Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

Today there are a wealth of disruptive technologies available, including the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), advanced virtual reality (VR), and high-function robotics. But we all know that these are not solutions by themselves, but require integration into an innovative framework to solve real customer problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Words alone, like “improved efficiency”, “paradigm shift,” and “breakthrough technology” won’t convince people to follow you. For example, early adopters may be easily sold, but new technology product success really hinges on adoption by certain demographics, perhaps more influenced by celebrities or mommy bloggers.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. It is often LESS performant. So what did happen?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

We're owned by Sirona, a large multinational, which provides almost anything a dentist needs to practice medicine and dentistry, from large scale technology to devices, to digital scanners, to really mundane things like glue and gauze. That's the path that led me here, and really what I'm doing here is building a marketing technology company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. 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. It’s worth a quick read.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. Learn something new - most programmers love learning new technologies or solving new kinds of problems. If you don't understand the basics about mobile technology, then read up on it.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

Just about anything you’ve heard [about] at Google that sounds interesting and new is based on machine learning,” Jurvetson said at the time. Everywhere, technology is starting to percolate into an otherwise prosaic, non-tech industry—apply big data, apply machine learning—and revolutionize it.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

He shows data that the overwhelming majority of major enterprise in the US is currently adopting or looking to adopt social networking technology. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem. The one big concern many people had was how to constrain the total dominance of Google.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2013

Four months later Allen and Paul raised a Series A round of $10 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners , Google Ventures , SV Angel , Mark Pincus , Lerer Ventures and a convoy of other prominent angels and VCs. In essence, ride-sharing is carpooling with a technological twist. SideCar isn’t a trick to evade government regulation.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. Learn something new - most programmers love learning new technologies or solving new kinds of problems. If you don't understand the basics about mobile technology, then read up on it.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Tesla is not.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 13, 2013

Technologies used: MySQL Back End and APNS Push Services. Prism will be an extension of what you can do with the Google Glass. Technologies used: NodeJS and MongoDB. Technologies used: google maps, jquery, java, and tomcat. Technologies used: node.js, web sockets. Technologies used: iOS. Travelbot.co

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Words alone, like “improved efficiency”, “paradigm shift,” and “breakthrough technology” won’t convince people to follow you. For example, early adopters may be easily sold, but new technology product success really hinges on adoption by certain demographics, perhaps more influenced by celebrities or mommy bloggers.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

The comparison, is something like Google Stadia requires exchanging 20 megabits of information per second to keep that up. I ended up going to Lockheed Martin as Chief Innovation Officer, doing AR and VR work, creating a virtual framework used for training by the defense department. That is the only information that needs to be shared.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? Technologies you use, how much will it cost, future capabilities, scalability, in-house vs. outsourced all intersect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2013

Words alone, like “improved efficiency”, “paradigm shift,” and “breakthrough technology” won’t convince people to follow you. For example, early adopters may be easily sold, but new technology product success really hinges on adoption by certain demographics, perhaps more influenced by celebrities or mommy bloggers.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. So, when you talk about using this data, AI, and machine learning, the question is how you create that framework at scale. That's the hard part.

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Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

It also takes only an hour to develop your own using a rapid development framework like CakePHP. The Exit-Intent Technology also makes it easy to squeeze conversions out of website abandoners. Normally, one would use analytics tools such as Google Analytics to obtain raw data on how a site performs.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

It is here that 25 of the most diverse startups from around the world will showcase their latest technology and compete for prizes and a chance to be fast tracked as one of the Startup of the Year semifinalists at Innovate Celebrate 2018. The company offers backup and disaster recovery of Google files. Beast Mobile (Kirkland, WA).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. He’s a star who has a very intuitive feel for technology and … no MBA.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

We were looking for a couple of things, one is someone who could take a step back and figure out how to get to self-sustainability, and a person with the background and framework on building a business model. There are very few people who fit that profile, who can rival O'Reilly in the developer and technology community.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

As the technology advances, those constraints are getting broader – DARPA’s LRASM (Long Range Anti-Ship Missile) program has delivered an AI-enabled cruise missile that can operate independently over thousands of square miles and satisfy the U.S. Ultimately, we want technology to disappear into the fabric of our lives.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

You could STILL start a mobile company today and end up with a bigger market share than Google, Apple and Facebook combined. Half of Marmalade’s customers use it as a porting platform, while the remaining 50 percent use it as an app development framework. Think about how can you use technology in more meaningful ways.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

After recent announcements by Google and Apple, the mobile advertising ecosystem is abuzz with optimism and flush with venture capital. Today major brands in entertainment, automotive, travel, technology, and CPGs are embracing mobile, especially mobile rich media, to engage and interact with consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on. And in 2 hours I was done.

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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. Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. Enter Google. they’ll continue to look for independent technology partners.

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