Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2021

Unfortunately for them, building a business is all about implementation. Gates was a software developer genius, but Ballmer upheld the marketing and business side. Some entrepreneurs have an abundance of passion, but are short on the realities of customer needs, market trends, and financial constraints.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Although the exact sequence of events is a bit unclear, it appears that Hacker News user "lukethomas"(who is unaffiliated with Divshot) was prompted to create the Hacker News post after reading a tweet about the initiation of the company's private beta. The posting resulted in 40points and about 30comments. Hacker Downside.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Download free website tools. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you. Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2014. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Once product software is written, it doesn’t take much effort to deliver it to customers.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

We use a recurring revenue model, where a customer pays us a few hundred dollars on average. For a couple of years, I was the head of a boutique software consulting firm based in El Segundo. We were small, and had about ten engineers, providing customer solutions for businesses in Southern California.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Once product software is written, it doesn’t take much effort to deliver it to customers.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Breg’s Vision Cloud Connect software is designed to help users get patient data into and out of electronic health records systems, which as of 2014 were being used at more than 75 percent of hospitals in the U.S. We are delighted to include their services as part of our orthopedic practice management solutions we provide to our customers.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

He’s right about this. Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. When asked what their objectives are they cite some form of “improving customer communications” by a long margin. But only temporarily in my view. Sound familiar?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

We talked with him on why he decided to head up this startup, and what 15desks is all about. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. Can you talk about some concrete examples of what you're managing? Talk about your background?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

Some very interesting graphics including this heat map: Very cool visualization tool! Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

We also talked about getting more young African Americans interested in entrepreneurship & technology. It made me confident about what would work. He would do anything he could to capture people’s email addresses because he knew that they served as a valuable tool for future marketing purposes. He created demand.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Assuming we know a smidge about what product managers do, they’re the connection hub between the moving parts, (assuming we’re talking strictly tech). The term a gile development is defined, and the panel agreed unanimously that maintaining this mindset is necessary. Sometimes, it’s not all about what the user sees.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2013

Once selected, the app will use their phones GPS to locate the closest photo lab Pixicle works with and sends the images there where their prints will be ready in about an hour. So far we have 70% of the Android app completed and about 30% for iOS. Brandon is a co-founder and our lead developer. Who are the founders of Pixicle?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Once product software is written, it doesn’t take much effort to deliver it to customers.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. LinkedIn has been my primary tool for keeping track of who to invite. * Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. How do you use LinkedIn?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We talked with Eli Aizenstat , the founder and CEO of Beatshare�and still a student--as well as President and longtime technology vet Barry Lieberman about the startup. Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. What is Beatshare? That's how Barry came in.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

There’s an old joke in software development, “How much time does it take to design software?” If you’ve been involved with a number of software projects you already have an intuitive sense for this. I wrote about it in this post on The Urgency Addiction. CEOs are time-driven creatures.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Co-founder and lead software developer Anil Kumar was a led software engineer for WebEx. Our first-of-its-kind architecture yields a delivery cost model that is highly disruptive and that translates to great affordability for our customers. What inspired you to come up with the idea?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. The Hybrid Group is passionate about making useful things with technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. The Hybrid Group is passionate about making useful things with technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

We'll use all the panel members' experiences to tell a "how to story" about bootstrapping to million. Software Labs: Petri Dishes for Tech Innovation. Most entrepreneurs fail because they start the business the only way they know how - thinking about. Stop Listening to Your Customers. Spencer Fry, Carbonmade, LLC.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

And because you are online, you will have access to all sorts of information about the people, what their interests are - it will be easily captured. And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. The challenge will be getting people used to this - hence the 25 years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant.

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