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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

.” And if aspiring investment teams are looking to get together the SBIC has come back with a new VC focused program to help non-Silicon Valley communities fund companies beyond their initial angel money. It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. Every city should have a “BuildIn” program.

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Community San Diego Silicon Valley Los Angeles 378

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MAY 4, 2013

I know they will continue to produce great successes and that they have a team of great thinkings and leaders running their program. I also know that there are people close with the program like Sequoia that get access to the companies early and therefore have a proprietary advantage over somebody like me.

Deal Flow 347

Deal Flow Early Stage Investment Bankers Technical Review 347

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

We needed routers, switches, databases, caching software, load balancers, application servers, browsers, compression algortyhms, streaming technology, low-cost storage, management consoles, programming libraries and on and on. We see improvements in wireless transmission and in real-time programming languages.

Los Angeles 376

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

7 PM mobile viewing of movies, lighter scripted and unscripted programming, and daily news/sports/politics, in the kinds of 10-minute content chunks you can consume on your commute or waiting at the dentist. We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.”

Los Angeles 244

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Mobile Video 244

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OCTOBER 22, 2011

He has built an amazing facility, has established a design-centric credo, has assembled great mentors and certainly gets access to great talent. They are great at their respective fields whether they be marketing, sales, programming, PR, whatever. And leaders aren’t always right of when they are they don’t always win.

Leadership 418

Leadership Technical Review Software Review PR 418

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JANUARY 11, 2014

Assigning technically savvy marketers to not only help find new growth channels for the business but to be deeply embedded into the design of your product, testing features, usage, referrals and retention. Please read my post on this, “ Why You Should Stop Trying to Catch Lightning in a Bottle.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review Hockey Stick SEM Channel 384

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JULY 13, 2013

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. So I did that kind of stuff. It was all technical.

Cofounder 337

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup San Diego 337

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APRIL 5, 2010

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. Not least of which because my father immigrated to the US in the 1960’s for his residency program of medical school. He spent a bunch of this time in Canada.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Canada Green South Carolina 282

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Draft is a Fantasy Sports app designed for the mobile world and the busy lifestyle founded by Jeremy Levine. They just announced their Android app (you can download here if you’re on Android or the iOS version if you’re on that platform ).

Southern California 150

Southern California Philadelphia Mobile Stock 150

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APRIL 15, 2010

Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. Quirky - Platform facilitating collaborative design of consumer products through an online community. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

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OCTOBER 15, 2016

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. He kept telling me how profound this prison program was and would I meet Cat.

California 150

California Programming Private Equity Equity 150

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

better than anybody we had spoke with and she had the marketing chops to know how to communicate this to her market once she designed & built her products. and a differentiated feel in terms of fabric, design, sustainability, etc. Ariel understood her customer?—?the the modern buyer of home products?—?better

Curation 296

Curation Los Angeles Differentiation Channel 296

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Like Chris Dixon I grew up programing. I programed macros to help my mom with her Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets for work. I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper.

NPV 337

NPV Chicago Balance Sheet Database 337

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

At the margin you can make yourself better at sales, product design, marketing, leadership, capital raising, etc. For example, I believe that the data on the studies of identical twins raised by different parents show that the IQ link is much more strongly correlated with DNA than the parents that raised you.

Silicon Valley 289

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur United States Leadership 289

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FEBRUARY 22, 2015

And after one meeting they started asking for his advice about marketing, customer engagement, product design, monetization – whatever. Our last EIR ( Sam Rosen ) was so successful in his program with us that I was keen to go on this journey again.

Houston 150

Houston Cofounder Audience Business Model 150

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Initially as a systems designer and programmer and post MBA as a strategy consultant. I watched the first two of these customers consume significant portions of our internal programming resources. Some companies / products are designed for large organizations from day 1. Avoid elephants in your early stages.

Startup 389

Startup Early Stage Demand Channel 389

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JULY 23, 2013

I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. “We have a principal program. I told her I wasn’t yet convinced that she’d make a good: product manager, designer, sales person, leader, CEO. “You should really be an operating partner.

Marketing 385

Marketing Europe Engineer Networking 385

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JULY 10, 2010

Give up a box of clothes and receive one in the size you designate. Online retailer of affordable “accessible luxury” designer fashion. Allows customers to select potential inventory through Be the Buyer program. . - Allows mothers to be able to exchange children’s clothing when it they no longer fit. total funding $1.7

IPO 242

IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

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JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer.

