Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

And the end of the story was ultimately a successful sale of the company … so much of entrepreneurship is not sexy but brutal. Inspiration/ Leadership – As an entrepreneur you’re always under-resourced. Inspiration goes a long way in business. That’s true. But they sense your trajectory. And in life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2019

Starting and building a company is all about leadership – formulating an idea, building a unique plan based on vision and experience, and forging a path over and through all obstacles. Inspire others rather than focus on personal ambition.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The two year old company is still in beta, but decided to work with the Women’s March as an initial test of its product. The company agreed to donate up to $300,000 in total, and up to $100 per-person for new users who downloaded the application. Image courtesy of Mark. were a foreign concept. were a foreign concept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

In fact, only 100 of the 10,000 multimillion-dollar consumer companies around the world can claim to be an “apostle brand” – one that inspires enduring trust, loyalty, and endorsement.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

Last week, Irvine-based Inspired Instruments (www.yourockguitar.com) announced a round of funding, saying that it has developed an electronic guitar which combines the game controller functionality for popular videogames like Rock Band and Guitar Hero with actual musical functionality. more) READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 8, 2020

.” With $10 million in financing from a slew of investors including Upfront Ventures, Alpha Edison, the general partners and founders of True Ventures, and a Korean family office, Share Ventures will look to launch between two and four companies per year. “We have aggregated tools into a company building stack,” says Watt.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

The Y Combinator startup is launching into Los Angeles this morning with its mobile inspired, maid service, letting users not only book, schedule, and manage their cleaning appointments online, but also offering affordable rates for the services of a cleaner.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Thursday, March 4, 2010 -- Inspired EthonomicsJoin Fast Company for a spirited conversation about the state of sustainability in entertainment, media and technology.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2014

How do you bring an outside perspective and a startup''s nimble perspective to your products, if you''re a big, established company? Are developers willing to invest their time and energy in building solutions around your products, company, or organization? It was a great event, and candidly, it exceeded our expectations.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. In short, we’re after venture returns.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Some creative ideas come up at random times – say in the shower or while getting a cup of coffee – and other ideas inspired at the office. Tongal gives companies a chance to work with its creative community, all 50,000 of them, to help their next video. A company gets to see all the creative ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2017

All prefer more flexible hours, the chance to work from home, and the traditions of lifetime loyalty to one company no longer apply. Loyalty to a given company now has to be inspired rather than assumed. Thus mentoring inspires loyalty all around. Make your company a good place to be from, as well as a good place to work.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In fact, I put myself through NYU Stern while working for companies like IBM, Prudential, and Merrill Lynch, and joined Goldman Sachs upon graduation. As a native New Yorker, it may not come as much of a surprise that growing up I wanted to work in finance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2014

He was instrumental in creating Apple, which has pioneered a dazzling array of new products, and even surpassed Microsoft, to become the world’s most valuable technology company. Then imagine what you could achieve in business with the real insight and inspiration. Thus you need to look inward first and assess your basic potential.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The company said its new Techtrak software enables field service technicians to manage work orders, assets, create proposals, communicate with customers and send invoices. Ecotrak said its customers include Inspire Brands, Flynn Restaurant Group, Texas Roadhouse and Dutch Bros. Pricing on the product was not announced.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

For those lucky enough to attend, the event was described as mind-blowing and awe-inspiring, motivating each individual to want to take action and collaborate with fellow game-changers to create a better world. There is a connection between kids, the programs/hackathons and the big companies being created in the Silicon Valley. “We

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 22, 2021

The company also notes that it took care to maintain some of the space’s more iconic elements. After walking through the Broadway doors, guests enter the monumental lobby inspired by Charles Garnier’s Paris Opera House, featuring a grand arched stairway with bronze handrails flanked by marble Corinthian columns.”. Image Credits: Apple.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 20, 2012

Thursday, April 26, 2012 -- Women CEOs of LA's Hottest Emerging Companies. Meet the women CEOs of some of LA's hottest emerging companies! Find out what inspired them, how they turned their visions into reality, and how they drive revenue for their business. Broads Circle. See [link] (more)

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 2, 2022

A browse around Shein today shows the company is increasingly coming after Amazon and is unbounded by its origin in fashion. The company is vague about its physical base, saying only it “has offices in Los Angeles” and employs between 200-500 employees, according to its website. Data: Data.ai.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Founded four years ago by Matt Danna and Sean Stavropoulos, Boulevard was inspired by Stavropoulos’ inability to book a haircut and Danna’s hunch that the inability of salons and spas to cater to customers like the busy programmer could be indicative of a bigger problem. That could be because of the size of the industry.

