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Interview with Julie Novack, PartySlate

socalTECH

People who are researching weddings and other events can come to PartySlate, and see these beautiful photos, and if they see photos they like, they can contact the local event professionals and venues in those photos. I feel strongly, that if you're going to do this, you need to be technical, or have a technical co-founder.

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Equity Investment Platform Preparation Best Practices

Startup Professionals Musings

In my years of advising startups, and also as an occasional angel investor, I still recommend this set of best practices to prepare you for platform applications: Formalize a business entity immediately. Market research from credible third parties, such as Gartner Group, is also critical to success.

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Startup Weekend LA | An Insiders Story of a Startup on Steroids

Tech Zulu Event

The team needed would consist of at least 1 non-technical business person (me) and 2 or more technical people—designer and developer. I was only able to create a team with non-technical business people and a designer. Business Development (BD) worked on a business plan, market research and customer validation.

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

Xconomy

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Catch #Mindshare50 Talks Live on TechZulu

Tech Zulu Event

Bushnell is currently co-founder and chief game designer for Anti-Aging Games. Effects Artist and Technical Director, Dreamworks AnimationJason hails from Kentucky, where his parents met at a Renaissance Faire, hooked up at the Wicca Coven, and raised him at sci-fi conventions. and the Chuck E Cheese’s Pizza-Time Theater chain.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

I am looking for one or two startups that I can work with on their road to success as a virtual C-level officer, board member, advisor or other relationship. This is actually fairly common and I think it’s a bit challenging in that the technology roles (from technology advisor to CTO) in a startup vary widely.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

There is nothing wrong with non-founders – by design they are the overwhelming majority of companies. Research your market. People design their products in a box assuming that they’ll show customers later and get feedback. The decision is already made. Your next business will have less ;-). Get customer input.

Startup 365