Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2023

Which leads us to the second class of creative board thinking… Strategic thinking: Board members who ask: “What is the competitive landscape?” Good board meetings allow time, and the chairman encourages members to ask strategic questions to help focus the board on its best use of that time. Is this idea sustainable?”

Company 156

Company Companies Ideas Competition 156

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

We will also have some of the top companies present that each of the panelist has invested in. Mr. Csathy helps clients by leveraging his vast network of relationships and unique breadth of business and operational experience that is equally split between new and traditional media. We will have an amazing treat for you all.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2011

Yet being in a fraternity was one of the most transformative experiences I had in college and prepared me better for becoming an entrepreneur than any class that I took. By the end of my sophomore year I had taken on the role of education for our new freshman pledges and by the first quarter of my junior year I led the pledge class entirely.

Startup 365

Startup Class UCSD Blogging 365

Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2018

Which leads us to the second class of creative board thinking…. Good board meetings allow time, and the chairman encourages members to ask strategic questions to help focus the board on its best use of that time. Importantly, these also help a board to cover the legal “duty of care” for the health of the company.

Company 243

Company Companies Ideas Competition 243

InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2018

In my UCSB classes , my students practice their Personal Pitch in front of their peers, who give them constructive feedback. There were twenty four Founders present, representing nine startups. This will give your employees public speaking practice and help them better understand the company’s origin and mission.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Entrepreneur Class Examples 133

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.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Class Course Writing 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

It’s not hard to find people willing to write the narrative that “venture capital is not an asset class” or “venture capital has performed terribly.” This year an associate from Upfront Ventures – Glenn Poppe – helped me pull together more information about how our industry is changing.

Venture Capital 362

Venture Capital Capital Startup Writing 362

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Unfortunately, most of us don’t have enough resources to bootstrap our own startups, so we are completely dependent on investors to help turn great ideas into great businesses. Emphasize your real ambition to change the world, through helping the underprivileged, improving healthcare, or saving the environment.

Ideas 140

Ideas Entrepreneur Equity Resource 140

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Winners: Spotlight Companies. 10 min per presenter). If you believe that you have a great idea that has a potential to sell and you need help in product development, we are here for your help. RSVP: AGENDA. 6:00 – 7:00pm – check-in. Diamond Sponsor.

CalTech 100

CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2021

Richard Branson’s adventurer escapades are legendary, and Steve Jobs made new product presentations an experience, as well as a sales pitch and an education. Entrepreneurs who depend on the ‘traditional’ learning process (schools, formal classes, practice problems, and risk-free iterations) are doomed in breaking the paradigm.

Marketing 157

Marketing Design Entrepreneur Ideas 157

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

In what has been an unprecedented surge in interest in helping entrepreneurs, there have been more than a half dozen accelerators--most patterned after the successful YCombinator and TechStars programs elsewhere in the country--established in Southern California in the last month or so. When is your first class? Howard Marks: Yes.

CTO Coach 194

CTO Coach Startup Mentor Activision 194

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2021

Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn, helped me crystallize these similarities with his classic book “ The Start-up of You.” Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, and grow more in our lives and careers. World-class professionals don’t try to take on the world alone. We are all works in progress.

Startup 143

Startup Entrepreneur Demand Competition 143

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After 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. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Companies: Spotlight Companies. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. Community Sponsors.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Steve Reich

JULY 6, 2020

I’ve seen two tactics that work: 1) presenting a relevant offer, and 2) delivering meaningful community information. Presenting a relevant offer requires marketing data analysis to make sure the right customer sees the right offer. Best in class institutions were getting a 10% click through rate on the public service ads. (A

Technology 87

Technology Customer Custom Class 87

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses. MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses. We spent a few hundred thousand dollars opening up operations in Chicago and Washington D.C.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Eric Greenspan

APRIL 12, 2013

At the Wizard, classes are offered for: computers, software, tablets, phones, setup on stereo receivers, DVDs, cabling, and even how to make a patch cable. The classes are posted online and members can sign up. He carefully explained everything to you while he was doing it and helped you learn and understand.

Course 124

Course Class Education Screening 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies. Were presently on a roll and the team recently closed a large Series A ($50M+) lead by DBL in the Bay Area in August. And then there is the lesson of WeWork.

