Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2018

As an advisor to new business owners, and an occasional angel investor, I see new business proposals daily, many seeking investors to fund early research and development (R&D) of a new product idea. Funding new product research and development is just too risky, with a large time delay before any return is likely.

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Research Develop Development Funding 57

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. It is to out friend. Enjoyed this post? Disruptive. We get it! I Be specific.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

I ran a VC AMA (ask me anything) last Monday on Meerkat and had > 1,000 simultaneous people asking me questions. Some smart people whom I like & respect started to weigh in publicly. In fact, you can sign up right below for my newsletter if you haven’t – just click the link please! love Twitter. YnJM8aeru9.

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AMA Newsletter Startup Networking 150

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. Quality of Events Of course, the bigger issue with events is finding the ones where you will have a really good opportunity to network with interesting people.

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Southern California Los Angeles Technology Council Stirrers and Shakers 243

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

StatMuse is developing an artificial intelligence platform to help sports fans explore data using simple, natural language. Audio AMA’s (Ask Me Anything) Via Twitter. Pundit lets creators host audio Ask Me Anything (AMAs) with their Twitter network, transforming the talk radio experience for the social media age.

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Class Artificial Inteligence AMA Platform 40

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

It’s been a short, but action packed few months since we were introduced to The Immunity Project ‘s goal to “develop a free vaccine for HIV/AIDS” The organization’s aptly named Twitter handle is @hackHIV and they’re the second nonprofit organization ever to be backed by Bay Area Incubator, Y-Combinator (YC).

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Artificial Inteligence AMA Organization Research 110

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

I even developed a nomenclature where I would put “restaurant” or “movie” or “must read” in the title so I could search later. What a saver to be able to read articles vs. some stupid flight magazine and I gave up playing games on my phone years ago. I Trello all my important stuff. Time for bed.

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Product AMA Tool Santa Monica 150