SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 -- The San Diego Tech Coast Angels present Early-Stage Valuation. Program Overview: This interactive workshop educates and empowers angel investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in access to capital on a variety of ways to value pre-revenue companies. Email linda@techcoastangels.com.

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Tech Coast Angels Case Study San Diego Study 113

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 9, 2013

A 2012 Dow Jones'' report entitled Women At The Wheel encompassed 15-years of data on venture-backed startups. During the period studied, only "1.3% In a similar vein, a 2012 study by the Kauffman Foundation noted that women account for only 10% of all the founders of high-tech startups. What Gives? Bias Beyond Women.

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Customer Custom Study Metrics 185

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 31, 2012

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 -- PwC MoneyTree Report. The MoneyTree Report is a quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the United States. The MoneyTree Report is a staple of the financial community, relied upon by entrepreneurs, government policymakers and the business press worldwide. See [link] (more)

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Report OCTANE Press Venture Capital 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. So what’s an entrepreneur to do to get his new business noticed these days? Michael Hyatt entrepreneur startup platform business' Their startups will get noticed.

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Platform Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 105

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Together they envisioned a Match.com type of site for entrepreneurs to find each other and make things happen. By November 2012, CoFoundersLab Meetups had expanded to 20 cities. They teamed up with Dr. Julie Edge, who received a grant from The Kauffman Foundation to conduct the first study on cofounder relationships.

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Entrepreneur Santa Monica Startup CTO Hire 87

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Thursday, November 15, 2012 -- Mobile LAVA: Mobile Local Media Opportunities and Challenges. Mobile LAVA welcomes BIA/Kelsey analysts Matt Booth and Michael Boland to share their insights into the trends, market events, companies and case studies that are driving current and future opportunities in interactive and mobile local media.

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LAVA Mobile Media Case Study 100

InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. According to a January 2012 Forbes article, nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. Entrepreneurs are misfits.

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Tips Startup Education Entrepreneur 279

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Want to be an entrepreneur? In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. Instead of a traditional business school''s case study and textbook approach, UCSB''s Technology Management Program (TMP) emphasizes experiential learning. Techpreneurs.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

Earlier this year, a new study “ 2013 Business Outlook Survey: A New Reality Of Cautious Optimism ” was published by EKS&H. It shows a return to cautious optimism despite growth lower than expected in 2012, and much improved perspective from the record-high pessimism of the last few years.

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Study Tips Entrepreneur Guide 78

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2014

With the recent apparent successes of several startups in taking their company public (initial public offering) and raising billions of dollars, I’m hearing a groundswell of enthusiasm from new entrepreneurs to follow in their footsteps to fund their companies and become billionaires overnight. It takes real money to find money.

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Startup Entrepreneur Activity Acquisition 94

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2011

Just yesterday, a new study “ The PNC Economic Outlook: Survey of Small & Middle-Market Business Owners ” was published. economy is transitioning to a self-sustaining economic expansion in 2011-2012, that will not be derailed by higher energy prices, Europe’s sovereign debt problems, or the recent disaster in Japan.

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Study Startup Pricing Guide 89

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

Here are just a few: Nolan Bushnell , a seasoned entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc. His set of studies include examining the conscious control of single neurons in humans, the ability to affect altered states of consciousness as dreams or sleep, and the ability of humans to regulate high-level emotions. 12pm: BODY. Interview).

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Technical Advisors Design Education Study 89

Eric Greenspan

MARCH 25, 2013

I had suppressed much of what happened prior to and after that day, June 25, 2012. In 2010, after my 5th talk, USC Marshall School produced a case study about the customer centricity offered by the company. It’s been 10 months and I really need to move on. Make It Work was a truly remarkable company in its day.

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USC Case Study Study Email 157

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

One of my friends, the CIO of a large healthcare system, did a study with Verizon of their facility, and found that there were 3 million SMS messages sent in a month. We''ll probably finish this year with a subscriber base which has increased about 7x to 8x from the end of 2012. Brad Brooks: This is my second time around for a company.

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Yammer Startup Mobile Organization 229

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

But entrepreneurs need to look more broadly into the B2B space for more lucrative opportunities. If you think location-based services are a long way from mainstream, take a look at the new 2012 Digital Study. Marketers see it as a better way to target customers, but the current consumer offerings have been slow to deliver.

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Services Competition Mobile Entertainment 82

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The Startup Act outlines a five-prong approach to job creation based on the proven track record of entrepreneurs: Reducing regulatory burdens. immigration law choking the flow of ‘bold and creative’ entrepreneurs into Silicon Valley (Garling, Wired)” that they are building a floating IT fortress. Attracting business investment.

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Technical Review Startup Offshore Entrepreneur 77

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2012

You have security wherever you go because you have become big entrepreneurs and are giving talks all over to up and coming entrepreneurs and app developers. Our team was founded in May 2012 and we released our app on October 8 th , Chicago, IL. You get awesome media coverage and have become celebrities overnight.

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Template Social Media Media Research 82

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

In 2012, Gartner formalized their Big Data definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. entrepreneur startup Big Data opportunity business' Big data can mean big profits.

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Startup Social Media IBM IBM 103

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Do you think men make better entrepreneurs than women, and why? First of all, it is evident that there are far fewer women entrepreneurs today than men. First of all, it is evident that there are far fewer women entrepreneurs today than men. Societal trends actually seem to be favoring the women these days.

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Startup Competition IBM IBM 107

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. raise money now to weather any storms).

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298