SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 17, 2012

Understand how M2M Technology is driving the vision for the future and how to incorporate it into your strategy for a competitive advantage. Attend a panel discussion moderated by Peggy Smedley, Connected World, during the extended lunch break. Attend seminar classes presented by industry professionals.

Class 100

Class Competition Technology 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

Invite key people for coffee or lunch one-on-one, and get to know them and their business. The only actions that create results are those that make you stand out above the crowd, attract, engage, and win more customers than your competition. Don’t waste your time networking with strangers. Start networking smarter and smaller.

Marketing 141

Marketing Startup Social Media Technical Review 141

Berkonomics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Over the years, I have often heard the complaint from CEO friends that they have become so swamped by the demands of their growing businesses that they feel themselves further and further from the center of their industry, no longer at the forefront of information and competitive development. The risk of the daily routine.

Marketing 120

Marketing Demand Media Entrepreneur 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2023

They expect more than free lunches and office snacks to keep them engaged. If you expect your business to stay competitive and succeed in this new world, you will start today looking for more ways to empower your team and lead the way. Around the world, workers are holding their best cards in years, and they know it.

Layoffs 113

Layoffs Technical Review Startup Class 113

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Alas, no $100 catered lunches. Mithril is struggling to compete against ferocious competition in the growth-stage equity market. And so we get book ordering problems and expensive lunches and weirdly angry LPs.

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

There is no free lunch. That won’t build any competitive advantage. But don’t be misled, social media marketing to get customers and brand recognition through engagement still costs money (and time and effort). But don’t spend your money on things that don’t work anymore. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 140

Social Media Media Snapchat Platform 140

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Every business I know has teams, some working collaboratively to great advantage, while others sadly operating as collections of individuals who work alone, often in competition with each other. You can encourage this through novel ideas, humor, and trying a new place for lunch together. Seek out novelty and challenge items as a team.

Resource 106

Resource Startup Study Conference 106

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2022

After having assessed your environment, start healthy networking activities, such as lunch, with important people in your professional network on a weekly basis. The stakes are higher than ever in this competitive and rapidly changing world. Add more inspirational people to your network.

Class 148

Class Activity Coach Satisfaction 148

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2021

Among other things, she identified ten general productivity principles to give you a competitive edge, which I have adapted here for entrepreneurs: Control yourself well, but don’t try to control others. Build in “breaks” to your day, like scheduling lunch away from your desk, and going outside for a breath of fresh air every couple of hours.

Product 153

Product Email Customer Custom 153

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

You can’t make someone want to deal with you, but you can try to increase their motivation to deal with you – like getting together for lunch, or trying to communicate in another way. Rather than have a confrontation, someone backs off. Benefit from harsh feedback about your work. Receiving criticism is never easy.

Startup 127

Startup Social Network Mentor Networking 127

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

You must recognize that change is the new norm in business, so problems represent opportunities to learn something new, improve your productivity and competitiveness of the business. Find time in your work schedule for networking, working lunches, and business conferences, where you can test your ideas, learn, and generate support.

Coach 137

Coach Training Satisfaction Mentor 137

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. If you want to be feared. If you want to mate.

Startup 94

Startup News Framework Outsource 94

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

It is the bane of every startups existence because it takes up so much time, it is so competitive to sign people and it feels like unproductive time because it’s not moving the ball forward on product, engineering, sales, marketing, biz dev, fund raising. Recruiting.

Press 341

Press Startup Email Sales 341

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2019

That’s more than enough to put you ahead of your competition. I recommend setting aside some time each week for networking, including phone calls to key advisors, lunches, emailing follow-up to contacts, and regular attendance at business and industry events, to reconnect to old relationships, as well as build new ones.

Social Media 96

Social Media News Tool Email 96

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

It’s not much different than having Dave Morin, Dick Costolo or Sheryl Sandberg sitting next to you at lunch. Competitive sportswoman. Kara on one side of the table showing me market sizes, competitive dynamics, product roadmaps, pricing plans for physical products with COGS and gross margins. We’re in LA.

Startup 398

Startup Design Downey Activity 398

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Here are some observations I have from this exposure: If a company moves from strength-to-strength with predictable outcomes, easy financings, low staff turn-over, limited competitive threats then the composition of the board probably doesn’t matter as much. I practice what I preach. kind of like a board for a VC firm).

Startup 269

Startup Venture Capital Layoffs Resource 269

Berkonomics

JULY 3, 2010

If you are lucky enough to create competition among investors for your company, you can select the investor or group with an individual who has experience in your niche and identifies with your vision. But alas, there is no free lunch. Email readers continue here.] And over the years I have vastly curtailed the practice.

Coach 179

Coach Organization Resource Equity 179

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2019

Invite key people for coffee or lunch one-on-one, and get to know them and their business. The only actions that create results are those that make you stand out above the crowd, attract, engage, and win more customers than your competition. Don’t waste your time networking with strangers. Start networking smarter and smaller.

Marketing 97

Marketing Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 97

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

That team means that a positive culture is on the forefront, setting up fun lunches, events and programs. While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment.

