Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Turn on your phone and look at the productivity folder. Something to write your notes, another to set reminders, and one that does both. You’ll be more productive within three weeks time. And for the 81,000 avid users, we’ve got some exciting news. We’ve been there. We’ve all been there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

A “downer” is defined here as someone who seems to dwell on the negatives of every business challenge, and loves to highlight bad news or potential problems. Let me assure you, every startup faces more challenges than any other business – unproven product, new processes, new management, and unpredictable customers.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The Framingham, MA, audio giant has incorporated the Hush technology in a prototype product that Bose is testing in a new product category that might best be described as “health and wellness audio.” Lee did not reveal.

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San Diego Develop Development Newsletter 72

Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Jeff Bezos didn't get to be the world's richest man by writing a lot of checks, and one recent way to keep Amazon's profits healthy has been to cut its affiliate commissions scheme. Since April 21, Amazon has slashed its rates across a wide range of product categories, in some cases dropping as much as 70%. The impact?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

One of the most frequent questions entrepreneurs ask about when they raise a little bit of money or are getting close to launching their first product is whether they should hire a PR firm. I notice, for example, that some CEO’s on Twitter never do anything but parrot their companies news. In a startup this is a mistake.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." It is almost never the case that you are building an MVP to "show" to an investor the product itself.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The idea is to put women with check-writing abilities, typically partners and general partners, together in groups with newer VCs, typically with an associate or principal title, paired together. “We have to force this familiarity, connectivity among women in venture so that people are helping each other.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A “downer” is defined here as someone who seems to dwell on the negatives of every business challenge, and loves to highlight bad news or potential problems. Let me assure you, every startup faces more challenges than any other business – unproven product, new processes, new management, and unpredictable customers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based Ebyline , the online marketplace which connects publishers with freelance journalists, has rolled out a new offering today, which it says can help publishers produce their own, custom news feeds. The service, called Ebyline News Desk, allows publishers to create their own, custom feeds of original content.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

What I love about writing is that you inadvertently say what many others are thinking and just knowing that somebody else is thinking something similar can be reassuring. Example: Fred Wilson writing his end of 2012 post wrote. “I’ve wanted to write a year end post for days. And your favorite bloggers stop writing.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. If the authors are inviting fans to write fan fiction about a universe they created, who owns the derivative works? Another unabashed proponent of fan fiction is N.K.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? The biggest news was the continued bullish market now coming on ten years even though historical cycles show markets don't usually last more than 7-8 years. We do, as of the writing of this in early December, seem to be seeing a correction at this time. On Demand).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective. Every one of those writers has a byline and a bio, and are paid twice a week at a pretty decent rate for that writing or assignment. They couldn't find enough people to write the content they needed, at the quality they need.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition. We grew out of an interesting use case. It ran in April of 2008.

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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?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Catch up by reading the first edition here or check out last week’s edition , which offered the gamut of mobility news from Lyft and Bird to Waymo’s laser bears and cybersecurity. And here, (wait for it) there are ONMs — original news manufacturers. Never heard of TechCrunch’s Transportation Weekly? Cymbal clash!)

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Every tech or major news journal in the country is preparing to write their Snap, Inc (creators of Snapchat, Spectacles, etc) stories and many of them seem to want a “How does it feel to have missed this investment story.” I love this product & the community I’ve formed there. Mostly kidding.

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Snapchat Invest Technical Review Dollar Shave Club 214

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures wrote a great post the other day that reminded me I’ve been meaning to write about this topic. I’m a news junkie and love to watch the Sunday morning talk shows like Meet the Press, This Week with Christiane Amanpour or Shields & Brooks on The News Hour on Fridays.

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Startup Press Writing News 313

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). My general rule is that it’s good to be stealth in the early days while you’re building your product and testing your market. It’s a buggy product but pretty damn cool.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2015

I was fortunate that I could write software and doubly fortunate that my despair at working for ‘the Man’ – and feeling compelled to strike out on my own – coincided with the dawn of the personal computer era. For me I had few alternatives; working for someone else had proved to be a frustrating experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2022

Yager asserts that being able to speak in public is one of the five key business skills that can make or break your company, whether you are a new startup or an entrepreneur who's been around for many years. The other four are: new product development, writing, time management, and sales/marketing.

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Marketing Entrepreneur Guide Custom 113

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Tech Reporters: These individuals will write and edit informative and practical articles on a range of topics including Startups/Entrepreneurs, Gadgets, Mobile Tech, Tech in Entertainment, Gaming, Apps & Software, productivity, and cover breaking tech news. Take a look below and give us a shout. Contributors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community has spawned a new breed of Internet startups, called “hyperlocal.” It is possible to build a successful site that has components of #1, #2 and #3, but some good product or service right from the beginning helps viability.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Tell us a little bit about Newsforce?

News 124

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. Just look at the silly Obama birther debate that we wasted so many news cycles on. Is it ever appropriate to just let a news cycle pass assuming the story will move on and die down? Don’t Bury Bad News.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Before this South Korean wonder spread across the globe I had written about a trend in global audiences that exists when the costs of production are nearly zero and the costs of distribution are also nearly free. think Amazon) and therefore hits with high production costs were more suited to the medium. It made national news.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. The bad news is that Finding Developers is Tough Here in Los Angeles and even people willing to pay have a hard time finding Web Development in Los Angeles. The bad news is that they can get a good paying job anytime.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The news blogs will cover the what, how and how much but I want to focus on the “why” and try to be instructive of what I think makes for a great A-round startup. Incumbents launch products, VCs throw cash at other competitors, team members quit, the economy dips — whatever.

Design 150

Design Startup Ideas Writing 150

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

A “downer” is defined here as someone who seems to dwell on the negatives of every business challenge, and loves to highlight bad news or potential problems. Let me assure you, every startup faces more challenges than any other business – unproven product, new processes, new management, and unpredictable customers.

Startup 82

Startup Mentor Satisfaction Writing 82

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. Good news always comes quickly, bad news takes time to simmer. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Quite the opposite. I’m usually quite a gracious loser.

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. Good news always comes quickly, bad news takes time to simmer. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Quite the opposite. I’m usually quite a gracious loser.

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Or do we want to play with this new toy simply because playing with new stuff is fun? Imagine your prototyping is over, and you're building a production system. You're in the thick of it and about to write a small chunk of server-side code. but getting work done requires shutting down the news feed and writing code.

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Web Platform Technology JavaScript 200

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Since then, the two left to start a brand new startup, SendLove.to (www.sendlove.to), which launched Tuesday, focused on allowing users to rate public figures in news stories, blogs, and elsewhere. The owners of a news site or blog can then install our plugins on their site, via all six lines of Javacript.

Startup 174

Startup Blogging Writing Examples 174

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2013

And it was the first word I muttered when I heard the news tonight. You had a new plan. Now you wanted to merge with a broader-based business and sell all products. You got to keep the name of the new company – ecomom. I’ll write you an angel check, then. I loved this image I saw posted by Andy Rankin.

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Venture Capital Study Writing News 406

Tech.Co

MARCH 9, 2020

Efficiency and Productivity. Work When You're Productive. Efficiency and Productivity when Working from Home. But, extended periods of working from home can risk having a negative effect on productivity. Even better, many of these software provide other helpful features that can make tracking productivity even easier.

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