Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

He provides several examples of how he used this approach to advantage in his own career. I’ve netted out his and others to create the following basic strategy for entrepreneurial growth: Apply your core competency to related markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

It was a particularly rough December in what proved a difficult 2012. Example: Fred Wilson writing his end of 2012 post wrote. But it comes across as a whiny complaint about the shitty year that 2012 was. That’s how you learn.”). Where have I been? “I’ve wanted to write a year end post for days.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Thursday, February 9, 2012 -- The Employee-Ownership Alternative: Building the Company You Want. SAIC is one great example; there are now many more. Entrepreneurs have choices about the kind of company they want to create. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 -- TechBiz Connection Presents. You will learn: Real life examples of social media success stories; How to define ROI for Social Media; Lessons learned and how to avoid the pitfalls; What is coming up that you must prepare for now. Social Media. Does social media marketing work?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 27, 2012

Thursday, February 2, 2012 -- Licensing Fundamentals for the Business Executive. To further demonstrate the points, it will use example clauses specific to pharmaceuticals, biotech and software, but the concepts will be universally applicable to all industries and subject matter. What is a license? link] (more)

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2011

For example, data center companies will continue to take losses, go out of business, or get acquired on unfavorable terms even as all indications point to extreme shortages in data center space by 2013. Markets will stay irrational longer than companies stay solvent. A large firm will overpay to jump on a bandwagon that has long left reality.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The TMP is an example of lean academia. The company was acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company during August of 2012, for approximately $65 million. Apeel Sciences - Founded in 2012, after winning $10,000 at UCSB’s New Venture Competition, the company closed $1.25M in funding during 2013. Organic Academia.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

For example, removing the friction of mistakes and extra costs by sending a customer shoes in 3 sizes to see which fit best, with easy and free returns for everything. 2012: Tony Hsieh interviewed about the Downtown Project. These videos may offer a glimpse into who Tony was and what he was all about.

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TechEmpower

MAY 17, 2013

Note that the Windows configuration presently retains the Linux-hosted database server—only the web/application server is running Windows Server 2012. Kohana, for example, refused to process requests that provided Cookies it was not expecting to receive, responding with "A valid cookie salt is required. Please set Cookie::$salt."

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Ambitious and motivated graduate-level and undergraduate (junior and senior) students are encouraged to apply for our internship positions: Business Development Intern (Summer 2012): Have the opportunity to work with and learn from TechZulu leadership while focusing on research, analytics, relationship management and collateral development.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

Take for example the years 2010-2012 where every brand out there seemed to be buying Facebook “Likes.” After a brief overview of you, your company and your solution I recommend putting up some example clients you’ve worked with, although you obviously need their approval first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant buying banner ads on Facebook, or buying a position on search engine results, or sponsoring some blog entries, but these doesn’t work anymore. By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012. In 2012 that number skyrocketed to 26%.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. Examples in My Life & Work. So in 2012 you’ll see me a lot more often at the Launchpad LA offices. Happy 2012 to all of you. Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. 2011 was the first year I went to SxSW.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We spent a year (2012-2013) building a merchant acquisition machine and all of the systems to support bookings, calendar integrations, location services, etc. We have an entire dev team dedicated solely to calendar integrations, for example. And today it was listed in the Best Apps of the Week by Apple.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

We first interviewed Luc in 2012, just as he was launching the prototype for Miigle. For example, take someone who is developing a travel solution as a mobile application. In 2012 Miigle was just in its beginning stages. How much has the product changed from where it was in 2012 and where it is today?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The newest equity model was passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability in the USA, waiting for the rules to be defined by the SEC: Startup equity crowd funding. Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. Good-cause crowd funding. Debt-based crowd funding.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

It’s not hard to find examples of games that didn’t succeed even with [support from] WeChat and QQ.” Ever since WeChat rolled out its content publishing function — a Facebook Page equivalent named the Official Account — back in 2012, articles posted through the social networking platform have been free to read.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). Sure, there are examples of Founders who have survived and prospered, such as Bill Gates and Larry Page, but these guys are the exception, not the rule.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

