Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2021

This is a statement that they are willing and able (and successful) at projecting market and technology turns, not just straight-line innovations. They have the courage to make bold decisions, often contrary to conventional market research. For real entrepreneurs, crazy is a compliment, and the new market may be just around the corner.

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Berkonomics

JULY 31, 2014

Marketing is a science devised to help drive customers to your door. There are lots of ways to define how to market well, including the four P’s of marketing (1): product, price, promotion and place. These are still the driving focus behind most marketing courses, and deserve to be so. We can go on forever.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

by providing cutting-edge online education to a global population of people looking to make it in the ever-evolving entertainment industry. Indeed, whether you’re a producer, screenwriter, director, actor, cinematographer, editor, art director or composer (or some combination of these) Stage 32 offers classes to meet your specific needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2020

Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Smart entrepreneurs build market-driven solutions, per the following principles: Size the opportunity and customer interest first. Your passion isn’t enough to create a market. Disruptive technologies require customer education to create a new market.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

and international cities like London, Mexico City, Seoul and Vilnius are building professional social networks for black professionals and blue collar workers, fashion labels, educational tools in augmented reality, kids entertainment, and an interactive entertainment production company. The new batch of startups coming from across the U.S.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2021

Portal Schools says it provides career-immersed education and where students earn high school and college degrees simultaneously. The two are launching with a ninth grade class. Portal says it is planning to open up seven additional sites in Los Angeles at corporate campuses over the next five years.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2015

General Assembly , the co-working and education startup which is extremely active in the Los Angeles area, has raised $70M in a new funding round. The funding came from Advance Publications and Wellington Capital Management, and also included the company's existing investors, IVP, Learn Capital, Maveron, Rethink Education, WTI, and others.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2012

Last week Boston Startup School officially launched and began with their inaugural class. Over the past few months Boston Startup School and it’s founders have reviewed hundreds of applications for their first class all while working very hard to get to know each and every candidate. great jobs. ” - Shaun Johnson.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

We can find tons of "marketing'' courses in colleges and universities but everyone must think that “selling” is intuitively obvious. Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens. Root-Cause Problem Analysis. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2016

Applications are open for the accelerator's first class until June 1st. The accelerator says the long list of LA backers for its efforts is no mistake: a spokesperson says that LA is the king of content creation and the accelerator will thrive with LA-based VR and AR companies. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2017

Technical training and education provider General Assembly is opening up a new location in Los Angeles, its second, in Little Tokyo, the company said on Thursday. According to General Assembly, the new location--at 2nd Street and S. Central Ave. in Little Tokyo--will allow people located in the "heart of LA" to access its services.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

But something happened during my Thanksgiving break that has me so extremely pissed off at the predatory practices of a financial institution the preys on the elderly, less educated and lower-income people that can least afford it. But I’m also sending this to a couple of class-action lawyers. I hope you’re OK with that.

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socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2014

General Assembly , which conducts classes on web development, Photoshop, Javascript, digital marketing, and all kinds of other topics through its location in Los Angeles, has just scored a $35M funding round, a Series C for the company. IVP''s Todd Chaffee joins the company''s board.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. And build great business they have.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Music Prodigy , a Los Angeles based music education technology firm serious on improving the way people learn, play and interact with music beat over 70 startups with their app Rock Prodigy to win the Silicon Beach Awards. It also won the 2011 Appy Award in education and the 2011 About.com’s Readers Choice Award. Winning Combination.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2018

General Assembly , the provider of technology education which is very active in Los Angeles, has been acquired by Swiss staffing company Adecco Group , in a $412.5M Adecco Group said it would acquired General Assembly to help complement its existing solutions, plus to position it in the fast growing "up-/re-skilling" segment of the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2023

Instead, they need to validate a customer problem and real market need first. Smart entrepreneurs build market-driven solutions, per the following principles: Size the opportunity and customer interest first. Your passion isn’t enough to create a market. Disruptive technologies require customer education to create a new market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

