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. He was in the inaugural class of 500Startups and became chief evangelist as far as I could tell. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. Sam had different plans.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

Hint: He was an entrepreneur. A Writer Is Someone Who Writes. A writer is someone who writes, not someone who goes about telling their friends that they are “a writer”. The same is true of entrepreneurs. These would-be entrepreneurs are best classified as Wantrepreneurs, as discussed in Entrepreneurial Enterviewing.

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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. At the beginning of the index, Guy writes, “I hope Robert Cialdini checks this index.” Fan, Not A Fan Boy. I was not disapointed.

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Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

So, I ended up writing that first book, and Bruce helped me with the research, and that was one way we got to know each other before we were even dating. Someone had written to me -- Debbie at Debbie.com, and I thought it was such a funny idea, and thought it would be great if Lynda.com was available. At the time, I got Lynda.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2011

Alain Theriault, better known as StartupCoach , tells entrepreneurs that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start by writing a cook book (business plan), you work in the kitchen for a while, you learn some tools of the trade, you experiment with a few recipes, you test on willing clients. then you can start writing a recipe.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

3:35 The real entrepreneurs come out during a down economy. 19:30 A teachable moment for entrepreneurs: HAVE A HYPOTHESIS! 27:45 Eric: The thing that is supposed to fail fast is your bad ideas, not your company. 41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 34:00 Imvu.

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Social Media Startup Metrics Media 301

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

I previously wrote about LaunchTN’s second-phase master accelerator class called The TENN, which has a proven track record of helping startups thrive after graduation from an accelerator. Savvy entrepreneurs - seek out programs which incorporate these post-graduation activities. Provide High Impact Exposure Beyond Your Hometown Press.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. Talk to us about when you got the idea for BuildOnline and how that came to be – how you finally got out of the job. My mom grew up in the States.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Where did the idea come from? Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. That allowed me to take a summer to develop the new idea, and transform it into a business. It has been really amazing.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Typically, venture backed companies, always entrepreneur led.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2015

One obvious alternative is to become an entrepreneur. As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m often asked what it takes to switch and get real satisfaction from this lifestyle. In fact, Mehta focuses on a special class of entrepreneurs that he calls disruptors. Then write them down.

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Satisfaction Entrepreneur Writing Startup 57

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2013

The idea is a community space where people can come together, learn something from one another, build that electronics project, software, or even arts and crafts, in a supported environment. You can learn from others in the space, or take a class. Where'd the idea come from, and why did you decide to help organize this?

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

At Idealab, we saw many shots on goal with companies who were consumer focused, and we have found the quality of entrepreneurs going to consumer Internet companies has changed dramatically, which represents a real opportunity. Big ideas rule the day. It's all about the entrepreneur. The second, is don't back yourself.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

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. Classes with a wide geographic appeal. Among those that have paid for a Stage 32 class, 91% say they’ll do it again in the future.

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Education Entertainment Class Manhattan Beach 80

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Here is my summary of some major considerations that every entrepreneur needs to evaluate against the cost and effort to attract equity investors: Completing a grant application is real work. Your visionary one-page idea description won’t work here. Otherwise find an inexpensive class on grant writing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

A critical stage for most first-time entrepreneurs is getting their idea developed into at least a prototype to validate their technology. Another alternative is to find an inexpensive class on grant writing. The best entrepreneurs I know don’t let initial funding constraints discourage them from starting.

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Funding Technical Review Startup Research 90

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. You might pick up a great three-point shooter but have no idea how that players attitude is going to leak into locker-room drama. Neither class of people should give up easily. Most VCs are book smart. It’s not you.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. And you thought the Internet was a meritocracy where the best ideas win? Underbelly.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

What's the story behind the idea--where did it come from, and how did you decide to present it at the business plan competition? Jeff's father is an entrepreneur, and I wanted to go down the entrepreneurial path, so we had this early concept for a cash back and coupon web site. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC.

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Something to write your notes, another to set reminders, and one that does both. No folders, submenus, or “category-container-box-lists” Write your reminder with a string of hashtags: #todo #pickup autobiography of arnold schwarzenegger from #amazon. You get the idea. The notepad was my idea bank.

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Product Ideas Email Organization 99

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Alain Theriault, better known as StartupCoach , tells entrepreneurs that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start by writing a cook book (business plan), you work in the kitchen for a while, you learn some tools of the trade, you experiment with a few recipes, you test on willing clients. then you can start writing a recipe.

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Startup Writing Metrics Marketing 96

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

I was influenced heavily before my career even began because in my undergraduate work I took a ton of statistics classes that showed how easily we human brains fall prey to easy biases and slights of data and try to draw conclusions that don’t exist. Coming back with an empty chamber for the third battle is much worse than not coming back.

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Venture Capital Statistics Writing Report 182

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

They offer classes in personal responsibility and accountability, they teach men to forgive themselves and to forgive the people who perpetrated them as children because they all grew up surrounded by bad influences. You get in a line with executives on one side and EITs (entrepreneurs in training) on the other. They wanted to learn.

Writing 150

Writing Startup Design Training 150

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly without a big slide presentation. Root-Cause Problem Analysis.

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Course Writing Slides Email 97

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

He is a unique human being with original thoughts & ideas and very limited concern for having to fit into other people’s narratives. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2011

Business Writing Skills. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your page limit. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and relegate the supporting detail into an appendix. The business world expects exactly the opposite.

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Course Writing Social Network Ideas 91

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. entrepreneur Wil Schroter (I am an angel investor in Affordit). Really!).

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. Yet nearly any entrepreneur who has an idea that other people aren’t doing will tell you that it’s hard to get investors excited. It was an investment management class. I will write about some of these topics soon.

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Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

Thus, entrepreneurs must consistently balance expanding their bandwidth via delegation with the more efficient, but non-scalable tendency to complete tasks themselves. At Computer Motion, we regularly allowed engineering classes to tour our facilities. Rookie Draft. I discuss specific tactics to facilitate such delegation HERE.

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Startup Software Review Technical Review Class 244

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly. Business Email and Texting. The business world expects exactly the opposite.

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Training Course Email Social Network 57

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. What was nice was that I got to take some of my practical skills from consulting and apply them into class discussions with operational leaders. I introduced myself as a serial entrepreneur.

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Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur?

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Your team operates out of a barn on your idyllic, coastal property, yet you have created a world-class product. Do you have any advice for emerging entrepreneurs regarding how they can be frugal without compromising their company’s value prop? Bootstrapping requires that the entrepreneur go out and talk to their users or clients.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

My partner is a documentarian and reports for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and was given a story to write about for the New York Times, about the sounds that fish make , for their Science section. The idea emerged from that real life pain in the market, and as we like to say, we've grown incrementally from there.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

I’m often asked the question about why there aren’t more women who are entrepreneurs. The truth is I have been thinking a lot about the topic, I just haven’t been writing about it. My inspiration to become an entrepreneur came from my mom, not my dad. Every single one. And many of the best women founders.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup Blogging 341

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2010

Business Writing Skills. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to whatever your page limit is. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and relegate the supporting detail into an appendix. Problem Analysis. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Wednesday November 20 th , 2013 was a special day for the technology entrepreneurs at the University of Southern California. The USC Entrepreneur Club and the Kairos Society brought Howard Marks , a successful entrepreneur and founder and CEO of StartEngine , on campus to speak about his past experiences. The Time Is Now. “We

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