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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Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Codeita is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based, web development environment. It allows users to code, develop, brainstorm, communicate and then publish projects and files to your web server. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. Want to Sponsor? to 11:00 p.m.

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Company Companies Web Evite 106

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. I worked with the head of each product area, such as YouTube, on how to drive more value for our large partners. We have our product in the market, and launched our beta in January. My other cofounder has a Ph.D.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Maybe you are going for a reality check on your current situation - wondering if you have a Weak Development Team or a Startup Founder Developer Gap. Maybe you have questions about the types of developers you need and even whether you need a Startup CTO or Developer or both. Small talk is not a motivator.

CTO Coach 211

CTO Coach Startup Web Guide 211

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Presentations. Give them the iPod not Microsoft Office products. One of the most common tasks of “knowledge workers&# is to analyze a situation and present conclusions to others in order to make decisions on a project. I would then have as many pages of analysis as required to show the detailes of my review.

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Slides Software Review Blogging Venture Capital 346

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Founded over a year ago, Stacksocial’s CEO Josh Payne , found the task of sifting through page after page in the hunt for software daunting and decided something had to be done. Their Bundle categories consist of Music apps, Mac Productivity, Web Design and more.

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Software Web Design Pricing Course 84

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

Many of you have read or at least know the primary thesis of “ Crossing the Chasm &# the seminal book on marketing your products to mainstream consumers by Geoffrey Moore. We like to use new product and gain benefits before our peers. It influenced a generation of tech marketers. We are evangelists.

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Marketing Custom Customer Technical Review 294

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Colony’s presentation is intriguing (and worth a watch if you have a few minutes) because I love to see when informed people make arguments that are different than you ordinarily hear (and different from my own views). And while the App Internet is currently more powerful than the Mobile Internet it has fundamental flaws.

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Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

From a marketing marketing perspective, that allows filmmakers to quickly and easily promote their films through social media and build a fan base, and incentivize fans to support their films by offering access to exclusive content, livestream video chats, and production updates, as an example. Why is this important to filmmakers?

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Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

Berkonomics

MARCH 17, 2010

As the new generation of digital natives enters the work force, management is being pressed to open their networks and their thinking to allow social networking inside the firewall, workers who are more productive and comfortable anywhere but in a cubicle, and management of a virtual workforce. 1. A great smartphone.

Mobile 149

Mobile Doc Google Resource 149

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. I have seen really great product people espouse the death of the business plan. Do so at your peril.

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

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.

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Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

While there have been some rather profound successes in the marketplace, there still exists enough uncertainty for many business owners and web developers to hesitate before making a decision on how best to optimize their sites. The good news is there are more than a few ways to improve the chances a visitor will become a customer. .

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Sites Search Engine Optimization Technical Review Web Development 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

Last year at this time I spoke at VidCon and gave this presentation in which I said YouTube was “the Walmart of Online Video” but I also commented that I felt YouTube was vulnerable to competition because their rev share to MCNs wasn’t high enough to allow MCNs to build a profitable business inside of YouTube.

Invest 291

Invest Content Media Networking 291

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Maybe it’s just another example of nature abhorring a vacuum, but I prefer to think it’s a natural evolution of the pervasive social networking communities where people relate to, and expect to interact with businesses and products they like. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business.

Startup 101

Startup Tips Education Custom 101

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Coming up with a memorable tagline can present an even greater challenge. 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 These are the top linked domains from Facebook pages. Make it unique.

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

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

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. We streamline strategy development using a Reality-Based approach, then execute cross-media programs including websites, brochures, ads, booths. landing pages, etc. Maybe ten years.

Marketing 150

Marketing Social Media Blogging Media 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

There''s a huge demand for a limited supply of employees, in particularly, there a large demand for product developers, and there''s a shortage of experienced people. If you look at the career sites and pages out there right now, they look like they were built a decade ago. How did you two meet? Chris Ovitz: Definitely.

Design 174

Design Sites Cornerstone OnDemand Startup 174

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. The Present Era.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. In order to visualize how an audience will receive my presentation I have to be able to imagine the whole situation.

Writing 356

Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Entrepreneurs who are looking to attract investors need to develop and pitch a plan -- preferably written -- that answers every potential investor question about your startup before it is asked. Name the three top ones, and present your sustainable advantage as well as barriers to entry for new startups.

Invest 108

Invest Startup Slides Equity 108

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2014

They addressed the state of the union for the Cleantech industry and to assure our present (and virtual) audiences that Cleantech was indeed alive and thriving in Los Angeles. Recently, they launched a Kickstarter video to fund their first production run of the powerful notebook sized solar charger. How The Sunjack Works.

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Southern California Social Network Hollywood Product 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2013

Incorporate your startup after the business plan, but before you spend a dollar on product development. If you are totally confused by the online information, make an appointment with a local agency such as your industry association, your local SCORE office, or your nearest Small Business Development Center (SBDC).

Startup 93

Startup Tips Examples Guide 93

InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

As noted in YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. We develop products that contextually engage the user at the moment at which they are most actively engaged with a given concept.

Custom 226

Custom Customer Entrepreneur Advertising 226

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

As our first time covering a 500 Startups demo day , we could only imagine the stratospheric levels of stress our Batch 8 founders must have gone through to get on stage and present their progress from their last four months of startup bootcamp. Today, we’ll be presenting our favorite ten of the day in ABC order.

Startup 111

Startup Mobile Commerce Education 111

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. And of course we had, TheMan.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout.

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Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. What does that mean? It is the town hall.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

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.

Evite 157

Evite Startup Ideas Ticketmaster 157

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

On October 24th, the quarterly event series, REACH, presented as a collaboration between TechZulu and GadgetReview , took place. Inside Sony had a “booth” showing off their latest Vaio products for people to test and preview. One of many topics that were in discussion was the new development process of games.

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Lootcrate S3 Education Activision 80

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

When I work on tasks or presentations or analyses I often get into the weeds but I often rely on a partner to make sure we cross every T and dot every I. What I’ve learned about ADD is that while concentration can be a struggle, you actually develop hyper focus for things that interest you. I would have started in June.

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Tips Startup Help Mobile 150

Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

While it might be tempting to put everything you can into a slide presentation and tell the whole story, too much information could distract the investor and potentially lose your momentum. Try to keep the presentation tight, 10 slides is ideal,” Gruber said. Founders are understandably very passionate about their product and startup.

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Tips Help Slides Technical Review 70

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

More information is located on their “attend” page. SMWLA has posted a tentative schedule of events on their “Schedule At A Glance” page. Social Media and Urban Development in Hollywood. Invisible Children Presents: The Rescue of Joseph Kony’s Child Soldiers. Presented by Adobe. 2:30-3:30pm.

Social Media 92

Social Media Los Angeles Media Angel 92

InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

<JG change the link in first sentence to the infoChachkie post> As noted in YouTube Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers. Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks. <JG

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Custom Customer Entrepreneur Advertising 133

Tech Coast Venture Network

JULY 20, 2010

For an introverted person, it turned out to be a fun and productive process. When it comes to business cards and taking notes, develop a strategy or a system that work best for you. When talking to others, be present and listen to what they have to say… Simply CONNECT with them! #3 3 Follow-ups. Manal Richa.

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