Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Draw from Frameworks. The most helpful type of advice in my mind are frameworks for how to solve a problem. On market segmentation I often recite my “ Elephants, Deer & Rabbits ” framework. Improving startup productivity ? Each is a framework for thinking about a problem. For example: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2020

I share her view of the ten key elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. The goal here is to grow the sources of new ideas and gather fresh thinking to create a new product or service. Crowdsourcing: solving a specific problem together.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The next 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

It’s what I call “ the evangelical phase ” of a company in which you’re out trying to persuade customers that a product you’ve designed is going to meet their needs better than other solutions on the market. Invariably your first efforts at product won’t quite hit the mark – and this is OK. We called our methodology PUCCKA.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. Third party products are used appropriately. We are producing the right functionality, but is the code that's being produced the right product? Plan for past the initial MVP.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#. They offered a product that didn’t even try to compare with Siebel.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2020

Los Angeles-based Repicated , a new startup that provides monitoring and managing of Kubernetes-based cloud applications, has name former GitLab executive Mark Pundsack as the company's new Chief Product Officer, according to the company. Pundsack was previously Head of Product for GitLab.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2011

Foothill Ranch-based Applied Voice & Speech Technologies , which develops unified communications applications product, said this week that it has acquired the assets of Beacon Solutions , a developer of an open development software framework which runs on its products. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

In one of the newest "hackathons" to hit Southern California, a group of companies are looking to draw Orange County software developers to a new hackathon, geared around WebRTC, the open "Web Real Time Communications" framework aimed at helping developers create voice and video chat applications. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 -- Maximizing Value Through Strategic Product Marketing. For many ventures, product management is the most powerful, value-creating and least understood discipline. s experience with hundreds of product and service innovations and the core insights of the leading thought leaders in the space.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Specifically, they should know about, and help with: Asking and answering the 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators Knowing when and how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? , Then, a month later, the product is still 90% done. And six weeks later – 90% again!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Most technology startups seem to be founded by three types of people: product managers, engineers or biz dev types (MBAs and the like). They’re great at orchestrating your company to deliver product demos. They sell more commoditized or well understood products that can be sold via a well-defined process. Enough said.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. User experience is suffering and it’s the worst possible time with the product taking off. Framework Benchmarks.

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socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the cloud computing firm backed by Tenaya Capital, DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and Presidio Ventures, said Tuesdya that it has launched a new product called RightScale myCloud.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

McKinsey had their “ 7S framework &# and BCG had the “ BCG Matrix &# with cash cows, dogs, stars and question marks. I mean Porter’s Five forces is a useful framework but it’s basically microeconomics with a pretty wrapper. But tell me how practical is the 7s’s, really? I might be wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2015

That’s productivity. That is a huge hit on productivity. For insight, I recommend the details provided in a new book “ The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, ” by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne. Practice productivity planning with your key team members. Why is this so hard?

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Some offer specialized skill sets like expertise in a particular programming language or framework, or specific domain knowledge. Ensure that you investigate the designers' past work, samples of their work product, and their process. Quality of Work: The end product should not only look good but function as expected.

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Software Development Software Review Develop Development 297

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Our first set of products started rolling out in May, and are a set of travel guides for children. Samantha Lurey: Our first product shipped in May, and we now have five towns in the market. We're launching five more over the next couple of months, as our team builds out the technology framework.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built. Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. What's going to go wrong?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 5, 2020

The new moped is the latest effort by Bird to diversify its product offerings to capture more customers. Some companies were already operating these services; this action created a regulatory framework. The Austin City Council approved in February 2018 the creation of a “dockless” bike-share pilot program.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Santa Barbara-based RightScale disclosed today that the firm has linked with WaveMaker Software, a developer of a framework for deploying web applications. WaveMaker and RightScale said that the two will integrate their products, allowing users who develop apps on WaveMaker to deploy them through RightScale's Cloud Management Platform.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Framework SaaS 133

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. When you see evidence that there is this so called “product / market fit&# then you may be ready for larger amounts of capital. They evolve the product faster. So how should you decide what to do?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

If improperly administered, meetings become counter-productive, especially as an organization grows beyond its initial startup phase. The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called – which only a nerd would call – a ‘regret minimization framework’.

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Tips Framework Metrics Cloud Computing 223

Berkonomics

JULY 9, 2011

Turning these into statements instead of questions provides a framework for the sales presentation from the highest levels of collateral materials and marketing support, to the salesperson on the front line. Is your product or service one that responds to a customer need, real or perceived?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. When they promise to help you with marketing, sales, distribution, integrated product development, etc. But the venture guys don’t make the calls on what the product / business guys do.

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Berkonomics

JULY 26, 2018

Turning these into statements instead of questions provides a framework for the sales presentation from the highest levels of collateral materials and marketing support, to the salesperson on the front line. Is your product or service one that responds to a customer need, real or perceived? Why buy it?”. Why buy MINE? .

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

For small businesses, the plan is to charge $297 per month for app development and customization along with any future builds, hosting, and product support and maintenance. ” V One uses a cross-platform framework, serverless technology and modern development practices to generate apps using an easy to use app builder, the company said.

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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. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. But these are great products and thus a lot of people stuck around at Kik to continue using it. But it works.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? 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. If you come up to a programmer and just ask them to help you build your product. You are an outsider.

Guide 349

Guide Startup Mobile Framework 349

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. 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.

Social Media 102

Social Media Media Product Metrics 102

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

At Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix), our VP of Product and Customer Experience led a number of teams during his seven-year tenure including Professional Services, Customer Service and Product Management. The Two Pizza Rule. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.’

Tips 279

Tips Startup Framework Customer 279

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2020

Los Angeles-based AcceleratXR said this week that it has launched a new, open source project called Composer.js , a new framework and toolset for building back-end API services using NodeJS.

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Framework Los Angeles Platform Services 113

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. The creative process - Whenever I need to do any task that requires insight I have to be able to visualize – to literally SEE the decision framework. Many people are visual thinkers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2021

That’s productivity. That is a huge hit on productivity. For insight, I recommend the details provided in the classic book “ The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, ” by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne. Practice productivity planning with your key team members. Why is this so hard?

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Framework Product Entrepreneur Social Media 153

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

and Cloud Computing, the Gartner Web Innovation Summit will cover future trends and innovations, best practices, actionable advice, vendor and product selections, tutorials, and tactical decision frameworks. Focused on the next generation of web technologies, including Web 2.0 See [link] (more).

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