Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product. An expanding customer base demands better support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product. An expanding customer base demands better support.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

It was the fact that the Seven-Up Company defined its product by describing what it was not , via the “UnCola” label. Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

It was the fact that the Seven-Up Company defined its product by describing what it was not , via the “UnCola” label. Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification. CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

However, TenHands’ “special sauce” is in its groundbreaking architecture as the 1st to deliver personal (desktop, mobile) video as a virtualized cloud computing solution and the 1st to commercialize WebRTC - the catalyst behind the effort to revolutionize the way we use our browsers to communicate. Any funding?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. You’re right.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management. Finding business agility in the cloud. Chief Digital Officers.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. What we learned, is there is so much more demand from existing retailers and platforms that sell directly to consumers, and discovery platforms like Foursquare, who wanted to user our IP as a layer, versus a standalone product. The company has raised $1.9M What is Halla?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. Before you let me have it let me say I am a FanBoy of Apple products. I can’t be more of a FanBay of their products. I’m willing to fund companies in the interim. Enter Apple.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

Their deep understanding of their customers, an uncompromising drive to create a quality product and the courage to ignore the music industry's formulaic approach to producing hits resulted in the creation one of the top selling non-compilation albums of all time. This audience feedback allowed the band to iteratively modify their creation.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Although the offer was gratifying, it was clear to the Founders that this windfall would ultimately fall far short of the value that could be created by productizing the technology and generating substantial user adoption. A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Although the offer was gratifying, it was clear to the Founders that this windfall would ultimately fall far short of the value that could be created by productizing the technology and generating substantial user adoption. A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

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 boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. . Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice. Both cover techni.

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