Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2011

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism surfacing in 2011. A majority of small business leaders intend to be more aggressive in 2011 by implementing a range of actions to advance their businesses. Respondents cited a greater focus on operating efficiencies as the number one step to achieving growth in 2011.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Competitors, seeing a successful development of a niche, flock into the competitive void with products or services built with a fresh view of the current environment. What about those unicorns?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I called an (ex) LP to tell him about her and my goals for her. Leadership is about recognizing your next generation of talent and helping lift them up. Or, maybe it’s just about getting out of the way and watching what they can achieve. Wait, What About Yves? She’s empathetic and brings great humor to her work as well.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

The 2011 ARE is bound to go above and beyond last year’s event. If you are an AR Enthusiast – you will feel like a kid in a candy store at ARE 2011. Dates: May 17-18, 2011. ARE 2011 Sponsors: Qualcomm , Occipital , and Ogmento. For a complete list of confirmed business talk speakers visit the website at: [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2011

Welcome to the New Year 2011! So if reality matches expectations you will feel neutral about it. Real job performance is more a function of productivity than hours worked anyway. Make your resolution today to keep the long road ahead in 2011 a satisfying one. Keep expectations realistic. Keep your expectations low.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2019

Acutus Medical, based in the northern San Diego community of Carlsbad, was founded in 2011. The company’s flagship product, dubbed AcQMap, uses ultrasound to allow physicians to see what is causing a patient’s irregular heartbeat, also known as an arrhythmia.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2016

In a boost to LA's clean technology industry, energy storage products developer sonnen said this week that it has set up its U.S. The German company started shipping its sonnenBatterie products in 2011. The comapny says that so far, it has installed about 10,000 of its storage solutions throughout Europe.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Well, visitors to Hollywood's Sunset and Vine are about to see just that, with the expansion of The Melt , a Silicon Valley, venture-backed grilled cheese shop founded by Flip video CEO Jonathan Kaplan. How often do you run into a top tier, Silicon Valley-backed grilled cheese sandwich shop in LA? READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2011

From attending the 2nd official Augmented Reality Event (2011) , the AR industry really seems to be getting some traction and moving itself beyond the buzz realm; into something a bit more substantial, seeing an ever-more increasing presence into consumer, commercial, and artistic realms. The winners of this one?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the proliferation of starutps in the past 2 years. The era of cheap cloud computing plus open-source software plus digital natives unleashed upon society is creating some truly amazing products that will challenge the way we do business and the way we live our lives. Then you stop.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 14, 2011

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 -- Mobile Business Apps. Come see a panel of industry experts tell you about what is going on today and where we are headed with mobile business apps The panel will also show a few of their favorite mobile apps live. Come find out what to expect in 2011. Mobile applications are the current rage.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 13, 2011

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 -- Mobile Business Apps. Come see a panel of industry experts tell you about what is going on today and where we are headed with mobile business apps The panel will also show a few of their favorite mobile apps live. Come find out what to expect in 2011. Techbizconnection. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. These companies have all experienced growth and we're expecting substantial value creation in 2011. Stay tuned. Great things will emerge there.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

What is HypeMarks all about? Tim Sae Koo: I came up with the idea about a year ago, when I was in college., It's similar to Pinterest, and what their product does with Skimlinks. How our product works, is people curate and collect the sites they are recommending to friends, and create personal collections or profiles.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 2, 2011

Wednesday, June 8, 2011 -- The Association for Women in Technology Presents TOMORROW'S CIO. Inspired by panelist Ashwin Rangan's book "Tomorrow's CIO: Strategic Conversations That Align IT with the Boardroom," this forum brings together a panel of distinguished CIOs for a discussion about tomorrow's IT leadership.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’re moving away from being this institution with multiple products and really just focusing on early-stage venture capital,” Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman said when the firm announced its last fund. “LPs are not really happy about what’s going on,” says one investor with knowledge of the venture space.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 2, 2011

Wednesday, June 8, 2011 -- AWT Quarterly Technology Forum. Inspired by panelist Ashwin Rangan's book "Tomorrow's CIO: Strategic Conversations That Align IT with the Boardroom," this forum brings together a panel of distinguished CIOs for a discussion about tomorrow's IT leadership. Come join the discussion!

