socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We also have live lab sessions, which we run through Google+ Hangouts, which mirror the school education experience. It's a hands-on kind of education. What is CreatorUp all about?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Instead of focusing on marketing as an activity… integrate it into (your) products.”. If you look at many of the companies we invest in, sure they have traditional marketing activities, but most of their growth and momentum comes from delighting their users. Write Your Own Playbook. Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Baghdasarian was co-founder of Monterey Networks, which was sold to Cisco Systems back in 1999, has been an active angel investor in Southern California. If you can imagine, you can have your entire educational life online. First of all, what is 15desks?

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 8, 2017

While the ChatbotsBuilder system launched just in October 2017, by the end of November the system already had over 250 bots built and active – among which “SantaBot,” a chatbot for Facebook Messenger that helps users choose the best gift for their loved ones, with a funny and heartwarming touch. Flow-e ( Sofia, Bulgaria ).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

It was good to see someone else who actively thinks about the world from the user’s perspective.” Attending his speaking events is not only educational and useful to your business but it has often been described as very comical and entertaining. “Great presentation. ” -Testimonial from an attendee at the L.A.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 15, 2012

The folks at Campus Explorer believe everyone deserves a fulfilling education, no matter the name or place. Their philosophy is that anyone shopping for college or continuing education can find the perfect fit, if they have access to the proper tools. You can also mail a letter … yes, in the mail.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. ” His argument is as follows. Rob does it.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. Eying sustainability gains for its supply chain, BMW backs Boston Metal’s CO2-free iron production tech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

After more than three decades as an educator -- in both the classroom and the corporate world -- I've found that the most impactful learning and development program integrates this theory from beginning to end with three main strategies. Make it learner-centric. Why should an employee take this training?

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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. That''s when we started looking at credit repair, online education, and others. We became friends, and found we were both very like minded, goal oriented, and had the same core values.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One of the firms which has been active in that area is Los Angeles-based CauseCast (www.causecast.com), run by Ryan Scott , who talked us about the company's relationship with the Huffington Post, its new efforts to provide its technology to companies interested in corporate social responsibility, and other initiatives.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

The TechCrunch team was judicious in its determination of qualifiers, insisting that the accelerators be, “fixed-term, cohort-based, with educational and mentorship components, culminating in a public pitch or demo day.” Savvy entrepreneurs - seek out programs which incorporate these post-graduation activities.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

Venture Hacks is educating entrepreneurs on the game theory of how to raise venture capital. 3) If you were writing your book Pitching Hacks today, how would your advice differ ? 6) Naval, why does the startup world need AngelList and Venture Hacks? . “As As of the last the 9 to 12-months, AngelList is actually my fulltime endeavor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

Every Chamber of Commerce, educational organization, and many business organizations are looking for people who are willing to share some special expertise, skills, or interests. Start a blog and write for industry forums and newsletters. Too many people don’t actively look for these, again waiting for someone to ask first.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. So some show notes if you’re a bit busy to watch the video.

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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 unique are you from them?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2018

When I joined Intel Capital, it was the largest and most active venture firm in the world. It gives them a formal education on the fundamentals of that world, and is also opening up and helping them to build a network through experiences at venture firms. I led a number of investments for that company.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. We picked up activity aggressively in 2009. It basically boils down to: educate, entertain, have a dialog, don’t be boring and don’t sit on large panels (doh!). So in the past we needed VC to really get a startup going.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

This move is indicative of the possibility that the traditional ways of going about making a living through a college education, an entry-level position at a firm, and steady promotion through the ranks is a dead model. The caveat is that these young entrepreneurs have to drop out of college to do it.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

Swartz knew that creating useful programs to better educate people would not suffice if there were laws preventing us to freely access information. Swartz’s activism was fueled by his belief that freedom of knowledge gives power to the people. Activism, Lawsuits and Depression. Knowledge is Power.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. We’re always hiring great people.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. I can write about anything--Internet video, for example, and I''ll have 50 Internet video plans. Tell us about the new fund?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

monthly actives), I thought I should come here to represent. With all these companies vying for attention & others just here to soak up the vibe I thought I’d write a much broader piece on how startups can make the most of their attendance at conferences & events. Write them in advance and request meetings.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. We were in the center of the activity and thus would soon race against everyone else, many with much deeper pockets. doing sports, and many other activities. We always focused on making the story bigger.”.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

The company also educates people about their rights on capture data when interacting with law enforcement. Their platform helps couples improve their communication and interactions through their “LoveTips,” and will help support planning and executing activities such as ordering flowers and writing love notes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. Tania & I each do activities that we don’t get enough time to do during the year like mountain biking, rock climbing, water skiing and sunset hikes with spectacular views. We hung out a lot together a dinners and educational events.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 27, 2011

My response was brief and straightforward, which is common of popular Quora answers (as discussed in How To Write An Effective Quora Answer ). Although my answer was off-the-cuff, the question caused me to consider the issue of raising entrepreneurial children in greater depth, which led me to write this series.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2010

Yossi Vardi: Israel has what a lot of countries have--good universities, well educated people, a high literacy rate, etc. What I have found, in consumer facing Internet and mobile applications, is it isn't much different from creating a good movie, a good TV show, or writing a good story, or even going to a good restaurant.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. Teach Like You’re the Student - Steve Blank , August 10, 2010 “I never have let my schooling interfere with my education.”. If you are an entrepreneur or active in the angel/seed sector, you should read it. What’s going to happen in the future?' Short-sighted, no? Mark Twain.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es They’re capturing information about the demographics of map tiles, levels of LBS activity, what certain zones are known for (i.e.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

The Internet and its information wave have changed everything – it’s the problem, with constant change, and it’s the solution, if you use it to navigate quickly and self-educate. When I do mentoring and writing about current experiences, I realize all the things I don’t know, and this gives me more incentive to learn more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The Internet and its information wave have changed everything – it’s the problem, with constant change, and it’s the solution, if you use it to navigate quickly and self-educate. When I do mentoring and writing about current experiences, I realize all the things I don’t know, and this gives me more incentive to learn more.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of. Cyrus Farudi – Co-founder of Capsule. MUST be on this list!!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. A program manager would traditionally be responsible for: Writing the detailed specification for how the software should work. Communicating with the developers who write code. Defensibility in Software.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

He is focused on delivering real business value by educating clients about the latest proven technologies, strategies that deliver improved profits and operational efficiencies, and using technology to improve life. Automating the Path to a Better User Experience - The Product Guy , July 5, 2010 I started writing about Quick-UX in 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It’s the story of what’s broken with the education system in the US. They are often raised by single moms, grandparents or under-educated immigrant parents who want the same thing for their children that we do for our own. Yesterday I went to see the film Waiting for Superman. Wasn’t that the American promise?

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