InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

Everyone has an account and checks it multiple times a day, no matter how often people threaten to delete it and “de-wire”. While the web based version of Facebook has an abundance of display banners and advertisements littering every page, the mobile version has nothing of the sort. Facebook is the new crack. Yeah, right.

Netflix 191

Netflix Blogging Mobile Advertising 191

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Ideation & Protecting Ideas. Determine whether your business name needs to be trademarked, and if does Trademark it at the USPTO. Protect your written works and code through the Copyright Office. If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Recommended.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2012

Do you have a wallet full of rewards credit cards, but don't have any idea how to best earn enough points to take advantage of those rewards? Matthew Goldman: We're helping people to simplify the decision they make when they pay for products. To merchants, what is in your wallet looks just like a regular credit card.

Help 157

Help Social Media Incubator Services 157

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. How has your history with Jason Spievak , Colin Kelley and the rest of the former CallWave team shaped and benefited the company?

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2011

Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Fix something that’s broken.

Startup 92

Startup Ideas Competition Demand 92

Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

Using social media to increase your company’s touch and reach with each of your customers may be the most important reason to jump in to this game changing strategy. That said, when a customer posts on Facebook that you should lower your prices by 50%, perhaps this is not something you should spend too much time on.

Social Media 214

Social Media Customer Custom Media 214

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2013

In my experience, there is no magic gene involved, just simple good habits executed consistently and convincingly until everyone around you in a startup wants to follow your example. Be accountable for your actions. " Check your ego at the door (and keep it there). Good ideas can come from anyone at any time.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Examples Ideas 104

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The trends are legit, but we have no idea what unexpected breakthrough in human interaction is going to change everything.” He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. He’s right about this.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2016

In my experience, there is no magic gene involved, just simple good habits executed consistently and convincingly until everyone around you wants to follow your example. Be accountable for your actions. Check your ego at the door (and keep it there). Check your ego at the door (and keep it there).

Examples 76

Examples Startup Coach Patents 76

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2012

In my experience, there is no magic gene involved, just simple good habits executed consistently and convincingly until everyone around you in a startup wants to follow your example. Be accountable for your actions. " Check your ego at the door (and keep it there). Good ideas can come from anyone at any time.

Startup 104

Startup Examples Entrepreneur Ideas 104

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2009

There's been a lot of attention lately given to Google's efforts to digitize books for libraries, as well controversy over the firm's licensing efforts with publishers. Let's talk about your product first, tell us about your hardware? We use a Camera SLR camera, which works with any of our three products out there.

Google 100

Google Startup West Los Angeles Content 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

It’s also a great way to build relationships with people interested in your topic area. Define your customers, partners and other relevant people to your organization (e.g. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers. How to find your “voice&# ? Be authentic.

Blogging 286

Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? All businesses need to have access to the scale, cost structure, and flexibility that the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world have built internally.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2010

Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Fix something that’s broken.

Startup 48

Startup Ideas Competition Demand 48

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome (www.sendmehome.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a free service to print out labels which attach to your item, and where you can register items in case they are lost. How did you come up with the idea? So I thought of some ideas about getting the phone back if the battery wasn't present.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Startup Writing Ideas 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. Summary notes, as always, provide below.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! In it, I cover some more general philosophical ideas about how to approach what to measure and what not to measure. Now let’s move on to the first couple topics: Step 0: Pre-product. Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. You can use it to quickly turn your location data into a complete mapping website and companion iPhone app.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If that’s not enough, ShoeDazzle runs charity shoe programs, making the company good for your closet and the country. Here’s a man with all the brains of a Silicon Valley engineer and all the big ideas and known-how of an LA entrepreneur. Google quickly bought AdSense in 2003 and Elbaz’s AS team became Google Santa Monica.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 The Past (1985-2002).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. Who are your customers, partners or suppliers? accessibility.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

This is something that Google is attempting to do with its Wave format and remains an approach to watch. At the same time it’s been getting easier and easier to use the identity of choice at your favorite social media site to establish an identity and log in using OpenID or Facebook Connect. Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. short answer: very, very rarely.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

“You don’t mentally process how much you’re under stress because of your personality but your body still perceives the stress. So while you’re mind feels calm, your body is becoming a mess. That stress – plus your unhealthy eating and lifestyle – have given you acid reflux.”

Tips 150

Tips Startup Help Mobile 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on. So get over it.

Snapchat 150

Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150