Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time for every startup to assess the metrics, technology, and platforms they’re using to manage the business. If you do not know how your staff is doing, how can you truly know the inner workings of your own company? Maybe it’s time for an upgrade to get you to the next level.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Don''t go to Wharton or Harvard.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2014

Angel investors, particularly those in organized angel groups, are typically former entrepreneurs who have had successful liquidity events in their pasts, or executives of companies who’ve retired with the funds from their stock options. Are they interested in your industry either to be educated or to share their skills and experiences?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We thought today for our interview, that we'd get an update on the angel investment environment here in Southern California from Scott Sangster , the incoming President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels , the biggest angel investment group in Southern California. It was actually a really good year last year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Online education. This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund. 6SensorLabs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2019

But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves. No real investor or venture capital firm asks for money from the company they are intending to invest in. Don’t count on ever passing due diligence, or even getting that deposit back. Off-shore unsolicited investor offers.

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Technical Review Funding Email Entrepreneur 91

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Tech entrepreneurs' consternation with MBAs does not rise to the level of loathing. Rather, entrepreneurs' frustrations are often due to an incongruence between an MBA's expectations versus the value they can deliver to a startup. As I stated in my Quora answer, "hate" is the wrong word.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

. “In order to create a successful new company, you have to find an idea that. (1) 1) has escaped the attention of the major Internet companies, which are better run than ever before; (2) is capable of being launched and proven out for ~$5M, the typical seed plus series A investment; and. (3) Where David is Totally Right.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Mid-level or even top executives who “grew up” in large companies often look with envy at startups, and dream of how easy it must be running a small organization, where you can see the whole picture and it appears you have total control. The job of a big-company executive is very different from the job of a small-company executive.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 7, 2019

Due to the overwhelming demand to pitch at our last event in Orange County, we're throwing an exclusive PitchFest speed dating event where you will be pitching to over 20 investors one-on-one! All of the Investors will get your company description and contact info! We're doing it again! The cost to participate will be $350.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

I found another name for this low-tech form of long distance TV show sharing in the New York Times: “sync-watching.” Beyond a simple phone call, far-flung friends are using any technical means possible—like Skype and live tweeting—to duplicate that cozy experience of sitting in front of the same TV together. See how it works here.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

These authors speak from their own wealth of experience in creating and growing technology startups, marketing, and fundraising. Book smarts represent your current depth of understanding of technology and business concepts. Education and expertise: formal and self-learning. Intelligence and insight: book and street smarts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. They include people like Sir Richard Branson , born in 1950, who has founded over 400 companies, and claims to be just getting started. Personnel Manager.

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Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur Report 147

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P.

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Services Social Media Technical Review Media 128

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

We will be selecting 10 startup companies to participate. Applications are due April 6th, 2010, the form is on the website and the Twitter address is @launchpadlad. Encourage the most successful LA tech entrepreneurs who had previously started companies to get involved as mentors, instructors or just informal advisors.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

Lynda.com , the online video education provider which has been one of the region's most successful, bootstrapped companies--is no longer bootstrapped, after inking a massive, $103M growth equity round. Lynda.com offers up online education courses on things like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD, and much more.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Given the company is calling this a lifestyle store, the focus will likely be on showing how Lime’s scooters and bikes can become part of people’s lives and enhance their happiness, rather than on maximizing rental volume. Educate them on the benefits, educate them on safety, and provide helmets.”

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

My participation has been on the impact investing and education side, where I''ve been involved as a mentor. It''s not only an education program, but it''s also a source of funding. We have a few innovations we provide, such as being able to do high quality, due diligence for virtually no cost.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2018

He noted that early in Salesforce’s tenure, the company changed its fiscal year to end on January 31 st , rather than the traditional calendar year end. However, it remains fairly rare within the tech world. Performance Reviews – Greater focus can be paid to employees’ annual evaluations and compensation reviews. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Mid-level or even top executives who “grew up” in large companies often look with envy at startups, and dream of how easy it must be running a small organization, where you can see the whole picture and it appears you have total control. The job of a big-company executive is very different from the job of a small-company executive.

Startup 105

Startup Company Companies Training 105

Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Dark fiber allows large enterprises, educational institutions, media companies, and government agencies to leverage the high bandwidth capabilities. Companies can lease dark fiber from network solution providers to obtain exclusive use of the fibers for a duration of time. So what is dark fiber? Government.

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Inverted Software

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Companies are waking up to a new reality. Millennials are more educated about healthy choices, are price sensitive and environmentally friendly. So which companies are ones seeing the most change in their sales as a result of Millennials making more educated choices? million vs. 74.9 sales falling 3.9 percent in 2016.

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Company Companies Sales Education 48

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Positioning pitches, one-line descriptions of a company''s value proposition and relative placement within its ecosystem, are the first step in achieving such balance. The type of business, the nature of the investor audience and the company''s relative maturity all influence the relevancy of a company''s positioning claim.

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Product Yammer Technical Review Google 208

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 5, 2019

Due to the overwhelming demand to pitch at our last event in San Diego, we're throwing an exclusive PitchFest speed dating event where you will be pitching to over 20 investors one-on-one! All of the Investors will get your company description and contact info! We're doing it again! The cost to participate will be $350.

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San Diego Venture Capital Angel Summary 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Despite the excitement and lure of startups to those in the tech industry, not everyone wants to join a startup after college--according to Mike Gammarino , who is helping to organize a new effort here to recruit students to startups. Mike Gammarino: I'm an entrepreneur who has been working in technology since I graduated.

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Startup Technical Review Outsource Yahoo 206

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. To hear about the company, we spoke with Ramit Varma , co-founder of the company. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan. Each of those three companies now work with around 30,000 students a year.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

Even the most diligent investors are often surprised by apparently solid business startups that fail, while others succeed, despite the odds. Every startup I know has pivoted at least once, but successful companies make each of these a well-planned and well-orchestrated effort. Balance of technical and business knowledge.

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Technical Review Startup Mentor Study 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2017

But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves. No real investor or venture capital firm asks for money from the company they are intending to invest in. Don’t count on ever passing due diligence, or even getting that deposit back. Off-shore unsolicited investor offers.

Technical Review 55

Technical Review Entrepreneur Email Tool 55

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

A lot of people had asked me why I was taking the job, since I was a commercial guy, had been a commercial general manager, and had been running companies for my whole career. Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. Thanks for the time this morning. How has your first year been?

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

Jason & Tyler brought forward 5 high quality companies and super high quality ones rose to the top and quickly got funded. There wasn’t a bad company tonight but I had a clear favorite. I suppose I should keep it to myself but I guess Jason will be helping to hype up all the companies anyways.

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Angel Technical Review Software Review Platform 254

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

Technology advocate and celebrity Will.I.Am. Technology advocate and celebrity Will.I.Am. He also briefly talked about a smart watch he was wearing that his team created which is due to launch this year. Education & Tech. Education and Technology were also hot topics at the conference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. They include people like Sir Richard Branson , born in 1950, who has founded over 400 companies, and claims to be just getting started. Personnel Manager.

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Startup Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur 124