Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Few of us have the background to know when to turn down an interview request, or never use the “no comment” approach, or when it’s more effective to comment “off the record.”

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

They want Netflix to address a list of demands in the categories of content investment, employee relations and safety, and harm reduction. When asked in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter , co-CEO Ted Sarandos didn’t say whether he would meet the group’s demands.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

In our features section: Interview with Blair Harrison of Frequency. LaunchpadLA Opens Up Spring Applications. Broadcom Powering New Mac Wireless. Surf Air Gets First Aircraft. Surf Air ($2.6M, Los Angeles, subscription aircraft service). Acquisition of note: Nexsan Acquired For $120M, by Imation. TapIt Media acquired for $23M by Phunware.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 1, 2017

Take a look at our interview below and decide whether or not you want to invest in cannabis. As with any regulated market, investing in cannabis comes with unique risks, but the industry will produce some massive businesses in the next 5-10 years,” said Conlon in an interview with Tech.Co. The Ground Floor.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2010

Define criteria for judging – I find that many people I know go into interviews without thinking about what is important to them first. In fact, many people just go into interviews and “wing it.&# If that’s you then vow never to do it again. and then sub categories underneath. BEFORE YOU START.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Richard recently published a new book, The Soul Of A Deal , talking about his experience with deal making and interviewing such others as J.J.Abrams, Deepak Chopra, Peter Guber, Reid Hoffman, Penn Jillette and many others on their own experiences. So, what I did is I sat down and interviewed people like J.J.

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2017

We are also launching beverages and coffee, two new categories, next month. With brands today, as you probably know, every consumer category is being massively disrupted by the long tail. Next month, we are launching beverages and coffee, expanding our categories, and trying to grab more share of the wallet inside offices.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

He was kind enough to conduct a video interview from his car. You can watch my interview with Len below or on YouTube here: [link]. “We’re focusing now on re-disrupting categories that moved early online, but in some ways, have been freeze-dried since then. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Entity’s sweet spot is a bifurcated one, Schwab said in an interview. Women in both categories are coming to Entity because they would like to consider tech jobs or more technical promotions, but have found their expertise lacking to do so.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2011

You can watch my interview with Brad below or on YouTube here: [link]. Brad and Jason encourage entrepreneurs to focus their negotiating efforts on optimizing the first two factors while essentially ignoring all provisions which fall into the “other” category. It falls into three categories. The same group that says, ‘Oh, gosh.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2020

For our interview today, we spoke with Darren Litt , one of the co-founders of Los Angeles-based MarketerHire , an online marketplace focused on connecting companies with marketing talent. 500 business, and number one in the media category. What is MarketerHire? I grew that to around 200 people, and it was a two time, Inc.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

Our interview today is with Scott Grimes , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Stackin' , which operates a text-based, financial messaging platform. We curate the best products within each category of finance. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M What kind of financial products are you talking about?

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

Our current categories are electronics, photo equipment, cameras, lenses, appliances, music equipment, and baby products. We''re now in five categories, and we''re looking into computers and video games next. One last question, kind of off the wall -- we noticed one of your big categories is baby products. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2011

When you are interviewing candidates during the early stages of your startup, who is far more important than what, because the tasks the candidate previously performed may only be partially applicable to the role they will play at your adVenture. For one thing, it is tricky to properly map candidates to the categories noted below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Few of us have the background to know when to turn down an interview request, or never use the “no comment” approach, or when it’s more effective to comment “off the record.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories that I like as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Few of us have the background to know when to turn down an interview request, or never use the “no comment” approach, or when it’s more effective to comment “off the record.”

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

That realization set forth our current business strategy, which is to create a portfolio of vertical shopping sites which allow consumers to discover and be passionate about categories they are interested in. Scott Morrow: Sports/outdoors is quite interesting, that's the fastest growing lifestyle category in e-commerce.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

While this clip is only 1-minute long we talk about it more in the full interview. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. It’s easy to invest in today’s momentum categories.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

He provides 101 two-page lessons divided into eight learning categories as follows: Learn the ground rules for traditional media. Few of us have the background to know when to turn down an interview request, or never use the “no comment” approach, or when it’s more effective to comment “off the record.” Make every interview memorable.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

To hear how he bootstrapped the company to that size, we caught up with Asher earlier this week for a quick interview. One big new category for us is data and targeting. asher delug airpush mobile interview startup entrepreneur' Asher Delug: Airpush is a mobile ad network, similar to an Admob or Millenial Media. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2014

Curious to learn more about Kelsey''s seemingly obvious, yet logistically challenging idea, I interviewed her during a rare break in her hectic schedule. We will be moving into other categories based on customer demand. Interview' John Greathouse: Kelsey, for the uninitiated, what is Vow To Be Chic all about? Share and Enjoy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Part 1/3 of Interview: How Jody Started EcoMom, its Evolution, Fundraising Process, and Utilization of AngelList [Minutes: Start – 23:00] The Humble Beginnings as SproutBaby. Part 2/3 of Interview: AngelList: A Quick Introduction and Interview with Founders Babak Nivi & Naval Ravikant – [Minutes: 23:00 – 55:00].

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2012

Helping with a Job Opportunity / Career / Information Interview. It falls into 2 categories: 1. I know the individual well and they’re wanting information interviews to find a good home. This is one area where I really try to go out on a limb. It’s a matchmaking service. I haven’t referenced him/her.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Unlike the thirty five different categories on sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter, we only have video projects and YouTubers who need to raise money. entrepreneur interview campaign star videos digital fullscreen crowdfunding crowd hollywood content youtube video online tubestart holm josef' What''s Tubestart? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2014

We''ve invested in security software, software-as-a-service, marketplaces, and many other categories I think people wouldn''t necessarily think--looking from the outside--would exist in LA. erik rannala muckerlab accelerator startup venture capital entrepreneur interview accelerate incubate incubator investment' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. We're in the category of energy monitoring tools. Kevin Strong: There are several things.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Those are all categories we know well. mark suster grpvc upfront ventures interview venture capital fund launchpadla startup angeles' We''ve put lots of money into areas we know well, such as technology for the financial services industry, technology for retail services, and technology for digital media. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

But why we decided to incubate this one, is we looked at the category to see what we could find in terms of early stage companies, executing against what we had identified--and we didn't find any out there. Tags: startup entrepreneur levinsohn ross capital fuse best bestbuy consumer interview rosen mickie. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. What are the biggest challenges today for your company?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

And of course African Americas and Latinos over-index in spend and consumption in many categories including many health & beauty products, movie theater attendance, mobile phone usage and even social media. Next week I’ll publish a 1-1 interview I did with Troy on Day 1 of the Upfront Summit.].

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

It means a welter weight who wants to fight in the heavy-weight category. If for nothing else you want all of the talented people you interview to spread the gospel whether they join or not. Increase your number of interviews. But you don’t want team members who openly question your judgment, your authority. But don’t over sell.

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