Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. I’m now back & ready for action.

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. Without their buy in, we don’t get the opportunity to interact with end customers. Yeah, I have made plenty of mistakes in this category in the past. constantly looking and interviewing.”.

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

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. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I must say I’ve become a regular user of ShopperSeeks every since this interview. And you will to after this interview. I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: What’s been the most after sought category of items?

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Media Sites 99

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Today, we support four categories: house cleaning, dry cleaning – pickup and delivery, wash and fold – pickup and delivery, and dog walking. What we are spending money and time on is onboarding customers on one end and on the other end onboarding providers. We haven’t had any capital to really test customer acquisition strategies.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Webtide is designed to be a company which is the expert on using Jetty in companies. All of those three vary by customer, but we're seeing that we're headed towards a mix of service offerings and a mix of licenses between commercial and open source. They all were very different companies.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

The feedback primarily fell into three categories: better ways to discover new content, better organization tools and the option to have private collections. Initially, our primary differences fall into three categories: discovery, organization and collaboration outlined below and here’s a quick 90-second video that shows Why We’re Different.

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Organization Content Tool Blogging 90

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2010

Define criteria for judging – I find that many people I know go into interviews without thinking about what is important to them first. In fact, many people just go into interviews and “wing it.&# If that’s you then vow never to do it again. and then sub categories underneath.

Startup 301

Startup Examples Sales Pricing 301

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Even though their business model was tweaked a little while ago to give customers additional leniency, the business is still expecting to break $100 million in revenue this year, up from $25 million in 2010. I worthy cause, with a tough customer, the DOD. Categories Deals. And frankly, I’m okay with that. I think he qualifies.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

It is generally a soft touch at the beginning of the development process, perhaps identifying 1-2 early alpha/beta customers to help flesh out use cases to be built upon over time. Solicit trusted advisors help with interviewing. Solicit trusted advisors help with interviewing. Lack of confidence? Camaraderie? Camaraderie?

CTO Coach 28

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Mentor 28