Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2022

During my many years of mentoring professionals and entrepreneurs in business, I more often see people focusing on how to get their ideas heard , than how to promote themselves. Take full advantage of every mentoring and coaching opportunity, and network with peers both inside and outside the company.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Irvine-based Solarflare is bolstering its marketing expertise, the company said this week, and has hired Scott Woolsey as Director of Brand Development. Woolsey has most recently been at RealtyTrac, CJ Patrick Company, neoBrands, and Shafer Advertising. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

LaunchpadLA, which is among a number of startup accelerators which have emerged over the past few years and turned Los Angeles into one of the hottest startup markets in the nation, offers up $100,000 in an investment, free office space for four months, and access to mentors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

In my role as a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I find that most have the technical challenges well understood, but many are a bit short on some basic street smarts , or basic business realities. Although Elon Musk doesn’t talk about it very much, he owns over 350 patents through Tesla, just one of his many companies.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine provides $20,000 to $100,000 in funding to promising startups, and also offers up mentoring, office space, and help in getting those startups to the next stage. StartEngine , the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks, is launching its newest class of startups today in a private event in Santa Monica.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. The company's technology allows search marketers to automatically create more relevant search ads, which result in a better response rate than a standard generic ad. Tags: datapop venture capital search marketing advertising overture yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 10, 2018

It's a term to help people understand that we're here to help companies get ready to scale. Most of our mentors are people who have been successful entrepreneurs and investors, who have been there, and understand how to get a company to the next sage. Explain what Startup Boost is? How did Startup Boost start?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2021

When I started mentoring entrepreneurs and startups a few years ago, I anticipated that I would get mostly tough technical questions, but instead I more often hear things like “Where do I start?” Good business leadership begins with defining both the direction and the destination of your company. That’s where you start.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

A serial entrepreneur, Susan has a record of building value and community across several genre-defining companies. She was a member of the founding team at LinkExchange, pioneering the online banner advertising network. She’s also an advisor, mentor and investor in several startups.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level. Yet they turned-out each and every week of our six-week programs.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

As we go into Halloween this weekend, we want to thank all of our sponsors, advertisers, and members, who make it possible for us to exist. Without all of you, we wouldn't be able to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Advertisers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As a long-time business advisor and mentor to entrepreneurs, I’ve always been impressed with the few who seem to always come out ahead, no matter what the challenge. He learned to use a positive set of principles and his personality to overcome these disadvantages, and now is a self-made billionaire, leading over 400 companies.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? The program is basically to take entrepreneurs, pair them with a mentor who is also an entrepreneur themselves, either a CEO or a CTO. It's structured so that they get funding, office space, all of the Internet resources, tools they need from mentors.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. The idea immediately resonated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The traditional model for hiring permanent employees who can grow their career with your company just doesn’t work, and can jeopardize your business before it even gets traction. Many successful new companies have moved more to self-management, or decentralizing the decision-making with few managers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

We were also about to build a really solid mentor network in a short period of time, pulling in about 250 CEO's and CTOs, from all backgrounds and locations. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year? 7 years, 100 companies. It was a big year for us. That's huge.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 10, 2018

Connecting with your customer via social media, forums or advertising is the norm these days, but there’s nothing as strong as building a community around your brand. A company can have the best marketing message, tactile strategy, and more, for their product, but it’s important to gain a deeper understanding of the target market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service. In a larger public company, it’s all about making your quarterly numbers, versus investing in strategic growth alternatives that may not pay off until several quarters later.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Monahan will be in charge of managing Science’s social customer acquisition companies like EverySignal and Madrigold. Prior to joining Science, Monahan was co-founder and CEO AlphaBoost, a Facebook advertising reporting software builder. LA-based Science Inc.,

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Companies: Spotlight Companies. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. View Larger Map.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2017

It’s good for professionals, who get more control, and good for companies, who need more flexible staffing. She speaks from years of experience mentoring and facilitating independent contractors and helping large companies, since well before the term “gig economy” was even coined. Your intellectual capital has value – factor it.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

What you’ll also find is that of the 25 companies, our founders represent an inclusive group with 40 percent female, 52 percent minority and 12 percent veteran founders from 14 states and 5 countries. Advertisers upload their 30 second ads and each time a user watches the ad, they receive $.50. Targeted mobile advertising.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. The old media companies were resistant to change. Advertising is approaching $50 billion dollars online, whereas licensing is maybe $1 billion on a good day,” said Tanz.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

The ten companies in this year’s program represent a diverse cross-section of technologies, and are inspired by their visions for the applicability of these technologies in the media space. 2 3D-Printing Companies. Open Bionics is a robotics company creating affordable 3D-printed bionic hands for amputees, researchers and makers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2019

When I started mentoring entrepreneurs and startups a few years ago, I anticipated that I would get mostly tough technical questions, but instead I more often hear things like “Where do I start?” Good business leadership begins with defining both the direction and the destination of your company. That’s where you start.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

After graduating with a degree in advertising and design, I started a web development consultancy, where I oversaw user experience, brand design, and business strategy for internet-based startups across the country. We then weave in over 300 local professionals to mentor students and build professional networks.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

Sense360''s founder is Eli Portnoy , who took his last company, ThinkNear, from accelerator to funding in only fourteen months. Tell us about your new company? What did you learn from ThinkNear that you''re applying at this new company? However, you need a leader who is excited about a big company.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. I’m used to that refrain.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Get connected to the right mentors and your business may catapult to the next level. Don’t and you might make one catastrophic mistake that leaves you in the annals of Effed Companies. I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

Image via Pixabay As a mentor to many small business owners, I always caution them that you can never relax completely, just because your initial solution or product set appears to be getting traction, and the market buzz is positive. Suddenly you face new overhead, with hiring, office space, benefits, and new advertising campaigns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2012

When I started mentoring entrepreneurs and startups a few years ago, I anticipated that I would get mostly tough technical questions, but instead I more often hear things like “Where do I start?” Good business leadership begins with defining both the direction and the destination of your company. That’s where you start.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Location based advertising and marketing is something that’s been attempted but not yet perfected. For Media companies – this could be huge. Who are the founders, investors, mentors behind the Mimiboard? The holding company behind Mimiboard is Umuntu Media. With Mimiboard, its possible. www.umuntumedia.com ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2016

Provide coaching and mentoring as well as training. Customer-centric founders have found that interactive coaching and mentoring by experienced peers is more effective and positive in keeping everyone up to speed on trends, competition, customer demands and technology. Formal training for the team is just the beginning, not the end.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. She drove her company to profitability before paying herself a modest salary. She put all of her savings into her company. Once off the ground she could attract mentors from her industry.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. Is the idea to have multiple projects as part of the company? We have some great mentors now. Alex Benzer: I was a computer kid in high school, though I thought I'd go into advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising.

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