TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

Privacy is important, so inventory owners can choose the restrictions on who can see the liquidation, like competitors, and it doesn’t appear in Google searches, Kaplan explained. Ghost is not alone in developing technology focused on inventory. to develop some sweet inventory-planning software. Buyers then can bid on the goods.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. For Google, this is pay per impression (PPI), or pay per mille (PPM) per thousand impressions. Campaign setup and ad copy writing. Cost per click (CPC).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Bank as well as many startups like Gusto and MakeSpace and innumerable massive clients that weren’t on my approved list of clients I could disclose ;) but we partner with Google, Adobe, Salesforce and many others. We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 When you think about what makes Google so valuable?—?it’s

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2015

As a creative director at a software development company, I am always looking for ways to speed up our design and development process and to include as many people and teams working on the project. These teams are usually: business, design, frontend, development, and quality assurance. Sitemap & Wire-Framing. Pretty, cool.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. I often hear the excuse that writing a book takes precious time away from building and running your business, which you cannot afford.

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Writing Technical Review Entrepreneur Advertising 19

TechEmpower

MAY 17, 2013

Additionally, we have added a new test type focused on writes, wherein a variable number of database updates are executed per request. MySQL with MyISAM was substantially faster at writes than with InnoDB, but the official Round 5 results are using InnoDB. This is Round 5, but it''s only the first round with Windows results.

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Framework EC2 Web Writing 524

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The key to networking in the tech world is you do not need to be the best in the world, you just need to be passionate, willing to learn and in a lot of cases be the best designer or developer that people know. I have applied at Google 1000 times, never heard back, but I used social media to finally get a call from them about a decade later.

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Design Networking Social Media Google 91

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Do you think that the CEO of Google should answer every written letter he receives? I know it may feel this way since I’m writing this tongue in cheek. It was a sufficient barrier and we developed social graces. The person writing things he or she is doing me a favor. I’m not an elitist a **e. I still sleep at night.

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Email Writing Conference Mobile 250

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

If you look at some high-profile tech companies funded in the last big VC cycle you had eBay, Amazon, Salesforce & Google each go public having raised < $100 million in VC TOTAL prior to IPO and their last private-market valuation were all sub $400 million. trillion in value. But there are clear pro’s and con’s.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Writing a blog is all about communication, and that’s your number one job as founder of a new startup. Hone your communication skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Writing a blog is all about communication, and that’s your number one job as founder of a new startup. Hone your communication skills.

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Blogging Product Startup Writing 104

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2014

Glass needs to be completely locked down and Google-free to protect the privacy of patients and respect the policies of the hospitals we serve. We were excited about Google’s release of the Glass Development Kit (GDK) because of the ability to insert launchers into the “ok glass” menu. Intro to Rooted Glass.

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Google Design Content Screening 89

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. Don’t forget business writing and communication.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Yes, Google won.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Truecar 376

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. It will take them time to know your company, socialize your story with the right journalists, wait until those journalists are gearing up to write relevant stories, etc.

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Startup Writing Blogging Press 349

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. Don’t forget business writing and communication.

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Entrepreneur Tips Writing Coach 98

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We also have live lab sessions, which we run through Google+ Hangouts, which mirror the school education experience. YouTube has a player which works in Google hangouts, so they can instantly screen your work or your pitch, and you can get instant feedback that way. We wanted to replicate that experience online.

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Web Content Startup Education 187

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. So Google launched Google AdWord and AdSense based in part on technology it acquired when it bought an LA-based company called Applied Semantics.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Xconomy

APRIL 14, 2017

OK Google, remind me to pay the power bill.” Editor’s note: This piece was originally posted on Textio’s company blog. Hey Siri, how’s the weather today?” “OK Alexa, tell me a joke!” Bots are eating the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. Don’t forget business writing and communication.

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Writing Coach Incubator Entrepreneur 111

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

I'm sure this is obvious to Google and it's partners, but until this happens, don't get too excited about what interoperability means. It will make life better if you are developing applications that you'd like to play in multiple places (write once, integrate/debug everywhere).

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Writing Platform Sites Google 150

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

So finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. There’s also the opportunity to do some consulting with interested customers to provide needed revenue while the product is still under development.

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Blogging Invest Startup Writing 93

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

Croquet is developing software for collaborative applications, which has applications in virtual worlds and augmented and virtual reality. The big win is, first of all, since it looks like a single computer to the developer, they just have to program their software as a single computer. It's all on the client side.

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Platform Startup Web Examples 168

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

We all have one-click purchase power (Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay). Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Tech.Co

JANUARY 6, 2020

If you're looking for a free editing software, the choice is clear: Audacity , a volunteer-developed audio editing program that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and doesn't cost a penny. Google Play — This is separate from the Google Podcast app, which at the time of writing doesn't offer a submission form. iHeartRadio.

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RSS Startup Media Template 104

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. and I realized that without years of experience it is tough to answer this question.

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Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

We are going to write checks of between $100,000 and $500,000, and we are going to invest in what we are calling first institutional capital. We help companies do the same kind of thing, except with corporate development. We'll continue to write checks into our companies, whether that is from our fund or SBDs from our LP base.

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Invest Funding Capital Startup 145

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

On myfab5, people rank their favorite places instead of giving them star ratings and write bite-sized reviews instead of writing long reviews. When talking to review site users, we found the top two reasons people don’t write reviews is because it takes too long and it is confusing. Don’t like a restaurant? Who are the founders?

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Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In my opinion it’s the most natural fit and it would give Netflix a very strong presence in Los Angeles and in TV (obviously subject to getting the right writes from the studios). It would be like if Microsoft undermined it’s Office franchise by aggressively pursuing a Google Docs like strategy. It defied logic.

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Netflix Evite Pricing Hulu 329

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

I’m largely talking about whether to use an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and to some extent, how much to rely on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers or write your own application components. PaaS, on the other hand, will provide a development platform (as a service) to create new applications.

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SaaS Framework Resource Google 90

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Lead investors and follow investors can both win equally but in each case you know why you personally are writing the check. Remember that you’ll be investing against people who have worked on the Google algorithm and REALLY know what drives SEO. Oh, and he was acquired by and worked at Google. Connections. Domain knowledge.

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Invest Angel Web 2.0 SEO 288

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company. SEO is not placing ads, but tuning your website so that it is more highly ranked by Google, and featured in the first page of results, not in an ad beside the results. Campaign setup and ad copy writing.

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Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack. There''s lots of technology development behind what you do - can you talk about that? The world here is constantly changing -- particularly with shifts to mobile, Google algorithms, etc. -

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. People write their thoughts knowing that anybody else can see them. Take action – Obviously when Michael Arrington is writing something scathing about your product you want to pay attention and take action.

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Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. How does this work?

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

It also takes only an hour to develop your own using a rapid development framework like CakePHP. Normally, one would use analytics tools such as Google Analytics to obtain raw data on how a site performs. Nowadays, you’ll never run out of choices when it comes to contact form plugins that can easily be integrated into your site.

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Tool Custom Customer Sites 39

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

I give a sneak peek at a blog post I’m writing on the topic next week. No problem to have some developers in remote locations. Google’s investment in Zynga. Heck, stick around and watch me discuss the seed funding debate that is going on right now and what is happening in the VC industry overall. Beyond The Rack.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Southern California 210