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 15, 2011

Thursday, April 21, 2011 -- How to Build a Great Internet Company. Jason Nazar will be interviewing different team members of Docstoc to talk about the specific tips and advice on topics such as Product Management and Design, Web Development, BizDev, Content Creation, and much more. Startups Uncensored. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 10, 2011

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 -- HR Executive Strategy Series. Learn about common misconceptions Strong reforms that impact your bottom line - What to do TODAY to stay proactive - How you CAN manage the workers compensation drain on productivity and costs - Executive tips to create, document and implement proactive WC risk management.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Whats Hot Menu. what’s hot?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

One of the companies at that intersection of video and e-commerce is IPSY (www.ipsy.com), a subscription beauty products company which uses video as a core piece of its monthly beauty products business. We caught up with him to learn more about IPSy and its subscription business. It's all about self expression.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. But it might not.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

That’s right… just about the same amount of time it takes to sell out a Radiohead show at the Forum. The evening kicked off with a brief talk by Sean Rad , Co-founder and CEO of Ad.ly , about the true importance of Vision and Team.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

companies should… focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial. If you have $hitty products, the marketing is impossible. Instead of focusing on marketing as an activity… integrate it into (your) products.”. Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 22, 2011

Thursday, July 28, 2011 -- TechAmerica: The Green Economy - Trends and Opportunities. We hear a lot about the Green Economy today. Its in the news, politicians love to talk about it and its the new buzz in business. But what does it all mean? Is it real and if it is, how can you become a part of it?

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

We spoke with Phil about his new company, which is backed by OMERS Ventures, Saturn Partners, Karlin Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Double M Partners and Greycroft Partners. We're trying to save companies money, and increase the productivity of employees. For Kaleo, it's all about how we're spending our cash. What is Kaleo?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 5, 2011

Monday, April 11, 2011 -- The Assemblage of Play. Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds. This presentation will look at the way online multiplayer gaming is constructed through an assemblage of practices, artifacts and actors (human and non).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

We spoke with Christopher Webb, the firm's CEO, to hear about how ChowNow's goal is to make mobile, social orders something any restaurant can afford and implement--and how a new $3M funding round from GRP Partners, Double M Capital, Daher Capital, Karlin Ventures, and Velos Partners is helping it to deliver on its mission.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

That one thing, in the case of Los Angeles-based FamousBirthdays.com , is creating an online resource all about--you guessed it--famous birthdays. Our company had actually acquired a few different websites about two and a half years back. Evan Britton: We really don''t think about it. Evan Britton: I''m an Internet market guru.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

Usually a small company can sell about 20 percent of its stock in an IPO. Sometimes the best way to grow is to acquire other companies or other products, and sometimes you need a public stock in order to go that route. If the company is just bumping along in a quiet niche, with no bright prospects in sight, the answer is probably no.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

What I love about writing is that you inadvertently say what many others are thinking and just knowing that somebody else is thinking something similar can be reassuring. But it comes across as a whiny complaint about the shitty year that 2012 was. After all, you’d have to be a really big baby to complain about being a VC.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We caught up with M-GO''s CEO, John Batter , to hear about where M-GO fits into the streaming media market. John Batter: M-GO was formed about two years ago as a joint venture between DreamWorks and Technicolor. I personally come from DreamWorks, and was President of Production previous to taking the opportunity to come run M-GO.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We caught up with CEO Simon Anderson to learn more about the big debt funding round and how it came about, the complexities of providing founder liquidity in a bootstrapped company--and how the company is looking to use those funds to take the company to the next level. It''s really a combination of the two.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. The biggest news was a complete, new launch of a new product, strategy and brand. Yesterday, we heard from Bruce Hallett of Miramar Venture Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. The obvious thing that investors think about is making a financial return on the investment they made in your company. The risk wouldn’t be appropriate.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Rinse & repeat. It takes options off of the table. You have a hunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic.

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