socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

According to the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation, its DisasterReady.org effort has partnered with the Mercy Corps and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to design and implement free, online learning resources and courses--in both English and Arabic--specifically there to help strengthen the knowledge of the many humanitarian volunteers and field (..)

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Berkonomics

APRIL 25, 2019

For most small and medium-sized businesses, there are lots of wheels spinning around the core that take up the attention and resources of management but add little or no value to the core of the business. These are new times, enhanced by our global ability to find resources anywhere on earth to complement the core of our business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The hurricanes in the Gulf, the wildfires in California, and the monsoon floods around the world, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in climate control, forest management, and building design. Of course, there are caveats to every opportunity. Usually, people pay to relieve pain before buying luxury items.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 26, 2020

Of course, you could fit that definition. If people are waiting for you to respond to a question or make a decision about design, process, spending for a core need, or any of tens of critical decisions, you are creating a slowing or stoppage of work before you and idle resources behind you. You can be the bottleneck.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

That is, of course, until the small, ambitious startup is acquired by a larger, more traditional company in its sector, or the small startup goes public with angry shareholders and regulators asking difficult questions. .” ” For what it's worth, Zenefits is still operating and seems to have moved on from its earlier reputation.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 11, 2021

It is complexity theory made manifest and only serves to show that scalable, data-driven solutions rapidly deployed across large industrial markets are our only hope in correcting the course,” wrote Vaughn Blake, a partner at the energy-focused investment firm Blue Bear Capital. ”

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Designed to put automation in the hands of all data workers-from line-of-business users to skilled analysts and data scientists-the human-centered platform transforms how businesses leverage their data assets, optimize their processes and upskill human talent to generate workforce efficiencies, top-line growth and optimize costs.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Entrepreneurs have become more resourceful since the 80s, and your options are more diverse as well. Thanks to globalization, a professional freelancer can sign up on platforms like Kajabi , a startup that allows you to sell e-courses and host online workshops. It is possible to add a few touch-ups as some are designed minimally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Show investors that you are committed, and past the idea stage. Without a prototype, most professional investors won’t take you seriously.

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Berkonomics

MAY 17, 2012

It is a rule that early stage managers should find, protect and grow the core business, finding resources wherever possible to service that core in the form of variable expense, to be added to or shed at will as the company finds its niche and establishes a pattern of growth.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Many of the start-ups my various angel funds have financed died a slow death, not because of poor concept but because of poor execution, wasting fixed overhead and draining the financial resources from the company coffers. It did not take long for the partner to become impatient with the relatively small size of the opportunity.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

(this requires a strong knowledge of market data, employee performance, company performance relative to market and available resources?—?cash Should we cut costs, do layoffs, close divisions and focus scare resources on fewer projects? cash & unallocated stock options) Should we raise capital, from whom, how much and at what price?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Yet, in the interest of full disclosure, and an honest intent to save future entrepreneurs some grief and money, I would remind you that starting any business has key dependencies on at least five major elements, including product design and delivery, the right people on the team, adequate funding, a sizable market opportunity, and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

For example, your quality problem may well have both design as well as manufacturing elements. Of course, this all has to start with you having the confidence and conviction that there is at least one solution to every problem, and that you can find it. Search for the multiple dimensions of a problem. Then pick the best one.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete. Quora is one of the better designed new products of the past few years in my opinion. It was so tempting for me to throw extra resources at our technology debt for a couple of quarters. And that’s exactly what I did.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

We spend all our time as an industry talking about “growth hacking,” “design principles,” or “product/market fit” and not enough about the most important skills for success – people management. And it’s why many early-stage companies blow up. But the book is a must read for entrepreneurs.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2013

And of course, one of the products that were heavily discussed about was Google+. It’s quite obvious Google has been pouring a ton of resources into trying to make Google+ successful. ” It points out in detail all the design flaws within the product that makes users grab their hair with frustration.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Show investors that you are committed, and past the idea stage. Without a prototype, most professional investors won’t take you seriously.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Phishing emails are designed to impersonate companies or executives to trick users into turning over sensitive information, typically usernames and passwords, so that scammers can log into online services and steal money or data. It was the one of the best phishing emails we’ve seen… that wasn’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Designed at the University of Southern California as a class project, the team has made 10 prototypes for beta testing for this life-sized board game, allowing over 700 people to enjoy the game. Working on Doozy during my last year and a half at USC was a fine balance between class, work, social life, and of course, sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2020

< These days, it’s easy to find comprehensive videos and online courses on the Internet to get you up to speed, but I find many entrepreneurs who are too independent and proud to look or ask for help. There are complex processes, like filing a patent, and financial tools that may be new to you, including Excel and Quickbooks.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

When building a new application, the fundamental rule is that you should choose any services that allows you the greatest combination of flexibility and resources to meet your application’s needs. For example, IaaS providers will give you raw infrastructure like compute and storage resources.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

over the course of 2020 (and their combined estimated price tag of nearly $100 billion), it’s not surprising that the Biden plan begins with a focus on resiliency. The focus will be on distributed energy resources, retrofits of residential, commercial and municipal buildings; and clean transportation. ” Climate resiliency

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

I next moved into system design where I designed computer systems to deal with large industrial natural gas customers and telecommunication companies. I had to understand all of the normal business rules as well as all “edge cases.&# Again, I grouped them into related functions and then designed systems to handle the rules.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2012

His talk was especially intriguing, as he attended UCSB, but dropped out to start a clothing design company. Chaos By Design. Seth is a design-oriented entrepreneur, with little desire to document details. In my UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial course, I require the students to submit a venture idea every week.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2015

This is a unique opportunity for software engineers, designers, and business-minded entrepreneurs to team up and build several startups in just 54 hours! Prizes awarded will be designed to add value to the winning startup teams, and of course come with bragging rights! Participants arrive the evening of Friday, Nov.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

But of course it’s hard to advise people that they should do PR without a guide to how to do it on the cheap or how to do it at all. I’m generally not a believer in too much PR until you have a product built or at least well designed. When to start PR? I opt for the latter usually.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

It requires you to expend your two most valuable resources, your time and your money. Another factor that impacts a patent’s value is its type, of which there are essentially two: utility patents and design patents. Utility patents generally offer more protection than design patents and are thus usually more valuable.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

Do you have anyone you could recommend to me, or any resources? Of course, a lot of people say the same thing. The founder had tried or considered: Web Search – not all that useful – more design firms that development firms LinkedIn – searched for people, but gave up pretty quickly as it felt like a needle in a haystack.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Of course, we all love disruptive new products, like the Pebble Smart Watch and Google Glass, but recent innovative services startups, including Uber for transportation and Airbnb for lodging, have grown much bigger and faster. Advisory services. The power of relationships and interaction are key. Value-added services.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

And I try my best to point them to resources that can help them longer term. Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. We can help across a wide variety of types of systems, but once you get into hard core sciences (designing a new compound, bioengineering, etc.) Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

Of course, you will want to figure out a bit more about the specifics of what this developer needs to know vs. can learn. Of course, you are looking for something a little different - a technical Cofounder. They often can help a lot in navigating to expertise and to possible resources. Your technical advisor can likely help.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

And I try my best to point them to resources that can help them longer term. Of course, I provide part-time CTO services. We can help across a wide variety of types of systems, but once you get into hard core sciences (designing a new compound, bioengineering, etc.) Generally I can provide quite a bit of help in that brief time.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

However, a lot of people didn''t know how, because they have no means or resources to buy a ticket to Africa, or how to do things except spend their whole life donating to charities. I also have a very good friend who is a UX designer, and she really had a great eye for the brand we wanted to build.

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