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. Enjoyed this post? think this comment on my last post gives this perspective well.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2011

In today’s competitive business environment, where barriers to entry seem to be crumbling before our eyes, creating your citadel is more important than ever. Your citadel is your protection from the competition. The purpose of a citadel is to provide defense for a city. When a citadel is built, a city is preparing itself for a battle.

Startup 95

Startup Competition Guide Software 95

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures wrote a great post the other day that reminded me I’ve been meaning to write about this topic. I can’t watch them live because I have to skip through the guest interviews. go on, listen to it as you read the rest of this post]. I hear views like this all the time.

Startup 313

Startup Press Writing News 313

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Share your answers on your website, packaging and marketing materials, such as your social media, interviews and guest posts. This scares some business owners, given that following the tried-and-true path seems to offer more security, but when you succeed, it becomes one of your biggest competitive advantages.

Guide 105

Guide Startup Marketing Template 105

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Further, as the competition amongst web stores continues to increase, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to grab one’s parts of their desired market. The post How to Get Your E-commerce Site Noticed In A Global Market appeared first on TechZulu.

Commerce 58

Commerce Search Engine Optimization Sites Marketing 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

Be visible online and to traditional media, volunteer to lead, write guest posts for others, be responsive, give stuff away, and provide many ways to communicate. People are more distracted than ever, and competition has never been greater. Using the platform to expand your reach. You have to get your customer’s attention.

Platform 105

Platform Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

Be visible online and to traditional media, volunteer to lead, write guest posts for others, be responsive, give stuff away, and provide many ways to communicate. People are more distracted than ever, and competition has never been greater. Using the platform to expand your reach. You have to get your customer’s attention.

Startup 104

Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The Founders Series is a happy hour competition where up to five, handpicked startups have 1 minute to pitch their company and detail their value proposition in the marketplace in front of an audience. I participate as a guest speaker to Professor Andrew Fry’s class each semester, as well.

Startup 70

Startup Class Resource Examples 70

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Even if you know your product/service suite down cold, understand the strengths/weaknesses of the competition, and have built pro forma financials that are sane. By Mahesh Raj Mohan Writing a business plan can be a difficult process. you still have to write the plan for a particular audience. What does that mean?

Writing 97

Writing Summary Ideas Research 97

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Guest post by Jim Alden @TechFrog. Gates and his very competitive team at Microsoft built a very good browser and gave it away free with their operating system. Google promised quicker start-up and improved stability when compared to the competition. I have yet to crash it, and yes, it is fast.

Java 49

Java Google Web UCLA 49

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Any Competition? DinnDinn, allows restaurants to shine by focusing in on what’s important to guests. The post DinnDinn An App For Your TasteBuds | Founders Interview appeared first on TechZulu. This is our dream, though, so there’s no challenge that wont be worth overcoming. You either love it or hate it. Plan and simple.

Startup 65

Startup Software Review Ideas Social Network 65

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

In addition to multiple days of live stream interviews, there were some of Indiegogo’s brilliant new projects on display for inquisitive guests to experience first hand: Myth Innovations - Desktop computing power, into the palm of your hand. A special thanks to our guests/interviewees! Game changing technology here!).

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

Users add comments and questions to videos, interact on forums and post about their accomplishments. I entered the Internet world back in 2000, when I launched eBay Canada out of my guest room in Toronto, Canada and went on to serve as eBay Inc.’s What makes you unique from the competition? and Canada.

Help 87

Help Content Activity Networking 87

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Competition: McAfee , Symantec. When the show has been processed it will be available here (estimated 8pm PDT).

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

This post originally ran on TechCrunch. This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term. Check out SalesCrunch posts. I wrote it all in one sitting and then broke it up into 10 separate posts. Absofuckinglutely.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools. I tell that story in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to show resiliency.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. This post is an accusation. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. but: Something is Still Missing.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

Think of 6 million automobile comments, or 30 million political comments, 200 million travel comments, or 150 million consumer electronic comments posted each month. We are in the “age of recommendation” Already, 69% of consumers research their product, service and guest stay decisions online. The post How will you ride the next wave?

Mobile 156

Mobile Commerce Software Review Yammer 156

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. So I asked her this: “What do I do with my 1,000th post?”. Here’s why.

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217