Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Be sure it matches your business, and get a hosting agreement from one of the popular providers like GoDaddy. Open an account with PayPal.

Commerce 99

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Be sure it matches your business, and get a hosting agreement from one of the popular providers like GoDaddy. Open an account with PayPal.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. He’s right about this.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

Startup 333

Startup Class Conference Product 333

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Be sure it matches your business, and get a hosting agreement from one of the popular providers like GoDaddy. Open an account with PayPal.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2012

So far, I’ve covered how to decide which type of app you’re looking to create and how to use your market research to decide what features you want your app to have. If you’re new to software development, you may be asking yourself, “What the heck is a User Story, anyway?”

Marketing 53

Marketing Screening Social Network Email 53

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2012

Matthew Goldman: We're helping people to simplify the decision they make when they pay for products. To merchants, what is in your wallet looks just like a regular credit card. But, it's not a new line of credit, and it's not a new account. It's just an access point for all of the other cards I your wallet.

Help 157

Help Social Media Incubator Services 157

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Yet if you look at some very successful market changes in the last few years it does point to technical prowess in the number 1 seat. Case in point is the return of Larry Page to the role as CEO of Google. Much less has been said about when the technical CEO is the best person to run the company.

CTO Hire 309

CTO Hire Organization Google Course 309

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Determine whether your business name needs to be trademarked, and if does Trademark it at the USPTO. Protect your written works and code through the Copyright Office. If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Vet your idea with the idea checklist.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

We took into account innovation and entrepreneurship, style and appeal, originality, community, and value. Codeita is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based, web development environment. It allows users to code, develop, brainstorm, communicate and then publish projects and files to your web server. 22, 2010.

Company 106

Company Companies Web Evite 106

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

As you probably know, PayPal just opened up their platform to outside developers, and we took a look at that and the opportunity it presented, and build something based on the PayPal API. Lottay's gift are virtual things--anything you want--attached to real money, in a PayPal account. So, is this launched and fully usable tomorrow?

Evite 157

Evite Startup Ideas Ticketmaster 157

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

One useful technique for keeping your eyes focused on what really matters is Cayenne Consulting’s Venture Value Scorecard™. The Venture Value Scorecard is a one-page summary of your company’s achievements and assets: the factors that contribute to the value of your organization.

.Net 89

.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

There are 3 vital questions to ask when putting together a campaign; 1- Is the thing I’m raising money for a great product? 2- How am I talking about my product? He shared, ‘When creating a campaign it’s key to remember that people are fans of you – not the actual product, so you want to be sure to communicate your why.’.

Startup 109

Startup Examples Social Media Media 109

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996).

Startup 89

Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 89

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. After a record low of 39 U.S.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Startup Report Summary 95

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). It creates free innovation on your platform that drives user growth and engagement. was the “static&# web.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

In short, if you are always on the go, apps are your best friend. It is no wonder that the average apps user spends 139 minutes per day browsing them, according to a report by Flurry, a company catering to app developers. The premise is simple: if you want to engage with your customers, go where they are and where you can matter.

Mobile 40

Mobile Social Media Google Software Review 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work.

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys.

Startup 94

Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 94

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

It’s a piece of marketing collateral you get to create. The way you talk about your business, develop your brand voice, gauge demand, and connect with your audience. To know who and where the product is coming from allows people to see first-hand on how the product is made.

Startup 74

Startup Funding Capital Help 74

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Let's talk about your product first, tell us about your hardware? We use a Camera SLR camera, which works with any of our three products out there. We developed an automatic book scanner. It did very, very well, and based on all of the feedback we received, we designed our latest product, the Bookdrive Pro.

Google 100

Google Startup West Los Angeles Content 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Facebook just hit 1 billion active users globally and that was great but a new social payment application is set to make Facebook users across the world get more from their connections and even allowing companies to sell or receive payments from their pages. As we know, developers always give their product a code name.

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

Software Review 145

Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We provide three lines of service, one is called Developer Advice, which is not a common service out there--where customers can have confidential discussions with our architects through a secure forum, so that they're not posting specifics about their customers or projects publicly. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

You need to research the possibilities in a new landscape but your personal research has been well, a bit fruitless. Perhaps it’s time to raise a round of Venture Capital funding and want a pitch presentation a bit more composed than the dusty Keynote you put together last year for your friends and family round. Investor Decks.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review Outsource 105

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome (www.sendmehome.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a free service to print out labels which attach to your item, and where you can register items in case they are lost. Andrew Lee: The front page is designed for people returning items, and is easy to use. It's been a few months in development.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Startup Writing Ideas 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. You can use it to quickly turn your location data into a complete mapping website and companion iPhone app.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Pitching stories and getting your name out to various companies and editors requires a lot of work. No matter where I worked, I never found any sort of product that managed the workflow between editors and writers and it is the number one problem in the publishing world. Freelancing is a tough gig for many writers. It’s standardized.

Journal 90

Journal Startup Writing Media 90

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. Insider Pages.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads. Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Developments Blog. Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 » More. Loading… Business. » More. » More.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. Who are your customers, partners or suppliers?

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? This week was had Jason Calacanis as our guest.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285