socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

We've compiled a list of five of the startups that are revolutionizing some part of music, based here in Southern California. The idea behind Earbits is not only to help connect fans with new music, but also to help those independent artists get their music out there to potential listeners. intersection of technology and music.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

As your business ramps up this year, keep these ideas in mind to heighten the experience of your customers, so you stay one step ahead of your competitors: Read the rest of Jaspar's article, Five Customer-Focused Trends for Companies in 2016. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Great Startup Ideas Come From Everywhere. "At "At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I'm afraid that's not quite right." I explore this peculiar entrepreneurial career path in further detail in THIS entry. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

Most entrepreneurs I meet are reluctant to disclose anything about their idea to investors before getting a signed confidential disclosure agreement (CDA). These professionals value their integrity, like your therapist or financial advisor, and will not share your business details nor steal your idea.

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Ideas Technical Review Patents Entrepreneur 106

Berkonomics

MARCH 16, 2023

Teaching about the five types of resources In my book, “Extending the Runway” (Second Edition, Berkus Press 2014), I explore the thesis that there are five basic types of resources an entrepreneur must exploit in growing a successful business: time, money, process, relationships and context. Coaches have seen your movie before.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Talks about the implementation plan, not the idea. M ost entrepreneurs are great at envisioning their business idea, but the implementation is fuzzy. Are revenues and costs reasonable and projected for five years? Think about that the next time you pitch your idea, and never mention the people. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Most entrepreneurs I meet are reluctant to disclose anything about their idea to investors before getting a signed confidential disclosure agreement (CDA). These professionals value their integrity, like your therapist or financial advisor, and will not share your business details nor steal your idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2013

Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Most aspiring entrepreneurs are convinced that the strength of their initial idea somehow defines them as a leader, as well as the success potential of their derivative business. It takes leadership ability, as well as a good idea, to make a successful entrepreneur, and great leaders evolve from key leadership decisions along the way.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

There are so many resources for early money to validate an idea, turn it into a product and increase the value of the company before professional investors come into the picture. A much more rational approach to starting up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2017

Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Below are five common questions an entrepreneur will encounter when seeking venture funding. Intent: As noted in Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Pitch Their Ideas , venture capitalists often base their portfolio executives’ salaries on their nominal living expenses. From a venture capitalist’s point of view, there are no “trick” questions.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Can we rapid prototype this idea into a product and try it out on potential customers? Another great way to think like a growth CEO: The Stanford Design School teaches ideation as a five-step process, fitting nicely into the four questions above. Prototype – build a representation of one or more of the ideas to show to others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2013

On the other hand, if you intend to patent an idea, you need a signed confidentiality agreement from everyone knowing details, or you will legally lose patent rights. That doesn’t mean you can’t talk in general terms about your idea, and even pitch to investors. Typically NDAs have terms of two to five years. Trade secrets.

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Ideas Demand Patents Entrepreneur 92

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The idea behind the hackathon is to create in-vehicle experiences through application programming interfaces (APIs) that are available from such companies as Ford, Toyota, and Subaru. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2022

As a mentor to many business professionals and owners, and aspiring entrepreneurs, I find a wealth of innovative ideas, but often less insight on what it really takes to transform ideas into an income stream that can excite new customers into long-term business success. A great innovation starts with at least three ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2011

Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2014

A while back, I focused on the e-Commerce side, so this time I wanted to highlight how a shortage of something, like natural resources, should be seen by an aspiring entrepreneur as a wealth of new startup ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2021

I’m sure we have all seen entrepreneurs with high levels of passion and confidence touting an idea that seems to make very little sense to us. John Bradberry, in his classic book “ 6 Secrets to Startup Success ,” identifies five key biases that sabotage many passionate entrepreneurs in their startup decision making.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2023

As I work with aspiring entrepreneurs and business professionals, I often hear about stress and disappointment from a great idea or innovation that failed for reasons that you don’t understand. I will summarize her recommendations here, as well as adding my own insights: Pick a problem to solve rather than an idea.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

even if your hair is on fire and the idea is worth billions. Even if we don’t seem to get your brilliant idea and buy into its value, we may be comparing it to previous lost investments or industry experiences far beyond yours. Don’t talk yourself into a high valuation for the first round of financing for any reason….

