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. He provides several examples of how he used this approach to advantage in his own career. Not looking forward or standing still as an entrepreneur means you are slipping backward.

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JANUARY 13, 2013

It was a particularly rough December in what proved a difficult 2012. Example: Fred Wilson writing his end of 2012 post wrote. But it comes across as a whiny complaint about the shitty year that 2012 was. I wrote a cautionary tale about that here as an entrepreneur but it equally applies to running a VC firm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs the last couple of years is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. Good-cause crowd funding. Debt-based crowd funding.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

We recently sat down with Luc Berlin, co-founder of Miigle, a SoCal startup that has an aggressive global mission to bring entrepreneurs together from around the world. We first interviewed Luc in 2012, just as he was launching the prototype for Miigle. In 2012 Miigle was just in its beginning stages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). business entrepreneur exit founder IPO startup' Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant buying banner ads on Facebook, or buying a position on search engine results, or sponsoring some blog entries, but these doesn’t work anymore. By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012. In 2012 that number skyrocketed to 26%.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. For example, we handle all of the main languages, including dialects.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. Examples in My Life & Work. Entrepreneur Dinners. One of my favorite things to do is to organize entrepreneur dinners when I travel. So in 2012 you’ll see me a lot more often at the Launchpad LA offices. Happy 2012 to all of you.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

We spoke with Farhad Mohit , the CEO of Flipagram and a successful serial entrepreneur (having founded Bizrate, which later became Shozilla, and was sold to Scripps), to learn more about the story behind Flipagram and the vision behind its app. That was between 2010 and 2012. The example is Twitter--Twitter is nothing without the link.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

We spoke with Farhad Mohit , the CEO of Flipagram and a successful serial entrepreneur (having founded Bizrate, which later became Shozilla, and was sold to Scripps), to learn more about the story behind Flipagram and the vision behind its app. That was between 2010 and 2012. The example is Twitter--Twitter is nothing without the link.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. In that context, I offer you my latest collection of popular investor-to-entrepreneur terms and concepts. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Wednesday November 20 th , 2013 was a special day for the technology entrepreneurs at the University of Southern California. The USC Entrepreneur Club and the Kairos Society brought Howard Marks , a successful entrepreneur and founder and CEO of StartEngine , on campus to speak about his past experiences. The Time Is Now. “We

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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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MARCH 14, 2013

But through expressing points-of-view I can raise above the consciousness of my customers (entrepreneurs and limited partners who invest in VC funds) in ways that I couldn’t without breaking through the noise of the hundreds of others of VCs who also have money. Final example. I am a VC. I hand out money.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We''ll probably finish this year with a subscriber base which has increased about 7x to 8x from the end of 2012. An example of this is you might be a physician at Cedars, but also be a physician at UCLA and a physician at St John''s. What''s the biggest lesson you''ve learned, as an entrepreneur? more) READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. Example: if a VC is on their fourth $200 million fund that they just raised in 2009 then you might hear them talk about $800 million under management.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

That's when I started my first company, ScaleFunder, which we spun out of the UC California system in 2012. A great example of that, is Dollar Shave Club. Michael Greenberg: My original background was in theoretical physics, at UCLA. That's where I saw the problem we are solving at Retina. That's the one I've seen time and time again.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Foursquare is good example of a modern hyperlocal site, which describes itself as “50% friend-finder, 30% social city guide, 20% nightlife game.” Foursquare has raised more than $112 million in outside funding, on $2 million in revenue in 2012. entrepreneur funding hperlocal startup' Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

The very mention of the word fundraising can illicit some powerful emotions among entrepreneurs. On one end, entrepreneurs who have (at minimum) built something customers love and are willing to pay for, and the other hand, investors who are looking for the very companies who fit that profile. Where SeedInvest Sprouted.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

category E visa for investors as a prime example of the recent troubles. The Startup Act outlines a five-prong approach to job creation based on the proven track record of entrepreneurs: Reducing regulatory burdens. Take the U.S. Attracting business investment. Accelerating the commercialization of university research.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

As one of the young company’s first employees (founded in January 2012 with their first hotspot product launch in 2012) she provides a great inside look at the inspiration that drives the company’s work and shares her own insights on how/why she ended up at one of the wireless data industry’s fastest growing innovators.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

Just 20 years old and a recent Harvard University dropout, Olenka provided insight into her transition to Los Angeles, life as an entrepreneur, and how she’s passionate about helping non-English speakers see American movies in their own native language. So being an entrepreneur is a lot like being a student. You have deliverables.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

Mark Suster , fellow venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, has written extensively about YouTube’s evolution from dogs-on-skateboards to its current status as an entertainment medium rivaling cable television networks. The subscriber numbers and their relative ranking are as of mid-May 2012. He is not alone. Top YouTubers.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2012

Neiro is the first example of that mission with much much, more to come,” explains a delighted Groesche. I mean, Miselu is as new and bold as it gets; in the new world of content creation freedom, in a industry that is rapidly changing to a world of new young talents, and first to the scene. Yes, that is bold.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

In fact, one of the companies that Blodget covered as an analyst, GoTo.com, was a Kline Hawkes’ investment and was sited by Spitzer as an example of the fraudulent collusion that existed between Merrill’s research analysts and its investment banking division. Online, he said, he neither makes recommendations nor offers financial advice.”

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2012, half of all the M&A transactions were cross border, for the first time. E-commerce is a great example. SingTel was an investor in GradientX, and we are seeing very good interest from Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and even India. They''re much more aggressive buying companies for the first time. Now we have it.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

In fact, one of the companies that Blodget covered as an analyst, GoTo.com, was a Kline Hawkes’ investment and was sited by Spitzer as an example of the fraudulent collusion that existed between Merrill’s research analysts and its investment banking division. Online, he said, he neither makes recommendations nor offers financial advice.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Mayor Eric Garcetti at Upfront Summit, February 2017 I first sat down with then councilman Eric Garcetti on the Ides of March 2012 — almost 5 years ago exactly. Having more great investors is critical to more entrepreneurs staying in LA, which is critical to my long-term success!” But this post is about the broader context of LA.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I first got the idea on a cold night during the winter of 2012 in San Francisco when I walked passed a homeless woman sleeping on the street. For example, if the only thing keeping you from moving into stable housing is an overdue power bill, how do you find the funds to pay it? HandUp was an opportunity to combine both.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For example, Waze tapped into its community during Hurricane Sandy to help the White House and FEMA identify which gas stations had power. Desai enthusiastically states, “It’s a great time to be an investor and an entrepreneur.” ” He notes that 1.2 billion people on the planet have smartphones and tablets.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Obvious examples include SxSW in Austin or Big Omaha in, well, I’ll let you guess. As you have more exits in your startup community and more second-time entrepreneurs the growth of a local startup community becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Venture Capital. I was instantly intrigued.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. McKinsey estimates, for example, that the upper middle class in China will grow from 14 percent in 2012 to 54 percent by 2022. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

With a massive increase in companies created and a huge number of sources one trend that we witnessed from 2012–2015 was the rise of the undisciplined round. But there are two major trends worth understanding that most VCs know by now and I suspect most entrepreneurs do not. Now seed funding is conventional wisdom. I Leaderless Rounds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

In 2012, Gartner formalized their Big Data definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. entrepreneur startup Big Data opportunity business' Let me hear from you.

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