Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Huddlewoo a live video platform set to launch early 2013 to give people the ability to access extraordinary people for one-on-one conversations and mentoring. Technology has given us the ability to connect with others like never before, but personal access still remains uncommon. We caught up with the CEO William Zell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

That means making sure you are utilizing coaching and mentoring, as well as training to keep up with changes in technology and the marketplace. I still find many organizations that think of internal change in terms of months and years, or even worse, suffer from “analysis paralysis,” or studying a problem forever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2023

Based on my years as a business executive and mentoring entrepreneurs, I’m convinced that the principles of reframing can be learned, and apply equally well to any domain, certainly including business. For example, Steve Jobs and Apple moved computer technology to phones to counter falling revenue. Don’t focus too narrowly.

Entrepreneur 82

Entrepreneur Competition Press Commerce 82

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

He cites several studies, in addition to his own experience, that highlight the following key people drivers to business success: Founders need to be driven by impact rather than money. Other studies indicate that a top reason for many startup failures is that the founders just gave up too early. Use active listening to learn the most.

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Technical Review Startup Mentor Study 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2015

Based on my own mentoring and investing experience, the best entrepreneurs are pragmatic problem solvers. If you can explain the problem to a mentor, or even write it down, you will more likely get to the root cause quickly, and avoid emotional and blame-infused responses. Explore solutions, outcomes, and options calmly.

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Mentor Entrepreneur Technical Review Satisfaction 105

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Based on my years as a business executive and mentoring entrepreneurs, I’m convinced that the principles of reframing can be learned, and apply equally well to any domain, certainly including business. For example, Steve Jobs and Apple moved computer technology to phones to counter falling revenue. Don’t focus too narrowly.

Startup 134

Startup Entrepreneur Competition Press 134

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2022

Yet, based on my own years of experience “in the business”, mentoring many entrepreneurs, and following stalwarts like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, even these potentially controversial mindsets ring true to me: All risk isn’t risky. Entrepreneurs, especially those in technology, usually don’t start out as well-rounded, well-adjusted leaders.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Startup Customer Custom 117

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2014

Based on my own mentoring and investing experience, the best entrepreneurs are pragmatic problem solvers. If you can explain the problem to a mentor, or even write it down, you will more likely get to the root cause quickly, and avoid emotional and blame-infused responses. Explore solutions, outcomes, and options calmly.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Mentor Technical Review Satisfaction 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2019

Here are some indicative entrepreneurial facts from recent Kauffman studies and others. Additionally, Kauffman research has revealed that the average age of the founders of technology companies in the United States is a surprisingly high 39 - with twice as many over age 50 as under age 25. percent to 24.3 percent last year.

Startup 119

Startup Technical Review Technical Support Entrepreneur 119

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Based on my own mentoring and investing experience, the best entrepreneurs are pragmatic problem solvers. If you can explain the problem to a mentor, or even write it down, you will more likely get to the root cause quickly, and avoid emotional and blame-infused responses. Explore solutions, outcomes, and options calmly.

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Satisfaction Marketing Mentor Entrepreneur 53

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We have have been funding agriculture technologies, water conservation, wireless electricity, aquaponics and so forth in addition to our standard investment themes in software, data, video and retail innovation. We are predisposed to backing founders who solve problems in which they have personal knowledge that is authentic.

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Company Companies CTO Coach Funding 207

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2019

In fact, studies have shown that the long-term value of coaching has a return of at least 2x to more than 100x times the cost. People often ask me about the difference between coaching and mentoring. Every entrepreneur and business person I know wishes he had more time for coaching all the members of his team.

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Coach Course Mentor Examples 91

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Want to be an entrepreneur?

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. Nevertheless, there is nothing wrong with studying and learning from the wisdom and experience of others. See if you understand each of these technologies: Internet of Things.

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Startup Cloud Computing Social Media Entrepreneur 107

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

At the same time, we're trying to help add women and diversity to technology and entrepreneurship. The idea came about, because we see a lot of people coming through our program at UCLA, who might have the desire to be an entrepreneur, and to get into the technology field, by studying data science or cybersecurity.

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UCLA Education CIO Examples 159

socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2013

We had been building technology around a publisher interface, and starting seeing the same things from customers, who wanted to understand what was happening on their site, what their competition was doing, and what advertisers were doing. We decided to build technology to specifically address this problem. READ MORE>>.

Advertising 153

Advertising Startup CTO Coach Study 153

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2013

To be fair (and as other accelerators in town are eager to point out), Launchpad LA has had a head start, with a number of companies which joined the accelerator before it was an accelerator, and was a mentoring group for a mix of both funded and non-funded companies. Not far behind was Science Inc.

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Southern California Incubator Report Startup 222

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. Nevertheless, there is nothing wrong with studying and learning from the wisdom and experience of others. Are you driving the technology, or is it driving you?

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Cloud Computing Startup Social Media Networking 61

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

Both have been great mentors ever since. Whta were you studying before the startup? Scott Ferreira: I was actually studying architecture. I think that's a huge part of what is making us pretty successful, the ability to think through and do some really cool technological things that people thought weren't possible.

