TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The idea was that Boulevard could build a pretty large business catering to the needs of a niche industry that hadn’t traditionally been exposed to a purpose-built toolkit for its vertical. We are humbled that so many businesses are placing their trust in us during such a turbulent time.

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Berkonomics

JULY 17, 2014

That’s just as valuable for feedback as hearing a good, new idea. Show that you are both humble and adaptable. Although you may be completely right, the questioner’s comment may indicate that you are not getting your points across. Email readers, continue here.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

We all need to be humble and recognize that what we need to know about technology and the market changes daily. He is convinced this assures maximum productivity, and that no one's ideas get drowned out or ignored. Promote the sharing of ideas and feedback. Reward new ideas, experiments, and critical team feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2021

As an angel investor in new startups, I’ve long believed that investors invest in people, not ideas. Practice being humble and demonstrating transparency in your communication of needs and challenges. But the magic that makes one entrepreneur stand out over others is hard to quantify – yet we all recognize it when we see it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Summon the courage stay optimistic, yet humble. In the business world, it is the humble leader that has the greatest influence on results. As you gather your team, recognize that they will need your help and coaching as well. Successful entrepreneurs aren’t just dreamers, they are doers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2021

Just because someone else tells you that you can make money with this idea, doesn’t mean you can sell it. Practice being humble, yet confident and sincere, based on knowing your proposal inside out. Here are seven key steps which both Gupta and I agree are necessary for success: Persuade yourself before you try to convince others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The top 40 startup accelerators and incubators in North America in 2023 ” But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company. Are you and your startup ready to make the cut? Marty Zwilling

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

That's the idea behind HypeMarks (www.hypemarks.com), a new startup looking to tap into your social graph to guide you to the web. Where did the idea come from? Tim Sae Koo: I came up with the idea about a year ago, when I was in college., I tested it out there at USC, and researched it, and really liked the idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2020

So if you aspire to be the next Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates in business, you might want to compare the following traits to your own, and focus on adopting the ones you don’t have, as much as you focus on your next idea to change the world: Figure out first what you most want to achieve in life. In other words, stay hungry and humble.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2021

I will paraphrase her key recommendations here: Humbly share your knowledge and your expertise. Richard Branson kept meticulous notebooks of scribbled ideas, insights, and to-do's from key events in the past, for sharing with his leadership team for his many companies in Virgin Group. Offer insights and learning from your experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The top 40 startup accelerators and incubators in North America in 2020 ” But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company. Are you and your startup ready to make the cut? Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

What Cham rarely tells people – he’s both private and humble – is that he started making some small co-investments with me in tech firms starting with Maker Studios where he was one of the earliest investors. I reached out after the event to learn more. They make a great pair.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. When the early teams: angels, lowercase capital & first round capital funded Uber they had no idea it would be one of the most revolutionary ideas of our time. Far from it. It was an early and smart bet.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 6, 2018

Stephen Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From , has noted the importance of coffee shops during the Age of Enlightenment as hubs of idea germination. Humble enough to know when to be quiet. Get together with no agenda, other than to have fun, trade some provocative ideas and maybe drink a couple adult beverages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2022

Stories are the most effective way to communicate an abstract or unfamiliar idea. Humbleness in business settings is attractive and powerful, even if you know the answer, the path, and the solution. Use short-story examples to make or solidify a point. Make sure your silence isn’t empty by staying actively attentive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2013

Humble leaders with this trait seem to create cultures that don''t take themselves too seriously; cultures willing to take risks; cultures capable of creating and supporting a greater number of ideas. Encourage everyone to be open to new ideas and solutions without setting limiting beliefs. Willing to make mistakes.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Hire people with Humble Pride who take an ass kicking by a competitor personally. Such employees’ humbleness ensures that they will never put their well-being before that of the company. "I don’t really have new ideas, but I manage to combine information in ways most people hadn’t considered." Remix Redux. "I

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Maine Medical Center, Maine’s largest hospital, is investing in their employees and giving them a chance to act on their innovative ideas that could transform healthcare. They also partner with business development experts to help participants transition from idea to intellectual property into partnerships and startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2012

Humble leaders with this trait seem to create cultures that don't take themselves too seriously; cultures willing to take risks; cultures capable of creating and supporting a greater number of ideas. Encourage everyone to be open to new ideas and solutions without setting limiting beliefs. Willing to make mistakes.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 14, 2014

