Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2023

Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Find those arenas where your needs are met. Provide a unique point of view.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

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. Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification. Investors and strategic partners look for entrepreneurs who can execute.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2020

Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Find those arenas where your needs are met. Provide a unique point of view.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2018

My scarcest resource was time and it was important to put my time against the most productive activities. Also if you do need to compromise to accommodate somebody you think is acting inappropriately it’s very tempting to fold your cards but then swipe back by saying or writing things you’ll regret.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Ability 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. Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification. Investors and strategic partners look for entrepreneurs who can execute.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2013

Well, a down round is even more complicated than having no demand for your investment round. As has been pointed out by Dan Primack based on FLAG Capital data, there are fewer than 100 “real and active” tech VCs in the country. And what’s worse than being under-subscribed? A down round. That’s why.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

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. Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification. Investors and strategic partners look for entrepreneurs who can execute.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2010

As a startup entrepreneur you’ll have many demands for your time. “Thank you for writing to me – it’s nice to hear from you (or meet you) via email. Especially if you start to have a degree of success or build a high public profile. Everyone will want you to speak at conferences. I totally agree!

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. It looks like a lot of your execs have background at Active Network? As part of that, I built a ton of relationships at Active. That's what Active did for marathons, tennis tournaments, and Little Leagues.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

The new information, gleaned from recently unsealed court documents , provides new insight into the company’s past activities and what that might mean for its upcoming IPO. There is a lot of behind-the-scenes investment and partnership activity in the autonomous vehicle space these days. billion investment in 2018. On our radar.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

It would be interesting to hear about where your interests are nowdays, there was a rumor Redpoint had backed off activity here lately. We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

There are lots of resources available for the challenge of that activity, including the Internet and mentors like me. I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So the goal should be to have some formats that require talent who have become large in their own right and can demand rev shares of 70-90%. They understand that posting video is as much about activating your fan base to share socially as it is about marketing & promotion. It helps producers track fans and activate audiences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2015

Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Find those arenas where your needs are met. Provide a unique point of view.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

The impact can be seen in the skills gap — the San Francisco Bay Area has the largest skills gap among the locations covered by LinkedIn’s report, meaning that supply isn’t keeping up with demand. percent of the service’s local users actively searching for a new residence elsewhere. Source: LinkedIn. Keeping it Cali.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

A high-performance application will be able to service a large number of requests simultaneously, staying ahead of the incoming demand so that any short-term queuing of requests remains short-term. High throughput. Commonly, high-throughput and low-latency go hand-in-hand. Performing well across a spectrum of use-cases.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack. We became friends, and found we were both very like minded, goal oriented, and had the same core values. Those are one of a number of factors we look at today to build our business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Find those arenas where your needs are met. Provide a unique point of view.

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Social Media Ideas Media Writing 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

Successful entrepreneurs often start with a “random” idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a “system” to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Find those arenas where your needs are met. Provide a unique point of view.

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Social Media Ideas Media Writing 63

Tech.Co

MAY 24, 2017

My spouse’s work is demanding, but he is an extremely present dad, covers for me during work dinners, and still spends the time to talk to me about how to handle work matters. Whether it is yoga, a workout class or even just writing a journal, spend at least three to four hours on yourself a week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Billionaire Mark Cuban writes on his blog that it took an incredible amount of commitment and work to benefit from his luck. From my own experience, for your own calibration, here are some indications of what I believe truly committed means for a business professional and leader today: Actively proclaims leadership and responsibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Providing the major funding source for an early-stage startup is a totally different dimension, but it usually trumps all the items above in demanding some equity. For example, if your rich uncle is providing all the initial funding, but has no active business role, it might be smart to offer him a 20% slice of the pie.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

But the key is that if you want to sell your company you need to have active relationships with potential future buyers. If you’re working at a startup and the founding team is promising that they’ll “get around to creating an employee stock option plan&# soon – demand it now. Bad behavior but prevalent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

They write and tweet every day, with the single guiding credibility and personality that the new social culture demands. Mark is a serial entrepreneur who is now active in the venture capital community for early-stage startups. But with the speed of the Internet, these have become as old-fashioned as museum curators.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

It encompasses everything from crumbling roads and bridges to a lack of clean drinking water, failing sewage systems, inadequate recycling facilities, and increasing demands on power generation, transmission and distribution assets that the nation’s electricity grid is unable to meet.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. Enter P2P lending.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Since launching 2011 global membership has grown to be over 500k people actively collaborating and supporting each other to move film and television projects forward. The continued proliferation of media network and online distribution channels has increased demand for quality content. The stage is now global.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Providing the major funding source for an early-stage startup is a totally different dimension, but it usually trumps all the items above in demanding some equity. For example, if your rich uncle is providing all the initial funding, but has no active business role, it might be smart to offer him a 20% slice of the pie.

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Equity Startup CTO Hire CTO Coach 91

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him. In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. Measuring my daily activity. Next up for me is measuring my daily activities. Unfortunately it seems that it was back-ordered due to strong demand with rumors of it selling for astronomical prices on eBay. We’ll see.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I’m a pretty natural public speaker so I can write my presentation the day before and do just fine. I was the guy in high school who didn’t have to study early to do well on tests and that continued into college. It also applies to other parts of my life such as presentations. Some of it is important, no doubt.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. How does it work? How many users so far so far?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you’re raising a round where a new lead investor would invest $5 million the VC fund must have no less than $100 million and if you’re looking for them to write $15–20 million as the lead their fund realistically should be at least $400 million. Fund-raising is a year-round activity and never ends. Plan accordingly.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Our focus is providing anyone who is active online already with the ability to leverage their existing social networks for monetized one-on-one conversations. Many times I think that it would be awesome to have a conversation with them, but typically write off the idea because the process for access is too difficult.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

An inflated sense of financial well-being can result in sloppy budgeting and accounting as you write checks here and there without pause. As your services gain demand, your time becomes more valuable and you can charge more. Your mortgage and grocery bill depend on it. Moonlighting can pay the bills.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. But there’s no denying that we have more than our fair share of great startups in this space that have emerged recently including SnapChat, Tinder, Whisper and TextPlus (which while much smaller still has millions of monthly active users – Upfront is an investor).

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

Swartz’s activism was fueled by his belief that freedom of knowledge gives power to the people. Finally, Swartz founded Demand Progress , a group focused on advocating civil liberties and government reform. Activism, Lawsuits and Depression. Knowledge is Power.

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