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L.A. Business Journal

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Santa Monica-based Inspire Energy Holdings has a unique pitch for an energy company: selling power to customers on a subscription basis with flat monthly payments.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 14, 2021

How it occurs in large companies…. But all those people are following the flash of inspiration that started their activity, and it is that flash we seek to reproduce again and again in a successful enterprise. And we picture programmers working at their workstations or on their portable notebooks creating great new code.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

For example, TOMS shoes inspired everyone by highlighting and effectively communicating a higher purpose from founder Blake Mycoskie of helping the needy by donating a pair of shoes for every pair sold. For Logan Green of Lyft, his international travel purpose helped inspire him to the creation and growth of an industry-altering business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. He outlines the key steps which together spell INNOVATION, that I believe apply equally well to startups as well as corporate environments: Inspire. Inspiration requires a vision, and an ability to communicate it to others.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2021

Santa Monica-based Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, said late Tuesday that it has named Darcie Henry as the company's new Chief Human Resources Officer. According to Snap, Henry will join the company on July 6th, as current Chief People Officer Lara Sweet is retiring.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2019

The company unveiled a series of new strategies that are aimed at breathing fresh life into the service which has been ruthlessly cloned by Facebook across Instagram, WhatsApp, and even its primary social network. company is applying its own twist to the genre. The result? Snap has consistently lost users since going public in 2017.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2021

According to the company, its new robot, Artie Max, helps kids learn five coding languages (Blockly, Snap!, The company said the new robot will "help children develop critical thinking skills that are essential to little engineers' futures, as well as inspire them to use their creativity in a unique and modern way."

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 21, 2015

Hundreds of founders, speakers, mentors, and students flocked to the University of Southern California on March 28 th , 2015 to be inspired by female entrepreneurs. Pocket shares her insights and stories with us: Why is female entrepreneurship so important and what inspired you to create SoGal? She didn’t stop there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Starting and building a company is all about leadership – formulating an idea, building a unique plan based on vision and experience, and forging a path over and through all obstacles. Inspire others rather than focus on personal ambition.

Entrepreneur 157

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

All prefer more flexible hours, the chance to work from home, and the traditions of lifetime loyalty to one company no longer apply. Loyalty to a given company now has to be inspired rather than assumed. Thus mentoring inspires loyalty all around. Make your company a good place to be from, as well as a good place to work.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

has a history with Tony, as he became an investor in the company in 2013, and built a lasting friendship with us as the Tech.co Tony was also our neighbor for 8 years in downtown Las Vegas, where the company grew its homebase and hosted monthly events for locals and visitors from around the world, with Hsieh’s Downtown Project.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The company said the new "robotic chicken wing frying solution" was specifically designed for partner Inspire Brands, which owns Buffalo Wild Wings. The company said the technology allows restaurants to "redeploy team members to more guest-facing functions.".

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Having great company culture is no longer just an option. In fact, fantastic company culture is almost expected along with other traditional benefits. It has established what the company culture is, and fitting into that culture is the most important thing managers look for when hiring. What does that culture look like?

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Having great company culture is no longer just an option. In fact, fantastic company culture is almost expected along with other traditional benefits. It has established what the company culture is, and fitting into that culture is the most important thing managers look for when hiring. What does that culture look like?

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Examples Company Companies Google 100

socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2021

The company says its mission is to engage and inspire students to pursue STEAM fields, and to get students interested in game design, programming, coding, and other technical skills. Financial and other details of the partnership were not announced.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Los Angeles-based a href="[link] , which develops futuristic remote collaboration and meeting products, said Thursday afternoon that the company has raised approximately $3.0M The publicly listed company--which trades on the NYSE American as OBLG--said the private placement came from un-named set of institutional and accredited investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2021

I found that challenge confirmed and amplified in an inspirational new book, “ No One Succeeds Alone: Learn Everything You Can from Everyone You Can ,” by Robert Reffkin, which chronicles his own ups and downs through many companies, to success at Compass, Inc. Strong people love an “impossible” challenge with a large opportunity.

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