socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

We recently chatted with Debra Domeyer , CEO of Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), a Los Angeles company which provides both domain monetization and runs vertical, consumer lead generation and marketing sites, to hear about the company. The third area I'd stree, is the consumer area, especially in the vertical marketing division.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

Example: More than 50% of all youth in Greece & Spain (34% in Italy) are unemployed and if you take “under-employment” it is even worse. I broke down the types of CC companies into 5 main buckets today to give a framework to think about your startup if you’re entering this space: 1. Consumer gets same-day deliver.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Initially the computer did basic functions like “screen validation” (making sure that you didn’t enter non-sensical data into fields, for example) and could take over functions like compiling your software code so you could check for errors before submitting it to the mainframe. Over time the PCs began to do more and more.

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TechEmpower

JULY 5, 2016

If we have a long (64-bit integer) that we serialize into JSON, we might be in trouble if JavaScript consumes that JSON. Any server-side web framework or HTTP server will do. We happen to use JAX-RS in our example code. The front-end framework will do it, $.getJSON If we are not careful, our long is mangled in transit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

Social Media 62

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

While we entertain startup strategies such as being lean or agile, it’s impossible to ignore that, for example, LA has a culture of entertainment , Nashville that of music , New York, a culture of finance and fashion , and Silicon Valley, indeed, a culture of disruptive innovation. More Consumer Internet investors are coming.

Technical Review 71

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

Social Media 102

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2012

A while back, I wrote about the value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment, and using every opportunity to highlight and emphasize your relative advantages, whether they be price, features, or bargaining power. Make it easy for your people to win. Walk the talk.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

An example was Rob Thomas, the Producer of Veronica Mars, where we helped him partner with Kickstarter to help fund the Veronica Mars movie. As a consumer who uses applications like Venmo or PayPal, I was surprised there was not an app to solve that issue. That was a big part of it, as more of those creators were now independent.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. ” Here are some examples: 1. It’s just like my book example. Where does it get even grayer?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. Obvious examples include Chris Dixon, Keith Rabois, Aydin Senkut, Dave McClure, Chris Sacca, XG Ventures, Reid Hoffman and so on.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Our third-party seller business is an example of that. The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called – which only a nerd would call – a ‘regret minimization framework’. If you hire sharks, you cannot expect them to act like dolphins. Be Stubborn And Flexible. “We We are stubborn on vision.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

After college Brandon put forth his knowledge of business to work and built his first company and the platform for his future business venutres, Audiolife – a direct-to-consumer eCommerce company. Audiolife was built on a framework to handle all the back-end work through store fronts allowing musicians to focus on what they do best.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

For example, you can earn points for reducing your speeding, and those points can be redeemed at brick sand mortar and online retailers, and also other reward programs. What has the consumer response been to all of that tracking of their data? None of the companies we're working with are taking that consumer data and selling it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

Social Media 91

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 91

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

After learning from a board member about the Jobs To Be Done framework, the board and leadership team agreed that this approach, which explores what causes someone to hire or fire a product or service, could provide even more actionable insights. This work only took them so far, however.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Focusing on the metrics that ultimately drive the business, often the bottom line, has provided a reality check, a counter-weight to the desire to consume all new technologies. Vanilla node.js, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Apache Cordova for example. We love technology, but. But we're not going to put a client on Meteor.js At least not yet.

Web 200

Web Platform Technology JavaScript 200

Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

For consumer robots, though, people want to talk naturally and we need to design casual dialogs that make it easy to express desires without having to give every small detail. What are some examples of government-funded research in AI and robotics that is happening today that will set the stage for tomorrow’s products?

Artificial Inteligence 40

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Darrius Thompson: We came from a company called DivX, where we had built a business primarily around consumer software. We found that when a consumer is downloading a piece of software--for example, a photo editing application, we could actually make a recommendation to the user via the installer. How are you doing that?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

The revolution in the prevalence of powerful and inexpensive consumer mobile devices provided an opportunity to streamline business processes in a very cost effective and fast way. As an example, Banking Machine Services is a company that maintains thousands of ATMs across Southern Africa. Why the name? What is the future of Journey?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

One of my favorite examples of this would be Robbin Williams as the CG animated genie in Aladdin,” exclaims Morris excitedly. With this example, May went on to stress the difference between live-action and CG in recording actors, as scenes in CG are recorded solo. This method is much more time consuming. The Breakdown Behind CG.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

For a micro-ISV, selling to big businesses can be more lucrative than selling to consumers. it’s a great example of a strong startup based on need, entrepreneur Joe Fernandez building something he wanted to use, and getting VC funding; and 3.) But the rates are high for a reason. they released a new 2.0

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

The company's VP of Marketing, Patrick Mork, will explore the demographics behind the application phenomenon, what makes a good app, consumer expectations and whether marketers really even need apps to engage with consumers on mobile. Airforce, and others to demonstrate how brands are engaging with consumers.

Mobile 40

Mobile Media Case Study Advertising 40

TechEmpower

MARCH 27, 2013

For instance, a forEach method was added to java.lang.Iterable: public default void forEach(Consumer action) { Objects.requireNonNull(action); for (T t : this) { action.accept(t); } }. The List interface is an example. Additionally, more importantly, interfaces can now define default methods. So, why not allow this?

Java 560

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For example, Waze tapped into its community during Hurricane Sandy to help the White House and FEMA identify which gas stations had power. Half of Marmalade’s customers use it as a porting platform, while the remaining 50 percent use it as an app development framework. What’s the next mobile platform going to be?

Mobile 71

Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

That let people play popular titles, for example, directly in Facebook. OnLive’s tried to build a direct-to-consumer model led by an allegedly maniacal CEO who in the end fired all of his employees with no severance and then tried to relaunch the business with a subset. And so they never got consumer adoption.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In contrast to HashSet , EnumSet : Consumes less memory, usually. In contrast to HashMap , EnumMap : Consumes less memory, usually. We're all using enum types here and there, we're all using the collections framework. The EnumSet.allOf(elementType) method is a great example. Take RegularEnumSet.equals(object) for example.

Java 330

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But I do know that it will form a huge basis of the future of the Internet, how we consume media, how we communicate with friends, how we play games and how we shop. The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. It will involve 3d (see Nintendo’s moves , for example).

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