Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

According to my experience and a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets. Apply for contests and business grants.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

Precise analytics allow companies to “ measure online distribution of coupons by tracking the printing of web pages and page views;” a significant advantage with digital. A study conducted by Rice University’s Jesse H. One such example is SocialTwist , a platform that “allows users to share in order to receive a better bargain.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

According to a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don''t attract investors failing within the first three years. My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Banner ads were never very effective on web pages so it baffles me that it’s the preferred method of advertising today on mobile devices. Study after study shows that for most high-value products, close rates are higher and order sizes are higher when you get a customer on the phone. They’re not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with 90% of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Valarm is an Android mobile app and integrated suite of web-based tools that will track almost anything via GPS, and remotely monitor almost any environment via built-in and external sensors. to create, market and sell an interactive cookbook as both an iPad App and web-based book. Spotlight Companies. digmybrand. based BakeSpace.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Providers make their pricing model transparent and easily available on the web, so it’s simple to calculate the cost savings of the cloud. An IDC study commissioned on behalf of Microsoft has shown that cloud computing will be responsible for creating nearly 14 million new jobs between 2011 and 2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2010

Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). If you do have a separate web domain name, like ‘www.domainname.com’, then your blog name should be the suffix ‘/blog’ or ‘blog.domainname.com’. Many now skip the separate static website.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

For today's interview, we connected with George Ruan and Dr. Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. What's the idea behind Quub?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

Fifty-six percent of retailers surveyed in a 2015 Shop.org/Forrester Research repor t say apps aren’t a key component of their mobile marketing strategy, even as 58 percent placed mobile at the top of their priority lists. That degree of turnkey, layered experience is just not possible on the mobile Web. 98 percent for mobile sites.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

For how to market your blog in order to get site visitors I suggest checking out the Marketing Show and if you can attend the next Pub Con it is one the best conferences to learn about getting web traffic. Let’s be clear, this is all up for debate because capturing emails from your web traffic is VITAL. Keyword research.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Studies show that anyone can be an entrepreneur, but many won’t be happy as entrepreneurs. Doing the research to clarify allows you to share effectively. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Go research it. If you can’t get product released and validated then do user studies. But the more powerful and seldom used research in Twitter is that you can go to a person’s’ entire Twitter history and see what they’ve Tweeted. If you can’t do wireframes, learn how. It creeps people out.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The A’s are the firms you’re going to work hardest to research, hardest to find high-quality introductions to and make the most effort to engage with. even if it’s just a web conference call walk through. Sometimes I encourage teams to create new analysis on cohorts, future revenue projections, competitor reviews, pricing studies, etc.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A recent study by Nielsen showed that an average American adult spend some 34 hours per month using mobile internet on smartphones compared to 27 hours via personal computer. Of that smartphone internet time, mobile apps take up 86% of usage and only 14% access time via the mobile web. What’s in an app? Add to that is its ease of use.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. The thing you should do is study Silicon Valley and try to understand what’s great about it and try to institutionalize within your community some of those things. was starting.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Keynote: Jordan Rohan, Managing Director of Equity Research, Internet and Digital Media, Thomas Weisel Partners 9:30am: Keynote Panel: The State of Mobile: The Economics Of Critical Mass? Dave Gwozdz, CEO of Mojiva will highlight some findings of this recent study called "State of the Industry in Mobile."

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

I myself have been involved with computational thinking for nearly 40 years now—building technology for it, applying it in lots of places, studying its basic science—and trying to understand its principles. We’ve had Wolfram|Alpha free on the web for years now. So how do we prepare the kids of today for this future?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

Business Development (BD) worked on a business plan, market research and customer validation. Pivot, Pivot, Pivot! The next day, the technical team started coding away, building a cool game for developers to battle skills on.

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StartUp Beat

JUNE 22, 2018

This is backed up by a 2014 Princeton study that found that “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact, upon public policy.” Jamie Tijerina, a young research scientist, crafted an idea that would help people like her engage in civic issues.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

For $9 bucks a month I send in all my business cards and receipts in a prepaid blue envelope, they promptly scan and accurately enter in all the info from each card for me to easily view on their web based dashboard. Now study the event organizer. I have the option to upload that data into my CRM. AMAZING “Value” and “Experience”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on a McKinsey Global Institute study , Gartner , and other sources : Targeted marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on a McKinsey Global Institute study and other sources : Targeted marketing.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

The whole Journey app building experience takes place inside your web browser, so there’s no software to install. We draw on a wealth of experience in mobile technology, digital security and web development, and have a solid technical grounding in electronic engineering, computer science and applied mathematics. How does it work?

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Mobile Platform JavaScript Web 65

Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Two customer-focused announcements stood out: the reviews API and the customer case studies. In announcing the reviews API, Google presented customer case studies of numerous publishers who shared a lot of evidence that talking to their customers has significantly improved their app ratings, customer satisfaction, and retention.

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Artificial Inteligence Google Software Review Case Study 55

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. The constrai.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). Add content regularly. Conversational style.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2019

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). Add content regularly. Conversational style.

Blogging 88

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2017

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). Add content regularly. Conversational style.

Blogging 69

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Web Writing 69

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). Add content regularly. Conversational style.

Blogging 95

Blogging Startup Search Engine Optimization Writing 95

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2012

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). Add content regularly. Conversational style.

Blogging 96

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing Social Network 96

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2011

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). Add content regularly. Conversational style.

Blogging 91

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Services Writing 91

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications. We know that because we’ve done research into what it takes to launch a new community.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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