Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

Other Disney startups such as Atom Ticket , a new movie ticketing app, partnered with the next Star Wars movie and will continue to work with Walt Disney Studios on major film releases. This corporate partnership has proven well for these startups in helping them launch their products and services into another galaxy.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

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. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. As You Start to Mature. In the Early Days. You’ll get empathy. Experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. People relationship focus. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2012

Los Angeles-based Kidworth (www.kidworth.com) is looking to both help kids learn about entrepreneurship, and more importantly, make it easy for them to set up an online store, sell their services or products, and even handle things like collecting payments via credit card. We take the logistics out of starting up a business.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 12, 2012

At SoftBank Capital, a venture capital fund, he helped with investments in mobile, digital media and enterprise software startups totaling $50 million; Ash Kumra is a business coach, speaker and entrepreneur. Speakers: Tarang Shah is a venture capital professional. See [link] (more)

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Startup Weekend LA has grown to become a very special event here in Los Angeles. It’s also a very exciting time here in LA Tech with over 6 accelerators and incubators springing up over the past year. On Friday evening, the SWLA energy started to brew at the Coloft as participants began showing up around 5:00 PM.

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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. I was a sponge.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

The firm--which is backed by such investors as Derek Jeter, Peyton Manning, LeBron James, and Jennie Fince--is headed by CEO Lane Soelberg , who spoke to us a bit about what the firm's up to. Lane Soelberg: The company was started four years ago by Stephen Hansen, who was one of the original executives at Geocities.

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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2019

The finalists in the Digital Trailblazer category of the Xconomy Awards San Diego highlight the wide variety of healthtech ideas emanating from local startups and big companies alike, ranging from virtual coaches for physical therapy patients, to experimental software designed to address Alzheimer’s symptoms.

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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. In the end it will be up to you to figure out what to do. Think of web vs. mobile. Nothing blows up great opportunities faster than founders who are constantly fighting. Politics are a part of human nature and thus a part of all startups.

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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. The app was created by Matthew Glick, now a sophomore at Colgate University, and who came up with the idea while at Harvard-Westlake High School.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. People relationship focus. Marty Zwilling.

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Technical Review Organization Coach Invest 124

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

After a decade on the job I’ve started to speak more openly when newer industry colleagues now ask me what I’ve learned. We then help surround founders with other talent who want to join important causes but don’t have the startup idea themselves. It’s the executives who trust you to join the early-stage startups you’ve funded.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?” 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.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2014

We observe them in their daily lives and interactions with their teachers, coaches and friends and we look on with pride and the wonderful little human beings they have become. When we bought our son Jacob his mobile phone you displayed your motherly love consistent through all of his years. You gave them that gift, not me.

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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. What is Helpr?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. People relationship focus. Marty Zwilling.

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Technical Review Organization Coach Invest 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Dr. Yager is a real guru on this subject, having been a productivity coach, trainer, and author for many years, and still found time to squeeze out over 30 books, including five related to this subject. All too often, we spend too much time on startup ‘emergencies,’ and put off ‘urgencies’ for another day.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Email Social Media 104

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

To make it better for entrepreneurs to get the maximum attention and funding they need Stained Glass Labs has also partnered with Exitround , the world’s first marketplace for startups to discreetly get funding partners and acquisition opportunities. Comprehensive App Directory.

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Google Technical Review Press Software Review 87

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. How did the company start? They both attended a church called the Gatweay in Diamond Bar.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Nice sweep!

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2014

Dr. Yager is a real guru on this subject, having been a productivity coach, trainer, and author for many years, and still found time to squeeze out over 30 books, including five related to this subject. All too often, we spend too much time on startup ‘emergencies,’ and put off ‘urgencies’ for another day. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Email Social Media 105

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2014

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. So, what I ended up doing was I ended up creating a little website where I can go click, click, click and map my run. The MVP option goes at a rate of $5.99/month month or $29.99/year.

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Social Media Activity Startup Help 83

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. It felt pretty, pretty good.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. There are people who tell startups that they should hire the most senior people that they can find. Bringing in a senior person who’s “done it all before&# is often a mistake in a startup. So what if you’re already a mid-stage startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2023

The best startups give everyone business cards and encourage team members to talk about the business with anyone who should be interested. A single marketing coordinator can accelerate your efforts by being the coach and mentoring key members of the team on soft marketing. Empower engagement. Marty Zwilling

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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. Linktree has been around since 2016 and has more funding than its up-and-coming competitors. Now, Snipfeed enters the ring with its own $5.5 Image Credits: Snipfeed.

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Platform Commerce Startup Tool 286

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

The best startups give everyone business cards and encourage team members to talk about the business with anyone who should be interested. A single marketing coordinator can accelerate your efforts by being the coach and mentoring key members of the team on soft marketing. Empower engagement. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Let's start, and why don't you tell us what you are looking for in a pitch? If you're an industry insider--for example, maybe you worked at Microsoft in its mobile division for eight years, before your mobile startup--the extent you can get that out in a meeting to establish credibility, makes the rest of your ideas more credible.

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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 inspired you to come up with the idea? What is TenHands and why the name?

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Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

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. It is a free 100 hour coaching program to help new drivers improve their driving with data-driven feedback. Tools from Car Companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

Most early stage startups having monthly board meetings. A prominent startup CEO in NYC wrote me a private message telling me that this was an issue he was struggling with. I ran board meetings as a startup CEO for more than 8 years. We’re all just grown up big kids who operate the same way we did when we were young.

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Startup Venture Capital Software Review Email 301

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Start by trying to narrowing the list of total prospective VCs. For example, if you’re looking to approach Kleiner Perkins it’s worth knowing that my friend Matt Murphy runs their iFund and therefore is the in-house expert on all things mobile. Tell a friend! And now, the details … 1. Every investor is different.

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

They become obsessed with why the problem exists and they start chipping away at ideas for solving the problem. We are money, advice, coaching, cheerleading, interventionist but not “the decider.” Mobile is now more important than desktop computer for many apps. Startup Lessons' That is what separates us.

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Venture Capital Course Guide Entrepreneur 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

The best startups give everyone business cards and encourage team members to talk about the business with anyone who should be interested. A single marketing coordinator can accelerate your efforts by being the coach and mentoring key members of the team on soft marketing. Empower engagement.

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Marketing Coach Mentor Social Media 89