InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Techpreneurs.

Santa Barbara 258

Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. It is to out friend. Enjoyed this post? Disruptive. We get it! I Be specific.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

These include the following: Networking with people who know. A question I sometimes get from startup founders is “What do I talk to these guys about?” Most successful entrepreneurs have been written up on the Internet, or in magazines, or books. Spend some time with these biographies and soak up the insights and inspiration.

Startup 103

Startup Mentor Case Study Course 103

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). A great opportunity for more visible networking. A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. What's keeping you up at night? Great stuff!

Acquisition 170

Acquisition Custom Customer Ideas 170

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2014

These include the following: Networking with people who know. A question I sometimes get from startup founders is “What do I talk to these guys about?” Most successful entrepreneurs have been written up on the Internet, or in magazines, or books. Spend some time with these biographies and soak up the insights and inspiration.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Mentor Case Study 102

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

These include the following: Networking with people who know. A question I sometimes get from startup founders is “What do I talk to these guys about?” Most successful entrepreneurs have been written up on the Internet, or in magazines, or books. Spend some time with these biographies and soak up the insights and inspiration.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Mentor Case Study 93

InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

Given the stellar startup careers of non-college graduates like Zuckerberg, Ellison, Disney, Gates, Jobs, Branson and Dell, the answer to this question might surprise you. In each case, the students were glad they remained in school and snagged their diploma before launching their startups. .

Entrepreneur 150

Entrepreneur Case Study Education Seed Funding 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2011

It seems to be an accepted fact these days that big companies normally innovate by buying a startup with innovative products, rather than focusing on in-house innovations. I see many startups who seem satisfied with a “me too” approach, building yet another social network or e-commerce site, rather than being truly innovative.

Startup 94

Startup Case Study Ideas Framework 94

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

They are devastated when their business growth never starts or stalls, and they have no idea how to get it moving again. As an advisor to many startups, I often spend hours with business owners helping them anticipate every possible obstacle to the adoption of their solution, and developing a rollout plan to include antidotes.

Product 95

Product Case Study Custom Customer 95

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2010

These include the following: Networking with people who know. A question I sometimes get from startup founders is “What do I talk to these guys about?” Most successful entrepreneurs have been written up on the Internet, or in magazines, or books. Spend some time with these biographies and soak up the insights and inspiration.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Startup Mentor Case Study 96

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

We caught up with Jim Armstrong to learn more about the new fund, areas of interest, his insights into what makes startups successful, and where he thinks the venture market is today. There's also a great network effect happening in the area of industry clouds, and network capitalism, which is not just marketing poof.

Southern California 113

Southern California Capital Funding Invest 113

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping: Score PR for Your Start-Up, On the Cheap. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Bootstrapping bootstrap, Profitability, Startup.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Although the carriers made a lot of money initially by selling dial-up Internet services, customers never took their software because, well, it sucked. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Custom Customer 150

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. But, when it comes to tracking what ad placement or publisher was responsible for getting a consumer to pick up the phone and call, that’s pretty difficult.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. Why did you start Chi.mp, and what does it provide? There are so many social networking sites, how do you define what's relevant?

Social Network 147

Social Network San Diego Sites Startup 147

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2012

It seems to be an accepted fact these days that big companies normally innovate by buying a startup with innovative products, rather than focusing on in-house innovations. I see many startups who seem satisfied with a “me too” approach, building yet another social network or e-commerce site, rather than being truly innovative.

Case Study 101

Case Study Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 101

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

For those who may be unfamiliar with the Biz2Beach conference, its a networking conference of thought leaders, innovators, and trendsetters for a day of exchanging ideas. Tony is currently Founder/CEO for Eventify, an LA-based startup creating a venue marketplace, and Visible Factors, an SEO consulting company.

SEO 85

SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2013

Forming these partnerships with YouTube content creators, both top stars and people just starting out, takes a sensitivity to the creative process. Show up and you learn your audience and you become your demographic. For Orabrush, it all started with an eHow video about “How to Tell if You Have Bad Breath”.

Conference 99

Conference Hollywood eHow Content 99

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

Ellis points out a case study where they discovered viewers of a particular movie poster were the common thread among purchases of a particular turntable. Ellis points this success to starting with a great community coupled with a combo of human curators on staff and technology. We can connect the dots,” said Ellis.

Seed Funding 40

Seed Funding Funding Commerce Social Media 40

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” Affiliate Network – Affiliates are third-parties which are only compensated when they perform a particular action on your behalf. Affiliates invest the up-front marketing expenses required to attract customers. It does not happen.

Custom 164

Custom Customer Advertising SEM 164

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Should media companies offer their content on an ad-supported basis or get users to pay up front? Presenter: Matt Shaw, Regional Director, AdMob 2:45: Mobile Brand Case Study: Pizza Hut. But does every brand need an app? Should brands offer e-commerce through apps? Meanwhile, what's the real ROI from appvertising?

Mobile 40

Mobile Media Case Study Advertising 40

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378