Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In my experience as a business advisor, one of the best ways to get all of these, is to publish a book on the technology, the journey, or some relevant lessons learned. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Invoca is now doing 10s of millions in recurring revenue and is growing > 75% year-over-year but it took the first 3 years to really build out the technology and acquire our initial enterprise clients. We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 15 million first checks but we also have three growth funds.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

To our delight, technology has evolved and improved in many ways over that time. Technology evolution can be cyclical, with some branches looping back to the past with surprising vigor and without much self-awareness. Through our fifteen years, we've been charged with helping clients get business done with technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Based on my years of experience as a new business advisor, I always find leadership to be more important to business success than any new technology or innovative solution. These authors bring a wealth of experience in this domain from their workshops, writing, and lecturing on business leadership worldwide. Kouzes and Barry Z.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. ” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story.

Marketing 389

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

Outsource Development 122

Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Technical Review 122

socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2019

We caught up with founder and CEO Clint Brauer , a former executive from LA's technology industry who went home to Kansas to get back into farming, to learn more about how robotics can be applied to agriculture. With the amount of technology required for robots, how does the cost of this compare with those chemical treatments?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

I’ve been writing a series on a simple methodology that we used at my first enterprise software company. If you’ve done a good job in the sales process you’ve already written out a needs document in which your wrote out what you believe the customer problems are with specific examples. Maybe they don’t?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

It’s what happens to me at ePoxy since I’m very public about investing in technology companies in the video sector and they have one of the most elegant products to help with video distribution that I’ve ever seen and one of the most talented product teams I’ve worked with in LA. I have fallen in love twice recently.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. Example here: [link]. Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators. I know Jim, Mark, Kurt (see Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics ).

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Yet, actors remain a main part to character development (based on personality), as well as the ‘performance’ of the film. One of my favorite examples of this would be Robbin Williams as the CG animated genie in Aladdin,” exclaims Morris excitedly. “One Actors are brought in, from the beginning, to record voice in studio.

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Technical Review Technology Examples Malibu 90

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

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. Here's an example of that kind of email. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Nobody likes to hear you say, “we can’t tell you anything we’re in stealth mode&# so develop some generic talking points that don’t give anything away when you’re asked what you do. I think a great example right now is turntable.fm. It’s a buggy product but pretty damn cool. Read their articles.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One of the firms which has been active in that area is Los Angeles-based CauseCast (www.causecast.com), run by Ryan Scott , who talked us about the company's relationship with the Huffington Post, its new efforts to provide its technology to companies interested in corporate social responsibility, and other initiatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2019

Based on my years of experience as a new business advisor, I always find leadership to be more important to business success than any new technology or innovative solution. These authors bring a wealth of experience in this domain from their workshops, writing, and lecturing on business leadership worldwide. Kouzes and Barry Z.

Activity 92

Activity Entrepreneur Mentor Writing 92

Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2024

We also offer some advice for writing your application, to make sure your proposal is as competitive as possible. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) 🔎 Want to browse the web privately? Learn more about the SBIR grant, and how to apply here.

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Outsource Development Technical Review Research Writing 207

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

I got started in investment banking, focused on helping medical companies buy technology companies, and then later in the enterprise space and in the cloud. I also think there's an interesting opportunity in Los Angeles, as the tech scene continues to develop and mature. I went to business school in between all of that.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Tech Reporters: These individuals will write and edit informative and practical articles on a range of topics including Startups/Entrepreneurs, Gadgets, Mobile Tech, Tech in Entertainment, Gaming, Apps & Software, productivity, and cover breaking tech news. Think you may be interested? Take a look below and give us a shout.

Technical Review 71

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

This month’s big question is Examples of Big Impact from Technology and I’ve taken it as an opportunity to go back and look at the elements of different projects that I’ve worked on over the years that have had a big impact. For example, one model is that at each check-in, the user rates how well they’ve done on completing each goal.

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Satisfaction Examples Course Technical Review 167

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

It helps get of how hard it is to send a postcard nowadays, where you have to look for a postcard at a kiosk, write out that postcard, find a stamp, and all sorts of other stuff. The example for the New York app, is your face becomes Lady Liberty's face, and you can then post it on Facebook or Tweet it.

Guide 232

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

Everywhere, technology is starting to percolate into an otherwise prosaic, non-tech industry—apply big data, apply machine learning—and revolutionize it.”. Rao added, “With this acquisition, Intel is formally committing to pushing the forefront of AI technologies.”.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? We found that aggregation technology was very keyword driven, and relevancy was not that strong.

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Web Newsletter Content Startup 237

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. Sunil Rajaraman: That's a good question.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2017

Every business has to start with a leader – someone to drive through the thousand unknowns of every new venture, no matter how big the opportunity, or how amazing the technology. As an entrepreneur, even with no prior startups, you must highlight non-business examples. Communication skills. Self-confidence. Moral courage.

Startup 56

Startup Examples Course Entrepreneur 56

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. They told you, “Yeah, man, I’ll gladly write the first $250,000. Have the breakthrough technology. I’d like to give you a few examples that are more nuanced: 1. CEO transparency.

Startup 417

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

If you have a software development background like mine, Im sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

Outsource Development 95

Outsource Development Outsource Offshore Software Review 95

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer. The third co-founder is Bobby McDonald , Vice President, Director of Business Development.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

The Knight News Challenge is a contest which highlights digital news experiments and technology, and is closely watched by those in the news industry. They wanted to use the platform we had developed in a class called Mashup Culture. I was a development executive and independent producer. We grew out of an interesting use case.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

I myself have been involved with computational thinking for nearly 40 years now—building technology for it, applying it in lots of places, studying its basic science—and trying to understand its principles. And I’m trying to do everything I can with our technology to support the effort. The Wolfram Language is a programming language.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2011

One of Urbandig's co-founders, Mike Macadaan -- the former VP of User Experience at MySpace, and creator of the technology conference Twiistup--sat down to talk to us about the company. Now, it's perfect, both because I'm a big iPhone guy, and soon will be an Android guy, as we're developing a version for Android. When did you launch?

Guide 203

Guide Software Review Twiistup Technical Review 203

InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2011

As you draft the agreement, include specific examples, especially when numeric formulas and calculations are involved. For instance, if you are describing the terms of a licensing fee, add one or more real-world examples which utilize real numbers. Shade minor aspects of the deal in your favor, such as: payment terms (i.e.,

Outsource Development 244

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Resource Press 244

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

lynda.com was born from my desire to share new technology with others. We have never been in a hurry to make something happen more quickly than it was supposed to – there has been no reason to take on investors or enter new markets that we can’t develop on our own profits and initiative.”.

Entrepreneur 245

Entrepreneur Training Startup Web 245

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

lynda.com was born from my desire to share new technology with others. We have never been in a hurry to make something happen more quickly than it was supposed to – there has been no reason to take on investors or enter new markets that we can’t develop on our own profits and initiative.”.

Entrepreneur 245

Entrepreneur Training Startup Web 245

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

For example, if a customer has a question on a purchase, we answer that. Our project manager, a couple of our advisors, and a couple of our sales people, our head of business development--we're all from Active. We want to be the technology tool kit for social commerce. As part of that, I built a ton of relationships at Active.

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