SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

He’s been at it since 2005. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. I believe this is wrong. Let me start with a couple of stories. But there’s no doubt we took the edge off.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2013

That was 2005, and I have been with IFS ever since, growing the company and doing the things that I love, namely illustrating and designing cool concepts for the games industry. Share with us some of the journey that Imaginary Friends Studios has gone through since its founding in 2005.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2016

In a flash of brilliance, we took our dial-up filter technology and built a software product that would run on any computer regardless of its Internet connection type. We called this new product Safe Eyes. In June of 2005 while on vacation with my wife, I received a call from my brother. This rating put Safe Eyes on the map.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. In most cases, no patent means no financing, no new products, no new jobs, and no new industries for tomorrow. The innovation engine that powered the U.S. More and more people, like Henry R.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Robert has been working in software since 2005. I found that my product was difficult to express succinctly within the constraints of a small text ad. Of course, I had spoken with people in developing the product. No one buys products because they scale well. (Powered by LaunchBit ). He is a Ph.D. Low risk for everyone.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. Is a completed product necessary to get funding? But Howard comments wire frames or some progress toward a product should be achievable given how inexpensive it is to produce. Mark comments on the importance of being able to ship product.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

These TED talks offer a little bit of both, exploring the power of collaboration and offering tips and tools for better communication, productivity, and more. This talk, given in 2005, explores how collaboration in business is changing, replacing closed groups with more open, fluid networks. Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). If you are interested the Vimeo is here. And so on down then line. If a company that would traditionally raise $500k at a $3.5

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2020

Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest aren’t just for keeping up with friends anymore – they are your customers’ first stop for research into your brand and products. Instagram shoppable posts and Pinterest product pins have turned social media into bona fide, standalone sales channels that can have a massive impact on your bottom line.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

. * By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. Who would have known? Basically, everything you are talking about in your post.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. No Dave S. =

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2020

surging by 173 percent since 2005 before the pandemic struck. Engaged remote employees created a 15 percent increase in productivity. It can also negatively impact productivity and may lead to higher turnover. It’s been a growing trend in the U.S., Here are a few leadership tips for managing a remote team: Trust your people.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

This is how I remember it: It’s September 2005, and I was sitting in my office at Stanford in Gates 382. ” Ren and I started brainstorming about the potential for commercializing his technology in 2005. It’s always about adding one new feature for the next product cycle / Christmas season.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

I’ve been very blessed to have had a 22-year career at Intuit where I held various product roles from software developer on QuickBooks for DOS to offering leader on QuickBooks Connected Services. With this in mind, we started Intuit’s Unstructured Time program in 2005, where employees could spend 10% working on their own projects.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In addition to Seth, the core team he pulled together consisted of Elaine, a product person with front-end engineering skills and sharp design sense, and Sandy a back-end server engineer. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. Mark then talked about Crittercism, a mobile feedback solution. I totally agree.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Personalized shopping is changing the way we find, buy and recommend products to our friends already. Today, we cant even begin to comprehend the ways well produce products years from now. Amazons product suggestions are great because they have so much aggregate data. ©2005-2013 Mashable, Inc. Whats This?

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mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

How does your product apply to my role? Do your homework before the interview by signing up for a free trail of the startups product. Make a list of all the different questions you have about the product based on your experience. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

On any given day, one may need to spend a significant amount of time re-learning how to use the software before being productive or experiencing the desired entertainment. From 1981, when the IBM PC was introduced, until about 2005, one could expect a personal computer system to have a lifespan of 3-5 years. My mother is 86 years old.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People don’t just buy your product; they buy you. Michael Houlihan, coauthor of “ The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller “, started the Barefoot Wine brand with Bonnie Harvey in their laundry room in 1985, made it a nationwide bestseller, and successfully sold the brand to E&J Gallo in 2005.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

The enterprise in company form offers a product, a process or service for sale or hires to professionals or individuals, contributing to a community’s overall economic development. The Theory of Kirzner (1973-2005) about entrepreneurship explains how the improvement of economic health affects individuals in the first world.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2012

Between 2005 and 2007, Starbucks aggressively opened new store locations and made several operational changes that diluted its customer value proposition, diluted its high employee engagement culture, violated its real estate site selection controls, and weakened its high value-added ‘experience’ business model.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Between 1991 and 2005, the capacity that could be bought with $100 went up by a factor of 11. The following year, twenty-two of twenty-three entrants in the 2005 Challenge surpassed the 7.3 in the late 2020s, just following the mass-market production of fully autonomous cars. The trend continues through to the present day.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The year was 2005, and the real estate was booming. I made a conscious decision to become the best in the world at something, specifically becoming the master of knowing what it takes to get products in the hands of customers. ( Don’t waste time with the legal stuff, prove you have a product or service that people want first.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

No one can deny that disengaged employees are less productive, less innovative, less collaborative… less everything that leads to successful organizations. You don’t want to create an environment where people don’t take potentially productive risks because they’re afraid you’ll get mad if they screw up.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

When you have a compensation plan based on an hourly rate, you’re paying for attendance, not production. Would I buy from a company that treated me like a pain in the neck if I had a problem with their product, or would I prefer to buy from a company that thanked me for bringing my concerns to their attention?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

In fact, the company was awarded the “Top Employer of the Year” in 2005 – not bad for a small niche business dealing in natural beverages. Wielding a wicked copywriter’s pen and charming design, most aspects of its product design, packaging, posters, advertisements and banners are done in-house.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 14, 2014

Facebook’s Head of Product Chris Cox is, gasp, in his 30s and joined Facebook in 2005. Now he has a tremendous way to go to prove that his product sensibility and execution abilities are anywhere close to Facebook’s senior team, but point is, Facebook SHOULD be entrusting future generations to help evolve the service.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Unusual or Commoditized Products. These products compete on individuality and aesthetics more than price. Lifeproof , a line of waterproof and shock-resistant iPhone cases, aligned itself with Best Buy for this very reason, and it was able to penetrate the mainstream audience, whereas before it was simply a niche product.

eCommerce 101

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. We loved the product. Test users loved the product. I envisioned the product would be popular with 8 to 12 year old boys. I already knew how the product would be used.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

the truth is, if it happened on your watch and you are accountable for the finished product, you ultimately share the blame in the customer’s eyes. While it’s easy (and temporarily satisfying) to point your finger and say, “Not my fault!”

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 30, 2014

Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Michelle has been traveling all around Europe since 2005. She also has a consistent stream of income coming from ongoing sales of her information products when she is not doing launches.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

That great productivity drain that we somehow all buy into. So I ask you – if you’re being reactive to somebody else’s emails are you really being as productive in your company as you could be? I spent a late morning meeting with a product exec at one portfolio company. He turned me down for a job in 2005.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. We have a new product, PorticoClub.com, which is the same product at a lower price point. We’ve moved >$1b in resources from the corporate sector to nonprofits. 3 specific issues: 1. How we embrace technology for good. Derek Holt of Startup America.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Or perhaps you think it’s all about luck: My product is great, but how it will do in the market is a crapshoot. In the business world, this tendency to be “over” causes us to blow our skill sets, our capabilities, and even our products and services out of proportion. What is your new term for defining your product or service?

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