Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

As entrepreneurs, you always need to be on the lookout for ways to expand your current business, and always on the lookout for your next big thing. The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems in the world which need to be solved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2012

I’ve noticed that most young entrepreneurs are more socially conscious today than ever before, which is a great trend. Recognizing the interdependent nature of life and the human foundations and business, a business needs to create value with and for its various stakeholders (customers, employees, vendors, investors, communities, etc.).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 -- Startup Venture Summit. Hear from successful entrepreneurs who share their lessons learned. Network with prospective corporate customers and clients in your market niche. For High Growth Startups Seeking Funding or Partners. All Stages Welcome: PreLaunch, Early and Mid Stage.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 28, 2012

Sunday, June 3, 2012 -- Green Business Base Camp. The Green Business BASE CAMP custom curriculum and format breaks down the barriers to success for entrepreneurs. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 27, 2012

Saturday, June 2, 2012 -- Green Business Base Camp. The Green Business BASE CAMP custom curriculum and format breaks down the barriers to success for entrepreneurs. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 26, 2012

Friday, June 1, 2012 -- Green Business Base Camp. The Green Business BASE CAMP custom curriculum and format breaks down the barriers to success for entrepreneurs. See [link] (more)

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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. How can you improve your odds?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 25, 2012

Thursday, May 31, 2012 -- Green Business Base Camp. The Green Business BASE CAMP custom curriculum and format breaks down the barriers to success for entrepreneurs. See [link] (more)

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Even though Lyft nor Sidecar presented at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 they need to be mentioned as they were a huge time saver both getting from after party to after party and also to get to the airport. If a business isn’t using video to attract new customers they are leaving money on the table. .

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

According to Dreamhost, all of the startups accepted into MuckerLab's program throughout 2012 will receive one year of free web hosting services from Dreamhost, including fully managed servers. Dreahost has over 300,000 customers, and hosts 1.2 Dreamhost has been in the area since it was founded in 1997. million domain names.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 -- Think BIG. Technology Council Entrepreneur Society. Founder and CEO Eric Greenspan used Extreme Customer Service to build his startup from a spare bedroom in his condo into a 38,000 customer business that just inked a deal with Costco. Learn how Make It Work, Inc.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. What started as a weekend project in 2012 is now a global marketplace that attracted 55.2 Organic milk formula product Bobbie.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 23, 2012

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 -- Lunch and Learn: Venture Capital and Investments. When companies want to grow revenue streams with new clients and customers, what are the options? Preeminent experts will share the dais with an experienced entrepreneur and discuss the do's and don'ts of securing additional capital.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

By 2012, total sales exceeded 50 million copies and founding band member Roger Waters was cited by Forbes as the second highest paid musician of the year, pulling in $88 million. Entrepreneurs can learn a great deal from the manner in which Pink Floyd created DSOTM.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

In an age of ever increasing marketing spend to attract customers, how do you make sure you aren't spending more acquiring a company than they are worth? Los Angeles-based Retina is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out customer lifetime value (CLV) for such businesses as Dollar Shave Club. What is Retina Go?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? There is a difference between a Conference Ho and a successful entrepreneur. It’s not.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 4, 2012

Thursday, May 10, 2012 -- Accounting and Taxation for Startups. At the inception of a company the entrepreneur typically focuses on product development, RandD, customer relationships and sales and marketing.Often, accounting and taxation are overlooked.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Want to be an entrepreneur? In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. The company was acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company during August of 2012, for approximately $65 million. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

They typically have specific budgets lined up, and they're looking for ways to diversity, and also access new customers. Years later, I bought the company back, and we rebranded in 2012 to Ad.net. Our core competency is focusing on high quality customers to our advertisers. They want to diversify their search spend.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. The top five tournaments for “StarCraft 2″ in the month of June 2012 had combined prize-pools of over $150,000.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Explaining that customers were. Chase had many tidbits of information for the room of lady innovators from “every single person is your free consultant” to “make sure you are an ‘I can make that person’ versus ‘I can buy that person’ if you want to be an entrepreneur.”

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. But it's also about operations and customer relationships." Curiosity is a common trait among serial entrepreneurs.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

After my latest company collapsed in June of 2012, I went into a bit of a depression. This company I started with my own money and in my third bedroom, had grown and served its customers and employees well for over 11 years. I''m a dad, an entrepreneur, coffee farmer, I attend TED, and my hidden passion is in the kitchen.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012. In 2012 that number skyrocketed to 26%. SocialBakers , a site that tracks data, reported in December 2012 that 1.4 Each participant becomes part of your marketing department, as other customers read their output, and become part of the conversation.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

But a couple of people replied with responses of such lack of comprehension that I thought it was worth expanding on for first-time entrepreneurs. Successful entrepreneurs achieve much through their personal leadership traits that inspire others to do great things with them – sure. Not possible. ” Or there was this one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2013

Based on the latest Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom, personal money, or bootstrapping, continued to be the primary startup funding in 2012. Eighty percent of new entrepreneurs used this approach, with only six percent using investor funding. Entrepreneurs need to start small and pivot quickly.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Idea Mensch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2014

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Doing business is a human process.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 8, 2012

2012 TechZulu Tech Crawl – Technically Awesome. When: August 30, 2012 6-11pm. Each venue will host a group of developers, designers, entrepreneurs and other startups in their office for 45 minutes or so then feel free to move on to the next stop. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Where: Venice, CA (Silicon Beach!).

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

Our customers benefitted from this and saved thousands over the years as a result. As an entrepreneur, my greatest lesson learned here was how difficult it is to find capital for a services business. But later in 2011, new customers slowed, appointment bookings slowed and average appointment time dropped. I was wrong.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2012

One of the worst things for an entrepreneur to have happen to them is to lose communication due to battery life. with a new two-year customer agreement. Motorola has been taking notes from the energizer bunny and wants to keep you going and going and going… Verizon Wireless and Motorola announced the DROID RAZR MAXX.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 23, 2012

2012 TechZulu Tech Crawl – Technically Awesome. When: November 9, 2012 6-11pm. Each venue will host a group of developers, designers, entrepreneurs in their office for 45 minutes or so then feel free to move on to the next stop. Custom ad deals and partnerships. A tour of some of the hottest Hollywood tech companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

2012 TechZulu Tech Crawl – Technically Awesome. When: October 4, 2012 6-11pm. Each venue will host a group of developers, designers, entrepreneurs and other startups in their office for 45 minutes or so then feel free to move on to the next stop. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Where: Santa Monica, CA (Silicon Beach!).

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

Entrepreneurs are inundated with success stories, but far less is written about ventures that do not succeed. Most entrepreneurs do not have the guts to publicly discuss a venture gone awry. Our customers benefitted from this and saved thousands over the years as a result. In May of 2012, sales dropped drastically.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages. From a customer standpoint, though, it's pretty clear. So, from the customer side, it was much easier. We'll also be doing significant enhancements to our customer portal. So where are you now?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

When: July 26, 2012 6-11pm. Each venue will host a group of developers, designers, entrepreneurs and other startups in their office for 45 minutes or so then feel free to move on to the next stop. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Where: Santa Monica, CA (Silicon Beach!). What do you do on a Tech Crawl?

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