Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

That’s according to a report being released today by Connect, the local nonprofit group focused on technology and entrepreneurship. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2014, the Q1 increase marks seven consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists. entrepreneur funding venture capital' The good news is that both of these are looking up these days. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

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 classic book, “ Digital Context 2.0: In his classic book, “ Digital Context 2.0: Norton, Ph.D.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side. 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. Both are required to stay competitive. In the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side. 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. Both are required to stay competitive. In the U.S.,

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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. In the first quarter of 2014, the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Smart entrepreneurs now avoid this option like the plague, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. With thousands of shareholders, dealing with critics is an onerous challenge.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Applications are being accepted starting today, through April 16, 2014 for early-stage companies with innovative consumer media and entertainment product ideas. Also joining the team will be Yohei Nakajima , former academy program director at CoLoft, a popular co-working space for tech entrepreneurs in Santa Monica, California.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 4, 2014

John Green (@johngreen) December 4, 2014. ” Cham is one of the softest spoken, hard-working and passionate entrepreneurs I know. I had a single discussion with him on the topic yet his school report that year was on the need to help gay people have the right to be married. Eric Garner’s last words. It has to stop.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

I knew eventually people would realize that the Kauffman Report and all the talk of VC returns were rear-view mirror analyses. We also promoted Jordan Hudson to principal in 2014 and have encouraged him to begin looking at deals. Just like with entrepreneurs – you know that raising money is just the start.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01 billion active mobile users monthly as of March 31, 2014, while Twitter has 255 million active users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

What most entrepreneurs fail to appreciate is that even the most basic marketing takes time, money and creativity, and even the best still may not succeed in winning over competitive approaches or the status quo. Every entrepreneur in stealth mode who insists on waiting for their product runs the risk of being a non-starter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

A November 2014 report by Kiplinger asserts that economic momentum is back on track. My take on all this is that entrepreneurs are seeing some light at the end of the tunnel, and the light is no longer a freight train heading straight at them. 2015 business optimism entrepreneur strategy' Marty Zwilling.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Longtime tech entrepreneur and angel investor Marco Thompson, who is closely associated with San Diego’s EvoNexus incubator, contributed a number of companies to the list. Tim Rueth, a UC San Diego entrepreneur in residence and member of the EvoNexus selection committee, also screened the list, and offered his perspective.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 25, 2014

2014 marked the 20th anniversary of Amazon''s founding. Serially successful entrepreneurs are typically indifferent as to the specific tactics they must employ to accomplish their fervently held strategic objectives. Know When To Throw Away The Rule Book.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Nanxi Liu: In 2010, an industry report came out that predicted that digital signage was going to be a $4 billion market in 2014. media social advertising open software display entrepreneur startup interview nanxi' Our fifth co-founder, Navdep, was a high school classmate with David. How big is this market? READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. DTC entrepreneurs are more focused on immediate impact, because if they’re not selling product, there’s no large brand propping them up.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Station F is the brainchild of Xavier Neil, a tech billionaire and serial entrepreneur, who invested millions in acquiring and refitting the building. In 2018, Station F plans to add 100 shared apartments for entrepreneurs and a sports center 10 minutes away from Campus. Factory Berlin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Entrepreneurs need to look more broadly into the business-to-business (B2B) space for more lucrative opportunities. Juniper Research forecasts that by 2014 the global opportunity for LBS will reach $13 billion, and Global Industry Analysts projects that by 2015 the global LBS market could be $21 billion. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

And for the entrepreneurs who have tuned in, he also gives some insights into best practices for those looking to raise cash, so you don’t want to miss out! Chance is a local grown entrepreneur with a 15 year track record. His dual experiences, both as an entrepreneur and investor yielded him double the frustrations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

I am happy to see reports that young companies are leading the way in these trends, on both the customer and the employee side. 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. Both are required to stay competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2016

That’s down from 69 in the first five months of 2015, and 115 over the same five-month period in 2014, according to Barrons. Yet I believe the trend will continue down as entrepreneurs become more aware of other considerations that make the IPO route less and less attractive. Your odds of hitting the lottery may be better.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

According to earlier studies from Forbes Insights , many entrepreneurs not only feel the lessons learned during the past few years have helped them survive, but the recession also exposed flaws in their business strategies that were previously not apparent, and they could fix. strategy entrepreneur startup optimism business'

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Brooks joined the division in 2014 after spending 23 years as an investment banker in Europe and the United States, but his strategic vision for the future of digital technology and computing is only now becoming manifest. “We We need to be on a path-finding mission to find tangential investments,” he told reporters.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

As you may have seen in a recent report, when that happens, it's death for those businesses. We were acquired in 2014 by Summit Partners, and I ended up in private equity, post-acquisition at Summit Partners. He saw that the cost of acquisition for many, many different businesses were going through the roof, week after week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2013

Eric provides many examples of potential and real application areas that are ripe for predictive analytics, but my view is that smart entrepreneurs can extrapolate these to hundreds more, just waiting to be tapped. Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

A report projecting a sector will achieve $70 billion in revenue by 2014 will make you look like an amateur. He has written or edited thousands of business plans and served as a business plan consultant for numerous entrepreneurs. Tags: entrepreneur startup business plan writer audience.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

It’s the nature of most entrepreneurs, honestly. Another thing entrepreneurs f**k up? It turns out that financial reporting (GAAP) doesn’t take into account the only thing that matters to startup survival – cashflow. It’s the norm more than you think. They can help you with pricing. HR & Legal.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 24, 2016

” So we launched schoolofbookkeeping.com in 2014 and it grew and achieved and became a brand name in the industry. That said, it was very challenging to get reports of the company’s cash flow or other financial information that was needed to build the fledgling startup. The man is honest to the core.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

adult now spends a reported 5 hours and 38 minutes on the web – advances have been made in the way individuals and small businesses operate in the digital world, which will grow even more this year. In 2014 digital time spent on mobile exceeded that of desktop. In fact, they will continue to increase, along with usage.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

The developer also provides rent-free space for a second EvoNexus incubator in University City (about a mile or so from UC San Diego) and a third EvoNexus incubator near UC Irvine that opened at the end of 2014. By one account, Turner used the word “vibrant” 14 times while answering reporters’ questions at the event.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2013

In a 2011 CDC report , nearly 67% of U.S drivers aged 18-64 reported talking on their cell phones while driving. Splunk Fastpitch – Auto tech Entrepreneur pitch hour. How Entrepreneurs Will Change the Automotive Industry. We use our phones to navigate, communicate, shop (yes, sometimes), all while on the go.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. More Mansion Videos.

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