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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2014

It’s especially important to highlight your uniqueness in some easy to remember way, so people will think of you and what you do, in case they need your product or service. Every product or service has specific attributes that are important to key customers, like integrity and trust, or customer focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business One of the keys to maximizing the productivity and success of your team, as well as yourself, is motivation. While there are many books written on this subject, most entrepreneurs I know simply assume that their own vision, motivation, and drive will be adopted and maintained by partners and employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Every new startup needs to fight the urge to get the product out, and then start selling it. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business. Every month, the Page will introduce a new theme that will focus on a topic important to a small business owner''s success.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. They have more knowledge of what a student's life is about, which is much better than a one page resume.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Online education. As is often said if you don’t get at least a few fellow VCs (and entrepreneurs) scratching their heads you may not be funding ideas with enough upside. Or take a look at their team page to get a sense of why we were so inspired by their vision for the future. Almost nobody believed and now look at it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Social media is so pervasive in today’s world that every entrepreneur believes instinctively that they know how to use it for their startup. Ask yourself where are the influencers in your market, the majority of your target customers, and what type of interaction will be most productive to your business? Marty Zwilling.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online. We went from no suppliers to now over 160,000 suppliers, over two million products online. Michael Kleist: Oh gosh, that could be pages. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

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. Here are a few of the many things that entrepreneurs should be thankful for this holiday season, to keep the challenges in perspective: The economy continues to rebound.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Page 1: Market Size. $3 I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link. I was wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

Great startups are getting ahead of the game with “anticipatory customer service,” like providing smart phone access to product and account data to head off complaints. So don’t move the search bar from the top of a web page, or select a digit other than “0” for getting a human on the phone. Respect your customer’s view of usability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

According to earlier studies from Forbes Insights , many entrepreneurs not only feel the lessons learned during the past few years have helped them survive, but the recession also exposed flaws in their business strategies that were previously not apparent, and they could fix. strategy entrepreneur startup optimism business'

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Operating productivity. Obviously, measuring staff productivity is important, and the reasons why are obvious. Size of gross margin. What you don’t measure probably won’t happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2013

One of the first questions that I get from many entrepreneurs is “How should I set up my company to minimize my setup costs, tax liabilities, and risk of lawsuits?” Incorporate your startup after the business plan, but before you spend a dollar on product development. I’ll offer you a few simple rules of thumb.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In the online world, you need a solid connection between your domain name and your product, brand, or business. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business. Every month, the Page will introduce a new theme that will focus on a topic important to a small business owner''s success.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

So it’s becoming easier to see how a President Trump or President Clinton might approach questions of keen interest to entrepreneurs and investors, like the merits of the carried-interest loophole in the federal tax code, or how to handle visas for high-skilled workers. Education and Workforce Development. Immigration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly. Maximizing Business Productivity. Productivity is much more than doing everything faster. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The purpose of REACH is to explore, educate, and evaluate the future of tech, as well as experience new gadgets first hand. Inside Sony had a “booth” showing off their latest Vaio products for people to test and preview. Check out the TechZulu’s Calendar page to view all upcoming events here in LA and Silicon Beach.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

According to Patrick Vlaskovits another proselytizer of the term, “Growth hacking comes after the early stage chaos and post-product-market-fit.”. If you build it, they may not come : So, you’ve launched your product, and people use it and seem to like it. It’s the whole conversion flow.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. I first met him there and knew he was a talented entrepreneur that I wanted to work with some day. And of course we had, TheMan.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. Do you have any words of caution or advice for entrepreneurs who attempt to “Get Their Band Back Together”? “In

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas. Why did you pursue an MBA at Stanford? And when there is a spark, go for it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

For starters – the team is exactly what I look for when I’m looking to fund entrepreneurs. The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people. The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people. These purchases are more complex in nature.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. Do you really think Porter’s Five Forces is going to help you figure out what feature set to launch or how to price your product? What about strategy?

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

After the event, we caught up, Parker Thompson , Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) charged with leading Batch 8. To learn more about all the companies, be sure to visit 500 Startups’ official demo day page. We know language education is a huge market, with 1/7 of people around the world learning a new language.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 14, 2012

His logo, not the blank page, is what represented “a hundred thousand bucks down the drain.”. After much debate, the company agrees on their number one priority: to deliver a compelling product to the higher-education market by the Spring of 1987. And that is by what our product is and how timely we bring it to market.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

I’m hoping this will help to save entrepreneurs time in their hunt for success, whilst adding some more meaning to their businesses. Having a clear focus means it’s easier to communicate what your product is and who it’s for. Here are two examples. People who focus exclusively on efforts that matter, succeed. It’s that simple.”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? Tags: raddon rich james zach startup video clip movie hollywood content entrepreneur interview.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

What we did, instead, was enable affiliates, particularly on higher margin or more complex products like insurance, travel, or education--to call someone. Our product has only been live for less than nine months, and four out of the five biggest affiliate networks have chosen us. It's invisible to the visitor. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page. As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. For an educator, it helps to bring classroom training to life.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Simply click on the title of the panel you like and you will be taken to their SXSWi panel picker page. Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. .

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Xconomy

JULY 13, 2016

it’s natural for startup entrepreneurs and others immersed in the technology world—including us journalists—to wonder about the role of innovation in solving social problems. The work these organizations are doing … Next Page » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur? 10) Thorsten, why does the world need RightScale? . “Oh, Oh, you got me there right in the first question!

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. 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. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#.

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