Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Initially as a systems designer and programmer and post MBA as a strategy consultant. See definition of a whore. Some companies / products are designed for large organizations from day 1. Companies post the $5 / month product designed for self-service clients. For me, classic definition of deer segmentation.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Aliso Viejo-based indie Semiconductor, a developer of semiconductors for the automotive industry, says it has signed a definitive agreement to acquired TeraXion, a designer and manufacturer of photonic components. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. TeraXion is based in Quebec, and was founded in 2000.

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2010

Los Angeles-based RealD , which develops 3D projection technology for the movie business, has inked a licensing deal with systems-on-a-chip firm Sigma Designs , the two firms said Monday. Tags: reald movie content hollywood sigma designs semiconductor. Financial details of the licensing deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

I next moved into system design where I designed computer systems to deal with large industrial natural gas customers and telecommunication companies. I had to understand all of the normal business rules as well as all “edge cases.&# Again, I grouped them into related functions and then designed systems to handle the rules.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

and Nextspace have definitely made a mark with this event which was, as told to me by Amplify's Managing Director, Paul Bricault, essentially to celebrate the end of work on their new building. The Nextspace @ Amplify campus is an attractive co-working space designed to foster working, learning and networking. Amplify.LA

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Newport Beach-based Mindspeed Technologies has scored a design win with Mitsubishi Electric, the firm reported today. Mindspeed said its chips are being used as part of the deployment of a Japanese fiber network, being used to deliver voice, high-definition (HD) video and data services. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

According to the firms, the new group is working on "Project Phoenix", an effort to develop standards around transferring premium, high definition content to local and portable hard drives and flash memory, for playback on televisions, laptops, Blu-ray players, tablets, mobile phones, or game consoles. READ MORE>>

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

Great programmers are artists, for sure, but rock stars is about the last definition I’d choose. Tristan told me that he thought he could design shaving products for people of color that would solve this problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

The terms “CTO&# and “VP Engineering&# have such stigmas associated with what they are that I’m sure some people will feel uncomfortable with the definitions I’ve put forward. This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2019

Earlier this year, Spartan, the French manufacturer of a silver-lined underwear designed to block EMF radiation from cell phones and wireless routers, relocated to the U.S. Indeed, there are no studies that definitively prove a link between radiation emitted by cell phones and cancer.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

We're definitely Los Angeles natives, but we got the opportunity to do TechStars. We're trying to build a center-of-mass on the East side, to draw talented developers and designers, to recruit more effectively, and reinvest in the local ecosystem. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Jonathan Valamehr, Professor Ryan Kastner of UC San Diego, and Professor Tim Sherwood of UC Santa Barbara, and is developing technology which is used to detect security issues in hardware designs, rather than the current method of laborious code reviews and software tests for security issues.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2019

According to Resonant, the deal gives Murata Manufacturing the right to multiple filter designs using Resonant's technology. Resonant's filters are used in mobile handsets and wireless devices. According to Resonant, which is publicly traded on the NASDAQ as RESN, the private placement was priced at $2.53 READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

MAY 2, 2013

The definition of a bottleneck in your business is one that constricts the flow of work from one area to another in the flow of product or service through your organization. You can be the bottleneck.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use. It was humbling.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2014

Kelsey Doorey: "Vow To Be Chic is the first company to offer designer bridesmaid dress rentals. How will you balance designer dresses that wear out quickly with sturdy, fashion-unfriendly apparel? That said, we are working with our designers to create dresses in fabrics and styles that are more durable and will have a longer life.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 24, 2010

So you have an amazing idea and the back end of your site works flawlessly, but no one wants to use it because it looks like a 5 year old did your site design. For a lot of sites the design can make or break a the success of the website. We all know that most programmers are not the best designers. Elegant.ly Elegant.ly

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

The best ones are visual, high-level, have a narrative, move swiftly, are designed to prompt questions as much as “pitch&# your company and importantly have a narrative. Problem definition (with the market … it’s why you exist). What should be in the deck? Some variation of the following (this is a suggested order).

