Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2015

One of the best ways for increase in business development is to create a more responsive web design. This can help people to spend more time on your website, especially if they can have more fun and a more pleasant experience with your product through your website. Here are some of the most important features to consider.

Web Design 40

Web Design Web Design Develop 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

If there are conflicts within the team, or differing views of the strategy, or evidence of missing processes and tools, the investment process will likely be terminated. Make yourself available to answer any questions, show your enthusiasm, and explain both the positives and negatives of the external investment process.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Fullerton-based Hipgeo , the developers of iPhone apps for tracking and logging your travels, said today that it has launched a new version of its product which is specifically aimed at travelers.

eHarmony 154

eHarmony Yahoo San Diego Blogging 154

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. ” So other partners at the firm might sling mud at your ideas as you go for approval on an investment. Lots of it.

Funding 362

Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2022

For example, a smaller business with $10-20,000 in monthly revenue will only need to spend a monthly $25 on FinMark's product, while a business that makes over $1 million will be spending $2,500 a month on FinMark. Investing in stock is a great idea for anyone, and you can never get started too early. in total. .

Startup 200

Startup Invest FAQ Examples 200

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, lawyers, venture capitalists, or Angels. The cost of entry has never been lower.

Startup 100

Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2011

SeeVolution said the funding will go towards development of new services and features, as well as other tiers of services and products. Seevolution provides a real-time, analytics and heatmap service which shows clicks, mouse movement, and scrolling by users over web pages. Source of the new funding was not disclosed.

Angel 187

Angel Web Los Angeles Funding 187

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

As a simple example, the Wal-Mart website now shows shoppers more products that they may like, based on previous purchases. The Wal-Mart home page is customized for each shopper based on location, local weather, and the customer search and purchase history. Algorithms and data are required to compete.

Competition 142

Competition Software Review Social Media Customer 142

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2014

We have around 350 products all aimed at kids of all kinds of ages. We have an impulse activity line, combined with a party line as well, and the products developed by P.S. XO. Talk about what''s different here from a typical retail product company? Talk about what''s different here from a typical retail product company?

Commerce 138

Commerce Mobile Startup Product 138

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. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches?

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. 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. Personalize a simple web site.

Commerce 99

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. 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. Personalize a simple web site.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on paid search results (appear on the first page of search results, right hand column, despite low SEO rank). This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Cost per click (CPC).

Paid Search 90

Paid Search PPC Organization SEO 90

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. Develop an efficient and effective writing style.

Blogging 110

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media 110

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I love good causes and social entrepreneurs, but a recent pitch to me about eliminating world hunger with a new product (harvesting algae at low cost) seemed to forget that really hungry people don’t have any money. Start by developing an “elevator pitch,” that you can deliver in thirty seconds to hook a potential customer or investor.

Ideas 94

Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming. PuddleWorks – PuddleWorks is developing interactive mobile games and leveraging these products and capabilities to develop a powerful franchise.

UCLA 47

UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

With the an estimated 150K new websites and 7M new pages added to the Internet every day, the biggest challenge for every entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. The biggest roadblock is that startup founders already have too much to do building a product, mapping strategy, courting investors, etc.

Blogging 93

Blogging Invest Startup Writing 93

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Page 1: Market Size. $3 I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link. I was wrong.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or angels. 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. Personalize a simple web site.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

This new model (now only legal in the UK) will allow large numbers of “regular” people to invest small amounts each online to get an ownership position in early startups. Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. People can invest (donate) money to a project which has good moral/ethical value.

Funding 99

Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 99

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

It's a huge development task to develop your own mobile application, connect into Facebook, and create an online ordering system--unless you use the software from ChowNow (www.chownow.com), one of the newest startups to get funding here in Los Angeles. The platform can be divided into three products. One is the mobile app.

Mobile 197

Mobile Startup Platform GRP Partners 197

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

If there are conflicts within the team, or differing views of the strategy, or evidence of missing processes and tools, the investment process will likely be terminated. Make yourself available to answer any questions, show your enthusiasm, and explain both the positives and negatives of the external investment process.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

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. At Xconomy, we have seen growing investments in the sector—both in a rash of new agtech startups and by bigger players such Monsanto, Bayer Crop Sciences, and Syngenta. and Cybersecurity.

Newsletter 40

Newsletter Research Technology Equity 40

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. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Marty Zwilling.

SEM 90

SEM Marketing Startup Search Engine Optimization 90

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Yet if your service is consulting, for example, real travel is required to deliver the product. Most young businesses with a new product plan to attend as many as ten shows or conferences per year across the country or around the world. Business development and strategic partners. Sharing your passion for the business live.

Startup 100

Startup Tips Mentor Conference 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2014

Investors tell me that they invest in people more than the idea. It’s especially important to highlight your uniqueness in some easy to remember way, so people will think of you and what you do, in case they need your product or service. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business.

Startup 98

Startup Tips Customer Custom 98

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. Sam Rogoway: Near Networks is a national production studio that creates online videos for local businesses across the country.

Networking 150

Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. I’m a big believer in product stability & performance before adding too many features. And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. In our next meeting I asked them how often it crashed. Is it 4/1,000?

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). I won’t belabor this – I have an investment in this space ( ad.ly ) so I’m biased. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. uh, hello!

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

This new model will allow large numbers of “regular” people to invest small amounts each online to fund early startups. As a current Angel investor, I can attest that any investments in startups are more risky than the commodity markets, and you shouldn’t expect to see any return for five years. Pre-order crowd funding.

Funding 96

Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 96

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. DST invested $180mm last fall.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

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. The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products.

Social Media 113

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

She also has served at DoubleClick, had a stint as an investment banker at JPMorgan, been a venture capitalist at Bertelsmann Ventures, and started with an Electrical Engineering degree before her MBA. That makes the model for content work a little better than just breaking news, where someone just comes in for one page and leaves.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

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.

Mobile 100

Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Speaking of the new investment, CapLinked CEO Eric M. Jackson said, “We’re using the proceeds from our financing round to invest in our technology, build new features, and increase sales and support.”. Jackson added that the firm was proud of its product, and even uses its own software to manage their capital raised from investors.

Draper 68

Draper Google Software Engineering Invest 68

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

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. The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products.

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100