Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0

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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. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. Web Summit. If we got an offer to raise $25 million to grow would she take it or be too worried about exit price, dilution, valuation expectations, etc. I don’t believe in paying the highest price to win deals. Price matters. Fortune Brainstorm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. Final le web london (june 2013) from Mark Suster. Declining prices & margins in a small market is much less interesting. Prices down. I described that phenomenon in this post. Network Up.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

In fact, I said as much in September 09 at a Twitter conference in LA on a panel that Guy Kawasaki was moderating. First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2014

We are pleased to announce a special discount for TechZulu readers: Visit Wearable Tech LA registration site and use TECHZULU4WTLA to save 30% on ticket prices. Highlighted Panels (for full list, go to the conference agenda ) : The Future of Smart Footwear to discuss connected shoes and the use in sports.

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Entertainment Hollywood Pasadena Conference 88

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. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price.

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

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. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price.

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

If they need to dial in make sure they’re on a web conference and you can see them and vice versa. I’m usually more able to see their laptops than you can at the front and I promise you — best will the world — they are sneaking a peek at their email, stock prices, web, etc. It happens. It is a HUGE MF distraction.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

In my opinion no amount of clever marketing or chest beating at conferences can create a market if you don’t have an amazing product to begin with. Compelling in the sense that you solve a real problem a target group of potential customers has with a product that is significantly better than the alternatives on that market.

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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. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

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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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 15, 2017

If you are someone like me who runs a startup digital web design agency in New York and has spent several years working remotely out of your home office, then the move to a coworking space can be a difficult decision to make. You also can always jump into a phone booth, conference room or other quiet areas. . Networking.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Introducing Bitcoinference | A Decentralized Conference , hosted by illustrious startup accelerator, 500 Startups. Zeroblock , the highly successful mobile and web app was recently acquired by the world’s most popular Bitcoin site and online wallet, Blockchain.info. The ultimate plan? Be the Bloomberg of Bitcoin.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

I needed to have a plan to be efficient with my time during the 3 day conference. With booth prices up to $9,500 , it blew my mind how vague the taglines were. So many “off the list” companies hammered me to interview them, but I already knew where my focus was; web applications. 2 Stick to the list. 7 Hammering won’t nail it.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2015

Especially for small or medium-sized businesses, most of your time, effort, and potential reward are all going to be web-based, and getting your digital marketing strategy right is often a sink-or-swim proposition. It’s no secret – digital marketing is the big brand battleground for most companies. But what exactly does that entail?

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PPC Marketing Social Media Startup 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. Summary notes, as always, provide below.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. Valu e and Exp erience versus Price and Product. It was at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in the media room when I overheard the founders being interviewed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

LA has the annual Monty Conference. Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. Or the huge dividends that Santa Barbara got from building GoToMeeting that sold for a nice price to Citrix. I’ve seen it work in Boulder with DeFrag and Gluecon.

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Press San Diego 378

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

In April 2011, the Association of Coupon Professionals held an Industry Conference in Atlanta to address the present and future state of couponing. Precise analytics allow companies to “ measure online distribution of coupons by tracking the printing of web pages and page views;” a significant advantage with digital.

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Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

even if it’s just a web conference call walk through. Sometimes I encourage teams to create new analysis on cohorts, future revenue projections, competitor reviews, pricing studies, etc. If they won’t spend time going through it with you then they’re more likely just shopping you for data.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

It’s the one feature that stuck with me the most from the F8 conference this past September. This is a core fundamental function of all web design that deals with “conversions” Ads work this way, shopping carts work this way, and Facebook’s OpenGraph absolutely works this way. What is OpenGraph?

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News Hulu Commerce Sites 104

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. Erin Chase – Favado , combining price comparisons with grocery shopping.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. You can hear many other amazing stories in this 1:1 interview ). What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite?

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. because every community needs its local tech press to report on companies and run conference. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space. Marketing Muscle.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

We wanted to give users of Tibesti a way to share in the wealth of the web, a part of all those billionaires becoming gazillionaires. It happened in a conference room on Saturday, and we came up with the idea of launching lots of channels at once. It's the American dream. What we did, is we sat and looked at the future.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

Startup 191

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011. Derek Wooden.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Think about this: The investment banks and trading houses across the globe have invested billions of dollars in computing equipment and staff in order to process news that affects stock prices milliseconds before the rest of the market can process & transact on this same information. Or how about Google?

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Frank Addante

JUNE 10, 2007

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. We ended up choosing a space that would last us 6-9 months, based on price, the "feeling of the space" and availability. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years.

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