Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

Silicon Valley’s 9+, an accelerator founded by serial entrepreneur and company builder Peter Relan is investing $110,000 into game developers to quit developing games and shift to consumer, mobile, Big Data and wearable apps. Some will heed my call to move out of gaming into other creative and fun consumer services.

Startup 79

Startup Develop Development Incubator 79

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. Product is simply about defining a physical good or service that would be valued by consumers of the product more than existing alternatives based on functionality, quality and/or price. Of course reciprocity matters so they would all leap into action.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Google knows it. THE FULL STORY.

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

We look at stage, geography and of course sector. They make little pods that test food so the potential consumer can know what is in his or her food before consuming it. And of course many more of us are gluten intolerant or want to live gluten-reduced lives.

Funding 362

Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management. Is she feeling motivated?

Coach 150

Coach Technical Review Framework Google 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

” I have seen many companies move rapidly up-and-to-the-right by Google search rankings only to crash when they rewrite the algorithm or start competing by offering the same service directly on the SERP. It’s ok to live-and-die by Google early.

Product 150

Product Startup Metrics Technical Review 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

Of course it takes time to roll out new scooters and replace existing inventory but this is already having a dramatic effect on the underlying business. there is no viable business running on commodity consumer scooter hardware. In the scooter market, the consumer is the driver. Simply put?—?there It’s too lucrative not to.

Santa Monica 250

Santa Monica Venice Competition Software Review 250

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

He’s had a ton of recent successes in enterprise software investments but also has a history in doing consumer deals. Of course Kleiner has had a difficult couple of years. I guess it was time for Matt to get and chart a course at a smaller firm where he could build Phase 2 of his career and I respect that. Conclusions?

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Gogii Course Activity 150

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Savings search engine Chippmunk , that helps consumers to instantly find great deals online has raised $750,000 seed round as the peak holiday shopping season intensifies. 750,000 for Scaling & Product development. The post Chippmunk Raises $750,000 in Seed Funding for Scaling & Product Development appeared first on TechZulu.

Seed Funding 79

Seed Funding Product Draper Develop 79

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

I’ve heard the new media doubters before as nobody thought Google, Facebook or Twitter would ever make money. The huge leap forward for YouTube was UGC (user generated content) but this emerged into new stars, new ways of producing content and new ways of consuming it. Reach matters to advertisers for an obvious reason.

Snapchat 150

Snapchat Advertising Media Platform 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

Yet someone the raw nature of filming & consuming on mobile is new. Should third-party apps be able to port my social graph and then drag audiences to consume in a new location? Of course it’s better for me as a user and I could argue it’s MY social graph. That’s how Google became Google.

AMA 150

AMA Newsletter Startup Networking 150

Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

Of course, there are nearer-term goals as well, such as supplementing (and even replacing) bulky, expensive MRI machines. Xconomy has followed Jepsen’s work over the years —from her role as CTO of One Laptop Per Child, to senior executive positions at Google X and Facebook/Oculus. In this recent conversation, we focused.

Google 56

Google Course Entrepreneur Startup 56

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2021

Today consumers reveal themselves online, with pictures, opinions, ratings and reviews, interests and locations, and expect businesses to adapt to them, and honor the implied relationship contract. But culture shifts have created most of the great recent companies, such as Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook. Marty Zwilling<

Marketing 127

Marketing Social Media Technical Review Product 127

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As the school year kicks off for college students, one of the big tasks of the year is buying books for their courses. Every price comparison out there, whether that's Google Products, Bizrate, or other sites, can find books, but you can only do it one at a time. You've got to find each one, and research them online.

UCSD 185

UCSD Course Startup Sites 185

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Of course, nothing is totally free, and I have heard the horror stories of relatively small companies finding thirty or more employees spending most of their time scanning and using social media for promotions, or engaging high-priced consultants who never seem to be able to show any real return for all of their efforts.

Social Media 99

Social Media Media Tool Startup 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

Of course, having no reputation is usually better than a bad one, but don’t wait for someone else to establish a good one for you. There are several major free blogging platforms you can use to claim your identity, including WordPress , Google Blogger , and LiveJournal. These days, your online Internet reputation is your reputation.

Blogging 99

Blogging Content Google Sites 99

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!].

Blogging 219

Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Developers interact with the operating systems directly, build/use their own frameworks (eg, Django, Rails, etc), and consume server resources directly. Salesforce.com and Google Apps are two common examples. Of course, no one service is correct for all use cases.

SaaS 90

SaaS Framework Resource Google 90

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2013

Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. Our product name is IDrive, which is a consumer and small business facing, online backup and storage service. Our new product competes with Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft SkyDrive. What is iDrive?

