Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

This will facilitate the expansion of battery charging and support facilities, and ultimately create more customers and growth for the whole industry, including Tesla. Another new partnering model is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. Not everything will work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

This will facilitate the expansion of battery charging and support facilities, and ultimately create more customers and growth for the whole industry, including Tesla. Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

This will facilitate the expansion of battery charging and support facilities, and ultimately create more customers and growth for the whole industry, including Tesla. Another new partnering model is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. Not everything will work.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

One of his companies - Gluecode - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price. There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc.

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MARCH 20, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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MARCH 9, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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MARCH 20, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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MARCH 13, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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MARCH 1, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

A couple of things I should add - Greg didnt mention the technical challenges they had (scalable complex matching algorithm) and the issues they had with an initial developer. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. in Computer Science.

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MARCH 12, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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MARCH 20, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. Most people agree that even negative media attention is better than none. Evaluate customer response prior to development. Customer feedback is required to get it right, and hidden time is wasted time.

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MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. We grew that up, and did very well, and eventually sold it to IBM.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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MAY 21, 2012

He's also led significant technology projects for a very impressive list of companies including Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, HP, Sun, and the list goes on. Development dollars have been spent and the system is not going to be able to be used for the business. What does it cost to acquire a new customer?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2016

Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. Most people agree that even negative media attention is better than none. Evaluate customer response prior to development. Customer feedback is required to get it right, and hidden time is wasted time.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. If your adVenture does not receive funding and you are unable to operate on customer revenue, then the Darwinian world of business (as described in Competing From The Fringe ) is trying very hard to tell you something – be sure to listen. Basically, everything is free.

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MARCH 22, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

The emergence of Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the social Web as a global force in the last several years has done a great deal to highlight their potential to fundamentally alter the way we communicate and collaborate both at home and in business. Disconnects between older and newer generations of social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2021

There is no substitute for talking to customers, analyzing your competition, and honing your solution to meet a target market segment. If you have a development organization which is never ready to ship, and insist on continually adding new features, or doing more testing, the ready-aim-fire approach will not likely happen.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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