Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. Or take a look at their team page to get a sense of why we were so inspired by their vision for the future. Far from it.

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Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2022

For example, a smaller business with $10-20,000 in monthly revenue will only need to spend a monthly $25 on FinMark's product, while a business that makes over $1 million will be spending $2,500 a month on FinMark. Jeenie is looking to fix this problem by supplying language interpreters on demand. And now we've gotten used to it.

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Startup Invest FAQ Examples 200

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Start by developing an “elevator pitch,” that you can deliver in thirty seconds to hook a potential customer or investor.

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Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

A recent Wall Street Journal article that raised the possibility of Biogen as the target of another huge pharma buyout cited the lack of productivity as a major driver of M&A in the pharmaceutical industry. With a limited supply of new firms coming into the business, venture’s ability to expand to meet demand is inherently constrained.

Product 40

Product Journal Venture Capital Demand 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

There''s a huge demand for a limited supply of employees, in particularly, there a large demand for product developers, and there''s a shortage of experienced people. If you look at the career sites and pages out there right now, they look like they were built a decade ago. How did you two meet?

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Design Sites Cornerstone OnDemand Startup 174

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 67

Marketing SEM Startup Blogging 67

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 99

Marketing Entrepreneur Startup SEM 99

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

We create a page which starts at first rumor, and engages and supports those projects. So it's going to be a sales team, a business development team, and helping our relationships with YouTube and Facebook. They are used to producing great product and putting it out, and having people come. In reality, it's very different today.

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Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 95

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 95

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Publishers can come and snap valuable data into our website, to augment end user's experience, and developers can help user our data and our API to build more innovative applications, and to be more productive because of the significant availability of this trusted data. That makes the lives of developers difficult.

Startup 190

Startup Google S3 Platform 190

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2013

James DeJulio: We''re a social content development platform. We work with really big businesses and brands, everyone from P&G to Lego, Mattel to NASA, to develop mostly video content. This creates a big, diverse pool of ideas, and the client can then find the three, four, or five top ideas they want to see developed.

Ideas 243

Ideas Content Startup Web 243

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Maybe small amounts of money for what founders reading these pages dream of but life-changing for many. Before this South Korean wonder spread across the globe I had written about a trend in global audiences that exists when the costs of production are nearly zero and the costs of distribution are also nearly free. billion views.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 90

Marketing Startup SEM Blogging 90

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures. This is astounding and myopic in my view.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Verizon , Monster Products , MerchLabs , HIRED , Instart Logic , Zeel , Shootly , Move Loot , Microsoft , American Laser Company , Zirx , DoorDash , Drizly. Green Way Labs develops high-performance cleaning products that are 100% non-toxic. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat. We thank you! IoT: Rufus Labs.

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Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We streamline strategy development using a Reality-Based approach, then execute cross-media programs including websites, brochures, ads, booths. landing pages, etc. A post that I like is: " Tech Companies: Can You Explain Your Product to a Six-Year-Old? Not one of these ways is low rates. It launches November 16.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. There was an opportunity to capture htose advertiser dollars, and do it by serving up a product that was compelling to both advertisers and consumers. They are getting more an dmore challenging to reach.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

Marketing 56

Marketing SEM Blogging Design 56

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

The way you talk about your business, develop your brand voice, gauge demand, and connect with your audience. To know who and where the product is coming from allows people to see first-hand on how the product is made. KD: People demand more authenticity and transparency. What is the future of crowdfunding?

Startup 74

Startup Funding Capital Help 74

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Remember the whole controversy over Facebook’s Beacon product where a guy bought an engagement ring for his wife and it was published to a stream and ruined the surprise ? So my gut says this will be a youth-oriented product. The investment will be used for product development initiatives.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. I know the product intimately and it rocks. Especially for their stage of development. I played with both products and had good experiences. Enter P2P lending.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

All the while, you have product to maintain and a team to manage, but the very thought of hiring a VP or consulting firm makes you cringe. are reflected in their stable of on-demand, hourly paid consultants and freelancers for a number of business roles: Market Research. Marketing & Branding. Investor Decks. Due Diligence.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review Outsource 105

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

Software Review 145

Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We provide three lines of service, one is called Developer Advice, which is not a common service out there--where customers can have confidential discussions with our architects through a secure forum, so that they're not posting specifics about their customers or projects publicly. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

No matter where I worked, I never found any sort of product that managed the workflow between editors and writers and it is the number one problem in the publishing world. I built the product I wanted, as a writer, editor, and as a publisher. There are lots of signs that print is slowly turning into the pages of history.

Journal 90

Journal Startup Writing Media 90

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Simply click on the title of the panel you like and you will be taken to their SXSWi panel picker page. Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Bootstrapping development, team management. .

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. then bought GeoCities for $3.6

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. From left to right I wrote in boxes: talent discovery, content development, production, post-production, distribution, & marketing. I rewrote the page 7-10 times.

Writing 356

Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. What does that mean? It is the town hall.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307