Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2021

Every entrepreneur’s first priority should be the alignment of interests across the range of constituents required for success – partners, investors, customers, vendors, and employees. If you have had to pivot from the consumer market to enterprise customers, that requires new pricing models and new sales channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Schwartzfarb is currently Managing Director of Techstars Austin, but spent a significant time in the Los Angeles technology community working with Jake Winebaum at Business.com. I was a sales person at HotJobs, but after we went public I helped open up an office in Los Angeles, and lived in Los Angeles for eight years.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

After five days in Austin for SXSW, I headed to Los Angeles, actually Hawthorne, for Tesla’s Model Y unveiling. The framework of the agreement is expected to include VW making an investment into Ford-backed autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is getting ready for a widespread deployment of scooters.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. He had a few early customers ready to go. Have you done all you can on paper? Do you have wireframes?

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Inverted Software

JUNE 15, 2018

Confronting the developer did not solve the issue, so we started calling him back into the office to fix the build, which when you live in Los Angeles, is about a two hour drive. They learn and try new frameworks and technologies and often get excited about the possibilities of incorporating technology they deem cool into their code.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Let’s set up a framework. You are particularly vulnerable if: You have revenue concentration (few customers each providing a large total of percentage of your revenue). You have a large number of startup customers (because when markets crash they have a funny way of going bankrupt quickly or cutting burn precipitously).

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. He had a few early customers ready to go. Have you done all you can on paper? Do you have wireframes?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2013

Every entrepreneur’s first priority should be the alignment of interests across the range of constituents required for success – partners, investors, customers, vendors, and employees. If you have had to pivot from the consumer market to enterprise customers, that requires new pricing models and new sales channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2012

Every entrepreneur’s first priority should be the alignment of interests across the range of constituents required for success – partners, investors, customers, vendors, and employees. If you have had to pivot from the consumer market to enterprise customers, that requires new pricing models and new sales channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform. We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. Tell me about Connected Travel? That's the hard part.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. We pushed to find out how we could add value to the business/cafe/bar owners who we consider our customers and stakeholders.” “We’ve built an app framework. We started small, but wanted more innovation.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

In addition to DFJ and Data Collective, other investors include Playground Global, CME Ventures, Lux Capital, Allen & Co, AME Cloud Ventures, Fuel Capital, Omidyar Technology Ventures, SV Angel, and unnamed seed investors.). Nervana initially developed a software-based model of its technology, based on Nvidia graphics processors.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

We had a little success with Coffee Bar, Magic Mall, and Sony's Infinite Anarchy, and those games keep getting better and we kept learning about the framework, and added more talent to our team. Michael Witz: We've been a customer of Joyent for a number of years, and have developed really good relationships with those folks.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

Smith , the founder of Croquet (www.croquet.io), a new Los Angeles startup which actually has its roots at the very beginning of the modern computing era. I ended up going to Lockheed Martin as Chief Innovation Officer, doing AR and VR work, creating a virtual framework used for training by the defense department.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Brandon Hance , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles based GoodThreads , went through college as a student athlete playing football for USC while studying business. Audiolife was built on a framework to handle all the back-end work through store fronts allowing musicians to focus on what they do best. Online Awareness.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. We pushed to find out how we could add value to the business/cafe/bar owners who we consider our customers and stakeholders.” “We’ve built an app framework. We started small, but wanted more innovation.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2011

The company based out of the Los Angeles area is very heavily focus towards showing support towards women. We ran contests where selected winners won their own custom jingle write by Jes. She actually sat down and wrote custom songs for them, they were great. It allows us to provide a way for our customers to stand out.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. Happy customers tend to spend more, more often and tell their friends. This is where the Golden Circle comes in.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

And it’s almost universally true that the new band of angels & seed investors are product gurus. And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. Who are your key customers?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

On one end, entrepreneurs who have (at minimum) built something customers love and are willing to pay for, and the other hand, investors who are looking for the very companies who fit that profile. You’ve built a great business, your customers love you. And those who have gone through the process, know. Where SeedInvest Sprouted.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

We understand you already have some angel/venture backing for the startup? Instead, we talked to some really well known angel investors up her ein Seattle, in Southern California, and in the Bay Area--the regular cast of characters. Matt Ehrlichman: We closed a $6.25M seed round a year ago, and just announced we existed in June.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

It’s a very personal topic and I’d like to offer you a framework to decide for yourself, based on the following factors: How Long is it Taking to Raise Capital at Your Stage in the Market? ” and if anybody gives you a specific number I would be a bit skeptical because there is no universal answer. What is Your Risk Appetite?

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

That’s why Canecto developed a cutting-edge, AI framework designed to be a web analytics assistant and help provide owners relevant insights around their customer base and learn how visitors interact with their content. For retailers, this will mean selling more product, fewer returns and happier customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

Both companies were in Los Angeles. By not forcing the publisher to go through a Gaikai portal where they tried to control customers, they engendered trust from the publishers. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? Here in Los Angeles, it's the LA CTO Forum - a private, invite only group of 250+. Make sure you are continuously looking at the business and customers. Accounting?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. While I agree that there is a bright future for the talent that is uniquely in Los Angeles I think the future of TV & Film will be as different as the transition from radio to TV was. This is where the digital media puck is going.

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