TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, or an existing business, and haven’t yet sized any of these opportunities, you may be already late to the game. Community means more than supply and demand. With crowdfunding, entrepreneurs and artists no longer need to wait for family money or venture capital.

Commerce 98

Commerce Social Media Platform Class 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. There is no free lunch.

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Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 15, 2016

Four entrepreneurs share their observations and predictions for the machine revolution; exploring the advancements in tech with a crossover into finance, education, e-commerce and art. The effects of this mean reduced demand for financial personal services, and a rise of the data scientist. Zoe Turner, Numerai.

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Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Education Commerce 40

socalTECH

MAY 6, 2019

To fix that problem, Los Angeles-based Coozie (coozieoudoors.com) offers up a different optiona way to rent gear at a fraction of purchase price. We partner with premium outdoor brands, and rent equipment at 15 percent of the retail price. We allow them to get access to that gear at a fraction of that price. What do you do?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Our annual conferencefocused on educating our community on growing valuable tech enterprises-- set a record with over 500 attendees and our best attendee feedback to date. I continue to be surprised by some clever SoCal entrepreneurs who are creating out-of-the box companies that are opportunistic and reflect our markets ingenuity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Yet you can never forget the seasonal business cash flow and activity demands that are approaching, so to be prepared – you need to start the planning now. Even though these last few years have not been great financially for entrepreneurs, it always helps to look at the cup as half full, rather than half empty. Margin is everything.

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Startup Tips Venture Capital Demand 86

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I even prefer to fund entrepreneurs who have experience some level of set-backs in their careers or startups because I think it brings a humility to decision-making that I find healthy. You also ran the risk that if you hired employees quickly and then demand wasn’t as strong as expected it was incredibility hard to fire people.

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Startup Press Blogging .Net 261

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. There is no free lunch.

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Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

Ignorance is not bliss in business, but it does allow entrepreneurs to face the unknown with a measure of confidence. No 19-year old understands business at the level of a seasoned, serial entrepreneur. However, it is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.

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Startup Tips CTO Coach Technical Review 268

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. We got a very large international order, and we found the demand on this was exceptional, not only here in the U.S., Do you think the sales focus has been valuable to you as an entrepreneur? but internationally. So we had to raise capital to meet orders.

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 124

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Too many entrepreneurs develop a new product without regard to market demand, then build an entire strategy based on creating a need, rather than acting on an existing market need. Think about how your customers have survived all these years without your product, and how many will pay your price to change.

Technology 91

Technology Funding Competition Entrepreneur 91

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

We've created an alternative, a hybrid microscope for the price of one. We got a very large international order, and we found the demand on this was exceptional, not only here in the U.S., Do you think the sales focus has been valuable to you as an entrepreneur? but internationally. So we had to raise capital to meet orders.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Startup Sales Slides 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and Founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. There is no free lunch.

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Sales Metrics Startup Entrepreneur 96

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. There is no free lunch.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

However, our users and target audience are really the younger, web-savvy, college educated, and very technologically comfortable consumers. The way we represent our product, how we merchandise it, and how we price it, and our UX is really targeted towards the younger clientele. We''re designing for the iPad and iPhone generation.

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Services Technical Review Startup Pricing 215

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Too many entrepreneurs develop a new product without regard to market demand, then build an entire strategy based on creating a need, rather than acting on an existing market need. Think about how your customers have survived all these years without your product, and how many will pay your price to change. Marty Zwilling.

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Funding Entrepreneur Competition Pricing 88

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2016

If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, or an existing business, and haven’t yet sized any of these opportunities, you may be already late to the game. Community means more than supply and demand. With crowdfunding, entrepreneurs and artists no longer need to wait for family money or venture capital.

Marketing 52

Marketing Commerce Social Media Entrepreneur 52

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. Fallacy: AdVentures tend to evolve once you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. “Learn from the mistakes of others.

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Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2016

Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P. It is very important for service companies to use and market peak load pricing, seasonal, and customer scheduling without impacting relationships. I saw these modern challenges and some positive guidance summarized in a new book, “ Service Excellence, ” by Ruth N.

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Services Social Media Technical Review Media 54

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Entrepreneurs create opportunities by creating ripples, and mini-ventures are great ripple creators. the smartass entrepreneur replied, “It’s called business. Rather than shutting down shop, the student simply moved the operations down the hall and continued satisfy the brisk student demand for the consolidated notes.

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Ideas Startup Pricing Entrepreneur 153

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

The caveat is that these young entrepreneurs have to drop out of college to do it. This move is indicative of the possibility that the traditional ways of going about making a living through a college education, an entry-level position at a firm, and steady promotion through the ranks is a dead model. Moonlighting can pay the bills.

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Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

6 Entrepreneurs share their predictions for this year’s evolution of online industries, which will be key for small businesses across the globe in 2016. The industry will continue to invest heavily in educating people and convincing them to try internet security products (free versions & life-time trials).

Commerce 40

Commerce Mobile Technical Review Google 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. .

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 9, 2011

Let’s dive into the interview and find out what sparked the idea for iGottaGuide and get a few helpful tips from a fellow entrepreneur. I am Keith Petri, lifelong entrepreneur, lover of travel and hater of tourists’ traps. We are posed as a nimble startup ready to shift with consumer demands. Give Us the Fast Pitch.

Startup 63

Startup Guide Entrepreneur Ideas 63

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Maybe they wanted the branding associated with a hot company, maybe they wanted to work with the other investors around the table or maybe they thought it was a cheap way to get educated on your market – it’s always easier to learn an industry when you’re on the inside. These are all dumb reason to invest – of course.

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Venture Capital Startup Invest Pricing 314

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. Too many entrepreneurs focus on dilution.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. raise money now to weather any storms). We took $2.3

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318