Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. Get competitors to surface early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2021

Also, for most of us, not having done it before, we have no idea where or how to start. It’s always good to have someone to test your ideas, keep your spirits up, and hone your business skills. With simple software available today, find a domain name and implement your own website. Explore finding a business partner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Whatever will make your success yours, list it out on paper on in your favorite note-taking software. Start wherever you can to grow beyond the phone, texts, and email, to a blog, photos on Instagram /Pinterest, or YouTube. Keep your mind open to how your ideas might have to shift. Define the parameters of your own success.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

In a post on Kik’s blog on Friday the MediaLab said that it has “finalized an agreement” to acquire Kik Messenger. “ Kik is one of those amazing places that brings us back to those early aspirations,” the blog post read. .” Now we know the the company: MediaLab.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. It’s why most investors proclaim that they invest in people, more than the idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

Would Microsoft have been such a powerful global business if IBM had recognized the importance of software as an independent phenomenon from hardware? But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea. I started blogging 2 years ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2021

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Too many people still believe the urban myth that you can sketch your idea on a napkin, and people will throw money at you.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Great by Cliff Allen Business Networking Online who I had blogged about previously in Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Cliff's feedback: Your idea of "Visible Networking" can help people take the "glad to meet you" networking to the next level -- "glad to know you" relationships.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

San Antonio — A biomedical product developer, Watershed Idea Foundry, has created a method of identifying medical devices that have been implanted in the body that uses 3-D printing and its own software.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2014

I look for whacky ideas that seem implausible or cause me to say, “Huh. It’s in an area that has no hardware and no software and definitely isn’t a company you’d read about on TechCrunch. My friend Rob Go wrote the following comment on my last blog post. I never thought of it that way.”

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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. I also blog at [link] and you can find me on twitter: @gilbola. How do I find entrepreneurs who have a great idea that can get or has got funding who need a CTO and/or development team?

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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. What changed for us was Tim Barker arrived. cared about the feature set.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Hire a professional marketing and public relations agency once you have a good revenue stream but you don’t need them to start a free blog, establish Facebook and Twitter accounts with initial content and complete the basics of search engine optimization. It’s why most investors proclaim that they invest in people, more than the idea.

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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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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2019

The finalists in the Digital Trailblazer category of the Xconomy Awards San Diego highlight the wide variety of healthtech ideas emanating from local startups and big companies alike, ranging from virtual coaches for physical therapy patients, to experimental software designed to address Alzheimer’s symptoms.

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2009

According to Passenger, the new community will provide NYSE information and economic reports, live chats, surveys, and blogs, and will allow IR professionals to share ideas and other opinions with NYSE Euronext. Tags: passenger online social networking software nyse euronext. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Whatever will make your success yours, list it out on paper on in your favorite note-taking software. Start wherever you can to grow beyond the phone, texts, and email, to a blog, photos on Instagram /Pinterest, or YouTube. Keep your mind open to how your ideas might have to shift. Define the parameters of your own success.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

In the early days you don’t really want 3 extra teams hearing your ideas and gearing up to compete before you feel you’ve got a solid head start. They think that only by being open and testing your ideas in an open marketplace can you be successful. But once a VC has heard your idea he can’t “un-think&# it.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? For me to do either of these, I certainly need to really believe in the idea and it has to be something that won’t consume all of my time. How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea Another option is sweat equity.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2013

The idea is a community space where people can come together, learn something from one another, build that electronics project, software, or even arts and crafts, in a supported environment. Where'd the idea come from, and why did you decide to help organize this? Tara Tiger Brown: My background is in software.

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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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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 moved into writing software to analyze audience data, and wrote a lot of computer graphics software. Cliff, remind me about your background?

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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.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 16, 2019

The company believed it had a chance to become one of the first to earn market clearance from the agency for a software product, says Propeller co-founder and CEO David Van Sickle. Propeller’s idea for a so-called “digital therapeutic” involved equipping prescription inhalers with sensors and an Internet connection.

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Xconomy

MARCH 25, 2018

A San Diego software development team with an idea for an emergency mobile app that it said would be faster than calling 911 is headed this week to US Ignite’s Application Summit in Kansas City, MO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

By Bob La Loggia, CEO StormSource Software I enjoy the ride on a good commercial airline flight. Beware of these and don’t let any of them steer you astray: Great ideas. Every startup has an abundance of ideas. Great ideas don’t make you a success. He can be reached directly via email or through his blog.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. There is nothing wrong with researching an idea yourself, getting it started yourself, validating the idea yourself and then asking people to join you.” Make sure it is somebody you know really well. Flip Burgers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

Let’s say you have built a SaaS company where a large part of the early revenue comes from a few big customers or a large part of the revenue is services based vs. software based. How to get your Series A mojo back The rest of the outline I’ll write as a series to come back to this blog if you want to read more. …

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. Is the idea to have multiple projects as part of the company? Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. How did you and Charlotte get into software?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2011

Where did the idea come from and how did you start working on this? We started with the initial idea of building vertical, B-to-B social environments, and soon figured out that was a terrible idea. We started experimenting with lots of ideas, and Namesake is the evolution of a thousand small tweaks. It's how we do things.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. Below are 50 ideas for step 2.

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Xconomy

JULY 11, 2017

The company, which has some roots in San Diego, sells analytics software that combines weather-monitoring services with risk-assessment data analysis to give customers an idea of whether their truck or. That’s a problem that Austin-based Riskpulse says its data service can help resolve.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2011

A lot of the feedback we got from those users was that community was a killer, we love these communities, can we put them on our own site, on our own blog, can we skin the community so that it's in our own look and feel, and can we put all these features on our own site. So that's what the Lunch Network is.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2011

We liked this idea so much we decided to steal it from True Ventures. I wanted to be whimsical and have a blog as cool as Spark Capital. Yet we wanted to be clear that we invest heavily in digital media, mobile & software companies. I have some ideas. Just as we did they took it down from their website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2014

Investors tell me that they invest in people more than the idea. Small brands that break through to grow big find a “small” idea that fills a gaping hole – a need in the marketplace that wasn’t met before – and they keep filling that need better than anyone. This will kick-start your business, and improve your odds of success.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

I’m sure she had no idea just how powerful that word and that concept would become. I’ve blogged for years. Marc Andreessen will forever be remembered for “ software is eating the world.” Marc Benioff, “ The End of Software ” (Whatever the f**k that means. Narrative at its finest.

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