Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Every company needs this focus to attract the best minds and loyalty in both categories. Hire the right team.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

All Raise chief executive officer Pam Kostka, who joined the business earlier this year, says demand for an All Raise presence in local geographies continues to increase: “Women are hungry for the support and guidance we provide,” Kostka tells TechCrunch. “I I think the movement is just gathering momentum.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket has built itself as a profitable but quiet giant that underpins the fuel that helps companies in all of these categories by becoming one of the critical companies building bridges between food producers and those that interact with customers. Its opportunity comes in the form of disruption and a gap in the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Most controllers out there now are timers, which basically do not react to water demand. Instead, we run a model in the cloud based on the weather and calculate actual water demand, and we adjust the schedule on a daily basis. We do see the biggest demand in spring and summer, but we don''t think that is insurmountable.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When the early teams: angels, lowercase capital & first round capital funded Uber they had no idea it would be one of the most revolutionary ideas of our time. In other words, if it seems this obvious to us then it must be this obvious to many other investors and probably to many other teams gearing up to compete. 6SensorLabs.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

So I asked Ethan to build his product first and then we would fund. And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company. We like to be able to see the concept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2019

If you are in that category, you should take a hard look at a new book, “ Nincompoopery: Why Your Customers Hate You--and How to Fix It ” by John R Brandt, who has some real insight on this problem. Every business leader needs to focus on continuous learning, adapting, and being the role model for the team.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We had worked at another organization together in online marketing, and learned every aspect of the business, from closing new deals, on-boarding new clients, to building media plans. Brett Rossman: We have got a great team, of very smart, very passionate people, who are very good at what they do.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative. When you think about the category of scooters you think about Bird and that becomes a brand your friends want to try.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

I pointed out that throughout history building companies has always taken time and we as a market have put an urgency to rush growth rates. It takes time to sell in your software, get it implemented, prove the value, build a business case, gain executive support and then roll it out more broadly. Harry posed these questions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app for a few thousand dollars, but getting market penetration requires a lot more. When was the last time you set a challenge for your team that pushed all of you to deliver more than you thought was humanly possible? People who shape the future, like Steve Jobs, do this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2015

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Every company needs this focus to attract the best minds and loyalty in both categories. Hire the right team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

They relate quickly to one of the big successes out there today, including Facebook, Airbnb, or Snap, and can give you a dozen reasons that they are in the same category. Later, as you scale the business, is the time to add products or service offerings that customers demand to make the business more robust.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

” The wider plan — coronavirus pandemic willing — is to start building out a network of physical clinics to go alongside the telehealth service, expanding out from the initial clinic in LA. She says the team is eyeing other locations in California to potentially open up later this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Anyone can build a new web site, or publish a smartphone app for a few thousand dollars, but getting market penetration requires a lot more. When was the last time you set a challenge for your team that pushed all of you to deliver more than you thought was humanly possible? People who shape the future, like Steve Jobs, do this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Every company needs this focus to attract the best minds and loyalty in both categories. Hire the right team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2014

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Every company needs this focus to attract the best minds and loyalty in both categories. Hire the right team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Apple and Steve Jobs have been masters at this, convincing them of the need for, and inspiring them to want, a new category of products, as they introduced the iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch. Treat employees like your most demanding customers. Building a business is not a solo act. Don’t let your competitor get there first.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

I called 1-855-DOG-VACAY and spoke with Killina Benson from their concierge team and explained my circumstances. I said, “This category is going to be huge. Like most markets online it will likely be a ‘winner take most’ category so if you’re going to go for it … you better be prepared to win.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Do you imagine eventually raising VC and trying to build a faster growing company?” They used the money to hire a bigger tech team so they could roll out their second product line. They hired a marketing team to promote their products more broadly. Are you looking to potentially sell the company in the next year or two?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video. The Draft team will answer questions there and so will Greg and I if you have anything for us.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We have a team of people and technology which scours the Internet, and looks for videos we like and think would be a perfect fit for our Youtube channels. When our Youtube views are driven up, that drives more licensing demand for the video, with other shows interested. What is Jukin Media? One of thing we did, is we became a MCN.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. We build on those audiences, and find others that look alike. I spent 18 yars, and Jonathan a new less, building quite a few consumer Internet businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

There are many investors who are not looking to build enormous businesses who value the fact that you can run a business profitably). The characteristics of somebody who should NOT focus on profitability include those who: Have or perceive that they have the opportunity to build an immensely scalable businesses. Internet scale.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We have a massive music catalog, because we've enabled users to access their own, on-demand streaming services. Eli Aizenstat: For me personally, what I have learned is I have to find people and build a team, with experts in the indusry, and all the various different angles that touch the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The challenge is to transform and hardwire your entire team to think in these terms, rather than the default focus on distinct towers of product quality, closing the sale, or fixing a complaint. Your competition is global, so today’s customers are demanding world-class service. It requires brand-building at its best.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. It’s ok to target a small market and you can probably build a niche business that is extremely valuable to you as an individual. Market Size.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

One of the most original, subscription startups to come out of Southern California's tech accelerator boom emerged last week, looking to disrupt not just another retail sector or e-commerce category, but something else entirely: the airline industry. Those are the three innovations we've brought together to build this business.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Industrial networking is a new category for me, personally, and I only started here two years ago. However, your 75 other plants worldwide which were building products were running on completely different networks. Those were discrete manufacturing processes, intelligent devices like robotic arms, to build products.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. You've got to know best practices in demand generation.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification. “Choosing to bootstrap over raising venture capital has forced us to build a profitable business,” he said. I look forward to contributing to that achievement.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). Obviously if they are very wealthy or they fit categories 1-4 above I’d have a carve out. Bad behavior but prevalent. Check ‘em out!

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Rufus Labs is a wearable technology startup in Los Angeles with a heavy focus on building devices for the industrial sector (EMS, police, campus/event security, warehouse, etc). EnvoyNow is innovating in the on-demand food delivery space, targeting the underserved college market. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

Kate Drane, hardware category lead at IndieGoGo joins us and talks about IndieGoGo and crowdfunding. The way you talk about your business, develop your brand voice, gauge demand, and connect with your audience. They want to be a part of it, be a team member, add to the passion of creating it, and have pride in it.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

As the CEO you have a team that is counting on you and a board that is measuring your performance. I knew I couldn’t build the perfect “mentorship product&# over night but I knew that MVP meant just getting the first version launched. That’s why productivity wasn’t tough for me as a CEO. So I always performed.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

3 million to the first place team. His first company, LegalZoom was founded with Robert Shapiro, part of the team that successfully exonerated OJ Simpson, instantly giving his company credibility unheard of in the start up community. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. The prize? $3 In 2011, Business Insider ranked Legal Zoom No.

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