SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators.

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Jeff Bezos didn't get to be the world's richest man by writing a lot of checks, and one recent way to keep Amazon's profits healthy has been to cut its affiliate commissions scheme. See our full guide on How to Make Money from a Website. but Skimlinks also works with a portfolio of smaller bloggers and content sites.

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Buzzfeed Technical Review News Networking 130

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

As the authors make clear in the book’s preface, their goal is to create a “definitive guide to venture capital deals” and “demystify the venture capital financing process.” Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Writing Guide 205

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I had my own list on my iPhone, writing down what I wanted to watch, and where those shows are. There are massive players that are bringing an incredible amount of content, pre-COVID, post-COVID, and even, shockingly, during COVID. There's a lot of new content coming out. How did you come up with the idea for the company?

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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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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Readers are guided through the idea vetting process by covering a variety of topics, including: People, Pain, Product, Market, Plan, Pitch and Pitfalls. Sean and Brad consistently maintain a straightforward writing style that allows readers to readily focus on the content, rather than parsing dense, rhetorical flourishes.

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Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. How does it work? Any competition in LA?

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Web USC Course Guide 93

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2012

These hyperlocal sites don’t have to compete with global sites, and always have unique content, community advertising, and local issues. Foursquare is good example of a modern hyperlocal site, which describes itself as “50% friend-finder, 30% social city guide, 20% nightlife game.”

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur News Sites RSS 96

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

and are guiding LA 2.0. And our belief is that consumer applications — almost all of the things consumers DO on the Internet — that ride on this Internet infrastructure layer fall into just three buckets we call “the three c’s”: content, commerce and communications. But Is This Really That Surprising?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Here’s how to write an executive summary with impact: 1. Just as I don’t recommend you outsourcing the writing of your business plan, I wouldn’t pass on this task. it doesn’t have to be exactly 2 pages), but do think about how you can strip away extraneous content to focus on the core message. This is a great guiding principle.

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Summary Tips Startup Writing 76

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2011

These hyperlocal sites don’t have to compete with global sites, and always have unique content, community advertising, and local issues. Foursquare is good example of a modern hyperlocal site, which describes itself as “50% friend-finder, 30% social city guide, 20% nightlife game.”

Startup 94

Startup News Sites RSS 94

SoCal CTO

APRIL 20, 2010

Let me go back and do my classic search for "eHarmony of" startup and find a few examples to use: People to Projects (Managers) People to Jobs (Hiring Managers) Students to Tutors Each of these involve matching people to people (I’ve stayed away from content matching in these examples).

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eHarmony Examples FAQ Design 150

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Goal Setting and Making Plans There’s a lot of content that already exists around the basics of goal setting, i.e., SMART goals: Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely However, it’s far easier to teach someone about these than it is to help them create the goals themselves. Yes, I’m yelling – it’s really that bad.

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Satisfaction Examples Course Technical Review 167

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2014

Rooted Google Glass Device with XE12 – Google provides a nice guide for rooting Glass devices. Remount your devices /system directory as read/write. $ invoke-static {v1, p0}, Lcom/google/glass/home/voice/menu/HomeMenuItems;->addMirrorCommands(Ljava/util/List;Landroid/content/Context;)V. Android Debug Bridge (adb).

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Google Design Content Screening 89

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

My first job was as a page at NBC, and after that I went and did a year and a half of writing and production at MSNBC with Keith Olbermann and Chuck Scarborough. Michael Dubin: Gillette and Shick are great at making you think you need all that fancy shaving technology like a vibrating handle, LED guide light, and all that stuff.

Dollar Shave Club 210

Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Essentially, it guides the author through a four step process to design, build, test, and publish their creation. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. Speaking of other site, how does this play into a world where there is so much free content out there?

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

The fundamental backbone of Big Frame is integrity and that resonates throughout the people that I hire, the person I chose to co-found my company with and also the kind of content we work (with) and create.". I had a lot of support, a lot of people guiding me through the first six months. From "Me At The Zoo" To Zombie Blood.

Networking 214

Networking Startup Santa Barbara RSS 214

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2010

These hyperlocal sites don’t have to compete with global sites, and always have unique content, community advertising, and local issues. Foursquare is good example of a hyperlocal site, which describes itself as “50% friend-finder, 30% social city guide, 20% nightlife game.”

Startup 52

Startup News Sites RSS 52

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Traditional media companies published their stories on the web.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Over 12 months, until we were generating enough dollars of cash flow, we basically used that credit to write ourselves convenience checks, so we could pay our rent, pay for materials, and for those sort of things. Ramit Varma: We have pulled in a lot of expertise, both on the content and feature side. Jake got a similar amount.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

We utilize the content of your existing website and create a mobile version on-the-fly. Logos, themes, branding, content, videos, maps and more are automatically transposed to the mobile version with no programming knowledge required. We write and create our own content for the game. Mobile Web America, Inc.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I talked about this in the TWiVC video but I didn’t do a good enough job of writing it up in the summary notes in the post. Let them guide you. Here’s how you vote up / down their content.&#. I’m usually itching to just see what you’ve built. I’m a product geek more than a spreadsheet ninja.

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Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. For example, if you’re going to build a travel planning website (as many, many startup entrepreneurs do) your basic research would be: How much do people spend on travel books / guides today? Market Size.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Ryan Magnussen – Grail , making content curation on the web even easier. Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs.

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Modern digital curators for early-stage entrepreneurs are the expert bloggers who put “content into context.” They write and tweet every day, with the single guiding credibility and personality that the new social culture demands. But with the speed of the Internet, these have become as old-fashioned as museum curators.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Technical Review Blogging Java 92

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG. August 20, 2010 They say people won't pay for content. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG. August 20, 2010 They say people won't pay for content. Because it was a tremendous pain in the ass.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Content, of course, is the same!]. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Online travel guide that is served up in-stream with restricted data size in the same was as Twitter. - I think you’ll enjoy this TWiVC video because the topics were so wide ranging.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

This post is a “how to” guide so I’ll save the “why I believe Snapchat is an important medium” for one of my next posts. I do regular (almost daily) “Snapstorms” of content around one topic for entrepreneurs and VCs. Here you’ll see the professional and curated content.

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Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

That said, it would be an understatement to say that traditional media is skeptical about Google’s benevolence and many fear a world in which video content margins are crushed in the way that print & music have been with the primary beneficiary having been Google. At the time all telco’s were envious of Yahoo!

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Content Google Media Hulu 386