Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. It’s what I call “ the evangelical phase ” of a company in which you’re out trying to persuade customers that a product you’ve designed is going to meet their needs better than other solutions on the market. Compelling Event.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. What's your biggest lesson you've learned as an entrepreneur?

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. This helps to add some constraints to the design process as everyone has a clear idea of what the product isn’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. A recent survey of design professionals shows strong agreement, but 92 percent expressed some lack of confidence in their organization’s design vision.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

You should be presenting data to your VCs and framing the decisions that you’re trying to make into cogent frameworks that will allow a group of experienced people to help you with decision making. Don’t try to defend every process you have or every design choice. Let them see data.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In Spring of 2012, a former colleague at Goldman Sachs suggested she connect with David Zhu, an entrepreneur with an eccentric but compelling background (professional poker player, dropped out of MIT). “We’ve built an app framework. “We’ve built an app framework. All inclusive. Face Forward.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Soon into college he realized that a career as a professional athlete is not what he wanted and instead quickly caught the entrepreneur/startup bug. Audiolife was built on a framework to handle all the back-end work through store fronts allowing musicians to focus on what they do best.

Technology 95

Technology Framework USC Platform 95

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In Spring of 2012, a former colleague at Goldman Sachs suggested she connect with David Zhu, an entrepreneur with an eccentric but compelling background (professional poker player, dropped out of MIT). “We’ve built an app framework. “We’ve built an app framework. All inclusive. Face Forward.

Social Media 81

Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 81

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2017

As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. Design thinking” is a methodology used to solve complex challenges, such as the ones faced by every business in today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive environment.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” Marketplace companies are notoriously difficult to start, so I'm constantly amazed that so many entrepreneurs chose this route. If you’re an entrepreneur, the glib answer is “no.”

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

The very mention of the word fundraising can illicit some powerful emotions among entrepreneurs. On one end, entrepreneurs who have (at minimum) built something customers love and are willing to pay for, and the other hand, investors who are looking for the very companies who fit that profile. Where SeedInvest Sprouted.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

It's quite a different framework from an Airbnb or HomeAway. I joined Chill.com, with Brian Norgard and those guys, and did a lot of the design at Chill. Most recently, I was leading product design for a company called Learnist in San Francisco, which was why I was going back and forth so often.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

and most other countries around the world which follow a general framework, making online agreements every bit as legally binding as paper ones. We've been very careful in designing a system to be fully compliance with those standards. I've been an entrepreneur for many years. and the E.U., Daryl Bernstein: Yeah, we have.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. But there are plenty of partners and successful entrepreneurs who don’t have MBAs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Compared to the plethora of dating site proposals that I see, Big Data is an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 109

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 2, 2012

He recently produced the Silicon Beach Fest along with Kevin Winston of Digital LA , and his mobile ad optimization and re-engagement company PageWoo came out of the 1st graduating class for the new Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine (developed by serial entrepreneur of Activision fame, Howard Marks). The framework in L.A.

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News Los Angeles Ideas Startup 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2022

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Compared to the plethora of new Internet dating site proposals that I see, big data is an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 96

Social Media Research Framework Sales 96

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Compared to the plethora of dating site proposals that I see, big data is an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 94

Social Media IBM IBM Commerce 94

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Compared to the yet another dating site proposal that I see most often, Big Data is an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike. Let me hear from you.

Startup 103

Startup Social Media IBM IBM 103

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Compared to the plethora of dating site proposals that I see, big data is an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike. Marty Zwilling.

IBM 75

IBM IBM Social Media Commerce 75

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. Are you looking for a Phd wireless chip designer?&#. These are the skills I look for in entrepreneurs and leaders. It is the very fabric of what I believe forms the entrepreneur DNA. I love the design of your product. ON SUCCESS.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

I ended up going to Lockheed Martin as Chief Innovation Officer, doing AR and VR work, creating a virtual framework used for training by the defense department. You're not going to be able to take a platform like Android and take it to 5G, because Android is not designed about 3D, and not around communications collaboration.

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Platform Startup Examples Web 168

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The entire event is meticulously designed around thought leadership and fostering open discussion between the industry’s leading mobile businesses. Desai enthusiastically states, “It’s a great time to be an investor and an entrepreneur.” ” He notes that 1.2

Mobile 71

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Anyone who works with entrepreneurs will tell you that all are different. I’ve always wondered if there was some way that I could quickly deduce a new entrepreneur’s “sweet spot,” and optimize my mentoring to those strengths and weaknesses, maybe similar to the Myers-Briggs type indicator for business professionals. Specialist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

I support her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. entrepreneur Charlene Li startup social media leadership business' What do you think?

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Social Media Entrepreneur Software Review Social Network 102

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2012

She outlines her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. Crowdsourcing: solving a specific problem together. Platforms: setting standards and sharing data.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Social Network Software Review Social Media 97

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

The morning, spent with the incredible group of entrepreneurs fostering # bigDOCC (Big “D” Open Coffee Club – Dallas that is ), was focused on not just what it means to be a startup in Dallas, but Texas, and the role that industry plays therein. . * WordPress, by way of $15M via North Bridge Growth Equity in WPEngine.

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Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

We do what is basically a quick-and-dirty prototype, to see what kind of a trial they can design, get some learning, and take it to the next step for a more fully backed Phase 2 trial. We also do a lot of prototyping and proof-of-concepts for sponsors trying to dip their feet into this and to evaluate their IP.

Technology 133

Technology Study UCLA Research 133

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2010

She outlines her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. Tags: entrepreneur startup open leadership social media business. What do you think?

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