Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Defy Ventures runs business plan competitions and has people like us who attend and give business advice and feedback. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. I will write about that as soon as Caroline is ready. You can go. You SHOULD go. Here is how.

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Writing Startup Design Training 150

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Be gracious.

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. Write things down. We helped the write out their requirements for a system. Be gracious.

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Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Members can also enhance their expert status by writing informative articles and position themselves as a contact person for other professionals to get information from. We launched the first publicly available (German) Beta Version of exploreB2B at the end of 2010. Competition? How unique are you from the competition?

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Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2012

According to a recent study done by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were 565,000 new businesses created per month in 2010 in the US alone, which is a 15-year high. Be visible online and to traditional media, volunteer to lead, write guest posts for others, be responsive, give stuff away, and provide many ways to communicate.

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Startup Social Media Platform Blogging 104

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. Try writing long reviews of a restaurant. Use that as a source of competition. They do both well.

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Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

My first job was as a page at NBC, and after that I went and did a year and a half of writing and production at MSNBC with Keith Olbermann and Chuck Scarborough. Dollar Shave Club came to me about two years ago, in December of 2010, when I met my co-founder, who was my friend's fianc's father.

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Dollar Shave Club Startup Pricing Sample 210

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. How do you create a business around the still-emerging market of electric vehicles and avoid those issues?

Help 178

Help Startup Southern California San Fernando 178

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. There is no way for people to keep prices down – it’s a competitive market. But I wrote about one other point that I wrote back in March 2010 so it’s clear I didn’t just dream this up after today’s panel.

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Venture Capital Training Startup Entrepreneur 308

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

The company was founded in 2008 but launched publicly in March 2010. Our biggest challenges to date have been making sure that the level of quality of talent we hire remains extremely high (it is very competitive in Silicon Valley), and that we continue to provide superior customer support as our user base grows. When was it launched?

Startup 71

Startup Tool Capital Customer 71

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

LAGbook was founded in 2010 by two twin brothers Chika and Chidi Nwaogu when they were just 19 years old and freshmen at University. 2010 and launched on 25 Apr. 2010, same day we purchased the domain name, lagbook.com. As of writing, my twin and I serve as the Co-CEOs and Co-Presidents at LAGbook.

Social Network 100

Social Network Networking Advertising Startup 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 6, 2012

“Competition for the future is about what you are doing today,” Vijay Govindarajan preaches passionately from the stage at the front of the Metro Toronto Convention center on June 5th, 2012 at the Art of Leadership Conference. In the boxes he writes: 1. Manage the present. Selectively forget the past. Create the future.

Pricing 80

Pricing Statistics Examples Design 80

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! What if there was another competitive cash register on the market? ► October (1) New Video!

Google 40

Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

JULY 30, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! We just started developing.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! There are a lot of people out there who can "write code", but very few good engineers.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! There is no “how-to&# book for your company.

Startup 40

Startup Email Venture Capital CTO Hire 40

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures - Gabriel Weinberg , July 25, 2010 I was once a wannabe entrepreneur.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It’s an important film and the most important topic of our generation if we as a country want to remain competitive in a world that has globalized. Having teachers unions in 2010 is so archaic and leads us to have public school systems where the best teachers are paid the same as the worst ones. This hugely resonated with me.

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Class Education Technical Review Writing 340