Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. To build it, weve hired some amazing people, including Nick Kim, who is now leading platform development at Crosscut. in 2005 for $680M.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2013

I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. I never lived beyond my means and it’s always a warning sign for me when evaluating companies and entrepreneurs. Note to said entrepreneurs – you’re not missing anything. We had lots of debates about the tech world and about career development.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

we're proud to be part of one of the world's most vibrant innovation ecosystems with some of the fastest growing companies and most creative entrepreneurs. Since joining SVB in 2005, Rob has led debt transactions for more than 100 public and private companies. Though we bank companies large and small around the globe, here in L.A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Silent Generation (Lucky Few) – 28.6 These shifts are independent of technology innovations, but certainly will drive the application of key product developments.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Originally created in the mid 1990’s to help with the imprecise problem of how to value early stage companies, especially those in technology, I developed what soon became known as “The Berkus Method” when published in the popular book, “Winning Angels” by Harvard’s Amis and Stevenson with my permission in 2001. Well, it had to happen.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. Which is why I often tell people to start being entrepreneurs when one is young. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? I remember this lesson well. I talk about it often including in my own personal narrative.

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APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs. But TWTFelipe is an entrepreneur. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. For starters, David had once been an entrepreneur himself so it seemed like such a natural fit. And I was so pleasantly surprised to learn that Randy Churchill will join Cooley’s LA practice as head of business development.

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

The fund has been about two years of development with Peter Warnoe, who is a serial entrepreneur who is very famous in the Nordics. Lars Tvede has written fifteen books on entrepreneurship, is a serial entrepreneur himself, and has been uber-succcessful. What things are you looking at when you consider a company or entrepreneur?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. And I had been telling my partners for a couple of years that I thought Ethan was one of the more talented entrepreneurs I had come across in San Francisco. We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Los Angeles-based Kixer (www.kixer.com) has figured out one way--which is to connect those mobile users with ads from app developers, who have the opposite problem of trying to boost their user base. Right now, half of Facebook''s revenues comes from app developers getting users to install their products. What''s your background?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Silent Generation (Lucky Few) – 28.6 These shifts are independent of technology innovations, but certainly will drive the application of key product developments.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 24, 2011

Over 600 people came to this event to listen share and network, including entrepreneurs, VC’s and investors. Vizio’s vision was to develop high quality, affordable HDTV’s for a mass market. In 2003, Vizio launched in Costco and then in Sams Club in 2005. All this success in less than five years.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The REACH event will bring together some of gaming’s most influential thinkers, creators, and developers who will guide us through their vision of the next evolution of gaming. Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. Josh Yguado - President SGN.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. Dolgoff has a fascinating background--he invented the first LCD projector, he helped inspire Star Trek's Holodeck, and he also is a serial entrepreneur who took his company public on the NASDAQ in the 90's.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. So they develop short-hand ways to qualify things better. You’ll never make a great entrepreneur. Tell a friend! Neither can any VC.

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APRIL 14, 2010

It’s meant to be a bit provocative but the reality is that I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the the time and I usually leave the “e&# off of the end. I normally offer this advice in the capacity of really wanting to help entrepreneurs so please bear with me. It is 2010. The list goes on.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start. Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start. They can start on mobile online, or mobile and web, and then develop other applications for Snap TV, Roku, and scale the service as they move forward. I have a Ph.D.

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JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. So here is what I have been telling entrepreneurs privately for the past 6 months. What a bubble means for each entrepreneur. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe that.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is the fourth article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with two of Southern California's most successful serial entrepreneurs, Alex Kazerani and James Segil , now of Los Angeles-based OpenPath. In 2000, James and I started KnowledgeBase, which we sold in 2005. Alex Kazerani: We did our first company in the 90's, and sold it in 1999.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

In that role, he led product strategy and development for TripAdvisor sites in the US, UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain, as well distributed applications and syndicated content on partner sites like Facebook. He was also an early member of Accenture’s first practice group dedicated to Internet strategy and development in the mid-1990’s.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

We're currently developing applications on Facebook. They created Neopets, brought it to the US, helped it grow, and eventually sold it to Viacom in 2005. We were well suited to design and develop those games, because we already had the infrastructure in place, and the founders were experts in game design.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I do what I wish all entrepreneurs would do. It’s an entrepreneur with whom I’ve been wanting to work for 6 years. He turned me down for a job in 2005. It was a young, first-time entrepreneur who wanted to meet. Research & Development. ” I never said that. I DO have time for email.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Ilya also founded Coplex, a startup development studio. When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. What's your story and how did you end up founding Pluto TV? Ilya Pozin: I'm fully dedicated to Pluto TV.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). They started in January of 2005. Can you tell our readers the story behind how you found the company?

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 I imagine that prior success gives you a great deal more flexibility in how you develop this? Tags: kevin oconnor findthebest doubleclick startup founder entrepreneur comparison shopping engine search advertising. We've all done well from startups in the past.

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JULY 16, 2010

One of the questions we get most from entrepreneurs is how companies reach an exit event, and the thinking that goes into acquisitions. Quinn Curtis: We were around since 2005, we were incorporated and funded in 2006. Quinn is now VP of Hosted Security Services at Webroot (www.webroot.com). Quinn, thanks for the time.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

If you are considering a proposal from a wide-eyed entrepreneur who is looking to hire a design agency and is trying to preserve their cash here are six considerations to mull over before signing on for the job: 1. Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3

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