Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

You’d be forgiven, then, for assuming the city is seeing a net loss of tech workers. But, you’d be wrong, according to a new report out from LinkedIn. LinkedIn’s April report on the state of the U.S. And, as it turns out, reports of Silicon Valley’s destination demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2018

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. In fact, we now live in a buyer-led digital age, where the traditional media push-marketing efforts just don’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I expect that should seem intuitive to all entrepreneurs, but every investor I know has many stories about startup funding requests with major business model elements missing. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, or an inadequate revenue model. Target market. Sales/Marketing.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Presented by the Marketing and Sales Executives Society. With the seemingly endless reports about the death of email, its no wonder that the commonly-held myth of decreased email usage exists. Combined, these statistics suggest a net of 190f consumers who are using email more often. See [link] (more)

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

In her classic book on this subject, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net it out. Everyone looks for “rapport talk” rather than “report talk.” It’s not always about you, so dress and talk for them.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The speaks to the continued confidence in the venture capital markets and as I had predicted some time ago the VC markets right now are a great place to invest – especially relative to other places to put one’s money. Family Offices (of high-net-worth individuals or families). Who gave you the money? Foundations.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

According to an Ernst & Young report , the number of startups that have gone public in the US over the past decade is down about 75% from the previous decade, to about 10% of startup exits. Public companies of any size must comply immediately with the full reporting requirements of the SEC.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. I hear it right after people have decided to come by for a few days to “check out what all the fuss is about.” Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2019

In her classic book on this subject, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net it out. Everyone looks for “rapport talk” rather than “report talk.” It’s not always about you, so dress and talk for them.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Almost anyone who has sold a company has a story to tell about their good deal, the problems with the buyer, a last-minute change of terms, or more. The background for my story. The year was 1998. I’ve been offered $15 million for my company and my partner is suing me for all I am worth.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

Lots of discussion these days about the changes in the VC industry. The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

When the Olympics roll around, many watchers get into a sport they previously hadn’t thought much about. And once in a while, a defender uses his or her face, inadvertently, to block a ball spiked over the net. Talk about sacrifice. STAT found the figures in Editas’s quarterly earnings report.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). I had written about Mike before but hadn’t disclosed his name. Los Angeles Tech Market Analysis'

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

Wil--who has previously been involved in such starutps as Affordit, GotCast, GoBig Network, and several others--sat down with us to talk about his new startup. You saw the first glimmer of this on Kickstarter, with projects, and then at the same time, we saw the JOBS Act come about equity. What's Fundable?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

I expect that should seem intuitive to all entrepreneurs, but every investor I know has many stories about startup funding requests with major business model elements missing. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. Target market. Sales/Marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. The thing is – even if your services business is a smaller scale than this – you have complete control over the decisions about where to take the business. There are a couple of ways to think about this growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Similarly, acquiring a larger footprint of direct reports is often a sign of success at large businesses. At a small company, if you''re constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead-creep rather than value creation. Be very selective about the problems you attack. Never cover your a$$.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2012

In about three or four clicks, you can set up a gallery, and we give them a personalized URL so they have an identity online, and anyone who loves their photographs can see their gallery. A couple of us had always joked about buying artwork and hanging it up in our homes. It's been a net win. Where did the idea come from?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2014

No other company competes with Google Glass on the augmented reality (AR) market, but there are plenty of startups looking to take a bite at the market. We’ve been actually working on the actual ORA-1 itself for about a year-and-a-half now. Google laid out the initial blueprints of what AR glasses can do.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

We don’t think about how much Microsoft does to make our lives easier, especially at work. And 450 million licenses of Windows 7 were sold since its launch in 2009, making it the fastest-growing operating system ever, and showing us that Windows is going to keep controlling the OS market share. 3. It’s not just about Windows.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

I expect that should seem intuitive to all entrepreneurs, but every investor I know has many stories about startup funding requests with major business model elements missing. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. Target market. Sales/Marketing.

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Sales Customer Custom Outsource 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2013

First of all, the Boomer demographic is currently the single largest, mainstream pool of experienced talent in the market today (76 million people strong). While everyone around you is snapping up the younger workers, my recommendation is that you think carefully about the job requirements in your startup before you follow the crowd.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2017

In her classic book on this subject, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net it out. Everyone looks for “rapport talk” rather than “report talk.” It’s not always about you, so dress and talk for them.

Entrepreneur 66

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In a recent book on this subject, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net “it” out. Everyone looks for “rapport talk” rather than “report talk.” It’s not always about you, so dress and talk for them. Have a big bandwidth.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Social Media .Net Startup 112

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2013

Similarly, acquiring a larger footprint of direct reports is often a sign of success at large businesses. At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead-creep rather than value creation. Be very selective about the problems you attack. Never cover your a$$.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Training Technical Review 105

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

In a book on this subject from a while back, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net “it” out. Everyone looks for “rapport talk” rather than “report talk.” It’s not always about you, so dress and talk for them.

Startup 101

Startup Entrepreneur Social Media .Net 101

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

First of all, the Boomer demographic is currently the single largest, mainstream pool of experienced talent in the market today (76 million people strong). Last year about 40% of the total workforce was Boomers. They have worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Mentor Demand High Tech 107

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The Valley has obsessed with a quick up-and-to-right momentum story because we were thought to live in “winner take most” markets. But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. It literally drove FOMO.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

At Citrix, GoToAssist customers would occasionally ask if they could just pay for our screen-sharing functionality because they didn''t intend to use the product''s other features, such as reporting and session recording. However, using a value-based approach, we charged $10,000, much to the chagrin of our engineers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

These days, we all have to rely on a few trusted sources to digest and filter information, net out the relevant messages, and steer us with links to accurate details. Dharmesh is the founder and CTO of HubSpot, as well as a blogger and speaker on the topic of startups and Internet marketing. OnStartups , by Dharmesh Shah.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

I advise all of my companies to use an impressed payroll service, one that takes the taxes from your bank account along with the net payrolls each period. I have a story about this for later in this insight. I promised a story about payroll taxes, and it is not a good one, despite the best of intentions. Well, almost.

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Services Statistics Startup .Net 159

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

He says he cares most about “focusing on customers for life”. Live, right there in front of us, he opened his private admin dashboard with the stats from AppSumo and revealed what marketing campaigns failed, how much those cost as well as which ones succeeded and how much revenue those brought in. Think about it.

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Metrics Email Startup Technical Review 87

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Similarly, acquiring a larger footprint of direct reports is often a sign of success at large businesses. At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead creep rather than value creation. Be very selective about the problems you attack. Never cover your a$$.

Startup 105

Startup Company Companies Training 105

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

After presenting a “state of the company” report at a national meeting of resellers for a company where I sat on the board, I was approached by one of the audience members, complimenting my presentation and stating, “I have a problem. First here is a bit of the background. The year was 1998.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

In many areas, not enough entrepreneurs meet the criteria, so it’s still a buyer’s market. After considering about 200 investment opportunities over the past two years, we have established a decision making process to identify trophy entrepreneurs and startups. There is no product idea good enough to overcome bad partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

First of all, the Boomer demographic is currently the single largest, mainstream pool of experienced talent in the market today (76 million people strong). Last year about 40% of the total workforce was Boomers. News & World Report , people over 40 were key players in 86.6% of startup businesses as far back as 2005.

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