Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

By Mahesh Raj Mohan Writing a business plan can be a difficult process. you still have to write the plan for a particular audience. A loan officer, angel investor, and venture capitalist are all looking for different things in a business plan. Your business plan’s writing style should take their preferences into account.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. The bad news is that Finding Developers is Tough Here in Los Angeles and even people willing to pay have a hard time finding Web Development in Los Angeles. Here are some ideas: In your company or other companies. Find out who is good.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Could we produce this at cost? Did they have the right skills?

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JUNE 13, 2011

Well, Los Angeles-based KarmaGoat (www.karmagoat.com) has figured out a way to help people get rid of those unwanted items they have--and provide those proceeds to charity. Where did the idea come from? When I was moving to Los Angeles from Paris, I was sorting through my stuff, and I made three bags of things.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company. iJustine) is an internet personality, actress, life-caster, vlogger, designer and most of all a popular YouTube content creator.

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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. The idea is pretty simple. In the real world, the idea that what you see is what I see is a central aspect of our experience. For today's interview, with talked with David A.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days. Today, the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) published its updated economic forecast for LA and the Southern California region.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

That's the idea behind Focus@Will (www.focusatwill.com), a new Los Angeles music startup headed by Will Henshall. Will Henshall: Focus@will is the first, ever music service which helps with focus and distraction, while writing, reading, and studying. Where'd the idea come from? Explain what Focus@will is all about?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The platform enhances the process of turning ideas into entrepreneurial ventures and growing startups through social collaboration. In terms of entrepreneurship, what has attracted me is social entrepreneurship: building and designing products that benefit society and have a positive impact in the world. Tell me about Miigle.

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MAY 6, 2012

Idea Mensch. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Beware of these and don’t let any of them steer you astray: Great ideas. Every startup has an abundance of ideas. If you change direction every time you or someone in your organization comes up with a better idea, you’ll never be successful. Great ideas don’t make you a success. That’s okay. But, so is focus.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Greenfield Robotics (greenfieldrobotics.com), is a startup, split between Los Angeles and Kanasas, which is working on robotic systems which make it possible for farmers to remove their reliance on chemical sprays. I had a pretty good idea on how to do that, but couldn't figure out how to deal with weeds without tilling or spraying chemicals.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company. iJustine) is an internet personality, actress, life-caster, vlogger, designer and most of all a popular YouTube content creator.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The Star-Match feature is designed to be a friendly connection builder. When we launched in January 2016, it ranked in one of the top 30 social networks and people simply liked the idea of discovering who shared your birthday nearby and the idea of celebrating with others,” said Hagger. The Star-Match. At 26, not so much.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

Gerard Casale: We''ve been agnostic to the kinds of deals we''ve been making over the last five or six years we''ve been angel investors. We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. A few years back, I started looking at angel investing. Why start an investment firm in Los Angeles?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. Talk to us about when you got the idea for BuildOnline and how that came to be – how you finally got out of the job.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

Jeff Zwelling is the co-founder of Convertro (www.convertro.com), a Los Angeles company focused on helping companies track how their marketing efforts are leading to sales conversions. Though the company moved well beyond those days, it's essentially the software I had designed, the same product. I grew up here. more) READ MORE>>.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I asked the panelists ( David Travers , Brian Norgard , Fouad ElNaggar , & Demian Sellfors ) about the specific challenges that we face down here in Los Angeles as opposed to Silicon Valley. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles. Simply put LA has a lack of GREAT product, UI/UX, and design talent.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

I also think there's an interesting opportunity in Los Angeles, as the tech scene continues to develop and mature. The key thing in figuring out how to design this kind of event and content, is you want to be able to provide really practical advice, and make sure you bring in people who tell it like it is. It's a great event.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Not just URLs that the developer created, but snippets of their source code that show how they write (comments, formatting, etc). ? Even if you can’t read the code, if it looks organized, and you see a mix of English words (comments) around code that looks like it has structure, then you can get an idea of how they organize things.

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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.). The co-founders integrated their specialized expertise in neuroscience, distributed computing, and networking .

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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. He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas. On the east coast, the response is typically all the reasons why your idea is not going to work. On the west coast, generally the response is how to improve on an idea.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. He is a unique human being with original thoughts & ideas and very limited concern for having to fit into other people’s narratives. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why. Develop your business plan. Funding process. It all has to be written down and maintained.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. The right question is “What is the minimum that I need?”

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Jan Zands is the founders of Los Angeles-based phonesheet.com (www.phonesheet.com), a startup which is developing web-based software for tracking phone messages and action items. Traditionally, they hand-write those messages and those message slips become clutter, become lost, and they stay in your office when you're not there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Boy wearing Oculus Rift via Wikipedia As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

A month ago, I participated in my first ever Startup Weekend event in Los Angeles, California in the co-working spaces at Coloft. I pitched an idea that was voted in the top 12 but couldn’t form a complete team. The following week, I joined AT&T Hackathon at iO/LA in Hollywood and again pitched the idea.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

The evening will consist of a series of live stage demonstrations guaranteed to impress and inspire new ideas among all in attendance. We write and create our own content for the game. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. Gold Sponsor. .

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. LA By The Numbers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. The right question is “What is the minimum that I need?”

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Los Angeles-based Super Hi-Fi (www.superhifi.com) has created what co-founder and CEO Zach Zalon says is an artificial intelligence driven service which brings a sense of personalization and connection to those services, to help them retain and attract customers. Everyone was excited about the idea, but no one signed up.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Was there anything in particular that really drove it home for you guys to implement the idea? Most of the marketing tools out there are designed to market products with visual and text advertising, which doesn’t work for marketing music. We really enjoyed what their company has been doing and hope you like what Joey has to say.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Gamzee (www.gamzee.com), a new game company founded by Howard Marks, the co-founder of Activision and Acclaim Games, announced a seed round of funding. It turns out that HTML5 was designed for the web, and there are plenty of tools designed around it which are really fancy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why. Develop your business plan. Funding process. It all has to be written down and maintained.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Los Angeles-based Super Hi-Fi (www.superhifi.com) has created what co-founder and CEO Zack Zalon says is an artificial intelligence driven service which brings a sense of personalization and connection to those services, to help them retain and attract customers. Everyone was excited about the idea, but no one signed up.

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