Berkonomics

APRIL 7, 2022

The entrepreneur–founder explained this problem away by stating that the designers and manufacturers would ship direct after we’d grown to a large enough size. And designers or manufacturers never did offer to ship direct. I had my doubts but led the deal anyway. But we overcame the fears and…. In the end, you can guess the outcome.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2017

For Michèle Morris, the big question hanging over organizers as they laid the groundwork last year for the first Design Forward Summit was whether the innovation community in San Diego understood the value of design. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

And what’s up with this crazy new blog design? I look forward to being back to blogging next week. not that I can take any credit for it, but I’ll pass along the credit when I talk about my new spiffy blog). You disappeared? What the fork happened to you? Well … more on that next week. I will tell more.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Most designers, at least the ones I know, hate to network and rarely do it. The key to networking in the tech world is you do not need to be the best in the world, you just need to be passionate, willing to learn and in a lot of cases be the best designer or developer that people know. Reach out to people you want to meet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Develop viral content.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Irvine-based content moderation software developer WebPurify says it has enhanced its tools with a new tool, which allows its users to automatically detect text in memes and other images in blogs, forums, social media apps, children's sites, in-game chats, and more. Pricing on the new tool, which is now in limited beta, was not announced.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Their latest addition to Worlize is the ability to for a “Chat Now” badge to be placed on your blog. When the badge is clicked on your blog, it will transport your visitors to the entrance room of your world. If there are people chatting, the badge will also display the current population of the entire world.

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Blogging Paramount Social Network Entertainment 84

Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

But as I explain in a longer blog post , what is copied is a common motif in song composition, effectively a design tool. No one can claim copyright to these things because they have been around for a long time and are now “generic” parts or common design tools, respectively. This is yet another design tool.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The current land rush in chip development, spurred as new technologies such as artificial intelligence create new needs, is pitting established semiconductor companies like Intel and Nvidia against tech titans like Facebook that are building their own chips. A wave of next-generation chip companies has also entered the fray.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

I’ve also known startups who have worked for months on the infrastructure of their business – front office, manufacturing, product design, marketing, personnel, and sales – then started work on a web site in parallel with their “grand opening.” Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Mark Suster , the highly visible venture capitalist blogger at GRP Partners, has invested in UK-based TreeHouse , an online, video-focused site for helping users learn web design and development. Suster, in announcing the deal on his blog, did not say if his firm, GRP Partners, participated in the round. The deal was worth $600,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Take AVC.com, the blog by Fred Wilson. He wrote a blog post that always stuck with me about how there are regulars on his blog who hang out there a bit like “Cheers&# just having a chat with a metaphorical beer in hand. I picked questions that I had already covered in depth on my blog and answered them in shorter form.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. Develop viral content.

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Marketing Invest SEM Startup 107

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The entrepreneur– founder explained this problem away by stating that the designers and manufacturers would ship direct after we’d grown to a large enough size. And designers or manufacturers never did offer to ship direct. I had my doubts, but led the deal anyway. Yes, sometimes your gut is the best you’ve got. Listen to it!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2023

New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions. These have the added benefit of being searchable and discoverable.

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Social Media Media Software Review Social Network 112

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based GRP Partners , has invested in UK-based TreeHouse , an online, video-focused site for helping users learn web design and development. GRP's investment was led by Mark Suster, who announced the deal on his blog. The deal was worth $600,000. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The firm said it has selected a "minimalist" design for its pages after testing out four different home pages to visitors, using different designs and graphics. Edmunds.com has been revamping its site since September, as the firm has looked to update its look and feel to better match modern web site designs. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Design Web Blogging 133

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2012

The company--which has yet to launch its first customer into space--has been developing a custom spaceship designed to send "space tourists" into space from a commercial spaceport in New Mexico. Branson announced Ashton Kutcher as the 500th customer on his blog Monday.

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Customer Custom Blogging Design 159

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both.

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Product Startup Design Blogging 348

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Professional user-friendly site design. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue.

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Web Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising 117

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Startup 174

Startup Training Services Writing 174

SoCal CTO

MAY 7, 2010

On my eLearning blog, I recently predicted the Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash. I view the point of this blog to provide my thoughts and perspectives as an Acting CTO mostly concerned with Startup Development to entrepreneurs and other CTOs. Make pronouncements in your blog? This got quite a lot of passionate response.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Today the synthetic biology company announced an expansion of its headquarters in Boston’s Seaport neighborhood, including a second, larger lab space for designing and making custom yeast and other microbes. We can iterate through designs a lot faster than a traditional life sciences company,” Kelly says.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2021

It started a few years ago with the advent of email satisfaction surveys after an online purchase, but now includes interactive Internet ads, as well as custom requests for input on the design of future products and influencers on social media. Use experiments versus designing the ideal ad.

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Custom Customer Marketing Social Media 168

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Working on that unique design, or completing the breakthrough for an innovative patent, are moments of inspiration that you will never forget, especially if they become your competitive edge. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Love that sustainable competitive advantage. Marketing is top priority.

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Startup Patents Competition Social Network 160

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

Blumenthal explained the switch in a blog post. We’re proud to announce that we’ve designed an entirely new platform that’s flexible and tailored to our founders’ timing and needs—not our own. Writing: In a business where timing is everything, I realized the current accelerator model was serving an injustice to founders.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I began publishing my blog in 2008. I was hesitant to use my own name, as I did not want my blog to be perceived as a self-promotional vanity project. In addition, my role as Partner at Rincon Venture Partners provided me with a business reason to invest additional time and effort into my humble blog. I was not disappointed.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 2, 2010

Comedic startup site Funny or Die has announced a new design that adds new content and features to the site. The updated design gives fans more comedy, and more kinds of content including themed photo galleries, top 10 lists, and special guest blogs. What do you think the new design and the content they are featuring?

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Los Angeles-based Myspace has a new design, new owner, and is hoping for some new users with its brand new, music-focused, user interface--and says that so far, the response is good. READ MORE>>. music networking social launch myspace'

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Sites Blogging Media Advertising 168

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Gogii spent way more effort marketing to what I call “The USA Today market&# rather than the tech blog market. But I never gave up.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?)

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2012

Uncovet (www.uncovet.com), headed by Heather Lipner , said it would help consumers discover the most sought-after items from up-and-coming designers, vintage finds from select high-profile brands and home products. Heather Lipner: I've been in tech and design for twelve or thirteen years. What is Uncovet all about? READ MORE>>.

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Userplane Startup Design Sites 182

Xconomy

JULY 3, 2019

No one has done more than Donald Norman to teach us that every piece of hardware and software—in fact, every human-made object, including the internet—embodies design decisions that aren’t always made with the best interests of users in mind. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Stegmaier recommends that you start by writing a regular blog, joining a few related campaigns, building a high-quality video, and completing up to a hundred additional lessons before you even launch your own project. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea.

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