Having a highly functional middle class is good policy for long-term economic growth. But you have to admit that we live in a skewed system in which the elite educated population gains disproportionally from our change from an industrial to an information economy. We need to provide better education for the masses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2013

This is a statement that they are willing and able (and successful) at projecting market and technology turns, not just straight-line innovations. They have the courage to make bold decisions, often contrary to conventional market research. For real entrepreneurs, crazy is a compliment, and the new market may be just around the corner.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. In today’s market, so much focus is placed on transacting business online. 10) Rob, why does the world need RingRevenue? . “In

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The goal is to open up an asset class that the average investor can't really access. Traditionally, as you can imagine, buying into this asset class requires a tremendous amount of wealth. These investments have performed very, very well, but the average investors has never been able to reach into that asset class.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2019

According to the Marshall School, the "STEM specialization" will include certification in areas such as statistics, data analytics, operations and supply chain optimization, finance, forecasting, and digital marketing and modeling. USC said the new option is will become available for its 2020 and 2021 MBA classes this fall.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2016

When I arrived at Wharton many moons ago, I was told that all first-year students take the same set of Core classes. Like a sheepeople, I dutifully signed up for the required classes. Yet I was told by everyone, Professors, Advisors and students alike, that there was “no way” I could get out of taking my remaining Core classes.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. All-Star Alumni. Am I biased?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I think the fact that NorCal didn’t have strong industries in financial services, manufacturing, autos, marketing or other traditional industries also made experimentation more acceptable. 1:45 Are you also making your Udacity class available online? 3:30 What is the class all about? This video is pure gold.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

The millions of immigrant workers who silently wash dishes in restaurants, are prep cooks, pick the agriculture that feeds us, build our houses, clean our houses, watch our kids and do our gardening are vilified as criminals by those currently in power to exploit the fears of working-class white, non-Hispanic, Americans. Invisibility.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2011

DonorsChoose let’s you “ hack their data &# in creative ways to create offerings that may be relevant to helping with education projects in America. Having had some success building an online tool for fund-raising purposes he decided he could have a bigger impact on education if he did the project full time. Enough said.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Tool Users - Startups often have a long gestation period in which the team is in discovery mode, defining the company's value proposition, target market, pricing, business model, etc. Sadly, relatively few entrepreneurially minded MBA graduates can now afford to accept a below-market salary at a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2022

Technically speaking, in the United States, a non-profit corporation or association is one which has been exempted from Federal income taxes by meeting the criteria set out Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, most notably religious, educational, and charitable entities like the Salvation Army. unless it relies wholly on donations.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Bruce, along with his wife Lynda, created a learning company from their garage, initially by holding in-person classes and later selling VHS tapes via mail order. Bruce and Lynda eventually grew their startup into a global powerhouse, offering 5,700 classes and 255,000 video tutorials to over 4 million users.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2021

It's segregated from where we are, but on campus in the same location, where they will be getting their education in that location. We have sales, marketing, PR, accounting, all in those facilities. Steve Malony: We've had a long history of supporting education in our community.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2016

According to L Square, the investment in Edlio will go towards sales and marketing, international growth, new product development, and strategic acquisitions. Edlio is led by CEO Ali Arsan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. Education: More students and different classes. That means that starting soon, our doctors, hospitals, eldercare, hospice and even death care systems are going to face unprecedented demand. Technology won’t solve this one.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They can elect directors for their class of stock, approve mergers and acquisitions; approve increases or changes to the capital structure of the company and other more minor actions. Sometimes, there will be a conflict of interest between the people representing the various shareholder classes on a board. Email readers continue here.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2016

Although the sharing economy isn’t really new, here are a few of the arenas that Stephany and I believe are still ripe for disruption: Education. With US student debt at over one trillion dollars, startups like Skillshare and Udemy provide top-class vocational training for the price of a Harvard hoodie.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley. Four Steps was essentially my class notes. One of my first posts was entitled The MBA Education And Other Oxymorons. One of the best students I ever had.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. If you can imagine, you can have your entire educational life online. What's the market opportunity here?

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