Examples 100

Examples Company Companies Google 100

Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

That team means that a positive culture is on the forefront, setting up fun lunches, events and programs. While Google still gets stellar reviews for pay, perks and advancement, there are also some employees who note growing pains that you’d expect from such a huge company, including the stress associated with a competitive environment.

Examples 100

Examples Company Companies Google 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

There is no free lunch. That won’t build any competitive advantage. But don’t be misled, social media marketing to get customers and brand recognition through engagement still costs money (and time and effort). But don’t spend your money on things that don’t work anymore. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Snapchat Platform 95

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. If you want to be feared. If you want to mate.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup News Framework 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

The opportunity for change is huge, with everyone taking a new look at the world after the recession, but the competition is also huge, since the cost of entry is at an all-time low. Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. That’s the good news and the bad news. If you want to be feared. If you want to mate.

Startup 99

Startup Competition News Framework 99

InfoChachkie

MARCH 10, 2014

Once a month, go to lunch with someone who knows more about your business than you do - you are never too old, too smart or too successful to be a protégé. Remember that winners do what losers don''t want to do - outwork your competition and you will likely win. Grind it out. Take care of your reputation.

Competition 274

Competition Mentor Entrepreneur Startup 274

Tech.Co

MARCH 2, 2018

You’ll have the chance to enjoy a startup lunch on the rooftop , panels, mentor sessions, VC sessions, a special Startup Pitch Jam, and finally, the big party and “must attend” event known as Startup Night SXSW 2018. “ Doors will open around 11:00 AM, welcoming SXSW attendees to learn about these regions.

Startup 70

Startup Organization Networking Venture Capital 70

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

You need to be “known” for your sources of differentiation so even when the press declares you dead because Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter are going to eat your lunch they are describing the threat in terms of them copying YOU. Expect big competition in the group messaging market. Or “gamification.&# But shitting our pants?

Google 325

Google Press Marketing Content 325

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2017

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. If you want to be feared. If you want to mate.

Startup 57

Startup News Framework Entrepreneur 57

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2019

After having assessed your environment, start healthy networking activities, such as lunch, with important people in your professional network on a weekly basis. The stakes are higher than ever in this competitive and rapidly changing world. Add more inspirational people to your network.

Class 93

Class Activity Coach Satisfaction 93

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2007

Being right next to lots of aerospace companies here in El Segundo, I can find them by the truckload at lunch time. The problem is that right now it's very competitive to find good architects and developers period. But they won't leave there job. Still, there is definitely a pool of folks who will take more risk.

Southern California 150

Southern California Startup SoCal El Segundo 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2015

It does mean a proactive and ever-vigilant plan to keep moving forward with the market and stay ahead of competition, even if you must make your own products obsolete. Produce a video with potential viral impact and bring in your best customers for a brainstorming session and lunch with your team.

Startup 103

Startup Social Media Customer Custom 103

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2017

Invite key people for coffee or lunch one-on-one, and get to know them and their business. The only actions that create results are those that make you stand out above the crowd, attract, engage, and win more customers than your competition. Don’t waste your time networking with strangers. Start networking smarter and smaller.

Tips 75

Tips Marketing Technical Review Startup 75

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

Every time you contribute content and touch Lunch 2.0--your There is a lot of competition for reviews/etc. Tags: startup entrepreneur similarity reviews ratings virtualtourist lunch. What we've done, is put something else into the mix. The third, and the most powerful motivator, is the idea of a similarity network.

Content 204

Content Startup Sites Manhattan Beach 204

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

The way we go about that is different than the competition. Along the way, Evan got wind of what we were doing, so we met up for lunch. Our latest product is FlightPath, which is a mobile analytics solution. You can pivot on the information it is collecting, and it transforms and pivots around how you click on data.

Startup 262

Startup Mobile Outsource Development Tool 262

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Invite key people for coffee or lunch one-on-one, and get to know them and their business. The only actions that create results are those that make you stand out above the crowd, attract, engage, and win more customers than your competition. Don’t waste your time networking with strangers. Start networking smarter and smaller.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Tips Marketing Entrepreneur 103

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

There is no free lunch. That won’t build any competitive advantage. But don’t be misled, social media marketing to get customers and brand recognition through engagement still costs money (and time and effort). But don’t spend your money on things that don’t work anymore. Marty Zwilling. business Jim Tobin marketing social media'

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Marketing Snapchat 101

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

You can’t make someone want to deal with you, but you can try to increase their motivation to deal with you – like getting together for lunch, or trying to communicate in another way. Rather than have a confrontation, someone backs off. Benefit from harsh feedback about your work. Receiving criticism is never easy.

Startup 102

Startup Social Network Entrepreneur Mentor 102

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2012

You can’t make someone want to deal with you, but you can try to increase their motivation to deal with you – like getting together for lunch, or trying to communicate in another way. Rather than have a confrontation, someone backs off. Benefit from harsh feedback about your work. Receiving criticism is never easy.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Network Mentor 104