InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

Hint: He was an entrepreneur. The same is true of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is so highly valued in the Western World that some people try to convince themselves that they are an entrepreneur, when in fact they would be better off at a Big Dumb Company (“BDC”). Entrepreneur Does Not Equal Inventor.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Writing Startup 153

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. The ride has been fun, but I need my money out to start the next big thing.”

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Funding Startup Ideas Equity 125

Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

On the other side, entrepreneurs and CEO’s usually have a natural fear of giving too much information to us investors after the initial investment is received. Shareholders may vote on other issues during the year by written consent, including acquisitions, stock issuance, changes to the articles of incorporation and bylaws, and more.

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Class Course Report Competition 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

As an entrepreneur, you always need to be on the lookout for ways to expand your current business, and always on the lookout for your next big thing. They know you and your brand, so this should minimize your customer acquisition cost for the new product. Tags: entrepreneur startup new opportunities business. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

For ThinkNear , it looks like the whole process paid off in less than two years, after the Los Angeles company went from the TechStars accelerator just last June, to a healthy acquisition by TeleNav earlier this month for $22.5M. Congrats on the acquisition! How did the acquisition come about?

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Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Ventura-based The Trade Desk , which operates an online advertising exchange, priced its IPO late Tuesday evening, saying that it will sell 4,666,677 shares of its Class A common stock at $18.00 Green is a serial entrepreneur, having sold his last firm, AdECN, to Microsoft. and $18.00 and $16.00 per share on August 31st.

Pricing 100

Pricing Ventura Incubator Class 100

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

WeGrow – Elementary School for Entrepreneurs. Flatiron School – The Acquisition. Thanks to the recent acquisition of the New York-based coding bootcamp Flatiron School , the coworking company is now able to offer world-leading coding education to employees and members alike.

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Education Acquisition Class Blogging 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. The ride has been fun, but I need my money out to start the next big thing.”

Startup 148

Startup Ideas Equity Invest 148

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2010

During the late 1800’s, American author Horatio Alger wrote 129 novels, most of which recount the deeds of impoverished young people who overcome their modest means to establish independent lives as self-sufficient, middle class citizens. Years after Alger created this new genre, it was derisively (and incorrectly) termed “rags to riches.”

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Santa Barbara Class Ideas Organization 191

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. What you don’t realize is these famous investors only deal with entrepreneurs who sold their last company for a $100M dollars or more.

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Product Summary Startup Examples 169

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. But, I found out in reality, it's really tough to find classes or lessons, for a variety of issues. You, as an entrepreneur, are expected to go though due diligence.

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Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Startups Made Simple.

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Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 133

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

He saw that the cost of acquisition for many, many different businesses were going through the roof, week after week. We saw that they were hitting the inflection point, where they were spending more than they were receiving from customer acquisition. That's where I saw the problem we are solving at Retina.

Dollar Shave Club 113

Dollar Shave Club Artificial Inteligence Customer Custom 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

In my view, the gig economy is a key driver to the current boom in entrepreneurship – every professional and consultant is actually a solo entrepreneur. One question I often hear from solo entrepreneurs, and she addresses directly, is “How do I set the right price for my services?” Know your competitive value.

Pricing 68

Pricing Entrepreneur Mentor News 68

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

I've been a serial entrepreneur for about 20-odd years, and I didn't want to sit at a big company. I decided to become a parallel entrepreneur, and started a whole series of companies in big data. Plus, we haven't had to many problems finding a team here, there's lots of world class people here. READ MORE>>.

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Incubator Startup CTO Hire Ideas 208

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Startups Made Simple.

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Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

5) When I interviewed people at my past startups, I rejected them if they asked me about our dental plan, as true entrepreneurs don’t care about such pedestrian benefits. We brought in 10 – 20 people in each class. We quintupled our sales per sales person and reduced our acquisition costs by 80% during that (boot camp) period.”.

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Summary Tips Sales Entrepreneur 246

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

“the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. In the ecommerce arena I see some great companies spending heavily on customer acquisition. __. faux·men·tum.

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Startup Marketing Customer Custom 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

We both wanted to build a practice that would make Los Angeles proud but where we would travel tirelessly to other locations to make investments in the best entrepreneurs wherever they were. We both wanted to continue to build a world-class staff at GRP from which to build future leaders in either tech startups or in our investment firm.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

Silicon Valley’s 9+, an accelerator founded by serial entrepreneur and company builder Peter Relan is investing $110,000 into game developers to quit developing games and shift to consumer, mobile, Big Data and wearable apps. 110,000 to quit developing games for wearable apps. 2 million raised. 2 million raised. Growth hackers.

Startup 79

Startup Develop Development Incubator 79

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. DTC entrepreneurs are more focused on immediate impact, because if they’re not selling product, there’s no large brand propping them up. If the entrepreneur has trouble answering this, it’s not going to work.

Commerce 211

Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This is class four for Launchpad LA. Atlas Powered has raised $700k from Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, LaunchpadLA, and Clark Landry. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

As entrepreneurs, you always need to be on the lookout for ways to expand your current business, and always on the lookout for your next big thing. They know you and your brand, so this should minimize your customer acquisition cost for the new product. Add services that are complementary to your product. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 98

Startup Customer Custom Entrepreneur 98

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Although we will do roughly one class a year, that''s 10 or so companies under the accelerator, seed stage model -- but we don''t really limit to three months in-and-out. A prototype is one, but it could also be customer acquisition testing they''ve done. What''s your one piece of advice for entrepreneurs? That''s the minimum.

Incubator 187

Incubator Southern California Startup Ideas 187

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. The ride has been fun, but I need my money out to start the next big thing.”

Startup 73

Startup Ideas Equity Invest 73

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. angel investor business entrepreneur startup stage VC'

Startup 93

Startup Funding Venture Capital Ideas 93

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech.Co

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Jennifer: I am a corporate attorney who has spent that past 13 years working with entrepreneurs, venture firms, private equity firms, and high-growth, privately held companies to make acquisitions, grow their businesses and complete successful exits. I am also an experienced entrepreneur who has founded two other companies.

Startup 70

Startup Platform CIO Entrepreneur 70

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. and negotiated the company’s successful acquisition by Logitech, Inc.,

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors. The ride has been fun, but I need my money out to start the next big thing.”

Startup 67

Startup Ideas Equity Invest 67

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Do you have any words of caution or advice for entrepreneurs who attempt to “Get Their Band Back Together”? “In At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. Anything requiring lead generation and/or customer acquisition I call Matt Coffin. Nowhere is social proof more prevalent than in angel investing.

Guide 293

Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Chance was recently featured on Fox News for comments on Facebook’s high profile acquisition of wearable VR company, Oculus, for an impressive $2B – and what that meant for early adopters who initially helped the company get off the ground by funding through Kickstarter. Crowdfunder Was Created With Entrepreneurs In Mind.

Invest 83

Invest Platform Entrepreneur Paramount 83

InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Six outstanding entrepreneurs have created this sweet flavor of success in one of the most beautiful places on earth – Santa Barbara, California. As Emmy Award winning comedian Bill Grundfest aptly points out in this video , entrepreneurs should seek the intersection of the things they enjoy doing and the tasks which will make them money.

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Santa Barbara Startup Sales Entrepreneur 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here ) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. That’s why we are extremely excited to announce Mike Jones as our SuperDemo!

Tsavo 76

Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Your team operates out of a barn on your idyllic, coastal property, yet you have created a world-class product. Do you have any advice for emerging entrepreneurs regarding how they can be frugal without compromising their company’s value prop? Bootstrapping requires that the entrepreneur go out and talk to their users or clients.

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Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96