Southern California 100

Southern California News Platform Class 100

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. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Companies: Spotlight Companies. The time has finally arrived! It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Berkonomics

JULY 26, 2010

Much of the rest of the presentation is devoted to explaining to the group the causes for the concerns and offering information for the group to use in the feedback session to help the CEO seek solutions and to provide resources to the CEO for that purpose. Email readers continue here.]

Class 120

Class Organization Customer Custom 120

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The firm said that the information is being used as part of its technology for helping to improve search results and to personalize and filter content. According to the firm, the firm's semantic map will "significantly reduce" the amount of irrelevant information presented in information searches. READ MORE>>

Draper 124

Draper Class Web Los Angeles 124

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

In fact there are now so many Chinese VC funds chasing returns and also with the mandate the bring US innovation back to China that it would require an entire presentation just to talk about them all. If you enjoyed the presentation please follow Chang Xu on Twitter. But it’s not just China and Singapore.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 150

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

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. I LOVED it because, the presenting part was over quickly and we got into specific issues that the founders had in terms of getting things built. Get an advisor to help supplement where there are gaps.

Technical Advisors 332

Technical Advisors CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 332

InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2011

"We provide the best quality and widest selection of documents to help you start, grow and manage your small business and professional life. " 6) You are the only person I have ever met who was Class President of both their undergraduate (UC Santa Barbara) and their graduate (Pepperdine) schools.

Pepperdine 234

Pepperdine Startup Santa Barbara Class 234

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders.

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Well, Los Angeles-based KarmaGoat (www.karmagoat.com) has figured out a way to help people get rid of those unwanted items they have--and provide those proceeds to charity. We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. That gift of livestock can help families out of extreme poverty.

UCLA 256

UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

SWNext Los Angeles has teamed up with Cross Campus to host the 5-week class that will be led by the founder and CEO of QuantSoft, Wilton Risenhoover, who also teaches entrepreneurship at UCLA Extension. This action-based program was created to help ensure success for a few types of teams.

Class 98

Class Mentor Startup UCLA 98

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2013

Fast forward two and a half years later and ProProfs is one of the leading online tools that lets the public and private sectors to create online quizzes, polls, surveys, flashcards, and classes with an extensive list of options. Creating an online class or tutorial is simple on ProProfs.

Tool 77

Tool Class HTML Course 77

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Our challenge is to help start, fund, improve, and grow 1000 companies in five years. Obviously, as with many other accelerators, we provide mentorship and shared resources, and help with creating a company, access to public relations, and other resources like legal help. What inspired you to start this?

Orange County 192

Orange County Southern California Startup Class 192

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 11, 2022

Sure, celebs have begun talking about it, but we’re rarely taught about it in health class. The science and medicine around fertility are presented with an air of complexity that, more often than not, leaves patients feeling lost, scared and alone. Nor is it typically a topic of discussion over holiday hors d’oeuvres.

Help 161

Help Startup Technical Review Education 161

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

If you're familiar with YCombinator or TechStars, you know that companies also get access to a deep network of top tier mentors and advisors, who help them with a variety of things, such as product marketing, go-to-market, and funding. I think the tighter knit the ecosystem is, between investors and entrepreneurs, it really helps.

Technical Advisors 176

Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

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.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

We had eight companies that presented, and those companies are doing well and moving along well. That is, once you invest in a company, you''re a shareholder, and you help that company for the course of its life. We try to help the companies get to a place where we would, as investors, also want to invest in them.

Incubator 187

Incubator Southern California Startup Ideas 187

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.

Competition 154

Competition Southern California Mentor USC 154

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations. So I patiently waiting until there was a good opportunity to bring Stuart on board and took the opportunity when it presented itself. Sometimes life presents that opportunity, sometimes it does not. We have worked together ever since. Back together.

CTO Hire 320

CTO Hire Startup CTO Coach Venture Capital 320

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. – No great presentation can be delivered like a conversation.

Startup 362

Startup Twiistup Slides Screening 362

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

He can’t help himself: He’s Dave. My pal Dave occasionally presents “headline risks” for investors. How to help his companies. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. He isn’t personally driven by making a quick buck and I’ve seen him go out of his way to help entrepreneurs.

Startup 309

Startup Venture Capital Email Writing 309