TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We'll keep this blog entry short and sweet. Fixed a few issues causing inter-framework conflict due to processes not properly closing and releasing TCP ports. New dependency tool that helps organize, unify, and simplify required software (e.g., Round 11 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is now available!

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2013

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. BTW, when I wrote blog posts on Sunday’s I always Tweet again Monday morning for exactly this reason. It’s called ToutApp.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. We actually have a very big Wordpress user base, because of the work we''ve done with Wordpress, contributing code and integrating them into our platform.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

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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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

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.

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Content Software Review Technical Review Sites 242

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm, said today that it has made a "major extension" of its Pluck software. Demand Media said its Pluck platform now includes 14 pre-built social applications, including forumes, ratings, polls, reviews, blog applications, galleries, contests, and more. READ MORE>>.

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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. Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

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Software Review Seed Funding Funding Startup 123

socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2011

Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked , which operates a software service to help companies communicate with investors, is one of the firms caught by the widespread Amazon EC2 downtime today. CapLinked said in its blog that its site is temporarily unavailable due to Amazon's hosting service issues. READ MORE>>.

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Manhattan Beach EC2 Software Review Blogging 133

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Battery isn’t the only marquee investor to find value in ServiceTitan’s business developing software managing day labor. And as Battery Ventures investor Sanjiv Kalevar noted in a blog post last year , the opportunity for software companies serving blue-collar workers is huge.

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Glendale Los Angeles Startup Technical Review 271

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. If you never read it, please do.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

As a bonus, you''ll also enjoy a robust number of Pinterest, Tumbler and Instagram followers and you''ll still have room in your budget for 250 comments on your blog and about 100,000 views on Vimeo. For instance, Yelp calls out establishments which attempt to manipulate their reviews. What a bargain. Social norming is powerful.

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Social Media Media Technical Review Software Review 274

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. If you never read it, please do.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. I actually wrote a long blog post about this but I’m trying to get TechCrunch to publish it before putting it on my blog. My favorite new software tool is DailyBurn. That’s always stuck with me. We’ll see.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

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

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.&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

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. Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

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Software Review Funding Startup Seed Funding 106

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2012

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. Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

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Seed Funding Software Review Entrepreneur Funding 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2011

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. Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

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Software Review Funding Seed Funding Startup 98

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. Are we right in all of our assumptions and diligence? We checked regulatory rules. We checked safety.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Most of the great software startups that I’ve been involved in have at least one technical co-founder (and many have more than one.) 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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CTO Hire CTO Coach Equity Develop 241

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. While he was waiting for the paperwork to be reviewed he moved to Boulder, Colorado and took a job with a local tech company there. More red tape.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2010

Yesterday 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. Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

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Software Review Startup Seed Funding Funding 95

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. And while John & I have been through these phases ourselves (and have even written several blog posts on the topic like this one and John keeps a great blog with many similar concepts) we simply haven’t been running large sales teams for the past 8+ years.

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Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

It makes no sense to meet in August or December due to travel schedules of most investors. For the record, this is not a secret, coded messages to companies for which I am on the board! Feel free to have color coding for each member with companies for which you think they might be able to help with intros.

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Startup Venture Capital Software Review Email 301

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.

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Class Education Technical Review Writing 340

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?

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Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies. The second event was in Boulder.

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Angel Technical Review Software Review Platform 254

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. This article initially appeared on Inc. Click here. This post is about the “P” or pain.

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Sales Slides Startup Customer 367

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?

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Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

To understand this in great detail see this very important blog post by Henry Blodget on the unemployment rate in the US and its impact on the recovery. I wonder, though, how much of that is emerging market and how much of the industrialized nation growth is due to stimulus money, which in turn either dries up or forced inflation?

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Venture Capital Startup Funding Technical Review 269

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. I have a link on my blog to the angel deals I’ve done, which is here.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

There's a lot on my blog already around this topic. There are a bunch of questions in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything , Startup Founder Developer Gap , and in Startup CTO or Developer. You should be hearing many of these questions coming up from your CTO candidate.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review Startup 282

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. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Then came blogs. We have it to filter blog comments.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Xconomy

DECEMBER 4, 2018

San Francisco-based performance management startup 15Five , whose mission is to torpedo annual performance reviews for workers and replace them with supportive weekly coaching by managers, announced today it raised $8 million in a Series A funding round. Employees use the system to make a 15-minute check-in report to their bosses every week.

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Coach Software Review Software Report 54

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?

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2014

This smartphone app places all your contact information into a single QR code image. Anyone with one of the many QR code scanning apps on their phone can take a photo of your code to be taken directly to your contact information. I found dozens of software packages available on the Internet for free download, or a nominal price.

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Tool Software Review Social Network Email 92

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. " The Bible Code predicted the Sept 11 attacks 5,000 years ago." " Patterns in Chaos.

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