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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

Both Sides of the Table

Right now the volume is manageable during an AMA. Here’s the thing: If you never try new product and new networks you’ll never learn anything. And honestly I love technology products and if you don’t try the newest stuff you’ll wake up an old person emailing from your Hotmail account with links to MapQuest over your dial-up AOL plan.

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Market Research: The Fuel For Marketing Strategies

SoCal Tech Calendar

American Marketing Association (AMA). We dive into the crucial process of gathering and analyzing information about markets, industries, and products in their competitive spaces. Wednesday, August 22, 2018 -- Market Research: The Fuel For Marketing Strategies.

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Products I Love to Use

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not trying to say my picks are great and other products aren’t and I’ll certainly forget some. But this is just a reflection midway in June 2015 of the some of the products I love, enjoy or use frequently, and am not an investor in. Meerkat – I love using Meerkat. I’ve written about it before.

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Some Perspective on Twitter vs. Meerkat

Both Sides of the Table

It’s brand new but the enthusiasm we’ve seen for such an early product is truly awesome. I ran a VC AMA (ask me anything) last Monday on Meerkat and had > 1,000 simultaneous people asking me questions. If Twitter believes @periscopeco is a better product why not just try to win on that basis? love Twitter.

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7 Guidelines For Funding New Research & Development

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to new business owners, and an occasional angel investor, I see new business proposals daily, many seeking investors to fund early research and development (R&D) of a new product idea. Funding new product research and development is just too risky, with a large time delay before any return is likely.

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Crowdfunding an HIV Vaccine: Dr. Rubsamen of Immunity Project

Tech Zulu Event

“Get into human clinical testing as quickly as possible with the goal of distributing the product for free after FDA approval. I’m extremely fastinated by the use of communication tools to tell the complex story and to generate productive dialogue. Something else I learned from the Reddit AMA. The Eventual Goal?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. I know I do.

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