The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform. I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum . At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this.

Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company.  In sales we do this by creating a “compelling event” or as some people call it “a burning platform” (in case the reference isn’t obvious, when you’re on a oil platform that’s burning you have no choice but to jump. As an example, if you’re a network monitoring tool This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice .  Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. 

Los Angeles-based Spot Runner , a developer of services which help advertisers buy TV advertising, announced today that it has launched its Malibu Media Platform, which the firm says will help improve the process of buying and selling television advertising. The company said the new technology has been under development for two years, and offers media sellers and buyers features such as creating campaigns and orders, managing inventory and pricing, managing credit and invoicing, submitting and clearing creative, and more. ...Tags: Tags: spotrunner media platform advertising televisio

The choice of which technology and language a project is built on can be divisive. While there are zelots in the PC vs Mac debates, the hotter arguments in tech circles frequently revolve around what technology will mean success. With the advent of new technologies does this still make sense? We wed ourselves to the tools we know best and identify with the solutions we employ.   One debate that comes up in game development is the use of any language other than C/C++.  The

He is well known in the Southern California Technology scene for his work producing the Digital Family event series, along with the MOTM (Meeting of the Minds) series. What are you working on now? I've recently co-founded the first political social network FreedomSpeaks and CitySourced.com a real time mobile civic engagement tool. and report them to city hall for quick resolution; an opportunity for government to use technology to save money and improve accountability to those they govern; and a positive, collaborative platform for real action. We were in the finals

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Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing.  Many of the initial commentators (at least when I signed up for Twitter in April 2007) seemed to talk about it as a “microblogging” platform where people like Robert Scoble were free to tell quick thoughts about what was going on in the world in real time vs. My intuition is that this is why when Twitter initially took off (around the time of SxSW in 2007) it was an This post is part of my ongoing series Twitter 101 for all those that still “don’t get” Twitter.  I’m now moving

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Top officers of some of the leading social media websites and tools (including Facebook, MySpace and Yammer) will be on the Panel, and there will be panelists from the worlds of media sharing platforms (Pringo), online advertising (Stun Media) and law (Greenberg Glusker), the latter to highlight risks relating to such issues as corporate

Los Angeles-based The Rubicon Project , which operates a service to optimize the selection of ads on web sites, said today that it has debuted a new technology platform is it calling REVV for Publishers. The new software expands Rubicon's product from optimizing remnant ad network impressions, and into the domain of managing direct and in-house advertising. The firm said that the REVV product--targeted at premium Web publishers--now gives publishers control of non-guaranteed inventory, ability to manage sales rights by geography and other parameters, as well as continuing to optimize

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. I recently read a post that called this a Consulting CTO and suggested: Founders of startups use a consulting CTO when they have business vision but limited knowledge of the technology needed to launch their company. That same post said that finding part-time, consulting CTOs is fairly hard. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up . I used an image from Roger Smith that describes