Last year, the humbly brilliant and veteran entrepreneur (I totally signed up for www.MoviePass.com the second I saw it), joined Upfront, as a venture partner. On Innovation Crush , Hamet Watt helps shed some light on the intricacies of successes – and failures – in the start-up community.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2018

When a venture is conceived, it is merely an idea. As the story illustrates, entrepreneurs manifest their ideas by rallying a motivated team and supplying them with the necessary resources. One of the most powerful lessons from Stone Soup is also the most obvious. Every entrepreneur is faced with making something out of nothing.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

That was actually a humbling moment. When Mark Zuckerberg approached us, and just wanted our building--for more than our company was worth--it was just humbling. The other thing we had done, is a friend of mine, an EIR at a venture firm, Storm Ventures, started doing lunches together to come up with ideas. more) READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2010

Humble leaders with this trait seem to create cultures that don't take themselves too seriously; cultures willing to take risks; cultures capable of creating and supporting a greater number of ideas. Encourage everyone to be open to new ideas and solutions without setting limiting beliefs. Willing to make mistakes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

He said he wanted to found this company (he had founded a previous company that sold for about $300 million) because he thought the Internet was a big idea. He was interested in a few other big ideas. I have never sat in a room with an individual where I felt more inspired and humbled. And space travel (SpaceX).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The top 40 startup accelerators and incubators in North America in 2018 ” But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company. Are you and your startup ready to make the cut? Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In addition, my role as Partner at Rincon Venture Partners provided me with a business reason to invest additional time and effort into my humble blog. Ideas Are Worthless. By early 2010, I found my stylistic voice and identified my audience of emerging entrepreneurs and thus dropped my penname. I was not disappointed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The Best Startup Accelerators Of 2016 ” But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company. Are you and your startup ready to make the cut? Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

I have written about people who live by strong social contracts in Humble Pride. If someone is investing in me and my idea, I simply don’t want to let them down. If someone is investing in me and my idea, I simply don’t want to let them down. I am a completist and I can’t stand unfinished business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2018

It’s a growing challenge, since we now have four generations of workers together – Matures, Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials (Gen Y), all with different ideas of how an owner should act. Stay humble, but don’t be afraid to take a risk and own it. As a business owner, if you want people to take ownership with you, treat them like owners.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

It was amusing and humbling to find my name in the alphabetical listing, appearing after Oprah Winfrey and before Reese Witherspoon. In the first phase of many industries, you have an explosion of new ideas and companies. What's the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Tech.Co

APRIL 7, 2020

The current Covid-19 pandemic has had an epochal effect on businesses, and even the humble office space has taken a blow, with millions of us now working from home. While most companies are able to continue operating with employees remote working, what about those businesses where the office itself is the revenue model?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

By focusing on what he would do differently now, he was able to humbly convey a number of impactful lessons to a captivated audience of budding entrepreneurs. There is nothing wrong with researching an idea yourself, getting it started yourself, validating the idea yourself and then asking people to join you.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Don’t kid yourself and try to cover up the hurt with “My idea is just ahead of it’s time.” Overall you become a better person when you have been humbled by failure. A great entrepreneur is like a great racehorse. There’s no quit in them. Defeats are temporary. Heart and class are permanent. Don’t rationalize away the hurt.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

How do you find somebody that is exceptionally bright, driven and accomplished and yet still be humble enough to understand that the founders we back are the ones who have invented technologies and have to live with the day-to-day decision-making and hard choices. This latter bit is very important to us and very hard to achieve.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

To give you an idea how poor, our kitchen table had three legs. So… I ate a piece of humble pie… (and) I started ingesting information about how to run a technology startup. As Don humbly points out, "We had both presidential campaigns using our platform (and) some of the hottest growing startups. I grew up ridiculously poor.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

If I asked and my partner predictably told me “no&# then the only way to go would be to directly defy his instructions – never a great idea in business. I knew that worst case I’d have to eat the expenses for the flight & hotels and have to eat some “humble pie&# for having been dumb enough to show up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

We now live in a world where even subtle persuasion efforts are suspect, so it’s a bad idea to go into a networking situation thinking you’re going to talk somebody into doing your bidding. Be brave enough and humble enough to make amends to the people hurt. It also opens your door to more great outcomes.

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