socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Well, Los Angeles-based KarmaGoat (www.karmagoat.com) has figured out a way to help people get rid of those unwanted items they have--and provide those proceeds to charity. That allowed me to take a summer to develop the new idea, and transform it into a business. That gift of livestock can help families out of extreme poverty.

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UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

Obtaining funding is a key milestone, but equally important is helping fledgling companies build institutional mass once they leave the relatively safe confines of an accelerator. Bringing an accelerators’ graduates back as mentors provides value to the next class, certainly. Convert Graduate-Founders Into Mentors.

Startup 100

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

So I thought I’d write a piece on how not to suck when you give a presentation. You’re not lecturing to a college class, you’re not at a cocktail party and you’re not chatting with a small group in a board meeting. Help us to get to know him or her. Show some energy! NEVER lead with features.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

In today's world of web application development, speed is everything. Developers are now turning out code and releasing it live to the world in near real time--what is called DevOps and Agile development. With the rise of the cloud and Agile, it's really changed how developer are coding their websites.

Web 138

Web Startup Southern California Software 138

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

A critical stage for most first-time entrepreneurs is getting their idea developed into at least a prototype to validate their technology. Experts are available to help, but fees are high. You need to make an ROI assessment of value versus cost on outside help at this stage. Detailed grant accounting requirements.

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Funding Technical Review Startup Research 90

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

He can’t help himself: He’s Dave. I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. How to help his companies. The Dave I know is very insightful about marketing, channel management and building developer ecosystems. Not much more.

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Startup Venture Capital Email Writing 309

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

This is smart because amazing board members can be transformative with important advice and access and can also help attract other great board members (and team members). I actually think having a formal board can really help you. Bad board members can make business very unpleasant. Do you need a board when you first start you company?

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

If you look at an enterprise developer of IT team with DevoOs, they have to create applications, manage those applications, and now are dealing with open source, hundreds of different web services, network elements, all virtualized and with containers and new tools. You have to help people get better, and not try to fix things.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Or if you’re pinched on time the summary is below and the time coding can help you watch a brief snippet on topics that interest you. 41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 42:20 Did agile development influence you? 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development!

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Social Media Startup Metrics Media 301

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Every organization willing to give you money is looking for specifics on what you will do with it and how it will help the grantor and expects answers to every detailed bureaucratic question. Grant providers may not require a seat on your board to help you make decisions, but your spending processes will be carefully monitored and audited.

Pricing 100

Pricing Equity Technical Review Research 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!, You also need to develop an O&O (your own websites) strategy. Your “anchor talent” helps attract audiences that in turn want to discover new artists. This helps get CPM rates higher – even within YouTube.

Company 339

Company Companies Technical Review Content 339

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations. Writing a book will be fun. The truth is you really don’t know how your teammates or your bosses will perform in good times and bad. You REALLY know.

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CTO Hire Startup CTO Coach Venture Capital 320

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. Journalists aren’t going to write about you all the time unless you’re Facebook. Use it as an excuse to get a journalist to write about you. It doesn’t help you. Develop Trusted Advisors.

Startup 329

Startup Press Training Media 329

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Especially for their stage of development. SendGrid helps improve delivery.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

You bump into the person you’ve always wanted to chat with or your perfect business development partner who can “make” you. You can’t help but lean forward and want to hear what the next line is. But Sam is a first-class act and boy does he know how to nail an intro. So my list for you is: Develop your 60-second pitch.

Startup 315

Startup Content Conference Media 315

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Would they build a world class team. Were they ambitious?

Technical Review 418

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The competition is set up to award $50,000 to the best team each year, and is also tied to a class on entrepreneurship for engineering students. Fariborz Maseeh: Initially ,we hope that the business plan competition would help solve one of the fourteen National Academy of Engineering grant challenges.

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Competition Southern California Mentor USC 154

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? The firm has created a tool which uses software and semantic search to help in the whole process of curating content.

Web 237

Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Noah Auerhahn: ExtraBux helps consumers get the lowest prices online, by integrating online discounts into a comparison shopping engine. The site started as a concept that Jeff Nobbs, my co-founder, and myself developed while we were operating a cash-back and coupon website while we were attending USC. How did the company start?

USC 207

USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. And of course we had, TheMan. with the clips.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

We took the recent round, because Jake and I feel very passionately about our social missions, and, about four years ago, we started developing the software to create software. What our program does, is if you get a question wrong, we help determine where you need help. However, on the group side, a class has 15-17 students.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 14, 2015

Automated mailing tools can send out emails to different classes of people based on their engagement with the business. That can save a lot of time and effort setting up different subdivisions of your subscribers and writing messages for each of them. Workflow Management.

Entrepreneur 40

Entrepreneur Technology Email Tool 40

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. Sergey’s diverse experience as an entrepreneur, technology consultant and software executive qualifies him to lead amSTATZ’s technology development.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I finally got around to writing it having read Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does. I found that a lot of my time went into spending time with the country MD’s to show them that they were still important to me and that I was still willing to help with sales campaigns. Both are basically people businesses.

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Venture Capital Startup Sales Customer 319

Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The three letters “PBM,” for example (pharmacy benefit manager), have never crossed my mind when I’m writing a prescription. There are two classes of drugs that are very effective at lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol: statins and PCSK9 inhibitors. Nor has the word “rebate.” Or the phrase “pay for delay.” Or “marketing exclusivity.”.

Pricing 40

Pricing Framework Research Examples 40

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

The channel is sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. A Helpful Login Class Some code examples are provided by JanRain Engage. With this in mind, I created a class that might be useful. Dont forget to complete the class - look for the @todo tags. Is this error related to what Im supposed to write?

Software Review 40

Software Review PHP Class Startup 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I programed macros to help my mom with her Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets for work. I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I installed Windows 3.1

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. I went on to Oversee.net, and helped to build that company from 60 to 250 employees. It was developed from a different angle.

Startup 140

Startup Yahoo Sites Oversee.net 140

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It is simply the most important way to proactively control your career development and how the market perceives you. This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. It is neither. People form perceptions of you whether you like it or not.

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you've taken a course, and need an application to do chemistry or math analysis, there's a store where you can write, share, sell, or buy those applications. I worked as a software and hardware engineer, and did lots of software development for networking and telecom firms, mainly networking. They have developed this from a need.

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. If you've written a book, it can help reinforce that knowledge.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. Obviously to understand a “class&# of people you have to make broad generalizations. there is a nascent industry to try and help you with this, too. We have 12 developers and they have 3.

Sales 316

Sales Startup Pricing Customer 316

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. John Greathouse <john *@ *.com>

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. How does it work?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

First, we had developed a relationship with top grocery bloggers, who we had been working with on online promotions. That cumulative group of bloggers, combined with the nation''s best database of grocery store coupons and sales, helps us match up the information and curate which ones to point at as the best deals.

Mobile 140

Mobile Sales Startup Sites 140

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

My job is to help you not get a job,” Marks announced. LA is up and coming and is a great place to be because everybody is helping each other out. As a young entrepreneur, you get introduced to mentors and successful entrepreneurs on a daily basis who want to help you. The two entrepreneurs then moved on to talk about college.

Startup 107

Startup Los Angeles USC Southern California 107

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Leading advertising networks like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google Affiliate Network, ShareASale and many others license our platform to help their advertisers and publishers easily create, manage, track, and optimize call-based advertising campaigns.”. Our platform helps them do that. Our partners put a lot of trust in us.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209