Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

He provides dozens of ideas and examples to illustrate how this discipline can work, and the power it brings to any organization. An example is the evolution of computer control to screen touches and gestures, versus keys and mice. Brainstorm with the intent of changing these assumptions, and radical innovation will follow.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the LA event, for example, they will not only have a selection of great LA VCs but also 10+ senior VC women from the SF Bay Area will be coming down for it. 8% of VC partnerships, for example). The importance of screening this film is to raise the awareness of bias within men!” LA Female Office Hours. You don’t get it.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

DataPop's internet ad targeting technology which provides deep information on products; for example, instead of helping advertisers target people looking for a big screen television, the firm's products help target looking for specific brands and dimensions of a product.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

I was recently over at the Mahalo offices in Santa Monica and I noticed that they had a great big screen TV with Chartbeat displaying their traffic data. Here are some great features with screen shots: As you’re logged in the right-hand side of the screen scrolls with each new page view on your website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2021

That means total handling of the calendar, scheduling appointments, taking calls, logging messages, screening e-mail and doing other duties with some sense of priority and problem-solving. There are already many examples of startups edging into this space. Good organizational skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

For example, Elon Musk says he seeks out innovations from his team by constantly asking them how they can make things better, how often they get out of internal meetings and into customer shops, and actively encouraging them to try new things. In addition to a tangible brand boost, CVS has found more fulfilled and productive employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2023

For example, consider CVS Health's Project Health program, which directed teams to provide free health screenings to disadvantaged and underserved patient populations. For your own happiness and satisfaction, I recommend you start instead working from that higher purpose and passion.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 28, 2018

To fix a broken screen on an iPhone, for example, a customer would pay $69, according to the Puls website. The 24/7 service operates. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2023

Evidence indicates that providing new positive life experiences (for example, a hot-air balloon ride, wine-tasting class, or vacation to Italy) tends to provide a greater happiness boost than spending a comparable amount on material objects (flat-screen television, fancy suit, or purse).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

But as we’ve all gotten used to the standard “banner&# across the top of our screens or the “sky scraper&# along the right-hand side we’ve trained ourselves not to look there any longer. The standards were set by the IAB ( Interactive Advertising Bureau ), which was founded in 1996. It certainly resonates with me.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2020

Evidence indicates that providing new positive life experiences (for example, a hot-air balloon ride, wine-tasting class, or vacation to Italy) tends to provide a greater happiness boost than spending a comparable amount on material objects (flat-screen television, fancy suit, or purse).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

The power of large screen real estate. But that product is the perfect example of perfectly suited for the web given the real estate available. For example, everybody should easily be able to follow Holger’s top sushi spots in San Francisco. The power of a keyboard. Fred’s post was right. How awesome would that be?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. Andrew & Petri posited that a modern media company would build lovable characters that span video games, online digital media, lovable plush physical toys and then ultimately find its way to the big screen.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

If they are trying to acquire audiences and attention, for example, on the Westwide of Los Angeles or West Village, New York, we go after very acute areas and try to drive more grass root efforts, but doing it in a programmatic fashion. It really works very well for business-to-business type outreach.

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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. It was a terrible user experience.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

So, for example, if you find you don't have enough storage on your laptop, we'll have your desktop do the heavy lifting. I use my desktop when I need the screen real estate or processing power. We don't want to worry about synchronizing things, we just want to use our devices or whatever screen is convenient.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2014

Prior to the digital age, high-profile people deployed brute force to screen out unsolicited, inbound communications. Sam trusted his Assistant to set his calendar and screen out irrelevant encounters. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Old School Charm.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Research In Motion''s (RIM) rebranding effort earlier this year is a classic example of a company attempting to overlay a new brand onto a misguided strategy. A prime example of an emerging startup, which has pulled off an effective rebranding effort, is Invoca ( I am an investor through Rincon Venture Partners ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

He provides dozens of ideas and examples to illustrate how this discipline can work, and the power it brings to any organization. An example is the evolution of computer control to screen touches and gestures, versus keys and mice. Brainstorm with the intent of changing these assumptions, and radical innovation will follow.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

They cite Quara, Google, Twitter & Facebook as obvious examples. But if they suck on your computer Imagine just how bad they really suck on mobile devices where the screen size is much smaller. You need to be able to screen out the 52% of calls that are information requests with technology.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Eva Helene Yazhari: The cohort goes through a process and the education of selecting, screening, and analyzing those companies, and selecting a company in which they want to place their collective capital. Or, screening out those companies involved in tobacco or alcohol. How does that investment process work?

