Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed. Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather. Saudi’s PIF + UAE’s Mubadala teamed up with Japan’s SoftBank to launch a new $100 billion fund.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

The company built its own point-of-sale system and commerce APIs in-house, allowing them to deliver a “seamless” customer experience, former Glossier CTO Bryan Mahoney said in 2018. Founded in 2014, Glossier is widely touted as one of the earliest breakout successes of the DTC model, and raised its Series E last July at a $1.8

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Here, we feature the contribution of John Greathouse , an investor with Rincon Venture Partners and Professor Of Practice at UC Santa Barbara, where he teaches courses on New Venture Creation and Entrepreneurial Sales. What are you looking forward to most in 2018? What was the big news for your company this year? READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened. Simply put?—?there

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Of course you’ve probably known of Meg as a business leader for many years, formerly as President and CEO of Hewlett Packard and the CEO of eBay before that, but since late 2018 she has been the CEO of Quibi (joining founder Jeffrey Katzenberg as the first employee). definitely a big and expensive promotional bet for a “startup”. “We

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2019

Those airport drone incursions shut down Gatwick over the course of three days, which caused major delays at Heathrow and Newark. How did the company start? Luke Fox: We started out a few years back, as a high-performance drone manufacturer. Our competitors tend to take the whole day to set up and prepare.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

You don’t have to be a new venture advisor like me to hear all the excuses for not starting your own business. They ignore the fact that Colonel Sanders was 62 when he franchised KFC, Steve Jobs started Apple in his garage, and Michael Dell and several others dropped out of school to build billion dollar businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

It’s great to start with a big dream as you contemplate a new business, but finding the money you need takes more than dreaming. For example, I just read an otherwise impressive business plan last week from a first-timer who asked for $10 million to get started. Get started first on your own time and money.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 13, 2018

cities, the latest illustration of its transformation from ridesharing startup to a company that wants to own, or at least be a part of, every way people move from Point A to Point B, whether it’s cars, bikes, scooters or even public transit. The company plans to nearly double that number by the end of 2018 — just a few weeks away.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Of course, in a world which spawns over a half million startups every month, these accomplishments are very rare, but they are happening like never before. Whether our business is a startup or a multi-national brand, through platforms like Amazon, giant players have no special advantage. Time is of the essence.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

We caught up with Steereo CEO Anne Kavanaugh earlier this week to hear more about the company and its plans. We're a multi-sided marketplace, start with the driver. We started to think about another way to be able to get into the market. Explain what Steereo is and how it works? So how far along are you on this now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Specifically, I often point to the NSF or the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for high-tech startups. Government grants start as small a few thousand dollars, but can provide a million dollars or more in capital to new ventures. In Phase II , amounts up to a million dollars over a two year period awarded.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

We caught up with Steereo CEO Anne Kavanagh earlier this week to hear more about the company and its plans. We're a multi-sided marketplace, start with the driver. We started to think about another way to be able to get into the market. Explain what Steereo is and how it works? However, the music industry doesn't work like that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Image via Pixabay Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Of course, with social media marketing, trial and error is not the only way to fail. See some recent examples in the The 10 Best Social Media Campaigns of 2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

I often wonder how many more startups would succeed if their founders could master the art and science of delegation. The reality is that starting a business is much more than building a solution, and requires a range of skills beyond the limits of most mere humans. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/05/2018.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?” In his words, [in some instances] “because lots of capital is available, the company takes on the capital and that ends up resulting in no constraints on decision making and so the company decides to do five things in stead of just one.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2018

Of course, initially these founder’s shares were worth essentially nothing, but it doesn’t take much of an imagination to grasp the possibilities. It’s great motivation for every entrepreneur to get that value up quickly. Where possible, pay out committed shares over time as they are earned, as opposed to all up front.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2018

A guiding principle for startup success, as well as the long-term health of a mature business, is a liberal dose of innovation at the beginning, with additions of the same on a regular basis. Executives should solicit new ideas from everyone at every level, both inside the organization and outside, top down and bottoms up.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. When we get involved in Seed investments we usually represent 60–80% in one of the first institutional rounds of capital, we almost always take board seats and then we serve these founders over the course of a decade or longer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

As a technology buff, I’m all too sensitive to the common investor complaint that technical people often end up selling yet another “solution looking for a problem,” because they are so impressed with their technology. Of course, you wouldn’t include this data in your customer product pitch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As a manager or executive, your pent-up emotion makes it tempting to open with an attack, which immediately puts everyone on the defensive. Instead, you should start with a summary of your goals and objectives for the role, and emphasize the need for a collaborative turnaround plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The market is changing so fast these days, and if you are not planning a solution today for tomorrow’s customers, you may be setting yourself up for failure and don’t even realize it. The alternative is to be into the mode of playing catch-up, which can cause you to make mistakes in execution, or even get there too late.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

As an advisor and mentor for many startups and small business founders, following my initial career in big business, I realize that the key strategies to achieve success in small businesses are often different from those that make larger businesses successful. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/29/2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2018

We all need people to support us, pick up our slack, and go to bat for us. In my experience as a startup investor, I’ve always been more impressed with founders who admit early that they need my guidance (as well as my money), rather than others whose ego or fears prevent them from ever admitting that might need some help.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 13, 2020

His unswerving conviction that “space must be affordable” led him to disrupt the old-school space launch industry with reusable Falcon 9 boosters, an achievement that has inspired hundreds of entrepreneurs and investors to take up the challenge of space. Air Force and, of course, SpaceX. . Applications open today; apply here. .

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 23, 2018

My wife quickly adopted Alexa as a member of the family, relying on her for recipes, jokes, telling the time, predicting the weather and, of course, playing music. America is smitten by smart audio / smart speakers (the terms are used interchangeably by industry analysts), making it the gift of the 2018 Holiday Season. What’s Next? –

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

Gender bias in medicine is systemic,” says Carine Carmy, the fast-talking CEO and co-founder of Origin , during a condensed chat about her startup mission to make physical therapy for women and mothers accessible and affordable across the US, both online and through a network of physical clinics.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Naturally, the next step in Bernstein’s evolution from blogger to businesswoman was a technology startup. ‘People say we’re crazy’ As venture capitalists wake up to the business opportunity, they’re seeding startups that help influencers go from hobbyists to professionals. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage).

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 8, 2017

With 2018 around the corner, this was a week to look ahead. And, of course, there are several healthcare implications for the Republican tax bill, the fate of which. At Xconomy, we zeroed in on several clinical trials that could become major stories in the life sciences. Other healthcare milestones are on the way, too.

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