socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

That''s what Los Angeles-based FieldLevel (www.fieldlevel.com) has been working on, making it easier for coaches to network and exchange information on athletes. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Understand the basic tools – the social media trinity. Blogging (Wordpress), micro-blogging (Twitter), and social networks are the trinity. Key social networks are Facebook (500 million consumers) and LinkedIn (60 million professionals). Put your social network links on your stationery, business cards, and email.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

I agree with my friend Lon Safko, and his classic book “ The Social Media Bible ,” which asserts your team can be successful at social without the cost of an expensive expert or agency, by following these five basic steps: Start with the dominant players. Top social networks are Facebook (1.2 billion users).

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Social Media Media Startup Tips 108

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

The presentation is meant to give an unbiased overview of how to get involved in the tech community; what blogs to read, who to follow on Twitter, who the angel investors are, what areas in LA are home to the most startups and what resources there are to further educate yourself.

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Rustic Canyon Startup Los Angeles Class 74

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Recruiting, compensating, and engaging the board is a critical priority.

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Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Recruiting, compensating, and engaging the board is a critical priority.

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Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2010

In some recent surveys, as many as two-thirds of entrepreneurs felt that their entrepreneurial spirit was more ingrained than learned, so maybe the education level is irrelevant. Obviously, there are many successful entrepreneurs who aborted their education and become very successful anyway, like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

I like the ten steps he defines, which I can summarize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. But to scale the business, they need the complementary expertise, experience, connections, oversight, and new capital connections of a formal board of directors. Recruiting, compensating, and engaging the board is a critical priority.

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Sales Metrics Startup Entrepreneur 96

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Venture capital investments are returning to startups. billion in 780 deals in the third quarter of 2010, according to National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Startups are springing up all over to capitalize on these opportunities. Venture capitalists invested $4.8 Incentive to do something you love. Marty Zwilling.

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Pricing Blogging Venture Capital Entrepreneur 80

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

In emerging markets and the developing world, access to banking, capital, and financial resources is fare more difficult than here in the U.S., In addition, we use primary and secondary social networking information, in order to verify they are who they say they are. How did you end up starting Tala?

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Startup Santa Monica Customer Custom 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Tell us about your Series A round and your relationship with Sequoia Capital’s Roelof Botha.

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Thus is venture capital. Thus begins the venture capital dance.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2010

Marty: Which do you enjoy most - the entrepreneur role, author, or speaker/educator? You've got to have capital or know how to bootstrap it. Marty: How has the social networking world changed since you started your first book on the subject? That's mine. Lon: You know I enjoyed all of it! Build a business plan first.

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Entrepreneur Social Media Startup Patents 83

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." Innovation – and its sister topic, STEM education, is a topic that easily falls through the cracks. government.

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. 8:30 – 9:30pm – cocktail reception and networking. Dinesh Ravishanker , CEO & Co-Founder at CallFire. RSVP: AGENDA. 6:00 – 7:00pm – check-in. 7:00 – 7:10pm – introductory remarks.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, education, MBA. . The PepsiCo10 program in 2010 saw the company team up with Mashable and Highland Capital Partners to. Social Networks and Citizen Commerce: Reinventing Ecommerce. Ben Huh, Cheezburger Network. Bonin Bough, PepsiCo.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). Matthew Clough is a social entrepreneur and creative professional who has dedicated himself to helping children get the educations they deserve in Tanzania, Africa. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

But this coming generation is much more likely to be inspired by The Social Network and want to be entrepreneurs. In my post on what has changed the venture capital industry more than any other factor I talked about Amazon.com’s role. Perhaps it’s because everybody used to watch LA Law. And I talk about women.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup Blogging 341

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

This is only an educated hypothesis but I’ll bet it’s pretty close to grounded in reality: Everybody saw “The Social Network” and everybody has a belief that suing will net them millions whether they’re in the right or the wrong. Be formal with every employee contract – even with friends.

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Startup IP Writing Ideas 150

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. Teach Like You’re the Student - Steve Blank , August 10, 2010 “I never have let my schooling interfere with my education.”.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. That can only come through education, training and investment in regions of the country that are not IT centers. And Social. We did not. Fundings boomed. I’m long Mobile.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. Here’s why.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217