Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

A pilot flying with the wind behind is helped by the speed of the wind and uses less fuel and less time to make it to the destination. A valuable lesson from aviation for entrepreneurs. I have often told the story of a company I financed and helped to found, back in the days of analog cell phones. That’s a valuable lesson.

Marketing 120

Marketing Class Startup Research 120

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2018

A pilot flying with the wind behind is helped by the speed of the wind and uses less fuel and less time to make it to the destination. A valuable lesson from aviation for entrepreneurs. I have often told the story of a company I financed and helped to found, back in the days of analog cell phones. That’s a valuable lesson.

Marketing 120

Marketing Class Startup Research 120

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 Have you worked with a talented individual or agency who helped you find and keep more users?

Commerce 211

Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2017

Anna Barber: Before this, I hadn't been involved with Techstars as a mentor, however, I'd been an entrepreneur and mentored at other accelerators. However, I always wanted to get into a broader role in the startup ecosystem, where I could help other entrepreneurs work on their ideas. That's exciting. It's a really broad mandate.

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Claremont Press 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2011

I’d like to start by asking each of you to consider helping under-privileged children in America get a little bit more than they have today. DonorsChoose let’s you “ hack their data &# in creative ways to create offerings that may be relevant to helping with education projects in America. It’s better than zero.

Startup 295

Startup Education Entrepreneur Help 295

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

I’m very excited to be finally be able to announce that this week we’ve added Sam Rosen to our ranks at GRP Partners in the role of entrepreneurs-in-residence – EIR. They collected each other’s information and Sam immediately built a relationship with Jody. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. Not for me. Just kidding.

Startup 372

Startup Course Ideas Invest 372

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

Although many are entertaining, most fail to provide entrepreneurs with a sufficient return on their time investment. Unfortunately, most business books do not offer entrepreneurs an adequate payoff. He then helps readers evaluate their results with some amusing “grades.” Fan, Not A Fan Boy. I was not disapointed.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. Obviously, Prism is a great example.

Startup 271

Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

The primary tenant in one of those buildings is the Information Sciences Institute, which is part of the Viterbi School of Engineering, and we have some of their space. They are always overlapping, so in essence, we have a freshman and senior class, so teams can collaborate, and get the benefit of the peers before them.

Marina Del Rey 150

Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Jackson, CEO and co-founder of CapLinked (www.caplinked.com), which is developing tools to help entrepreneurs and investors connect. Eric is an experienced entrepreneur, and was a very, very early employee at PayPal, where he was recruited by Peter Thiel. Jackson: It's actually two audiences, both the entrepreneur and investor.

Southern California 243

Southern California Entrepreneur Software Review Yammer 243

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

Obtaining funding is a key milestone, but equally important is helping fledgling companies build institutional mass once they leave the relatively safe confines of an accelerator. Savvy entrepreneurs - seek out programs which incorporate these post-graduation activities. Convert Graduate-Founders Into Mentors.

Startup 100

Startup Class LAMP Santa Barbara 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

An underutilized, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your alma mater, including any local university. Here is a short list of the areas where you should be able to find help, whether you are a student or an independent entrepreneur: Exploring hot ideas. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 95

Startup Incubator Resource Mentor 95

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, Robin Richards: Brand amplification and brand protection are critical to companies, in helping them attract and retain employees. What is CareerArc?

Content 193

Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

He can’t help himself: He’s Dave. Many through history became entrepreneurs precisely because they were unemployable. How to help his companies. He has strong opinions that are well informed. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. My pal Dave has blogger Tourette’s.

Startup 309

Startup Venture Capital Email Writing 309

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Startups Made Simple.

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Southern California IP Orange County Glendale 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Joyent - An Enterprise Class Cloud Computing Company funded by Intel Capital, provides the most comprehensive cloud solution available today. Startups Made Simple.

Southern California 113

Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

It is here where innovators, artists, entrepreneurs and more have moved from all around the world to join it's welcoming startup community. On a macro level, one of my main responsibilities is elevating the idea of being an entrepreneur and the importance of entrepreneurs to our economy. Can you tell us more about GFMEDC?

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Screening Mobile Entrepreneur Startup 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2014

Most entrepreneurs feel they have innate leadership talents, but struggle with how to nurture these abilities and measure their effectiveness. Authentic entrepreneurs lead through the power of personal influence, rather than coercion. It obviously helps to ask new customers what they see. People ignored see no leadership.

