socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2015

We sat down with Seriously CEO Andrew Stalbow --who previously had been GM North America for Rovio, and also was key to Fox''s content deals with Angry Birds--to hear more about the company, how it sees mobile games converging with Hollywood, and what it hopes to do with its first title, Best Fiends. They are super talented people there.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Mobile Content IP 100

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We know you've been doing well as a company, but surprisingly, not many people seen to be aware of what you are up to. Steve Jillings: We have been doing super well. Steve Jillings: We have been doing super well. What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2013

How do entrepreneurs get involved? Dirk Ahlborn: People can apply to work on those ideas, as we do some pre-selection there, and have people do things like a personality test to tell us how likely they are to be successful, and if they have what it takes to be an entrepreneur. Why start a new company to do this?

Ideas 178

Ideas Patents Funding Startup 178

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

What does MetaCloud do? Sean Lynch: What we do, in a nutshell, is provide private cloud as a service. In its simplest terms, we install OpenStack, plus two years of IP that we''ve developed here at MetaCloud, onto our client''s server, at their data center. It''s a very unique business model.

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It will enable the naturally creative but geographically and socially disenfranchised to make money doing what they love – participating. And suddenly every office in the country was doing their own version of the Harlem Shake. Maybe small amounts of money for what founders reading these pages dream of but life-changing for many.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2013

Some small business owners hope to reduce stress by keeping their business static, and believe that they can rely on referrals and repeat business to keep a consistent customer set. Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 105

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Some small business owners hope to reduce stress by keeping their business static, and believe that they can rely on referrals and repeat business to keep a consistent customer set. Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it.

Startup 100

Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 100

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

We believe that there's nothing more disappointing than a bad recommendation. They're not doing a very good job. What were you doing before you started Halla? What we set out to do was develop something that we could use to solve that problem for ourselves, using personalized recommendation technology for food.

Pricing 113

Pricing Startup North Hollywood Platform 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

We provide the same premium tools at GoToMeeting, WebEx, and what DimDim did, and we do that for free, using an ad-supported model. Freebinar gives them a solution that includes screen sharing, voice over IP audio, broadcast, conference calling, and allow you to meet with as many as 150 people at the same time. Thanks, and good luck!

Tech Coast Angels 178

Tech Coast Angels Web Screening Pasadena Angels 178

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, you must first create the playbook by which an independent sales rep can readily sell your product, including: identifying objections and developing strategies to overcome them, creating reference accounts and establishing meaningful customer adoption. Rationale: I am busy and do not have time to accomplish all of my critical tasks.

Startup 242

Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

Failing to do their homework is never a good color on anyone. Try to compile all the different types of questions you could be asked about your business, like technical details, financial assumptions and projections, marketing, IP, etc., Take a look at what they had to say! Know Your Stuff. In most cases, that’s not true. Less Is More.

Tips 70

Tips Help Slides Technical Review 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2011

Some small business owners hope to reduce stress by keeping their business static, and believe that they can rely on referrals and repeat business to keep a consistent customer set. Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 95

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

Develop the solution with your technology, and develop a strategy to maximize your impact in the marketplace. Although their book is written for businesses of all sizes, I believe the principles apply especially to startups as follows: Increase return on equity invested. Intellectual property (IP). Scalability.

Startup 99

Startup Competition IP Patents 99

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Develop the solution with your technology, and develop a strategy to maximize your impact in the marketplace. Although their book is written for businesses of all sizes, I believe the principles apply especially to startups as follows: To increase return on equity invested. Intellectual property (IP). Scalability.

Startup 92

Startup Competition IP Patents 92

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. The Twitter pest that costs you hard earned money WTF I’m ranting about?

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Moonlight Responsibly - If you are still employed please be very careful not to use your company’s resources to produce your product and please do not work on your next idea during business hours. To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP.

Startup 365

Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas 365

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Do this for a couple weeks! Design-wise, here are some things to consider: What’s your “event&# hierarchy and what level of granularity do you want? How do you pass data into the analytics DB?

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I do understand. I agree that you shouldn’t take tons of meetings and not from people who are just “fishing.&# But I believe you need to identify those investors that you think will be a good fit down the line and start building your relationships now. It’s a conversation that creeps up from time-to-time.

Startup 360

Startup Venture Capital Invest Slides 360

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + Over time, with the growth of the popularity of AJAX we had a richer experience as users and as developers. It was AOL. Even in China.

Web 300

Web HTML SMTP Google 300

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

While handling bots, you should detect search engine crawlers, too: /* lookup your crawler IP database to populate $isCrawler; then, if the IP wasnt identified as search engine crawler: */ if ($isCrawler !== from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer.

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Everybody was doing marketing blitzes, over-paying to steal the best staff, pimping out urban offices to the nines , and hiring in a frenzy. It’s why as an investor I look for talented teams with long-term vision, a unique point-of-view, differentiated IP and a desire to build something enduring. I love that.

Technical Review 302

Technical Review Marketing IP Outsource Development 302

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. I wanted to make it clear that I personally believe it is OK to quit a job in which you’re unhappy. I believe that it’s OK for young people to learn and try different roles, companies and geographies. The benefits of being extremely loyal.

Startup 285

Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 285

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I know that I always make room and certainly would do so for Tom. Do you like to be the first angel and why? (0:18:52). Money gets soft circled all the time and rarely do we see angels back out unless the terms change. If they’re not willing to do this then you probably don’t have a real soft circle.

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Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302