Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

First-to-market’ is not a sustainable competitive advantage for startups, since sleeping giants do wake up when they see traction, and they can smash newcomers quickly. In today’s information age, it takes time and money to make your solution visible. Marketing should start before product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Solution development and delivery. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs. Formalize the use of tools and information technology. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Leverage information technology. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Don’t try this without a formal process.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

A third demonstration of overcoming market risk is by holding controlled focus groups and gathering information from unbiased potential customers supporting the acceptance of the product or service. And fifth: Competitive risk. Email readers, continue here.] Third: Management risk.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Ben Satterfield is the co-founder of TestFlight, an immensely popular piece of software for iOS (and now Android) which lets developers distribute beta copies of their apps to their users. TestFlight recently joined forces with Burstly (www.burstly.com) to create a suite of apps for mobile developers and publishers. What is Burstly?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Leverage information technology. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Don’t try this without a formal process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Leverage information technology. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Don’t try this without a formal process. What is your business objective?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M That system allows us to arrange shoots and coordinate with contracted talent to produce that content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Leverage information technology. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Don’t try this without a formal process. What is your business objective?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. We ended up being a part of a group of four companies who were awarded energy storage contracts. megawatts of energy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

First-to-market’ is not a sustainable competitive advantage for startups, since sleeping giants do wake up when they see traction, and they can smash newcomers quickly. In today’s information age, it takes time and money to make your solution visible. Marketing should start before product development.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. More information comes out.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

Shortly thereafter, we began developing apps and websites out of Brent’s garage. They created a futures exchange in which the contracts were based upon the outcome of political events. The incentive for a voter to be well-informed is currently very low. John Greathouse: How did you and your Co-Founder Brent Kirkland get started?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

First-to-market’ is not a sustainable competitive advantage for startups, since sleeping giants do wake up when they see traction, and they can smash newcomers quickly. In today’s information age, it takes time and money to make your solution visible. Marketing should start before product development.

Startup 57

Startup Entrepreneur Writing Ideas 57

socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

If you think about it today, everyone is selling through Amazon, but Amazon keeps all of that customer information. It was a logical system to start offering up cloud-based systems like those we had developed. The other thing I see, is trying to outsource all of this stuff your self. How did you get into this?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. Google has its own home energy monitoring project, PowerMeter - is this competitive or different?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2014

No personal information is needed to activate, therefore, calls cannot be traced to a specific name or organization in any way. After use, you can dispose of the SIM card and the information it contains.” Sell it as needed and remove the need for long term contracts. “Our goal is to commoditize wireless.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Users can vote for relevancy of results, and over time, the non-relevant information or SEO moves down below the line. Do you have any issue pulling information from the search engines? It seems like you'd be somewhat competitive to what they do. We use our own algorithm, as well as user votes.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. Call out your top competitors, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantage, including patents, trade secrets. and trademarks.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development Product Advertising 40

Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

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Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ▼ April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Google 40

Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

Many of you will know that Twitter unexpectedly cancelled it’s contract to allow DataSift to resell Twitter data to 3rd parties. Without notice Twitter informed us on Friday that they intended to communicate with the market in less than 24 hours that they would no longer work with us or any third-party re-syndication partner.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. The right way to position against competition - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , August 23, 2010 This is Part 4 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.??

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

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. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? This post is an accusation.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2015

Upgrade to modern information technology tools. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change. Adopt new core principles to stay competitive and assure survival.

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Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2014

Upgrade to modern information technology tools. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change. Adopt new core principles to stay competitive and assure survival.

Customer 96

Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 96

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

We spend hours of seemingly “wasted&# time just in these informal chats simply shooting the shit. The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. He gossips with the office manager who tells 3 software developers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2021

Upgrade to modern information technology tools. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change. Adopt new core principles to stay competitive and assure survival.

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Customer Custom Social Media Outsource Development 173

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Upgrade to modern information technology tools. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change. Adopt new core principles to stay competitive and assure survival.

Demand 71

Demand Customer Custom Tips 71

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2018

Upgrade to modern information technology tools. Too many businesses still tolerate archaic IT tools, or resort to rogue mashups developed to circumvent the approved tools. Traditional waterfall development and outsourcing won’t keep up with change. Adopt new core principles to stay competitive and assure survival.

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Demand Customer Custom Tips 56