InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

Instead, expeditiously pick a reasonable moniker and then get back to work delivering value to your customers. After the company became successful, the backronym , Y et A nother H ierarchical O fficious O racle was devised to by the marketing department “explain” the name’s origin to inquisitive journalists. Names Are Like Streetcars.

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Customer Custom Technical Review Software Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product.

Outsource Development 110

Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 110

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

El Segundo-based iRise , the developer of enterprise application prototyping tools, is taking on the iPhone app market, saying today that it has launched a new visualization product called iRise Studio MX, which allows users to create iPhone app prototypes. iRise said the new private beta of the product is free.

El Segundo 160

El Segundo Screening Tool Design 160

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

This should be an iterative process with advisors and customers providing feedback on the product. You might also have a business plan, marketing plan, financials, competitor analysis or other kinds of background document. Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations.

Develop 354

Develop Development Technical Review CTO Coach 354

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Today the synthetic biology company announced an expansion of its headquarters in Boston’s Seaport neighborhood, including a second, larger lab space for designing and making custom yeast and other microbes. We can iterate through designs a lot faster than a traditional life sciences company,” Kelly says.

Design 40

Design San Diego Customer Custom 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Start the product design process by thinking about what a historian in the future would look back on as the one big thing that changed everything. Amazon uses this technique internally for all new product design efforts. An example is the evolution of computer control to screen touches and gestures, versus keys and mice.

Startup 105

Startup Outsource Development Entrepreneur Ideas 105

Eric Greenspan

MAY 9, 2013

What you can’t eat, sell to you neighbors or at a local farmers market. Qwerty is here to stay, but the touch screen keyboard needs a serious redesign. Why do we even need to touch the screen? We need a keyboard that is above the screen, projected, with bigger buttons. Imagine if this caught on. Keyboard idea 1.

Ideas 117

Ideas Screening IBM IBM 117

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. Online content isn’t a small market, nor is it going away anytime soon.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 27, 2022

PortalOne , which is building an immersive gaming platform that describes itself as hybrid in more ways than one — it mixes games with a game show/talk show format, and it’s designed to work across various devices from mobile through to consoles and VR headsets — has picked up $60 million.

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Platform Entertainment Netflix Content 167

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Less than a month ago, Snapchat opened custom on-demand geofilters to everyone. Industry news was excited, but for how amazing of a product they are, custom Snapchat geofilters have remained stunningly under the radar. Well, Snapchat has made it so that anyone can create and upload a custom filter to any area they want.

Customer 40

Customer Custom Snapchat Design 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Awareness Years ago Upfront Ventures rented out a movie theater of 350 people in Santa Monica to screen the movie, “ Code: Debugging the Gender Gap ,” an important movie by Robin Hauser and we invited senior members of many local tech firms to attend. The importance of screening this film is to raise the awareness of bias within men!”

Venture Capital 256

Venture Capital Examples Screening Help 256

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 124

Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

Finding potential customers continues to be a huge challenge not only for established marketing and sales teams but also for startup executives and solo entrepreneurs. A study in 2013 showed that 61 percent of marketers found it hard to generate high-quality leads. Team – for agencies and marketing teams, $149/month.

Tool 79

Tool Startup Help Template 79

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2016

Car companies spend a significant amount of money on superficial design features, including the timbre of the sound emitted when a car door is shut. Because many consumers value design features over those which impact performance. A version of this article previously appeared Forbes.

SaaS 100

SaaS Startup Software Review Development Team Review 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

In the corporate world, events are more than just an event�they are opportunity to connect with your customers and turn potential customers into buyers. We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. We work with them on an annual basis, around the world, and help to power their events and experiential marketing.

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Sales Santa Monica Startup Orange County 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2013

We gear all our marketing and all of our product design to the mobile experience. Who is the ideal market for your cards? Ben Katz: Our customer is basically anyone who trusts their smart phone enough to bank in the cloud. What that means, is that the majority of our customers range from 25 to 55 years old.

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Help Startup Mobile Southern California 262

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

That said, Apple will remain a closed system designed to drive media consumption through a closed iTunes system and a take a toll for media distribution. and Excite in particular as well as all of the Internet companies with grandiose stock market valuations. The device itself will have no storage.

