socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. Tell us about this new program? It's a comprehensive bucket.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Silicon Valley (and Alley) has been super excited about the new category of “group text messaging&# and for valid reasons.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

Many firms do it in a way that can be more detrimental to entrepreneurs. If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. I’ve done 4 seed investments in the past year and they are 100% referenceable. million is “follow on&# seed investment.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Founders and investors circling the space suspect a wave of Silicon Valley interest is coming, however, and that it will alter the category entirely. In fact, new funds have launched there with expertise in the category.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. For entrepreneurs there’s too much money sloshing around. Have a shorter to-do list with more things that are in the “done” category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2014

Dominate the category (even if you have to create a new one). Technology businesses can be very scalable because you can develop a core set of assets, such as software systems, and then you can monetize them at low additional cost. brand business entrepreneur personality startup' Figure out how to grow and scale the business.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

All of them offer the same kind of coupon information for a store or category, but many of those sites that show up have very poor results. Sameer has several years of experience in product, and Chris is an outstanding developer, engineer, and architect. We have complementary skill sets. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! I do what I wish all entrepreneurs would do. I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. It’s an entrepreneur with whom I’ve been wanting to work for 6 years. It was a young, first-time entrepreneur who wanted to meet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2013

Dominate the category (even if you have to create a new one). Technology businesses can be very scalable because you can develop a core set of assets, such as software systems, and then you can monetize them at low additional cost. customer entrepreneur startup yourself brand business' Enchant your customers. Marty Zwilling.

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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. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. Innovative. Disruptive.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2010

ThisNext.com has been a social shooping site, really for anyone and everyone, and for every product category. What was it that drove you to focus on developing your own content? Those, ultimately, still drive the creation of content across the category. Tags: entrepreneur startup social shopping thisnext edelman matt.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I would mostly lump me in that category. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? The quote from Bryce is: “When an entrepreneur steps to the whiteboard the energy in the room totally changes. That notes only told part of the story.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: How did you get started in the entrepreneur world? Kyle: What’s been your favorite part about developing the company ShopperSeeks? Kyle: What’s been the most after sought category of items?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is the fourth article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? the link is here.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. It's in the automated translation category of the industry. It also supports blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances.

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Tips Startup Services Outsource Development 92

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

category E visa for investors as a prime example of the recent troubles. The Startup Act outlines a five-prong approach to job creation based on the proven track record of entrepreneurs: Reducing regulatory burdens. According to the official press release on Senator Moran’s blog. Take the U.S. Attracting business investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

Pretty much anything that goes into a business plan falls into one of these four categories: Opportunity : Every successful business exploits an opportunity. A lot of first-time entrepreneurs think that a brilliant solution is the most important ingredient in building a successful business, but it's only one of many important elements.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

If you develop something novel that catches a spark you’ll have the world gunning for you over night. I wrote an entire blog post about this in the past highlighting my belief that you should hire people who “punch above their weight class.” It means a welter weight who wants to fight in the heavy-weight category. He is hungry.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

However, the ubiquity of the iPod including use by many folks who certainly would fall in the Time Rich category (lots of time to play with music) suggests that their product and marketing appeals to both segments. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Along with this, tech experts have also developed other social apps for both Android and iPhone users, focusing on photos and icons. The founders share in their very first blog post in Snapchat that it “creates a space to be funny, honest, or whatever else you might feel like at the moment you take and share a Snap.”. to the Yo App.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

This section of your Venture Value Scorecard should summarize the important advances you have made recently in research and product development. Customers: A company’s only sustainable source of cash is sales, so you need to keep track of your business development efforts. Detail isn’t important; tracking your progress is.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? Always developing. I wish I were good in the email category. Not everybody is geared up to be an entrepreneur – Tim Ferriss is obviously a very talented individual. So in that context let me use it. A rolling stone gathers no moss.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

No folders, submenus, or “category-container-box-lists” Write your reminder with a string of hashtags: #todo #pickup autobiography of arnold schwarzenegger from #amazon. As Alex points out in this blog post there’s a ton of options out there in a severely fragmented industry. ” 81,000 USERS & COUNTING.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 Loading… Real Estate.

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. So why do inexperienced (as entrepreneurs), ultra-skilled CTOs fall into the trap of engaging a business partner too early? Lack of confidence?

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Paid Search – Customers which click on sponsored ads associated with search keywords fall into this category. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com.

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Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► October (1) New Video! .

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

There seem to be a lot of market entrants in every category where it becomes hard to differentiate them all from each other. FourSquare isn’t a “me, too&# location-based recommendation service – it led in the category with check-ins and badges. Bryce is a bit like the entrepreneurs I search for. I love that.

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Technical Review Marketing IP Outsource Development 302

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. OTHER DEALS.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

Doing nothing between board meetings to me is like running the “ waterfall software development process. &# We all know that modern software companies run on the “ agile &# development process by having short release cycles and frequent communications. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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