Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Products requiring changes to government regulations. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure.

Startup 126

Startup Sites Technical Review Social Media 126

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! That has allowed the company to launch in many markets, build amazing applications, design future versions of the scooter and monetize while many companies are still just drawing up their go-to-market plans. There is nothing viral! Anybody can launch a scooter service! Not really.

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Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2012

How do you leverage your years of experience manufacturing and designing furniture for stores like Ikea and Crate & Barrel into the online world, and harness the interest of consumers to purchase their furniture online? As a designer of those products, I've seen in home furnishings over the last twenty years lots of cycles.

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Sales Startup Sites Design 178

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2011

The device is an alarm-clock like, Internet connected electronic product developed by the firm of the same name, San Diego-based Chumby (www.chumby.com). The Infocast and the Sony Dash are more like a digital photo frame in terms of look and industrial design. We always struggle with what to call the category of the Chumby.

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Startup Google San Diego Content 159

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2009

Cox Communications - Orange County - Looking for Product Marketing Manager. Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services.

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SoCalTech Orange County Southern California IP 100

Xconomy

JUNE 28, 2016

Modern Meadow, a New York-based company that has developed a method of turning living cells into materials used to make leather that mimics animal hide, has received a $40 million Series B funding to begin manufacturing and commercializing its leather products. Other industries could include automotive, transportation, and furniture, he says.

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San Diego Product Design Funding 59

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

In the IAB study that revealed the graph above, brand advertisers indicated that their number one objective in online advertising was “creating awareness&# followed by “creating purchase intent&# or “likelihood to recommend&# the product. Yet these seem to be the least effective attributes of banner advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see. Networking and relationships.

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Satisfaction Patents Outsource Development Services 91

socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Cox Communications - Orange County - Looking for Product Marketing Manager. Cox Communications - Orange County was recently ranked 2nd amongst Employers Group's, "California's Best Places to Work - 2008" in the Large Companies category. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network.

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SoCalTech Orange County Southern California Westlake Village 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million. Is it one product line or multiple? The first company represents a normal software company that sells its products directly (either via sales staff or directly off of the internet).

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Draft is a Fantasy Sports app designed for the mobile world and the busy lifestyle founded by Jeremy Levine. Jeremy sold that business to DraftKings and I’m guessing came to a similar conclusion to me as he decided the next rev of his product was going to be for casual players.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Products requiring changes to government regulations. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure.

Sites 81

Sites Technical Review Social Media Entrepreneur 81

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

I also read - The Difference Between Apple and Microsoft Marketing that tells us: Apples marketing is designed for Time Poor buyers, while Microsofts is designed for Time Rich buyers. I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

It''s a poor experience, and people don''t feel that it''s something they want to associate with, because of many shady, anonymous transactions, and categories on the site which are not family friendly. As eBay, we have the ability to really focus on a more, family friendly experience, and put more customer service behind our product.

San Diego 100

San Diego Mobile Marketing Sites 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Products requiring changes to government regulations. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure.

Startup 104

Startup Entrepreneur Sites Technical Review 104

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? They are designed to help good companies to get access to investors but also to make bad companies look good. I like to see how they improve their products when there are obvious holes. What stage? What price?

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Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

billion in its Greater Los Angeles area wireless and wireline networks in a move to make communications in LA reliable and spread internet coverage and network performance. 950 Wireless Network Upgrades. 950 Wireless Network Upgrades. For years, AT&T invested more than $1.9 billion Investment.

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Invest IP Los Angeles Mobile 68

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? They are designed to help good companies to get access to investors but also help to make bad companies look good. I like to see how they improve their products when there are obvious holes. What stage?

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Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We recognized that it was a large business, with American Greetings having about an 80 million dollar a year e-card business, and we thought we could bring some hipness and freshness to the category. Our product is called Starring You, which lets oyu put yourself into any video we create. So, we launched JibJab eCards.

Content 224

Content Startup Screening Education 224

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Products requiring changes to government regulations. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Sites Technical Review Social Media 101

InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

By centering our alliances around our products and not our company, each group was comprised of complimentary partners. Our alliances included arch rivals, each of which preferred to be the exclusive provider of their products within each alliance. This last category proved to be especially lucrative. Road Rules.

Entrepreneur 168

Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Startup Conference 168

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

They spot opportunities that aren’t being met and the design products to meet these needs. They realized that they were selling a bunch of cool products but none that had enough economic value. We couldn’t cut product development (we had 23 people!) We committed to product features. I’m sorry.

Entrepreneur 306

Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Customer 306

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

To do that, the firm has combined the world of social networking and personal finance with its newly launched service. In terms of the problem, is the majority of tools available today to help people with their money have been designed by financial times, for people more like them. There are three main components of the product.

Startup 197

Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 13, 2012

Some exciting news from Las Vegas in the massive Sony Booth (for every time I’ve been at CES, Sony’s area takes up damn near the entire exhibit hall /HugeExxagerationButSeriouslyTheyDoItBig) with multiple product releases in every possible category of an electronic consumer’s life.

Screening 63

Screening Mobile Content Platform 63

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. We were looking at all sorts of strategic decisions that Sony was considering, which required analysis and data on broadband networks, Internet portas and mobile handsets/networks.

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Statistics Startup Report Research 415

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2012

You won’t last long as an entrepreneur in this category, since a startup is all about taking risks. If you meet someone through Internet networking, or if someone with no visible professional standing contacts you with interest in your plan, an NDA is the least you should do protect yourself. Who is right? Unknown interested party.

Startup 97

Startup Patents Sample Ideas 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2013

You won’t last long as an entrepreneur in this category, since a startup is all about taking risks. If you meet someone through Internet networking, or if someone with no visible professional standing contacts you with interest in your plan, an NDA is the least you should do to protect yourself. Who is right? Unknown interested party.

Ideas 92

Ideas Demand Patents Entrepreneur 92

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We recognized that it was a large business, with American Greetings having about an 80 million dollar a year e-card business, and we thought we could bring some hipness and freshness to the category. Our product is called Starring You, which lets oyu put yourself into any video we create. So, we launched JibJab eCards.

Content 138

Content Startup Screening Education 138

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills). Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

Twiistup 228

Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2011

You won’t last long as an entrepreneur in this category, since a startup is all about taking risks. If you meet someone through Internet networking, or if someone with no visible professional standing contacts you with interest in your plan, an NDA is the least you should do protect yourself. Who is right? Unknown interested party.

Patents 90

Patents Sample Ideas Entrepreneur 90

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: What’s been the most after sought category of items? Right now we’ve got: an intern that started on Thursday, a designer, a developer, and myself. Then moved out to San Francisco to work for walmart.com.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Media Sites 99

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. Paid Search – Customers which click on sponsored ads associated with search keywords fall into this category.

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Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire will continue on a strong growth trajectory throughout the remainder of the year, driving revenues for the company as we work to transform the telecom category.”

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2010

You won’t last long as an entrepreneur in this category, since a startup is all about taking risks. If you meet someone through Internet networking, or if someone with no visible professional standing contacts you with interest in your plan, an NDA is the least you should do protect yourself. Who is right? Unknown interested party.

Startup 48

Startup Patents Sample Entrepreneur 48