Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. Communication and writing skills are required. Find the right tools to analyze the ROI.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. Her newest venture, Moe Assist, claims to be the first project management and payments tool for influencers. Danielle Bernstein is just 27 years old, but she’s been running her own business for 10 years.

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Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

Luckily, there’s an abundance of lead generation tools that busy professionals can use to start building a subscriber base without investing too much time. This tool significantly cut the time it takes to implement the layout I want to use on a landing page. Here are some of the best ones I’ve used so far: Beaver Builder. GetResponse.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The service--headed by Will Heshall--said its public beta will let a wider set of users test and evaluate its tool, which helps select and play music that enables users to better work, study, write, and read. Focus@will explained that the public beta comes after the signup of over 9,000 private beta users.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 31, 2013

After a several-month hiatus, Round 7 of our project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms is available! We have several enhancements we''d like to make to the benchmark tool set (Python scripts), time permitting. Happy Halloween fans of web development frameworks!

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients. We see those three products working together, as features of one platform which both can be used independently, as well as together. So, we took that contest and crowdsourcing platform, and started ArtisticHub. What's the story behind Deal Current?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. If you are selling a B2B printing platform from Xerox, posting on LinkedIn would likely be the best choice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. Communication and writing skills are required. Find the right tools to analyze the ROI.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 17, 2019

Even as Quibi , the short form video platform from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo , reportedly looks to raise another $1 billion , rival service Fiction Riot continues to steadily build out its pipeline of short form serials. Michael Scott is simultaneously writing a pilot for linear television.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

Through SEO (search engine optimization) techniques on your site, and help from good Content Marketing platforms such as “ Link-able ,” customers will be drawn to your site to expedite the building of your brand. These days, customers want two-way relationships, and people who follow your writing will feel this bond.

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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing SEO 85

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. Communication and writing skills are required. Communication and writing skills are required.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Right now, it's a manual process--unless you're using the tools from Los Angeles-based PublishThis (www.publishthis.com). The firm has created a tool which uses software and semantic search to help in the whole process of curating content. It's a whole new search engine, and is a business tool, not for consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

First, you’ll need a platform. There are the new tools like Tumblr and Posterous. The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. Every time I write a post I send it out on Twitter.

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

The volume of Tweets is enormous and growing at a rapid pace so tools are emerging to help brands manage this information. Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. People write their thoughts knowing that anybody else can see them.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

McFedries, brud ‘s founder and chief executive, confirmed that the Miquela account had been hacked in a text exchange with me, writing, “some redditor idiots hacked the page we think.” It feels like we’re not going to put the genie back in the bottle, so we’ve got to learn how to leverage these tools in positive ways.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. Communication and writing skills are required. Communication and writing skills are required.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After logging into your account via Facebook API, the platform uses your date of birth as the core data to help you calendar all of your friend’s birthdays and discover other people around you who also celebrate your special day. Writing a wish list for birthday presents at 10 years-old is expected. Say Goodbye To The Wish List.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. The company combines high-quality information about genetics, with tools that use family health history to help identify personal disease risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. Communication and writing skills are required. Communication and writing skills are required.

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Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 93

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

Their view was that HTML5 would allow them to replace the notion of having to download a Facebook App into your phone or tablet, and release them from the idea that they have to have nine different apps on different platforms, and have to maintain all of them. Right now, those Facebook apps only work on the web.

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Activision Platform Startup Mobile 217

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs. cheap post-production process by tools (think Pro Tools for audio, Instagram filters).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2021

Mental psyche is everything in getting into shape and I don’t know of many great tools don’t to help with the mental psyche of losing weight so I had to gamify my own mind. With no platform to really help me with “food coaching” I had to be this coach for myself. The tools are built into the app. It’s super easy to log.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

We've instead taken those comments and turned them into scores and a rating platform. When you stick that plugin on a blog you are writing, it scans the article for names. For example, if you are writing about Barack Obama, you can, with a single click, vote him up or down in the article.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. He was independently working on a collaboration platform for writers, and eventually we all got on a phone together, and it clicked. What's Scripped?

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Tumblr – “Microblogging platform&#. Other deals. It sucked.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

According to many experts, including Michael Hyatt, in his new book, “ Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World ,” you need to build the highest platform you can, to stand out and be heard above all the rest. If these are not complete and consistent, your platform will always be splintered and lost in the noise.

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Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The platform connects foodies to restaurants for a win-win situation for both parties. The platform uses an iPhone app and website to help users make decisions quickly and confidently while also helping them share their valuable restaurant experiences with others. myfab5 is a platform that reinvents the restaurant review.

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Software Review Technical Review Writing Startup 79

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

I’ve been writing a series on a simple methodology that we used at my first enterprise software company. If a customer knows they have a problem they need to select a vendor who best solves that problem (or they can build in-house tools). There are many out there and many books have been written on the topic.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. The second thing, is tools. It's all of the tools any tutor would want, tracking anything, billing, payment, and leads. It's the hub.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

I’ve been online for nearly 30 years (yes, there was CompuServe and Prodigy before the www), blogging for 10 and using social media tools since the earliest days. As somebody who invested his time heavily in writing and wanting to share his thoughts through a blog I learned that I had to Tweet a post 3 times to get it read: 5am, 8am and 10pm.

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Social Media Snapchat Media Blogging 240

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. If you know, VCs end up writing sizable checks into their own funds, which is important in better aligning interests. million round I might write $1.8 – 2.2 If it gets broader adoption I think it is a big deal.

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Venture Capital Invest Course Technical Review 356

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Gabe Grifoni: At Rufus Labs, we are focused heavily on building wearables and technology in a wearable platform for the enterprise. Right now, the tools there are old and outdated, and mostly handheld. Our tool does the same thing. One thing we address, is the portability of tools.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review CTO Hire 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. That very big vision is an open database platform, providing data as a service across different verticals.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2012

From our customer research, people would like to record their dreams once they wake up, as well as to share their dreams with their families & friends, but there are no simple tools to do so. People can use DreamSwapp to record their dreams and share them with family through social media on our public platform. How does it work?

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Template Social Media Media Research 82

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. I’ll explain in detail below.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

Andrew Peterson: We have what we call a web protection platform, that provides other companies with protection against attackers who are attacking their web applications. We saw that things were changing, and lots of companies were going through the same learning curve and the same pain in building tools like we were in house.

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Web Startup Southern California Software 138

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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