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Here at Sparkhouse in southern, California, we aren’t aware of a decrease in literacy (though the replacement of emoticons for words might say otherwise), but perhaps it tickles a certain part of the brain that enjoys the easiness of visual stimulation over reading all those words on that tiny screen. Video is popular. Create for Social.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2020

He added that the Luqiao, China factory is an example of how Polestar has leveraged the expertise of its parent companies. Extra precautions have been taken because of the outbreak, including frequent disinfecting of work spaces and requiring workers to wear masks and undergo regular temperature screenings, according to the company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

Zootopia's technical staff--located here in Southern California--included more than 120 software engineers, IT, and other technology professionals, who build a huge body of very advanced, modeling and simulation software, which drove the animation that eventually made it to the big screen. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

With giant conferences like E3, showing off the coolest new video games to the world, very few innovations arrive in the game industry that’s off the screen. For example, one card reads: “All of the spaces are burning hot! The list goes on. Enter Doozy , an interactive, life-sized board game for everybody ages 8 through 88.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The company announced this week that it has developed a similar testing service for screening pre-clinical drug candidates on living human kidney tissue. We look at ourselves as a human tissues company…We’ll test your compound in our lab as a service.”. Now Organovo is expanding its capabilities.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2019

I vividly recall a meeting at Siebel to explore a potential partnership by which Siebel would sell our GoToAssist screen sharing technology to its customers. Some of the examples he cites include self-driving cars, complex mobile apps such as Siri, Pandora and Waze, as well as Spam filters.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

For example, YouTube took off rapidly because they timed some changes of Flash perfectly that allowed you to be able to watch video on the Internet with limited hassle. It takes screen writers, sound people, lighting, editing, costumes, direction, post-production and acting. And who’s going to produce all of this content?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

It’s why long before you ever want press coverage you need to spend time actually helping journalists, respecting their profession, taking their calls (not having your PR department screen them) and knowing what interests them. Some practical examples. I wrote about there here. When you want press, it will come.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2012

One for each of the main Hero Screens you have in your application. A Hero Screen is defined as a major application screen, from which additional screens will branch out. User Role Examples: UR – Sally Jennings: Sally is a 25 year-old account representative working for an Austin, Texas start-up company.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The “second screen&# – One of the most exciting developments in television & media to me will be “second screen&# technologies built initially on iPads and extended to the plethora of devices we’ll see over the next 3-5 years. It will involve 3d (see Nintendo’s moves , for example).

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2019

So we created this marketplace concept, attracted talent, where we screen them, and only provide the best reps. Even the example of Zoom, which is a great kick-butt company that has really grown quickly, in six to eight years, you have to think about all that experience the CEO brought in from WebEx.

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Sales Startup Software Marketing 133

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

If you want to get a quick sense of the app there’s a short screen cast here that make it obvious what it does. We have an entire dev team dedicated solely to calendar integrations, for example. They unveiled the app the the Launch conference and unanimously won 1st prize by all 10 judges.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

There is a whole industry being spawned in the Internet video world and especially in the integration of devices (second screen TVs) and the TV experience. An obvious example of integrated media would be the new Rio Angry Birds version. This has proved far more effective than small crappy banners at the bottom of each screen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

For example, Elon Musk, while being a highly respected and successful entrepreneur for years, still readily admits to regular 100-hour work weeks, no social life, and sleeping under his desk all too often in the Tesla factory. For example, I once worked for a company whose core competency was computer hardware.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Example: you’re a fitness tracking company like FitOrbit. Actual lines used are not from FitOrbit, they’re from me just for an example. Nobody wants to read your text on a big screen. Have a PowerPoint deck with screen shots that you can walk through. don’t turn around and read the screen – ooooh.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Some examples (yes, many are pre-Covid examples): When I go to the movies I associate sitting and watching a movie in a theater with eating (usually popcorn or chocolate) since it’s a childhood memory / habit. Thinking back to my example of running a 10k. I do this by sending them screen shots of my MyFitnessPal weigh in.

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