SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 You would have met many smart people who live a mediocre life. Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to term sheet has shrunk from 90 days in 2004 to just 9 today. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020. Mamoon Hamid is heading from Social Capital to Kleiner Perkins.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 7, 2010

Here we examine the relationship between time, quality and competitiveness. Email readers continue here.] The waste from haste in this example was in not pre-thinking of enough testing scenarios for a new product. There is little need to reinforce the obvious.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

. <Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners. > -jeff.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

This is set to complement Groupon’s efforts in yield management due to its 40 percent discounts for each table. Groupon said it launched the system due to customer demands. “In percent per swipe to beat the competition. Serves Over 1000 Top US Restaurants. Simplest and Lowest Cost Option. Follow Transaction History.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. My Dad uses email – he still doesn’t understand the ‘forward’ button.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

In some ways having seen these trends before and being a bit more mature (code for I’m 47) I think I feel just a little bit less pressure than I did when I was younger. I spend more time an executive recruiting of key talent for portfolio companies in which I’ve invested and more time in product reviews. Year in, year out.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

A startup is far more likely to respond to an inquiry, especially if they are in your industry yet are not competitive. Review the person’s publicly available information from social media sites. Call the area code and the prefix number and then randomly dial the last two or three digits (depending on the syntax of the main number).

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

It's somewhat unusual in this economy to find companies who are seeing strong growth, so we were intrigued recently in running into BlackLine Systems (www.blackline.com), a firm which develops software for helping in the financial reporting process. First, for our readers who aren't familiar with your software, can you explain what it does?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 15, 2015

Workflow Software. You’ll be amazed at the results you can achieve with workflow software. This software helps you take important shortcuts to save time and make money. The customers will continue returning to your business due to the personal connections you make with them. Business Process Management Software.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. One of the most popular features of the application is the delegation feature, which with one tap allows them to email a grocery list to their husband to pick up.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Most people facing this problem resort to mass text messages, and long, frustrating email chains. The nearly 300 members of TCA collaborate with each other on due diligence and then make individual decisions regarding potential investments. TCA is a not-for-profit organization. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Most people facing this problem resort to mass text messages, and long, frustrating email chains. The nearly 300 members of TCA collaborate with each other on due diligence and then make individual decisions regarding potential investments. TCA is a not-for-profit organization. mt) Media Temple, Inc. Want to Sponsor?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). A healthy eco-system of application developers is required for any software or Internet company to be massively successful. We have spam filters for our email. If we continue our success we will have strong competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. If a VC term sheet comes in they begin their due diligence process. The contra is also true.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. " The Bible Code predicted the Sept 11 attacks 5,000 years ago." " Patterns in Chaos.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

He launched a business called Unsubscribe, which helped consumers deal with the deluge of email lists that one gets signed up to and get rid of them all. Throughout all of this we saw a tinkerer, a problem solver and a completely obsessed leader who was competitive and wanted to win. We weren’t sure. He did all of these and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Imagine if you had to release your software daily in order to keep your job or to have the traffic numbers you need to earn your paycheck. Given a choice of your marketing person or talking to you (the founder) there’s no competition. If you’ve got good ideas for a story – shoot it over to them in an email.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. the Rubicon Project The Journey Startup 6.0: Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Zondigo, Inc.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

We use QR codes to simplify the process. The mobile Internet – The latest major computing cycle [Email readers, continue here…] Over the last fifty years, the world transitioned from mainframe computing to mini-computers to PCs to the desktop Internet. 62% look at online peer reviews. first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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