socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2018

Since we're deeply focused on the innovation ecosystem and bank over 50% of venture capital-backed companies, I have the luxury of seeing trends across the startup ecosystem.

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Mobile Los Angeles Blogging Venture Capital 113

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. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. You could just outspend. It is to out friend.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

The best entrepreneurs in our industry focus on it year-round as opposed to just once every 18 months. Rather than overwhelm you with a super long Suster post I thought I’d break it up into a series of 13 (or so, might expand) posts. Below is the outline Upfront. Let me give you an example.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 236

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

Wish you could automatically hear and follow the latest tracks people are talking about on music blogs? That's the whole idea behind BEASTMODE.FM , the newest creation of Matthias Galica, the Los Angeles entrepreneur who runs StartupDigestLA and heads up QR code startup ShareSquare.

RSS 174

RSS Blogging Los Angeles Ideas 174

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. Even if you have heard some of the new terms, but can’t explain how, when, and why they are relevant to your startup, you may be in jeopardy.

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Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I often talk about what I’m looking for when I meet with an entrepreneur. Above all else I’m looking for a genuine passion for what the entrepreneur is doing. You can sense when it is a “mission” for this entrepreneur to succeed and she will continue the journey even if success isn’t easy or immediate.

Venture Capital 373

Venture Capital Startup Course Entrepreneur 373

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

Press 96

Press Entrepreneur Social Media Training 96

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

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. It’s important to stand up to competition and wear your reputation on your sleeve. Mix things up.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Sales 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2013

Starting a business is usually the result of a personal dream or need. Customers buy from people, not from a company, at least at the startup stages. This will kick-start your business, and improve your odds of success. Dominate the category (even if you have to create a new one). Marty Zwilling.

Startup 109

Startup Customer Custom Ideas 109

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

Your ability to keep up is dependent on having a great team of differing skills. We know that if you start with ho-hum founders you’re less likely to assemble a world-class team. 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.”

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Startup Class Blogging Company 399

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. Entrepreneurial lawyers like Don Lee , Dave Young or Ted Wang are good at sussing out which entrepreneurs are high potential. I asked for intro’s from entrepreneur friends. start-ups are overvalued.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2012

Starting a business is usually the result of a personal dream or need. Customers buy from people, not from a company, at least at the startup stages. This will kick-start your business, and improve your odds of success. Dominate the category (even if you have to create a new one).

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Startup Customer Custom 98

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Startup Invest Cloud Computing 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. Entrepreneurial lawyers like Don Lee , Dave Young or Ted Wang are good at sussing out which entrepreneurs are high potential. I asked for intro’s from entrepreneur friends. start-ups are overvalued.

Startup 361

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. was starting.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

The logic behind this, is that 80 percent of our bets are founder bets, and we believe we need to use every resource we can to help entrepreneurs be successful in hitting milestones. We have seen a lot of this, coming up in the thread of the the venture ecosystems. That's the framework we've build with Evolution.

Invest 113

Invest Framework Coach Startup 113

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. As with many startup activities, you only have one chance for a great first impression. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Metrics 101

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I concluded that it is an effective tool for leveling the playing field between sophisticated investors and emerging entrepreneurs. I have subsequently recommended the book to number of students as well as emerging entrepreneurs, all of whom expressed positive feedback. . Writing a book is very different from writing a blog.

Venture Capital 224

Venture Capital Writing Entrepreneur Blogging 224

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? But I never gave up. The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced. Well, we started out a free text messaging platform. OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about?

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Gogii Invest Blogging Startup 310

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2016

As an entrepreneur looking for professional investors, one of the quickest ways to lose credibility and get rejected is to start with a ridiculously high pre-money valuation. According to the Angel Capital Association (ACA) blog, the average startup valuation for new ventures receiving angel investments has been around $2.7

Startup 71

Startup Patents Invest Blogging 71

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2016

For the past few months I’ve been doing nearly daily “Snapstorms” or short videos with startup advice released on Snapchat. I remember the same disdain from people when I started blogging or using Twitter. A bit like a blog that is put out regularly but not overly edited or self-conscious about word choices or typos.

Snapchat 200

Snapchat Blogging Venture Capital Writing 200

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. If I check Twitter it’s usually because I’m waiting for a meeting to start and I never write posts during the day. By having 5 or 6 blog posts with different points of view they could draw more inferences.

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Email Blogging Venture Capital Writing 287

Tech.Co

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The two platforms are both huge in their respective markets: By connecting TikTok's audience with small businesses online everywhere, this team-up could offer a lifeline to business owners amid a rocky economy. Start With a Free $300. How the Partnership Works. But the first step is making sure that Shopify is your best option.

Help 150

Help Platform Startup Social Media 150

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. It’s important to stand up to competition and wear your reputation on your sleeve. Mix things up.

Startup 94

Startup Outsource Development Sales Social Media 94

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. on the entrepreneur side of the table) when I raised at too high of a price. This is wrong.

Venture Capital 282

Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Entrepreneurs and startups often ask if they should use social media for marketing, digital media, or traditional media. The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 103

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 103

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2019

However, the adjective “electric” was eventually dropped when all the devices in a product category utilized the technology. You’re not a SaaS entrepreneur, you’re a software entrepreneur. In the early 2000’s, my software startup was dubbed an Application Service Provider (ASP). ASP To SaaS To Software.

SaaS 113

SaaS Software Artificial Inteligence ASP 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?” In his words, [in some instances] “because lots of capital is available, the company takes on the capital and that ends up resulting in no constraints on decision making and so the company decides to do five things in stead of just one.”

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

Training 93

Training Media Entrepreneur Social Media 93

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic. But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? They can travel the world, take classes in interesting subjects, spend time with loved ones or start new hobbies. You’re on the DS (deferred startup) plan.

Startup 295

Startup Email Technical Review Course 295

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

Press 105

Press Social Media Startup Training 105

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. It’s important to stand up to competition and wear your reputation on your sleeve. Mix things up.

Tips 92

Tips Startup Services Outsource Development 92

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. The same kind of tasks that a startup team has. I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them.

Email 314

Email Product Startup Writing 314

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Now, even the earliest stage startup can rise to visibility or be forever lost by their first media spotlight, so it behooves us all to know the rules early. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. On the social media side, the stakes are just as great.

Media 55

Media Social Media Startup Training 55

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Naturally, the next step in Bernstein’s evolution from blogger to businesswoman was a technology startup. Karat, a startup building a bank for creators. With new followers — today her account, @weworewhat , has 2.2

Platform 170

Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business Starting a business is usually the result of a personal dream or need. Customers buy from people, not from a company, at least at early startup stages. This will kick-start your business, and improve your odds of success. Dominate the category (even if you have to create a new one).

Startup 98

Startup Tips Customer Custom 98

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

Is there an opportunity to rise above the crowd, and become a leading player in the industry for a startup? One local startup, Chippmunk (www.chippmunk.com), hopes so, and believes that focusing on user interface design will help it win over its competitors. Brian Nickerson: I started out at Yahoo, in their search group.

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Internet Brands Content Startup Sites 257