TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Let’s look at each of these roles in greater detail: Strategy – The View From 1,000 Feet Up A good Strategic Advisor can help with every aspect of making broad choices about what will get developed, how it will be built, and ensuring that your business can deliver the right stuff at the right time. Is this person a CTO or a developer?

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Technical Review CTO Coach CTO Hire Software Review 260

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2015

And since I was 13 years old I have been accustomed to the debate about the limitations of technology or rather the downsides of being overly obsessed with gadgets, devices, software or applications. Numerous articles point out the “ sitting is the new smoking ” and if so then “mobile phones are the new crack.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

Fred Wilson immediately weighed in on her analysis , a meme was born and we were off to the races talking about “Unicorns.” I’m not talking about raising money at a billion dollars. I’m talking about making your company memorable by describing it with a narrative that people will later remember.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year. We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My macro theme was “great entrepreneurs&# who mapped to my belief system about the kind of entrepreneurs I wanted to work with. My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. They know what you bought the last time you were shopping.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here are some items to think about: Have you defined the functionality? Our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators has a list of questions any good development team would ask. Is user interface and graphic design a necessity? Do you have the basics already defined and merely need them fleshed out?

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Software Development Software Review Develop Development 295

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Or more directly – they are likely narcissistic resuscitations of your newest features or bragging points that nobody but your marketing team and your mom care about. But mostly they’re thinking, “Will my audience even care about this topic?” Think about Luma Partners. I am a VC. I hand out money.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

RingRevenue's unique technology allows online and offline advertisers and publishers to consistently increase revenues from mobile, print, search and email campaigns by tracking the phone calls generated by such ads. So it only makes sense that the Facebook mobile app has been an enormous success. But, a mobile phone is still a phone.

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Netflix Blogging Mobile Advertising 191

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. In acquiring Kik, the holding company is expanding its mobile app portfolio.

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Social Network Los Angeles Social Media Blogging 153

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. People often ask me why I started blogging. I never really expected a big audience or ever thought about it.

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Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2021

Inbound (pull) marketing is all about convincing potential customers that they found you and have a relationship with you, rather than being accosted by your message at every turn. The problem is simply that consumers now demand to make their own choices, with interactivity and input from friends, about the type of data they receive.

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Customer Custom Marketing Social Media 172

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

I wrote about this in a blog post last year titled “ It’s Morning in VC ” but I never made the full deck available until now. This year an associate from Upfront Ventures – Glenn Poppe – helped me pull together more information about how our industry is changing.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Google Maps Mobile I recently downloaded Google Maps Mobile for my Treo. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Its works great.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

As much of the world has shifted to mobile, smartphones are an important way to reach consumers. However, this year many brands still won’t deliver a full mobile experience, which is to say that, in 2016, many retailers still won’t have apps. The report notes that in general, the companies that prioritize mobile had modest budgets.

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Mobile Sites Customer Custom 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? But I have different reasons for being excited about Gogii.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Irvine-based YouMail is heading back to the Android Market, after the firm was suddenly dropped from the store Thursday in a tiff with T-Mobile. YouMail said it expects an update which will restore the firm's app to the Android Market shortly, and also outlined a few "lessons learned" about the whole experience. READ MORE>>.

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Marketing Blogging Mobile Networking 145

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2010

According to the two, they have released Team RadioShack, a free mobile iPhone app which allows users to get information about Lance Armstrong and Team RadioShack. The firms said the iPhone app will give users instant access to updates and news, exclusive content and photos, video blogs from Lance Armstrong, and more.

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Santa Monica Blogging Mobile News 182

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

Wish you could automatically hear and follow the latest tracks people are talking about on music blogs? Galica's new service allows users to automatically stream the tracks being talked about on a range of music blogs, for free.

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RSS Blogging Los Angeles Ideas 174

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It sounded like pretty big news, but to understand company announcements about the commercial viability of driverless cars, one must first parse the semantics.

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Framework Mobile Conference News 95

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? Argue about it? Short Adobe stock?

