Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Of course you’ve probably known of Meg as a business leader for many years, formerly as President and CEO of Hewlett Packard and the CEO of eBay before that, but since late 2018 she has been the CEO of Quibi (joining founder Jeffrey Katzenberg as the first employee).

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

This is a safe choice, of course - but is it the best choice? Often, developers don’t think to answer these questions. Instead, given a startup project, they’ll default to building everything in-house, using technologies that they’re already familiar with. Is it the best path to profitability? It might be.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 17, 2015

There’s a team of Los Angeles entrepreneurs who would agree with me on that, and they launched their platform Kadenze to help people tap their creativity. Specifically, it was built with the express goal of bringing to life an online learning platform purpose-built for the arts and creative technologies. Otis College of Art and Design.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. It's funny.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Here they surround you with sales professionals, product people and, of course, lots of referenceable customers! In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different. 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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2020

    The biggest news of the year for us was in unveiling our enhanced analytic process automation (APA) platform, which unifies analytics, data science and business process automation in one, end-to-end platform. Analytics and data in 2020 have become household words. Analytics and data in 2020 have become household words.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

In my opinion, real pain points for most people do not include a new user interface for Facebook, a new programming platform for app development, or a new size smart phone. Of course, there are caveats to every opportunity. So why do I see some many funding requests for products along these lines? When the world gets smaller.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 30, 2019

Now, he designs those systems for the real world through his company Oblong Industries , which has labored to create a full stack of collaborative tools for business users that are every bit as high-tech as the one’s Underkoffler dreamt for the silver screen.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2013

Skeuomorphic design. FLAT design. In due course. In the absence of conviction, experience or pain-in-the-ass board members it’s easy to veer off course. Of course what you choose to do has be be meaningful, timely, valuable, prescient and high quality. Disappearing photo messages. Native apps. Open graph.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 22, 2021

An ecommerce giant with huge clout in bricks-and-mortar store retail, too, Shopify can boast to having more than one million retailers using its platform. This, of course, is potentially game-changing news for Shopify users. But, it also represents another swipe at Amazon's near-monopoly control of the affiliate marketing space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

In my opinion, real pain points for most people do not include a new user interface for Facebook, a new programming platform for app development, or a new size smart phone. Of course, there are caveats to every opportunity. So why do I see some many funding requests for products along these lines? When the world gets smaller.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. If you can’t out-Amazon Amazon, then move on and do something else.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

Hearing views from Bill Gates on how the world deals with issues like climate change, Jack Dorsey talk about the role of social platforms and government and discussions with Kevin Systrom (Instagram), Todd McKinnon (Okta), etc were fascinating. Below is just the highlight points. How Do Boards Get Out of Sync? Photo by Pineapple Supply Co.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

His framework seems to be picking up some traction, and is already in use informally by several entrepreneurship platforms, universities, and even high school programs. Picture the graphic designer, the IT expert, or the independent accountant or attorney. Of course, discovering your entrepreneur type is only the beginning.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

Rostoker’s legacy lives on inside TAE through the company’s technology platform, called, appropriately, “Norman” In the last 18 months that technology has demonstrated consistent performance, reaching over 50 million degrees in several hundred test cycles. It’s the opposite of a [Tokamak].

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Technology Artificial Inteligence Google Orange County 354

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Today Upfront Ventures is announcing that we’ve backed Rebecca Kantar ’s startup Imbellus , a company designed to assess human potential and ultimately change the way we teach children. Inevitably as a society we began “teaching to the tests” and we design curricula around proficiency in these basic skills. So Why Imbellus?

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Design Ideas Startup Writing 150

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

There were, of course, those who used the opportunity to make a marketing push or pitch a story. Via gets the “deal of the week” designation not just because its post-funding valuation is now $2.25 The response was overwhelming. It wasn’t just the number of you who reached out. I’m seeking something different.

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Layoffs Startup Newsletter Santa Monica 136

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

Twitter was the most unique social sharing platform that had emerged in my experience because it unintentionally innovated on a constraint of 140 characters (initially so that it could send messages as SMS, which it self had a size constraint). Of course there was good and bad to this also. Neither caricature of course was correct.

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Social Media Snapchat Media Blogging 240

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Of course that’s not disputable. To some extent – of course they are. Of course most of you know SnapChat, Tinder & Whisper and many people immediately associate the success of Los Angeles under the SoLoMo banner (Social, Local, Mobile) and you wouldn’t be wrong. acquired Overture for $1.63 Structural.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Open to potential career pivoters and professionals of all levels, the panel consisted of the following panelists, whom entered their positions from backgrounds ranging from business to engineering to design. Jay Stakelon , VP Product Design, Fullscreen. Cauri Jaye , Panel Moderator and Project lead @ Sony Pictures ; Rhubarb LLC.

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Product Fandango Design Startup 87

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. Creators can take any course of interest on-demand by purchasing it through our website. How does it work? Take us through your features?

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Web USC Course Guide 93

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. It needs to be a conversation. Which devices?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. It needs to be a conversation. Which devices?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 384

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2014

Juan Bruce: My background is in design engineering. I spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley, working for BMW''s technology office, and design firm Ideo. I then went back to Stanford for business school, and ended up coming down here to Southern California to run a design studio for an Ideo competitor, Continuum.

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Downey Content Help Startup 215

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

Travelers can earn the right to become an Ambassador on the site by consistently providing the best content, recommendations, and of course Itineraries. “We It’s so exciting – a trusted network of travel experts, travelers and aficionados designing the ultimate travel website”.

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Competition Startup USC Southern California 104

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. Of course, since you know those questions, you can just collect up the answers and provide them to your developers. Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? Of course, it’s never complete.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach 225

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

I wanted to spend the rest of the blog post telling you why we decided to fund the company, how we settled on the final product design and our unique way of launching the app. We’ve tested tons of design concepts here and expect much innovation on this front in the future. Yes, we’ve only launched on iOS for now.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Often they are things like: functionally complete product, platform coverage, price, intuitive UI, geographic coverage or some other way of slicing the competition. But the most common thing they’re probably thinking is, “of course there’s competition – you’re just either naïve I thinking there’s not or you’re not being direct with me.

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Venture Capital Slides Competition Education 313

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Individual clips will be posted soon. Community Sponsors.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

How do you decide between a raw infrastructure provider or platform service, and how much work do you do yourself and how much should you rely on service providers? PaaS, on the other hand, will provide a development platform (as a service) to create new applications. Of course, no one service is correct for all use cases.

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SaaS Framework Resource Google 90

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 7, 2009

SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. if that was my chosen messaging platform. By asking these questions, almost invariably we begin to see the product design in a bit different way…. Limited Budgets Of course, I’ve yet to meet a startup that had enough money and time.

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Web Sites Email HTML 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital. How can you do a job half time? Pretty well as it turns out.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 22, 2011

But of course tens of thousands of people saw the headline while probably 10% of them or less watched the video. I’ve spoken positively about their design simplicity, their UX flow and their marketing prowess. I invested in what I believe is the largest free & group texting platform in the country – TextPlus.

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Company Companies Gogii Google 295

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

Not that good old fashioned leg work isn’t still required of course.). Peruse through the website SeedInvest and you’ll find a familiar layout, as pioneered by years of trending interest towards popular crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. But of course, this isn’t to be mixed up. Final Words.

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Invest Startup Technical Review Software Review 100

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2011

We looked at online photo marketing, and what the real needs are out there, and launched our platform last year, aimed at helping photographers publish and perfect their art. John Ellis: We're scaling the business, including marketing, operations, and of course, capital. What does that store offer? What's next for you? READ MORE>>.

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