Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2017

Only those with maniacal focus on results and a willingness not to engage in every activity achieve extraordinary results. I think of activities as a funnel. The modern world is filled with constant distractions. As executives we’re all seemingly accessible at any moment to anybody via email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Text.

Activity

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

And while of course the founders & management deserve all the credit for Maker’s success and will no doubt get their accolades in the press, from an investor perspective, Dana & I were hugely active in the company for years behind the scenes in recruiting, PR, product strategy, M&A, etc. I’m already back to work.

Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

But you do need to find a way to do activities that are more scalable. These are important leveling-up activities but the CEO is often still up at 10pm f **g around with QuickBooks entries. Which other activities will get less attention than your negotiation over how the year-3 exit clause on your biz dev relationship will work?

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

And while over the past few years we have been laser-focused on cash returns, we are equally planting seeds for our next 10–15 years of returns by actively investing in today’s market. In fact, I am still active on two boards where I first invested in 2009. How do we plan to do it?

Startup

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 24, 2017

million monthly active users and climbed above its 100 millionth download. The flagship game from Los Angeles-based mobile game developer Jam City, Panda Pop, has reached over 9.3 The tentpole game for Myspace founder Chris DeWolfe's latest LA-based juggernaut of a company has certainly had its moment.

Los Angeles

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 24, 2017

million monthly active users and climbed above its 100 millionth download. The flagship game from Los Angeles-based mobile game developer Jam City, Panda Pop, has reached over 9.3 The tentpole game for Myspace founder Chris DeWolfe’s latest LA-based juggernaut of a company has certainly had its moment. Read More.

Los Angeles

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2018

California Lutheran University has been particularly active engaging with the startup and technology industry in Ventura County, and runs the Hub101 startup incubator and coworking space in Westlake Village, one of the most active locations for startup events and the local startup and tech community in the county. READ MORE>>.

Westlake Village

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

It is not uncommon for a board to learn about the CEOs fund-raising activities by having a friend forward a press article announcing a raise or the “leak” of a fund raising. If you think about your organization as a sports team or a symphony you realize that synchronization of activities is key.

Startup

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

According to the firm, it believes its pace of investments makes it one of the most active healthcare venture investors in the country. The fund--which is associated with Wavemaker--invests in early-stage healthcare service and product companies, both in Southern California as well as elsewhere.

Invest

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

Vehicle Provider Information Exchange: These partners are also working closely with NASA to provide information about their vehicles so NASA can prep them for possible flight activities that will occur during the 2022 Grand Challenge. Companies participating in the challenge include: Joby Aviation of Santa Cruz, California.

Santa Monica

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

They might spend actively on SEM (Google AdWords) if they can prove that the CAC (customer acquisition cost) is lower than the LTV (lifetime value) of a customer and the payback is < a given time period (say 1 year) or set number of purchases (1-3) until break-even. Take for example, an eCommerce company.

SEM

TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

A : Activation - What % have a "happy" initial experience? Startup Metrics with Dave McClure Dave McClure has a great presentation on Startup Metrics where he points to some additional metrics that are useful to consider: A : Acquisition - Where / what channels do users come from? R : Retention - Do they come back & re-visit over time?

Metrics

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Define more activities as unimportant. This classification of activities requires an overt effort, but pays back in productivity. Thinking in threes allows you to keep important activities on top of mind, and better manage your time, energy, and attention. Strive for imperfection on key activities. Move away from them.

Product

TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2018

There will be other chances to get the timing down, but for the first concert in Los Angeles, concertgoers were prompted to launch the SNKRS app and try and snag a pair of the limited edition shoes well before the activation actually went live. The team at Nike said the concert’s late start caused the miscue. ”

Los Angeles

Berkonomics

MAY 18, 2017

Penetrate the Fortune 500 with at least five active accounts within two years. Here are some example strategies from some of my companies over the recent years. Expand into at least three new continents through new distribution channels. Create a hosted “software as a service” or “on demand” addition to our product line by end of (next) year.

Organization

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I’ll still work with Kara managing the next few funds, but I’ve already been pushing for our firm to do more to diversify our activities and this will allow me to focus on some of that. He’s helped me run the Upfront holding company activities for all of these years and will continue to do so. Does This Mean You’re Retiring?

Venture Capital

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2017

[Email readers, continue here…] The format also calls for the CEO to examine his calendar over time and report classes of activities by percentage of total time spent, so that the group may add comments about use of CEO time to the critique. How much time do you devote to each type of activity?

Class

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Whats happening in regions in our counties with startup and entrepreneurial activity, especially in the Conejo Valley (Calabasas to Thousand Oaks) is exciting. Spaces like LACI, Vector90, Toolbox, Grid110, and Hub101 are vital to the economy and the communities. I am excited for the big moves being made in Los Angeles.

