TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

These are industries where structural impediments to technology adoption have only recently been broken down by the advent of incredibly powerful mobile devices. As Fifth Wall’s newest partner Greg Smithies noted last year, there’s a massive opportunity in building retrofits and startup technologies to improve efficiency.

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Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. This benefits you, the entrepreneur. It takes options off of the table.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. What is Fuel50?

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Help Southern California Startup Technical Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2013

Here is an entry-level benchmark for the new software personal assistants: Simple and intuitive communication. Technology environment savvy. Technology environment savvy. A good assistant know how get things done efficiently, recognizing user hardware and software limitations. Memorable personality.

Web 98

Web Entrepreneur Software Review Google 98

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. Ryan and Stacy co-founded Telesign over 15 years ago along with their co-founder, Darren Berkovitz. Talk about Telesign and what you do?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2010

My plea to entrepreneurs and startups is to recognize it as an opportunity, and go the extra mile to make people comfortable rather than paranoid. Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. Tags: entrepreneur startup paranoia internet business. Why is everyone so paranoid these days?

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Social Network News 85

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

Define milestones for cost review and sign-off. The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. Change requests must be visibly reviewed by executives frequently. business entrepreneur feature creep scope creep startup' Implement and enforce a change process.

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Technical Review Product Software Review High Tech 104

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

It's the biggest portion of our revenues at our company, and our clients include the Buffalo News, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, JDate, Spark network, and many entrepreneurs. We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. How do clients license your software?

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Define milestones for cost review and sign-off. The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. Change requests must be visibly reviewed by executives frequently. entrepreneur startup funding product features business' Implement and enforce a change process.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 110

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We give a huge Thank You to the following sponsors: Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK.

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Technical Review Software Review Santa Monica Tech Coast Angels 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2019

My recommendation to entrepreneurs is to recognize these concerns as an opportunity to make people’s life better, rather than worry and dodge the risk. Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. Use video and audio, rather than jargon, abbreviations, and computer lingo on your site.

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Technical Review Symantec Social Network News 78

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. However, there just hasn't been the underlying technology to make it possible to pull all of that together. What is Postie? We think that's really important.

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CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps.

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Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs. But TWTFelipe is an entrepreneur. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Bill Gates once famously said that people tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the 1-year timeframe and underestimate its impact in the 10-year timeframe. But when I read thoughtful pieces on the future of technology I start to imagine where our lives will be in 10 years. My favorite new software tool is DailyBurn.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

It is also a result of pent-up demand. I wonder, though, how much of that is emerging market and how much of the industrialized nation growth is due to stimulus money, which in turn either dries up or forced inflation? My advice : if you’re raising a $750,000 round and you have demand for $1.2 million – take it.

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Venture Capital Startup Funding Technical Review 269

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Help us understand your technology--is this focused on the automated language translation technology, or on the process of localizing a web site? We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software. In addition to that, we provide the ability of customers to review that with analytics.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. on the entrepreneur side of the table) when I raised at too high of a price. This is wrong.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

For those just tuning into the events, we’ll provide you the long short of it in play by play fashion: AOL owned company, TechCrunch ( acquired in 2010 ), who operates CrunchBase lists their database as “the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.”

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Google 74

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

Define milestones for cost review and sign-off. The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. Change requests must be visibly reviewed by executives frequently. Milestones are for early warning, because there is no recovery when you are out of time and money.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 96

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Define milestones for cost review and sign-off. The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. Change requests must be visibly reviewed by executives frequently. Milestones are for early warning, because there is no recovery when you are out of time and money.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 75

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2012

My plea to entrepreneurs is to recognize these concerns as an opportunity, and go the extra mile to make people’s life better, rather than stoke the fires. Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. Why is everyone so paranoid these days? Don’t take shortcuts on these. That’s just good business.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network News 85

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. I have had this discussion with many a first-time entrepreneur. If you don’t, somebody else WILL!”

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We sat down with Brett Crosby (who founded Urchin Software, the company which became Google Analytics) and Brew Johnson , the co-founders of the company, to learn more about the company and what it's working on. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

My plea to entrepreneurs is to recognize it as an opportunity, and go the extra mile to make people’s life better rather than stoke the fires. Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. Why is everyone so paranoid these days? Don’t take shortcuts on these. That’s just good business.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network News 94

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Adrenaline Fueled Angel.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

CapLinked lets entrepreneurs focus on what they do best, while making sure their investors always stay in the loop. Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. The Startups.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

6 Entrepreneurs share their predictions for this year’s evolution of online industries, which will be key for small businesses across the globe in 2016. For the VPN industry specifically, we will see a lot of new providers as the barrier to entry is extremely low, and demand is high. Technology Driving Personal Advisory.

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Commerce Mobile Technical Review Google 40

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Yet, despite his exceptional courtroom theatrics, you would be foolhardy to hire good old Johnnie to review your software cross-licensing agreement. It is surprising how often entrepreneurs forget this simple fact. Bill Review – Believe it or not, lawyers and their staff are human (insert “gasp” here). They make mistakes.

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Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Despite a valiant effort, we only briefly succeeded in putting IBM in the personal computer business, but our efforts changed my view of entrepreneurs forever. For IBM, the Personal Computer was a paradigm shift from their big business legacy, built with new technologies for totally new markets, and battleships turn very slowly.

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IBM IBM Entrepreneur Technical Review 85

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. I’m in Seattle this week.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. Creating Incremental Strategic Value - Ask the Angels , June 17, 2010 We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value.

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Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. No prizes for guessing … there’s ALWAYS a second act in technology. It was mostly timing.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

From my consulting with entrepreneurs in Europe and other countries, I’m convinced that we all could benefit from adapting to meet their environments. Design the full stack, not just a new software element. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology.

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Capital Marketing Ideas Venture Capital 138

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

From my consulting with entrepreneurs in Europe and other countries, I’m convinced that we all could benefit from adapting to meet their environments. Design the full stack, not just a new software element. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology.

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Ideas Venture Capital Software Review Technical Review 124