SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Purpose of an MVP and Defining the Right MVP I've really not talked as much about this in my blog even though its hugely important. Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. Review the code being built. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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Technical Review CTO Hire CTO Coach Software Review 338

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2018

New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Search, combined with ratings and reviews become key in separating the useful from the rambling. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. Centralized.

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Media Social Network Technical Review 92

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2011

It really provides the most relevant reviews, because when you're looking for reviews, you want them from someone very similar to you. Johnson: It's different from a traditional white label because if you look at a normal white label, you're just taking the functionality and you're just taking the software.

Content 242

Content Software Review Technical Review Sites 242

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But I had been reading Munjal Shah’s blog about his experiences at Riya (later renamed Like.com) and this openess had an appeal to me. Another great example is Bill Barhydt of m-Via. They recorded it.

Organization 280

Organization Custom Customer Tips 280

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. Try writing long reviews of a restaurant. That’s why Yelp is effective.

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Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. 10 Blogging Tips. Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. Not that I blame you!

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2013

Example: when I send a “save the date” email I often put the date, location & reply by date near the top in red. When emails get a bit longer due to background info I often break it up into sections (as I am doing in this post). I am soon going to start piloting a software application to help me do this.

Email 415

Email Writing Software Review Startup 415

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

That’s called leading by example, and it is actually appreciated by businesses of every size. For example, a marketing project would be the number of leads generated or ad impressions, instead of recommendations for improving the process. Leadership by example works at all levels of a company.

Services 100

Services Startup Software Review Social Media 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It became a project of passion, and we wanted to get it done super quick, because we believed in it, and saw that there were many others trying to do the same thing--big companies--who had been trying to do this for years, but just hadn't cracked the code. He was open to it, didn't have a blog, and is a very charismatic, budding comedian.

Guide 203

Guide Software Review Twiistup Technical Review 203

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Search, combined with ratings and reviews become key in separating the useful from the rambling. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. Centralized.

Software Review 90

Software Review Social Media Social Network Technical Review 90

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it. Fred Wilson wrote on his blog this week about learning from failures here and quoted Obama’s speech from tonight: you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. This is part of my ongoing series, “ Start-up Lessons.&#.

Startup 247

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Writing 247

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Search, combined with ratings and reviews become key in separating the useful from the rambling. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. Centralized.

Social Media 102

Social Media Entrepreneur Software Review Social Network 102

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

If you haven’t already followed me on Twitter, that’s the fastest way to get blog updates. In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA. Take for example the years 2010-2012 where every brand out there seemed to be buying Facebook “Likes.” Click here.

Sales 367

Sales Slides Startup Custom 367

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. One out of ten of Americans are out of work. call to arms.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

If you have heard the lingo, but most of these are not in your startup business plan, you are already in jeopardy as an entrepreneur: Blogging. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business.

SEM 95

SEM Search Engine Optimization Blogging PPC 95

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2012

New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Search, combined with ratings and reviews become key in separating the useful from the rambling. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. Centralized.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Social Network Software Review Social Media 97

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

Also, as any changes to each login will be handled by JanRain, you wont have to keep updating your authentication code if changes are made by the login provider. Now click the "Generate Code" button. Youll be given two code snippets that look something like this: This code should go immediately before the tag.

Software Review 40

Software Review PHP Class Startup 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

They cite Quara, Google, Twitter & Facebook as obvious examples. Higher conversion rates (10-15x online conversion) and higher value at closure (up to 2x higher) due to up-sell & cross-sell potential. So having a software filter in front of the calls is key to making them cost effective. Here’s the deal.

Mobile 311

Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Believe me, the business implications are already critical to your success or failure as an entrepreneur: Blog. A blog is basically a journal (“web log”) that is published on the web. Business blogs are an extension of your website and can effectively communicate the value of your business. Social networks. Viral marketing.

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur SEM Search Engine Optimization Blogging 89

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

In an eCommerce or Internet Services business it is often the marketing costs (if purchased online) and in an enterprise software company it is often marketing plus enterprise sales reps. So it might actually be more productive for you to improve your conversion than to improve your ad buying, for example. That bit is easy.

Metrics 150

Metrics Startup SaaS Course 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. Imagine if you had to release your software daily in order to keep your job or to have the traffic numbers you need to earn your paycheck. In my blog I just save that for the comments where people can say what their perspectives are.

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Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

We are now harnessing the ‘social’ aspect of the system where businesses and consumers begin to contribute to the data by adding or updating products listings as well as rate and review products.”. With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs?

Blogging 219

Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

We are now harnessing the ‘social’ aspect of the system where businesses and consumers begin to contribute to the data by adding or updating products listings as well as rate and review products.”. With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs?

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2010

New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available. Search, combined with ratings and reviews become key in separating the useful from the rambling. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. Centralized.

Social Media 89

Social Media Startup Software Review Social Network 89

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?

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic. That’s why when you hear Steve Blank talk about lean startups you can hear his experiences ooze out of him in real-life examples of 8 startups. As we added more resources we added more strain on his high-calibre core team. What did he know? He was tech.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

Even though most services are usually not subject to sales tax, some states are now asserting that certain online services are taxable either as software, data processing, or information services, even if the type of service would not be taxable if delivered the old fashioned way – by people – rather than computing platforms.

Sales 62

Sales Company Companies Software Review 62

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

As an example, I was just reading a plan for a new dating app with a tagline of moving users quickly from the virtual world into the real world of offline dating. Regularly follow reviews and influencers in your industry. There are always new competitors who are planning their arrival tomorrow.

Custom 57

Custom Customer Technical Review Software Review 57

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. Many years ago I worked at Andersen Consulting, originally developing software for large corporations and then as a strategy consultant.

Venture Capital 297

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur 297

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It has long been believed that people from lower-income neighborhoods can’t learn as well as middle & upper class ones due to environment issues such as problems at home and trouble in the neighborhood. From a young age I loved writing, which fueled my interests in reading, in politics and one day in blogging. By a teacher.

Class 340

Class Education Technical Review Writing 340

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. Cloud computing pioneer RightScale is a prime example of a company which utilized a consultative go-to-market strategy as a means of funding its initial operations. WebEx was the early leader in web meetings.

Entrepreneur 225

Entrepreneur SaaS Pricing Cloud Computing 225

Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The first round of pitches are due this week. The agency wants to fund projects for four years, to the point they can be handed off to investors or other government agencies. ” At the conference, FBI supervisory special agent Ed You told the audience the bureau is aware of the need for new biosecurity measures.

Research 111

Research Technical Review Conference Software Review 111

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. For example, you can transform your longish and ugly dynamic URIs into short (but keyword rich) URIs, and more. You need to take care of errors yourself.

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

In the example above, you may find that although radio listeners cost $50 more than your average cost per customer, they may correspondingly have a longer life and thus a higher lifetime than your average customer. Some might be from banner ads and others may arise from an email campaign. .

Custom 164

Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 Think about me as an example.

Startup 285

Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 285

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

At some point, you've got to figure out where you draw the line, due to social network fatigue when you're at the point where you are checking 8, 9, or ten different sites every day. FriendFeed is a great example of a successful aggregator. There's all great places to be, and they all provide great services. What Chi.mp

Social Network 147

Social Network San Diego Sites Startup 147