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. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone.

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Class Startup Resource Mentor 124

Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Whether the partner is a supplier looking to gain a lock on your business as it grows or a customer looking to create a competitive barrier through use of your product, such an investment typically carries fewer restrictions than from a professional investor and less oversight. Professional angels: This is the arena where I work and play.

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Venture Capital Startup Class Invest 295

Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2018

But sometimes there is a barrier, an impossibly high cost not considered, a social backlash never thought of, or competition already covering the idea that is unknown to the originator. Which leads us to the second class of creative board thinking…. Strategic thinking: Board members who ask: “What is the competitive landscape?”

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Company Companies Ideas Competition 243

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2023

Warren Buffet once told a class of business students that better communication could boost their value by fifty percent. But looking in the mirror doesn’t help unless you know what to look for. Avoid the over-helpfulness syndrome. Let others help you listen, and tune your response.

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Class Help Competition Activity 143

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The University of Southern California and wealthy engineer Fariborz Maseeh , now a hedge fund manager in Newport Beach, is announcing this week a $1M endowment, which will fund an annual, $50,000 prize for a business plan competition for the school's engineering students. affiliated event focused on spreading innovative ideas. READ MORE>>.

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USC Southern California SoCalTech Competition 214

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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Class Southern California Competition SoCalTech 157

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. This helps the startups with the most opportunity move forward quickly to greater success. Super angels have greater scope to match talent with a startup.

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Guide Venture Capital Funding Class 136

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Companies all around the world use Trello to help manage projects and coordinate team tasks and responsibilities. Timeline also works on the Trello Android and iOS apps, helpful for keeping abreast of your work on-the-go. The Table view is helpful for work that covers multiple teams or when boards simply get too big to manage.

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Software Review Technical Review Guide Class 152

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. Every school recognizes the power of “hands-on” work to help you develop your own ideas into a business. Make a summer internship your best learning class.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Class Resource 157

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk.

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Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 123

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2021

Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn, helped me crystallize these similarities with his classic book “ The Start-up of You.” Regularly assess and refine your competitive advantage. World-class professionals don’t try to take on the world alone. Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. Build and use your network.

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Startup Entrepreneur Demand Competition 143

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. They also have a very smart and efficient approach to creative development that was critical to helping us scale,” she wrote. (If In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. The key takeaway?

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Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2021

She speaks from years of experience mentoring and facilitating independent contractors and helping large companies, since well before the term “gig economy” was even coined. Know your competitive value. As a new business advisor and mentor myself, I enjoyed her recommendations on many of these issues.

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Pricing Mentor Entrepreneur News 149

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We caught up with Sam Teller , who is directing efforts at the accelerator, to help fill entrepreneurs in on where the program fits in the world of technology and startup acceleration. It was really just something built for the community to help support entrepreneurs. Our current class has performed incredibly well.

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Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

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.” This year an associate from Upfront Ventures – Glenn Poppe – helped me pull together more information about how our industry is changing.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Writing 362

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Unfortunately, most of us don’t have enough resources to bootstrap our own startups, so we are completely dependent on investors to help turn great ideas into great businesses. Emphasize your real ambition to change the world, through helping the underprivileged, improving healthcare, or saving the environment.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Equity Resource 140

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

We connect YOU (the passionate enthusiast) with expert video and our active community to help you embrace and practice your wellness passions. Grokker’s patent-pending approach allows us to cost effectively shoot and produce beautiful, compelling video classes of all kinds at scale. What makes you unique from the competition?

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Help Content Activity Organization 87

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses. MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses. We built a strong brand in the city and acquired a ton of organic traffic.

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Startup Technical Review Custom Customer 286

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. This helps the startups with the most opportunity move forward quickly to greater success. Super angels have greater scope to match talent with a startup.

Funding 125

Funding Venture Capital Startup Class 125

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A friend recently asked me to give his startup-minded daughter some advice to help her vet undergraduate entrepreneurial programs. Through these student and faculty interactions, I have gathered empirical (but non-scientific), first-hand evidence of the factors that contribute to a world-class undergraduate entrepreneurial program.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Class Patents 100

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Whether the partner is a supplier looking to gain a lock on your business as it grows or a customer looking to create a competitive barrier through use of your product, such an investment typically carries fewer restrictions than from a professional investor and less oversight. It’s an option, even though an expensive one.

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Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2020

Warren Buffet once told a class of business students that better communication could boost their value by fifty percent. But looking in the mirror doesn’t help unless you know what to look for. Avoid the over-helpfulness syndrome. Let others help you listen, and tune your response.

Class 123

Class Help Competition Activity 123

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

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. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone.

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Entrepreneur Capital Class Startup 55

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup Outsource 123

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2023

If there is a growing opportunity, an accredited market research group like Forrester or Gartner will already have data to quantify your excitement, and help make your case. If you claim no competition, investors may perceive that you have no market, or you haven’t looked. Your passion isn’t enough to create a market.

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Customer Custom Social Media Technology 110

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Whereas the first two funds I was involved in helping raise each took more than a year this fund was less than 6 months. Or perhaps VCs like to carefully guard who has bankrolled them so as not to attract competition? Many people have helped us along the way with guidance, mentorship, introductions and advice.

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Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

This year I got back to the basics of helping founders build strong, high functioning teams. And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

Startup 124

Startup Press Commerce Southern California 124

InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2014

Within reason, the larger your intern class, the greater the volume of creative ideas and more talented recruits you will subsequently hire full-time. Competition – Make it clear that only the best interns will be granted offers for full-time positions. An explicitly competitive environment will cause the high-achievers to excel.

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Startup Santa Barbara Competition Class 257

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies. We went out on a limb in a competitive category with Wheels, and we did it because we believed in the founders. And then there is the lesson of WeWork.

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Southern California News Platform Class 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

This is smart because amazing board members can be transformative with important advice and access and can also help attract other great board members (and team members). I actually think having a formal board can really help you. This is the norm and unless you have a hugely competitive round it’s not worth fighting.

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Startup Venture Capital Tips Capital 236

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Small Business Administration as a Growth Accelerator Fund Competition winner. It also got me thinking about what was important for winning this competition. The Growth Accelerator Fund competition is for organizations that help startups grow, become commercially viable, and have an economic impact.

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Funding Competition Chief Technology Officer San Diego 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support. I wrote separately about that here – regarding “hiring people who punch above their weight class.” This includes presentations, ROI calculators, competitive analyses and so forth. In Summary.

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Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders.

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Tips Email Venture Capital Blogging 365

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. But in a world of nearly unlimited inventory, merchandising becomes a huge challenge and curation > selection for customers who want some help. Here are some ideas of what I believe matters. What is it, really?

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Product Course Custom Customer 296

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2010

Yesterday, the X Prize Foundation (www.xprize.org) announced the finalists in the Progressive Automotive X Prize , a $10M competition geared at advancing automotive technology and developing 100 MPG automobiles. We had 132 vehicles enter the competition, and have slowly narrowed it down to the top nine. READ MORE>>.

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Competition Southern California Technology Class 153

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Instead, having your own business going shows initiative, leadership, wider experience, and makes you more competitive for any role available. Start networking for potential partners or people who can help. Doing good, like helping society and planet sustainability, is a key to maximizing satisfaction, as well as profit.

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Startup Tool Web Study 73

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2016

You love to crack jokes, be the class clown or come up with witty or sarcastic responses. Competitiveness with sportsmanship will help you succeed in life. We already know that you are kind , funny , competitive , adventurous and loving. Your sense of fairness and empathy will take you far in life.

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Course Startup Competition Class 231