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HTML JavaScript Blogging Design 150

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update. Whats Hot Menu.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I’ve been thinking a lot about comments lately. I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. I got to thinking more broadly about social networks and the real-time web. It’s also how Jason Nazar and I started communicating.

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Startup Blogging Social Network Networking 276

socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2010

Looking to spur a show of company spirit, Jared Reitzin the CEO and founder of email and mobile marketing firm mobileStorm , is dangling $1,000 to any employee who gets a tattoo of the company's logo, and allows him to blog about it--and has tattooed his company logo on his own ankle, in his own show of dedication to his firm.

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Mobile Blogging Email Marketing 182

socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2011

YouMail, which is headed by Alex Quilici, explained in a blog post that it believes it was removed from the market due to complaints from T-Mobile, saying that it was "never contacted" by T-Mobile about its app.

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Tech Coast Angels Marketing Technical Review Blogging 140

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

I wrote about him here. More importantly, he has just announced his first investment – he led a $7 million investment in Deliv – please read about it on Greg’s spiffy new blog. I talked about Deliv in my LeWeb keynote because I found their model fascinating. Or what TechCrunch thinks.

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Startup Competition Examples Invest 331

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2014

I also added a little Soundcloud widget on the sidebar (if you’re viewing on web – not on mobile or RSS reader) that you can listen to each episode with. In the most recent episode, I interviewed Joe Perez , Founder of Tastemade. If you don’t know Joe, you should.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2013

We spoke with CEO and founder Ben Katz about the company''s prepaid debit cards and mobile apps (featuring such brands as The Walking Dead, The Three Stooges, Star Trek, and Garfield), and more. We think the future of payments is in the palm of someone''s hand, in the form of their mobile phone. What is Card.com?

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Help Startup Mobile Southern California 262

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. He’s right about this. And while the App Internet is currently more powerful than the Mobile Internet it has fundamental flaws. This blog post lays out my case. The money slide is the graphic below.

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Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2017

StockTwits, the Twitter-like social media platform for sharing stock market tips and ideas, has acquired San Diego’s SparkFin, a fintech mobile app for discovering and sharing stocks and other investment ideas. Wall Street investors, traders, financial media, and others use StockTwits to share insights and banter about investment picks.

Mobile 40

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

We also spoke about what it takes to be an effective board member. While this clip is only 1-minute long we talk about it more in the full interview. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog.

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Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

Are users willing to check into local businesses with another, mobile check-in product? We caught up with co-founder Michael Wong , who told us about how the company is looking to change the model for local check-ins, and also help businesses with getting the word out about their services. What is MergeLocal?

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CTO Coach Startup Mobile Artificial Inteligence 223

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I don’t write about Tania very often – mostly at her request. She’s worked for L’Oreal, Accenture, Virgin Mobile & BSkyB (one of the leading media companies in the UK). ” She gave me a special one-time permission to write about her in a blog post so I could publish the advice she gave our friend.

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Writing Mentor Blogging Tips 414

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew was SVP of Mobile at Fox Digital Entertainment which launched the very successful Simpsons online game (curse you for wasting tons of my kids free time!) on the other hand as I talked about here often first-time “naive optimism” leads to massively transformational breakouts ). The results?

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Funding Technical Review Startup Screening 373

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

Today’s customer buying dynamics are all about “user experience,” according to Brian Solis, in his classic book “ What’s the Future of Business? ”. Most consumers now research online product reviews, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, for authoritative guidance. Scarcity – less is more. First Moment of Truth.

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Customer Custom Social Media Technical Review 122

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

From a scale perspective, we process anywhere from 11 to 12 million desktop requests daily, and on the mobile side, 22 million requests a day. About three years ago, we found we were doing lots of manual testing of our code. Claude Jones: In the last six years we've grown about 80 percent. Those are just numbers for Walmart.com.

San Diego 100

San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

From a scale perspective, we process anywhere from 11 to 12 million desktop requests daily, and on the mobile side, 22 million requests a day. About three years ago, we found we were doing lots of manual testing of our code. Claude Jones: In the last six years we've grown about 80 percent. Those are just numbers for Walmart.com.

San Diego 100

San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100