Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. It creates free innovation on your platform that drives user growth and engagement. So did the media.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2018

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” on the first steps that determine long-term success. Duffy emphasizes the often overlooked personal side of entrepreneurship, including balancing finances, relationships, and your health. Let your passion drive your cash flow projections. Moderate your optimism.

Startup 63

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 63

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches?

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” focusing on the first few steps that determine long-term success. Duffy emphasizes the often overlooked personal side of entrepreneurship, including balancing finances, relationships, and your health. Let your passion drive your cash flow projections. Moderate your optimism.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Framework 106

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

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

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

What's the idea behind Lottay? Harry Lin: The idea behind Lottay, is to make gift giving online as satisfying as it is in the real world. Our idea was, if you could send someone a gift as conveniently, and as fun as a virtual gift, but with real cash attached to it, that would be a fantastic experience.

Evite 157

Evite Startup Ideas Ticketmaster 157

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

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. They can iterate and evolve their business idea with a low burn rate and minimal dependencies. On the other hand, your mother probably won’t read one.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 109

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

For most of us, though, the idea of investors or even securing financing may as well go the way of the corporate ladder. With a bank account full of someone else's money, it's hard not to feel flush with cash and have a false sense of security. Your mortgage and grocery bill depend on it. Having no money can help you plan.

Startup 92

Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

TZ: In our last interview you said that you were about 25% at capacity of your original vision for Miigle. A year and a half later and post-public launch, at what capacity do you think Miigle is today of your original vision? Once you have logged in to your Miigle account, the first step is editing your profile.

SoCal 104

SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

Do you believe in crowdfunding over the traditional ways of investing? Kate Drane: It is not about who prefers crowdfunding over investing and vice versa. The way you talk about your business, develop your brand voice, gauge demand, and connect with your audience.

Startup 74

Startup Funding Capital Help 74

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Facebook just hit 1 billion active users globally and that was great but a new social payment application is set to make Facebook users across the world get more from their connections and even allowing companies to sell or receive payments from their pages. As we know, developers always give their product a code name. What is Zunguz?

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We talked with Billy last week about the firm, and what it's trying to do: What's the whole idea behind Kijubi? The idea there, is you sift through brochures, and call them to see if they are still there, and then make a reservation. What's your background and how did you decide to start the site? It's an outdated concept.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

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

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

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. Do you want your analytics DB to be the same as your webapp DB?

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. is a good monthly investment? If that’s not enough, ShoeDazzle runs charity shoe programs, making the company good for your closet and the country. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

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

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

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

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms. You’re not the only one.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

I had been trading emails & Tweets with venture capitalist John Frankel and we were to meet in person in March 2011 at SxSW to talk about Klout and other investments he had made. John laid into a well-honed thesis on why the social web needed a “Page Rank” equivalent for people. What’s your take on that?

Cornerstone OnDemand 303

Cornerstone OnDemand Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup 303

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. This is an idea that interests me a great deal.

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210