Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Our call recovered and we spent the rest of the time talking about the development of their management team and their product. In your VC pitch your PR page should take no longer than 30 seconds – Wait. Many entrepreneurs have a PR page in the PowerPoint deck. PR is subtle. Again, I reiterate, it IS important.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Yet if your service is consulting, for example, real travel is required to deliver the product. Startup market research and focus groups. Market research should start in the library, but it better extend into meetings with potential customers in the various geographies and cultures that are part of your market segment.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. They are changing all the time, and we constantly have new products and partners, as our inventory churns and things are no longer available, or if they are seasonal in nature.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results only when users search words imply an interest in your products. If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the same page as the search results for widgets. Keyword research and budget forecasting. Cost per click (CPC).

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

There is nothing wrong with researching an idea yourself, getting it started yourself, validating the idea yourself and then asking people to join you.” Mark encourages emerging entrepreneurs to be bold, yet he admits that with his first startup, he boldly pushed PR before the product was ready. Business development is sales.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

With more drug development focusing on combinations of various therapies, the move is meant to have FDA evaluators and scientists from each division working more closely together. Juno, based in Seattle, is developing cancer immunotherapies that use a patient’s own live but genetically modified T cells, a key part of the immune system.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2014

It’s not just about large sweeping policy changes for electric cars or large scale research on future, intangible technologies. Recently, they launched a Kickstarter video to fund their first production run of the powerful notebook sized solar charger. How The Sunjack Works. ” – Harold Tan, COO of Go Green Solar, Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Despite the benefits of developing an app, there are valid reasons why retailers choose not to invest in one. Developing a mobile app can be extremely expensive and some retailers believe it is futile to spend that money if a mobile-optimized site is already in place. MYTH: Development costs are too high.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. 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. The money slide is the graphic below.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

And human food production is just one aspect of agricultural technology—a vast field that also includes animal food and more. This channel of our website, with its own home page, will feature all articles about these subjects and related topics from across our 11-market network. In short, the field is exploding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2012

Matthew Goldman: We're helping people to simplify the decision they make when they pay for products. I was there for three years, from 2006 to 2009, in product management and working with retailers launching programs. We spoke with founder Matthew Goldman about the startup. What is Wallaby? What does that look like to a consumer?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

If you’re a developer you ought to be asking yourself the question. What websites one visits, what pictures they look at, whose FB page they checking out – are not fair game in a world where you care about trust. You can turn it off, but they defaulted it to an on setting to drive more adoption of the product.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

At the gathering, Biden took verbal shots at scofflaw cancer researchers and at drug prices, while the FDA said it would take a shot at restructuring the way it evaluates oncology products. If you want fireworks this weekend, you can either celebrate the 4th of July or watch the latest post-Brexit political developments in Britain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

Many people don’t post about their experiences, but still routinely check first to see what others are saying about the brand and the product online. For example, mobile now has become the formidable new communication channel, posting a year-over-year growth rate of 47 percent in 2014, according to WBR Digital Research.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

As part of the Obama administration’s “cancer moonshot” program, a panel of scientists this week presented a set of broad, ambitious recommendations to speed up the pace of cancer research, treatment, and prevention. Results from the … Next Page » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

He helped turn a jellyfish protein into an invaluable lab tool that every researcher knows as “GFP”—green fluorescent protein, which is used to illuminate the inner workings of cells. His Nobel stemmed from his work on fluorescent proteins, now a laboratory staple in biological and medical research.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2016

Qualcomm had worked to develop its Vuforia technology for at least five years before a maturing smartphone market and new economic realities led to the sale. He described them as “natural extensions” of PTC’s already successful CAD, Product Lifecycle Management, Application Lifecycle Management, and Service Lifecycle Management businesses.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The Obama administration wants to speed up cancer research with its “Cancer Moonshot” program—packing 10 years’ worth of work on prevention and treatment programs into five is one of its rallying cries. The FDA agreed this summer to reorganize the way it evaluates drugs, diagnostics, and other cancer-related products.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

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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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The healthcare tools of the future often start as research projects in academic medical centers, but they may not break out into widespread clinical practice until some sort of logjam gives way to make them workable and affordable. Up until now, these scans have been used only at Stanford and nine other medical research centers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

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. Products: You obviously can’t create value without a viable product (or service) to sell. Detail isn’t important; tracking your progress is. His website is [link].

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research founding director Tyler Jacks has spent decades making important contributions in cancer research, but until forming Cambridge, MA-based Dragonfly Therapeutics, he’d never spun a startup out of his own lab at MIT. —David H. Its financials were posted here.

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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. They went into full product phase over the summer, and unveiled the post-prototype, alpha, pre-beta, whatever you want to call it, at TechCrunch50.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Soon after, while his girlfriend and mother were participating in a walk to support breast cancer research and honoring their lost, Brandon noticed the many personalized t-shirts that were promoting the same idea – telling ones story in support of a cause. Online Awareness.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

It’s been a short, but action packed few months since we were introduced to The Immunity Project ‘s goal to “develop a free vaccine for HIV/AIDS” The organization’s aptly named Twitter handle is @hackHIV and they’re the second nonprofit organization ever to be backed by Bay Area Incubator, Y-Combinator (YC).

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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.”. Credit for the writing and research of this article and content below goes to goes to them as well.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

After you sign up for an account, super easy if you have a Facebook account, you are taken to a page with available lounges for you to view video. The browser is finally awakening after 17 some odd years of research and development. Chill.com , from the makers of Namesake , is a video community sharing platform.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

I recently developed a more human framework for early-stage startups to define their startup DNA and lay some foundations for a sustainable business. Having a clear focus means it’s easier to communicate what your product is and who it’s for. Here are two examples. By focusing on the ‘why?’

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

. • Management will have to be willing to forgo millions in revenue in the short term by giving up the coveted advertising on the login page, to rebuild a compelling user experience. Music – enable a dead simple player on band and profile pages that lets users upload their songs and have them purchased for any price they set.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

The exciting this, and the biggest benefit from bootstrapping this from recruiting, is I've been able to develop, and hand-pick a world class technology team. It was developed from a different angle. There are lots of people there doing competitive intelligence, or doing research on an industry or landscape.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Banner or AdSense style ads placed either at the top of the page or down the right hand side (often called a skyscraper) would only net Twitter money for users that log into Twitter.com. Because they wouldn’t have the enormous amounts of profits that they’ve been able to sink back into research & development.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

For today's interview, we connected with George Ruan and Dr. Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. What's the idea behind Quub?

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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. All the while, you have product to maintain and a team to manage, but the very thought of hiring a VP or consulting firm makes you cringe. Marketing & Branding. Investor Decks. Due Diligence. Financial Models.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A research from Indiana University also points that aside from the information and personalization, apps provide the connection between the user and the brand they know and trust. 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.

Mobile 40

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

What we did, instead, was enable affiliates, particularly on higher margin or more complex products like insurance, travel, or education--to call someone. We did extensive customer research and testing to develop our platform, which has the functionality, control, and visibility that advertisers, publishers, and networks need.

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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.

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