Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2016

With the pace of change ever escalating, entrepreneurs today can’t afford to acquire talent through traditional hiring alone, and need to revise the perception that “talent” is only full-time employees. According to an Intuit study , that number is quickly rising and will approach 40 percent by 2020.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Unless you are a serial entrepreneur with a string of successes behind you, you need a business plan to convince investors that you can build a business out of the dream that has been driving your passion to change the world. An entrepreneur who can’t manage a plan, probably won’t be able to manage the new business.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. Dan believed that consumer internet entrepreneurs have a choice now: traditional VC vs. super seed investors.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Eighteen months ago, when MAKE IT IN LA's launch from Mayor's Garcetti's office was featured in a White House press release, we announced an audacious goal of reaching 1,000 entrepreneurs with our programming by the end of this year. We also started offering Factory Tour Workshops to entrepreneurs, with nearly 100 applying for the pilots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2018

Yet I believe the trend will continue flat as entrepreneurs become more aware of other considerations that make the IPO route less and less attractive. According to a dated but still relevant study by PricewaterhouseCoopers , companies average $3.7 These include the following: Taking a company public is an expensive process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2016

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. According to a dated but still relevant study by PricewaterhouseCoopers , companies average $3.7 These include the following: Taking a company public is an expensive process.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Ryan Disraeli: I was studying business with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. We were trying to acquire customers, and Darren and Stacy know I spent all of my time on customer acquisition, everything from cold calls and emails to sending things in the mail, going to conferences and walking around and trying to pitch people at their booth.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. If you want to succeed you need to study the competitors. Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

And if there is a term for that which helps entrepreneurs stay focused on these good and true objectives then I’m all for it. We go through case studies like how Mint.com & Magento drove large audiences through great content marketing strategies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

As an angel investor, I hear many entrepreneurs making negative comments about competitors or asserting they don’t have any competitors. Use real case studies and customer feedback. The best way to support your acquisition potential for $100 million -- or going public -- is to find a competitor who has shown it can be done.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I also know many people who never studied business as an undergrad who appreciated the knowledge that they gained as an MBA. If you had a non-business undergrad and want to study for a master’s in business – go for it! But there are plenty of partners and successful entrepreneurs who don’t have MBAs.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Even an extraordinary engineer or product lead who have built a breakthrough product aren’t guaranteed success unless they can get access to capital, get much needed press to drive low-cost customer acquisition and persuade fickle business leaders to join their company and help them shape their businesses beyond tech innovation.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels. Thus, include these unattributed customers in your overall calculation of customer acquisition costs. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition. Garth will speak about successes in partner development, using case studies from his experience at Klout. GroupPrice was recently named in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Brilliant Companies for 2011.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The annual study draws data from a variety of public and private sources, including the Kansas City, MO-based Kauffman Foundation, which ranked San Diego ninth on its startup activity index, based on measures of startup density and entrepreneurs in a particular region.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

entrepreneur Wil Schroter (I am an angel investor in Affordit). Studying for the SAT, LSAT, GMAT, TOEFL, MCAT and other standardized tests in the US is a massive market that has been dominated for years by Kaplan and Princeton Review. I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs. But TWTFelipe is an entrepreneur. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. The book is a layman’s guide to understanding how we as humans make decisions and is underpinned by data-oriented studies to prove his claims. Anything requiring lead generation and/or customer acquisition I call Matt Coffin.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

Online dating is all about acquisition, and maximizing the ROI for people coming in, and figuring out how that corresponds to their lifetime value. Me and my co-founder went through the Founder's Institute here, while we were still in our day jobs, and one of the markets we studied was the huge, out-of-home advertising market.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

However, it was an idea and concept which had been brewing for awhile, and besides, I had a personal interest in starting my own company and wanting to be an entrepreneur. It was the late 90's, and everything was exploding, there were lots of IPOs and acquisitions, and it was a very exciting time to work in that space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2014

Over time, we''d built a relationship with another entrepreneurs who we respect, who had built an online ordering company for the fast casual segment--think of the CPKs of the world, versus the burger kind of fast food. That funding was really raised to help us fund in part the acquisition and growth of the combined company as we scale.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Xconomy spoke with Jacks and CEO and longtime tech entrepreneur Bill Haney about the venture, a cancer immunotherapy startup that is relying on funding from family offices—among them the Disney family—rather than venture firms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

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. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

The craziest part is that studies have started to show that users who download an app for free are likely to spend more than $0.99 About Guest Writer Jonathan Kay: Jonathan Kay is the founder of Apptopia – a marketplace to broker the sale (acquisition) of mobile apps (think in terms of ownership, code, users, etc).

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2015

After studying at UC Santa Barbara''s entrepreneurial program , he returned to Spain, excited to start a venture and make a positive impact on his homeland. Fredi''s email is worth reading, as it reinforces how lucky American entrepreneurs truly are. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Fredi''s Plea.

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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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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

In terms of where we offer to our customers, we have 250 different areas, from early childhood to studying for an MCAT or the bar. In this industry, customer acquisition costs are super high. Customer acquisition costs can be as much as $200 an hour. We knew customer acquisition costs were a low lower than that value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

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. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

We have just lived through the greatest era of fake entrepreneurs. It was a second-wave dot-com boom that lasted five to six years, when money was so readily available ( many have referred to it as the Age of the Unicorns ) that it felt like anybody could get in on the “become-an-entrepreneur” game. It’s an acqui-hire. Build a company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

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. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors.

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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. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

One of the fastest growing startups in Southern California in recent years was Hautelook, which went from just an ideas to a huge, $270M acquisition by Nordstrom only X years later. Brett Markinson: The best place to start, is I'm a serial entrepreneur. Tell us a little bit about your background? I've been doing that for 25 years.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Studies show, if you don't, people will turn to piracy. I ended up taking a real job at Credit Suisse as an investment banker, where I spent time studying and finding hot new Internet companies that were in Silicon Valley at the time. We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube. Rich Raddon: There are two things.

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