Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2020

In my experience, the place to start is selecting your desired customer segment first, and then matching it with one of the following generic branding models, to best fit your desired customer segment. Then design your product, marketing, shopping environment, delivery model, and support around that model. It’s a recipe for disaster.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

We thought we'd learn a bit more about the practical barriers in taking many eco-friendly technology innovations into the market, plus the contrast between the construction and architecture business and the high tech investing world. We're unique in that we are a design and build firm, we do both architecture as well as construction.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. At this time, we have ten startups, and are starting to click and do some exciting things. What led the City of Ventura to start an incubator?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. He started another company on the side while he was working during the day at a technology company. So he decided to start his company in Canada. But I have some.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

One of those high profile neighborhoods here is Pasadena, home of Idealab, Caltech, OpenX, and many other high tech companies and institutions. It started around a year ago, as I was driving back from Santa Monica from an event. What is Innovate Pasadena? Those companies are more B2B, and less consumer.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

It doesn’t matter if you start a company in a coworking space, a dorm room or on your couch, the struggle to build a tech business in this day and age is real. The HOPii is a countertop sized, high-tech fermentation device for your homebrewing needs. The company has been selected as a CES Innovation Awards 2018 Honoree.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

Over the last couple of weeks, we''ve featured a number of reflections on the year from movers and shakers in the local high tech community. As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. I like events.

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APRIL 3, 2019

Randy Saaf: Me and a couple of buddies started on of the first iPhone gaming companies back in 2008, called Jirbo. I was there, watching what he was doing, told him it was incredible, and said, let's start a company! That's designing games on platforms that are fairly nascent now, like the iPhone was in 2008.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This morning's contribution is from Krisztina 'Z' Holly host of the The Art of Manufacturing podcast and founder of MAKE IT IN LA (www.makeitinla.org), which supports connecting local manufacturers and high tech companies. We also started offering Factory Tour Workshops to entrepreneurs, with nearly 100 applying for the pilots.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. My starting salary was $27,000. You’re a tech guy. ” F**k.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2011

For most new high-tech products, the first customers are always “early adopters.” Features you designed for average users, like wizards for configuration, and simple buttons to eliminate complex processes, will get no feedback, or removal recommendations.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

As discussed in Mini-ventures Build Entrepreneurial Muscle , I am an advocate of students starting side businesses while in college. John Greathouse: How did you and your Co-Founder Brent Kirkland get started? For instance, in the High Tech Sales class, we discussed the necessity of tracking ad performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. Start by open listening. The mentee must not be afraid to show false starts or a naïve perspective. Adapt to each individual learning style. Provide honest and constructive feedback.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 11, 2013

Just like a high-tech startup CEO, Ben was tasked with: identifying a great idea, raising money, recruiting the team, building a commercial product, positioning marketing and distributing the product and eventually exiting the venture. Like most successful startup CEOs, Ben was an overnight success, a decade in the making.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

We caught up with Nick--who is a veteran of the area's high tech industry, most recently serving as CEO of Velocify--to get the latest on MomentFeed, which provides services to multi-brand, location businesses. We also started offering up some aspects of our software for free to help our customers thrive in COVID.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2012

I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. Start by open listening. The mentee must not be afraid to show false starts or a naïve perspective. Adapt to each individual learning style. Provide honest and constructive feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

For most new high-tech products, the first customers are always “early adopters.” Features you designed for average users, like wizards for configuration, and simple buttons to eliminate complex processes, will get no feedback, or removal recommendations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2011

I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. Start by open listening. The mentee must not be afraid to show false starts or a naïve perspective. Adapt to each individual learning style. Provide honest and constructive feedback.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”. Nobody starts out original. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. Steve Jobs, Co-Founder Apple, NeXT Computing and Pixar. emphasis added).

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is it most you want to be known for?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2010

I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. Management by walking around” in a good start. The mentee must not be afraid to show false starts or a naïve perspective. Start by open listening. Respect discussion confidentiality.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

We were contemplating one of the problems we had all faced, which was when we designed a project, the issue was that it usually never got done on time. The key here is to provide visibility to everyone along the process--not just at the start, when you put it on the wall, or email the project plan to everyone.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Jerome Chang: Coworking, as many people are starting to understand, is the idea of working within a community, so you can collaborate. Our scenario at BLANKSPACES is much more modern, designed ground up for this kind of work style. It seems like there are quite a number of high tech clients using your space?

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Frank Addante

DECEMBER 22, 2006

Starting Point (Internet Search Engine & Directory) Exit: acquired by CMGI/YesMail Lesson: Keep it simple. © Just Say What it Is By Frank Addante In todays high-tech, highly competitive world, more and more companies are describing their products or services using too many fancy, jargon words. Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 16, 2010 I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back in the enterprise software game. You think you're starting to get the hang of it. This doesn’t make sense. Keep going.

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