socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. We caught on with the right product, at the right time.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. Market Size.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

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. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule.

Technical Review 96

Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 96

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The vast majority of those are nowhere up to modern codes. “From the invention of the semiconductor to the creation of the Internet, new engines of economic growth have emerged due to public investments that support research, commercialization, and strong supply chains,” the White House wrote.

Startup 229

Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. My favorite new software tool is DailyBurn. Problem is – Weight Watchers software TOTALLY SUCKS. Their first batch of shipping is due out in the next few weeks. We’ll see. Enter Withings. No keying in required.

Technical Review 278

Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

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. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 75

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). they take time!!

Venture Capital 282

Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2010

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. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule.

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Software Review High Tech Writing 51

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. Like most mature markets, the legal profession is highly segmented with respect to the services provided and markets served. They make mistakes.

Technical Advisors 124

Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Marketing Muscle. No Dave S. =

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Some investors are team focused, others market focused, others seems to look for product / market fit. Only then can I even care about product, market or their nebulous “fit.&#. I’ll write that post one day – it is a very interesting story. Me: “I love your market. But not without a team.

CTO Hire 363

CTO Hire Technical Review Startup Demand 363

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was mostly timing.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. They built in a feature called “auto scaling&# that monitored for traffic spikes and automatically provisioned new servers on demand and decommissioned them if your traffic surge subsided.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343