Xconomy

MARCH 30, 2020

San Diego has long been considered a second-tier primary biopharma hub in terms of number of companies and venture capital raised, falling behind the twin behemoths of Boston-Cambridge and the San Francisco Bay Area on those and other metrics. Venture capitalist Nancy Hong recalled that some.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics. If one metric changes, it may not be significant, but someone needs to monitor whole categories for fluctuations that may be a weak signal. Broad disruptive events. New entrepreneurs are notoriously great at capitalizing on new opportunities, both weak and strong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2022

One alternative is to become an entrepreneur. As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m often asked what it takes to get satisfaction from this lifestyle. In fact, Mehta focuses on a special class of entrepreneurs that he calls disruptors. Put it behind you by setting your own realistic metrics for success and happiness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. Although many won’t admit it, true entrepreneurs can’t wait to exit their current startup, and build a new and better one with their next great idea. New startup founders keep all the operating metrics they need in their head. Set your startup health gauges and use them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

The recent pandemic was a strong signal for change, and I see most of you entrepreneurs and business owners responding to the business changes required and new opportunities presented. Establish and evaluate metrics at multiple levels. Investigate broader implications of disruptive events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As a new business advisor, I hear facts all the time about how hard an entrepreneur is working, but often have a hard time getting them to quantify results. Even you as the entrepreneur, who may not be getting paid at all, are tricked into thinking that if you had more hours, you could get better results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2015

Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics. If one metric changes, it may not be significant, but someone needs to monitor whole categories for fluctuations that may be a weak signal. Broad disruptive events. New entrepreneurs are notoriously great at capitalizing on new opportunities, both weak and strong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Of course, that has be a repeatable event, with enough revenue to sustain the business. So what should an entrepreneur do to convince themselves, as well as potential investors, that they have a viable business model before it is totally proven? No matter how good your cause, it takes real money to sustain a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2021

Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. Although many won’t admit it, true entrepreneurs can’t wait to exit their current startup, and build a new and better one with their next great idea. New startup founders keep all the operating metrics they need in their head. Set your startup health gauges and use them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2014

One obvious alternative is to become an entrepreneur. As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m often asked what it takes to switch and get real satisfaction from this lifestyle. In fact, Mehta focuses on a special class of entrepreneurs that he calls disruptors. Be prepared to experiment.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2019

We've helped entrepreneurs raise over $225M in early stage, venture funding. Their goal is to partner in really unique ways with entrepreneurs, accelerators and investors, to create businesses and brands in new categories for P&G. We're here as a support ecosystem, to help founders build their companies.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2022

Changes in your organization’s core performance metrics. If one metric changes, it may not be significant, but someone needs to monitor whole categories for fluctuations that may be a weak signal. Broad disruptive events. New entrepreneurs are notoriously great at capitalizing on new opportunities, both weak and strong.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2016

My venture firm, Rincon Venture Partners recently teamed with Jason Lemkin, Founder of SaaStr , to host the first SaaStrX event. The Most Important Metric. We had a spirited discussion regarding a number of issues related to blowing past $10M in annual recurring SaaS revenue, in front of a sold-out crowd of about 400 entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

Based on my own years of experience in startups and big business, and more recently as an angel investor, I often cringe when I see one of you entrepreneurs missing a cue that I have seen work for many before you. A passionate entrepreneur I met a while back had found that a certain algae could be grown cheaply, and could end world hunger.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

amSTATZ is an online community that brings fitness professionals, athletes and fitness events together into one place. Founded in the summer of 2011 and their first product out a few weeks ago amSTATS wants to help users to follow fitness events and programs near them and find a great fitness trainer to help them stay fit.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2017

Looking for someone who can put together that perfect wedding or corporate event? PartySlate (www.partyslate.com)--which is backed by a slate of LA area investors--offers up a place to browse photos on events, find venues, and most importantly, planners who put those events on, so your next big event can be an unforgettable one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2021

Of course, that has be a repeatable event, with enough revenue to sustain the business. So what should an entrepreneur do to convince themselves, as well as potential investors, that they have a viable business model before it is totally proven? No matter how good your cause, it takes real money to sustain a business.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. On the one hand, an entrepreneur should not be overly paranoid and should know the ropes that VCs and other professional investors generally will not sign NDAs to see the concept or a prototype--and even if they did, it would not provide much protection.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Being that the theme of the night was community, it was perfect that the event was held at CoLoft , a workspace in Santa Monica that focuses on start up entrepreneurs. Noah has what I believe he called “Thank You metrics”. I was fortunate enough to meet the founders of CoLoft, Cameron and Avesta , before they had opened.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2014

