Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

You may be getting killed today by customer expectations you never worried about just a few years ago. As times change, you may need new metrics, such as total experience, web site hits, and social media complaints. Scan for unmet needs to match new products. List potential new opportunities outside your domain.

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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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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

SciVee recently inked a major deal with Thomson Reuters, and Marc tells us a bit about that deal as well as the company's business. For people who haven't visited SciVee, what's the site about? The next major change that we see, is now that they're online, they're becoming more web based, and adding things like rich media.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

Yesterday I wrote a post about top-down versus bottom-up thinking. So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. Let me give you an example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Customers expect consistency of your brand name across all channels, so don’t pick a web site name if the comparable name is available or already taken on relevant social media. You need to be an active member of LinkedIn, Meetup, or equivalent sites where influencers exchange ideas and discuss current business issues.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. About three years ago, we found we were doing lots of manual testing of our code.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. About three years ago, we found we were doing lots of manual testing of our code.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

We spoke with co-founder Daniel Tawfik about Vonjour. They can manage all of their customer contacts, create customer profiles, and be able to message their customer through SMS and web-based push notification. Can you talk about your background and the background of your other founders? What is Vonjour? READ MORE>>.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. When Suite Arrival launches, you will be able to login to their site, choose your travel period, destination and toiletry needs and a box will show up at your hotel before you arrive. About a month ago, I met @lewishowes at the Perfect Pitch conference in LA.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The booth for San Diego based Tweetphoto was a happening spot at the 140 Characters Conference. They even had a few moments to chat it up with TechZulu’s Amanda Coolong : .

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

We spoke with founder Edward Park about how his new service allows Instagram users to buy and sell T-shirts from the service, and how he sees the service being a key piece of empowering creative users. What is Insteegram about? Edward Park: When we first launched, we were a business to consumer service site.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. When Suite Arrival launches, you will be able to login to their site, choose your travel period, destination and toiletry needs and a box will show up at your hotel before you arrive. About a month ago, I met @lewishowes at the Perfect Pitch conference in LA.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. 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. Tesla is not. It's a great talk. It's a great talk.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Hilariously simple tutorials, gaming, Windows 8 real-time, Windows Azure as a virtually unlimited scaling mechanism, and of course, awesome web and mobile possibilities are just a few of the examples you’ll see demonstrated. Despite what you read in the media HTML5 web applications can be extremely powerful and engaging.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

For those who may be new to Pubcon its an educational conference and industry trade show programmed specifically for web professionals and website site owners. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference. Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Just not the kind you would initially read about on TechCrunch. And that’s what I love about her narrative. It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. Here’s what I learned about Tracy: 1. That may soon change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. That’s about the same ratio that Angel investors claim.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2011

A mobile and web platform that lets our users give and receive text messaging advice in a anonymous social community. Network Now, Accelerating Conference Networking. A way for conference attendees to find and connect with each other. Site Unseen. Neighborly. Time to get to know your neighbors by sharing goods.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Talk about Telesign and what you do? Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. I was about 19 at the time. Talk about Telesign now, talk about your growth path?

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

We spoke with co-founder and CEO Elizabeth Amini , to hear more about what the firm is doing, how Bushnell got involved, as well as the firm's unique outlook and dedication to giving back through social entrepreneurship. We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. What does Anti-AgingGames do?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. That was a kerfuffle too.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

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? First off, for those not familiar with the Pasadena Angels, talk about the group? First off, for those not familiar with the Pasadena Angels, talk about the group?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2012

Everybody knows about these, but few people seem to deliver a good one. Use it in every networking situation and business conference introduction. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

For those who may be new to Pubcon its an educational conference and industry trade show programmed specifically for web professionals and website site owners. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference. Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course.

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SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 40

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). I recently posted about SEO for Startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

For how to market your blog in order to get site visitors I suggest checking out the Marketing Show and if you can attend the next Pub Con it is one the best conferences to learn about getting web traffic. An email list is exactly how it sounds, a collection of people’s emails who have visited your site.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2012

It started as basic as signing up for a newsletter from your favorite site to customizing a profile to display particular topics. I recently got the chance to catchup with Zite’s CEO Mark Johnson during this year’s South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, TX. Then we took a giant leap with social media integration.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Great sales people are also direct about asking whether the individual that they’re speaking with controls the budget. Their goal is to get you to appear in person at city roadshows that they run or to come to their annual Dreamforce conference. In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

In this age of information overload, success is all about building a brand that stands out above the competition. Every organization and web site is begging for content, so spread yourself around. Reporters are always looking for content, so they rarely turn away professionals they meet at conferences or events.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

I was reading an article by Robert Scoble earlier today about how amazing Spotify and some other news app are on Facebook, and how awesome frictionless sharing is for the Internet. It’s the one feature that stuck with me the most from the F8 conference this past September. Think about it. What is OpenGraph? It’s Powerful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Everybody knows about these, but few people seem to deliver a good one. Use it in every networking situation and business conference introduction. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2012

It started as basic as signing up for a newsletter from your favorite site to customizing a profile to display particular topics. I recently got the chance to catchup with Zite’s CEO Mark Johnson during this year’s South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, TX. Then we took a giant leap with social media integration.

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Newsletter Content Social Media Startup 56

Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. For one, we built a following by using Facebook and Twitter and other social networking sites. We post podcasts immediately on the blog, websites and iTunes.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with helping build Huddlewoo, Ferres is building a web marketing agency called Ciplex and also runs a company called Creative Priority that helps web marketing companies become more successful. I am constantly reading articles, stories and books about and written by fascinating people. What Inspired You? That’s cool!

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2013

We caught up with CEO Gabe Gottlieb recently to understand better why the company thinks transparency is important--and to try to understand better the tangled web of online ads. What''s the biggest thing you''ve learned so far about the market? What is Adomic? Gabe Gottlieb: We provide transparency in the display advertising space.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Los Angeles-based Tibesti (www.tibesti.com) is launching its new social shopping site this morning. We do no advertising on that part of the site, and make sure it is fair and balanced. The big picture, is we are providing a site that combines social networking with products, to create a whole new niche--social product networking.

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