Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2011
This post originally appeared on TechCrunch. I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do.
InfoChachkie
MARCH 31, 2011
Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start, addresses a number of valuable startup issues, including fundraising, partnering, branding and beyond. In addition to these foundational startup issues, Guy also briefly discusses how to properly design a corporate T-shirt. When I.
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socalTECH
APRIL 1, 2011
Visitors to Los Angeles-based video streaming service Hulu Friday were greeted with a surprise "redesign" of the web site, as part of a Hulu April Fool's gag. Users who logged into Hulu of Friday saw a Geocities-inspired, framed browser view featuring such notable 1990's shows as the X Files, Sliders, Murder One, and News Radio -- not to mention tacky, 1996-eras web design and highlighted links to the A-Team and Saturday Night Live.
Berkonomics
MARCH 28, 2011
Every entrepreneur has that moment of truth – the one that marks the decision to take the path to entrepreneurship or the path to job security with a larger employer. And down the road a bit, most of us face another when deciding whether or not to go for growth, requiring new investment and increased risks. My moment of self-confrontation came many years ago when deciding whether to leave behind the relative comfort of a good income from my one person operation or hire my first employee to allo
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 27, 2011
This post originally ran on TechCrunch. Blogs. We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted. By definition, you read blogs. But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? Absofuckinglutely. This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. 1.
InfoChachkie
MARCH 28, 2011
I had lunch earlier yesterday with Mark Suster, General Partner at GRP Partners, blogger extraordinaire and overall cool dude. I am writing this entry at 4:00 AM. Mark’s kindness and insights moved me to roll out of bed, fire up.
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SoCal Tech Calendar
APRIL 1, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011 -- TCA/OCTANe Mixer. Join Tech Coast Angels and OCTANe for Firsty in April! Get down to the heart of entrepreneurship and investment in Orange County by networking with the organization that focuses on fueling innovation in the OC and the largest angel investor group in the United States.
Tech Coast Venture Network
MARCH 29, 2011
'Congratulations to Stephen Meade of My Wet Rock, LLC, winner of our March Forum FastPitch $100 prize! We had a terrific program in March with The Dr. Is In. Ciaran Foley presented The Power of Random, a look at our serendipity can be harnessed in our everyday business lives for the positive. This was followed by our FastPitch event and The Dr. Is In – a roundtable, colleague-drive self-examination of businesses.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 26, 2011
Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. So once in a while it’s good to look at some facts to temper our imagination. I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”.
socalTECH
MARCH 30, 2011
Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Idealab startup which is developing applications for reading and posting to Twitter, announced today that it has released a new version of UberSocial for the iPhone. The firm said that its new version, UberSocial 1.5, now provides a live preview features for tweets, new curated channels focused on news, entertainment, business, and sports; and more.
SoCal Tech Calendar
APRIL 1, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011 -- S.M.A.S.H. (Social Media Advanced Skills Huddle). SMASH is an interactive conference designed to help you make better decisions about deploying social media for marketing, public relations and corporate communications. socalTECH readers get $100 off using code socaltechsmash.
Frank Addante
MARCH 29, 2011
I did a presentation yesterday at the Digital Publishing Summit in Deer Valley, Utah. Instead of doing a pitch about the Rubicon Project, I chose to take the opportunity to lead a discussion for the industry about focusing on the right competitor. I think it came as a bit of a shock to the room; but I felt like we really needed to elevate the conversation.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 30, 2011
Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes it comes right back to the founder, in terms of a malaise often called “Founder’s Syndrome.” A few years ago I was intimately involved with a promising startup that taught me about this issue.
socalTECH
MARCH 28, 2011
Pasadena-based FastSoft , the developer of content acceleration software and appliances, said today that it has named Jerry Hall as Vice President of Marketing at the firm. Hall was most recently a consultant at Forge Strategic Marketing, and also has served at AirHop Communications, ProxiNet, NetBoost, and LanTronix. FastSoft is based on technology originally developed for the Internet2 at Caltech.
SoCal Tech Calendar
MARCH 31, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 -- Cloud Computing De-mystified. SDSIC. Co-Location has been the method of choice for most software companies delivering software solutions as a Service (SaaS). However, recent technical and economic shifts have allowed many software companies to dramatically increase cash flow by reducing or eliminating hardware infrastructure and personnel investments by leveraging an Infrastructure-as-a-Service model.
Tech Zulu Event
MARCH 29, 2011
What are you doing tomorrow night after work? I know, I know.one of our typical loaded questions. Well, here's an idea. Visit TechZulu for full story.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 31, 2011
It’s sad when the startup is “successful,” but the founder still feels totally unsatisfied. I see it happening all the time. The business is a winner, but the family or other relationships are broken by the stress. Or the entrepreneur started down this path to be their own boss and change the world, but find they are now answering to many more people, with nothing really changed.
socalTECH
MARCH 28, 2011
San Diego-based Active.com , the online sports registration site owned by the Active Network, said Monday afternoon that it has launched its first online affiliate program. The firm said it will provide referral commissions to websites who direct consumers to register for event and activities on the Active.com web site, including registrations for youth camps, golf tee times, campgrounds, and more.
