Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “ Growth Hacking is Bull ” written by Muhammad Saleem. If you are early in a platform (Zynga to Facebook, AngryBirds to iOS, Maker Studios to YouTube) you catch a major marketing wave where acquiring customers and growing revenue is exponential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. Although the major crowd funding sites today, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo , don’t technically require a business plan, they do demand essentially the same information in a project format.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

Of course there are scenarios where a written business plan is not critical, but I haven’t seen one yet where a well-written 15-page document, or at least a 10-slide pitch, is a negative. You need an investor, and want a document to mass-mail to everyone. On the other hand, your mother probably won’t read one.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. Review the code being built.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

As fast as life moves, technology moves even faster. Especially on the local level, and especially when it comes to embracing technology. They need a government that is more open, more available; a government that speaks their technological language. Technology moves fast. Want to take a trip down memory lane?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results. The Internet and smartphones have changed everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results. The Internet and smartphones have changed everything.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2015

Our first product is a platform, which streamlines the way of how doctors work to get approved at surgery center. Miles Beckett: Underpinning my whole career has been technology and the Internet. After selling EQAL, I was looking for a new opportunity in technology, and I wasn't quite as interested in producing content as I had been.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results. The Internet and smartphones have changed everything.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

In a long, convoluted way, the value proposition we bring to the client gives them many different options for lawyers they can choose from, not just based on price, but also based on their profile, experience levels, and client reviews. That''s how we ended up developing this technology, to take that initial step out of the process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2011

Recent reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results. The Internet and smartphones have changed everything.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches. Folksonomy. Free product.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

I kind of fell into it, after a period of diligence on the idea, and realizing it was a big opportunity. I also put in a plug that my sister, who is a scientist, also got the entrepreneurial bug--she recently started her own company, as a sock manufacturer, for science and technology themed socks.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Often this situation is characterized as a “good problem to have” until you’re the technical person who needs to solve the problem—and quickly. Well, there are a number of technical reasons for applications suffering performance issues. Performance in your technology selection process. So, why does this happen?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 6, 2012

Others come in due to my own habit of rushing through a signup process just wanting to login. So they decided to integrate their cloud storage platform, SkyDrive. Most (if not all) I don’t ready and just create clutter burring my important emails. Granted I’m the one that signed up for to get these. Some I wanted.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Zondigo, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

Other times the partner wants to test whether there is support before sinking in tons of due diligence time. Vice versa is it’s a SaaS platform company where I spent nearly 10 years running companies. Either way, don’t assume that the entire room is up to speed on your company.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. Socially connected individuals and platforms that enable faster roll-outs of successful products. The new entrant keeps margins low but suddenly has a lot of profits due to large volumes of business.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange.

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