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Content Google Media Hulu 386

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me first address VCs or anybody else who is likely above the age where they “get” Snapchat but whose customers are likely in the age demo who use it religiously. That’s like you saying you don’t want to go to cocktail parties and network anymore while every 25-35 year-old VC steals your customers.

Snapchat 150

Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In an era, where every single streaming music service seems to be the same thingindistinguishable from each otherhow do they differentiate and create customer loyalty? We build the back end platform for CBS Radio, for both terrestrial and online, and brought AOL Radio to market, and launched, back when those brands really mattered.

Startup 113

Startup Artificial Inteligence Content Platform 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gogii spent way more effort marketing to what I call “The USA Today market&# rather than the tech blog market. You fish where your customers are. Some of them are beautifully designed and have exciting teams so I know why investors are pumped up about the teams they’ve backed. I knew this from day one.

Gogii 310

Gogii Invest Blogging Startup 310

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. We pushed to find out how we could add value to the business/cafe/bar owners who we consider our customers and stakeholders.” ” The large social media screen is Enplug, five iterations later. All inclusive.

Social Media 106

Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 106

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. 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.

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Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

It makes it easier to persuade others to join you, it alerts other angels & VCs that you’re a company to be on their radar screen, it helps potential customers know that you may be worth doing business with and it builds you up to announce other milestones down the line. Should I Bundle it With More Juicy News?

Startup 355

Startup Funding News Press 355

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Most of these investors are members of Angel groups that have a rigorous filtering and screening process, to select the top 3% and most fundable proposals. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial Angel screening. Close at least one initial customer.

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Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In an era, where every single streaming music service seems to be the same thingindistinguishable from each otherhow do they differentiate and create customer loyalty? We build the back end platform for CBS Radio, for both terrestrial and online, and brought AOL Radio to market, and launched, back when those brands really mattered.

Startup 100

Startup Content Platform Artificial Inteligence 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

.&# They know instinctually how customers buy and how to excite them. They spot opportunities that aren’t being met and the design products to meet these needs. You can practically hear the “voice of the customer&# when they’re presenting their concept. He was at a startup that was in a super hot sector.

Entrepreneur 306

Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Customer 306

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Our products are designed for use by warehouse workers, retail staff, employees in manufacturing plants, by airlines, any place where people are moving boxes, picking and placing, shipping products, or getting things ready for pickup. When we talk to customers, we hear about these pain points. That's how we got our start.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Startup Software Review CTO Hire 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Recently, I completed a new book, “ Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself ,” by Mike Michalowicz, that really helped me pull my own thoughts and recommendations together for the beleaguered business owners I try to help. Make sure you focus your design efforts on this area, and delegate or cut time spent on all the rest.

Resource 60

Resource Examples Design Entrepreneur 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2016

Start the product design process by thinking about what a historian in the future would look back on as the one big thing that changed everything. Amazon uses this technique internally for all new product design efforts. An example is the evolution of computer control to screen touches and gestures, versus keys and mice.

Startup 57

Startup Outsource Development Entrepreneur Ideas 57

Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

Developers also choose Epic’s Unreal Engine for cinematic production, visualization, design and simulation. ProductionPro pulls scripts, research, designs, and continuity together to empower creative decision-making.

Artificial Inteligence 108

Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

Software products and apps can be quickly wireframed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product.

Ideas 107

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Tool 107

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

However, mobile devices have not only revolutionized the world of the consumer--they've also made inroads into the corporate market, changing how companies provide access to important information and data to their partners and employees. How do customers use your product? But, that's exactly what happened.

Mobile 170

Mobile Oracle Startup Content 170

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

One of the startup areas where we've been seeing renewed activity in the last few months is in the enterprise software space--specifically, in software-as-a-service applications targeted at corporate customers. It's always in your face, and always on screen. One of our customers bought this, and it's the biggest weapon the manager has.

Oracle 145

Oracle Sales Startup Screening 145

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. We pushed to find out how we could add value to the business/cafe/bar owners who we consider our customers and stakeholders.” ” The large social media screen is Enplug, five iterations later. All inclusive.

Social Media 81

Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 81

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

Software products and apps can be quickly wireframed with free tools like MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Startup Ideas Tool 105

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The Gust Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial angel screening. Close at least one initial customer.

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product.

Ideas 53

Ideas Outsource Development Tool Outsource 53