Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

I agreed to do the interview because the story was about what other companies can learn rather than about airbnb in particular. Obviously they wish they would have figured this out a bit more quickly, but as a young team I personally cut them a little bit more slack than I would if it were Oracle, for example.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Let's take a look at some of the many ways businesses can benefit from these new models to streamline operations and deliver faster and more accurate results.We’ll begin by looking at some real-world examples and then we’ll dive into more details of how these improved search capabilities can enhance your business.

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Berkonomics

MAY 12, 2022

But it would be impossible to know much about that person from just a photo. Google analytics provides this information at no cost for websites and pages viewed. Google uses proprietary tools to do this quickly, with resultant information available within a day. Here’s the test: try to follow one person in his or her journey.

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TechEmpower

MAY 1, 2014

For example, a larger number of response headers might mean slightly fewer responses sent per second. For example, we are using MySQL 5.5 For example, platforms that use process-level concurrency scaled to a large number of processor cores quite well. performance in the Peak environment is about 3.3x About TechEmpower.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I was reading an old 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”. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Very rare case.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

Three years ago Aclima came out of stealth, detailing a collaboration with Google on mapping air quality in its offices and also outdoors, by putting sensors on StreetView cars. “We’re really excited because it’s taken really years of work. “We’re really excited because it’s taken really years of work.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Friend Connect or basically any of the other authentication mechanisms. Example What do I mean? Interestingly, they are not including Google Authentication.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 31, 2013

Drew Baumann got his lucky hands on Google’s ongoing project, Google Glass. We get in touch with Drew and talk about his new BEAM app, Google Glasses, and the future of tech. I thought Google Glasses was allowing people to easily share life’s moment through YouTube. How hard was it to work on the Google Glass?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Bank as well as many startups like Gusto and MakeSpace and innumerable massive clients that weren’t on my approved list of clients I could disclose ;) but we partner with Google, Adobe, Salesforce and many others. When you think about what makes Google so valuable?—?it’s But here’s the big “aha.”

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 30, 2011

Google, they’ve cracked a nut here. With Wave being an experiment, and Buzz being a dead duck from the get go, Google Plus (Google+) is actually a usable, integrated, complete-feeling product released this week, and it’s pretty damn good. Now, there’s Google+. Easy (7:09 PST).

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

That one thing, in the case of Los Angeles-based FamousBirthdays.com , is creating an online resource all about--you guessed it--famous birthdays. We own the celebrity birthday niche--we''re first in Google for searching for celebrity birthdays on every day of the year. Evan Britton: We really don''t think about it.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2018

said this morning that it has launched a new mobile app to help consumer invest and learn about cryptocurrency. Cred says it provides information about cryptocurrency, helps users track investment progress, learn about different kinds of "coins" before investing, provides daily market recaps and news, and much more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Examples include the Nike Run Club app where people participate in challenges and win trophies.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne , the CEO and one of the co-founders of FEM, is a veteran of Google, and is taking her experience there and applying it into the video recommendations and engagement area. We caught up with Rachel recently to hear more about the company. magazine, for example. What is FEM? What''s the story behind the company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2011

Now the measure is how many hits one has on a Google name search, factored by some formula, like the sum of all positive messages minus 100 for every negative message. She googled each person's name. Google never forgets." Then you can be happy that Google never forgets. Three interesting resumes came to the top.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In fact, entrepreneurship is all about taking calculated risks, while minimizing non-calculated risks. Here are some simple examples of “smart” calculated risks that you should be working on: Deliver an innovative solution to a painful customer problem. In the old days, the leaders always caught the arrows, so following was less risky.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

GitHub talked about making these changes as early as June, when CEO Nat Friedman tweeted that it was something the company was already working on. As we mentioned last week, the Yes on 22 campaign has put in about $180 million into the campaign while the No on 22 side has put in about $4.6 The other 25% are undecided.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It comes courtesy of Google and Amazon-backed startup Anthropic, which was only founded in 2021. In this guide, you'll learn exactly what Claude is, how it works, and all about its parent company, Anthropic. You’ve probably heard of both Bard and ChatGPT by now. You'll also see how Claude differs from ChatGPT in key areas.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. — Balaji S.

