Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 20, 2010
I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. I don’t believe that one exists. Every team configuration is different. But I do have more insight into understanding your startup team. This time I thought I’d try and address engineering talent.
SoCal CTO
APRIL 23, 2010
I’ve come to realize that I have lots of posts around startup software development scattered around in different posts. Thought it would be good to capture them in one spot and also include links to related posts from other sources. Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Startup Software Developers Symptoms of a Weak Development Team Technology Roles in Startups Startup CTO or Developer Part-Time CTO Technology Advisor CTO Founder Acting CTO Software Developm
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socalTECH
APRIL 23, 2010
Santa Barbara-based Make It Work said today that it has signed a national syndication agreement with Envision Radio Networks , which will make the firm's technology radio show available to radio stations nationwide. According to Make It Work, the firm's Make It Work program--which currently runs on KSFO 560 in San Francisco--will be extended to two hours, and will be available in other markets.
Eric Greenspan
APRIL 9, 2010
L-R, clockwise: Daryl Bernstein, Palmer Jackson, Mark Sylvester, John Greathouse, Mike Lewis and Eric Greenspan (cameraguy). A few months back I got an email from a producer of the show Private Chefs of Beverly Hills which will air on the Food Network this month. Her question to me, “We’re looking for a few executives to go ‘Glamping’ with our private chefs who will cook amazing treats for you…interested?
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Berkonomics
APRIL 21, 2010
Time bankruptcy results from the deliberate over-commitment of core resources. . I created the term “time bankruptcy” almost thirty years ago when the computer software business was young, and I was a software developer building a young company based upon quality first. Asked to speak at a number of software industry events, I found my voice and immediate audience understanding as I described variants of the following problem to my audience.
InfoChachkie
APRIL 7, 2010
During the height of the dotbomb bubble, numerous companies struck Barney deals. These spurious partnerships had no substance and were initiated for the sole purpose of sending out a press release. They were dubbed Barney deals because the structure of such relationships was so lightweight that the underlying agreements merely affirmed the companies’ mutual affection, as articulated in Barney’s theme song, “I love you, you love me.
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Tech Coast Venture Network
APRIL 22, 2010
Virgina Lorimor There are several options for financing a start-up business that tend to follow a natural course in a business’ development: Personal Investment. This is where all entrepreneurs have to start. Everyone else is going to want to know that you have some skin in the game, but don’t take yourself to the verge of bankruptcy to get your business going.
socalTECH
APRIL 16, 2010
Los Angeles-based Break Media , the online operator of a network of sites focused on men, announced Friday morning that it has launched a new division focused on CPA, performance marketing. Break Media said that Apogee Media Network will focus on customer acquisition, email marketing, and social media for advertisers, on a CPA-basis. Break said it soft-launched the division in January.
Eric Greenspan
APRIL 8, 2010
My wife, my son Jacob and I were very excited on Tuesday expecting our little Jackson to arrive. It was his due date, so we packed the car and waited. We took a long walk with the dogs. We went to the mall. It’s now Thursday night, we’re still waiting. Jackson is going to enter this world in a good way. He already has over 30 friends on Facebook, a Gmail account, Twitter handle and of course his own URL.
Berkonomics
APRIL 28, 2010
Second to visionary leadership, this is your most important job. . Many of us go through the motions of hiring to fill a position, trying to use our intuition and skills to find the best candidate for the job. Sometimes we use consultants or recruiters; many times we use internal talent to fill most positions. . And over the years, we students of business success have learned that there is a science to the hiring process that continues through the life of an emplo
Jason Nazar
APRIL 7, 2010
This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on “How to Build a Great Technology Team”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation talking about the experience, process and skills need to build an all-star caliber technology team. We’ll be welcoming as our speakers: Alon Shwartz the Co-Founder/CTO of Docstoc , Nick Wilson the EVP/CTO of Break.com , Allen Hurff the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at MySpace , Travlin McCormack the CTO of Internships.com and former CTO of
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 8, 2010
Most technology startups seem to be founded by three types of people: product managers, engineers or biz dev types (MBAs and the like). Very few of them are started, in my experience, by sales people and very few early stage companies really understand sales. That’s why I started the Sales & Marketing Series and at one point I will do a bunch of posts on the sales methodology we developed at my first company called PUCCKA.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 21, 2010
By Akira Hirai Entrepreneurship. The word conjures images of twenty-something graduate students hacking code in a Silicon Valley dorm room, fueled by a steady supply of Red Bull and Ramen. Starting a tech company requires youthful vigor, endurance, freedom from obligations like mortgages, imagination, and an intimate understanding of what’s trendy and hip.
