Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to spend time getting to know their future VCs early because getting a feel for your chemistry is far more important than how the VC is ranked in some survey. Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

In fact, for the past 27-years, he has specialized in bringing exotic travel destinations to those of us who are healthy and active but whose competitive sporting days are long behind us. If you could share one startup lesson with a young entrepreneur, what would it be? Then we started advertising and getting media attention.

Entrepreneur 187

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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?” Marketing and advertising are business realties. Planning should keep you focused on what’s important, and prepare you for what lies ahead.

Entrepreneur 138

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Young entrepreneurs and startups, in particular, often remain naively unfocused, despite their passion, of what it takes to provide the high-quality service expected. It’s a tough job, and inexperienced entrepreneurs just don’t know where to start, and how to do it. Yet the average perception of customer experience has not improved.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2016

Entrepreneurs create their own jobs, why shouldn’t they also create their own degrees? As described in Should Millennial Entrepreneurs Skip College? most young entrepreneurs benefit greatly from the college experience. This list is intended to cover non-obvious courses relevant to entrepreneurs. Communication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Yet as a business advisor I am convinced that making the jump from a startup to a the next unicorn takes a different mindset, and actions most entrepreneurs are reluctant to face. In my experience, less than half of founding entrepreneurs even aspire to stay and scale their company. Switch your focus from product development to sales.

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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?” Marketing and advertising are business realties. Planning should keep you focused on what’s important, and prepare you for what lies ahead.

Entrepreneur 110

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Ok, I know it’s an hour-long video, but if you have time in the evening, we had a series of great discussions once you get 6 minutes in or so past the upfront advertisements. Is it right to have in-stream advertising on Twitter? - He’s a must listen for any young entrepreneur. Lots of great discussions here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Young entrepreneurs and startups, in particular, often remain naively unfocused, despite their passion, of what it takes to provide the high-quality service expected. It’s a tough job, and inexperienced entrepreneurs just don’t know where to start, and how to do it. Yet the average perception of customer experience has not improved.

Startup 154

Startup Training Customer Custom 154

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My macro theme was “great entrepreneurs&# who mapped to my belief system about the kind of entrepreneurs I wanted to work with. While the media industry is driven by a combination of subscriptions and advertising – it’s clear that the latter plays a unique role in media. to 2x the average order value.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. On the one hand, an entrepreneur should not be overly paranoid and should know the ropes that VCs and other professional investors generally will not sign NDAs to see the concept or a prototype--and even if they did, it would not provide much protection.

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Advertising presence. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. Smart people only visit and buy from credible and memorable websites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

It helps to understand how online advertising really works. When I first took a look at it, I was overwhelmed by all the terminology and acronyms, so I spent some time sorting it out and simplifying it for aspiring entrepreneurs and the rest of us: A site owner gets paid when a visitor clicks on an ad.

Advertising 99

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2017

What's wrong with the online advertising industry? We were just launching one of our previous startups, VidRoll, working on video training and video advertising, we started seeing all of the problems that the video and general ad industry was facing. We spoke with Ken to learn more about the company. What is MetaX? Why Blockchain?

Startup 100

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year (good or bad)? Following that, I think mobile advertisement technologies.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2015

Ross Weber: ClickTripz is an advertising platform for travel advertisers. What''s different about your platform that more general advertising platforms? I decided--why stop fighting this, because this type of advertising just works, and figure out how to do it a little better in the past. What is ClickTripz?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2009

Hamet is now helping True Ventures look at investments in Southern California, and we thought it would be worthwhile to talk to him about the firm's new interest here, his role, plus his insights into where the advertising industry is now. It's more the stage and entrepreneur. Tell us what you're doing for True Ventures?

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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?” Marketing and advertising are business realties. Planning should keep you focused on what’s important, and prepare you for what lies ahead.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Activity Guide Patents 92

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year (good or bad)? Yesterday, we heard from Bruce Hallett of Miramar Venture Partners.

