Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Samsung has designed their memory products to be waterproof, shockproof, and magnet proof, allowing them to withstand pretty much anything you could throw at it. The line of memory products is aimed at active consumers on the go who value fast reliable performance for their adventures and work. SPEED CLASS. WRITE SPEED.

Class 65

Class Writing Startup Advertising 65

InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

Their deep understanding of their customers, an uncompromising drive to create a quality product and the courage to ignore the music industry's formulaic approach to producing hits resulted in the creation one of the top selling non-compilation albums of all time. This audience feedback allowed the band to iteratively modify their creation.

Startup 269

Startup Cloud Computing RSS Writing 269

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

So, I ended up writing that first book, and Bruce helped me with the research, and that was one way we got to know each other before we were even dating. We had the idea to rent out a local school over spring break, put up a website ad, and start offering classes. It gave us the confidence to rent space for classes and form a school.

Startup 242

Startup Web Design Writing Web 242

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

So I thought I’d write a piece on how not to suck when you give a presentation. 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. They bring your product to life. Show some energy! Stories have starts, middles and ends.

Slides 399

Slides Startup Conference Writing 399

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. An entrepreneur, in particular, has to be likeable and trustworthy AND have a great product. An entrepreneur has to enchant people to use new products and services not simply bludgeon them, promote them or discount them. That doesn’t work.”.

Santa Barbara 262

Santa Barbara Technical Review Social Media Startup 262

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

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. 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. No doubt, he did.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

We do, as of the writing of this in early December, seem to be seeing a correction at this time. The biggest news was the continued bullish market now coming on ten years even though historical cycles show markets don't usually last more than 7-8 years. I had expected a correction much earlier in the year and I was wrong. On Demand).

Southern California 100

Southern California News Class Writing 100

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Indeed, whether you’re a producer, screenwriter, director, actor, cinematographer, editor, art director or composer (or some combination of these) Stage 32 offers classes to meet your specific needs. Classes with a wide geographic appeal. Among those that have paid for a Stage 32 class, 91% say they’ll do it again in the future.

Education 82

Education Entertainment Class Manhattan Beach 82

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

When I sit down to write every week I never really imagine what is going to end up resonating the most with people but it seems I’ve most often been defined by my post that I Invest in Lines, not Dots. He was in the inaugural class of 500Startups and became chief evangelist as far as I could tell. Sam had different plans.

Startup 372

Startup Course Ideas Invest 372

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens. Maximizing Business Productivity. Productivity is much more than doing everything faster. Business Email and Texting.

Course 96

Course Email Social Network Ideas 96

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList.

Guide 293

Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

functional workgroups vs. product workgroups). 8:17 How did you decide to go with either shrinkwrap or web only product? 41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development! when is the right time to go big with PR? how do you handle internal company morale?

Social Media 301

Social Media Startup Metrics Media 301

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Simply put – I’d be in search of a VC who had an intuitive sense of my product, my customers, my organizational issues, my competitors, etc. Neither class of people should give up easily. EQ and Team Leadership?

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So what happens when production is reduced by 99% and distribution bends to infinity? Video production & distribution is becoming much more programatic. That would be like selling physical consumer products and deciding not to sell at Walmart. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology. MSN & AOL.

Company 339

Company Companies Technical Review Content 339

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style. My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support. Feedback isn’t always an excuse – and often sales people can provide the best feedback to your product teams.

Startup 319

Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. I know the product intimately and it rocks. Really!). What I like? Big market.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. ” I know it sounds obvious.

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. It also has to be said that bad apples on teams bring down productive even if that person is individually a superstar. Writing a book will be fun. You hire people who look good on paper. After 6 months – you know.

CTO Hire 320

CTO Hire Startup CTO Coach Venture Capital 320

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This process costs money, which professional investors are not willing to contribute, since their interest is in scaling a proven product and business model into a growth business. This phase is intended to allow you to complete the research and development on your innovative product.

Funding 90

Funding Technical Review Startup Research 90

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

seed and they are writing $1.25m of it you can expect them to require a board seat) The competitive landscape (If you have several sources of capital you can likely politely decline the board request or can grant them a seat but ask for it to be “common appointed” and those revokable if you need in the future). D-Rounds and on … Oh, jeez.

Startup 236

Startup Venture Capital Tips Capital 236

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

And if you’re lucky and hit product/market fit straight out of the gate – awesome. Money when you find product / market fit is an extreme differentiator. Overfunding after product / market fit is essential to competing and winning. Now the AP class. why do I write p.s.’s sometimes?

Funding 150

Funding Venture Capital Startup Marketing 150

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2009

According to CEO Chris Lyman and VP of Product and Marketing Corey Brundage, the idea for the fight club came when Lyman ran into Reilly in a restaurant, and learned about his fighting class. What do employees get out of beating each other up? The firm is giving the winner two free weeks of vacation.

Culver City 140

Culver City Startup Training Class 140

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Alain Theriault, better known as StartupCoach , tells entrepreneurs that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start by writing a cook book (business plan), you work in the kitchen for a while, you learn some tools of the trade, you experiment with a few recipes, you test on willing clients. then you can start writing a recipe.

Startup 96

Startup Writing Metrics Marketing 96

InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

In several cases, we eventually productized summer Intern projects, including a mobile version of GoToMyPC which we called PocketView. Working on meaningful projects will shorten the Interns’ learning curve, thereby ensuring they will reach an acceptable level of productivity soon after being hired full-time.

Startup 244

Startup Software Review Technical Review Class 244

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.

Invest 299

Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

USC has a fantastic program, in that you are able to be in class, and both learn the concepts and apply it to business. We think we've really gotten the product validated by the market, particularly with Cyber Monday. Noah Auerhahn: The funding is going to enhance the product.

USC 207

USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. Most classes in college focus on a narrow area of interest, which just teach students to focus on problems through one lens. Maximizing Business Productivity. Productivity is much more than doing everything faster. Business Email and Texting.

Course 104

Course Email Social Network Ideas 104

socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

Not to plug myself, but I've done some writing and published a book with O'Reilly, talking about security misconceptions. We know the industry is really suffering from a lack of effective tools, especially as we see this new wave of product development that joins DevOps and cloud. Andrew Peterson: I've learned a bunch. READ MORE>>.

Web 138

Web Startup Southern California Software 138

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Enterprises are under a lot of pressure to produce great product under fast cycles. We can now write $20M, $25M, and $30M checks to existing, breakout companies in our portfolio. The reason for that, and it's really important, is the bane of this asset class is the generally poor liquidity that venture capital provides.

Southern California 113

Southern California Capital Funding Invest 113

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. VC’s are not immune to this phenomenon.

Venture Capital 263

Venture Capital Startup Invest Funding 263

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.". that is attractive to that particular community.".

News 198

News Sites Startup RSS 198

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. Obviously to understand a “class&# of people you have to make broad generalizations. Here are mine.

Sales 316

Sales Startup Pricing Customer 316

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?

UCLA 256

UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. His product auto-posted a testimonial from Dave Morin into Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg called the tactic “lame.&# Journalists aren’t going to write about you all the time unless you’re Facebook. What a shame.&#.

Startup 329

Startup Press Training Media 329

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. We've modeled our program after TechStars.

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

My partner was in product management at Demand Media. But Sam is a first-class act and boy does he know how to nail an intro. So 2 things reminded me of that story and got me thinking about writing this post: I was on a panel this week talking to a crowd of a couple of hundred aspiring entrepreneurs. Don’t blow it.

Startup 315

Startup Content Conference Media 315