Startup

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Lots of firms are now talking about this pretty actively.”. Since Revolution launched in 2005, venture capital activity in underrepresented markets has grown significantly. We see more activity there from the traditional East Coast and West Coast firms.”. “People who were investors thought, ‘Why would you do this?

Venture Capital

TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Microsoft has been steadfast in their dedication to improving the performance of their.NET framework, and has been active in the Framework Benchmark community to further this goal. Numerous individuals and organizations leverage the insights from The TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks to enhance their framework’s performance.

Framework

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Actively solicit input from trusted members of your team. These outside activities may be sports, non-profits or family activities where you can change roles, rely on someone else for leadership, or simply relax and recharge. Actively improve your charismatic image. Don’t isolate yourself.

Activity

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2021

The company said it received the funding from the DARPA Scalable Wideband Autonomous RF Mapping MANET (SWARMM), which is aimed at intercepting arbitrary RF activity. Silvus said its technology provides "extremely fast" spectrum scanning in a form factor the size of an iPhone.

Outsource Development

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Sales of WholesaleWare, as the platform is called, Xu said, have seen more than 800% growth over the last year, now managing “several hundreds of millions of dollars of food wholesale activities” annually. Underpinning its tech is the sheer size of the operation: economies of scale in action.

Technical Review

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It is natural for executives and entrepreneurs with lots on their plate and little extra time – to just keep up the same activities that have made the company a success. Keep on doing what works and that grows the company (rinse and repeat) and actively work on the rest? Innovation should be a goal….

Activity

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Volunteer to help out with entrepreneur activities at your local university. All universities love and need to get help from people in the “real world” for coaching and judging activities in their Entrepreneurship and MBA programs. Attend an investment conference.

Entrepreneur

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

We've built an artficial intelligence platform, which tells you who is more active than others, based on their behavior. So it sounds like developers really need to try to be active on these public sites, for any visibility? Shane Bernstein: It's really hard to game this, you just have to be more active in a community.

Sites

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. Every team needs to understand how their activities relate to customer revenue. Key activities. It forces you to bridge the gap between idea and execution.

Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2021

Listening to customers requires your help in rewarding rather than penalizing that activity, and being the role model to follow. As an example, customer-centric may mean interacting on social media, or actively taking the customer's position in a dispute, rather than the company position. Find people who enjoy being problem solvers.

Coach

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2020

Actively seek and learn from the counsel of smart people. Make sure you actively interact with and show appreciation for people smarter than you, even if they don’t always agree with you. Don’t forget to maintain a healthy balance between business and personal demands, including family, sleep, and time off for enjoyable activities.

Startup

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

TechCrunch spoke to two customers who said the Mercedes-Benz’ connected car app was pulling in information from other accounts and not their own, allowing them to see other car owners’ names, recent activity, phone numbers, and more. It’s not uncommon for modern vehicles these days to come with an accompanying phone app.

Startup

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 22, 2019

Supporting all of this investment activity is the potential to carve out a huge chunk of the $270 billion consumers spent on meat in the U.S. Impossible Burger is another well-financed startup making burger alternatives, as is the current king of animal-free condiments, Just , which is looking at lab-grown meat on its product roadmap.

Pricing

Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2017

By smoothing the utility’s signal into a very sensitive AC current wave (sine wave), my sensitive equipment and energy star certified electronics are actively protected for the first time. I discovered that this is more than a battery backup. And I have 35-40 minutes of power in the same size case as my old backup.

Software Review

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 17, 2021

We also initiated a vulnerability assessment, including the review of server access logs to detect any unrecognized network activity or unusual authentication failures.” ” Trenkle declined to say when the cloud server became active, and why the allegedly legacy server had test results as recently as last month.

Software Review

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2020

Able to balance right-brain and left-brain activities. Great entrepreneurs seek out critical customers and industry experts, and actively listen, but are not afraid to trust their own judgment as well. Overall, the entrepreneur mentality is a state of mind that enjoys the activities and requirements of starting a business.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2020

According to the classic book, “ One Second Ahead ,” by noted authority on training the mind, Rasmus Hougaard, there are some basic rules that can really help you manage your focus and awareness in all work activities. The key to cultivating joy is to anticipate at least some activities you enjoy daily.

Email

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2020

” Earlier this year, the company partnered with DoorDash on a similar activation for a concert to raise money for the Boys and Girls Club as part of a broad celebrity effort to raise money to alleviate food insecurity for families affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. and the work with Dr.

Advertising

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

It is the excitement of activity that generates more and better output for most, not the isolation of silence. The change to a near silent environment is so startling that, many times, employees express a bit of resentment or even depression, masked by the common statement that “it is so much easier to get work done without the noise.”

Email