Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2010

Yesterday I wrote a post about the " Urgency Addiction ” and how many people start important tasks late and then motivate with a huge wave of productivity and inspiration driven by deadlines and commitments to others. “A study by Microsoft showed just how lethal interruptions are to productivity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

That great productivity drain that we somehow all buy into. “I would far rather give out my mobile phone number than my email address.” So I ask you – if you’re being reactive to somebody else’s emails are you really being as productive in your company as you could be? ” Brilliant!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan &# and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek. I would love to say that I’m the productivity guru. Tim Ferriss gave this extra emphasis in his book.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and Instagram leads as the top social media app for teens.

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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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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 the product is called textPlus, not textFree.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

According to a Viddy blog post, Viddy pulled its app from the App Store and Google Play yesterday, and is giving users until December 15th to export any of their videos from the service. viddy supernova fullscreen shutdown deadpool instagram video instant mobile' READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? I am a VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

Per a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 17-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 11.5 According to what I see, as outlined by Surdak, this data surge is being driven by the following six technological and social trends: Mobility: smartphones, tablets, and the “Internet of things.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Even the homework is easier, with free access to more opportunity details and competitor data on your mobile device from anywhere in the world. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

High-technology product startups, without customers, don’t make a business. Survey results show that more than 80% of consumers now receive advice through social networking sites prior to a product purchase. Most consumers now research online product reviews, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, for authoritative guidance.

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socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2012

According to the firm, it now optimizes the site for any platform accessing the service, whether that's on a big monitor, iPad, or mobile browser; simplified navigation around the site; new ticker pages to help find content and top people for tickers users are interested in; and revamped its profile pages. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Connect, the San Diego nonprofit supporting local innovation and entrepreneurship, handed out its Most Innovative New Product Awards at a dinner last night in La Jolla—recognizing innovations that range from an inflatable satellite antenna to a mobile app for art museums. There was no William W. Otterson award winner this year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

In his maiden post on the topic he wrote, “After product-market fit and an efficient conversion process, the next critical step is finding scalable, repeatable and sustainable ways to grow the business. If this isn’t part of your culture on your product & marketing teams I can assure you it is on one of your competitors.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In its yearly celebration of entrepreneurship and invention, San Diego’s Connect gave its Most Innovative New Product Award to 10 local companies at a dinner gala Thursday evening.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Even the homework is easier, with free access to more opportunity details and competitor data on your mobile device from anywhere in the world. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2019

However, the adjective “electric” was eventually dropped when all the devices in a product category utilized the technology. Despite the prescience of the Siebel executives, we successfully sold GoToMeeting, and the other GoTo family of products, to Citrix in 2004 for a tidy sum. Vertical Software To Mobile First.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Image via Flickr by SideWages.com These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. Search engines and people love blogs these days. Join the conversation with Community Forums. Curation, the most efficient content. Win with engaging contests.

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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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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

OCTOBER 6, 2016

is rolling out its first commercial product—a “brain-enabled” commercial floor scrubber that is part mini-Zamboni and part Roomba. But as a pragmatic industrial product, Brain Corp. two years ago as vice president of marketing and product development. Like many startups, Brain Corp. But now Brain Corp.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. They recorded it.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

The firm said that it now will offer two different product packages for its customers, including "Go", targeted at marketers looking for mobile, email, and SMS marketing tools, and "Pro", with marketing tools aimed at large businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

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. On the one hand you can view their local stores as a competitive disadvantage because eCommerce companies can sell products with no physical retail stores.

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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. 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. He’s right about this.

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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? How are you different?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. But it wasn’t to be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

Many people don’t post about their experiences, but still routinely check first to see what others are saying about the brand and the product online. For example, mobile now has become the formidable new communication channel, posting a year-over-year growth rate of 47 percent in 2014, according to WBR Digital Research.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2009

Pasadena-based Central Desktop has jumped into the enterprise micro-blogging area, saying Monday that it has launched a new tool which allows companies to use Twitter-style updates within the firm's project management software. The new microblogging tool, like Twitter, also supports updates via mobile phones, using SMS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Calls are changing but not dying. Much more data in the full post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

Assess social media relevance to your product or service. If your business is industrial B2B products, social media should be low on your list. For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and Instagram leads as the top social media app for teens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. ” by an expert and friend in this space, Arnie Kuenn , which offers guidance and examples on new and modern approaches for the rest of us: Build a blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.” He gets to return his focus and energy back to what got him so passionate in the first place – product – while now having a seasoned leader and enough capital to fulfill his vision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Per the latest study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 17-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 11.5 According to what I see, as outlined by Surdak, this data surge is being driven by the following six technological and social trends: Mobility: smartphones, tablets, and the “Internet of things.”

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