socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We have developed a tool that takes scientific, validated methodologies from academia, and use that to assess unconscious bias around race, gender, age, and other personality attributes, in the workplace. It's education, measurement, analysis, and ongoing mitigation strategy. That's what we do over the course of our two year contract.

Content 150

Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

42:20 Did agile development influence you? 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics. 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development! 1:09:50 We need education! 40:05 What happened after Imvu. 41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 43:20 The inception of Lean Startup.

Social Media 301

Social Media Startup Metrics Media 301

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Neither is effective without the other.

Startup 97

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Business risks are not just development risks. But these still need coaching on the unknowns, and ongoing education to keep up with the industry and the technology.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 101

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship. This education will continue. So we went ahead.

Venture Capital 287

Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Neither is effective without the other.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Empowering and educating everyone to make the right decisions at every opportunity leads to happy customers and business success. Communicate your values often, and use values-based performance metrics to gauge your results, measure the level of implementation, leadership development, and succession planning.

Startup 101

Startup Tips Education Customer 101

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Neither is effective without the other.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

Southern California 150

Southern California CTO Coach CTO Hire Social Media 150

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. Neither is effective without the other.

Sales 96

Sales Metrics Startup Entrepreneur 96

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The discussion includes the role these digital currencies will play in developing countries, where they’ll have the ability to skip over traditional (and slow) development cycles for progress. An audience member brings up education. A good indicator that the currency can, and is, being used for other things.

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2016

Implement metrics and set objectives for every organization. This is also the time for business development focus, related social causes, and exploring common ground (coopetition initiatives) with competitors. Spend real time on people development and succession planning. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

Entrepreneur 55

Entrepreneur Training Organization Examples 55

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2013

Empowering and educating everyone to make the right decisions at every opportunity leads to happy customers and business success. Communicate your values often, and use values-based performance metrics to gauge your results, measure the level of implementation, leadership development, and succession planning.

Startup 100

Startup Customer Custom Social Network 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Good press and industry mojo wasn’t enough to overcome the financial metrics of the business and the offers came in at more like $10 million. It is because when you share too much of this information with staff you develop an “options culture” the I find unhealthy. It was not. I wasn’t surprised. ” Yes.

Startup 417

Startup Course Venture Capital Writing 417

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Here are key maxims that I believe indicate a growth mindset rather than a fixed mindset: A need to learn from customers, rather than educate them. Successful entrepreneurs start with a customer problem, and develop a solution, rather than the other way around. Develop market insights and a growth vision far beyond today.

Startup 55

Startup Entrepreneur Technical Review Customer 55

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. If nothing else you will create board cohesion and board education by engaging your board. By being so metrics driven we can have a lot more quantifiable and objective discussions at board meetings and at mid-point reviews. .

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

We know language education is a huge market, with 1/7 of people around the world learning a new language. Something we didn’t know, mainstay education programs have < 1% course completion. Business Culture Development Entrepreneurship Events Investment Marketing Mobile Music Social Good Startups 500 Startups Dave McClure'

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2012

Empowering and educating everyone to make the right decisions at every opportunity leads to happy customers and business success. Communicate your values often, and use values-based performance metrics to gauge your results, measure the level of implementation, leadership development, and succession planning.

Startup 100

Startup Customer Custom Social Network 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The term a gile development is defined, and the panel agreed unanimously that maintaining this mindset is necessary. You need to research what they do, and on the development/API side, that’s something that you’ll have to go in and fix too. Instead, focus on what metric outputs, more views, more downloads?

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. That allowed me to take a summer to develop the new idea, and transform it into a business. Are people really willing to sell their stuff to benefit charities?

UCLA 256

UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Empowering and educating everyone to make the right decisions at every opportunity leads to happy customers and business success. Communicate your values often, and use values-based performance metrics to gauge your results, measure the level of implementation, leadership development, and succession planning.

Startup 92

Startup Customer Custom Social Network 92

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Many years ago I worked at Andersen Consulting, originally developing software for large corporations and then as a strategy consultant. They’re easily impressed when you’re selected for TechCrunch50 but not easily engaged in a detailed discussion about your conversion metrics. Let me explain. But much good also came.

Venture Capital 297

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur 297

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. Developers that use our analytics code are able to optimize their applications based on audience traffic trends.

Social Media 113

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2015

For an online retailer to create a retail website, starting your retail web development is just easy as clicking the mouse. He/she should only anticipate web development costs, hosting and domain name for the website, SSL certificate, and monthly fee from a preferred payment gateway.

Social Media 40

Social Media Search Engine Optimization Startup Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. Today’s higher education is responding by making more courses online and available to people outside of physical boundaries.

Venture Capital 403

Venture Capital Education Offshore Outsource Development 403

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. Developers that use our analytics code are able to optimize their applications based on audience traffic trends.

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

In addition, they aim to educate entrepreneurs on important topics like: Defining a lead investor and how to find one. They like getting in on deals in compelling spaces and enjoy telling others about why they love the companies they work with; they don’t repeat metrics and return models.

Invest 83

Invest Platform Entrepreneur Paramount 83

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

That required lots of developers to integrate it and work with it. MW: It has to do with the difference between a marketer and a developer. The marketers know all the right questions to ask, but the developers are the ones who actually have the ability to get the answer. The second problem is an attribution problem.

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

We narrowed it down to key-metrics. We done a lot of testing and development to make sure that if we want to stay in the U.S., The good thing is that what it takes is a good mentality shift and some education on where the industry is and where the market is going. We focused on the main things people are looking for.

Content 81

Content Entertainment Startup Los Angeles 81

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in developing countries , where infrastructure is lacking, and talent is not so concentrated. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric.

Capital 138

Capital Marketing Ideas Venture Capital 138

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in developing countries , where infrastructure is lacking, and talent is not so concentrated. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric.

Ideas 124

Ideas Venture Capital Software Review Technical Review 124

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Metrics availability. How to be a successful iPhone developer - 47 Hats , July 20, 2010 I came across this YouTube video of Brian Greenstone from Pangea Software talking about how his company made $1.5 Customer Development Diagnostics over Lunch. Not so bad. Performance. Angel vs VC? - at a $2.5M Customer Care Today.

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217