Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. Writing a book will be fun. I started working with David when I was an entrepreneur and he was an associate with a VC firmed called … wait for it … GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures)! You REALLY know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2015

Too many entrepreneurs naively believe that candidates with lofty titles from a larger company can easily do the same job for their startups. Everyone must know how to listen, talk and write. Most startups don’t have the time or resources to send team members to formal training classes, either in-house or off-site.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

A class we produce here at General Assembly called “Intro to the LA Startup Community” , has turned into a series, each time presented by a different prominent person in the startup ecosystem providing a unique perspective on the tech scene in LA. Sam taught a second rendition of the class in February and over 700 people signed up.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2013

You can learn from others in the space, or take a class. It's membership based, and the goal for us is to eventually be sustainable through membership, by putting on events and classes, and so on. I've done things like figured out how to write my own iOS app, played around with Arduino. There are tons. READ MORE>>.

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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.

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Writing Startup Design Training 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

The funny thing about “too much money” is that it doesn’t just come from entrepreneurs. I’ve seen companies who avoided the big round and then struggled without enough resources to ship products on time and then missed market opportunities and sold in mediocre outcomes as others sailed by them. Now the AP class.

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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. We were the team that called in when your local team lacked the technical resources to solve the most difficult problems you had. When I started my second company I was a serial entrepreneur.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

That has really improved our consistency, our delivery, our service offerings, and online resources for our students. 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. That's a big part of it. It's at a more granular level.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

It's a very linear process, and allows them to capture knowledge and link to centralized resources that relate to a topic, including documents, pictures, files, video. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. It has links to supporting web site and resources.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I finally got around to writing it having read Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does. Some entrepreneurs make the mistake of never devolving power. He wanted more resources allocated to him and he would begin wondering whether he might rise in the organization. Both are basically people businesses.

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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. We’ve been there. We’ve all been there. ENTER THE #HASHTAG.

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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

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

We write and create our own content for the game. Created by Howard Marks, co-founder of Activision, and Paul Kessler, one of the most prolific investors in Los Angeles, Start Engine will provide local startups with the essential resources and counsel they need to become successful, self-directed businesses. Silver Sponsor.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

Esther was talking about problems and entrepreneurs as far away as Russia. Even from a young age, my experiences as president of my college fraternity were more formative in my experiences as an entrepreneur than my economics classes were. The protagonist grows up in an upper middle class neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Every entrepreneur I meet in my role as a small business advisor dreams of making the business run like clockwork, even without them. Frankly, I’ve never been sure what to tell entrepreneurs who want to break free of these bonds. It’s easier to use screen-captures and notes on existing processes, rather than write detailed manuals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. You can fly first class and not talk to fellow passengers. Entrepreneur Dinners. One of my favorite things to do is to organize entrepreneur dinners when I travel. The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. The Subway.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It has long been believed that people from lower-income neighborhoods can’t learn as well as middle & upper class ones due to environment issues such as problems at home and trouble in the neighborhood. I poured myself into planning and I won the class-wide competition. They don’t do enough for masses of students.

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