SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I was talking with an early-stage founder who has a product vision and wants to get it built. He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. Me : Product definition, use cases, feature list, wireframes, comps, really whatever you have.

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Develop Development Technical Review CTO Coach 354

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. It also shows how such a website can scale by adding new cities. Building content is costly and time-consuming.

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Jeff Bezos didn't get to be the world's richest man by writing a lot of checks, and one recent way to keep Amazon's profits healthy has been to cut its affiliate commissions scheme. Since April 21, Amazon has slashed its rates across a wide range of product categories, in some cases dropping as much as 70%. The impact?

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Technical Review Buzzfeed News Networking 130

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. What are some of the top things you've published online, e.g., blog posts? Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. ” I highly recommend reading it. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok. but that’s our firm’s money on your balance sheet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. I’m a product geek more than a spreadsheet ninja.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

He had a partially built product. In my experience, it’s naive to think you can just “get developers to build the product” although it does sometimes work. So before you ask someone to even spend an hour of their time writing code or reviewing specs make sure you can pay them in some form (coffee, dinner, laptop, etc.),

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. They are as good at selling you as they are at selling your product to customers. Here’s what I learned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2010

I’ll confess up front that I’m a big fan of Guy Kawasaki’s humor and writing style. Back when he was writing to entrepreneurs, he published the book “ Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition.” That’s not so easy or fun. The reality of communicating.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. Who are its founders?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

As one of the young company’s first employees (founded in January 2012 with their first hotspot product launch in 2012) she provides a great inside look at the inspiration that drives the company’s work and shares her own insights on how/why she ended up at one of the wireless data industry’s fastest growing innovators. .”

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Outsource Development Startup Incubator Press 108

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Essentially, it guides the author through a four step process to design, build, test, and publish their creation. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. But, it didn't seem scalable. We have patents filed on this process. We've seen a full range of applications.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. And I’ll know in 18 months whether we have product / market fit. The best VCs know the buyers and can help guide and manage the process. VCs often don’t use the products of the companies in which they invest. They see how hard she does her job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

An inflated sense of financial well-being can result in sloppy budgeting and accounting as you write checks here and there without pause. Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free. If you will be making a product to sell, be sure the cost of materials is minimal and beyond that it costs only your labor.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. What exactly is visualization?

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. In addition to Seth, the core team he pulled together consisted of Elaine, a product person with front-end engineering skills and sharp design sense, and Sandy a back-end server engineer. So some show notes if you’re a bit busy to watch the video.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Microsoft, meanwhile, announced a new 5,000-person group Thursday dedicated to the development of AI technologies and products that use them. General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956,” they write ( PDF ). “We The partnership is not set up as a lobbying organization.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Technical Advisors Research 40

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. For another perspective which I certainly agree with, check out Kevin Drum’s blog post on The Power of Single-Mindedness at [link] but keep in mind that anything taken to the extreme probably isn’t a good idea…”.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. I’m reluctant to put it into writing because people get so passionate about this issue and many disagree. It’s hard enough to build a successful company.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Sonny Vu – Misfit Wearables , developers of the world’s most wearable sensor products. Global reach with a small business feel; and a very strict level of quality control for the selling of their product. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

A startup-oriented lawyer may not be able to convince a jury of a guilty man’s innocence, but they can guide your adVenture through the menacing legal shoals it will no doubt face. Just as you would not ask your family physician to perform a coronary bypass, do not ask your corporate lawyer to help you write your patent application.

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Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

They write and tweet every day, with the single guiding credibility and personality that the new social culture demands. He also co-authored the book "Inbound Marketing" about the power of social media and blogs. These are great for understanding the big picture, spotting trends, and product reviews.

Entrepreneur 92

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I refer back to the classic book, “ A Crowdfunder’s Strategy Guide ,” by Jamey Stegmaier, one of the biggest thought leaders on crowdfunding, and who has also run several successful Kickstarter projects, that together have raised many millions of dollars. It usually takes more than you can collect just to build and deliver the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

I refer back to the classic book, “ A Crowdfunder’s Strategy Guide ,” by Jamey Stegmaier, one of the biggest thought leaders on crowdfunding, and who has also run several successful Kickstarter projects, that together have raised many millions of dollars. It usually takes more than you can collect just to build and deliver the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I just finished a new book, “ A Crowdfunder’s Strategy Guide ,” by Jamey Stegmaier, one of the biggest thought leaders on crowdfunding, and who has also run seven successful Kickstarter projects, that together have raised more than a million dollars. It usually takes more than you can collect just to build and deliver the product.

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