Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

A question that I still hear debated often is whether a new startup growth strategy should focus on user count or profits. Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” So let’s take a look.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

People can buy anything, look up news, watch videos, and the list goes on and on. App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. Matt Lucido wanted to help with everyone’s daily life by creating a service app called Porter. Services such as house cleaning, dry cleaning, wash & fold, and pet care.

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Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). The challenges for making money and survival in these professional services worlds are different, maybe even tougher. Shape your business by design, not by default.

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Social Media Pricing Technical Review Demand 56

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Even with instant two-way communication via the Internet and mobile phones, your greatest new solution or service won’t found or properly recognized without marketing. The challenge is to rise above the clutter, and stand out in the rush of over 500,000 other new businesses that get started in the U.S. every month.

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Marketing Metrics Social Media Content 96

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2016

CEO, David Hanson, American robotics designer and researcher created Sophia in the likes of Hollywood legend, Audrey Hepburn and his lovely wife. In an interview with Sophia for CNBC, she says, “I am already very interested in design, technology and the environment. Sophia’s Secret Sauce. Sophia’s Interest and Goals. Cue Violins).

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Artificial Inteligence Snapchat Design Hollywood 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. KickStarter?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

So the question is: what new back-end services can Glass feed and receive data from? What can Glass do that smartphones can’t, and how will that additional / new data drive new back-end services? I expect to see a flood of services that try to take advantage of Glass’s ability to capture pictures and videos so effortlessly.

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Google Content Snapchat Services 74

LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

Up to seven companies will be selected for this year’s program, which launches right after Labor Day, and wraps in the middle of November. WeTransfer : A six-year-old bootstrapped, Amsterdam-based file-sharing service introduced to the SMASHD team by a Harvard professor, which has been profitable for the past six years.

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Mentor Venture Capital Draper USC 75

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

He was running to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles and he outlined his vision to “open up the city government to technology and innovation” if he were elected. The “Snapchat effect” as I like to call it is that many engineers now want to stay and many more want to move here. LA has only just begun.

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Riot Games Los Angeles Technical Review Venture Capital 191

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA. The best designed mobile apps use the accelerometer, the camera, map integration, location, contact book integration, QR codes and so on. Think about Snapchat.

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Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105