Startup 239

Startup CTO Coach Content Web 239

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. Nevertheless, there is nothing wrong with studying and learning from the wisdom and experience of others. See if you understand each of these technologies: Internet of Things.

Cloud Computing 99

Cloud Computing Social Media Entrepreneur Networking 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2019

Yet, based on my own years of experience “in the business”, mentoring many entrepreneurs, and following stalwarts like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, even these potentially controversial mindsets ring true to me: All risk isn’t risky. Entrepreneurs, especially those in technology, usually don’t start out as well-rounded, well-adjusted leaders.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Startup Customer Custom 92

socalTECH

APRIL 11, 2013

We also see that, as video technology and platforms, and platforms grow and Internet connections grow stronger, and as the quality of HD video has started to develop, people are more in favor of online lessons as well. but someone who has studied music, or studied the art of teaching, have a tendency to do better.

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Startup Education Study Ideas 260

InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

In my role as a Professor of Practice within UC Santa Barbara’s entrepreneurial Technology Management Program , I am confronted by several millennials each quarter who ask me if they should quit school to work on their ventures. I must admit, I furthered this anti-college narrative with a provocative article about college dropout successes.

Entrepreneur 150

Entrepreneur Case Study Education Seed Funding 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Here are some indicative entrepreneurial facts from recent Kauffman studies and others. Additionally, Kauffman research has revealed that the average age of the founders of technology companies in the United States is a surprisingly high 39 - with twice as many over age 50 as under age 25. percent to 24.3 percent last year.

Entrepreneur 75

Entrepreneur Technical Review Startup Technical Support 75

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

Ask For Mentoring. Field Manual – Enchantment is a practical how-to book that entrepreneurs can repeatedly refer to when tackling specific issues, such as; “How To Overcome Resistance”, “How To Use Push Technology” or, “How To Enchant Your Employees.”. Drop Everything And Do What Your Boss Asks. Underpromise, Overdeliver. Positive ROI.

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Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

Entrepreneurship : Through working with their mentors, each team acted as a startup, conducting market research for their pitch presentations. The evening was completed with a speech from the Keynote speaker, Lucy Hood , executive director of USC’s Institution for Communication Technology Management. Musical Gears – BUSavvy.

Technical Review 82

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review USC 82

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

That's the same in the South Bay, where we've found there is a bit of a concentration in space technology, because of the location of some of the larger companies in that industry in El Segundo and the South Bay. In Silicon Beach, and in Santa Monica, we've adapted to that community as far as staffing and circumstance.

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El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

Lita Nelsen has seen it up close—and played a part in its evolution—from her studies there in the 1960s, to her business-school fellowship in the late 1970s, to her 30 years working in MIT’s Technology Licensing Office. MIT’s approach to nurturing entrepreneurship has changed a lot over the past 50 years.

Startup 67

Startup Compton Research Technology 67

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Based on my experience as an angel investor and a mentor to dozens of entrepreneurs, having no business plan is the quickest way to define yourself as just a dreamer, or at best a hobbyist. For example, “I just patented a new cell-phone technology that will double battery life for half the cost.

Startup 65

Startup Writing Patents Competition 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2017

Based on my years as a business executive and mentoring entrepreneurs, I’m convinced that the principles of reframing can be learned, and apply equally well to any domain, certainly including business. For example, Steve Jobs and Apple moved computer technology to phones to counter falling revenue. Don’t focus too narrowly.

Entrepreneur 56

Entrepreneur Competition Press Mentor 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2017

Yet, based on my own years of experience “in the business”, mentoring many entrepreneurs, and following stalwarts like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, even these potentially controversial mindsets ring true to me: All risk isn’t risky. Entrepreneurs, especially those in technology, usually don’t start out as well-rounded, well-adjusted leaders.

Entrepreneur 71

Entrepreneur Startup Customer Custom 71

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Yet, based on my own years of experience “in the business”, mentoring many entrepreneurs, and following stalwarts like Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, even these potentially controversial mindsets ring true to me: All risk isn’t risky. You are odd, and it’s OK. In fact, being odd is quite the norm.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Startup Customer Custom 107

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

The sensing technology, too, is unique to our solution. You recently conducted a pilot study. Can you share with us how the learnings of this pilot study impacted your strategy? Before we did the study we did a lot of research to see how best we could show the data. It is built out of 5 years of research at USC.

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USC Southern California Activity Study 104

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2012

People skills <again> People skills <and again> Market/technology acuity (patterns of success, domain expertise). Board skills (Startup coaching, mentoring, strategy, operational/growth). Rolodex/deal flow (deal sourcing/ability to make connections for the portfolio). Fundraising skills.

Venture Capital 239

Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur SaaS 239

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2013

Yet, based on my own years of experience “in the business”, mentoring many entrepreneurs, and following stalwarts like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, even these potentially controversial mindsets ring true to me: All risk isn’t risky. Entrepreneurs, especially those in technology, usually don’t start out as well-rounded, well-adjusted leaders.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Customer Custom 105

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My Human Computer Interaction.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

Since then, I have worked extensively with mentoring youth, and helping them figure out what's possible in terms of careers. Fifty percent of college graduates wish they studied something else after they graduate, and 42 percent of employers don't think those students are workforce ready. Companies spend $133 billion a year in the U.S.

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