Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. Unfortunately, in mature companies, a larger and larger percentage of employees forget company survival and customers as the objectives, and focus only on their own personal gain.

Satisfaction 147

Satisfaction Organization Customer Custom 147

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Crisis mode hires too often get done without due consideration for strategic fit, training requirements, and cultural considerations. Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover.

Organization 104

Organization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Screening 104

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Even the simplest of new technologies, such as Zoom for remote meetings, can be a detriment to work satisfaction if workers are not trained on how to use it effectively, causing video and sound problems, as well as background distractions. Technology as an add-on by edict is not satisfying. Integrate freelancers seamlessly into your team.

Tips 159

Tips Satisfaction Coach Mentor 159

Eric Greenspan

MAY 9, 2013

Qwerty is here to stay, but the touch screen keyboard needs a serious redesign. Why do we even need to touch the screen? We need a keyboard that is above the screen, projected, with bigger buttons. This frees up a ton of screen real estate so we can make keys larger and further apart. Keyboard idea 1. Keyboard idea 2.

Ideas 117

Ideas Screening IBM IBM 117

socalTECH

APRIL 11, 2012

In the latest contribution to our Insights and Opinions section, where we feature editorials and advice from the community, Steve talks about the key to success with angel investors : We are all trained to be sensitive to other cultures, but tend to forget those lessons when meeting investors. You can do it in a few simple steps.

Angel 165

Angel Southern California Pasadena Angels Screening 165

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Most are not event addressing it, and even in the instances they are, the typical format is to have a specialist come in for a workshop, to train just small percentage of an organization. For things to be fair and respectful, everyone in an organization has to have some baseline of unconscious bias training.

Content 150

Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

But as we’ve all gotten used to the standard “banner&# across the top of our screens or the “sky scraper&# along the right-hand side we’ve trained ourselves not to look there any longer. Normalizing ad units obviously has a benefit. The industry is taking different approaches to the problem. I know, I know.

Media 288

Media Advertising Screening Content 288

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2020

Crisis mode hires too often get done without due consideration for strategic fit, training requirements, and cultural considerations. Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover.

Organization 135

Organization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Screening 135

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

Our competitors don't offer screening, but there's a great demand for on-demand childcare from a reliable source, so people are seeking us out. Plus, we have face to face interaction with our sitters, in addition to background screening. We are really just there to screen them, and make sure they know how to do the job themselves.

Demand 100

Demand CTO Coach Screening CTO Hire 100

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

AppFolio supplements its SaaS revenue with add-on services for customers that include background (credit / criminal) screening and credit card processing, both of which generate transactional revenue. In the case of Invoca, customers pay a monthly subscription price for the company''s inbound call marketing platform.

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SaaS Pricing Sales Customer 215

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. Unfortunately, in mature companies, a larger and larger percentage of employees forget company survival and customers as the objectives, and focus only on their own personal gain.

Satisfaction 124

Satisfaction Organization Customer Custom 124

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

The fundamental problem with banner ads is a condition called “banner blindness&# meaning that our eyes are really quickly trained to look at what is most relevant on the page – the content we want to see. It shows that our eyes are trained to focus on the text, not the ads.

Advertising 352

Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Natalie has pulled together a program, including training, hearing from traditional venture capitalists and GPs who speak about their experience and how they work through deal flow, all the way through impact investing. Or, screening out those companies involved in tobacco or alcohol. How does that investment process work?

Angel 276

Angel Invest Mentor Technical Review 276

Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

That all changed with social media , and now everyone is glued to their phone’s screen. They are the frontline of your brand and they have almost zero supervision, lack training, and sometimes are not even thoroughly vetted. Wingo’s company W2s its workers, who are also background checked and trained to deliver their service.

Demand 73

Demand Startup Social Media Training 73

socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

In recent years, one of the more common ways to share information, conduct training, or pitch your company to other has been through online, web-based webinar and conferencing. What we've been able to do, is non-intrusively serve ads on the right side of the screen, which rotate every 60 seconds.

Tech Coast Angels 178

Tech Coast Angels Web Screening Pasadena Angels 178

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

The first session we had was a company training session in sexual harassment and misconduct in which we had an outside speaker talk about what is appropriate and what is not. We can unequivocally say this has started to work in the companies that we have funded since this clause was inserted.

Venture Capital 284

Venture Capital Coach Ideas Startup 284

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Despite the proliferation of entrepreneurial courses within Business Administration programs, business schools are essentially vocational training grounds for consultants and investment bankers. Entrepreneurs should leverage the screening performed by B-schools and not dismiss MBA applicants outright. Look For MBA Outliers.

Entrepreneur 279

Entrepreneur Technical Review Case Study Class 279

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2014

You can even listen in, as a training technique, to those calls. We''ve recently introduced several new offerings, including business collaboration, screen sharing, voice mail transcription, integration with Salesforce, integration with Box. The hone system actually helps them manage those people. What''s on your goal list now?

IP 138

IP Culver City Customer Custom 138

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 million of a new financing round intended to bring in $62.8 million, according to a recent regulatory filing.