Southern California 178

Southern California High Tech Miramar News 178

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Last week I had two very contrasting presentations from entrepreneurs that gave me the idea for this post. Pitch 1: I had an awesome young entrepreneur come in this week to talk about his seed stage business. Pitch 2: This entrepreneur had a full house. A Tale of Two Pitches. It was a 1-on-1 meeting between the two of us.

Venture Capital 288

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. Here's the contribution by Matt Stodder of StartupBoost LA (our apologies to Matt for the late post, our fault, not his!). READ MORE>>.

Technical Review 157

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Is there a way you can make direct mail perform more like digital advertising channels? If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. What is a print cloud? Dave Fink: Neither Jonathan nor I came from a direct mail background.

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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. Especially after the Eagles took them down this past Sunday.

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Invest Venture Capital Startup News 340

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. 5:00 – 5:55).

Capital 265

Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

I recently got a phone call from an entrepreneur whom I respect and who runs a company that I hope will do great things one day. He had pitched me in the past and I told him that for a variety of reasons his company was too early stage for me but that I would happily keep track of their progress. That’s what you’ve got?

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Venture Capital Press News Startup 291

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. 2) Advertising in the Facebook ecosystem. What was the biggest lesson you learned over the past year (good or bad)?

Technical Review 160

Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider Rubicon Project (www.rubiconproject.com) recently had its IPO, making it one of the big success stories of Southern California''s technology startup world. It was all over, geographically, and we did not have a strong community of entrepreneurs. I think that has changed.

Startup 176

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

As an advisor to entrepreneurs, I find that I often have to remind them that the world of customers has changed since they started their last business. Most businesses use big data to analyze past transactions for volume and location, but they now need to look deeper. Use analytics to see why customers are buying, as well as what.

Customer 133

Customer Custom Social Media Startup 133

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As an active angel investor, I’m accustomed to hearing entrepreneurs pitch their expectation to quickly create a new dominant brand, based on their disruptive technology. In the past, such statements have been credibility red flags, since “everyone” knows that a dominant brand takes decades to establish and scale.

Marketing 57

Marketing Startup Entrepreneur Social Media 57

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Every new entrepreneur soon realizes he or she has some big ones, but very few figure out how to use these them to their advantage. I believe that the resourcefulness to turn constraints into competitive differentiators and new opportunities is a trait that separates the great entrepreneurs from the “wannabes.”

Startup 57

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Outsource 57

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

The firm's CEO and founder, Jeff Green , was a co-founder of AdECN, the Internet advertising exchange acquired in 2007 by Microsoft. Jeff Green: To fully understand what we're up to, you need to understand the evolution of online advertising. AdECN was a system that basically was trying to be the New York Stock Exchange of advertising.

Advertising 157

Advertising Startup Media Marketing 157

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Among one of the fastest growing industries--despite what has been a stagnant economy--is Internet advertising, which has continued to grow strongly over the past two years. Tim is the former head of Yahoo's Global Advertising Marketplaces unit, overseeing Display, Search and Video, and was VP of Search at Overture.

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OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

DTC entrepreneurs are more focused on immediate impact, because if they’re not selling product, there’s no large brand propping them up. And it’s easier than ever to start a company, but it’s tougher now to scale it and take it past the $2 million-$3 million run rate. It only happens when the margins get tight.

Commerce 211

Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Advertising presence. The presence of a few related advertisements can actually improve your site credibility, since most credible sites have them. entrepreneur startup website business' Join relevant business associations.

Search Engine Optimization 105

Search Engine Optimization Startup Advertising SEO 105

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. Some dismiss Twitter as a toy to tell people what you had for lunch and others deride them for advertising or for controlling their network.

GRP Partners 178

GRP Partners Southern California High Tech Venture Capital 178

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Although we're not going to be focused on revenues for a year, it's clear at this time that this kind of real estate is very valuable for advertisers. You'll see our sponsorships like those of Google--they'll be very clearly stated, and we won't be biased by advertisers. We've all done well from startups in the past.

Startup 210

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