Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

I’ve also known startups who have worked for months on the infrastructure of their business – front office, manufacturing, product design, marketing, personnel, and sales – then started work on a web site in parallel with their “grand opening.” Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

In my experience, the good news is that everyone is becoming more and more comfortable with relationships via the new media and technology. Generalized email blasts and social media ads may be great for finding interest in your services, but these are not enough to close and maintain new clients.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

We’re excited to announce TechZulu is officially partnering with New Media Expo (formerly BlogWorld) to create a Startup Launchpad at their next event taking place January 6-8, 2013 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Conference Center in Las Vegas. What does this mean for you ? If you don’t meet the qualifications, don’t fret.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Do you have a payment gateway? Commenting?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Do you have a payment gateway? Commenting?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Tech.Co

AUGUST 17, 2015

Unlike all the tradeshows and press-only events that don’t let consumers attend, Engadget Live is designed specifically to bring gadget lovers and tech brands together. If you’re interested in becoming a sponsor, send an email to sponsors@engadget.com. There’ll be tons of great swag and chances to win some awesome gear.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 10, 2010

This event is perfect for Los Angeles small biz owners, bootstrapped startups, motivated corporate ladder climbers, real estate agents, restaurant owners, or anyone wanting to wear the social media hat in their organization. Email josh@medialeaders.tv.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2012

This fest will include panels, workshops, cocktails and keynotes for startups, content creators, developers, social media marketers, designers, entrepreneurs, and more. Design/Dev Hub (Launchpad LA) : Design + developers, UI, UX panels. Media/Tech: io/LA (Hollywood). Email HERE with SBF as subject.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. People aren’t going to fundamentally change their media consumption patterns just as consumers don’t fundamentally change their diets.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 9, 2020

Designate a Work Area . From analytical reporting tools to helpful integrations such as email and Slack prompts, you'll be able to run your whole business, not just your remote work teams, in a more efficient manner. Department for Digital, Culture, Media, & Sport. Avoid Public WiFi . Protect Your Passwords .

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Tips Software Review Study Email 157

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

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). It is what Seriously was designed to do. But I’m guessing the narrative is similar elsewhere. This is so clearly our future.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This category encompasses a vast array of content, from emails and text documents to social media posts. Here's a suggested approach: Ground Truth Creation: Design a test dataset with established answers or recognized documents to serve as a reference point. Unstructured Data, as the name suggests, lacks a clear structure.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Jason laughed when he told me that he has rattled off inspirational emails to Paul Bricault, Amplify’s managing director, at 11:30 at night only to find an equally enthusiastic response in his in-box five minutes later. And they do all this in the span of four intense months.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Technology Council

OCTOBER 3, 2008

4 Rules For Email Design In [.] Here are quick links to the feature articles in this issue: Magnify360 Wins VentureNet Best Of Show 5 Mistakes To Avoid When Building Your Startup “Out Of The Box” PR Tactics. Offshore Outsourcing is Dying…Long Live Hybrid Nearshore.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

But they can otherwise save you much time and effort, and are also safer and more productive than the old-fashioned approach of broadcast emailing or cold-calling every investor you can find in online directories, or responding to the risky spam offers you get for funding on social media. Recruit a team with complementary skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

You will not fundamentally change consumers media consumption habits. For the first time in history content producers can build a direct relationship with views through subscribers, email addresses and mobile phone number. How will you grab email addresses? The concise guide is here. hours of TV per day.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. However Gmail is only private email conversations. 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. Working for someone else is not fun.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The former founder of the publicly traded Shenzhen-based gaming publisher iDreamSky, acknowledged that his new company couldn’t work in China’s tightly controlled social media market. “This project will have a lot more legs outside of the Greater China reach,” Ko said. were a foreign concept. were a foreign concept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

I’ve also known startups who have worked for months on the infrastructure of their business – front office, manufacturing, product design, marketing, personnel, and sales – then started work on a web site in parallel with their “grand opening.” Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer.

Web 76

Web Startup Sites Design 76

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Some boards are designed to showcase each and every member of management by having everybody lead a 20-minute update only to find out that no time has been allotted for discussion or debate. Some board members spend all of their time in the meeting on electronic devices doing email or even checking social media.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2015

Swing by Jukin Media to pickup your name tags. Jukin Media 6pm (5764 W. Media Temple 7:30pm (8520 National Blvd #A). Be a host company (must provide food / drink to attendees), then email events@techzulu.com with TZTECHCRAWL as the subject. . . Jukin Media is a digital media licensing company. No refunds.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

On the flip side, we attract those candidates, based on their affinity group, such as Blacks in Tech, Latinos In UI and UX design, women enggineers, and other affinity groups that attract talent, making them accesible to companies that are looking to hire for diversity. It's a community of underrepresented professionals.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

Sleek in design, the HTC One features front-facing speakers. HTC BlinkFeed aggregates your content from a variety of media sources, serving up fresh content all in one place, without the need to jump between multiple applications and web sites. Lynn Walford of Wireless and Mobile News shows it off for us here.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We also have a partnership with Trion Media, which is one of the largest content providers to the radio industry. We were crowd sourcing artists and design. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. Our media clients were telling us that they were losing revenues to Groupon.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base. It''s sort of an Etsy for flowers.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

customer relationship marketing programs designed to preserve your core revenue. tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblog.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA. Email us at info@socaltech.com. on April 24, 2009. socalTECH readers.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Attendees include startup CEOs, accelerators, VCs, investors, Hollywood movie and music studio execs, agencies, fashion, content creators, social media gurus, developers, designers, and more from LA, Silicon Valley, OC, San Diego, New York, and international. SBF attendees should be able to attend for free or at a discount.

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Hollywood Entertainment Content Email 81

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2015

3 Take advantage of email. If you already have an email list, you’re ahead of the game. Email can be an invaluable resource in the tech industry, as the bulk of your target audience will already be receptive to this kind of marketing. 4 Use social media. If you don’t, now is the perfect time to start building one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Shape your business by design, not by default. Focus on your passion and your vision of what you want to accomplish, and make that come alive in the design and delivery of everything you do. Use visibility and social media to pull clients in. This includes how you find leads, close clients, and minimize free work or rework.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media. Want control?

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We thought we found a gap in the market where we could fit in, so we looked at a bunch of the services which were existing in the market, and we designed our own product offering, back in 2012. My cofounder and I came up with this concept, and had been talking for awhole about how fragmented the overall market is for online ordering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovative marketing starts with customer insights culled from painstaking research into who your customers are, and how they use digital media. Want control?

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Marketing Demand Startup Customer 104

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

I wanted to spend the rest of the blog post telling you why we decided to fund the company, how we settled on the final product design and our unique way of launching the app. Second, videos that we do share end up in fragments across Facebook, Instagram, cloud services, email or text messages. That is Ferris.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). Sometimes I make a blog entry. Love the minis!

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. In the past, Dinesh served as President of Skyy Consulting Inc.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2012

Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. Most apps are about socialization of content, and displaying different media in those apps, and sending out some push notifications, so it really didn't make sense to make that all from scratch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

I’ve also known startups who have worked for months on the infrastructure of their business – front office, manufacturing, product design, marketing, personnel, and sales – then started work on a web site in parallel with their “grand opening.” Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer.

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Web Startup Sites Design 62