InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2011

" 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. " 5) At Pepperdine you earned a joint MBA/JD degree. Despite (or maybe because of) my Wharton lineage, I am not a huge fan of MBAs in the startup world.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2015

I treat each of my classes as a product that the students are paying a lot of money to consume. For instance, I assign an Ombudsman in all my classes in order to gather anonymous feedback. Thus, diligent students leave my classes with insights and tools they can directly apply to their jobs after graduation. Challenging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Product research and prototype development. Take advantage of the tech classes, labs, equipment, and graduate students looking for real world problems to research. Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Business plan assistance.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

Whatever you’re working on now, the half-life of innovation is so rapid now that your product will soon be out-of-date. In this globally connected world product leads disappear in nano-seconds. We know that if you start with ho-hum founders you’re less likely to assemble a world-class team. They hired him when he was an MBA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2012

Product research and prototype development. Take advantage of the tech classes, labs, equipment, and graduate students looking for real world problems to research. Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Business plan assistance.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

I will say, is that private equity was almost like my MBA, in that it taught me how to scale a business efficiently. So where is the product now? Michael Greenberg: We raised a seed round in September of 2017, and actually, this year, we have been production-alizing all of our models. What's next for you? Michael Greenberg: Yes.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. There were lots of people very intent on the execution of the product, really looking into the details of design and flow. When did you create the business?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

No amount of persuasion would work so I asked simply if I could be staffed on one of his projects to teach some of his MBA geniuses about computer networks since they were working on defining telecom product offerings for the Internet age. And then he began telling his colleagues that I was useful even without my MBA.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

This is probably because many founders are product or technology people. The mistake many startup people make is they hire a “sales person&# to go out and talk with customers so they can do what they’re good at which is building product or “running the company.&# Sales people are a different breed, you say.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. Minimum Viable Product (MVP). It suggests the minimum features to allow the product to be deployed and get feedback, and no more.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking. Most of my MBA classes were a waste (since I had studied economics as an undergrad) but one totally changed my thinking.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class. Despite my cynicism of MBA’s , this class was very valuable to me. The pricing problem – So an investor put $5 million at a $10 million pre-money valuation in a company with a great beta product but no real customers. The deal was done in late 2007.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. The product focuses on the in-store behavior of consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. That asset class need not represent the broader market. They are often bound by geographies and asset classes. If you are interested the Vimeo is here. And so on down then line.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2012

Most of them pick it up fairly quickly… but some of them spend their whole careers never understanding what business they are in and think of it as a financial asset class.”. Throw them out and make them be product managers or something in a startup to get a feel of a company. Let them…understand how to analyze deals.

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Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur SaaS 239

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

You may remember from 8th grade science class that Brownian motion describes the random movement of atomic matter, caused by collisions with molecules of the surrounding medium. Two Wharton students needed new suits for the dreaded MBA interview season. Product Name. Product Name. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

They are at the tops of their classes and want to get into private equity or venture capital some day. They’re willing to put in the hours pounding the phones and learn so that their CVs will have the top name private equity firms on them to get them back into the top-name MBA programs to come out and try and make investments for real.

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socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2009

There has been a lot of recent interest in green technologies and products which attack the green/clean technology space, with a number of firms in Southern California tackling parts of that problem. Lawn and garden equipment uses a Class 4 Engine, the dirtiest of all engines. Are your products available yet?

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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. Automating the Path to a Better User Experience - The Product Guy , July 5, 2010 I started writing about Quick-UX in 2008. Showscase your products and services.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

in Computer Science and his MBA from UC Irvine. and holds a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. 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. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. The value of research is improving knowledge, and that was the initial way I was thinking about what our product was going to be.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

I have my degree in engineering from the University of Santa Clara, and also have executive management degree from the Anderson School of Business, along with a Global Executive MBA from the London School of Economics/NYU Paris. Class sizes are getting bigger, especially in lower grades, middle schools, and high school.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

in Computer Science and his MBA from UC Irvine. This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

They can travel the world, take classes in interesting subjects, spend time with loved ones or start new hobbies. I got my firm to pay for 50% of my MBA and I did the international program at the University of Chicago. Our European campus was in Barcelona where I rented a villa with 5 buddies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

At the margin you can make yourself better at sales, product design, marketing, leadership, capital raising, etc. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer. So going into a startup scenario you bring these innate skills or you don’t. so it’s not pointless to want to improve.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In high school, he founded Solar Devices, a firm that sold plans and kits for solar energy products. which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL. in Computer Science and his MBA from UC Irvine. After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., Dinesh earned his B.S.

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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!

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Startup Twiistup Slides Screening 362

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

You can watch the video here or … As always we have notes: graciously provided by Daniel Wolchonok , the founder of RentMaps whose request of me for typing up the notes was to come and speak at Yale where he’ll be getting his MBA starting this fall so I’ve agreed to it. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies.

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