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Berkonomics

MARCH 26, 2020

The definition of a bottleneck in your business is one that constricts the flow of work from. Of course, you could fit that definition. What is the bottleneck? one area to another in the flow of product or service through your organization. The three common factors making a bottleneck. You can be the bottleneck.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2020

While at Facebook he’d down pour overs in the morning and espresso shots throughout the day, but the side effects left him… “tweaky” So, like any good product designer and engineer, Sharon set out to try and make a better cuppa. ” Image Credits: Taika (opens in a new window).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

Alex Schneider: We designed the space to be a real creative, collaborative environment. We charge by-the-workstation, it's designed to be really flexible and affordable office space for these startups. You definitely see some distinct clusters 30 miles North and 30 miles South of us. What is the Ventura incubator?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

That is the definition of Disruptive Technology. So you either need to invest millions or partner with a “tools company” designed to help you promote and distribute video. Set design. Traditional studios have suffered from The Innovator’s Dilemma. One of the best I have seen in the market is Epoxy.TV.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2021

Of course, we would all like to have a magic list based on more definitive tracking of many real startups over time. Big gorillas with deep pockets find it hard to scale products that are designed or produced to order. By definition, a growth industry has a history and an outlook of at least double-digit annual growth.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Los Angeles-based electric car designer Fisker , the latest incarnation of the EV efforts of auto designer Henrik Fisker, says it has signed a definitive agreement with Magna International. According to Fisker, Magna will manufacture Fisker's upcoming Ocean vehicle in Europe.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

will definitely be handled. We can help across a wide variety of types of systems, but once you get into hard core sciences (designing a new compound, bioengineering, etc.) If you can't tell us the details of what you are doing without an NDA, it won't make sense for us to talk. I need a life-sciences CTO, can you help?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

will definitely be handled. We can help across a wide variety of types of systems, but once you get into hard core sciences (designing a new compound, bioengineering, etc.) If you can't tell us the details of what you are doing without an NDA, it won't make sense for us to talk. I need a life-sciences CTO, can you help?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

Don’t try to defend every process you have or every design choice. I think one of the greatest weaknesses of boards is that they are tourists by definition and sometimes confuse their observations and advice for actionable insights. Let them see data. Let them meet your staff and ask awkward questions.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2012

How do you leverage your years of experience manufacturing and designing furniture for stores like Ikea and Crate & Barrel into the online world, and harness the interest of consumers to purchase their furniture online? As a designer of those products, I've seen in home furnishings over the last twenty years lots of cycles.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take. It is what Seriously was designed to do. On August 23rd, 2013 I had an email intro from my good friend and trusted source Jeff Berman who only sends me stuff when it is somebody he respects (ie a strong filter vs. those who send casual intros). This is so clearly our future.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.” by designing or mobile consumption, they can eventually take advantage of every aspect of the phone including the camera, the touchscreen, the gyroscope, etc. definitely a big and expensive promotional bet for a “startup”. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

And costume & set designers. I think NY has always – by definition – been urban. It’s becoming harder to distinguish tech companies from media companies. Many “tech companies” now have green screens. And make-up artists. And sound engineers. And post production. And writers! And even … yes … actors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

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. The future history assessment approach. Challenge the fundamental assumption. The trend has only begun.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2011

She was going back and forth from Target, using things like a Sharpie, glue, pictures, and other things of that nature, to design her own shirt. Thinking about the idea with my co-founders at AudioLife, we mocked up a design, and showed Avon our idea--how about something like this? I said--wow, that's a pretty big missed opportunity.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2010

Around a month ago I heard people talking about Twitter’s bucket test ( definition ) of their new personalized suggested user list and this past week I actually got to experience it myself. The results for me have been excellent and in this post I’ll explain why this is critical to Twitter’s continued adoption. And working.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 20, 2010

Kallich will present information on improvements in health information technology as they are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which contains several measures designed to encourage the adoption and diffusion of electronic health records (EHR) and other health data information sources.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

So sticking to my definition of “attributes for success&# it had to be my Top 11 +1 rather than a Top 12. Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). Made ME laugh, anyways. Another example.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

There were lots of people very intent on the execution of the product, really looking into the details of design and flow. Entrepreneurship, and trying to start something on my own was definitely one of the tracks I was pursuing at Anderson. We have a really good team that brought this site up.

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