Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

According to articles on Entrepreneur last year, there are now almost 1,000 crowdfunding platforms in existence, currently estimated to add more than $65 billion and 270,000 jobs to the economy. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. Product pre-order model. In the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Technologists building cool new platforms, just because they can, won’t find investor interest. Solution development and delivery. Products and services for a business need to be attuned to customer requirements, cost and quality tradeoffs, with milestones for pricing and completion. Preparation and management of funding.

Ideas 62

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Competition 62

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast. Where we see a lot of entrants fail, is trying to get the right balance between building and operating a high growth, highly scalable, mission critical network--while also building and operating a fast platform. Those two typically don't go together well.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

Music – enable a dead simple player on band and profile pages that lets users upload their songs and have them purchased for any price they set. MySpace HAS followers, what it doesn’t have are people excited to promote themselves on their platform. Movies – no website has more Hollywood DNA. Who are the evangelists pimping MySpace?

Development Team Review 76

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). So, they built an auction system, a self-service platform, and an ad-server from scratch. We can do better.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. This doesn’t make sense. What went wrong?

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Advertising 40

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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