socalTECH
APRIL 14, 2010
Our interview this morning is with Lolita Carrico, founder of Gloss Network for Women (www.mygloss.com), an online network of sites focused on women. Lolita was founder of ModernMom.com, which she sold to Richard Rosenblatt's Demand Media last year, and we caught up with Lolita to learn more about her newest venture. What is Gloss Network? Lolita Carrico: After I sold ModernMom last year to Demand Media and Richard Rosenblatt, which they merged into Brook Burke's company, BabooshBaby.com, I stay
Eric Greenspan
APRIL 12, 2010
Now Syndicating Nationally. Today, Make It Work entered into a national syndication agreement with Envision Radio. “ Make It Work &# (with Jeremy Anticouni), currently a one hour show on KSFO 560am in San Francisco, will be converted to a two hour show for Envision and will begin airing on stations throughout the country, in addition to KSFO. Make It Work Media, a division of Make It Work, Inc., will produce the tech news radio program and Envision Radio will distribute the show to its net
Berkonomics
APRIL 13, 2010
Let me illustrate this insight with a personal story. As my enterprise computer software company which produced innovative lodging systems for hotels and resorts grew quickly, we found ourselves straining to keep up with the hiring and training of good customer support representatives, a critical part of the equation then and still so today in the 24 hour environment of hotel front desk operations.
Tech Zulu Event
APRIL 27, 2010
Come one come all (well space is limited so hurry) to the first ever X PRIZE foundation open house this Friday April 30, 2010. If you are a techy who enjoys space exploration you are definitely going to have a blast at this event. X PRIZE will feature a few brief presentations on three ongoing prizes, the Archon Genomic X PRIZE, the Google Lunar X PRIZE, and the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 14, 2010
Clean up your own shite. Ok. I know that the tone of the title and post will seem a bit aggressive for a post from a venture capitalist on fund raising. It’s meant to be a bit provocative but the reality is that I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the the time and I usually leave the “e&# off of the end. I learned all of this myself on your side of the table raising money at my first company.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 26, 2010
If I had a dollar for every time someone has said to me, “One of these days, I’m going to start my own company,” I’d be rich. If this day ever comes for all these people, we will be overrun by startups. Yet I don’t lose any sleep over either of these possibilities. Most people procrastinate from time to time, but I suspect that the challenge here is somewhat deeper than that.
socalTECH
APRIL 21, 2010
Lake Forest-based storage manufacturer WD has rolled out a new, iPhone/iPod Touch application which connects its My Book World Edition and WD ShareSpace network drives with the popular Apple devices. According to WD, its new WD Photos photo viewer application allows users to access up to 250,000 of their favorite photos from anywhere in the world, remotely logging users into their hard drives from anywhere.
Eric Greenspan
APRIL 19, 2010
Heather, mom’s closest friend was in the delivery room with us. Jacob, my 13 year old, was in the waiting room with the family. Watch Jacob become a big brother, right before your eyes: April 16, 2010 12:54 AM: JAG: Anything? HMB: Ya she is doing great at pushing. Making progress. JAG: Good how long u think? HMB: Hard to say bud. JAG: OK have u seen the baby yet tho any parts of it.
Berkonomics
APRIL 7, 2010
Here we examine the relationship between time, quality and competitiveness. If you are getting the impression from these many insights that complex relationships cause simple problems, you are right. We have heard the “haste makes waste” ditty since childhood. There is little need to reinforce the obvious. On a larger scale, there are epoch stories of giant companies eating massive losses in a recall of product, often based upon limited testing before release.
