Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Then, they use the old fashioned scare tactic that if you don’t become a member, people will not be able to find you on their site and will become concerned about doing business with an unaccredited firm. Your BBB has formed a strategic alliance to help save you money in your everyday costs starting immediately.

Santa Barbara 265

Santa Barbara Technical Advisors Email Technical Review 265

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

This morning, Los Angeles-based Lottay (www.lottay.com) launched its online gifting site, announced its funding by DFJ Frontier, and also the appointment of former Evite GM Harry Lin as CEO. Lottay's gift are virtual things--anything you want--attached to real money, in a PayPal account. We spoke with Harry yesterday about the company.

Evite 157

Evite Startup Ideas Ticketmaster 157

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

After you sign up for an account, super easy if you have a Facebook account, you are taken to a page with available lounges for you to view video. You can also create your own lounge. Everything from hip hop music videos to entertainment news and gossip, there is sure to be a lounge to suit your taste.

Content 74

Content Conference News Social Network 74

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

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

With a bank account full of someone else's money, it's hard not to feel flush with cash and have a false sense of security. An inflated sense of financial well-being can result in sloppy budgeting and accounting as you write checks here and there without pause. Your mortgage and grocery bill depend on it.

Startup 92

Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

IndieGoGo and other crowdfunding sites have been on the rise on becoming the new medium to gain capital for businesses and projects. How I got involved with IndieGoGo in the first place was I have a small business called the “Can Band”, which is a mobile beer canning service for breweries.

Startup 74

Startup Funding Capital Help 74

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. At that time, digital accounted for “less than 1/10 of all coupons distributed.” Getting Mobile-Ready.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Online travel sites are great for getting you to the location, but they don't give you any good ideas for when you get there. You might find our site searching for the keyword "jet skiing", but when you come to the site, you'll see in the same vicinity gondola cruises, electric duffy boat tours, kayaking, or surfing.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

You need to research the possibilities in a new landscape but your personal research has been well, a bit fruitless. Perhaps it’s time to raise a round of Venture Capital funding and want a pitch presentation a bit more composed than the dusty Keynote you put together last year for your friends and family round.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review Outsource 105

Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

Using social media to increase your company’s touch and reach with each of your customers may be the most important reason to jump in to this game changing strategy. That said, when a customer posts on Facebook that you should lower your prices by 50%, perhaps this is not something you should spend too much time on.

Social Media 214

Social Media Customer Custom Media 214

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome (www.sendmehome.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a free service to print out labels which attach to your item, and where you can register items in case they are lost. I pursued the idea, and ended up with SendMeHome, and we've become the first free service. One, is it's anonymous.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Startup Writing Ideas 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

In short, if you are always on the go, apps are your best friend. The premise is simple: if you want to engage with your customers, go where they are and where you can matter. Suddenly, maintaining a company website and a social media account is no longer enough. How do you make your mobile marketing strategy effective?

Mobile 40

Mobile Social Media Google Software Review 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Many people have speculated a variety of revenue sources such as charging 3rd parties for their data, charging power users for their accounts, charging “verified users&# for their certified accounts, etc.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

It's smaller than other alternatives, and is much easier to add to existing software and devices, is lots more scalable than alternatives, and works with both rich web or back end database, web services queries, such are used in transactional banking or gaming type applicatoins. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. If that’s not enough, ShoeDazzle runs charity shoe programs, making the company good for your closet and the country.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. Who are your customers, partners or suppliers?

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. The Past (1985-2002).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

socalTECH

DECEMBER 16, 2009

One of the perpetual themes of the technology news sites and blogs this year has been fairly nonstop coverage of Twitter, the microblogging site. Aside from constant coverage of whether the service is up, or down, or somewhere in between, there's also been a lot of attention given to how the service plans to make money.

Advertising 189

Advertising Content Startup Social Network 189

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2011

Have you ever been working on something at work, and suddenly realized what you were doing was applicable to something completely unrelated in your personal life? They told me they didn' t have the upfront capital, technical expertise, nor did they have the staff to handle that kind of service for donors.

Pricing 247

Pricing Design Startup Ideas 247

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

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Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44