socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

In addition, Norton said that "419" scammers--those emails, often associated with Nigeria, claiming email receivers are due "millions of dollars" as "next of kin"--have already started circulating. Norton is the Internet security brand of Symantec Corp.

Symantec 174

Symantec Email Startup Software Review 174

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? With Google, they are obviously the big dog, no matter who you are talking about. Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. Yelp and Agie''s List has been fantastic in the reviews path.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? With Google, they are obviously the big dog, no matter who you are talking about. Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. Yelp and Agie''s List has been fantastic in the reviews path.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

It’s convenient not to bother thinking about politics because you want to just ship really cool code and if users love it then you’ll be successful – but that’s not reality. It is a really big historical decision that Facebook made not to have Google index its pages. It’s a Hobbesian calculation.

Startup 150

Startup Google Software Review Snapchat 150

SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

I've organized the LA CTO Forum (a private group of 150+ CTOs in Los Angeles) for 10+ years. There are a bunch of questions in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything , Startup Founder Developer Gap , and in Startup CTO or Developer. It's very different than at large organizations.

CTO Hire 282

CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review Startup 282

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

It’s established itself as a leading source of organic sales referrals and we find creative ways for brands to help keep it that way while seeing incredible results as far as significantly increased site visits, sales and brand awareness.

Sales 101

Sales Technical Review Marketing Technology 101

SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

I've organized the LA CTO Forum (a private group of 150+ CTOs in Los Angeles) for 10+ years. There are a bunch of questions in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything , Startup Founder Developer Gap , and in Startup CTO or Developer. It's very different than at large organizations.

CTO Hire 225

CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review Startup 225

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Be willing to work at all organization levels. Many consultants today are hard to contact between scheduled meetings, due to their formal communication processes. If your customer dress code or decisions process is informal, you should adapt yours to fit in, rather than continue to act and look like an outsider.

Services 100

Services Startup Software Review Social Media 100

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. That allowed us to gracefully and organically scale the company, using that revenue. Immediately, we were selling it, and making money and revenues off of it.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood HTML Software Review Advertising 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. In the first two years we were really focused on getting our product adopted through major channel partners like Commission Junction, LinkShare, Google, eBay, ShareASale and others. how to build an initial sales organization. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature. And so on.

Startup 325

Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. I provided a whole set of questions that I go through with founders before Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. What do we need to do to make sure we can survive technical due diligence by investors and partners?

Fractional CTO 225

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach 225

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2013

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. A personal assistant must be highly organized and detail-oriented.

Web 98

Web Entrepreneur Software Review Google 98

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Felicia is the cofounder of Black Tech Week, Code Fever, Tribe Cowork and Urban Innovation. Siggi is a principal at Samsung NEXT in San Francisco, where she focuses on early-stage investment in frontier tech software companies. the region’s venture development organization. Siggi Hindrichs, Principal at Samsung NEXT.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner. So did the media.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This is perhaps the most reliable source of information on angel investor groups across the world, and the software is used by most of the other angel organizations mentioned below for deal flow. Here are the largest flocks: Angelsoft.

Angel 102

Angel Keiretsu Organization Template 102

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! We met everybody in the organization. They had agreed!

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! We met everybody in the organization. They had agreed!

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. The Past (1985-2002). provides you.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

The industry had seen unprecedented growth in the past decade due to a combination of factors, one of which was the United States’ economic recession. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. With roughly 91% of the population using mobile devices and 26.3%

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

In an eCommerce or Internet Services business it is often the marketing costs (if purchased online) and in an enterprise software company it is often marketing plus enterprise sales reps. So if you paid $100 for a customer who converted via a Facebook ad or Google search ad (SEM) that is not your CAC. Payback Period!!!”

Metrics 150

Metrics Startup SaaS Course 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

We met everybody in the organization. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. How could a company like ours be so callous as not to support their software (even one more than 4 years out of date)? They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

Startup 151

Startup Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review 151

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Google followed immediately and introduced Android. Just one year after their respective launches, Apple and Google exceeded one billion app downloads. Encourage users to rate and review the app. Sign up with analytics apps to measure response rates and stay ranked organically.

Mobile 40

Mobile Social Media Google Software Review 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Teams reconvened Saturday morning at 9:00 AM and continued to code and build their startup throughout the day. As Avesta Rasouli, SWLA Co-organizer and Founder of Coloft says, “Go sell something! Those with their ideas selected were out on the prowl, looking to recruit the top designer or developer in the room. Coffee is for closers!”

Startup 66

Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers. No one, including the engineers who work on Google’s constantly evolving search algorithms, fully understands how to reliably and consistently boost search results via artificial means. It does not happen. Such fees must be factored into your cost per customer calculation.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. SimplyEvents is a social media website that enables a community of members to shout out location based events and stay connected by tracking fellow friends, family, public figures, organizers, bands, artists etc.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. SimplyEvents is a social media website that enables a community of members to shout out location based events and stay connected by tracking fellow friends, family, public figures, organizers, bands, artists etc.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Addressing the other point, of automated tools--led by companies like Google, which allows advertisers to manage their own campaigns--have actually opened up a door to us. You can literally click on an "advertise here" link and it will allow you to book a proposal, and that proposal gets build, and you can review, accept, or modify it.

Advertising 127

Advertising Startup Sales Tool 127

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

TechZulu caught up with co-founder Calvin Schemanski chat about their upcoming launch, their product and why Long reviews suck. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review. Unlike typical review sites, our platform does not use star ratings or long reviews. What is myfab5?

Software Review 79

Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2016

The costs of launching your business Silicon Valley and the fight for talent — with fresh faces quickly snapped up by behemoths such as Google, Apple and Facebook — means this can be a challenge and many are turning to these other locations to home their startup. NORTH AMERICA: In Toronto startups fight for new graduates.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Startup Incubator Media 40

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. But I don’t think so.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I don’t care if you’re a 10-person organization, a 1,000 person organization or a multinational corporation – often it is the few key players that change the dimensions. Community Leaders + Organizers. I would say recruiting at least one superstar would be your priorities 1,2 & 3.&#.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. " The Bible Code predicted the Sept 11 attacks 5,000 years ago." " We sliced our Google Analytics data every which way, and these 4 patterns emerged." This pitcher has retired 5 of the last 7 batters." Surprised?).

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 The Past (1985-2002). It was mostly timing.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software. NativeTung is a cloud-based platform, which includes some software which runs on the web site, which ensures synchronization of the translation at all times. Idris Manley: I have almost fifteen years in the software industry.

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

Apple’s iPhone 7 is due out next month. Planes have evolved on the inside through the addition of features like all-glass cockpits and fly-by-wire software. Maybe, before phones can get smarter, software engineers have to get smarter. The biggest change: no more headphone plug. It’s more like a synchronization problem.

Software Review 40

Software Review Screening Design Mobile 40

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 This is something that Google is attempting to do with its Wave format and remains an approach to watch.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285