Tech Zulu Event
APRIL 14, 2010
Filters are a thing of the past when you have "Digital Intuition". No longer will you need to check mark those boxes on what you have interest in. With my6sense they simply want you to plug in your streams and let it do the work for you. my6sense intelligently filters your content from Twitter, Facebook and RSS streams according to your online behavior.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 18, 2010
What do Google Analytics and print newspapers have in common? They’re both one day out of date when you read them. I’ve been using Chartbeat for over a month now to track performance of my blog and I find myself looking at Google Analytics much less these days. In fact, I’m surprised by how antiquated Google Analytics feels. Chartbeat is a relatively young company and product.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2010
As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea. I hear lots of excuses from startup founders, like “I’m too busy,” concern over IP security, can’t afford an agency, and it’s too early. The result is they get no feedback, no credibility, no visibility, and no investors until months later than they expect. I’m definitely not lobbying here for promising things you can’t deliver, or hiring a publicist before your first programmer.
socalTECH
APRIL 8, 2010
A group of local technology entrepreneurs are getting the spotlight this week--not for their startups, but for their food aspirations, on the premier of the Food Networks' new series, "Private Chefs of Beverly Hills". Apparently, the premier episode features Daryl Bernstein of RightSignature , Eric Greenspan of Make It Work , Mike Lewis of SuiteArrival , Mark Sylvester of Intronetworks , Cogi 's Palmer Jackson , and John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners on a glamour camping - "glamping" - t
CEO Flow
APRIL 1, 2010
Trying to address important or sensitive issues over email just exacerbates the problem. Always meet in person or pick up the damn phone! There’s just too much opportunity to misinterpret or miscommunicate, resulting in unnecessary anxiety or drama. What about scheduling an impromptu meeting? Or calling the person? If you can’t do either of them, is it something that can wait until the morning?
SoCal Delicious
APRIL 5, 2010
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Tech Zulu Event
APRIL 6, 2010
During DEMOspring 2010 we caught up with Brian Dougherty founder of Airset. Airset gives you your own Personal Cloud Computer and the ability to add groups of Cloud Computers to your Cloud Network. Each cloud computer has an expandable hard disk, a rich suite of web applications, and acts as a web server publishing content. Signing up is really easy and intuitive and the best thing is that the basic service is free, supported by advertising of course, but at $2.95/month, members can upgrade to
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 10, 2010
So Twitter is buying and building Twitter clients. I don’t find this surprising at all. In fact, I said as much in September 09 at a Twitter conference in LA on a panel that Guy Kawasaki was moderating. I said in the following video that I thought Twitter would by Seesmic , the company that makes one of the most popular Twitter clients. (If you’re interested you can watch my comments by fast forwarding to minute 31.25 and listening for about 90 seconds.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 8, 2010
Sometimes I like to drop the comment socially that “I knew Bill Gates back when he was a regular guy.” I know that dates me a bit, but it also shows that I have been hanging around startups for a long time. The honest truth is that I worked with Microsoft then from my “safe” perch in big IBM, during the early days of the IBM PC. At that time I couldn’t imagine a startup succeeding that was first called Traf-O-Data to process raw traffic data into reports, later changed to Microsoft to sell Basic
socalTECH
APRIL 15, 2010
Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M for the quarter, up from both Q4 of last year as well as the comparable Q1 quarter in 2009, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA. According to the report, released today, Southern California investments totaled $686.5M in Q1, up from $588.033M tallied by the report in Q4 of 2009, and up significantly from the $320.2M received in the region in Q1 of 2009.
Jason Nazar
APRIL 30, 2010
We’re proud to announce that Docstoc is now home to some of the best eBooks from our digital media distributor Overdrive.com. We have added a collection of 100,000 books from a variety of well known publishers as well as 150,000 new professional documents, which include research reports, legal forms, business plans and other contents. Among the publishers that are included on our DocStore are McGraw-Hill, Random House, and Simon & Schuster.
Daradiction
APRIL 16, 2010
Honored to be included in this list! 10-entrepreneurs-changing-the-way-government-works. Tags: Capitalism Ethics and Social Justice Technology.
Tech Zulu Event
APRIL 21, 2010
Teaching credentials? What is that? And who needs them with when you have Supercool School. Supercool school is a site that allows anyone to create an online learning environment that they can charge students to take a course. Founder Steli Efti stated that he wants to create the Ning of Education, giving the ability to build an educational site to anyone.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
Oh, boy. Here we go again. Another post on job hopping. This will be my final word on the topic. I promise. My goal here is to move the debate forward, add my POV but not inflame things any further. Inflaming was never my goal. Let’s see if I can achieve that. My WORD of the day is “loyalty.&# It’s one of the angles that people who were angered by my original post the most found so offensive.
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