Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

Software products and apps can be quickly wireframed with free tools like MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Startup Ideas Tool 105

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded early by one of the 318,000 active Angel investors in the USA alone. Most of these investors are members of Angel groups that have a rigorous filtering and screening process, to select the top 3% and most fundable proposals. Line up an experienced team. Build a prototype product.

Angel 104

Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” The power of large screen real estate.

Web 334

Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2011

One of the hot new approaches I have seen around the country for assisting startups looking for funding has been “crowd-sourcing” sites ( Kickstarter ) or “crowd-pitching” events ( Funding Universe ). These are variations on a “crowd-funding” theme to raise money for a startup through social networks and voting at public events.

Funding 92

Funding Startup Social Media Sample 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. The Gust Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. Line up an experienced team. Start early on this one, or you will lose the opportunity.

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The price for one of these machines starts off at GBP 649 or about $1,000. You get your 3D scan within five minutes onto your computer screen. The scanner scans objects with a dimension size up to 25 cm x 25 cm x 25 cm and has a resolution of up to 2 mm.

Design 77

Design Startup Press Pricing 77

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

One of the startup areas where we've been seeing renewed activity in the last few months is in the enterprise software space--specifically, in software-as-a-service applications targeted at corporate customers. We spoke with the firm's CEO and co-founder, John Hanna : How'd you end up starting the company, and what is FunnelSource all about?

Oracle 145

Oracle Sales Startup Screening 145

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. The AngelSoft Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. Line up an experienced team. Start early on this one, or you will lose the opportunity.

Angel 89

Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. When pitching to consumers, online or offline, the feedback will likely be on features and design. Marty Zwilling.

Funding 101

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Invest 101

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ). He obviously believes this since he has become CEO of TopSpin Media – a firm designed to do just that. Twiistup 6 featured 12 showoff companies as the opening act of a 2-day conference.

Twiistup 228

Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2010

One of the hot new approaches I have seen around the country for assisting startups looking for funding has been “crowd-sourcing” tools ( ProFounder ) or “crowd-pitching” events ( Funding Universe ). These are variations on a “crowd-funding” theme to raise money for a startup through social networks and voting at public events.

Funding 59

Funding Startup Social Media Sample 59

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. When pitching to consumers, online or offline, the feedback will likely be on features and design.

Funding 106

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Sample 106

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production.

Ideas 53

Ideas Outsource Development Tool Outsource 53

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

If you are like us, a huge number of the conference calls you participate in are enabled by a company called FreeConferenceCall.com , which has enabled free conference calls for millions of startups and large businesses alike. But, how can the company offer up free conference calling services, and what''s the story behind the service?

Conference 100

Conference Startup Services Networking 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Josh Hartwell: We officially incorporate in 2003, though we started laying groundwork for the company in 2002. We started back then, because my other co-founder and I had worked very closely with JAMDAT on JAMDAT Bowling and Fifa Soccer. Talk about how you went from JAMDAT to Mobile Deluxe? Can you talk about how you managed that?

Mobile 168

Mobile Java Google Startup 168

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. Once you get to 300-500 customers, it blows up, because it was never intended to scale.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2012

Insteegram is a startup that allows you to create amazing and unique t-shirts using your own Instagram photos. Park had a screen-printing business in 2004, starting with his own $4,000 investment. His company was one of the first in the industry that made it easy for anyone to start their own clothing line all from a website.

Startup 98

Startup Custom Customer Pricing 98

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Despite the growing competition, Philips Hue light bulbs are still the kings of all smart, Wi-Fi enabled light bulbs. Plus, it opens up to where you left off last time, so your most used screen appears instantly. Huemote lets you create groups of your lights right from within the app and will control up to 16 lights at once.

Screening 40

Screening Slides Startup Press 40

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2011

If you’ve ever seen anyone hold their phone or tablet up to a seemingly empty space and laugh hysterically, they probably weren’t crazy, just enjoying an augmented reality app. CEO’s, startup founders, leading programmers and technology officers, there were plenty of prominent personnel at the event.

Conference 69

Conference Startup Google Competition 69

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

SoCal startup Moving Analytics is tackling this global problem. Through simple design, extensive sensing mechanism research, and behavioral science principles, Moving Analytics is carving out its own innovative niche in a heavily competitive space by providing a simple solution for highly sedentary people. A walking interview?

USC 104

USC Southern California Activity Study 104

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2014

looks to keep gamers on their toes with fast combat and new level designs. After a couple of (losing) rounds, the game improved upon level design and the fighting mechanics. Attendees were treated to 20 characters to choose and beat senselessly, while more than 30 characters are reported to show up in the final game.

IP 77

IP Startup Design Training 77

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 23, 2012

Once you’ve decided on an idea to move forward with, you’re ready to start deciphering the data you’ve compiled on the existing competition and choosing what to do with your own app. You’re asking a user, who is most likely using another app of some sort, to give up their current favorite and give yours a shot.

Marketing 84

Marketing Software Review Tips Competition 84

Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

The panelists were JR Alaoui , CEO and co-founder of Eyeris , a deep learning and emotion recognition startup; Rob McHenry , vice president of public sector operations at PARC (and former DARPA program manager); and Leila Takayama , founder of Hoku Labs and a professor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz (formerly of GoogleX and Willow Garage).

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Examples Research Design 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Start by trying to narrowing the list of total prospective VCs. As I like to say, in the era of social networks and transparency if you can’t figure out how to get introduced to a VC then hang up your cleats now. Maybe up to 6 hours. DO NOT show up at a VC meeting unprepared. Tell a friend! So let me be clear.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA. The best designed mobile apps use the accelerometer, the camera, map integration, location, contact book integration, QR codes and so on. Why Invest? Think about Snapchat.

Software 105

Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it.

Hulu 292

Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2015

To confirm the value of checking yourself, I find more and more investment organizations and startup incubators, including StartupAmerica and CoFoundersLab , already use a formal process, such as StrengthsFinder , as part of their screening process. The Builder excels at constructing a business from the ground up.

Startup 106

Startup Incubator Entrepreneur Metrics 106