Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 2, 2021
As a business advisor, I have to recommend even to established companies that they review and revamp their competitive strategy now, even if it appears to be working today. The old approaches of controlling distribution channels, saturating retail, and methodically scaling your brand awareness don’t protect you anymore.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. We checked patents. Are we right in all of our assumptions and diligence? Time will tell.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 30, 2016
It is a truism that with more capital you will hire people more quickly and spend more liberally whether it’s on external contractors, PR firms, attending events, doing legal work (trademarks, patents) or whatever. You will build out features or expend to platforms — often before you have enough market feedback to warrant it.
socalTECH
APRIL 26, 2011
We're not talking publicly about that yet, but the idea is to get away from the annual review, away from the quarterly review, and give everyone within and outside a company the ability to recognize people, up and down the chain, for doing great things in the workplace. There's a fairly complex platform we've patented.
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 11, 2012
As we know, developers always give their product a code name. We restrict money transfer to South Africa while we conclude our due diligence on international money transfer partners. Why the name? We liked the Z on the beginning and the Z on the end. The name just stuck! We don’t compete with banks.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
We've created a patent pending technology called Autobuild. 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. I had to build my own tools to manage my profile, so I got into software.
SoCal Delicious
JANUARY 15, 2010
Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often.
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