Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Showing me designs. Soleil returns emails at 1.30am. She talks about creative design of websites and physical products – in our case – stickers. Soleil is paranoid about leaking design & product information because she’s been burned. Soleil on the other side getting out sticker packages.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2010

That means most of us are getting derailed from our work four times each hour, maybe more if you work in a high email traffic office.&#. He also write a nice post on limiting email and managing on the important / urgent matrix from the perspective on a recovering ex investment banker. Chances are they'll love you for it.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 8, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] The best advice to anyone considering this course of action is to measure one’s ability to take the risk. Images created with MS Designer (DALL-e) using prompt: “A young woman entrepreneur leaning on the front of her desk with a worried look. Can you take the risk?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Most designers, at least the ones I know, hate to network and rarely do it. The key to networking in the tech world is you do not need to be the best in the world, you just need to be passionate, willing to learn and in a lot of cases be the best designer or developer that people know. Reach out to people you want to meet.

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Design Networking Social Media Google 91

Berkonomics

JULY 27, 2017

I internalized this phrase, recalling the many times I had partnered with customers to design new feature-functionality into my hotel computer system back when such systems were brand new to the industry. This week’s insight came from personal experience and from a good friend who advanced the notion of the “teacher-customer” years ago.

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Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2017

The structure combined the listing of the goal with a series of strategies and then tactics, each designed to support each other, each measurable and made public throughout the organization. Army late in World War II, and adopted by many high profile businesses such as Texas Instruments after the War. Yet each is measurable if achieved.

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Organization Metrics Demand Resource 275

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently. Below is a screenshot of the email sent Tuesday morning to Maven customers. Image Credits: Screenshot/Maven email. The Verge was the first to report the story.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The Los Angeles area startup is hoping to make it easier for crowdfunded projects to find additional customers for their projects, by streamlining request for samples, communication via email, Facbeook, Twitter, SMS, and more. The site was founded by Candice Georgiadis, a jewelry designer based in Malibu.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. CRM systems today don't do a good job of even integrating email, much less social. They are not designed to help develop relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

They generated an enormous amount of inbound leads through PR, email blasts and heavy efforts with analysts such as Gartner Group, IDC, Aberdeen Group, etc. If you’re not ready to buy then you go into an email database. In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

Dave is terrible with email. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. He doesn’t email you. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. I doubt he owns an item of clothes worth more than $20. And thoughtful.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Email us at editor@socaltech.com and tell us why we should listen to your own quick pitch. Shawn Peterson: I am a residential designer, and so I have been designing houses in the hills of West LA for about 10 years now. It''s very inconvenient for a designer to go to a house and try to answer all of a client''s questions.

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West Los Angeles Startup Report Design 228

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For the first time in history content producers can build a direct relationship with views through subscribers, email addresses and mobile phone number. It requires writers, actors, film crews, lighting, costume & set designs, make-up artists, post production, sound, editors and so on. How will you grab email addresses?

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Elementary Robotics was co-founded by Bill Gross, the brains behind an increasingly resurgent Idealab incubator, and Arye Barnehama, a former head of design at the augmented reality startup DAQRI. That was around 2017, when the two first began brainstorming how they would build their company. . ”

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

Dev shops were too expensive and on the verge of predatory, and cookie cutter builders don’t address the designs I had in mind,” Redman said. Essentially speaking, if you can design it it can be made a functional app in our builder,” Redman wrote in an email. ” Image Credits: Chris Ede / Getty Images.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

You can ask them to come and watch your videos at your owned & operated websites (O&O) where you can make higher margins as well as ask directly for more meaningful customer information such as Facebook connections, Twitter oAuths, email addresses and the like. Set design. In the old days this was email addresses.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2012

Uncovet (www.uncovet.com), headed by Heather Lipner , said it would help consumers discover the most sought-after items from up-and-coming designers, vintage finds from select high-profile brands and home products. Heather Lipner: I've been in tech and design for twelve or thirteen years. What is Uncovet all about?

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Userplane Startup Design Sites 182

Berkonomics

MAY 25, 2017

Email readers, continue here…]. Assign our development manager to localize design and oversee the needed enhancements to our product and support materials for each new territory. Strategy Three: Expand into at least three new continents through new distribution channels. EMEA, Asia, Latin America.

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Resource Training Sales Demand 243

socalTECH

AUGUST 14, 2012

Planetary Resources , the space asteroid mining venture co-founded by Peter Diamandis, has quietly been tapping talent from Pasadena's NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, according to an email from Diamandis sent to backers of the company.

