Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

There are about 80 million of them, and nearly two-thirds of them are already in the work place as entrepreneurs or with jobs. According to a recent Gallup® poll , fewer Americans aged 18 to 29 worked full time for an employer in June 2013 (43.6%) than did so in June 2012 (47.0%). Don’t let the lack of experience bring you down.

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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.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

OCTANe , the Orange County-based organization helping to bolster the high tech industry and entrepreneurs, reported this morning that in the first half of 2012, companies participating in its startup accelerator have raised a total of $26.8M in funding.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The Most Important Panel You’ll Ever Attend event will be starring an all-star panel of top entrepreneurs from all sorts of industry offering their success to bring on their first 100 paying customers and 1,000 core fans. I wanted seasoned entrepreneurs who don’t hold back sharing legit information that equally have a good heart.

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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. Evernote is the most incredible notetaking tool keeping me organized while catering to my ADD personality and click addiction web research.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

I miss blogging because it serves as a great repository for me of my current thinking, as a way of organizing my thoughts and clarifying what I think and as a conversation started with so many of you (as Hunter Walk elegantly said, “Blog not to show how smart you are, but in the hope of soliciting feedback from smart people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. So what’s an entrepreneur to do to get his new business noticed these days? Michael Hyatt entrepreneur startup platform business' Make your customers your platform.

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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. Organic Academia. The company was acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company during August of 2012, for approximately $65 million. Don''t go to Wharton or Harvard.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 24, 2013

The winter edition of C-Suite Quarterly profiles and interviews dozens of Los Angeles' most prominent innovators and revolutionary entrepreneurs. He has invited his network of venture capitalists, successful entrepreneurs, and C-level executives from the region's most significant tech-based organizations. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 30, 2012

Thursday, April 5, 2012 -- Getting What You Need from Boards of Directors and Advisors. To stay competitive in today's marketplace, organizations frequently seek outside expertise to provide credibility, contacts, counseling and cash.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

By early 2010, I found my stylistic voice and identified my audience of emerging entrepreneurs and thus dropped my penname. Google likes these entries, as evidenced by the significant organic traffic it consistently drives to them. Organic traffic. Organic traffic. 2012 And Beyond. All the best in 2012 and beyond….

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Saturday, February 11, 2012 -- Creating Successful Companies Through Incubation. Caltech/MIT In todays economic environment early stage companies need to optimize their resources, and can benefit from assistance in building their organizations into growing and successful businesses. See [link] (more)

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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

MARCH 4, 2012

Saturday, March 10, 2012 -- Social Entrepreneurship: Venturing from the Bottom Up. Entrepreneurs identify problems and find ways to solve them. In a typical business, the idea is to do that and make some money. What happens, though, when the problems are big and have social aspects that dont have an obvious revenue source?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 -- Want to Start A Business? Aspiring entrepreneurs: Get Motivated! Attendees will be able to take away tremendous insight on building a startup, any hardships they may expect, and insight into the best resources/organizations they should look into to help launch their start up to the next step.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2013

The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. To prepare yourself, make sure you have enough runway, be prepared to make drastic cuts, and have a Plan B for organic growth. The Internet sector is tops for seed deals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. despite having been passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability, waiting for the rules to be finalized by the SEC.

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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. They also tend to stay longer with the organization, reducing costs. Employees with a purpose actually are easier to recruit and retain.

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MARCH 28, 2014

I do think the key in bootstrapping is that it helps you organically, in that you make decisions you wouldn''t have made otherwise, out of need. We organically invested in Bangalore and India, and that''s the reason we are profitable. We don''t have anyone else paying our bills, and it''s an organic process. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined.

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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. What I mean by that, is often times you have an employee, a clinician or caregiver, who is a member of different enterprises and organizations. We had originally conceived of this as one app for one organization.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2013

Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and VC, Karl Mehta has launched Code For India (CFI) to empower the country’s citizens to actively participate in improving their communities. Organizations such as TiE Silicon Valley, TiE Mumbai, TiE New Delhi and The Morpheus Fund and several others are among the first to support CFI.

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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. Curiosity is a common trait among serial entrepreneurs. Honesty is a core competency of most successful entrepreneurs.

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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. So, that didn't scale well.

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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. So, that didn't scale well.

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AUGUST 12, 2014

Our sister company, Turner, began Media Camp San Francisco in 2012. You''re a very big organization, where does this effort fit in and what piece of the studio are those startups touching? How long have you been doing this? Debra Baker: We started this program last year. What''s your big goal for the program?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. Dave Tisch was kind enough to organize sessions for me in NY (little did I know in advance they would be filming it for a reality TV show on Bloomberg where I was cast as Simon Cowell ). And Nicole Glaros organized a full day and evening for me in Boulder. Launchpad LA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2013

One of the quintessential end goals of this feature is to make life easier for busy entrepreneurs and investors in California by quickly connecting them to critical hubs like LA, Silicon Valley and Santa Barbara.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 9, 2013

For the first time in SXSW history, young group of entrepreneurs are being celebrated for their accomplishments and have been invited to be on a panel to discuss and share their insight on problem solving, social consciousness, and making the world a better place. “Kids are keenly perceptive, ambitiously creative, and fearlessly bold.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In a collaborative effort, Ria Consulting, LLC and Los Angeles Net Developers Group are hosting this event on November 10th, 2012 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. If so, then JS Saturday is the event you can’t miss! After attending this one day bootcamp you will be an advanced Javascript coder.

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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 17, 2012

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. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs. I was a former entrepreneur. Don’t you think?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. For entrepreneurs there’s too much money sloshing around. And it’s true that I still take a whole lot of first meetings with entrepreneurs.

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