Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

He is the author of various best selling books including Practical Information Architecture, Web Dogma ’06 and Usable Usability. Attending his speaking events is not only educational and useful to your business but it has often been described as very comical and entertaining. Reiss is a world-renowned usability expert.

Culver City 105

Culver City Design Content Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2013

If you can’t remember the last time you had a relaxing evening with the spouse, or read a book, you may be overworking and that could negatively affect your health in the long run. Real job performance is more a function of productivity than hours worked anyway. Continuous improvement is the key to quality production.

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Startup Tips Entrepreneur Metrics 93

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Online education. This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. Or take a look at their team page to get a sense of why we were so inspired by their vision for the future.

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Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business One of the keys to maximizing the productivity and success of your team, as well as yourself, is motivation. While there are many books written on this subject, most entrepreneurs I know simply assume that their own vision, motivation, and drive will be adopted and maintained by partners and employees.

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Startup Resource Tips Layoffs 108

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

Great startups are getting ahead of the game with “anticipatory customer service,” like providing smart phone access to product and account data to head off complaints. I found a good summary of these new expectations in a book recently published by Micah Solomon, “ High-tech, High-touch Customer Service.”

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Custom Customer Services High Tech 89

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

I agree with my friend Lon Safko, and his classic book “ The Social Media Bible ,” which asserts your team can be successful at social without the cost of an expensive expert or agency, by following these five basic steps: Start with the dominant players. Get to know the five W’s of these – who, what, where, when, and why.

Social Media 108

Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). Do you really think Porter’s Five Forces is going to help you figure out what feature set to launch or how to price your product?

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In the latest book by business guru Joe Wozny, “ The Digital Dollar: Sustainable Strategies for Online Success ,” I found a good summary of some great strategies, with some practical advice on how to implement them: Understand what’s in a name on the Internet.

Social Media 93

Social Media Content Startup Web 93

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

If you're an expert in a certain technology--say, business process design--and have thought about publishing a book, this is a quicker, faster, and more comprehensive way to share it with the world. As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. But, it didn't seem scalable.

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. The product focuses on the in-store behavior of consumers. And of course we had, TheMan. Now begins the 6-month journey.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

The bring your product to life. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products. Tell us what their life is like without your product – how they struggle. Tell us about the breakthrough they’ll have when they’re using your product. But seriously her book is spot on.

Startup 362

Startup Twiistup Slides Screening 362

InfoChachkie

MARCH 14, 2012

I groaned when the egregiously over-paid logo designer, Paul Rand, holds up a blank book and says, “Don’t get scared, this is not the design. His logo, not the blank page, is what represented “a hundred thousand bucks down the drain.”. And that is by what our product is and how timely we bring it to market.

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Startup Press Design Marketing 229

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction. The problem is that the average value of products that sell on affiliate networks is sub $100.

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Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

To learn more about all the companies, be sure to visit 500 Startups’ official demo day page. They’ve captured their market quickly by being the first providers of affordable luxury bookings with a business model to fill in a large amount of unused travel inventory. Pijon - think Birchbox for care packages.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I have some educated guesses. He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. As more people consume Facebook pages, less people are consuming open Web pages. George’s Arguments.

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Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Having a clear focus means it’s easier to communicate what your product is and who it’s for. By trying to appeal to everyone and adding features left, right and centre, you will actually dilute your message and could end up with a complex, bloated product. Here are two examples. Quote from John Wilshire, Artefact Cards 4.

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Startup Design Custom Customer 78

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. million members who have added over 270 million books, completely by word of mouth.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Simply click on the title of the panel you like and you will be taken to their SXSWi panel picker page. Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. .

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

There are also efforts emerging, such as WebFinger , to make metadata about people more open and easily obtainable instead of relying on profile pages on proprietary social networking services or poorly supported microformats. Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Better social and location capabilities added to the core of mobile devices.

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Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29