socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Jeremy Gocke: With Fliptu, we're aiming to fix the disjointed media and product discovery process for consumers and brands. I like to refer to that as the ultimate brand fan page, or to take the example from the apparel industry, where I come from, a virtual look book for a brand. What is Fliptu? The numbers tell the story.

Social Media 268

Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software. What if someone sees an ad, visits a web page, watches a video, downloads a brochure, responds to an e-mail, and finally buys a product?

Customer 100

Customer Custom Acquisition Technical Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

They are the classic case of the Innovator’s Dilemma because they fundamentally can’t innovate on their product and can’t lower costs or their business craters. And it’s easy to run circles around them as our product differentiation shows. Growing our Product Lines. It worked perfectly. This was painful.

Startup 150

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 150

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2014

It’s especially important to highlight your uniqueness in some easy to remember way, so people will think of you and what you do, in case they need your product or service. Every product or service has specific attributes that are important to key customers, like integrity and trust, or customer focus. Enchant your customers.

Startup 98

Startup Tips Customer Custom 98

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2015

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Offering irresistible investment propositions and attracting talented and loyal followers is key, as they garner the resources to pursue their goals.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2019

Suddenly you will find that writing a ten-to-twenty page business plan with details is easy rather than daunting. The best are determined to do one thing well, rather than many things poorly, with limited resources. The result was a product that was bloated and late to market.

Ideas 99

Ideas Slides Writing Startup 99

Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Those images translate into data that TerrAvion analyzes and also shares with its distribution partners, who have developed farm management software geared to particular products with their own growing quirks, such as grapes. In the meantime, TerrAvion is pushing ahead with coverage by aircraft.

San Diego 107

San Diego Outsource Development Startup Resource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2014

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Offering irresistible investment propositions and attracting talented and loyal followers is key, as they garner the resources to pursue their goals.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 114

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2017

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Offering irresistible investment propositions and attracting talented and loyal followers is key, as they garner the resources to pursue their goals.

Entrepreneur 56

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 56

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

They are tasked with “getting deals done&# so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc. Similar with product features.

Startup 323

Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Google’s acquisition of Nest gives the the co-founders an early exit and resources to up their hardware game. Speaking about the deal Larry Page, CEO of Google, said, “Nest’s founders, Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, have built a tremendous team that we are excited to welcome into the Google family. Google EnergySense.

Google 86

Google Acquisition Resource Social Media 86

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time. He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. The money slide is the graphic below. the rest of the time.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Often I find that experienced investors flip to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. You may have great credentials as a public servant in your home town, but that won’t get you money to build a social network on the Internet, or start a software company. The buck stops here. ”

Startup 94

Startup Resource Social Network Mentor 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

If your team has a depth of expertise in software, that won’t help you get funding for a new hardware solution. Even if your product is a technological marvel, I look for balanced strength on the team in finance, marketing and operations. Startup leaders have to be relentlessly resourceful in overcoming obstacles and competition.

Startup 60

Startup Entrepreneur Software Review Technical Review 60

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

There''s a huge demand for a limited supply of employees, in particularly, there a large demand for product developers, and there''s a shortage of experienced people. There wasn''t a resource out there in the marketplace which allowed you to easily post jobs for free. He went into products and technology, and I went to development.

Design 174

Design Sites Cornerstone OnDemand Startup 174

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well.

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Web API Design Best PracticesThis session will cover the basics of Web API but dig deeper and take attendees past basic CRUD operations on resources and dive into how to create a robust API using Web API. I will also demonstrate how various techniques can vastly improve app performance, such as localStorage and Single Page Web Apps.

Training 65

Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Often I find that experienced investors flip to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. You may have great credentials as a public servant in your home town, but that won’t get you money to build a job board on the Internet, or start a software company. Relentlessly resourceful.

Startup 93

Startup Resource Mentor Writing 93

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

There is a weird Apollo 13… thing about not having enough resources and everybody having to sit around… and figure out how we’re gonna make this thing work that produces great innovation.” Mark encourages emerging entrepreneurs to be bold, yet he admits that with his first startup, he boldly pushed PR before the product was ready.

Entrepreneur 272

Entrepreneur Startup Conference Santa Barbara 272

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2013

I hear many ideas that sound more like dreams, rather than products. Rather than starting with a full business plan, I recommend that you start with an executive summary of a couple of pages, or an executive level presentation of maybe ten charts. Start your search for key resources. Make sure the idea is technically viable.

Ideas 106

Ideas Startup Summary CalTech 106

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

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. How long has this new product been available?

News 124

News Advertising Press Sites 124

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. human resources, technology, legal, and information technology) as needed. Been there, done that” - Building a software company is much different than a manufacturing one, or services.

Startup 99

Startup Report Equity Resource 99

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well.

Blogging 219

Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2012

I hear many ideas that sound more like dreams, rather than products. Rather than starting with a full business plan, I recommend that you start with an executive summary of a couple of pages, or an executive level presentation of maybe ten charts. Start your search for key resources. Make sure the idea is technically viable.

Ideas 97

Ideas Summary Startup CalTech 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2011

I hear many ideas that sound more like dreams, rather than products. Rather than starting with a full business plan, I recommend that you start with an executive summary of a couple of pages, or an executive level presentation of maybe ten charts. Start your search for key resources. Make sure the idea is technically viable.

Ideas 104

Ideas Entrepreneur Summary Startup 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2013

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. human resources, technology, legal, and information technology) as needed. Been there, done that” - Building a software company is much different than a manufacturing one, or services.

Startup 95

Startup Report Equity Resource 95

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

There are 3 vital questions to ask when putting together a campaign; 1- Is the thing I’m raising money for a great product? 2- How am I talking about my product? He shared, ‘When creating a campaign it’s key to remember that people are fans of you – not the actual product, so you want to be sure to communicate your why.’.

Startup 109

Startup Examples Social Media Media 109

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Milo Sindell: Knowledge Genie is a software platform that anybody can use to capture, package, and publish what they know into an interactive online software application. You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 4, 2016

Whatever type of content you run – and be it a music, video or print platform – Native Ads uses well-made and resourced content to advertise products in a way that makes advertising a positive addition, rather than a negative affect. StreamSpread.

Advertising 40

Advertising Platform Venture Capital Content 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2011

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. human resources, technology, legal, and information technology) as needed. Been there, done that” - Building a software company is much different than a manufacturing one, or services.

Startup 93

Startup Report Equity Resource 93

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Exit Problem.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

On opposite pages were two ads for two very large companies. What IMVU thought was game changing technology was not why customers used the software. In fact, Customer Experience (CX) turns the product development chart upside down. We are living in an age where we are surrounded with fantastic new products and services.

Customer 72

Customer Custom Blogging Startup 72

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Limited financial resources make it challenging for these companies to invest in sophisticated security mechanisms or full-fledged IT departments – a fact that hackers and cyber attackers use to their full advantage. These statistics belie the common notion that cybercriminals attack only big businesses.

Startup 40

Startup Framework Statistics Customer 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

They became both a thought leader in the space as well as a beautifully designed product. So you developed a product for the mommy community? Do you have sales productivity software? Facts: I don’t really care about total page views or uniques other than as a measure of whether I’m improving.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut.

Startup 40

Startup Ideas Venture Capital Competition 40