SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

I am hearing from my project management team a bit of distrust in the technical capacity of our web development team. I think we suffer because of the distance and culture but the project management team takes every late delivery or small bug as evidence that the development team may not be capable. No communication between developers.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2019

In the tradition of tech companies getting into the April Fool's spirit, Los Angeles-based dating app developer Tinder announced a "new feature" on Monday, height verification of its users. Tinder also said, in its blog post announcing the "feature" said "Did it ever occur to you that honesty is what separates humans from sinister monsters?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your offering, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Find potential partners. Populate your team.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2017

People expect blog posts, Tweets, panels, speeches. Having interesting and frequent opportunities at the top of your funnel is important, of course, but the ultimate score is only measured on the bottom end of the funnel. Recruiting, business development, shipping product, writing blog posts, networking … it’s all the same.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. It can also be very inspiring, as you watch your dream morph into reality, or as you feel each little element of success: Watch your team develop new skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

The major battle for press is a battle for “mindshare” and it’s exactly the reason I blog. We provide strategic advice to digital media companies in a manner that reflects how corporate development is actually done. ” Of course not. I am a VC. I hand out money. How differentiated is that? More strategic.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2013

750,000 for Scaling & Product development. Where other deal and coupon sites have run their course by confusing consumers with tricks, Chippmunk boasts of a clean, consumer friendly experience to help people quickly and easily compare deals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

I can attest from experience that publishing a regular blog to properly showcase your brand value, even before you have it, is a most cost effective approach in time and money. For blogging to work, you need to do it consistently and frequently, at least once a week, or the value evaporates. Find potential partners. Populate your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, this kind of leadership has a big risk, since you have no one to blame if you get it wrong. The challenge is how to develop that self-leadership in every aspiring entrepreneur and business professional role. This may mean attending industry conferences, taking college courses, or reading some key books.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2015

Most importantly – this should encourage LP funds to back more local firms and I would hope to see more indigenous funds to develop. To mark the occasion of launching this inaugural report I am also proud to announce that we’ve also launched the Upfront Insights blog. And of course thank you to CB Insights.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2021

Then there was always the risk of failure, which of course doesn’t apply once your real job is gone. Practice developing a business plan. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. You have probably secretly always wanted to run your own show, but with an existing job, never took the time to consider a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start. just don’t lead with them!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

I’ve been online for nearly 30 years (yes, there was CompuServe and Prodigy before the www), blogging for 10 and using social media tools since the earliest days. As somebody who invested his time heavily in writing and wanting to share his thoughts through a blog I learned that I had to Tweet a post 3 times to get it read: 5am, 8am and 10pm.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Southern California Tech Central – Brings together posts from top bloggers around Southern California including John's blog and this blog. Quality of Events Of course, the bigger issue with events is finding the ones where you will have a really good opportunity to network with interesting people. They put on great events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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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. Of course, you can’t possibly brand yourself if you don’t know who you really are.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. Of course our execution against the strategy has had to change but the strategy has remained constant. It’s just math. discipline & focus.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Of course passion isn’t enough. So of course I want (need) to make money for my investors (LPs). But the two can of course go hand-in-hand. His blog is even called SaaStr (a bit too close to Suster if you ask me ;-)). These are both new journeys and I can’t wait to see how they develop. I’m a VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. So your goal should be a steady stream of news across many different news outlets and your own blog.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Xconomy has learned that Daniel stepped down from his role as president of research & early development at Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG ) over the summer, a position that has since been filled by Rupert Vessey. “We think alike,” Daniel says. “We We can pretty much finish each other’s sentences.”. Daniel joined Celgene in 2006.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. Of course, I immediately gave him the whole spiel on Visible Networking and Steve was totally game to make our networking visible. My focus has been marketing strategy and product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Evaluate customer response prior to development. Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

With-it”-ness takes work, like reading the right blogs every day, challenging yourself to stay abreast of the latest technology, and social media marketing. Developing a superior virtual presence requires a mastery of several mediums – phone, email, text messaging, as well as handwritten notes – but the payoff is undeniable.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 16, 2018

Big tech companies like Google are facing heat for developing disruptive technologies that can make traditional jobs obsolete. In a collaboration with the big educational technology company Coursera , Google is launching a global MOOC (massive open online course) certificate.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

There was a lot of passion in the room last week when I presented Working with Developers at the Stubbs Precellerator. I guess it should not be a surprise that Founders have lots of challenges working with developers. But my developers want to go into way too much detail. In fact, they often don’t really understand the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself.

Search Engine Optimization 124

Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media Equity 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

Evaluate customer response prior to development. Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver.

Search Engine Optimization 174

Search Engine Optimization Ideas Startup Customer 174

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2017 we began inserting an “Inclusion Clause” into our term sheets because we believe that the culture one establishes at the earliest stages of one’s business will set out the course of how it will grow and develop. We believe that diverse teams produce diversity of thought and that this leads to better decisions and outcomes.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

But of course it’s hard to advise people that they should do PR without a guide to how to do it on the cheap or how to do it at all. You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. When to start PR?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The company opened in late 2015, offering a 12-week course for $13,500 and promising graduates a software job within 90 days of graduation. Origin Code Academy, one of San Diego’s few coding schools—for-profit companies that offer short-term vocational training in computer programming—said this month it will shutter on Nov.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

. “ Shipwell’s full-service, digitized brokerage platform can streamline the way many of our Anchor LPs and portfolio companies approach large-scale freight shipping,” the firm’s principal — and newest Shipwell board member — Vik Chawla wrote in a blog post announcing its most recent deal.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Organovo raised millions of dollars from investors to fuel its goal of developing 3D “bioprinted” human tissues for use in people with end-stage liver disease and other life-threatening illnesses.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 14, 2020

The road of drug development is rife with detours and disappointments but Seres Therapeutics showed this week that course corrections can work. Four years after its microbiome therapy failed in a mid-stage study, the company reported early positive data from a pivotal test of its treatment for a type of gut infection.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Of course, when I started thinking about Visible Networking , I immediately went to Cliff to check in to see how he's doing and to get his feedback, thoughts and ideas on the concept. I've been following both of your blogs for a while. Blogs also make it easy for new people to find those interesting conversation. Great stuff.

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