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. Relevant skills include continuous improvement of existing methods, processes and devices against a set of quality metrics. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2020

As an advisor to entrepreneurs, I often hear the desire to run their own company, to avoid having someone else telling them how to run the business. Email status reports to board members and key employees should be delivered more frequently, as key events unfold. Personally manage cash flow processing and procedures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

I’d like to do a few posts on what life looks like on the way up and perhaps how to keep your head on straight and avoid drinking your own Kool Aid because as I often advise entrepreneurs on irrational exuberance, “ In a strong wind even turkeys can fly.” Create company measures for success that go beyond financial metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In fact, the first challenge is to build a strategy, put together a budget, and define measurement metrics. As an advisor to many entrepreneurs and small businesses, I often get asked where to start, and how to proceed. Set specific objectives, budgets, and metrics for each one. Pick a theme and a team for each and get started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

In my experience with entrepreneurs, there seems to a wealth of self-proclaimed “idea people” who aspire to start businesses, but only a few who are willing and able to dig in and get the job done. Only rare great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates and Elon Musk, have proven to be both. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Although his focus is naturally on bigger companies, I contend that his recommended strategies apply equally well to entrepreneurs and startups: Demand a mindset of deep thinking for the long term. Overtly connect every operational problem to your strategy, rather than putting strategy on a different plane and making it only an annual event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In my years of advising business leaders, from entrepreneurs to enterprise executives, I often hear a passion for strategic change planning, but seldom see the same commitment to strategic execution. Strategy must be a process, with an implementation system behind it, rather than just a periodic event.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

In a funding round with 1 or 2 VCs and 15-20 angels or 4-6 seed funds if you gave every investor you financial information and performance metrics your proprietary information would increase in its probability of leaking out. Does he blog about venture capital and try to advise entrepreneurs? Attends 500startup events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

Other sources stronger than paid media today include key social media influencers, such as “mommy bloggers” and popular YouTube events. All require planning, deliberate actions, and quality content and event creation which will likely absorb all the savings from reduced paid media campaigns. Earned media. Long-term sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

When pitching to investors, entrepreneurs always seem to start with a customer pitch, then add a slide or two about the business. Investors are business experts, while the entrepreneur is more likely the product expert. The entrepreneur needs to show a strategy for such an event, and a projected value and return to the investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

As an entrepreneur looking for an idea, it makes sense to explore problem areas within your knowledge comfort zone, but when you are building a business with the solution, you have to stretch your comfort zone to keep up with the market and stay ahead of competitors. Define and use metrics to measure your progress.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 30, 2018

Festi is a blend between Eventbrite and Venmo for your private events. Festi allows users to create an event, choose a public or private setting, and control who attends the events. Being a part of the Festi community allows you to follow events happening in your area. Private party planning just got a lot easier.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Yet, as an advisor to startups, I see some common disasters, and recommend some anticipation and recovery moves that can save every entrepreneur some painful time and money. While every entrepreneur needs to remain upbeat and optimistic on all of these, it is also smart to anticipate the worst case scenarios that are possible with each.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2023

Thus my challenge to you is to start today in documenting specific goals , putting some metrics in place to measure progress, and start celebrating every bit of progress, no matter how small, along the way as follows: Convert dreams into specific written objectives. Identify and complete skill upgrades and education.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. Although many won’t admit it, true entrepreneurs can’t wait to exit their current startup, and build a new and better one with their next great idea. New startup founders keep all the operating metrics they need in their head. Set your startup health gauges and use them.

Startup 98

Startup Entrepreneur Metrics Acquisition 98

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2015

Of course, that has be a repeatable event, with enough revenue to sustain the business. So what should an entrepreneur do to convince themselves, as well as potential investors, that they have a viable business model before it is totally proven? business model entrepreneur investors startup viable'

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Other sources stronger than paid media today include key social media influencers, such as “mommy bloggers” and popular YouTube events. All require planning, deliberate actions, and quality content and event creation which will likely absorb all the savings from reduced paid media campaigns. Earned media. Long-term sales.

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