socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The competition is set up to award $50,000 to the best team each year, and is also tied to a class on entrepreneurship for engineering students. Fariborz Maseeh: Initially ,we hope that the business plan competition would help solve one of the fourteen National Academy of Engineering grant challenges.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. I read Enchantment anticipating that it might augment my Entrepernurial Selling class, which focuses on influence and persuasion, rather than sales tactics. Ask For Mentoring. No doubt, he did.

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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. Our founder, Yves Sisteron, was my mentor and board member at my first startup. Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations. Writing a book will be fun. You hire people who look good on paper.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2014

As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m often asked what it takes to switch and get real satisfaction from this lifestyle. I found some great help in outlining the elements of this process in a recent book, “ Disruptors ,” by Kunal Mehta. In fact, Mehta focuses on a special class of entrepreneurs that he calls disruptors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m often asked what it takes to switch and get real satisfaction from this lifestyle. I found some great help in outlining the elements of this process in the classic book, “ Disruptors ,” by Kunal Mehta. In fact, Mehta focuses on a special class of entrepreneurs that he calls disruptors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Founded in the summer of 2011 and their first product out a few weeks ago amSTATS wants to help users to follow fitness events and programs near them and find a great fitness trainer to help them stay fit. Jenna can also search for local events, boot camps, or fitness classes. Why did you venture into fitness? How many users?

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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. I found that a lot of my time went into spending time with the country MD’s to show them that they were still important to me and that I was still willing to help with sales campaigns. Both are basically people businesses.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. We write and create our own content for the game. The time has finally arrived! It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. Gold Sponsor. .

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

My job is to help you not get a job,” Marks announced. LA is up and coming and is a great place to be because everybody is helping each other out. As a young entrepreneur, you get introduced to mentors and successful entrepreneurs on a daily basis who want to help you. When you go to USC, you don’t need a job.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. How does it work? How unique are you from them?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

Thiel and friends will also agree to mentor these young entrepreneurs. Here is their inaugural class. Actually, they’ll get even more attention because this selection will put them in an even more exclusive peer group and will introduce them to even more connected mentors. So is this a good idea? My 2 cents: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Recently, I completed a new book, “ Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself ,” by Mike Michalowicz, that really helped me pull my own thoughts and recommendations together for the beleaguered business owners I try to help. It’s easier to use screen-captures and notes on existing processes, rather than write detailed manuals.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. More tiers = more complication = more confusion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

When I do mentoring and writing about current experiences, I realize all the things I don’t know, and this gives me more incentive to learn more. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Avoid the arrogance trap of never asking for help or asking for feedback. At least with the Internet, you can ask for help anonymously.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2010

When I do mentoring and writing about current experiences, I realize all the things I don’t know, and this gives me more incentive to learn more. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Avoid the arrogance trap of never asking for help or asking for feedback. At least with the Internet, you can ask for help anonymously.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership. You're probably making a lot of these errors too.

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