Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Take little to no net profit. Network big to get connections and ideas, but do the work yourself. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. If you do, there probably won''t ever be a long run! Reinvest gross profit. Act big, behave small. Do it yourself. Hire experts, not help.

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Organization Startup Summary Entrepreneur 111

Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 22, 2010

In order to qualify, you have to have high net worth, a strong credit score and significant skin in the game. Understand how to value you company (more to come in a future blog!) and remember ideas alone have NO value. My advice, boot-strap, pre-sell, keep costs low, and don’t do it if you can avoid it!

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Startup Tech Coast Angels TCVN Incubator 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

People cite sources like this recent Inc.com article “ 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need a Business Plan ,” or my own blog discussion on this subject, “ Situations Where A Business Plan Does Not Add Value.” Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff.

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Startup Entrepreneur Slides Content 65

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

Take little to no net profit. Network big to get connections and ideas, but do the work yourself. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. If you do, there probably won''t ever be a long run! Reinvest gross profit. Act big, behave small. Do it yourself. Hire experts, not help.

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Equity Startup Summary Tips 96

Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

Assess On-Net Fiber Optic Maps. To determine if local providers have the coverage you need, start by assessing their on-net maps. Some will have a wider array of infrastructure options and coverage than others. To find a provider that meets your needs, use these tips. Tips for Choosing the Best Carrier Network Infrastructure Provider.

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Networking Demand Southern California .Net 45

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2017

Actively participating in social media is the place to start, including blogging and positively responding to customer feedback, to build a growing crowd of followers. The net effect is that influencers can rely more heavily on the less expensive “pull” marketing, rather than traditional “push” marketing.

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Social Media Customer Custom Entrepreneur 58

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the reality. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform?

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

Across the board, the whole company is very focused on the overall success of that program, to really drive the awareness and education in the market on those new TLDs, make it easier for people to get them, and not just letting them buy those TLDs, but helping them turn them into sites, blogs, and applications.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The idea for the funding program, called Safe Genes, is to get out ahead of problems that could bring the field to a screeching halt. ” Some academic researchers and biotech firms are building safety nets into other cutting-edge therapies. “We need new safety measures that don’t slow us down. .”

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Research Technical Review Conference Software Review 111

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Many people go back with lots of new ideas, experience, and energy. But throughout the transition I had my safety net. For another perspective which I certainly agree with, check out Kevin Drum’s blog post on The Power of Single-Mindedness at [link] but keep in mind that anything taken to the extreme probably isn’t a good idea…”.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Take little to no net profit. Network big to get connections and ideas, but do the work yourself. All you need is a blog, Twitter, email, some business card stock, and a little creativity. If you do, there probably won't ever be a long run! Reinvest gross profit. Act big, behave small. Do it yourself. Hire experts, not help.

Tips 96

Tips Startup Summary Entrepreneur 96

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Even investors and experienced founders are caught in the same net as recently educated graduates looking to build companies. According to the official press release on Senator Moran’s blog. Wired goes on to tell us “this is more than just an idea. Take the U.S. Accelerating the commercialization of university research.

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Technical Review Startup Offshore Entrepreneur 77

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital. I widened my net this year. The results were so encouraging, we’re doing it again. I am grateful to Mike Krenn, the venture group’s president, for his help on this project.

San Diego 40

San Diego Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

One, is it makes it easy for businesses to embed that video on their own website, on blogs, and Facebook, and they can also link to that video on their Google Places page. What's your background, and where did the idea for the business come from? Where do those videos get distribute? That's really our business plan.

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Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Visualization is so important to help yourself & others conceptualize ideas. It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. It’s how you codify your ideas. I add words & ideas.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

Some first-time entrepreneurs mistakenly believe that they are not entrepreneurs because they have never invented anything nor have they come up with a novel idea upon which a company could be built. None of the ventures that I have been involved in have been my idea, nor have I ever invented anything. I am firmly in this camp as well.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Writing Startup 153

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

Even when I’m not the one being sued I find myself being dragged into deposition after deposition and my blog (along with all my emails) are being served as evidence. Most ideas are fungible. If you think Facebook, WhatsApp, Google Search, AirBNB, etc are totally “novel” ideas you’re kidding yourself.

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Startup IP Writing Ideas 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. The obvious starting point is the cross-pollination of ideas and talent. So when Tim floated the idea of chipping in a small amount to our fund I was immediately excited at this new relationship. The Components of any Great startup community.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

We’ve gotten to the point where after the film The Social Network and now with our own ironic HBO drama “Silicon Valley,” (makes it sound like writing a algorithm can easily net you $10 million without trying) one might think starting a company is a bit like the gold rush where riches flow to you with ease.

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Startup Entrepreneur Design Funding 419

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

A little bit Berkeley, but more Stanford to the point where three PhDs graduating from Stanford and a huge idea can get a $20 million check to swing for the fences and build a huge company. Thats not Los Angeles. is a lot more of: Show me how youre going to commercialize this technology, I want to understand how it makes money.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 285

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

And there is relationship between debating and blogging. I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. The most important experience I have in blogging is the debate it encourages. So it goes with blogging. I’d rather have smaller readership and better ideas.

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Blogging Social Media Writing Startup 250

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, using cryptography and the blockchain I could transmit a blog post or a picture to a third-party who could know authoritatively that this was written word-for-word by me and not doctored in any way. Why would pouring hundreds of millions into even earlier stage startups with even less or no oversight be a good idea?

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Course Startup Framework Marketing 280

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

But the status symbol of this milestone is driving investors, entrepreneurs, the press and everybody into thinking you magically can achieve this status in a matter of a few years with a great team and an astounding idea. ” The title is a misnomer as it isn’t THAT kind of blog post. At least for now. For a fee, of course.

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Technical Advisors Startup Writing Blogging 150