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2010

Only after they’re sold on you, do they want to see your plan and hear your idea, not the other way around. Talks about the implementation plan, not the idea. Most entrepreneurs are great at envisioning their business idea, but the implementation is fuzzy. Are revenues and costs reasonable and projected for five years?

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Ideas Funding Entrepreneur Customer 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2023

Just because it was your idea doesn’t mean you “deserve” 90% of the equity. The value in a startup is all about tangible results, so I see no equity value in the idea alone. Your idea is not intellectual property yet, so it has no inherent value. Major equity in a startup that goes nowhere is not my idea of fun.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

After the idea, it’s all about execution. I often hear from investors that a great idea is necessary, but not sufficient. Measure four or five key drivers, not twenty or thirty things. I’ve talked before about the best personality traits for a good entrepreneur, but I’ve never talked about the importance of process.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Below are five common questions an entrepreneur will encounter when seeking venture funding. Intent: As noted in Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Pitch Their Ideas , venture capitalists often base their portfolio executives’ salaries on their nominal living expenses. From a venture capitalist’s point of view, there are no “trick” questions.

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Entrepreneur Google Invest RSS 145

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2011

Every entrepreneur wishes that he could predict whether his idea could be the “next big thing,” before he spent his life savings and years of energy on it. I define these products and services as “solutions” (customers buy solutions to a problem), but Guy Kawasaki more generically calls them causes, meaning any new idea, company, or service.

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Ideas Summary Examples Entrepreneur 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2012

Here are five of the most common examples: Failure to document a Founder agreement at the beginning. It’s not a good idea to take money from anyone, even friends and family, without an experienced investment attorney drafting or reviewing the agreement to make sure it complies with federal and state securities laws.

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Startup Patents Legalzoom Invest 99

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Most aspiring entrepreneurs are convinced that the strength of their initial idea somehow defines them as a leader, as well as the success potential of their derivative business. It takes leadership ability, as well as a good idea, to make a successful entrepreneur, and great leaders evolve from key leadership decisions along the way.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Framework Tips 122

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2022

You shouldn’t be making this decision just because you are mad at your boss, or you would like to be rich, or someone else thinks you have a good idea. Right idea at the right time. Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Some innovations are clearly implementations of visionary ideas, but anyone at the operational level can think outside the box, individually or as a team, to suggest and implement innovations. The focus must be on five discovery skills of associating, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2011

Here are five of the most common examples: Failure to document a founder agreement at the beginning. It’s not a good idea to take money from anyone, even friends and family, without an experienced investment attorney drafting or reviewing the agreement to make sure it complies with federal and state securities laws.

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Entrepreneur Patents Invest Startup 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2022

But you have to be committed to the process of building your own thing and the act of creating something, rather than just coming up with an idea. It will likely take several ideas, with the learning process of failing on a couple, before you can call yourself a successful entrepreneur. Not every idea can, or will, be a winner.

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Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Resource 110

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As a summary, crowdfunding today can mean any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model. In fact, entrepreneurs can and do gain from any and all of these approaches, either by achieving some funding, or at least testing their approach and the level of public interest in their startup idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2021

In other words, the entrepreneur quality is more important than the idea -- in investor jargon, people invest in the jockey, and not the horse. High leaders continually challenged their own ideas and were quicker to adapt them to encompass new information, experiences, and meaning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You see, investors invest in people, before they invest in ideas or products. Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. Be passionate about the idea. Nobody likes a downer.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Blackstone''s charity arm, the Blackstone Charitable Foundation, runs the program, which aims to introduce entrepreneurship as a "viable career option" to university studnts, across five other parts of the country. Blackstone said it is supplying a $3.5M The new effort is open to students in any major. READ MORE>>.

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