Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The first is to be more precise in your definition and understanding of where you are, and how the money will be spent. If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Greatness finds one definition in management’s ability to “pivot,” or change the plan in reaction to its early response from the marketplace. My favorite example of a world class pivot comes from the CEO and board of one of my most successful investments. Plans don’t often work as devised.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2016

It's a fantastic demonstration of the potential of "open" phone numbers, which are traditional phone numbers enhanced with first-class consumer applications. Greg Cohn: Our release of Ghostbot, an amazing app that runs inside of Burner phone numbers and can auto-respond to jerks with witty texts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A just-announced partnership between the social giant TikTok and the ecommerce giant Shopify could mint a brand-new class of TikTok-friendly ecommerce stores. But it is a new opportunity, and some stores will definitely take full advantage. But the first step is making sure that Shopify is your best option. forward.

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Berkonomics

JULY 31, 2014

Then there’s the compass or cardinal definitions model for marketers : N=needs, W=wants, S=security, and E=education. Use all the techniques you learn in marketing classes to drive demand. Then there is the four C’s, the consumer-oriented marketing model (2). The four Cs: Consumer, cost, communication and convenience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

The first is to be more precise in your definition and understanding of where you are, and how the money will be spent. If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2013

Arjan Schutte: Our fund has a big mission, to invest in financial technology for the emerging middle class. There are 80 million Americans in this emerging class, who are unbanked and underbanked. Arjan Schutte: Only financial technology companies that address the emerging middle class, the under- and un-banked.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 2, 2015

If you want to see world-class speakers and hear what they have to say in person – you will get that. This is how he gets world-class speakers to travel half way around the world. The speakers get what they want (small, private networking) and the audience gets what they want – world-class speakers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

Education: More students and different classes. Women professionals are definitely increasing their ranks. The building of new houses, communities, and infrastructure – as well as the new demand for retail that delivers – will strain trucking and shipping to its limits. Women: On the move.

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Demand Startup Course Summary 103

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.” definitely a big and expensive promotional bet for a “startup”. “We She also spoke about how they’ve seen premium content creators respond creatively to Quibi’s unique portrait?—?landscape

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley. Four Steps was essentially my class notes. My definition of a startup is, ‘a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.’ One of the best students I ever had.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The topic I chose to speak about was “lessons on starting a company&# but I created the sub-title in class “a Silicon Valley heresy&# since my goal was to slay many of the myths I believe exist right in the heart of Silicon Valley! Afterward, I came and spoke to her (and Steve’s) class on entrepreneurship.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Building a technology company in LA does have its challenges, I'd saw we're getting lots of interest, but we've had some issues in terms of the talent pool on the technical side, although we've had success in importing and recruiting people to come and join us, but it's definitely one of the challenges. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

At this time I can tell you that the Brits definitely didn’t have a culture of failure. 1:45 Are you also making your Udacity class available online? 3:30 What is the class all about? I remember this lesson well. I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2019

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

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Resource Entrepreneur Social Network SpaceX 97

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

The reason for that, and it's really important, is the bane of this asset class is the generally poor liquidity that venture capital provides. When I talk to LPs, that's always the one or two major pain points of the asset class they talk about. That also helps our LPs, because it shortens the liquidity cycle in the asset class.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

These resources are definitely not limited to students, since every university seeks out and needs the real world exposure and experience of entrepreneurs who already are active in the real world marketplace. Take advantage of the tech classes, labs, equipment, and graduate students looking for real world problems to research.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Claude is definitely one of the most impressive chatbots to be launched in the last 12 months. Anthropic is classed as a public-benefit company – a corporation that is set up to make a profit, but is doing so by working on something that will have a positive impact on humanity. ? Want to browse the web privately?

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ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Training Startup 136

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. When companies get ready to add scale it’s important to bring in industry experts who bring real-world experiences from world-class companies that you aren’t inventing things for the first time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I’m no great scholar on bubbles – I have more interesting things to spend my time worrying about than the exact definition , but having been around a few I have at least given them intellectual consideration. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

Education: More students and different classes. Women professionals are definitely increasing their ranks. The building of new houses, communities, and infrastructure – as well as the new demand for retail that delivers – will strain trucking and shipping to its limits. Women: On the move.

Demand 83

Demand Startup Course Summary 83

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2012

These resources are definitely not limited to students, since every university seeks out and needs the real world exposure and experience of entrepreneurs who already are active in the real world marketplace. Take advantage of the tech classes, labs, equipment, and graduate students looking for real world problems to research.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Mentor Research 92

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Don’t wait for someone else to send you back to class, or push you to change. If you haven’t updated your online profiles and resume for a year, you are definitely falling behind your peers and your future career aspirations. Proactively prepare for your desired future roles. Make the investment.

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Examples Social Media Competition Guide 85

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The poor performance of the asset class (this analysis has largely been wrong as I pointed out here –> most analyses were clumsy rear-view mirror looks at the data). On the surface the narratives have been. The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. We are in a bubble (with so many private $1bn+ valuations).

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Eli Portnoy: We were definitely not looking at acquisition opportunities. We had to push, and believe in building our product and company, and making it world class. Because we are able to reach the right person, we can help get them that last mile to the retailer's store. Were you looking at acquisition, or did it just come up?

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Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 15, 2017

It definitely is true that you will be dealing with a lot more noise and chatter than you will be used to in a home office. While young people are definitely the dominant demographic in shared office spaces, the ecosystem of people, companies, and industries is actually becoming incredibly diverse. . So was it worth it? Distraction.

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Technical Review Study Web Design Startup 88

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

We definitely do post proof-of-concept, and would prefer post-revenue companies. For example, MuckerLab, had 100 percent of their companies funded out of their most recent class. Over the past few months I've been building my networking, and we've done about a deal a month so far. What's the ideal kind of company for you to invest in?

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Funding Startup Invest Commerce 253

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. Reading it felt like read a university book for an economics class and no wonder since he’s a professor at Harvard Business School.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Albert Ko: I started at Cornell University in the Class of 2006, with a degree in material science engineering and a masters in management engineering. Albert Ko: Yes, we're definitely looking to expand, although still pretty local. Albert Ko: With social media right now, it's definitely scalable.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 26, 2015

The Professor''s argument impacted me viscerally, as I have a number of students from various nationalities in my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial classes. Can you imagine being a recent immigrant in this Professor''s class and being told that you have almost no chance of bettering your social status?!

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Santa Barbara Class Mobile Report 100

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2019

You can think of it as a master class, produced with professional players they probably recognize, to learn more of both fundamentals and advanced details on games. Sam Wang: We definitely have users who come to ProGuides, because they want to go pro.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2015

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 101

socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

How was experience finding companies for this first class of startups? We definitely layered them ove rour own business, and combined that with the ability for us to be strategic, where we could apply our mentor network, and make sure we found the ten most interesting and collaborative businesses to bring into the program.

Startup 100

Startup Invest Resource Entertainment 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Obviously to understand a “class” of people you have to make broad generalizations. By definition an MVP (minimum viable product) means there’s room for improvement. We’re definitely a premium product, which is why we don’t just drop prices to match their moves to “buy” business.

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Sales Help Startup Pricing 382

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2014

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 114

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 18, 2014

Bill had a definitive vision of what his comedy club. Bill inspired the class by telling them that when faced with the Caveman Objection, "The answer is ''No.'' Such spontaneity from world-class acts helped establish the Comedy Cellar''s as one of the few US clubs with a national brand. See all the details. What room are you in?

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