SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. Here's an example of that kind of email. Tech Events / Meetups - In Los Angeles, There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Ask them about your concept.

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Board Effect

MARCH 17, 2021

If you’re like most people, checking your email is part of your morning routine. With the average person getting over 246 emails per day , there’s a lot of information to sift through. While you’re probably get a fair number of spam and social emails, statistics show that as of 2019, over 128 of those emails are business-related.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2013

“I really did not expect to win whatsoever,” Ismael Kotob wrote to me in an email. “We were just starting to write our business plan when we heard about the competition,” Michelle Sangalang told me in an email. “I did not think I would win but I was really trying to win,” Freja wrote me in an email.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

The key things I want students to take from the class are: Understand that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a profitable business model. A partner allows me the flexibility to miss a session or two (my job as a California Coastal Commissioner meets three days every month up and down the coast of California.)

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

We hired a PhD in computational fluid dynamics from Duke who had worked on helicopter design. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. At the time this was a pretty controversial decision. These hires were definitely not your standard marketing types. Years later he would become a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital.)

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 13, 2020

The MCALERT.NET application was originally designed with gated communities in mind. A tool by which you can reach thousands of people within 2 minutes via text alert as well as email. We continue to pursue communities from Florida to Canada and from California to New York.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. the “schedule fantasy factor,”) or his eleven rules of supercomputer design but also a real appreciation for how a technical visionary thinks. (I Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. The response from across the country? We’re building a supercomputer.”

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Maybe it’s your email, your messaging app, social media, or a news app. It’s probably been impeccably designed, with a lot of thought put into how you use it, and what you use it for. Combining addictive design with targeted ads is a highly profitable design model. Paid email services such as HEY! Nothing is Free.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

This year, with the kids grown, their choice was to fly up from Southern California and spend the holidays at our ranch. California, where even the rabbits are bigger than life! Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Imu turkey can’t be beat if you’re trying to exceed any rational amount of salt intake.) Blog at WordPress.com.

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techland.time.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

The same great award-winning news coverage, commentary, photography and video are all still here, but they’re presented in a fresh, streamlined design, making everything easier to find and enjoy, whether you’re accessing the site from a desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smart phone. The launch of this new design has many facets.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

However, as hard as I emphasize this point to aspiring entrepreneurs every year I usually get a call or email from a past student asking me to introduce them to my favorite VC’s. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. The first questions I ask is “So what did you learn from testing your hypothesis?” Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) He had spent 12 years at DEC , first as a hardware engineer designing part of the PDP-16 , then as the marketing manager for the LSI-11 and then into sales.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

But remember, however, there are management standards in place unless you have a lawyer create an Operating Agreement specifically designed for your company. She can be reached at 310.564.2670 or by email at ckirchner@mrllp.com. M&R is a national law firm with offices in California and New York.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Frank Cowell is a speaker, best-selling author, and entrepreneur in the San Diego, California area. Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John (00:08): Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. He works regularly with business owners and executives who are looking to grow faster and smarter.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. We respect your anonymity feel free to directly email us. San Francisco, California. Alexia Tsotsis. Thursday, August 9th, 2012. View Staff Page.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

We talked about some simple design rules and I remember him thanking me for coming, saying we were the only chip company who cared enough to call on him (little did he know.) Long gone from Zilog I saw the picture of the original Macintosh design team. I thought nothing about the meeting until years later. Does this help?

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR. He showed me a little Korean hard drive portable music player, not much more than the Compaq reference design it was based off of. Please contact me with your email address.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

We respect your anonymity feel free to directly email us. San Francisco, California. RelayStrategy Developers Smartsourcing Global Services Epsilon Concepts - LA Web Design Company Developers Arul & Associates LLC Accounting The Resumator HR admin. So youve got the inside scoop on a story or topic that weve covered? Gift Guide.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

One alternative I have used is to have a PDF of a sanitized version of the slides ready to go as a leave behind or email afterwards so you can keep the really good stuff out. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. John Reply Terence Lee , on December 7, 2009 at 10:51 am Said: Agreed on not handing over slides. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

Direct email or snail mail to the pre-registered attendees is essential. Make sure that sales is emailing/ phoning/ texting the hottest prospects within a week after the show ends — the longer you let them sit, the staler they’ll become. Send everyone else who gave you a lead some kind of follow-up email/paper mailing.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

The Carson, California company employs about 800 people in its 4 Southern California plants. The best part is when you’re abroad and responding to emails during the day there but in the middle of the night in the US. We offer a little bit of family in every meal, everybody that touches this recipe gives something to it.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Janstch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Nudge, hosted by Phil Agnew, and it's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Drag and drop your way to attention grabbing emails and landing pages.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I distinctly remember this is the first time I head the phrases “features and benefits.&# And since I saw our ads (but didn’t quite understand them,) I knew marketing was the group that designed them, somehow to get customers to think our products were better than Intel and Motorola’s. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. From grumbling skeptics, they all became packaging design converts. And for sure they were never going to win any design awards. So we not only sent everyone through packaging school, we also brought the packaging design in-house.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Nearly two years since CA governor Jerry Brown signed the California Fair Pay Act which was designed to close the wage gap, women in Silicon Valley still report that their multi-billion dollar tech giant employers are still paying them less than their male counterparts for equal work (Larson).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Are there things that you do on a weekly basis like start new sales, launch email campaigns, or push new content? Demographic centered location targets in this example are: congressional district, average household income for a city, proximity to a university within the state, and a Nielsen® DMA® (Designated Market Areas) region.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Finally, since no one would believe a set of benchmarks named after our company, we needed a façade of independence, so we named them after the street the company was headquartered on in Sunnyvale California – they became known as the Potrero Benchmarks. I’ll email a brief review of it. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Dev-first API for interactive emails?—?will Large enterprises are also complaining about keeping up with so many different regulations like GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This will be a boon to startups as this encompasses finding PII, securing data, and incorporating privacy by design.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Education program must emphasize the need to start with customer needs and design your entire product development strategy around a customer development blueprint, as you put it so very well. when we were first building Genlighten, I might have uncovered these design issues during the Customer Development process.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

But then, because there might be entrenched competitors and your concept is radically new, you still need to invest in the customer development process to learn how to get design wins from companies who may be happy with their existing vendors. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. could design and produce, and a good part of it was coming from Silicon Valley. Terman became a consultant to the company.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Kelly McAdoo is the City Manager & CEO of the City of Hayward in Alameda County, California. I’ve always been intrigued by the concepts of design thinking and customer empathy and how those concepts might intersect with local government. She’ll be speaking during Lean Startup Week at our Ignite Opening Reception on Tuesday, Nov.

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