socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We started March Capital in late 2013. We did our first close in the summer of 2014, and over the first nine months we raised our fund and started investing. That can be good or bad, because that means you end up having to explain everything twice to your investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Too many entrepreneurs I know still believe that that their great idea will carry the startup, and they may even minimize their own value, especially if they have introvert tendencies. Yet most investors agree that the “idea” is worth nothing alone, and it’s the entrepreneur execution that counts.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

Finding potential customers continues to be a huge challenge not only for established marketing and sales teams but also for startup executives and solo entrepreneurs. A study in 2013 showed that 61 percent of marketers found it hard to generate high-quality leads. Pricing: Valet – up to 1000 leads/month, $49.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. We're already seeing strong engineers and founders from Snap, Riot Games, Musically and others launch their new startups in LA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Startups are the corporations of the future, so I have long believed that entrepreneurs who study existing corporate models, rather than ignoring them with disdain, will likely profit from the exercise. These are all huge challenges, as well as huge opportunities, for entrepreneurs. Economic instability. Globalization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

I have added my own insights, based on my experience advising and working with entrepreneurs and startups: Pay for results, rather than pay for work. People who get paid by results have every incentive to think up smarter ways of getting work done. Another study predicts this number could grow to 24 million by 2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2014

With the recent apparent successes of several startups in taking their company public (initial public offering) and raising billions of dollars, I’m hearing a groundswell of enthusiasm from new entrepreneurs to follow in their footsteps to fund their companies and become billionaires overnight. It takes real money to find money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

I have added my own insights, based on my experience advising and working with entrepreneurs and startups: Pay for results, rather than pay for work. People who get paid by results have every incentive to think up smarter ways of getting work done. Freelancers now make up 36% of U.S. In the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. In a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 81% in 2013 and will reach 1.3

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

The good news is that both of these are looking up these days. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2013, the Q1 increase marks three consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Going solo works better on the East Coast. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

I have added my own insights, based on my experience advising and working with entrepreneurs and startups: Pay for results, rather than pay for work. People who get paid by results have every incentive to think up smarter ways of getting work done. Freelancers now make up 35% of U.S. In the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

If you enjoy travel, language & culture as much as I do then buy all of Bill Bryson’s books and gobble them up. We have a duty and an obligation to speak up. I love foreign-born entrepreneurs precisely because many of them don’t grow up with the sense of entitlement that comes from winning the birth lottery.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. billion each, $7.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

I have added my own insights, based on my experience advising and working with entrepreneurs and startups: Pay for results, rather than pay for work. People who get paid by results have every incentive to think up smarter ways of getting work done. Freelancers now make up 35% of U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Every entrepreneur believes in their heart that their startup is more innovative and creative than their competitors. A new study based on the latest research, “ The Myths of Creativity ,” by David Burkas tries to demystify the processes and forces that drive innovation. business creativity derail myths startup'

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Vic Belonogoff to learn more about Render Media, whose flagship site is Opposing Views. He was a co-founder of Applied Semantics, which started the AdSense technology, which they sold to Google in 2003. We started focused on small, niche health sites, and Oppoing Views fell into our lap.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

San Diego’s innovation clusters continued to grow in 2015, as local startups, funding deals, and job growth extended an economic growth spurt that began in 2013. The Connect Innovation Report found that 405 software, technology, and life sciences startups were created last year in San Diego County.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2013

Frustrated by tradtional recruitment agencies, Greg Schneider , came up with the idea for Hiringbounty.com. Hiring Bounty, based in South Africa is a startup that allows one to reccommend a friend for a job and earn bounty if the friend is hired. I studied a Business Science with Honours in Marketing at University of Cape Town.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2016

It’s a known fact that there are more men than women in tech, and those numbers aren’t getting better — in 2013, women held 26 percent of computing jobs in the United States, as opposed to 35 percent in 1990. The daughter of a Chinese immigrant, Wang grew up on the streets of Los Angeles selling slippers and lighters with her mom.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2016

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and a technologist, I’m happy to report that the tide may be turning, and we are experiencing a new era of opportunity for entrepreneurs, and a new appreciation of the power of the digital world. In his new book, “ Digital Context 2.0: Norton, Ph.D., Is your business ready to ride the wave?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2013

TechZulu is ramping up to do it all again with an all new group of companies and a SuperDemo. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of April 17th, 2013. The Entrepreneur Association is the largest student association at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. If you’d like to present, APPLY HERE.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Huddlewoo a live video platform set to launch early 2013 to give people the ability to access extraordinary people for one-on-one conversations and mentoring. We caught up with the CEO William Zell. Will Zell (CEO) is based in Columbus, OH, and is an Empact100 entrepreneur who was honored at The White House in 2011.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research founding director Tyler Jacks has spent decades making important contributions in cancer research, but until forming Cambridge, MA-based Dragonfly Therapeutics, he’d never spun a startup out of his own lab at MIT.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Today they say its Africa’s largest and fastest growing social networking utility with over 4,000 daily new sign-ups. TechZulu caught up with Chidi Nwaogu, co-founder and CEO brings you the energy behind the twin co founders. What inspired you to come up with LAGbook? What is LAGbook? Who are your mentors, role models?

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