Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

According to articles on Entrepreneur last year, there are now almost 1,000 crowdfunding platforms in existence, currently estimated to add more than $65 billion and 270,000 jobs to the economy. In Europe, other investors can buy equity, with platforms such as Seedrs.

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MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms. I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly. I like that.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We had an idea to recapture what we saw was a huge pool of unlimited corporate resources. Kazuhm is recapturing the capacity in those desktops, creating a commercial grade, distributed computing platform based on that capacity. How did the idea for the company come about? Explain what Kazuhm does?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Yes, developers can be paid exuberant salaries, but to get to that level, they have to have the skills to justify the cost. Developers today are constantly trying to keep up. They want to learn, develop and connect with the best minds and the best tools. Complimentary IBM Certified Application Developer — Cloud certification.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based FastPay (www.fastpaypartners.com) announced a round of funding and its services for providing advanced payment to online publishers, application developers, and game developers. Jed Simon: The idea came from recognizing a pain point in the ad tech ecosystem.

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MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Tested platform on San Francisco’s Live 105; then scaled out for national syndication with positive audience uplift.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

What are your thoughts on what we can expect to see in the mobile application space at SXSW? The app space has been around long enough that we’re now starting to see less new ideas and more refinement and re-imaginings on old concepts. Take applications like Realmac’s Clear for the iPhone. Refinement.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

What's the idea behind the service, and what can do with it? The concept is, it's an application that runs inside of Facebook, and for consumers, it gives you an alternative view of your timeline. They had been recommended as a preferred provider for Facebook application developers, but it didn't work.

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TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

But we have an idea for dealing with Gozer. Yes, that means that there are several frameworks and platforms that—when allowed to use HTTP pipelining—can completely saturate ten gigabit per second with ~140-byte response payloads using relatively cheap commodity servers. Continuous benchmarking.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

What's the idea behind Sometrics? The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. We'll do a rev share with those platforms. So who is using your software?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

What's the idea behind Sometrics? The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. We'll do a rev share with those platforms. So who is using your software?

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APRIL 10, 2010

They have done this (they had the idea, too, so I’m not taking credit for egging them on). In a world in which you have strong client applications for consuming “multiproduct streams&# then they gain relative power to any individual stream (e.g. But in any platform community this happens.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. In the same year Salesforce.com launched a SaaS CRM platform to compete with Siebel. Or would it?

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MAY 13, 2010

The way “being loved&# manifests itself is that as a CEO you build a great team beneath you each with great ideas and big career ambitions. This pissed off application developers because it became harder to find apps. It was a shame. I really loved Yahoo! in the early days.&#. And yet you still have scarce resources.

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