Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone. Find technical and legal guidance and advisors.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

My experience with early valuations by founders for friends… I’ve arrived at a significant number of companies that were looking for additional growth capital after a “friends and family” round and had to “clean up” the cap table more than a few times over the years. Taking this kind of money has several pitfalls you should be aware of.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Last week, the University of Southern California 's Viterbi School of Engineering announced that it had established a new, business plan competition, the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition ([link] specifically aimed at students in the engineering school. Why a business plan competition, and why in engineering school?

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2019

According to the startup, it has created a legal intelligence decision engine, which it says gives litigators a "competitive edge" in legal services. The startup was created by CEO and co-founder Nicole Clark, which the company describes as a career litigator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone. Find technical and legal guidance and advisors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2022

Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life ,” offers eight key principles for defining and managing the experience to keep it consistent and profitable: Keep every employee on stage, delivering an experience. They have to out-behave and outperform your competition. Gregg Lederman, in his classic book, “ ENGAGED!:

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Having great company culture is no longer just an option. In fact, fantastic company culture is almost expected along with other traditional benefits. It has established what the company culture is, and fitting into that culture is the most important thing managers look for when hiring. What does that culture look like?

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Tech Coast Venture Network

AUGUST 11, 2015

Having great company culture is no longer just an option. In fact, fantastic company culture is almost expected along with other traditional benefits. It has established what the company culture is, and fitting into that culture is the most important thing managers look for when hiring. What does that culture look like?

Examples 100

Examples Company Companies Google 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Michelli, with inspiring stories on how one well-known company, Mercedes-Benz, made the transition and is profiting as a result. Your competition is global, so today’s customers are demanding world-class service. Ask key team members to step outside the company and record their experience as a customer looking in.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Is there a market for your class of product at all? Competitors have a field day when hearing about cash problems at a company; and the rumors they pass on can reverberate for months or longer after the problem is solved. Fourth is competitive risk. Here are five basic kinds of internal risks that a business faces over time.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

Every investor wants regular information from companies taking their money. And most of us investors are frustrated by the lack of regular communication – unless of course – the company needs more money. First, let’s cover the absolute minimum legal requirement a company must provide to its investors.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. These courses all proved to be serious influences on turning the dream of starting their own company into a reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over twice as many companies, according to a classic Crunchbase article. Now the model is to seed many good teams with a smaller amount, and find out which ones can execute.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Edison2 won the $5M mainstream class for the prize, the Li-ion entry received $2.5M for the alternative side-by-side class, and the X-Tracer Team won the $2.5M alternative tandem class. Tags: vehicle mileage clean aptera competition prize automotive foundation xprize. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Michelli, with inspiring stories on how one well-known company, Mercedes-Benz, made the transition and is profiting as a result. Your competition is global, so today’s customers are demanding world-class service. Ask key team members to step outside the company and record their experience as a customer looking in.

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Customer Custom Services Startup 168

Berkonomics

JULY 5, 2018

Most businesses fall into the class of those that can be sold someday to a willing buyer. Is your value proposition for an eventual buyer that you have some secret sauce that allows you to compete more effectively against competition? Is your business one that may be sold for profit someday? What creates value in a business? .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2023

I realized a while back that creating a new company for the first time is a lot like whipping up a great dinner entree for the first time – you need a recipe, even though it may look simple. You need a good cook, good marketing, and first-class service. Companies and cooks who rest on their laurels don’t last. Don’t stand still.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2021

Regularly assess and refine your competitive advantage. Your competitive advantage is the interplay of three different, ever-changing forces – your assets, aspirations and values, and the market realities of supply and demand. World-class professionals don’t try to take on the world alone. Build and use your network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Running a new company cannot always be a consensus-driven process, especially when hard decisions need to be made that affect everybody’s lives. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. The trusted leader. The industry veteran. The financial suit.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

For two years, it was a mentorship program, that worked with twenty three different companies, but did not have a fund, did not have an office, and didn't take any equity. Then, it turned out, all of those companies did really well. Our current class has performed incredibly well. We're really excited for the next steps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Most colleges have now added classes in entrepreneurship to include the necessary business focus to technical majors that usually drive innovative ideas. Universities have the links you need to patent attorneys, prototyping companies, investment groups, as well as a wealth of peer talent to round out your team and share the work.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

I’ve arrived at a significant number of companies that were looking for additional growth capital after a “friends and family” round, and had to “clean up” the cap table more than a few times over the years. Taking this kind of money has a number of pitfalls you should be aware of.

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Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

Frank Addante

APRIL 7, 2016

Great company culture isn’t just about ping pong tables, free lunches, bouncy ball chairs and free gummy bears. As CEO of Rubicon Project, a lot of people ask me what defines the culture of our company. Here’s my take on a few things effective company culture is about…and a few things it’s not about: 1.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 7, 2016

Great company culture isn’t just about ping pong tables, free lunches, bouncy ball chairs and free gummy bears. As CEO of Rubicon Project, a lot of people ask me what defines the culture of our company. Here’s my take on a few things effective company culture is about…and a few things it’s not about: 1.

Company 40

Company Companies Class Metrics 40

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Companies all around the world use Trello to help manage projects and coordinate team tasks and responsibilities. You can also use Table to provide the big bosses with an overview of progress towards company goals as you can easily collate lots of initiatives in one go. Trello Business Class. Storage Trello Free.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

First, let’s cover the absolute minimum legal requirement a company has to provide to its investors. That burden is an ongoing cost of taking the investment, much as a public company takes on the additional burden of governmental reporting, both adding to costs over time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2015

Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 24, 2011

What is the secret sauce that enables best-in-class companies to create and sustain their competitive advantage? How can small and middle-market companies utilize strategic thinking to penetrate and dominate new markets? Wednesday, March 30, 2011 -- ACG 101 Executive Book Evening.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

It’s not hard to find people willing to write the narrative that “venture capital is not an asset class” or “venture capital has performed terribly.” Companies are now raising much more capital in the private markets now before they go public. This is the opportunity set for venture capitalists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2021

Based on their work in CleanTech and sustainability, Heck and Rogers outline five strategies for existing companies to apply to current practices and processes for dramatic efficiency improvements in the use or production of resources. Mature companies often lose sight of scrap and changeover time in existing systems.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Using big data that has been mined for specific information, we can now market to individuals within classes, some of whom will not fit the stereotype and would have been missed with more generalized efforts. Fifteen out of seventeen business sectors each store more data per company than the entire Library of Congress.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 13, 2012

However, at most startups, competitive advantages are derived from a combination of invention and innovation, as described more fully in Inventor Or Innovator – Which Are You? This is in contrast to the approach taken by most big companies, which often focuses on outperforming the same activities conducted by their rivals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over twice as many companies, according the Crunchbase. Now the model is to seed many good teams with a smaller amount, and find out which ones can execute. Super angels sometimes drive up valuations.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Class 125

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2023

Unions are making new inroads at sacrosanct companies, including Kickstarter and Amazon. The problem is particularly acute for middle-class, non-managerial, and exempt employees who don’t qualify for overtime pay under tightening labor laws, and high big-company expectations. Number of non-compete agreements is way down.

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Layoffs Technical Review Startup Class 113

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. I see many companies that don’t make this transition well.

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