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Resource Southern California SpaceX Pasadena 157

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

” And then you can build email lists and market video content to your fans in the same way Gilt Groupe markets its clothes to its end consumers, making it an insanely scalable business. You can monetize via Google Ad Sales before you have enough revenue to build your own sales team. Sound familiar?

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Carson Content Los Angeles Press 291

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2013

In West Hollywood, Los Angeles last night, Werner Herzog’s new documentary, “From One Second to the Next” premiered at the Silver Screen Theater located within MOCA’s Pacific Design Center followed with Q&A from the legendary director himself. ◄ Back. After all, what’s it worth?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2017

The lesson here is a bit obscure, since it is not clear whether the kind of testing then common in processor design would have surfaced the error. At a cost of millions and a reputational hit, Intel recovered. The waste from haste in this example was in not pre-thinking of enough testing scenarios for a new product.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 7, 2014

After you rang the Bell, you then sent an email to the entire company explaining the accomplishment you were celebrating. It was fun to watch everyone’s reaction when the Bell was rung; people would rush to read their email in order to learn about the company’s latest feat. The Bell was not my idea. Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Oracle Journal Email 262

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 5, 2013

For example, if you supply software to the chip design industry, do you segment your market into digital and analog users, into high end or inexpensive buyers, and into which languages or platforms users demand or request? Email readers, continue here.] It’s easy to find someone to quote a size of market estimate.

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Metrics Startup Marketing Demand 239

Tech.Co

MAY 16, 2024

In spite of these roadblocks, there are a growing number of Black-owned business grants available, designed to help close the gap and make the business landscape more diverse. Department of Commerce MBDA is a Federal grants program designed to support the growth of minority-owned businesses across the US.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. Different firms will have very different skill sets: Do you need user interface design? Graphic design? Or are you starting from scratch?

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Web Development Web Develop Development 204

TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Will you validate new members’ email addresses and/or phone numbers? Do they generate emails or push notifications? Email / SMS Does your application send out transactional emails or SMS messages? Graphic design? UI/UX design? If so, will you also have your own account system? For customer service?

Develop 520

Develop Development Technical Review SEO 520

Berkonomics

APRIL 12, 2018

Almost all laws dealing with employment are designed to protect the employee, not the company. Email readers, continue here…] Notice that every poster that is required to be displayed in a company public area (usually the lunch room) is posted for the benefit of the employee to inform him or her of rights granted by law.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

The ARPANET, as it was called back then, was designed by government, industry and academia so scientists and academics could access each other’s computing resources and trade large research files, saving time, money and travel costs. We are currently still suffering from those shifts.

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UCLA Social Media Social Network Santa Barbara 253

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2013

Many first-time entrepreneurs have grown up digital natives so have a really good intuitive feel for technology & design but don’t yet have the business basics down. . This shows itself when people try to do an elevator pitch, send concise, actionable emails or have a quick phone call with you to ask for help. .

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Startup Writing Help Email 364

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

times and my email newsletter subscribers more than doubled. Worst T-shirt Designs Ever. The kind words I receive in comments, Tweets and emails are highly motivational and most appreciated. If you have not already signed up to my email newsletter, you can do so HERE. Multimedia And Syndication. What Are My Options Worth?

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Newsletter Blogging Santa Barbara Content 205

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 29, 2022

From their book, “Designing for Growth,” they iterate a four-question matrix, each with steps for creation through launch. Then let’s design it so it will wow. Email readers, continue here…] Let’s refer to this as managerial ideation. Empathize –learn about the audience for whom you are designing. What works?

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 29, 2010

While they’ve been designed to make it easier to communicate, many of us find it adding to our stress. I say, go for it, use em all…but here’s a few of my ideas on each: Email for conversations where tracking, history and detail is important and if you wish to forward to another and the best sales tool of them all.

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Email Tool Blogging Sales 157

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

Remember that the goal of an email to a VC or an introduction from a trusted mutual connection is simply to get you the meeting. You want to send just enough to get the meeting (and of course a great deck sells better than a long email) and not so long that you don’t leave a chance to wow the person in your actual meeting. Poppycock.

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Venture Capital Slides Email Startup 261

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use. It was humbling.

Organization 280

Organization Custom Customer Tips 280

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

However Gmail is only private email conversations. We're trying to build a center-of-mass on the East side, to draw talented developers and designers, to recruit more effectively, and reinvest in the local ecosystem. They'll reply to my emails in half an hour, and give us great feedback on what we're doing.

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socalTECH

JULY 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based Teeology , the latest startup backed by tech entrepreneur Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), has started signing up users today, telling people via email and Twitter that they can now sign up for the service.

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Startup Legalzoom Sites Email 147