Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

They can read reviews, see pictures and even talk to the family before confirming. I typed in my brothers zip code and ton of houses popped up in his area and I was able to search out on a map view. I then clicked on reviews, looked at pictures and read the owners descriptions of what they were looking for. Supply and demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. With a stable base of subscribers, this can mean a continuing revenue stream from newsletters, support, or advice on demand.

Startup 107

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. I actually wrote a long blog post about this but I’m trying to get TechCrunch to publish it before putting it on my blog. My favorite new software tool is DailyBurn. That’s always stuck with me. We’ll see.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Most of the great software startups that I’ve been involved in have at least one technical co-founder (and many have more than one.) It is important to realize that most people who are willing to work for sweat equity are not a) the best, b) in demand, and c) going to put their heart and soul into your project.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic. It seemed to be purely speculative. I was a victim of this kind of thinking. He was tech.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

It is also a result of pent-up demand. To understand this in great detail see this very important blog post by Henry Blodget on the unemployment rate in the US and its impact on the recovery. So if I am unnecessarily concerned in this blog post (great!) My advice : if you’re raising a $750,000 round and you have demand for $1.2

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. Creating Incremental Strategic Value - Ask the Angels , June 17, 2010 We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value. " Patterns in Chaos. Surprised?).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. With a stable base of subscribers, this can mean a continuing revenue stream from newsletters, support, or advice on demand.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Case Study 105

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software. It also supports blogs. What's your own background?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. While he was waiting for the paperwork to be reviewed he moved to Boulder, Colorado and took a job with a local tech company there. More red tape.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. With a stable base of subscribers, this can mean a continuing revenue stream from newsletters, support, or advice on demand.

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Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then). As one astute commenter on one of the many up-roaring blogs stated (paraphrased): “AOL’s just mad that People+ beat them to the punch” Maybe there’s something more that we don’t know.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Google 74

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. I have a link on my blog to the angel deals I’ve done, which is here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

I honestly believe I learned more by rising up the ranks and becoming the president of my fraternity than I did in the class room reading about supply & demand curves in economics. If you click on no other links in this blog please read this one by David Brooks about why Amy Chua is a wimp and not a hard ass mom.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. CODE=DJII-DJN SYMBOL=FB CODE=DJII-DJN SYMBOL=GOOG CODE=DJII-DJN SYMBOL=I/DRG CODE=DJII-DJN SYMBOL=I/HOM CODE=DJII-DJN SYMBOL=I/ISV CODE=DJII-DJN SYMBOL=I/MED CODE=DJII-DJN SYMBOL=M/TEC CODE=DJII-DJN SYMBOL=MDA.T Loading… Real Estate. » More. Real Estate.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Yet, despite his exceptional courtroom theatrics, you would be foolhardy to hire good old Johnnie to review your software cross-licensing agreement. Once you draft the straightforward text, sans the legal mumbo-jumbo, ask your lawyer to review the text to ensure your layman descriptions do not result in an unintended interpretation.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. I love to sell the knowledge to my clients but ranting in blogs is somehow useless.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

In no expert in Seattle but when I look around I see: enterprise software (Microsoft), the market leader in cloud services (Amazon AWS), games (Xbox), some of the most innovative retailers in the country (CostCo, Starbucks, REI) and what is left of Boeing (HQ moved to Chicago). It’s great to see an initiative like Seattle 2.0

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