SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues. PuddleWorks – PuddleWorks is developing interactive mobile games and leveraging these products and capabilities to develop a powerful franchise.

UCLA 47

UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2019

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Offering irresistible investment propositions and attracting talented and loyal followers is key, as they garner the resources to pursue their goals.

Resource 97

Resource Entrepreneur Social Network SpaceX 97

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. They are changing all the time, and we constantly have new products and partners, as our inventory churns and things are no longer available, or if they are seasonal in nature.

Mobile 100

Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Things that make it investment-grade for outside investors will also benefit you, since you are the ultimate investor. Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. Investors invest in people - not just ideas. Solution and benefits. Skip the technical jargon and hyperbole.

Invest 74

Invest Tips Competition Metrics 74

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. 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.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

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. Throughout a career lifetime, just think of the return on that investment. Maximizing Business Productivity. The business world expects exactly the opposite.

Course 104

Course Email Social Network Ideas 104

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

Although many are entertaining, most fail to provide entrepreneurs with a sufficient return on their time investment. If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. Things I Liked Less.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

They are the classic case of the Innovator’s Dilemma because they fundamentally can’t innovate on their product and can’t lower costs or their business craters. And it’s easy to run circles around them as our product differentiation shows. Growing our Product Lines. Public Storage does about $2.4

Startup 150

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Others I have not. Online peer-to-peer lending. 14.7mm in Series D.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

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. Throughout a career lifetime, just think of the return on that investment. Maximizing Business Productivity. The business world expects exactly the opposite.

Training 57

Training Course Email Social Network 57

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

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Startup Class Conference Product 333

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

It's big, well known & we've invested in all of these really cool companies]. There is no chance they’re going to invest and it’s not even a close match. The actual investment professionals (partners) are too busy to call companies that they’re interested in so they basically outsource it.

Venture Capital 294

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Email Equity 294

Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

But we also wouldn’t invest in battling climate change unless we were motivated by a belief that everyone—in current and future generations—deserves an equal shot at a safe, healthy, prosperous life on this planet. Secondarily, Gordon asks why the productivity gains that drove these advances tailed off after 1970.

Class 40

Class Invest Technology Mobile 40

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2015

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Offering irresistible investment propositions and attracting talented and loyal followers is key, as they garner the resources to pursue their goals.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2014

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Offering irresistible investment propositions and attracting talented and loyal followers is key, as they garner the resources to pursue their goals.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 114

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

Play it in the background while you otherwise remain productive (or listen to it while you update your FB page, your call). You decide how much you want to invest in your employees and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves. We brought in 10 – 20 people in each class.

Summary 246

Summary Tips Sales Entrepreneur 246

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2017

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Offering irresistible investment propositions and attracting talented and loyal followers is key, as they garner the resources to pursue their goals.

Entrepreneur 56

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 56

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Things that make it investment-grade for outside investors will also benefit you, since you are the ultimate investor. Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. Investors invest in people - not just ideas. Solution and benefits. Skip the technical jargon and hyperbole.

Competition 113

Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser. Now the AP class. You grow from 8 to 45 people over night.

Funding 150

Funding Venture Capital Startup Marketing 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Things that make it investment-grade for outside investors will also benefit you, since you are the ultimate investor. Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. Investors invest in people - not just ideas. Solution and benefits. Skip the technical jargon and hyperbole.

Competition 116

Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues. I tell people regularly that I only invest in companies where the DNA is software.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

We spoke with Ross about the investment, as well as about his experience as VC and his outlook on the market. For those not familiar with what you're doing now at Velocity Interactive, and tell us a little bit about this investment? Our investments is their first institutional round. Thanks for the interview.

Advertising 100

Advertising Media Startup Woodland Hills 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Verizon , Monster Products , MerchLabs , HIRED , Instart Logic , Zeel , Shootly , Move Loot , Microsoft , American Laser Company , Zirx , DoorDash , Drizly. Green Way Labs develops high-performance cleaning products that are 100% non-toxic. Their distribution footprint consists of: Over 400 million Page Likes on Facebook.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

They have more knowledge of what a student's life is about, which is much better than a one page resume. After that, I was involved in a lot of angel investing, starting companies, and helping entrepreneurs to get going. Class sizes are getting bigger, especially in lower grades, middle schools, and high school.

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. The Startups.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

It’s a bedrock assumption in American economic policy that innovation and entrepreneurship drive job growth and lead to greater productivity, efficiency, consumer choice, and wealth. To that end, Democrats say they will invest in “high-quality STEAM classes” (STEM plus Arts) and computer science training, among other priorities.

Education 40

Education Platform Training High Tech 40

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

Partners provided products and services including: Uber, Here on Biz, ParkMe, Simply Petals, Triptrotting, Bloodhound, Planana, Pop-Up Pantry, EventSorbet, ROC, Startup Car, Pulsoviral, TrueCar, PopChips, ONE Coconut water, Gamer Food, Zevia. Developers ranged from a 18 year old whiz kid to a Yale team who flew in from Yale to participate.

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. So, he built an auction.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

You’re not lecturing to a college class, you’re not at a cocktail party and you’re not chatting with a small group in a board meeting. Or take an acting class. The bring your product to life. Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products. Show some energy! You’re on stage!

Startup 362

Startup Twiistup Slides Screening 362

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista. A version of this article appeared October 5, 2012, on page M1 in the U.S. MSN Money Investing. Investment Land For Sale. Investing Tools. LINKS TO ACTUAL PAGE CONTAINING WEB SLICE FUNCTIONALITY.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership. At some point it will be quite obvious whether the super angels’ investments and strategy succeed or fail. These are the top linked domains from Facebook pages.

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217