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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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2012

This fest will include panels, workshops, cocktails and keynotes for startups, content creators, developers, social media marketers, designers, entrepreneurs, and more. Design/Dev Hub (Launchpad LA) : Design + developers, UI, UX panels. Influencer (PromoJam) @ Tech Cube : social tools. Press: Techzulu @ Coloft.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We were talking about an upcoming conference when he declared, "I hate PowerPoint. Slides Are Not Art - Compelling images are important, but ensure that your message is not overcome by design and production elements. In particular, TED speakers make extremely effective use of presentation tools.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. Give up a box of clothes and receive one in the size you designate. Online retailer of affordable “accessible luxury” designer fashion. Google wants to use the data to create new flight search tools.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Before that, it was more of an exclusive, top tier publisher tool under the Burstly name. It''s not just about banner ads, it''s a tool that allows you to integrate with an ad network, giving you the flexibility to pick what ads and offers you want, where in your app. People at the Apple conference were completely in awe.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2015

One of the oldest and most-popular developer communities, IBM’s developerWorks has announced today a first-of-its-kind premium subscription model, developerWorks Premium , geared toward maximizing developer access to IBM’s software, tools, training and partners at a fraction of the cost. Developers today are constantly trying to keep up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Luckily, I had always been a “hands-on” professional, and I had learned the pragmatics of people leadership, marketing, management tools, and funding. Simply defining yourself as a marketing specialist, designer, or project leader minimizes the stigma of the consultant role. Promote yourself with a title to match your expertise.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Of the ones I have been to recently, the Nantucket Conference has been my favorite. It's a great talk. It's a great talk.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 29, 2018

Through] CTA, you have access to wealth of consumer research reports, discounts for seminars and conferences such as CES, and networking opportunities with industry professionals through the CTA Mentor program,” Koduri said. Having a group of people who have been there, done that, and share that experience can be another tool for success. “By

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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. Users can easily create, manage and execute accurate headcount plans through a simple and intuitive design.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Other members often include: financiers, strategists, personnel experts, product marketing specialists and new product designers and engineers. Each executive board member is chosen because they usually play a distinct role in the funding and running of a successful corporation. Why is there change now? Images via Shutterstock.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

I’ll cover “Why Buy Mine&# in a later post, but my quick answer is that referenceability is the most critical tool to solving this problem. Their goal is to get you to appear in person at city roadshows that they run or to come to their annual Dreamforce conference.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

He started his journey in tech with local startup success, Freshbooks, a digital invoicing tool, which has been a hit in the Toronto scene. He spoke of his competitors to the South and a recent visit to Las Vegas to a ‘lead gen conference,’ which made him wary of the space.

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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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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. There were lots of people very intent on the execution of the product, really looking into the details of design and flow. Are people really willing to sell their stuff to benefit charities? Jonathan Lehmann: The reception of the idea has been tremendous.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2011

It was factual, short and designed to show that I had done all of the requisite jobs. For today’s post, for example, my thesis was that story telling and narrative are some of the most important tools you can use for persuasion in meetings, to connect with an audience and to ensure that recipients retain the knowledge you present.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Tools and efficiencies powered by the cloud. He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. The emerging “cloud focused” IT organizations, and the benefits they are able to obtain. Finding business agility in the cloud. Alex Kazerani.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Web API Design Best PracticesThis session will cover the basics of Web API but dig deeper and take attendees past basic CRUD operations on resources and dive into how to create a robust API using Web API. While tools are part of getting started, this session focuses on the practices, not the tools.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

He started his journey in tech with local startup success, Freshbooks, a digital invoicing tool, which has been a hit in the Toronto scene. He spoke of his competitors to the South and a recent visit to Las Vegas to a ‘lead gen conference,’ which made him wary of the ‘lead gen’ model solely.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

For Developers, programmers and technologists seeking the latest and greatest engines and tools for AR; learn from case studies and post mortems delivered by experienced developers from the leading companies in the space. Conference details –. After speaking with the Los Angeles based Daqri , the future of AR is very bright.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. A technology that will surely revolutionize how viewers interact with content and television in the very near future.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

There’s an old joke in software development, “How much time does it take to design software?” ” Answer: As long as you have scheduled for the design phase. Design with no constraints becomes a research project. Not funny, “ha, ha” but pretty apropos. CEOs are time-driven creatures.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

Because the images ended up shrinking the world’s appetite for tools of ultimate destruction, it is hard to think of a more significant innovation. A year later, the U2 captured another stunner: images of tall, liquid-fuel missiles in central Asia – designed to hit targets as far off as New York.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. LA has the annual Monty Conference. Local Press / Websites / Organizational Tools – New York has an amazing startup scene and the energy and momentum is palpable. There are two reasons you need local capital. I’ve seen it work in Boulder with DeFrag and Gluecon.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company. iJustine) is an internet personality, actress, life-caster, vlogger, designer and most of all a popular YouTube content creator. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment. It’s been my experience that the more focused and intimate events far ‘out-perform’ (however you’d like to characterize it) the mega-conferences. Investors include Ron Conway, Ashton Kutcher, and Brian Solis.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. You don’t really buy servers anymore…the tools are all open source. Basically, everything is free.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Here in Los Angeles we've tied the entire conference together with the Twelethon , a creative fundraising platform in support of Inner-City Arts. We're also teaming up with the Marketing Research Association to discuss how to use online tools to conduct TV show focus group research, while building a strong relationship with key viewers.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 24, 2012

Simply stated, our retreats are designed to be personal growth and getaway retreats for individuals. These are not networking events, summits or conferences where people exchange business cards, or meet-ups where we create opportunities to make contacts that further our careers. So, this is not a networking event?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company. iJustine) is an internet personality, actress, life-caster, vlogger, designer and most of all a popular YouTube content creator. Lisa Stone co-founded BlogHer in 2005 with Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

But considering the huge number of collaborative efforts, contacts, and great run-ins we experienced at this year’s little black sheep of a tech conference, in Austin, TX; we couldn’t possibly leave all the laundry out to dry. Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

For example, iOS 7 just came out and you have to rethink your design to adapt to the platform. Honestly, what’s fun is when we got a conference call with someone really important. What’s also exciting is building a tool for artists to use. I’m a musician and I think every day about how I would utilize this tool.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2019

Image via Flickr by Fortune Conferences In every business, especially new ones, quick and effective problem solving is a critical skill. Rely on an incomplete or outdated analytic tool set. Some issues can be resolved with “back of the envelope” calculations, while complex modern issues may demand more time and sophisticated new tools.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

That means a slew of companies will be preparing to launch their new products or announcing their companies at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. So this post is about how to best craft a strategy to launch at SXSW but you could substitute most major conferences like CES if you want. It’s February now. Exec Summary.

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