Pinterest said earlier last year it had topped Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube combined, for example and beat Twitter in February the same year. With 28 Million Users by December 2012 Pinterest commands a huge social network that’s the population of New York City, three and a half times over.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2015

Back in 2012 when the Flame virus was wreaking havoc across the world, the need for army-trained hackers became a whole new frontier for IT software companies. Israeli software companies are the perfect example. The threat of hacking and loss of data has never been real than now.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We got the core iFilm engineering team in late 2010, and spent about a year and a half building out our platform, and released our first consumer product at the beginning of 2012. For example, Frequency is connected into people's online presence, through Facebook, Twitter, and their YouTube account.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

We then spent the first half of 2012 beta testing the product, getting feedback and input to the point where we could start selling it. We launched it in March of 2012, at the National Restaurant Show in Chicago, took a booth, got lots of press, and we've been selling it every since.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

For example, the most popular people born in Texas, the most popular people who are Geminis, the most popular people for each profession--like the most popular comedian or most popular country singer. So, at the beginning of 2012, we picked a website that we owned, to make it awesome. Instead, we''re now sorting by popularity.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 9, 2013

My 16 year old was living with his mom this past year as my business of 12 years went under in June of 2012. A great example is the Orbit Baby G2 stroller. I’m a good father and I love them more than my own life. You get what I mean. It was an awesome company with a cult-like following and over 40,000 customers in Socal.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

Reflexion Health, a San Diego startup founded in 2012 at the nonprofit West Health Institute, is moving to commercialize Vera, its physical rehabilitation system based on Microsoft Kinect’s motion tracking technology. healthcare systems, CEO Joe Smith said late Monday. Louis-based RespondWell.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

That's when I started my first company, ScaleFunder, which we spun out of the UC California system in 2012. A great example of that, is Dollar Shave Club. Michael Greenberg: My original background was in theoretical physics, at UCLA. That's where I saw the problem we are solving at Retina. That's the one I've seen time and time again.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

That was between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

That was between 2010 and 2012. In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. Fortunately, Bryan, our CTO at the time, said his wife worked with two guys who had started this thing called Flipagram in 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Consider this blog post titled, “ Christmas 2012 Shatters More Smart Device and App Download Records.” Final example. But mostly they break through the noise of many other investment banks by having a POV. One of the masters of this in the startup technology world is Flurry. And Flurry always gets mentioned.

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

And, since 2012, just six counties in SoCal have seen their gross domestic product increase from $992 billion to $1.26 For example, local providers usually have other options when you need to grow your network, including wavelength services and dark fiber , that you can use to meet needs as you grow. trillion. ¹.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 23, 2012

“Some say data is the new black,” laughs former Linkedin data scientist, DJ Patil on stage during the Mesh Conference in Toronto, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. “Data facilitates experience,” notes Patil, “set a culture in your organization that is data driven, democratize, make your data accessible.”

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Hilariously simple tutorials, gaming, Windows 8 real-time, Windows Azure as a virtually unlimited scaling mechanism, and of course, awesome web and mobile possibilities are just a few of the examples you’ll see demonstrated. This talk will go deep technically, show practical examples, and connect all the concepts with the costs.

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Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

MiTú, based out of Los Angeles, was founded in 2012 by three veterans from the Hispanic media world: Beatriz Acevedo ( recently named on the 25 most important digital media players on The Hollywood Reporter !) , Doug Greiff and Roy Burstin.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

I have been with Gogobot since March 2012. I just started Gogogives in November 2012 and the first dinner was held at Anatolia Mediterranean Restaurant in Westwood, near UCLA. I also manage the Gogobot online community within the West LA. How long have you been doing Gogobot and how many events have you organized? What is Gogogives?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Examples of profitable companies practicing this model include Trader Joe’s , led by Doug Rauch as retired president, now CEO of Conscious Capitalism®, and the Container Store , led by Kip Tindell. Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 11/19/2012.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Most apps that cater to television including GetGlue, Miso, IntoNow, and Viggle for example all have Twitter and Facebook functionality built-in. The numbers really tell the stories of the power of the television twitter combo; there were 155 million Tweets generated during the 2012 Olympics generating 11 billion impressions.

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