Mentor 103

Mentor Coach Entrepreneur Customer 103

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 have too much inequality in our country. I am a beneficiary of that.

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Education Venture Capital UCSD Class 417

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. The feedback was always universal, “that was the most helpful marketing meeting I’ve every had.” Approachable.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

To be clear – I’m not saying huge successes make a VC less likely to be helpful to you – I’m just saying it’s not a guaranteed predictor. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. Connections?

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

So how do you know when to publicly come forward with information and when to not do so? If you have information about a situation that has gone terribly wrong don’t cover it up. The most tempting thing for inexperienced entrepreneurs to do is to attack the press. Don’t be “ swiftboated.&# Yes, it will be bad.

Startup 329

Startup Press Training Media 329

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Babak Nivi is one of the most understated, helpful & important people on the entrepreneur / startup scene in NorCal. What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels. But it +is+ an anti-entrepreneur stance.&#

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Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. The ten companies selected for the programe are: • AccessDNA : – Think WebMD for genetic information. And of course we had, TheMan.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space. ReachLocal, founded by Zorik Gordon, publicly traded company helping small businesses across America use the Internet for marketing [Woodland Hills. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. There have been a couple of pieces of research on why, but one of the main reasons is lack of access to information.

UCLA 204

UCLA Research Tech Coast Angels Offshore 204

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2013

One of the first questions that I get from many entrepreneurs is “How should I set up my company to minimize my setup costs, tax liabilities, and risk of lawsuits?” Many entrepreneurs don’t realize that the tax entity election doesn’t have to match the legal entity. I’ll offer you a few simple rules of thumb.

Startup 93

Startup Tips Examples Guide 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2012

These should be carefully selected, with a proven track record, willing and available to help, and be completely trustworthy. To bring real money and credibility to your company, and help you avoid costly mistakes in development and strategy, a first-class Advisory Board is a small investment. Let’s talk specifics.

Startup 95

Startup Technical Review Software Review High Tech 95

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

DatAllegro was one of the first companies in what is now the "big data" industry, and helped to pioneer the entire segment. I've been a serial entrepreneur for about 20-odd years, and I didn't want to sit at a big company. I decided to become a parallel entrepreneur, and started a whole series of companies in big data.

Incubator 208

Incubator Startup CTO Hire Ideas 208

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2011

These should be carefully selected, with a proven track record, willing and available to help, and be completely trustworthy. To bring real money and credibility to your company, and help you avoid costly mistakes in development and strategy, a first-class Advisory Board is a small investment. Let’s talk specifics.

Startup 95

Startup Technical Review Software Review High Tech 95

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. That became our company Hit the Ground Running, which we launched in 2007 to help a number of Fortune 500 clients with our technology and methodologies.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Their lawsuit came less than one month after a separate class action complaint was filed against one of these companies for a work-at-home scheme. Try to find out the company name and contact information. An Internet search could give you revealing information about the company or let you know how their scam operates.

Startup 95

Startup Google Social Network Screening 95

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

The videos on our web site have some proprietary techniques you can't find elsewhere, and we have thousands of heavy science videos on the site -- everything from Nobel prize winners, to National Geographic, to class videos on science and related to science, and even to things students are doing in high school. READ MORE>>.

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Journal Technical Review UCSD Web 124

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Many entrepreneurs are so focused on finalizing their innovative product or service that they procrastinate on the formalities of forming the requisite new company until later. Building a business plan is a discipline every entrepreneur needs to learn early, required or not. Founder’s stock may be taxed at time of incorporation.

Company 61

Company Companies Startup Equity 61

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

What our program does, is if you get a question wrong, we help determine where you need help. We then aggregate that information to teachers, for the entire classroom. If you're teaching classes of 32 maybe even 37 students, it's difficult to know where students are. However, on the group side, a class has 15-17 students.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Every entrepreneur at some point has probably felt like this and asked themselves the question: “now what?” Well, perhaps it’s time to consider an incubator/accelerator program: Programs like Silicon Valleys’ Y Combinator which essentially put entrepreneurs through a 3+ month startup boot camp.

Incubator 107

Incubator Startup Mentor Entrepreneur 107

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2015

If you are a mother, and you need some help with something--say, finding a tutor, or a referral to a service provider--the age-old way to do that is to ask your friends for referrals. It''s meant to help moms get stuff done quickly, by leveraging their network. What''s the idea behind Momstamp? Why did you start the company?

Networking 100

Networking Startup Cornerstone OnDemand Social Network 100