2012 Book Entrepreneur Marketing 
socalTECH
DECEMBER 26, 2012
We asked the same four 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 week. For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. ” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago?
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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. The market had tanked. tl;dr summary.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 30, 2013
Isn’t it frustrating to think you understand something new in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? I just finished a new book by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
Ryan Blair: As you know, I sold ViSalus back in 2012, but ended up buying it back in 2014, and then we sold the company to a public company. I want to invest in entrepreneurs that have the capacity to be number one at whatever they are doing, and do it within our skill base, which is direct-to-consumer. I love entrepreneurs.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 2, 2014
We spend all our time as an industry talking about “growth hacking,” “design principles,” or “product/market fit” and not enough about the most important skills for success – people management. First, I recently read the must-read book Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton. I love politics.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 1, 2012
Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Of course, a real entrepreneur always takes a failure as a milestone on the road to success. Too little focus on marketing.
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