Portfolio 150

Portfolio PR Partner Early Stage 150

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JUNE 28, 2011

Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Open source became a movement – a mentality. Suddenly infrastructure software was nearly free.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

Asking customers directly whether they have budget this quarter for a program like your company offers takes nerve. In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different. That is why they qualify customers really hard and ask the sort of questions that would make us non-sales-trained people squeamish.

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Sales Sales Cycle Startup Reputation 319

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. I’ve also talked about my favorite social entrepreneur, Charles Best, making a difference with Donor’s Choose – a program to increase donations to US public schools specifically allocated to supplies or projects you want to fund.

Technical Review 295

Technical Review Employee Germany Software Review 295

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AUGUST 17, 2009

There is nothing wrong with non-founders – by design they are the overwhelming majority of companies. People design their products in a box assuming that they’ll show customers later and get feedback. You’re the one who gets paid extra rewards for taking the extra risk and more importantly taking the initiative.

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Founder Vesting Intellectual Property Stock Options IP 365

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JANUARY 17, 2011

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. Despite the importance of creativity, there seems to be almost no focus on teaching it, encouraging it, training at it & incorporating it into our daily routines. Many people are visual thinkers.

Technical Review 356

Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

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MARCH 1, 2011

You need to be great at something: technology back-end, front-end design, usability, sales, marketing, quantitative analysis, leadership –> whatever. Let me say this – whether you believe in marketing at startups or not, I think we’d all agree that you can’t have a great marketing program around a mediocre product.

Entrepreneur 398

Entrepreneur Atlanta Audience SEM 398

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MARCH 11, 2011

His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers. He bought a copy of Lotus 1-2-3 (a predecessor to Excel for those youngens) and programmed his own accounting software for his business. He sold so many that after Caltech he decided to open a retail store. It’s still there 30 years later!

Product 350

Product Tuvalu Dilution Incubator 350

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JUNE 16, 2016

In the late 90s I began experimenting with voice as an input with a program by Dragon Systems called “NaturallySpeaking” but I was never quite proficient enough to make this work for me. Of course in recent years voice as I/O is becoming mainstream.

Jordan 150

Jordan CTO Hire Cofounder 150

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. It isn’t new stuff.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

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NOVEMBER 18, 2010

I love this program. One of the things we were chatting about was how 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. He had a ton of great ideas about what he wanted to do with TechStars NY.

Elevator Pitch 315

Elevator Pitch New York Programming Sales 315

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

It’s a sexy title when you can’t design products, program computers or sell! They work on joint spiff programs with the channel partner. You need channel resources – Most tech companies realize that they need Biz Dev resources to get lots of deals. yes, I'm joking. They are your lifeblood. Nothing more.

Channel 293

Channel Startup Sales Partner 293

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JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth.

Silicon Valley 390

Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

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MARCH 27, 2010

I recommend that you design a standardized form broken down into high level criteria such as, “Intellect, Work Experience, Personality, Attributes Required for this Job, etc.&# An obvious example is programming. We always used to do this and there are some good online tools for doing programming tests.

Hiring 301

Hiring Startup Silicon Valley Non-Compete 301

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

He looks for artists in their craft programmers, graphic designers and UI folks (tends not to do hardware). API : application programming interface, a way of accessing structured data for additional uses by other people. How does someone get you excited and willing to commit? (0:25:35). AI : artificial intelligence.

Angel Investor 302

Angel Investor Cofounder Southern California .Net 302

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MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 At Microsoft, Joel was responsible for defining the specification for a programming language for Microsoft Excel. Microsoft and Apple have a role of product manager as different from a program manager. His Tenure at Microsoft.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software St. Louis API 285

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AUGUST 28, 2016

Section-8 housing vouchers designed to help assist families with housing but further bind lower-income neighbors while avoiding the NIMBY integration with the middle-classes. The final 20% are some reflections that Vance offers on failed policies that, while well-intentioned, end up with the law of unintended consequences.

Ohio 211

Ohio South America Kentucky Iraq 211

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MARCH 11, 2016

The first time you use a video game it’s really hard to program in your brain what each button or joystick does. It’s the frequency designed to keep old people out and keep the product cool and hip for young people. For now, avoid this until you grok the basics, which as a reminder is STORIES. Navigation.

Video 150

Video South Africa Naming Kuwait 150

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

That said, Apple will remain a closed system designed to drive media consumption through a closed iTunes system and a take a toll for media distribution. Torso TV - Television was designed for a mass audience in a single country. Consider: The 22-minute format with 8 minutes of 30-second commercials was designed for linear programming.

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Distribution Audience Video Internet 386