Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2023

It doesn’t take a huge marketing budget to provide public recognition in team meetings for individual initiatives that can benefit the company. These might include anyone bringing in a new customer, representing the company in a good social cause, or participating in a video or social media campaign on their own time. Reward success.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

The link-in-bio business is heating up as more mobile website builders compete for a coveted slice of real estate on a creator’s TikTok, Instagram or Twitter. So, in February 2020, with little to no funding left, the company completely pivoted to its current link-in-bio business. With its $5.5 With its $5.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

It doesn’t take a huge marketing budget to provide public recognition in team meetings for individual initiatives that can benefit the company. These might include anyone bringing in a new customer, representing the company in a good social cause, or participating in a video or social media campaign on their own time. Reward success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. How much goodwill can you and your company command today?

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. “This year, more than ever, we are working with companies with the potential to help define the future of media and entertainment together with Disney.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. Think of web vs. mobile. I think of VCs as coaches. I call them “ VCs Seagulls.”

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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2019

San Diego’s prowess in computer science, medical devices, and life sciences makes it a natural hub of innovative digital health companies.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2016

According to Gipper, its new app allows anyone to post, organize, share high school sports, letting players, parents, coaches, schools, and other upload sports highlights. Kraft also was the founder of Thrively, UberMedia, and BigStage Entertainment, among other companies. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. How much goodwill can you and your company command today?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

It doesn’t take a huge marketing budget to provide public recognition in team meetings for individual initiatives that can benefit the company. These might include anyone bringing in a new customer, representing the company in a good social cause, or participating in a video or social media campaign on their own time. Reward success.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

Lane Soelberg: The company was started four years ago by Stephen Hansen, who was one of the original executives at Geocities. It's a very fragmented market, and there's not a lot of infrastructure to help those volunteers, who just figured out last Friday that they've got to coach their AYSO, Pop Warner, or Little League team.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. Bryan Cheung: We're an enterprise software company. How did the company start?

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2012

The following guest post is from Laurie Barkman, Marketing Lead at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. What if they attended a community college?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes. For some companies it is now > 70% of the deals they’re closing and they’ve seen it as their secret weapon.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Seth attended UCSB but dropped out to start a denim company. . Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. Month by month, the hospitality business is sorting out how mobile plays a role in increasing revenue and driving loyalty.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). BuildOnline (the company I founded) has just announcement plans to be more aggressive in growing in the US. Let me not bury the lede.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 26, 2019

Andrew and Petri had left game developer Rovio (of Angry Birds fame) and were creating a new games company called Seriously that would combine compelling intellectual property (characters), great narratives, and fun game play in a mobile-first application. Today the company announced it was acquired by gaming powerhouse Playtika.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you raise millions of dollars from professional investors it is no longer “your” company but a shared company that you control. In the Early Days. In the Growth Years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. How much goodwill can you and your company command today?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

Stained Glass Labs’s incubator companies will be able to gain advanced access to the Exitround community of business and corporate development professionals and also get one-to-one coaching on strategically navigating corporate conversations. Partnership to give firms bigger business opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

I was recently contacted by an entrepreneur who was consider a few different business models for his company. Note: before you jump down my throat this founder is no longer with the company after making a mistake and apologizing to Jcal he decided to move on.) Mobile is now more important than desktop computer for many apps.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2014

MapMyFitness became one of the first companies to successfully mesh the health and fitness culture with technology before the first iPhone came out. If we rewind to 8 years ago, it was me in San Diego training for my second marathon and I was trying to start another company at the time. The MVP option goes at a rate of $5.99/month

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

In his words, [in some instances] “because lots of capital is available, the company takes on the capital and that ends up resulting in no constraints on decision making and so the company decides to do five things in stead of just one.” You are defined by how you serve the companies that are struggling.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

It is tempting because you not only see that they were VP Sales at 3 other startups but also that they have great access (according to their resume) to senior executives at companies you’re trying to target. More likely this person who wants to work at your fledgling company is a decent performer but not a superstar. Not so fast.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

Becka Klauber Richter is co-founder of the startup, and spoke to us about the company, which she co-founded with Kasey Edwards. What's your background, how did you start the company? I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. Finally, what are the next steps for your company?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Tyler Crowley, of Sqweal, Launch, ThisWeekInStartups, Open Angel Forum, and Mahalo, stopped by to give a quick coaching session on pitch prep. Tyler has helped coach dozens of companies through pitching and presenting at Launch Conf and formerly TechCrunch 50. Sunday morning rolled around and it was down to crunch-time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. Why buy now?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Car companies, insurance companies and start-ups are all providing options for concerned parents interested in keeping a virtual eye on Little Johnny behind the wheel. Tools from Car Companies. Car companies are getting in on the trend by installing on-board technology or adding new services. For an additional $3.99

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

And most companies don’t do enough between board meetings. For the record, this is not a secret, coded messages to companies for which I am on the board! I found that too often it was an update meeting for investors rather than a meeting for my company to get value. But that isn’t what this post is about.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd try something different, and put together a virtual panel of venture capitalists to give us a few tips on pitching your company. If I've seen companies that are similar to them--or half a dozen companies--even if the area might be big and exciting, it will be hard to make an investment.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The “ TenHands ” name emerged from the concept and philosophy of John Wooden, the UCLA basketball coach, who emphasized the value of teamwork and insisted that all ten hands (five players) touch the ball before shooting. What is TenHands and why the name? Unlimited full feature service beyond 3 hours per user/month will cost $10.

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