socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

I studied finance, and worked on Wall Street as a credit analyst, so I understand debt better. How''d you come up with the idea for the site? I started doing research on his behalf, learning about it, and one thing led to another, and I started asking people if such a service existed, would they use it.

Startup 247

Startup Software Review Entrepreneur Equity 247

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Use crowd funding.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Funding Startup Technical Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Equity 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Are you making the proper investment, and is it paying off? Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software. We want to make sure you can break down the silos and manage to results.

Customer 100

Customer Custom Acquisition Technical Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Use crowd funding.

Develop 70

Develop Development Product Startup 70

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps. What is AppOnboard?

Startup 113

Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Being a consultant is a role that works with big companies, but I have found that it doesn’t get much traction in small businesses and startups. I learned this the hard way, when I left IBM a few years ago to share what I had learned with the exciting world of startups in Silicon Valley.

Social Media 56

Social Media Software Review Customer Custom 56

InfoChachkie

JUNE 30, 2014

Too bad, as they would be well served to study Dirty Franks marketing plan, which has withstood the test of time. Hurry Up And Stop Marketing. Whenever I hear the word marketing, it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth. ". Classic marketing certainly has it role in the maturation of a startup. startups who.

Marketing 193

Marketing Software Review Product Social Media 193

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

It's somewhat unusual in this economy to find companies who are seeing strong growth, so we were intrigued recently in running into BlackLine Systems (www.blackline.com), a firm which develops software for helping in the financial reporting process. We caught up with Therese to hear about her company and why it's growing.

Startup 124

Startup Software Review CTO Hire Oracle 124

InfoChachkie

MAY 20, 2013

How did an American software engineer come to own an adventure travel company cited by National Geographic as, "one of the best adventure travel companies on earth?". According to Tige, it all started when he fell in love with a woman from Fiji. According to Tige, it all started when he fell in love with a woman from Fiji.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Startup Software Engineering Technical Review 235

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. And a great product starts with the founder. I’ll make my next posting shorter. I get that.

Angel 291

Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Google is making major improvements to Android Studio, while Apple is continuing to invest in Swift and announced Playgrounds, an exciting new way to learn how to program in Swift. Two customer-focused announcements stood out: the reviews API and the customer case studies. Success of the app stores starts with developers.

Artificial Inteligence 55

Artificial Inteligence Google Software Review Case Study 55

InfoChachkie

MAY 20, 2013

How did an American software engineer come to own an adventure travel company cited by National Geographic as, "one of the best adventure travel companies on earth?". According to Tige, it all started when he fell in love with a woman from Fiji. According to Tige, it all started when he fell in love with a woman from Fiji.

Entrepreneur 164

Entrepreneur Startup Software Engineering Technical Review 164

socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. Why did you start Chi.mp, and what does it provide? It's your place on the web, a home, where ownership starts by owning your own identity.

Social Network 147

Social Network San Diego Sites Startup 147

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” Affiliates invest the up-front marketing expenses required to attract customers. Given the breadth of the various online marketing mechanisms, it is typically difficult for startups to maximize each of them.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. Investment risk management. Movies are selected, or recommended to customers, based on past reviews, related interests, or analysis of Twitter comments. Education – guided studying for targeted learning.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Study Guide 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m always surprised by the fact that some never seem to be able to that first startup going, while many others never seem to stop, starting their second or third initiative before the first one is fully hatched. You can’t win a race that you never start.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Software Review 131

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Mojix is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures, and Innocal. Is this hardware, software, a combination of both? I started looking at sensory networks and RFID systems, and saw that there was great market pull for something that gives people better visibility of sensors. READ MORE>>

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Innocal Technology Software Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2013

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. This is a whole new world for startups seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges. Investment risk management. Education – guided studying for targeted learning.

Startup 98

Startup Social Media Study Guide 98

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. Investment risk management. Movies are selected, or recommended to customers, based on past reviews, related interests, or analysis of Twitter comments. Education – guided studying for targeted learning.

Social Media 70

Social Media Study Guide Examples 70

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. This is a whole new world for startups seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges. Investment risk management. Education – guided studying for targeted learning.

Entrepreneur 103

Entrepreneur Social Media Study Guide 103

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. Investment risk management. Movies are selected, or recommended to customers, based on past reviews, related interests, or analysis of Twitter comments. Education – guided studying for targeted learning.

Social Media 62

Social Media Study Guide Examples 62

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Lately the topic of leadership & teams has been coming up a lot in my daily life. I’m in the team centric sphere so every investment decision I make first & foremost centers on this plane. I made an investment in a company with deep domain knowledge. How come you guys only invest when you have proof of success?&#

CTO Hire 363

CTO Hire Technical Review Startup Demand 363

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217