Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. To get started, go to the International Business Innovation Association web site, and use the lookup tool provided to see what’s available in your area.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online is showing a new, screen recording service it is calling " GoView " at the DEMO conference this week, saying Monday that it is launching the service to allow business professionals to record, edit, and share their computer screen. Tags: screen goview citrix share demo record computer software.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2014

We are pleased to announce a special discount for TechZulu readers: Visit Wearable Tech LA registration site and use TECHZULU4WTLA to save 30% on ticket prices. Live demos including a demo on extreme wearables used by a trained wolf. Keep up with Wearable Tech LA on the web , or follow them on Facebook or Twitter.

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Entertainment Hollywood Pasadena Conference 88

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2011

A mobile and web platform that lets our users give and receive text messaging advice in a anonymous social community. Site Unseen. Site Unseen is a mobile app that serves as a personal tour guide for exploring a city. Anyway, then came the REAL demo pitches and after the final one, judges were off to deliberate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

For customers, a sample, demo device, or at least a brochure will solidify the message and your readiness to deliver. It should be imbedded in the home page of your web site, the introduction section of your business plan, the heart of your executive summary, and the first slide of your investor pitch.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

After some pre-game mingling, we began our evening with demos from companies that had been picked from months of company submissions. and web plug-in capabilities (Yelp), Storitz definitely gave the biggest eye opener of the evening with their revelation that Storage Units is astonishingly, a $20 billion/yr industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) The main reason that your advisors tell you to focus on your vertical, your age demo or your users favorite destination is that this is the obvious way to interest your user base. Here’s how you should think about your PR plan.

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Blogging Journal Press Startup 309

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. with the clips.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. I first reviewed the “Alleys and Pavilions” company list provided by the TechCrunch site. 6 Always do a demo. 7 Hammering won’t nail it.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. For one, we built a following by using Facebook and Twitter and other social networking sites. We post podcasts immediately on the blog, websites and iTunes.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year. The first VC I met with came from attending DEMO. And covered we did. After Office 2.0

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans. Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. Price: $25 (Early Bird).

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. The demo is the ceremonial end to the structured part of it, but our focus is really on building a really great business. Some flew in from overseas, different states and from Silicon Valley to attend.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: The companies that are part of the program get up to $21,000 in funding, office space, legal support, access to the mentor network, and the opportunity to present to investors at the end of the program at the demo day. Erik Rannala: The application process is open as of today, and we have applications on our web site.

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Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Not to worry because we’ll recap the night with some information on the demos from these up and coming companies located in LA. If you’ve ever worked for an executive and had to track multiple statistics, financial sheets and web pages, it can be very frustrating. The site launched a few months ago.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. 8:00 – 8:25pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. Leveraging mobile application and online platform.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2009

We presented at SIGGRAPH this year a demo of a character we called Emily. Editor's note: you can see Image Metrics "Emily" demo on their web site ). There's a couple of things you'll see in the next couple of months. So are we to the point where you can actually reach a fully digital, "real" actor? We're that close.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth.

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Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

I'd prefer to see that they have taken their nights and weekends, scrapped things together, and pulled together a good prototype, demo, or even launched a web site--and which shows off their talent around their product--where you can see what they have built.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

They brought me in and they said, ''There''s this whole new thing that we think there''s a lot of business, it''s the web. Although he was excelling as a web designer, Don began to get the itch to start his own business. They see you''re working on your code, you''re showing them demos. command a room.”. Don’s First Failure.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2009

Huntington Beach-based HowSimple has launched the firm's "desktop viewer" at DEMO in Palm Desert, saying that it has created software which allows users to browse, navigate, and search the web in a multiple-panel, desktop user interface.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. So, what Quigo would do is analyze a web page for Overture and tell them what they thought it was about.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

Additionally, the site allows lawyers to market their legal services by sharing expert advice and engaging in discussion. andi also lets users share text, photos, videos, live panels, and soon even comprehensive queues consitsting of offline and online content in all of your popular social sites including Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Suggestions for Angel Investors - Feld Thoughts , June 2, 2010 I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. Running a business is not an easy job. And be generous.

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Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me first address VCs or anybody else who is likely above the age where they “get” Snapchat but whose customers are likely in the age demo who use it religiously. It will be a follow on from my “App is Crap” or “Web Second, Mobile First” blog posts but in short, video, updated, digestible formats.

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