Southern California 133

Southern California Google S3 Symantec 133

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. They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. Not Google. At least in the consumer & business web. Open source became a movement – a mentality.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2013

If hopelessly outdated laws are creating regulatory uncertainty for companies like SideCar, it’s easy to imagine the constant migraines Page constantly nurses as head of Google. Allowing these test trials, he told the crowd, would allow the kinks to be worked out while assuring consumer safety and privacy. Technology sprints.

Google 85

Google Mobile Course Examples 85

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!].

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Of course that was a wrong narrative for both companies. But of course we all need the space to be young, to experiment, to do stupid things and not to have it define our entire future. MANY create consumer apps pitch me. Are you beating up every Silicon Valley VC that didn’t do Facebook or Google or Uber early?

Snapchat 214

Snapchat Invest Technical Review Dollar Shave Club 214

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2013

Of course, having no reputation is usually better than a bad one, but don’t wait for someone else to establish a good one for you. There are several major free blogging platforms you can use to claim your identity, including WordPress , Google Blogger , and LiveJournal. These days, your online Internet reputation is your reputation.

Customer 89

Customer Custom Blogging Content 89

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

We also talked about why Jon decided to leave Google to become an EIR at a VC firm (Polaris) – minute 33. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. People want to engage with content, not just consume it. Create something people can engage with – Examples include videos you can put your image into.

Buzzfeed 354

Buzzfeed Content Tips Blogging 354

InfoChachkie

MAY 30, 2011

Some of these capabilities are finally entering the market, primarily introduced by non-telecom entrants like Google and Apple, such as: visual voicemail, screening voicemail messages and immediately connecting you to callers with whom you wish to speak, and displaying caller ID on your television.

Company 193

Company Companies Course IP 193

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, And of course we had, TheMan. They’re applying the knowledge of what they’ve learned there to create compelling game-like experiences for driving consumers to retail sales. The product focuses on the in-store behavior of consumers.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Frank Addante

MAY 23, 2012

The boy's father, my colleague, was quick to exclaim, "He was Googled!" The dad was, of course, alluding to Google's frequently-used strategy to make available free services in otherwise paid markets to rattle competition and gain market share for advertising-supported products. "Some kid is trying to screw us," he elaborated.

Oracle 111

Oracle Google Competition Marketing 111

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2013

If you are the first to deliver this, your startup might be the next Google! If you add the next generation of natural language processing (NLP), you will be able to ask Google Voice Search or Apple Siri the questions right through your smart phone. Of course, many are still fighting it as well, due to privacy concerns.

Web 98

Web Entrepreneur Software Review Google 98

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 6, 2010

Signing up is really easy and intuitive and the best thing is that the basic service is free, supported by advertising of course, but at $2.95/month, Brian goes over how they separate themselves from a service like Google Apps along with how they are reaching out to the general consumer. . Airset Demo: Tags: frontpage.

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Web Conference Content 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2011

Of course, having no reputation is usually better than a bad one, but don’t wait for someone else to establish a good one for you. If you add new content periodically, it is likely to become a secure and important part of your online resume, and it will come out at the top of any Google searches on your identity. Twittering.

Blogging 91

Blogging Content Google Sites 91

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

The 21st century has brought a lot more complexity into the process of marketing to consumers and businesses, and companies need a navigation system to help them figure out where they should be investing, and where they need to spend more, and where they need to spend less.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Often you ask somebody, “Did you see that article on Google buying so and so?” And of course the other place I inform myself is on Twitter. So I need to stand out in two areas in which I compete for attention – social media and news readers. Titles are an enticement to read a post. And so it should be.

Writing 326

Writing Buzzfeed Social Media Blogging 326

Alon Schwartz

MARCH 25, 2012

IBM with OS2, different Linux operating systems, and of course Mac OS. Not just for consuming content but for sharing content (aka, web 2.0) There are other niches like Photoshop and movie editing but for 99% of consumers, that short list is pretty much it. Now, that is a nice market to have. A market Check Mate.

Web 2.0 74

Web 2.0 Google Doc Software 74

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?

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Nordstrom sales reps are trained to do this to, but of course they can’t know every customer that walks around the store. Financial services is an interesting case: 63% of all consumers looking to buy financial services now research online but only 33% actually buy online. (3) They recommend up-sells and cross-sells of products.

Mobile 329

Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2010

Of course, having no reputation is usually better than a bad one, but don’t wait for someone else to establish a good one for you. If you add new content periodically, it is likely to become a secure and important part of your online resume, and it will come out at the top of any Google searches on your identity. Twittering.

Blogging 95

Blogging Content Google Sites 95