Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A popular myth these days is that successful entrepreneurs must attract investors to get their businesses going, when the reality has been that more than 80 percent of new businesses are started and grown with no outside investment at all. They forget that the product or service makes the brand, not the environment.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Orange County startup Beatshare --backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Harvard Business School Angels, and Archangels, among others�thinks it's figured out the formula to make music the message in its mobile app. Barry was a lead mentor there at Chapman University's Launch Labs, and we paired up. What is Beatshare?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. What is uCast?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2015

Every entrepreneur needs a value proposition statement for his or her startup that can hook potential investors and partners in less than a minute -- the short time you might join them in an elevator on the way to their offices. Build up for the punch line at the end. Always start with a hook to get the investor’s attention.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A cybersecurity report by Ponemon Institute, in association with Keeper Security, found that in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, 55 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber attack, while 50 percent encountered data breaches involving customer and employee information. A Good Cybersecurity Program Matters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2015

In summary, the transformation starts with placing leaders with a purpose at the core, hiring talent with a purpose at the frontier, and then building and extending the culture of purpose both inside and outside the organization. Companies can use this strategy to improve their profitability and competitive advantage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. Although the carriers made a lot of money initially by selling dial-up Internet services, customers never took their software because, well, it sucked. So the value on the Internet went “up the stack” to portals such as Yahoo!, Excite, MSN and eventually Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

These days, I’m hearing more and more that Location-Based Services (LBS) are transforming the smartphone Industry, but only for consumers. If your B2B contacts are frequenting other non-competitive local businesses, LBS data could point you to more lucrative business partnerships. See who checks into your competition.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Founded in 2013 by Dirk Ahlborn and Bibop Gresta, HTT started the global movement built around passionate people, companies, and institutions from around the world. TransPod was founded by Sebastien Gendron and Ryan Janzen in September 2015 as Toronto Hyperloop, which was one of the 120 that competed in Elon Musk’s pod design competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

When pitching to investors, entrepreneurs always seem to start with a customer pitch, then add a slide or two about the business. In every case, the relevant pitch needs to start by highlighting a real customer problem, then outlining a new solution, with all the features and disruptive technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

500 Startups officially announced their Batch 15. We were stoked when we partnered with 500 startup for REACH NeXT and now are over the moon that they selected one of our winners. Also, 500 startups officially open their applications for Batch 16 on AngelList. Learn to code by cloning real-life startups. Code4Startup.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

We caught up with co-founder Clark Landry to chat about his new startup, which he co-founded with Michael Ritter. We'd get together every two or three months to grab coffee or lunch, and talk about what we're up to. After I sold my last company, Shift, in May of 2015, I took some time off to look for the next thing to do.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. If people don’t know the mission there is no way to achieve the objective and you end up with a team pulling in 100 different directions – even if only by small amounts.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Hunt Transport which makes the ecosystem ripe for startups to thrive. In this interview with #StartupsEverywhere , I talk withMichael Iseman, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Junkie, about the mentorship pool, knowledge transfer, the latest happening in the ecosystem and the energy of this community within the region.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

One of the most popular and least successful models I see in new business plans for startups is the so-called Facebook model, providing free services to users while collecting revenue from ads to offset costs and grow the business. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/1/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

This starts with hiring the right people, and giving them the training and support they need on a regular basis. Apply the same high bar to product quality, employee satisfaction, social responsibilities and customer service. Make doing the right thing your competitive edge today, and the key to your long-term success.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2015

In the months and days leading up to its debut, Jet CEO and founder Marc Lore tried again and again to downplay the notion that his company would compete head-to-head with Amazon. Unfortunately for many stores, it found that Jet mostly lived up to the claim, at least compared to the online deals available that day at Amazon and Walmart.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2016

billion in 2015 alone. The way to get ahead of the competition is to look at what they’re doing right and do it better. Facebook has Anthology, a service that connects business with media partners to help them produce quality videos to promote their brands online. According to emarketer.com , Facebook earns 65.5 That was $15.5

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. Most importantly, it just doesn't feel right to us to hold positions in competitive companies.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

It was fitting this week that, in the lead-up to two of biomedicine’s biggest self-celebrations, we were served ample reminder of the industry’s expensive decisions gone wrong. The only remaining daptomycin patent will expire in June, clearing the way for generic competition years earlier than expected.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million in 2015. with demands for new products and services. Speak the customer’s language.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

This dual-leadership approach would have avoided the frustration I felt in a startup a few years ago where beta customers loved our software solution as a free prototype, but we couldn’t sell one in the first few months for a price that seemed reasonable for all our work and innovation. Confirm that your product or service solves the problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million by 2015. with demands for new products and services. Speak the customer’s language.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Too many entrepreneurs look for that one magic bullet -- an exciting new technology, perhaps, or their own determination to make the world a better place -- to override any shortcomings in their startup model. Such failures ignore the essential business elements investors look for before committing to a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. The middle and above-middle class population of China will grow from 172 million in 2010 to 314 million in 2015. with demands for new products and services. Speak the customer’s language.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The smart ones get some extra support early on critical decisions, and work a bit harder on issues that are common startup killers. The objective is not to delay payments, but to avoid the expense or capital payment altogether, by working in house, bartering for services or just doing without. Cushion your investment requirements.

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