SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

We are not always smart about the market or the product. Great teams are not bound by their original product or marketing plan. Greatness finds one definition in management’s ability to “pivot,” or change the plan in reaction to its early response from the marketplace. Plans don’t often work as devised.

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Class Resource Email Examples 176

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Turn on your phone and look at the productivity folder. You’ll be more productive within three weeks time. We discuss productivity, emails, communication, and the dynamics of the team. One thing I’d noticed, there were definitely more idea sellers than buyers. We’ve been there. Introducing Fetchnotes.

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Product Ideas Email Organization 99

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly. You can now get tooling and products built very quickly either in the US or in China, with delayed payment options. The need to build a new million-dollar factory for each new product is gone.

Entrepreneur 162

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Outsource Development 162

SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. Do you have a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One ? What's going to go wrong? Have you Documented Your MVP for Your Developer s?

CTO Coach 219

CTO Coach Metrics Framework Software Development 219

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Thus the subscription model (low fixed monthly payments), has become the norm for new products and services. If you are looking to start a new business in any domain, it’s definitely worth your time to check your fit for one of these models: Membership website model. Front-of-the-line model. Network model.

Startup 117

Startup Pricing Customer Custom 117

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0. First, talk about what SmartPants Vitamins are? We give it to our own kids.

Web 225

Web Social Media SEO Media 225

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. Of course, we’ll also discuss the details of the product itself. What's the User Interface Beyond the Web Site ? A lot of the product discussion feeds off the answers to this conversation.

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Software Development Develop Development Startup 292

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Michele Ruiz: In the last year and a half, we have been putting together our product and content. Because of that, Tinder spent a lot of time on the product, and thinking about the product, to make it as simple as possible. It's the idea of bringing a modern web experience to this. Where is the company now?

Content 150

Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

Thus the subscription model (low fixed monthly payments), has become the norm for new products and services. If you are looking to start a new business in any domain, it’s definitely worth your time to check your fit for one of these models: Membership website model. Front-of-the-line model. Network model.

Startup 168

Startup Customer Custom Netflix 168

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2008

El Segundo-based iRise, a maker of software for prototyping web applications and software, is targeting ecommerce retailers with a new set of templates, the firm said Wednesday. According to iRise, it has made pre-configured, business software visualization templates for the firm's products available to ecommerce retailers.

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Sites El Segundo Template Web 100

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. You'd have to come up with an idea, gather the truth, write it, produce it, shoot it, edit it, and when you had the product, you had to figure out how to distribute it. READ MORE>>.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. We were building about 300 to 400 products a year for other people, including tons of apps, for tons of startups, and were managing tens of millions of marketing spend for those clients every month.

Startup 124

Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

In that critical first minute, no one needs to hear that you have a passionate dream of changing the world, introducing new disruptive technology, or a product with more features than competitors. Focus on quantifiable and relevant specifics, such as “reduces your cost by 40 percent,” or “increases productivity by 50 percent.”

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

How is the changing demographic of web visitors changing how local companies operate? Domeyer recently told us how mobile visitors to the web are dramatically changing how Oversee looks at the market, and are pushing the firm to invest more in technology to adapt to mobile users. We're very big in the Agile framework.

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Mobile CTO Hire CPC Web 224

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck. That’s called product leadership.

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Startup Evite Web Ideas 296

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Or you want to know about whether you have the right Web Development Company. And this last one is why I tell every startup founder: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have a Technical Advisor. The technical person will begin to pelt you with questions about the business, product and technical challenges.

CTO Coach 211

CTO Coach Startup Web Guide 211

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Since April 21, Amazon has slashed its rates across a wide range of product categories, in some cases dropping as much as 70%. Here are some of the top options available in 2020 to anyone who wants to earn a living or a side hustle by recommending products online. But, Amazon is cutting back on such perks. The impact?

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Technical Review Buzzfeed News Networking 129

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Their "Drive To" product provides a web-based navigator, which require no download, and we saw that there were lots of things we could do together to target the right person, at the right time, using a web-based GPS. Eli Portnoy: We were definitely not looking at acquisition opportunities.

Startup 225

Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 14, 2009

you can get to know Mark a bit more in my post Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller ). If you have solid web skills and a few years experience, either with a commercial company or running your own legit projects, there are dozens of companies in L.A. Just saw a great post by Mark Geller - Developers wanted… in Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Software Development 150

Software Development Develop Development Software 150

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

That is, there’s a definite part of the market that’s hungry for affordable digital advertising but can’t find a suitable outlet to get involved: Chad Rogers, Daniel Marlow, and Hope Horner built Lemonlight Media to satiate that hunger.

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Company Companies Advertising Media 107

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. It''s really a combination of the two.

Software Review 238

Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? How does the product solve a pain? What are related products/companies? What product, market testing have you done so far, if any? will definitely be handled. You need to send us an overview of what you are doing.

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CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 264

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. My definition of a startup is, ‘a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.’ Preaching What You Live. If you find one, you become a company.

Startup 229

Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? How does the product solve a pain? What are related products/companies? What product, market testing have you done so far, if any? will definitely be handled. You need to send us an overview of what you are doing.

CTO Hire 259

CTO Hire Startup Technical Review Development Team Review 259

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. Definitely take a look at he suggests you balance the choices. Definitely read the whole thing. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them. " Ummm.

Startup 211

Startup IP Ideas Patents 211

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2015

While every state has a slightly different definition of nexus, it is generally defined as, "a physical presence, employee, or products stored in the state." Most online sellers of physical good have low profit margins - due to the cost of sourcing products and transporting and warehousing them. Sounds reasonable, right?

Sales 100

Sales Customer Custom Metrics 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I founded NowLive a year ago, dedicated to producing and streaming live, professional events for the web and mobile, and anchored interactive. Sara Bordo: We built our product from scratch, from the multi bitrate player to chat, to the entire experience. Additionally, they are syndicated widely across the web.

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Paramount Entertainment Hollywood Content 187

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

I love the web and love Internet marketing. Although the web offers amazing chances for organic growth, you have to do something amazing. We realized that the way the web was heading, was that if you don''t do something amazing, someone will do it better. That''s definitely on our roadmap. It was discouraging.

Google 236

Google Sites Startup Web 236

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. Definitely take a look at he suggests you balance the choices. Definitely read the whole thing. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them. " Ummm.

Startup 198

Startup IP Ideas Patents 198

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Building a strong tech industry to rival that of Silicon Valley is definitely no easy feat, but the overall feeling within Cal Tech’s Baxter Hall at last week’s event certainly bodes well for the year. Focus, Focus, Focus – Specializing your product when things get too diluted and unclear.

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Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

We typically committed to building “missing&# features and therefore steered off of our MVP (minimum viable product). 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. I see it all the time.

Startup 389

Startup Customer Custom Resource 389

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. Sam Rogoway: Near Networks is a national production studio that creates online videos for local businesses across the country.

Networking 150

Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

.” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. User experience is suffering and it’s the worst possible time with the product taking off. Web application performance is a broad discipline. So, why does this happen?

Web 200

Web Technical Advisors Framework Technical Review 200

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup. As I was trying to figure out the role I wanted to play in the VC world I decided I wanted to focus on businesses that were building deeply technical products to solve problems for business users. But here’s the big “aha.”

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Venture Capital IP Startup Google 223