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socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

In the arms race of search technology, only the big guys -- Google, Microsoft -- seem to be able to keep up with all of the innovations in the space. We caught up with CEO Dev Bhatia --a serial entrepreneur who''s been involved with such companies at Hotsocket, Screaming Media (IPO), and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo)--to learn more about.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. Innovation doesn’t even require technology. Experience is a great teacher.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2021

If you are the first to deliver this, your startup might be the next Google! If you add the next generation of natural language processing (NLP), you will be able to ask Google Voice Search or Apple Siri the questions right through your smart phone. There are already many examples of startups edging into this space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

You should start blogging about your business before you have a product, to test interest and establish your credibility. Otherwise, your blog content will be indexed separately from your web site content, resulting in a lower overall Google rank. Here are some tips I’ve gleaned from experience: Lead with your blog. Add outgoing links.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2022

Wouldn’t you like to be one of the lucky people who joined Google and Facebook when these were startups, and now be a multi-millionaire or better? For example, 200,000 shares may sound like a lot, but if the startup has issued 20 million (a common starting point), that’s just 1% of the company. 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

Mark Suster , fellow venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, has written extensively about YouTube’s evolution from dogs-on-skateboards to its current status as an entertainment medium rivaling cable television networks. Earlier this month, Google announced that it will spend an additional $200 million to promote YouTube content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

For example, Blake Mycoskie , founder of Toms shoes, garnered trust from his team by effectively communicating a higher purpose of helping the needy by donating a pair of shoes for every pair sold. People need to feel able to talk about mistakes, as well as successes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2022

We have all heard the examples of the great new company cultures, popularized by Google, Zappos, and Facebook, which seem to imply that company perks are the secret to success. Over 16 percent of workers are still actively disengaged , and half have left at least one job because they hated their boss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

I was reading an old 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”. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Very rare case.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Google analytics provides this information at no cost for websites and pages viewed. Google uses proprietary tools to do this quickly, with resultant information available within a day. For example: What if American Express offered credit card details about purchases by competitors to a big box retailer?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

For example, I often hear proposals for new online social media or collaboration platforms, maybe more specifically tuned to inventors or artists, or easier to use, and populated by experts, to compete against Slack or Facebook. I often hear entrepreneurs talking about ideas they have been honing in their head for years, or even a decade.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Oftentimes that will be Google, sometimes that will be Apple, sometimes it will be another network. For example, everything from quality of the information about that location online, to online reputation, to social profile on Facebook for that location. They're looking for discrepancies about validity of a business.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

For example. He also talks about the rate of growth and the need to pick targets, measure and question assumptions when you aren’t achieving your objectives. I talked about some of that here. He talks about making things that people want & going after a big enough market. .” So I like that bit, too.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Google has just allowed each of their “ Inbox by Gmail ” users to invite three of their friends and of course everyone is wondering what’s new with the technology giant. And now we’ve all gotten used to it as Gmail is about to make another switch. Yes, also available on both Google Play and the iOS store).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Neither people nor computers can really help you as a personal assistant unless you are willing to share data about what you like, what you feel, and who and what’s important to you. Examples cited include biometrics, tool productivity, environmental control, social visibility, relationship data, and brand insight.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We can all aspire to grow companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple, which have the aura of fun, while still improving your lifestyle and offering the dream of untold riches. Financial institutions, for example, count on pure capital plays without innovation that can disappear quickly. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Accountability is all about taking responsibility for getting things done as expected, without excuses. Thus there are some key things that we can do as a leader to improve people’s self confidence and ability to deliver, as well as be a better example for others: Practice what you preach on accountability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Set a personal example with visible, memorable symbols and behavior. The Google team stayed tight as they developed the technology, first working out of Larry Page’s dorm room at Stanford, then a garage. Find something to celebrate and something to laugh about. Teamwork is the hallmark of high-performing startups.

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