Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2020

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Include marketing initiatives to educate and help customers.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). It's education, measurement, analysis, and ongoing mitigation strategy.

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JUNE 8, 2020

We curate the best products within each category of finance. Right now, we have two categories, banking, where we've partnered with Neobank to provide better solutions to our audience, digital solutions which are cheaper and help them savemoney. Finally, what's been your biggest lesson as a second time entrepreneur?

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Entrepreneurs seeking funding should emulate Addie''s efficient and focused pursuit of perfection. When securing funding, entrepreneurs must balance the desire for perfection with the urgent need to ensure the process is efficient. I asked Chris which of these categories he felt most consistently grabbed investors'' attention.

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APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. (5:00 5:00 – 5:55).

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In a bid to change that, there are a few groups working on helping women entrepreneurs, investors, and others, including the Pipeline Fellowship (www.pipelinefellowship.com), which recently launched itself into the Los Angeles market. My participation has been on the impact investing and education side, where I''ve been involved as a mentor.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Online education. There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. Almost nobody believed and now look at it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. The more revolutionary the solution, the more important it is to educate customers on a solution’s existence and value.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We break it down by a number of vertical categories, including Indulgent--all about food, wine, and alcohol; Active--outdoor athletic endeavors; and Creative, which is arts and crafts. Finally, we have an Eclectic category, which are interesting activities which don't fit into any of those other buckets.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. For starters – the team is exactly what I look for when I’m looking to fund entrepreneurs.

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APRIL 21, 2020

But there are some deals that will get funded even though not necessarily seed: If you’re in an anointed category that will serve a post Covid-19 world well. Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MAY 15, 2011

Guest luminaries from the start-up, entrepreneurial, funding, technology and political worlds will mingle with local entrepreneurs and business leaders to discuss the current state of small business innovation and advancement in the Orange Coast. Light hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be served poolside to the beats of a local DJ.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2014

Dominate the category (even if you have to create a new one). Being a brand entrepreneur, both for you personally as well as your business, requires learning, and is an ever-changing art without easy formulas. An entrepreneur these days can’t afford to hide behind an impersonal website or hole up in the corner office.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Andrew Schydlowsky: I'm a serial entrepreneur. While I was working with other brands, and while we were really the top sellers for quite a few brands for many categories, I saw a huge gap between what they know, and what they wanted to know about how the Internet works. How did you start the business?

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. Higher education. Here are some representative rates that we’re seeing by category. But it still is a major force and it ain’t going away. PHONE CALLS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2013

Most entrepreneurs struggle with financial projections, not wanting to commit to numbers they can’t deliver, and having no clue what investors might consider reasonable. Most entrepreneurs, with no experience, believe that they can make good money with lower margins than competitors. Gross margins greater than 50%. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2013

This is an especially important category. Don’t be shy about investigating local classes as adult education, or even a seminar with the SBA on bookkeeping. entrepreneur startup record keeping nightmare business' Intellectual property records. An accountant may not be necessary, but you still can’t skip the tools. Marty Zwilling.

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MAY 21, 2011

When pressed not enough of these entrepreneurs can answer questions about why users would still be using this product in 5 years, about why their product is going to solve a consumer or business problem that isn’t being solved today. Sure, that’s a fine category. But what about education? I have no problem with it.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We are constantly learning, doing research, and networking with other entrepreneurs, and people in our business who are the best at what they do. We have been smart about how to make investments in our business, and when we jump into a new category or vertical. We are students of our company, and of our business, and of our industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Strict boundaries and a marathon of hoops to jump through just to submit your documentation as an immigrant, are resulting in less American educated immigrants staying to pursue the process, rather opting to return to their home countries. category E visa for investors as a prime example of the recent troubles. Take the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2016

This is an especially important category. Don’t be shy about investigating local classes as adult education, or even a seminar with the SBA on bookkeeping. Intellectual property records. Of course, these days you need a personal computer or laptop dedicated to your business with some basic software tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2012

This is an especially important category. Don’t be shy about investigating local classes as adult education, or even a seminar with the SBA on bookkeeping. Intellectual property records. Of course, these days you need a personal computer or laptop dedicated to your business with some basic software tools.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate. CallFire will continue on a strong growth trajectory throughout the remainder of the year, driving revenues for the company as we work to transform the telecom category.”

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups. and launching at Silicon Beach Fest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2011

This is an especially important category. Don’t be shy about investigating local classes as adult education, or even a seminar with the SBA on bookkeeping. Intellectual property records. Of course, these days you need a personal computer or laptop dedicated to your business with some basic software tools.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

It's really a space we saw that there was more opportunities in, because, frankly, prescription lenses inside the total vision market is the largest category. And, before Warby Parker, there was not way to get online and find a product like that with a frame. It's significantly larger than sunglasses. We don't own any lenses.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2016

Entrepreneurs create their own jobs, why shouldn’t they also create their own degrees? As described in Should Millennial Entrepreneurs Skip College? most young entrepreneurs benefit greatly from the college experience. When trying to cobble together a startup degree, consider the following categories of classes.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

It really goes into two categories, around capacity and affordability. We wanted to understand, if we were giving out a $300 loan, whether that loan was going to home improvements, to working capital, for water, or for education. We can see location information, payroll data, bank balances, and savings data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2010

This is an especially important category. Don’t be shy about investigating local classes as adult education, or even a seminar with the SBA on bookkeeping. Tags: poor records entrepreneur startup expense. Intellectual property records. An accountant may not be necessary, but you still can’t skip the tools. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

These entrepreneurs do not risk everything, work outrageous hours and put themselves under extreme pressure because they want to. If it were a decision to be an entrepreneur, then most right-minded individuals would decide to turn back when they encountered the first inevitable startup crises. Entrepreneurs want to matter.

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MAY 7, 2018

If you’re building an education startup and you don’t see any logos of education companies on the firm’s website you are likely targeting the wrong firm. As an investor I can tell you that when I meet an entrepreneur who knows very little about our fund or me as an individual it’s a huge turn off. The third-pass is geography.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’m investing in businesses that reinvent education. And while Maker Studios is pure entertainment, TreeHouse is pure education. The goal for today’s business is to educate broad groups of people in the existing workforce to improve their skills, broaden their knowledge and get ahead. And he makes it work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

These are terms often used by technical entrepreneurs to convince investors and customers that their solution is so innovative that it will disrupt the market or define a new category. Selling products to education organizations, or the government, is never simple. In all cases, make the change simple and fun.

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MARCH 11, 2011

He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. Too many entrepreneurs focus on dilution. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Those are all categories we know well. In a world where we have blogs, social media, sites like TheFunded, and a variety of other sources where entrepreneurs can figure out what other people think about VCs, being open and transparent matters. Being so open, when entrepreneurs think about capital, we want to be top of mind.

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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. This will give you more time to build your parachute in mid-air (see “The MBA Education And Other Oxymorons” ). When the Professor asked, “What do you think you are doing?”

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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. Yes, I include many micro VCs in this category.

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