socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

Naki lets users use their smartphone to request pickup of their dirty laundry, and get their clothes laundered and returned that day or the next morning. Naki Laundry is one of a number of companies which has been tying common services to a smartphone. Not sure if such a high tech service is for you?

Services 232

Services Santa Monica High Tech Startup 232

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company. If there was ever a time to start a company, this is it.”. Determining the perfect moment to enter the startup market, whether by creating a company or joining an ongoing venture, is akin to timing the financial markets.

Company 257

Company Companies Startup Study 257

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2013

Are you tired of paying a lot for parking your car for days on end at Los Angeles International, and ending up with just an empty wallet and a dirty car when you get back? The firm did not say how much of that rental fee goes to users who are offering its cars at LAX. READ MORE>>. hubber peer rental uber'

Los Angeles 232

Los Angeles Pricing Services Startup 232

Berkonomics

APRIL 2, 2020

Record plants were noisy, dirty places, using chemicals I can only imagine now rest somewhere in the ocean, to electroplate the “stampers” and press the records. It is those leading adopter founders and managers that take the chance on new technologies, new companies, new styles, and new idioms. No expensive consultants?

Southern California 177

Southern California Examples Social Network Press 177

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2022

Luckily for entrepreneurs, many large companies are convinced that they must leave innovation to startups. Entrepreneurs need it to start, and established companies need it to survive. Execution seems like behind-the-scenes dirty work. Only startups can innovate.

Ideas 135

Ideas Startup Resource Research 135

Berkonomics

MARCH 1, 2018

And it is one of the most important lessons you can learn as a manager or board member of a company or a non-profit enterprise. I first heard this expression in a governance seminar for a non-profit higher educational board upon which I sit, years ago. It made an impact and stuck with me through the years.

Report 226

Report Metrics Organization Education 226

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

Hopefully, between the two of us, more of you with big business dreams will follow the leads and generate more successful business results: Start by getting your hands dirty. Yet running a new company cannot always be a consensus-driven process, so you need to trust yourself in making the hard decisions.

Ideas 105

Ideas Startup Entrepreneur Social Media 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

The problem is that startups have limited resources to keep them ahead of big companies. First mover advantages are only sustainable by large companies, or founders with deep pockets. Free is a dirty word to investors, since they need a return on their investment. Proclaim your solution as a paradigm shift.

Competition 133

Competition Patents Resource Invest 133

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2023

A product plan has tremendous value inward facing, telling your product people what to build, while the business plan has maximum value outward facing, explaining to the rest of the world how your new company will survive and prosper. Free is a dirty word to investors, since it’s hard to get a financial return from free.

Product 112

Product Summary Activity Entrepreneur 112

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Businesses want experienced people who get their hands dirty, rather than experts who give presentations, make recommendations, and disappear. Dress to fit into the company culture, no more, no less. Let’s face it, consultants have a bad image. The Internet has changed the world. Dress to fit in. Produce results.

Startup 150

Startup Slides Email Customer 150

Eric Greenspan

MAY 9, 2013

It makes it dirty, it fails when a finger is calloused, dirty or covered with a bandage. I began my career at IBM and over the past 20 years have built several companies from the “third bedroom” that all have one thing in common: “mind blowing customer service!” About my company: [link].

Ideas 117

Ideas Screening IBM IBM 117

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2022

Many young entrepreneurs seem to think that capitalism and making profit are dirty words. Conscious Capitalism companies, for example, historically have outperformed the S&P 500 index by a factor of ten. Explore new forms of company ownership and profit sharing. Making a profit does not imply greed.

Startup 110

Startup Entrepreneur Capital Examples 110

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Now the company is launching a true crime podcast, to tap into another potentially high-growth market, on the iHeartMedia and Apple platforms. All of the major internet-age media companies had their own mobile strategies. Solve began as a series developed within the mobile-focused entertainment studio, Vertical Networks. ” .

Social Media 131

Social Media Media Startup Mobile 131

socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

We'd never grow as people and as a community if we never try new things, get dirty, screw up and be uncomfortable every now and then. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? We invested in and advised a few incredible startups and are incubating a company we've been working on behind the scenes for a long time.

Invest 154

Invest Southern California Startup Incubator 154

Berkonomics

MARCH 7, 2019

[Email readers, continue here…] The problem with taking friends and family money rests in the legality of taking money from non-accredited investors, people who do not meet the SEC standard for making non-public company investments. The risk of the “dirty cap table”. Does creating a PPM mitigate the risk?

Invest 153

Invest Entrepreneur Course .Net 153

Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2013

Record plants were noisy, dirty places, using chemicals I can only imagine now rest somewhere in the ocean, to electroplate the “stampers” and press the records. It is those leading adopters who take the chance on new technologies, new companies, new styles, and new idioms.

Southern California 228

Southern California Social Network Press Guide 228

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2020

A product plan has tremendous value inward facing, telling your product people what to build, while the business plan has maximum value outward facing, explaining to the rest of the world how your new company will survive and prosper. Free is a dirty word to investors, since it’s hard to get a financial return from free.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Startup Summary Product 124

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Hopefully, between the two of us, more of you with big business dreams will follow the leads and generate more successful business results: Start by getting your hands dirty. Yet running a new company cannot always be a consensus-driven process, so you need to trust yourself in making the hard decisions.

