

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

For our interview today, we have an interview with Gabe Grifoni , CEO and founder of Rufus Labs (www.getrufus.com), which has has developed an Android-based, wearable device which is aimed at use in the enterprise, warehouses, and factories. I actually spent a decade working in advertising and marketing.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Startup Software Review CTO Hire 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet.

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Funding Cloud Computing CIO 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

I could easily go into the board rooms of major European companies (I was based in London) and land $500k – $1 million contracts so my order book grew rapidly. It soaked up all of our development resources and didn’t allow us to focus on what we felt our company strategy was. We had to do intense training sessions.

Startup 389

Startup Customer Custom Resource 389

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

Gene Dolgoff: After years of research and development, we have developed technology which converts two dimensional video to 3D. It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype.

Startup 252

Startup Sites Patents Outsource Development 252

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet.

Startup 97

Startup Invest CTO Hire Cloud Computing 97

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Get paid online ads, such as Google AdWords and Facebook Advertising. Go mobile and consider app development. Use waivers and contracts to prevent litigation. Recommended.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Design: Developing for a Consumerized Enterprise World (BetterWorks). Scaling thru Outsourcing. Digital Dailies: Reinventing Hollywood’s Workflow. Social + Location + Mobile = The Perfect Beer (Untapped). Power Up Your Life thru Mobile Gamification (Velti). Content: Tricking People into Reading Again (Cracked.com, CollegeHumor).

Southern California 89

Southern California SoCal Guide Mixergy 89

InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

Shortly thereafter, we began developing apps and websites out of Brent’s garage. Since we have released our product, and are now looking to acquire new users, this has proven to be extremely valuable for getting a high return from our advertising expenditures. John Greathouse: How did you and your Co-Founder Brent Kirkland get started?

Startup 100

Startup Sites Research Santa Barbara 100

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? How will we.

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Design and Development. Design and Development. Design and Development. Design and Development. Outsourcing Startup Operations. Culture and Entertainment. Getting Started with Social Data at Scale. Culture & Context: Making Augmented Places. Invisible Branded Interfaces – Your Brand on Siri. PR for Startups .

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Startup eBook Outsource Development 73

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

They offered me a contract job at the intersection of science and graphics, which is satellite imaging, a dream come true. One of those tips, is a half an hour walk, five times a week results in 33 percent less risk of developing Alzheimers. Because they were science related, at some point I ended up talking with NASA JPL.

Study 252

Study Startup Design Tips 252

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet.

Startup 90

Startup CTO Hire Cloud Computing CIO 90

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? "We are doing something in mobile advertising." Lots of thoughts here. " Ummm. "Good luck with that."

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development CTO Hire Startup Venture Capital 40

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? "We are doing something in mobile advertising." Lots of thoughts here. " Ummm. "Good luck with that."

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198