TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. Now, the company said, it has achieved the necessary temperatures to make its reactors commercially viable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2021

First, pick a name for your company and do the paperwork on starting a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC). Nothing says you are serious about a business like handing out professional business cards at local events and Chamber of Commerce meetings. Now you have a reason for talking to people who may become lifelong friends.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. “This year, more than ever, we are working with companies with the potential to help define the future of media and entertainment together with Disney.”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? The program is basically to take entrepreneurs, pair them with a mentor who is also an entrepreneur themselves, either a CEO or a CTO. It's structured so that they get funding, office space, all of the Internet resources, tools they need from mentors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

He saw the potential of e-commerce, and drove Amazon to success. An occasional discussion with a mentor won’t do it. Many well-known entrepreneurs, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos , worked for years in bigger businesses and Wall Street before they had their awakening to untapped opportunities.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2013

Los Angeles has always been a major market for launching products, and in the era of e-commerce has become highly attractive for its large consumer population, a technology-savvy population, and affinity for new products and services. We started the company three years ago, in 2010, and started in New York City. What is H.Bloom?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The realm of an entrepreneur is all about change, but in my experience as a mentor to business founders, I hear too much about incremental change, and not enough about revolutionary change. Sir Richard Branson has initiated over 200 companies, from airlines to music labels. Utilize the power shift from top-down to bottom-up.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2017

Anna Barber: Before this, I hadn't been involved with Techstars as a mentor, however, I'd been an entrepreneur and mentored at other accelerators. In 1999, I moved out to San Francisco to join the tech scene there, and worked at a couple of e-commerce companies in product roles. How did you get involved with Techstars?

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

One of the most original, subscription startups to come out of Southern California's tech accelerator boom emerged last week, looking to disrupt not just another retail sector or e-commerce category, but something else entirely: the airline industry. Those mentors and others have given us really tangible advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

I was at a dinner recently in Chicago and the table discussion was about building great companies outside of Silicon Valley. It’s not the great companies you build, it’s the silent killer of those that should have been build locally and weren’t. Klout was an LA company – sold for $200 million to Lithium.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As a self-made entrepreneur and former chairman of Diamond Resorts International, he asserts that the five biggest companies by market value today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, aren’t really tech, but hospitality companies. Improve the whole customer experience, as well as the product.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

What you’ll also find is that of the 25 companies, our founders represent an inclusive group with 40 percent female, 52 percent minority and 12 percent veteran founders from 14 states and 5 countries. Once uploaded, the company safeguards the data in their secure cloud. The Mentor Method (Washington, D.C.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2015

First, pick a name for your company and do the paperwork on starting a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC). Nothing says you are serious about a business like handing out professional business cards at local events and Chamber of Commerce meetings. Now you have a reason for talking to people who may become lifelong friends.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. Dan Dato , Mentor at upStart.LA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

First, pick a name for your company and do the paperwork on starting a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC). Nothing says you are serious about a business like handing out professional business cards at local events and Chamber of Commerce meetings. Now you have a reason for talking to people who may become lifelong friends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2014

First, pick a name for your company and do the paperwork on starting a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC). Nothing says you are serious about a business like handing out professional business cards at local events and Chamber of Commerce meetings. Now you have a reason for talking to people who may become lifelong friends.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. That was quite a prominent exit for us.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Fun Fact: A team from OKCupid works out of the space, as well as a few of the best civic-focused tech companies in LA. E-Commerce: Nasty Gal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

Whether you are focused on your professional career, or starting your own company, YOU are the first or only brand that anyone will see and remember. Corrie speaks from years of experience helping executives improve their position in large enterprises, as well as in small companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

This was a chance to blow open the story on their companies, to address a room full of potential investors, mentors, partners, customers, and press. Weekly inspiration talks with founders and CEO’s of successful tech companies (Box and Mailchimp to name a few). of the run rate came from foreign companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. I’m used to that refrain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2012

First, pick a name for your company and do the paperwork on starting a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC). Nothing says you are serious about a business like handing out professional business cards at local events and Chamber of Commerce meetings. Now you have a reason for talking to people who may become lifelong friends.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Top CEO’s, entrepreneurs, technology gurus, venture capitalists and executives will be looking at the tech ecosystem from different perspectives, including e-commerce, enterprise software, digital media and consumer technologies.” tech community and to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing us in the coming years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2011

First, pick a name for your company and do the paperwork on starting a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC). Nothing says you are serious about a business like handing out professional business cards at local events and Chamber of Commerce meetings. Now you have a reason for talking to people who may become lifelong friends.

Help 92

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Pick a company name and check any potential trademark infringements on Trademarkia or KnowEm. Open your company bank account. For those issuing stock to finance the company (corporations), use a Shareholder’s Agreement. Business Mentors. Prepare for when your company is sued. Ideation & Protecting Ideas.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 2, 2016

What Are You Waiting For: Do It Now – A very dear man and mentor to me, Mike Schuminsky, had a very special way of managing folks. Build Something to Pass On – When you birth and grow a company, at some point you inevitably think about its legacy. Cultivate Culture – A company culture always exists. TIP: read The E-Myth).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2010

First, pick a name for your company and do the paperwork on starting a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC). Nothing says you are serious about a business like handing out professional business cards at local events and Chamber of Commerce meetings. Now you have a reason for talking to people who may become lifelong friends.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

As noted in What’s Real About Shark Tank , the show can give consumer product companies a significant marketing and revenue boost, as it did for one of my former students, Jeff Overall, Founder of PolarPro. It is also an inspirational alter call to entrepreneurship. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 1, 2016

See what other startup mentors have to say about marketing tactics. However, LTV is also a function of average order value (AOV), where you have a commerce site that sells items individually; in this case the LTV is the sum of the total expected number of AOVs. Companies like SurveyMonkey have good free tools to measure your NPS.

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Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

See what other startup mentors have to say about marketing tactics. However, LTV is also a function of average order value (AOV), where you have a commerce site that sells items individually; in this case the LTV is the sum of the total expected number of AOVs. Companies like SurveyMonkey have good free tools to measure your NPS.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

She’s also an advisor and connector to portfolio companies, and consults other angel groups to develop business plans. She began her career as an engineer at Cisco Systems and later cofounded a mobile gaming company. Ashley Bowling, Founding Member of NextGen Venture Partners. Joanne Chen, Partner at Foundation Capital.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. There is a reason that companies like Google and Apple are notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to communicating their product strategy and roadmap. Sounds like a great group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

The company has since gone public, and is still a market leader. In most companies, maintaining momentum requires the right strategic partners and acquisitions, in lieu of short-term price adjustments and special sales. Utilize outside expertise and mentoring. Plan a long-term strategy, and avoid crisis moves.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. To be clear we will continue to see great infrastructure companies built and these will mostly come from Silicon Valley. All great communication companies.

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