Startup 117

Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Coach 117

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I spend a lot of time with startups and thus hear many companies talk about their approach to sales and their interactions with customers. I simply would never invest in a company where the leader of the business (or any senior sales staff) talks down to customers. You can’t. ” I can’t make this stuff up.

Customer 341

Customer Custom Venture Capital Software Review 341

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2019

The problem is that startups have limited resources to keep them ahead of big companies. First mover advantages are only sustainable by large companies, or founders with deep pockets. Free is a dirty word to investors, since they need a return on their investment. Proclaim your solution as a paradigm shift.

Competition 120

Competition Patents Resource Invest 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2019

Luckily for entrepreneurs, many large companies are convinced that they must leave innovation to startups. Entrepreneurs need it to start, and established companies need it to survive. Execution seems like behind-the-scenes dirty work. Only startups can innovate.

Startup 94

Startup Ideas Resource Entrepreneur 94

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. For the entire first year after I funded the company he refused to take a salary and I had to admonish him to make sure he paid his expenses.

Startup 303

Startup Technical Review Product Blogging 303

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

One of the interesting things about being a VC is that you often see companies in transition. I also see companies as they move from having taken $1-5 million from me to their next round where they raise $8-15 million from Series B investors and sometimes I lead at this round (we’re stage agnostic but 80% of our deals are seed & A).

Startup 381

Startup Resource Venture Capital Activity 381

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. Some companies are solving for this problem algorithmically. I’m forwarding it to all of my portfolio companies). Solve Media is that.

Media 288

Media Advertising Screening Content 288

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2019

Many young entrepreneurs seem to think that capitalism and making profit are dirty words. Conscious Capitalism companies, for example, historically have outperformed the S&P 500 index by a factor of ten. Explore new forms of company ownership and profit sharing. Making a profit does not imply greed.

Startup 93

Startup Entrepreneur Capital Examples 93

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Executives from large companies have sometimes long forgotten how to do this (“My people will contact your people to work out the details.”). In his book, “ Out-Executing the Competition ,” seasoned executive Irv Rothman provides tips to corporate executives on how to dig in and “get their fingernails dirty.”

Startup 103

Startup Entrepreneur Template Mentor 103

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2012

Most focus on two things though, the amount of women that use the site and the amount of money dirty marketing people are going to make from it. He’s also collecting inspiration for the office space at Circa (his latest company). I guess I was right. Of course, there has been no shortage of articles about Pinterest lately.

Blogging 178

Blogging RSS Social Network Screening 178

InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2011

In order to help the Founders in this process, I asked them to identify the Dirty Dozen tasks to which they consistently allotted most of their time. J = External Technical Company Voice. Below are a few mistakes I will not replicate when I conduct this process for a future portfolio company. C = Product Coding.

Technical Review 182

Technical Review Software Review Startup Outsource 182

socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2017

There's a lot of money out there, but if you have a good company, finding money shouldn't be the hardest thing. There was no risk to the company, and they did not have to pay any infrasructure or legal costs, and they did not have to do any hiring or vetting of people. They are the two senior partners.

Southern California 133

Southern California Startup Venture Capital Invest 133

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Some examples: A large company has told you that you need to change your brand name or they’ll sue you for trademark infringement (this is a real world, recent example). A company has just filed suit against you for product patent infringement (obviously more serious).

Venture Capital 311

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Examples 311

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Luckily for entrepreneurs, many large companies are convinced that they must leave innovation to startups. Entrepreneurs need it to start, and established companies need it to survive. Execution seems like behind-the-scenes dirty work. Only startups can innovate. Marty Zwilling.

Ideas 107

Ideas Startup Resource Entrepreneur 107

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I have repeated it often to boards deliberating action and to individual board members seeking to get their hands dirty inside the corporation by giving advice and helping at levels beneath the CEO. I first heard this in a governance seminar for a non-profit higher educational board upon which I sit, years ago. Email readers continue here.]

Metrics 120

Metrics Education Course Email 120

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been. I call them “ VCs Seagulls.” FourSquare. Everywhere. It’s not you.

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

Gocke told us more about the company and what it's doing. At the time, I was concurrently running two companies. The first was a lifestyle apparel company, and the other was more of a lifestyle, passion pl ay, a mixed martial arts focused social networking and media content hub. What is Fliptu?

Social Media 268

Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268

socalTECH

MAY 6, 2019

The company is backed by Los Angeles-based startup studio Science Inc. We caught up with co-founders Rachelle Snyder and Ross Richmond to learn more about what the company is working on, and why Coozie thinks it has the solution to allowing anyone to get an outdoor experience. Rachelle Snyder: Coozie is an outdoor experience company.

Startup 113

Startup Los Angeles Pricing Demand 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2015

The problem is that startups have limited resources to keep them ahead of big companies. First mover advantages are only sustainable by large companies, or founders with deep pockets. Free is a dirty word to investors, since they need a return on their investment. Proclaim your solution as a paradigm shift.

Startup 118

Startup Competition Patents Resource 118

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2012

Luckily for entrepreneurs, many large companies are convinced that they must leave innovation to startups. Entrepreneurs need it to start, and established companies need it to survive. Execution seems like behind-the-scenes dirty work. Only startups can innovate. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 103

Startup Ideas Resource Research 103