Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Online education. Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund. One such theme was “water conservation” and we morphed it into a broader theme of agriculture technology or “ag tech” for short. Almost nobody believed and now look at it.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 5, 2019

Due to the overwhelming demand to pitch at our last event in San Diego, we're throwing an exclusive PitchFest speed dating event where you will be pitching to over 20 investors one-on-one! Tuesday, June 11, 2019 -- San Diego FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop. We're doing it again!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Silicon Valley is focused on disrupting established industries, but in many parts of the world, innovators must create new sectors, such as education, health care, financial services, and energy. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Specifically, two high school seniors in LA, Dillon Rosenblatt and Tyler Makhani, recently built out an app called Tutors , a platform for on demand tutoring. “As a result of the immense growth and popularity of on-demand services in other major industries, it just makes sense that tutoring will follow the craze.”

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Demand Technical Review Los Angeles Platform 126

Southern California Edison Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Dark fiber allows large enterprises, educational institutions, media companies, and government agencies to leverage the high bandwidth capabilities. The trend towards online learning and streamlined digital processes is drastically changing the network needs of educational institutions. So what is dark fiber? Government.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Be customer focused, not technology focused. New ventures with major innovations, called “ disruptive ” solutions, such as the advent of electric vehicles, require changes in support technologies, more marketing for customer education, and new government policies. Beware of the allure and demands of early adopters.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. He started another company on the side while he was working during the day at a technology company. As a technologist he felt the US was “ground zero&# for technology innovation.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. Technology and innovation has historically been the thing that has pulled the economy out of recessions, and I think that is especially true right now. For OCTANe to be successful, we want to see our technology ecosystem grow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Silicon Valley is focused on disrupting established industries, but in many parts of the world, innovators must create new sectors, such as education, health care, financial services, and energy. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. Anne Fulton: I've always been a technology lover, although I'm an organizational psychologist by training. What is Fuel50? The whole space has been neglected. versus New Zealand?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Value is created through diligent hard work. Once you prove that a substantial number of people are willing to pay more for your solution than it costs you to provide it, you can then consider licensing your underlying technology. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. Grant Exclusivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2014

I agree with the seven survival challenges from Michael Fertik, in an old Harvard Business Review article , for executives making the transition: Empire-building skills are counter-productive. At a small company, if you''re constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead-creep rather than value creation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2016

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P.

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Services Social Media Technical Review Media 54

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

"The demands and the amount of work that it takes to put something like [Facebook] into place, it's just so much that if you weren't completely into what you were doing and you didn't think it was an important thing, then it would be irrational to spend that much time on it." 4) Rational Exuberance. "The

Startup 268

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2013

I agree with the seven survival challenges from Michael Fertik, in an old Harvard Business Review article , for executives making the transition: Empire-building skills are counter-productive. At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead-creep rather than value creation.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Training Technical Review 105

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

round changes things for us, and will let us invest in infrastructure, build our team, invest in media, and also invest in technology to better leverage our spend on media. However, our users and target audience are really the younger, web-savvy, college educated, and very technologically comfortable consumers. Closing this $1.1M

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2011

I agree with the seven survival issues summarized by Michael Fertik, in an old Harvard Business Review article , for executives making the transition: Empire-building skills are counter-productive. At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead creep rather than value creation.

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Startup Company Companies Training 105

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

We had the chance to speak with William Volk , Chief Creative Officer of Playscreen (www.playscreen.com), who talked how his company is looking to crack the code with Crickler 2: Daily Word Puzzle , which is among the most popular puzzle games on iTunes, and recently number one in free educational games. stars, mostly five star reviews.

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Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

Tech.Co

JANUARY 10, 2018

In the Harvard Business Review Female Economy 2009 report, women purchasing power was predicted to control about $28 trillion in annual global consumer spending, if not more. It is important to make the education and purchase experience as easy as possible. There’s so much noise telling women it’s hard to be a female in tech.

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Tips Customer Custom Dollar Shave Club 71

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2013

It is important when the presenters come from a complex educational background that the content is curated in a digestable manner. For the past five years Mindshare LA has remained at its home base downtown, but due to high demand, it is finally making its way over to the Westside. The next Mindshare L.A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Michael Fertik, in a recent Harvard Business Review article , summarized the key differences for people trying to survive the transition: Forget influence- and empire-building. At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead creep rather than value creation.

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Startup Company Companies Training 95

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

The controversial CISA bill passed in late December, despite outcry from the tech world, now means large corporations will be able to share personal online data with government agencies. For the VPN industry specifically, we will see a lot of new providers as the barrier to entry is extremely low, and demand is high.

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Commerce Mobile Technical Review Google 40

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Fallacy: AdVentures tend to evolve once you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. Value is created through diligent hard work. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. 3) Attempt To License An Idea. 4) Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis. 8 ) Grant Exclusivity.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2012

From the phone in your pocket to the television hanging on your wall, apps have penetrated technology and they aren’t going anywhere. Smart technology doesn’t work without clever software to make it useful. Niche apps can usually demand a higher price point because there isn’t much competition out there. But where do you start?

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Marketing Startup Software Review Competition 97

Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Due to Rapid City’s off-the-beaten-path location and small size — it’s tucked among the Great Plains, about 25 miles from Mount Rushmore, with a population of approximately 74,000 — the destination doesn’t typically enter the conversation for ICPC, which draws about 1,400 attendees. “The The last couple of years, it was in Warsaw, St.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. We're now scaling up to the next stage, where we have that filter as we described, so that we can have an agency independently review content and allow producers to browse that content.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

only for the foreseeable future and that is due to banking laws. It’s not only the publishers; writers need to be educated too. We are hoping to educate new writers. We have to educate everyone to make sure the terms are known and you can plan accordingly. You have Demand Media here. We are not a marketplace.

Journal 90

Journal Startup Writing Media 90

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Sad but true.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

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. Pundits are mixed on whether FourSquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence. In California the primary school education system has cut 10 days from the school year to save jobs.

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