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How Go Trexx is Making Travel More Rewarding, with Samantha Lurey

socalTECH

But, what we are doing, is looking at how people travel and what modern tools we can provide to make the experience better, in the form of travel guides and things like that. Our first set of products started rolling out in May, and are a set of travel guides for children. That framework is beautiful in that way.

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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

Both Sides of the Table

It’s what I call “ the evangelical phase ” of a company in which you’re out trying to persuade customers that a product you’ve designed is going to meet their needs better than other solutions on the market. I’m going to set up the framework today and in future posts I’ll drill down into each area. We called our methodology PUCCKA.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

There are CEOs that always seem to guide their companies to the right place at the right time and drive their stock valuations up. Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head. Some more on metrics design and quantification.

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The Work of Film Through Technology: Interview with CG Supervisor Morris May

Tech Zulu Event

Despite the fact that he can create things on Autodesk’s Maya that their own software designers may have never have dreamed up (or more accurately, that only a few people on this Earth can), being a ‘big wig’ was never May’s intention. A style guide will dictate color scheme, mood, feel, etc. The Breakdown Behind CG.

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

Xconomy

“And it’s often not clear to the designers even and the people fielding the technologies that this is a problem until someone points out that some inappropriate action was taken or poor decision was made.”. He does see the opportunity for some broadly applicable frameworks though.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. &# The classic framework for analyzing a firm’s strategic position is Michael Porter’s Five Forces. The Holy Grail of. The leading provider of. Legendary customer support. Innovative.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

Both Sides of the Table

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. The creative process - Whenever I need to do any task that requires insight I have to be able to visualize – to literally SEE the decision framework. Many people are visual thinkers.

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