Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5 “There’s something going on in LA.”

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. I'm focusing on the sourcing ("lead gen" on her slide) aspect. Hire a Product Design Lead First Nailing that elusive technical co-founder I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

They spot opportunities that aren’t being met and the design products to meet these needs. Because they’re street smart, most great entrepreneurs tend to prefer getting out and talking with real customers rather than sitting in a cubicle all day doing beautiful PowerPoint slides.

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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. Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Every good technologist should start with at least a single page business plan, or construct a “pitch deck” of maybe a dozen PowerPoint slides to cover all the important content. Marty Zwilling First published on Predictable Designs on 06/10/2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

Following her experience teaching the class, she was inspired to write this article for Forbes where she expressed her amazement at the number of women in LA who are in tech or interested in making the leap into tech. The event is meant to provide attendees with actionable steps to take to transition into the LA tech scene.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

When most people think of training , the first thing that comes to mind is a mandatory meeting in a stuffy conference room with a boring instructor walking through poorly designed slides. Make it learner-centric. Why should an employee take this training? In many ways, competence comes down to support and accountability.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

RED FLAG #2 : This person came in saying he was a designer, disappeared for a few hours and said he was working on some iOS mockups but by the time we were ready to pitch, he delivered nothing. When I was creating the slide to introduce the team, he asked to be listed as an iOS developer instead of a designer as he was registered.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. But the problem with being all in – all in for me, let’s say I can write $10 to $12 million per company.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

My recommendation is to have an 8-12 slide decks with only the most critical factors of your business. The great thing about the VC pitch deck is that you can have 30 slides. Each slide should be minimalist, more graphics and less text. Too many people have 15-20 slides. VC Pitch Decks. Apple has shown us the way.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2016

It is a “Sliding Doors” tale of a couple of life events that lift Vance and propel him to cross socio-economic lines that are increasingly harder to pierce in the United States. This is where Sliding Doors creeps in. In another post coming soon I’ll write about my own journey. In each case J.D. But Vance escaped it all.

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Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

But if you want to level things up, you can use a platform like OptinMonster to create popup forms, sliding forms, floating bars, and sidebars. This means paying attention to factors such as page loading speed, web copy, and design. It’s basically the only thing you need to make future design and layout changes on your site.

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