socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Need office or Tech Space? Middle Market Investment Banking. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Think Glendale.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Need office or Tech Space? Middle Market Investment Banking. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech). Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com).

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Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. Having a highly functional middle class is good policy for long-term economic growth. Tech Market Analysis VC Industry' We have too much inequality in our country.

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Education Venture Capital UCSD Class 417

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. The sales professional. The financial suit.

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Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Specifically, I often point to the NSF or the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for high-tech startups. The resulting delays can give your competitors an edge, or the market requirements can change before you get the funding you need. Experts are available to help, but fees are high.

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Funding Technical Review Startup Research 90

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. The sales professional. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 57

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 57

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. I've seen numerous startups revamp their entire business based on the performance of Facebook advertising vs. more traditional online marketing approaches. (3) READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. The sales professional. The financial suit.

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Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 98

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Accelerator programs--like YCombinator in Silicon Valley, and TechStars in Colorado--have come to the forefront of the minds of entrepreneurs as a way to boost their ideas quickly into the market, find funding, and into existence. At the time, that was high tech, and bricks were a combination of mud, hay, and muck.

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Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. As Guy notes in the accompanying video interview, his primary goal with Enchantment is to reach a broader audience, beyond the high-tech, startup world. Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. Basically, everything is free.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Social Media Startup 262

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 27, 2012

At the outset of their careers, they are forced to market themselves with little to no budget and differentiate their product so that they gain adequate attention without alienating too many potential customers. However, despite relative salary equality, there remain far fewer high-tech women entrepreneurs.

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Tips Startup Entertainment Entrepreneur 204

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. Our mentors as we've built up this effort in LA are TechStars, Tech Wildcatters in Dallas, and Accelerator Labs in Chicago.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

For instance, in the High Tech Sales class, we discussed the necessity of tracking ad performance. Since we have released our product, and are now looking to acquire new users, this has proven to be extremely valuable for getting a high return from our advertising expenditures.

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Startup Sites Research Santa Barbara 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2012

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive. What better candidates than your Advisory Board?

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Startup Technical Review Software Review High Tech 95

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

generation” joined forces with Kurt Daradics from the new class of digital execs to launch DFR, and it continues to be the multigenerational event in LA tech. That’s what comes to mind when I think of the annual Digital Family Reunion event held at Wokcano in Santa Monica. Five years ago Nye from the so-called “1.0

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Southern California Santa Monica SoCal High Tech 89

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

We went out on the Android and Blackberry, and as we were going out to market, we realized that we could use that consumer launch as a proving ground for our technology, and leverage that to the B2B market. Mobile Media Ventures is part of a larger investment company, which has the core of their investing in the energy market.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2011

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive. What better candidates than your Advisory Board?

Startup 95

Startup Technical Review Software Review High Tech 95

InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. Not satisfied with the quality of surf wax currently on the market, he decided to make his own. Six outstanding entrepreneurs have created this sweet flavor of success in one of the most beautiful places on earth – Santa Barbara, California.

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Santa Barbara Startup Sales Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. trillion asset class we realized there was a real opportunity here.

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Startup Zag Venture Capital Equity 124

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2010

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive. What better candidates than your Advisory Board?

Invest 50

Invest Technical Review Software Review High Tech 50

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298