Technology 40

Technology Venture Capital Beverly Hills Funding 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Most notable this year was the BMW i3 and i8, with strikingly swoopy curves and dual hybrid systems that employ electric AND diesel driven drive-trains. This is true especially for touch-screen devices that require more visual communication to hit the right buttons. Initial Impressions. to only display what is pertinent.

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Screening Press Java Statistics 71

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

We have ended up with what is the most powerful AI ever created for understanding music and music related content, with the same depth as a trained DJ's ear. Our goal is to fill that dead air, and we started by training our AI to make sure those songs transition smoothly between each other, and play at the same volume level.

Startup 113

Startup Artificial Inteligence Content Platform 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

We have ended up with what is the most powerful AI ever created for understanding music and music related content, with the same depth as a trained DJ's ear. Our goal is to fill that dead air, and we started by training our AI to make sure those songs transition smoothly between each other, and play at the same volume level.

Startup 100

Startup Content Platform Artificial Inteligence 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. Unfortunately, in mature companies, a larger and larger percentage of employees forget company survival and customers as the objectives, and focus only on their own personal gain.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Satisfaction Customer Custom 106

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2014

On the bottom right hand corner of the screen, an ominous button reads ADD MORE STRESS? . The difference here, is the quick injection of capital and guidance to create bullet train-like growth. The clock boldly stated 46:23:50. 46 days, 23 hours, 50 minutes. “What does that do?” ” I wondered.

Startup 74

Startup Case Study Study Screening 74

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

I was selling products to Live Nation, Demand Media, Kelly Blue Book, Rovi, and the Screen Actors Guild. That's great training for the startup world. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment. I'm a guy that gets things done as a sales person. I constantly had to execute on one deal, and go on to the next.

Hollywood 256

Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Stress Tests and Phone Screens. It is strongly advised to save some time to screen candidates in a form of a phone interview in advance. There are things to do to ensure you only get the suitable and right people for the job. This means thinking ahead of time. Highlighted below are six tips for effective holiday hiring.

Tips 40

Tips Screening Training Customer 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. Unfortunately, in mature companies, a larger and larger percentage of employees forget company survival and customers as the objectives, and focus only on their own personal gain.

Satisfaction 57

Satisfaction Customer Custom Organization 57

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

You get your 3D scan within five minutes onto your computer screen. Unlike other 3D scanners, CADScan’s scanner doesn’t require training to calibrate, align, and post process 3D scans. The price for one of these machines starts off at GBP 649 or about $1,000.

Design 77

Design Startup Press Pricing 77

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

You can go from the CEO, all the way to the VP, to the director, to the rep, to the opportunity--all in a single screen--to understand exactly what is happening with the health of your pipeline. It's always in your face, and always on screen. You have to jump from one screen to screen within Salesforce.com to do this.

Oracle 145

Oracle Sales Startup Screening 145

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Risks to the business drift off their radar screen, resulting in poor business decisions, as well as less job satisfaction and declining professional success. Unfortunately, in mature companies, a larger and larger percentage of employees forget company survival and customers as the objectives, and focus only on their own personal gain.

Satisfaction 106

Satisfaction Organization Customer Custom 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2016

Crisis mode hires too often get done without due consideration for strategic fit, training requirements, and cultural considerations. Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover.

Organization 57

Organization Entrepreneur Satisfaction Screening 57

InfoChachkie

JULY 1, 2013

Would you study for a test, train for a marathon or memorize your lines for a play? Turn your back to the audience and read each slide verbatim from the screen. Wing It With Irrelevant Sonic Fillers. Of course not. Such preparation would be a waste of time. You are an entrepreneur – go for it. Avoid eye contact with your audience.

Slides 220

Slides Tips Startup RSS 220

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2017

My goal is to help people, but I am not a trained therapist. We go through a rigours screening process, where we interact with the therapists on our platform, so that we are comfortable with them speaking to clients. At that point, it's really about the therapist being able to provide the best service to our clients.

Social Network 113

Social Network Startup Platform Networking 113

InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

Sound Organization: financially healthy and operationally viable, with strong funder relationships, well-trained staff and reliable systems and infrastructure. We have a rigorous screening process, and we only fund the very best programs that are able to quantify their impact. We differentiate ourselves in four ways.

Organization 199

Organization Startup Technical Review Invest 199

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

I think many board members (including VCs) were trained 10+ years ago when life was very different and their advice often comes from an outdated lens. Understanding “The Funding Angle” I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups.

Startup 355

Startup Funding News Press 355

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

My definition of a scam here is any deal that wants some sort of cash payment before you can start "making money" Typically you need pay a registration fee; or buy a starter kit, training materials or a database of hot leads. You can also ask them what kind of screening they do for their employees if they do not interview them.

Startup 95

Startup Google Social Network Screening 95

InfoChachkie

JULY 1, 2013

Would you study for a test, train for a marathon or memorize your lines for a play? Turn your back to the audience and read each slide verbatim from the screen. Wing It With Irrelevant Sonic Fillers. Of course not. Such preparation would be a waste of time. You are an entrepreneur – go for it. Avoid eye contact with your audience.

Slides 154

Slides Tips Startup Research 154