Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. I raced home to put my kids to bed, say hello to my wife and then spend a grueling administrative hour doing email. I know you emailed me and I emailed you back.

Software Review 381

Software Review Startup Email Conference 381

Tech.Co

MARCH 9, 2020

Efficiency and Productivity. Work When You're Productive. Designate a Work Area . Efficiency and Productivity when Working from Home. But, extended periods of working from home can risk having a negative effect on productivity. And that can have a notably negative effect on their productivity and even morale.

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Tips Software Review Study Email 157

Berkonomics

MARCH 3, 2016

These same CEOs sit in their corner offices and email the COO in the next–door office and call their VP of Sales rather than walking down the hall. Email readers, continue here…] We brainstormed with a consultant and each other. The flexible work environment at our virtual company goes beyond work–from–home options.

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Layoffs Ideas Email Social Network 120

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

times and my email newsletter subscribers more than doubled. For instance, What Are My Options Worth? What Are My Options Worth? Worst T-shirt Designs Ever. The kind words I receive in comments, Tweets and emails are highly motivational and most appreciated. Multimedia And Syndication. Organic traffic.

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Newsletter Blogging Santa Barbara Content 205

Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

Here are some of our top recommendations to get you started: Email Finder Tool – Voila Norbert. The result will appear in a panel below the search fields, indicating if it’s a 100 percent confirmed email address. After that, you have the option to pick a plan that fits your needs. Click the button “Go ahead, Norbert.”

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Tool Startup Help Template 79

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Kincast is chocked full of fun features, all of which make uploading and sharing easier than drafting an email. No need to open the camera app, switch over to the video camera option and then start recording. After you’ve shared the content, the recipient will receive an email with a link to Kincast’s HTML5 site.

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Screening Content Startup Email 81

InfoChachkie

JUNE 18, 2012

Philo Farnsworth created a technology which underlies one of the 20 th Century’s most ubiquitous products, yet he died a man of modest means and is relatively unknown today. As such, the option with the highest probability of success is to create a balanced team, comprised of both inventors and innovators. A Small Fortune.

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Ideas RSS Technical Review .Net 221

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2014

The Bluetooth device is smartly designed to connect with your smartphone, tablet, or computer. Your loved ones, 911, anyone can get in touch with you during an emergency without utilizing a service that basically forces you to have a call center option. How were different from them is that we do have a call center option.

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Pricing Email Design Activity 95

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. If you sell a product direct to a customer – in person or on the phone – you need to understand what their pain points are and position your product benefits against those pain points.

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Sales Startup Platform Tips 319

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2012

How do you go about getting a company product--and company--funded through crowdsourcing? First of all, tell us about what olloclip's products are? For my whole career, I've been in the technology business, working for IBM clone companies, storage companies, and then add on products for PDAs, and then working on early smartphones.

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Patents Ideas Design Startup 191

Eric Greenspan

APRIL 25, 2013

AppleTV, while my favorite product, is stagnant. For example, on iOS, rework all the most popular apps to tackle new tasks and increase productivity. I’d also love the ability to click on an email or contact and have the option to calendar a meeting with the individual like you can by adding a contact from an email.

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Company Companies Netflix Email 126

Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

There are many signs to look for when receiving candid feedback from your customers, here’s a few examples of things Make It Work customers say and what we are doing about it: Customer (from a Delight Survey email): Why don’t you offer billing as an option, rather than require payment on demand at the end of the appointment?

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Social Media Customer Custom Media 214

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? Your memory – they never worked very hard and didn’t want to commit.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

website allowed engineers and engineering firms in the industry to advertise their products online, posts events, and. myself and two women who do customer service and tech support for me via phone and email. In addition, we outsource the actual production of prints to companies around the U.S. things of that nature.

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Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. These are very different.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Tech.Co

AUGUST 22, 2017

That’s why I had a quick conversation with Christopher Adams, CEO of Levium , an all natural drink designed to reduce anxiety. Both of these are important attributes of great product managers and exactly the type of individual we need in tech. Adams developed Levium following his experiences founding several tech companies.

Technical Review 50

Technical Review Competition Startup Design 50

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Joey Flores: Yeah, we spend the earlier part of 2014 exploring acquisition options, because we had a pretty hard time raising money. The day after we shut down the site, we got an email from this company, saying they had a big opportunity they'd like to talk to us about. Joey, thanks for the time today.

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Software Review Startup Metrics Content 100

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. Some might be from banner ads and others may arise from an email campaign. . It does not happen.

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Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. Do you really think Porter’s Five Forces is going to help you figure out what feature set to launch or how to price your product?

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Design a logo ( 99designs ). Pick an internal email system ( Gmail , Outlook ). Choose an email system to connect with customers ( Constant Contact , MailChimp , Sendgrid ). List your products on online marketplaces.

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Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., But this feeling sort of dies out when you’re working with the product every day, and talking about your product every day. myLINGO is designed to bring new users into the movie viewing experience. her joint effort with her co-founder and brother, Adam Polak.

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Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

Because we are still in idea stage, it is in the best interest of the company to keep only a few key people to work on executing the product. RED FLAG #2 : This person came in saying he was a designer, disappeared for a few hours and said he was working on some iOS mockups but by the time we were ready to pitch, he delivered nothing.

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Startup Ideas San Diego Mentor 100

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. Where is it?

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Webtide is designed to be a company which is the expert on using Jetty in companies. We give them options and advice on the best course to reach their goals, such as responding quickly and getting to market faster. I'm always amazed in search engine alerts in my email, about who is talking about or using Jetty.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Does that carry over into your product targets? So there is a good balance in there but where the team or where the product finds its customers at the end of the day, EDM of all styles - that’s basically how you can sum it up. He loves the product, it’s the first time he’s using audio clips and remixing them on a sound basis.

Startup 101

Startup Artificial Inteligence Tool Product 101

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2014

If you need to keep calls, texts and emails confidential, than this is the product for you. It offered the first product with roaming replacement services for travelers between Canada and the United States. The goal was to remove retailer assistance out of the product. “Our goal is to commoditize wireless.

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Mobile Startup Customer Custom 86

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. Assuming normal valuations at fund raising rounds you’ll be down to 6-12% after you’ve created a stock-option pool and raised capital. The decision is already made.

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Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas 365

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 30, 2011

With Wave being an experiment, and Buzz being a dead duck from the get go, Google Plus (Google+) is actually a usable, integrated, complete-feeling product released this week, and it’s pretty damn good. If you want an email whenever someone does something, you’ll can get one. Google, they’ve cracked a nut here.

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Google Mobile Web Social Network 82

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. ” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. I get many Tweets directed at me that say, “come check out my product.” Meet in person.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. is the second largest designated market area (DMA) in the country, so youre starting with a natural talent pool of very interesting people, and also, a market from which to sell your goods and services into. Be extra productive.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Give them the iPod not Microsoft Office products. In order to improve the efficacy of my reports I often would write an “executive summary&# as the start that would have one paragraph describing the problem I was trying to solve, one paragraph talking through the options considered and one paragraph with my conclusion.

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Slides Software Review Blogging Venture Capital 346

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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