Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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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?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

My biggest take away from Startup Grind Conference 2016 is how genuinely the organization is committed to uniting and helping startups accelerate together on a global level. For lunch the conference fed us clean salads and proteins supplied by Farmhill so we’d be energized and sustain mental clarity. Yup, that guy.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

The thing that fuels this success is the amazing organizations and people from around the world who align and support the mission to build businesses. These organizations work tirelessly in guiding and supporting startup teams to success, regardless of their stage of business, as well as continue to encourage innovation across the planet.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2018

Recently, I was in Chicago for Paradigm IQ’s D&I Lab: Data-Driven Strategies to Attract & Hire Diverse Talent , a one-day workshop designed to equip attendees with new strategies for designing an inclusive organization. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. But I have to catch a flight to New York for a two-day computer vision conference and 2 board meetings, 2 board dinners and a catch up with my LPs to tell them how our fund is going.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

There is a corollary to that advice, which is “doing the right things is more important than doing things right.&# Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap. Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

It’s not that they’re particularly negative but the fact is that supporting roles at investment firms are designed to show the partners the risks in deals and the “upside case” always requires huge assumptions to be believed. I love when investors ask me for references because I know it’s a great chance to actually DRIVE engagement.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

’ It’s pretty terrible to have to go to conferences… with people who are talking about… stuff that not only do I know nothing about, but I could give two $hits about.” According to Mark, “I wasn’t effectively leading my sales organization. It’s a very big industry and its behind on IT.’

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The film gives several examples of where not having women included in product decisions has led to poor design by not truly understanding 50%+ of the ultimate consumers. She gives examples ranging from poor auto air bag design (female body types being different) to “Clippy,” the Microsoft assistant that many women found creepy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

When most people think of training , the first thing that comes to mind is a mandatory meeting in a stuffy conference room with a boring instructor walking through poorly designed slides. This natural fear of failure will diminish their growth, and impede your development as an organization.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

“We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco. ” At the conference, FBI supervisory special agent Ed You told the audience the bureau is aware of the need for new biosecurity measures.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

TED…a conference where people tell interesting short stories of their experiences in life. TEDActive is where TEDWannabees like me pay 2/3 the price of the actual TED Conference in Long Beach and hang out with 399 others and watch the event on TV, live. This is the actual conference in Long Beach and is invitation only.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

Get out of the office to visit real customers, attend industry conferences, and network with peers and influencers. Focus on agility as the key skill your organization needs. You will find it amazing how much your perspective will improve as you establish relationships and really listen to others. Learning can be fun and profitable.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

TED…a conference where people tell interesting short stories of their experiences in life. TEDActive is where TEDWannabees like me pay 2/3 the price of the actual TED Conference in Long Beach and hang out with 399 others and watch the event on TV, live. This is the actual conference in Long Beach and is invitation only.

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Long Beach Conference Ideas Press 137

Berkonomics

MARCH 10, 2010

This insight came from personal experience and from a good friend who advanced the notion of the “teacher-customer” years ago. Together we would work out solutions in the form of new functions, new controls, new reports, and new safeguards. Positioning.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 3, 2012

For those who may think Las Vegas is just the home of Zappos, Conferences, and day/night entertainment, well you are right. The platform organizes users’ personal and business lives in an environment designed for thought partnering. TechZulu had the honor of being invited out to the Tracky Launch event last week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Thus entrepreneurs began building prototypes and designing new products without the traditional huge investment. Low-cost design and fabrication tools are extremely valuable. Relationships are best built while working and learning together, rather than over drinks at a mixer or industry conference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2014

We have some very sophisticated applications and a platform that ingests data from multiple sources, sorts and organizes that data, measures the data, and helps automate decisions based on the results of those measurements. We have built a layer of technology on top of our own, proprietary optimization strategy and process.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

customer relationship marketing programs designed to preserve your core revenue. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblo g.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA on. 50% Off Conference Passes for. PowerMark www.thepowermarkgroup.com , Southern California's premier full-service marketing and.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

TechZulu is pleased to announce that we will be streaming live from the Biz2Beach conference presented by CallFire this Friday August 19 at 2pm PST. For those who may be unfamiliar with the Biz2Beach conference, its a networking conference of thought leaders, innovators, and trendsetters for a day of exchanging ideas.

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LATechDigest

MAY 12, 2016

Santa Monica-based talent management software firm Cornerstone OnDemand announced the launch of its suite of people analytics products at its annual Convergence Conference. Cornerstone View provides the fastest and simplest way for organizations to gain more meaningful insight into their employees and solve complex workforce issues.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2013

Campbell was new to Los Angeles, freshly inspired from a TED conference, and after attending a smattering of Barcamps and Westside Meetups he was ready to produce his own event that was a mixture of all. Campbell said the process of coming up with themes is purely organic. What is cool that is happening with the ocean?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2014

In a world with a rash of startup incubators and accelerators, super angels, crowdfunding sites, and more, what''s the relevance of organized angel investments groups? To do that, we''ve help organize our members into subject matter areas, whether they know IT, or web stuff, or engineering, or manufacturing.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? I like events.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 21, 2015

Pocket Sun didn’t want to be the only girl in the room at startup conferences. So she started a conference for girls. I started SoGal for a selfish reason – I did not want to be the only girl in the whole conference room. Another member founded an organization for UX design enthusiasts. She didn’t stop there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Services Startup Training Writing 61

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Its campuses, often featuring dramatic lobbies, community organic gardens, conference and event centers, restaurants, and collaboration spaces, have in many cases become centerpieces of the local innovation ecosystem. Our campuses also provide great world-class conference facilities, and we also do a lot of hands-on mentoring.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Such revenue included membership fees, certification fees, non-recurring engineering charges (to integrate our technology with each member’s products) and User Conference fees. We hosted an annual user conference in Santa Barbara, attended by a couple hundred of the world’s top surgeons. Road Rules.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

The emerging “cloud focused” IT organizations, and the benefits they are able to obtain. He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management. Finding business agility in the cloud.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 20, 2013

Most of the folks getting up to share were “idea folks” but there were also a few developers, designers and UI/UX folks interspersed. So a big shout out and HUGE thanks to all the organizers and sponsors: AT&T, Digital LA, Scopely, WeLink, PageWoo, Ask Ziggy, Sign Now, Peak Hosting, Nokia, Productsy and more.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

This year at CES 2018 Eureka Park, the mega startup hub of the conference, the hottest early-stage startups from around the world will showcase their products and services aimed at disrupting their respective industries. SmartGurlz. Robots don’t all have to look like Wall-E, some could look like a girl.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!, He helped develop an airline tracking system for Homeland Security and is an organizer of the Agile Open SoCal conference. and Schlumberger.

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