Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

These two ads showed how disconnected from their customers these once industry leaders have become. Sadly this is just a single example of what is happening to thousand of companies that are not listening to their respective customers. What IMVU thought was game changing technology was not why customers used the software.

Customer 72

Customer Custom Blogging Startup 72

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the provider of pay-per-call, performance marketing technology run by Jason Spievak, said this morning that it has closed on $4M more in a new round of funding. RingRvenue develops technology which tracks responses to phone calls, allowing calls to be used for affiliate sales and tracking.

GRP Partners 154

GRP Partners Santa Barbara Custom Development Sales 154

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Calabasas-based Fulcrum Microsystems , a provider of high speed Ethernet switching chips, and Aquantia , which develops 10GBASE-T PHY semiconductors, said this morning that the two have tied together in releasing a new, 48-port 10GBASE-T Ethernet Switch reference design. READ MORE>>.

Design 140

Design Palomar Calabasas Custom Development 140

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Use the cloud and subscriptions for computing technology. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.

Entrepreneur 162

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Outsource Development 162

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We're the official mobile app for whatever our customer is. We've built an open architecture, so we can pull in the latest and greatest technology. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. Why are these colleges using you, rather than investing in their own custom applications?

Mobile 162

Mobile Platform El Segundo UCLA 162

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 37:45 Let’s talk about the dichotomy between customer development and Y Combinator? 55:45 It seems obvious that technology is the natural choice to solve the pain points in education. Steve, thanks so much for joining us today!

Startup 350

Startup Ideas Education Class 350

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

That died with waterfall software development. It should talk about how many customers you think you will acquire and how much you’ll charge for your product. Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small? Do so at your peril.

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2015

For many disabilities, empathic developers have provided new utilities that improve certain functions for the iPhone or Android. It has access to a lot of customization features, allowing you to build the interface with custom pictures and categories in order to facilitate sentence building as much as possible. Parking Mobility.

Mobile 40

Mobile Pricing Tool Custom 40

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Use the cloud and subscriptions for computing technology. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Commerce Social Media 104

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Rumored: Digital Sky Technologies. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g. Time will tell. So far it seems the former.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product Ideas 350

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. More tiers = more complication = more confusion. Final Thought. You can bootstrap your way into existence. We declined.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , July 25, 2010 AVC regular Charlie Crystle asked me this question yesterday in the comments : Fred, it might be helpful to some of your readers to explain when a startup should seek angel vs seed/early stage VC. Customer Care Today. Customer Validation needs to have the CEO actively involved.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217