Tech.Co

JULY 24, 2017

So with no real barometer for reliable talent and a fast-evaporating social network, where should early founders snag that elusive star talent. Tap Into Your Network. Tap Into Your Employees’ Networks. Tap Into Superconnectors’ Networks. This is someone who has an abundant network comprised of many weak ties.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2022

Thus, in my mentoring of potential technical entrepreneurs who have a real passion for their technology, I often recommend that they find a co-founder who can manage the marketing and execution elements of the new venture. However, finding the right and compatible partner is a tough challenge, just like finding a spouse.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She actually IS the prototypical entrepreneur. But Tracy did what entrepreneurs do. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. In the first 5 minutes you’ll realize that she’s a classic entrepreneur. More on that later. That may soon change.

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Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In my experience as a mentor and advisor, I find that many of you expect these relationships will just happen , without any overt effort on your part. For example, as an entrepreneur, you need investors, so you need to start networking early, because they won’t find you. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Product Mentor Startup Activity 102

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. for $565 million to Excite.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

In the aftermath of the recent pandemic, which caused many businesses to close, a new raft of business workers and entrepreneurs are deciding to pursue their own dreams of being a new business owner, and controlling your own destiny. Network extensively for partners, investors, and suppliers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

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Organization Incubator Startup Resource 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your domain.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Huddlewoo a live video platform set to launch early 2013 to give people the ability to access extraordinary people for one-on-one conversations and mentoring. Our focus is providing anyone who is active online already with the ability to leverage their existing social networks for monetized one-on-one conversations. How does it work?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2015

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. BlackTech Week was created by the leadership team from Code Fever to accelerate and support the innovation of black communities through training, networks and funding. “ In fact, for the most part, all you need is a laptop and Wi-Fi connection.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. How did you transition to entrepreneur? Tell me a bit about your background.

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

We started a program, where we have a conference on an annual basis here, and get the alumni of Tel Aviv University to come together, to not only learn about new technology out of Tel Aviv and Israel as a whole, but also to try to connect Los Angeles and Southern California with Tel Aviv University.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2023

Therefore, I often recommend to entrepreneurs and business professionals that they not get too frustrated with initial failures or give up too soon. This requires proactive networking and active participation in relevant industry conferences and forums. Build more relationships with experts and peers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

If you want to join the ranks of entrepreneurs and businesses who have a reputation for being ahead of the pack, for being an initiator rather than a follower, such as Apple and Nike , here are five key strategies and skills to develop that I recommend and practice: Develop a mindset of constant change required to thrive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

That’s why I caution my aspiring entrepreneur clients against proclaiming to investors that they are a great “idea” person. Aspiring entrepreneurs are often impatient in rolling out the business, assuming the hard work was finalizing the idea, and that if you build it, customers will come. A full plan may be no more than 20 pages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your domain.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The idea came about, because we see a lot of people coming through our program at UCLA, who might have the desire to be an entrepreneur, and to get into the technology field, by studying data science or cybersecurity. Second, be smart about networking. Equip yourself with knowledge, and work on smart and meaningful networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2012

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Commerce), and events or conferences in your domain.

Startup 97

Startup Tips Social Network Networking 97

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops. Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge.

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Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 140

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a business advisor, I listen to many of you entrepreneurs talking about achieving your dreams, but too few of you have structured that dream, and can express it in a set of specific goals, with a timeline for getting there. Network to find inspiring and needed team members. Celebrate your successes.

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Writing Startup Summary Activity 139

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We also want to create more capital for women entrepreneurs to increase the chances of being funded and connected to a bigger network. Entrepreneurs are everywhere and capital isn’t. We have three main components: education, mentoring, and practice. NON: I very much started with people in my network in the beginning.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2013

My particular interests lay in what investors look for and the value of participating in a multi-channel networks hence my coverage of those aspects, although there were quite robust content, fashion. One such entrepreneur was Adam Miller , Cornerstone OnDemand , CEO, who kicked off the conference at ROC.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Santa Monica Technical Review Startup 93

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops (www.SoCconference.com) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. The Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! They include: Sponsors.

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Advertising Southern California IP VentureNet 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

In my role as a mentor to many business professionals, I still see some who have no idea how to adapt to the new realities. The simple answer is that we all have to start thinking like entrepreneurs, rather than entitled employees. More intellectual capital means that you are worth more today in the marketplace.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Social Media Training 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2017

As an active business advisor and angel investor, I’m convinced that we are rapidly entering a new age of the entrepreneur, and those who are best prepared will be the first to reap some big rewards. I continue to see stories of really young entrepreneurs, and I just met a really impressive one, Neva Lee Recla, at a recent Fast Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo! 1: You clearly haven’t persuaded the entrepreneurs that you are value-add to their deal.

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LATechDigest

MAY 22, 2016

Female entrepreneurs should especially love this as, Fund 21’s Jenny Q Ta will be listening to pitches to find final contenders for either a Skype or physical visit to Jakarta to pitch for a Series A round. Each startup will be able to choose up to three mentors to meet with for 7-minute sessions each.

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Startup LAVA Mentor Venture Capital 45

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2015

Almost all credited their spouse, or a mentor, in helping them achieve their success. It’s been a fascinating sociology study starting with the first panel of all female executives I heard during a conference on the Santa Monica Pier all the way up until now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Trade show and conference participation. Most young businesses with a new product plan to attend as many as ten shows or conferences per year across the country or around the world. As an entrepreneur, you are the brand, so your visibility is as important as your product or service. Networking events with other entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

Incubator 106

Incubator Startup Help Resource 106

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

They have completely opened this up to the public and are encouraging local entrepreneurs and startup enthusiast to participate and join in on the Startup awesome. Saturday mentors help teams move their ideas forward by questioning business model assumptions and providing business insights. 5:00pm – Networking.

UCLA 87

UCLA Startup Ideas Mentor 87

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

One member of the LaunchTN network of nine regional accelerators, ZeroTo510, in the Greater Memphis Accelerator Consortium, was listed in TechCrunch’s accelerator ranking. My Forbes co-contributor Geri Stengel concurs that something is happening in the Volunteer State, writing last month about that state’s emerging women entrepreneurs.

Startup 100

Startup Class LAMP Santa Barbara 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

Incubator 87

Incubator Startup Resource Seed Funding 87

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Big crowd of entrepreneurs, professors, students, and established professionals. I wanted to connect LA’s incredible entrepreneurs with the larger business community and with the resources of USC.”. The conference itself was focused on innovation, technology, and startups. The conference was filled with a several panels.

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USC Cornerstone OnDemand Southern California Netflix 98