Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

They can find additional grants from large philanthropic directories, and your favorite alma mater site. Otherwise find an inexpensive class on grant writing. Think outside the technology for social applications and value and highlight these in your grant application, and in networking with authorities. In the U.S.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

Within reason, the larger your “graduating class,” the greater the volume of creative ideas and the larger number of talented recruits from which you can select full-time candidates. Network with professors who can direct their best students to you. At Computer Motion, we regularly allowed engineering classes to tour our facilities.

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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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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Stomel--who is bootstrapping the startup from his recruiting firm, NeoHire--explained the site to us. What's the idea behind the site?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

My partner is a documentarian and reports for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and was given a story to write about for the New York Times, about the sounds that fish make , for their Science section. They wanted to use the platform we had developed in a class called Mashup Culture. We grew out of an interesting use case.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

JanRain Engage provides a convenient way to enable social logins on a site via a single API. Implementing JanRain Engage on your site is a lot less work than implementing each login provider one by one. Of course, youll need to use a social login to get into the site. yoursite" will be replaced with the name of your site.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

It starts in a crowded room at a conference or networking event. We know that their model works for a certain type of content but we believe we can build higher value sites where we can sell premium advertising and target niche audiences. But Sam is a first-class act and boy does he know how to nail an intro. Don’t blow it.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page. But, it didn't seem scalable.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Last week, Savings.com , the online coupon site based in Los Angeles, made a big move into the world of grocery store coupons, from its existing business providing coupon codes and deals for the online world. Another factor, was the large number of people searching our site for grocery coupons, something we didn''t have.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. 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. What you lose: 4.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Prior to joining FM in 2009, she served as President at Scripps Networks Digital, where she led the charge on bringing Scripps more fully into the digital space.

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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. We have 2,000+ users signed up for our Beta.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

8 ) SocialStay is effectively a B-to-B, SaaS product that requires you to simultaneously speak to several audiences (hotels, travelers, travel sites, etc.). Your team operates out of a barn on your idyllic, coastal property, yet you have created a world-class product. Write it down…. We’re positioned well to scale.”.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Here is a class of investor we’ve covered before, one usually focused upon you and less upon your business case. There are other classes of equity investors for small or early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. Accelerators.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Peter Shankman – PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking”, and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective”. Prior to joining FM in 2009, she served as President at Scripps Networks Digital, where she led the charge on bringing Scripps more fully into the digital space.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. And my specialty was computer networks. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. You’ve talked a lot about integrity in your writings and things.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. The end user, regardless of the mobile device from which the website is being accessed, will see a mobile version of the your site!

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Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

There are three classes of equity investors for early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), and similar organizations in other countries including Canada, all have web sites with directories of angel groups that are local to you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). Luckily, he had a world class team of more than two dozen committed people ( including Mike Fisher from PayPal/eBay ) who stuck it out with him.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Blue-chip customers such as Intuit, Williams-Sonoma, Fox Sports/MSN, Ticketmaster, Glaxo Smith Kline, Clear Channel, WebEx and Netflix turn to StrongMail infrastructure to bring enterprise-class reliability to their email systems. With enterprise software, your product sits at the customer’s site.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. A program manager would traditionally be responsible for: Writing the detailed specification for how the software should work.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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