SoCal Tech Calendar
MARCH 30, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 -- Clean Technology Leaders Conference. Meet profesionals and investors at the premier Clean Tech Mixer. Today's topic is Alternative Energy and the Automotive and Industrial Applications of Thermoelectric Power. This technology allows a direct conversion of heat to electricity and electricity to heat/cold by means of solid state semiconductor materials.
Jason Nazar
MARCH 28, 2011
DocStoc – Entrepreneur (3/23/11) from OC Creative Media on Vimeo. Here was a recent video interview I did for Entrepreneur Magazine. Its a short clip talking about Docstoc and my philosophy on how to break out of the pack by focusing on the “most important items&#. Its a common mantra I preach to our team. There is an incredibly small number of items we work on that actually drive the great deal of our progress, we all know this as the Pareto Principle or the 80-20 Rule.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 28, 2011
A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. Yet they still haven’t achieved a healthy growing profit, even though this was one of the main reasons they went into business for themselves in the first place.
socalTECH
MARCH 28, 2011
Warner Bros. said over the weekend that it is expanding its test of renting movies on Facebook, adding five new titles to the firms' online social networking rental experiment. According to Warner Bros, it is adding Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretes, Inception, Life as We Know It, and Yogi Bear to its lineup.
SoCal Tech Calendar
MARCH 30, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 -- KGI Women Innovate Conference. The need for strategic leadership in life science innovation is greater than ever. In response, the Women Innovate Conference has been organized around two important ideas: If not women, who? And if not now, when? See [link].
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 27, 2011
By Ernst Gemassmer Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Proctor and Gamble and others derive more than half of their revenues from international activities. We have heard that there are significant tax advantages in doing business offshore. All this sounds very enticing and many budding entrepreneurs can’t wait to fly to Paris or Shanghai to tap into the international markets.
socalTECH
APRIL 1, 2011
Santa Monica-based GotCast , the online casting and talent site run by Alec Shankman, told its supporters this morning that it has raised a new round of venture capital funding. In an email, Shankman said that the firm closed a round of additional venture capital funding through NCT Ventures. The firm will use the funding to add to its staff. Amount of the funding was not disclosed.
SoCal Tech Calendar
MARCH 29, 2011
Monday, April 4, 2011 -- KGI Women Innovate Conference. The need for strategic leadership in life science innovation is greater than ever. In response, the Women Innovate Conference has been organized around two important ideas: If not women, who? And if not now, when? See [link].
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 29, 2011
It looks like women have caught up with men in numbers in the workplace. For the first time in history, women in the USA now outnumber men in the workforce, and there are now more women in supervisory positions than there are males. The question is whether they will handle the downside of working any better than men. According to an article by Ella L.
socalTECH
MARCH 28, 2011
Northridge-based SmartSound Software , which develops music and soundtrack creation software and a related library of royalty-free music, said today that it has launched a new product. The firm said it has launched Quicktracks, a new cloud-based music customization service. The new service allows customers to create and mix music tracks online from the firm's website, and download those completed tracks to their projects.
SoCal Tech Calendar
MARCH 28, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011 -- KGI Women Innovate Conference. The need for strategic leadership in life science innovation is greater than ever. In response, the Women Innovate Conference has been organized around two important ideas: If not women, who? And if not now, when? See [link].
Tech Zulu Event
MARCH 30, 2011
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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 1, 2011
Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism surfacing in 2011. Just yesterday, a new study “ The PNC Economic Outlook: Survey of Small & Middle-Market Business Owners ” was published. It shows a return to cautious optimism compared to this past Autumn and much improvement from the record-high pessimism of two years ago. According to earlier studies from Forbes Insights , many entrepreneurs feel the lessons learned during the past couple of years have not only helped t
socalTECH
MARCH 29, 2011
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has quitely launched a major contest looking to spur development of mobile application that utilize information about the Los Angeles area's public transit. Metro has launched the Metro Development Challenge , which is dangling nearly $10,000 in prizes to for the best mobile and web applications in a number of categories.
SoCal Tech Calendar
MARCH 26, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011 -- Digital LA - Comedians Go Digital. Join us for our panel discussion with comedians sharing how they use digital and social media to engage fans, test jokes, promote their shows and tours, communicate with venues and other comedians, and sell content.
socalTECH
APRIL 1, 2011
In one of its April Fool's jokes, search engine giant Google has posted a job position--and accompanying YouTube recruitment video --for a "Google Autocompleter", to predict what users are searching for on the web. In the tongue-in-cheek video, a "Google Autocompleter" says on a good day, he averages over 32,000 words per minute trying to anticipate what users are looking for on the web.
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