Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2016

GOAT (“Greatest of All Time) is a sneakerhead marketplace that is en fuego, but we led the company’s last financing round in 2012 (yes, four years ago) when they were an application for letting people join group dinners. I was reluctant to write about GOAT because I don’t want to pretend that I deserve even 0.1%

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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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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' Their startups will get noticed.

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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. The company raised millions in the past few months and was the winner of Tech Crunch Disrupt 2012 New York.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The answer is a resounding yes today, and I’m convinced that it will be even more true tomorrow, as young idealistic entrepreneurs try to adapt to the long-standing business culture where success is only measured in the money you make for yourself and your business. Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 10/25/2012.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 6, 2012

“Competition for the future is about what you are doing today,” Vijay Govindarajan preaches passionately from the stage at the front of the Metro Toronto Convention center on June 5th, 2012 at the Art of Leadership Conference. In the boxes he writes: 1. Manage the present. Selectively forget the past. Create the future.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. According to a January 2012 Forbes article, nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. Entrepreneurs are misfits.

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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. Entrepreneurs should always err on the side of long-term gain.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

By early 2010, I found my stylistic voice and identified my audience of emerging entrepreneurs and thus dropped my penname. 2012 And Beyond. For instance, I was recently asked by Inc.com to write a weekly column. All the best in 2012 and beyond…. I published 21-Skype interviews during 2011. Do They Believe?

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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. I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? And so it goes again.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Tech Reporters: These individuals will write and edit informative and practical articles on a range of topics including Startups/Entrepreneurs, Gadgets, Mobile Tech, Tech in Entertainment, Gaming, Apps & Software, productivity, and cover breaking tech news. Think you may be interested? Take a look below and give us a shout.

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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. Today, as I write this, I’m working on several deals in the world of coffee and other food products. I''m a dad, an entrepreneur, coffee farmer, I attend TED, and my hidden passion is in the kitchen. Coffee Entrepreneuring Me'

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? I am a VC. I hand out money. How differentiated is that?

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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. Troy Miles , A designer and developer of software since 1979 writing games in assembly and C.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). And if I were an entrepreneur I’d rather find investors who understood “my space&# so that in tough times they felt comfortable about “doubling down.&#. Not everybody agreed.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs. I want to invest in the best entrepreneurs in the country – regardless of where they’re located.” I was a former entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. 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.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

It is meant to bring everyone together so that they can learn, network and leave with the sense that they now belong to a family of entrepreneurs, all trying to make LA a startup hub. About General Assembly: Back in October 2012, General Assembly arrived in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. You get in a line with executives on one side and EITs (entrepreneurs in training) on the other. So I committed to going back again and partnered with Brad Feld to bring a team of 75 entrepreneurs and VCs to do it with us.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 19, 2016

Next, came MIW II…but before we get to that part, let me explain why I’m writing this post. After the demise of Make It Work II in June of 2012, I reached out to see if I could lend some advice or insight from my 15 year run with two companies named Make It Work. I got paid a few bucks and I left.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

Thus, I was inspired when I heard about the impact collaboration-in-the-cloud innovator Central Desktop made at the April 2012 San Francisco ad:tech conference. Serial entrepreneur Seth Epstein is an incredible marketer. He noted that entrepreneurs should not, “… expect other people to get the subtlety and nuance of your vision.

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Tech.Co

MAY 24, 2017

For some reason, the 2012 Atlantic article, “ Why Women Still Can’t Have It All ,” has always fueled me. Whether it is yoga, a workout class or even just writing a journal, spend at least three to four hours on yourself a week. I wanted the career and the family. Read more inspiring stories from women founders at Tech.Co.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this series because if you better understand how VC firms work you can better target which firms make sense for you to speak with. 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.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2012

One thing I noticed from our previous interview is that Heather is one smart entrepreneur. For a first-time entrepreneur, she is not only getting it right and getting “base hits”, but she is slugging balls out of the park! Entrepreneur Nuggets. Have a crystal clear value proposition to your potential partners.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

There were only 22% women who invested in 2012. We also want to create more capital for women entrepreneurs to increase the chances of being funded and connected to a bigger network. Entrepreneurs are everywhere and capital isn’t. Also, the skill sets and expertise they can learn and experience as an entrepreneur.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2012

You have security wherever you go because you have become big entrepreneurs and are giving talks all over to up and coming entrepreneurs and app developers. Our team was founded in May 2012 and we released our app on October 8 th , Chicago, IL. You get awesome media coverage and have become celebrities overnight. Competition?

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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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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

I actually come from a long line of entrepreneurs. Now my company is 28-employees, we closed a round of three million dollars in May (2012). Five Tips For Emerging Entrepreneurs. Also, when you become super, super successful and you want to write your book, it''s helpful!". A Foundation Of Honorable Service.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. This figure is predicted to reach 3.8 PHONE CALLS.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. Steve Jillings: We have really big stuff coming in 2012. One of the big things about Telesign, and if you go back to the founders, and the things they did well before I got here, is they spent lots of time and effort around writing patents and protecting their IP.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. Ernst & Young – World Entrepreneur Awards – FINALIST (Annex.13).

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Alex is a proven web entrepreneur, having led and sold multiple successful startups. He spends a great deal of time and energy shaping customer and industry direction with regular conference keynote appearances, discussions with customers, and even the occasional foray into writing code. Alex Kazerani. Chairman & CEO at Edgecast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2013

Only one sold for 7 figures in 2012 (investing.com sold for $2.5 Get the agreement in writing as quickly as possible. Gone are the days when people like Frank Schilling and Kevin Ham built $300 million empires by speculating on premium domain names, since the possibilities are now endless.

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