Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. Still though, when founders are seeking funding, “ 75 percent of the venture capital goes to three states: Massachusetts, New York, and California,” said Steve Case in an interview with Recode. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Every business founder knows the need for a culture that promotes continuous innovation, an entrepreneurial spirit, and one that creates sustainable value across all functions in the business. Kaplan is a leading expert in building innovation cultures, and speaks from his real-world experience with many companies, as well as academic study.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 22, 2016

But when it comes to the entrepreneurial world, sports stars haven’t always panned out. Along with tech entrepreneur Jeff Stibel, Bryant’s aim with the new venture is to invest in media, technology, and data companies. Since 2013, the two have invested in 15 companies including The Players Tribune , RingDNA , and Scopefly.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Company : FindTheBest. Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. How do you stand out?”.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 20, 2012

Rapidly and repeatedly hiring star employees is a competitive advantage. Although this is a core competency that must be honed over time, there is a cadre of SaaS hiring tools that the world’s leading tech companies deploy to their advantage. Dynamic companies go beyond traditional job boards to promote their open positions.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. Noah, thanks for the interview. How did the company start? Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Competitive (Athlete: skier & rowed at Princeton, hates losing at everything she does). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). They like to say it was an 8-year interview process). Thus began my marketing campaign.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Although the plot was obviously devised for comic effect, it serves to illustrate that non-conventional methods of infiltrating Big Dumb Companies (BDCs) are often effective. Entrepreneurs constantly have to capture the attention of larger companies. Eventually, you will reach someone at the target company.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2012

The following guest post is from Dan Monarko, Online Marketing Manager 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. Commitment . It’s the root of real achievement.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Northwest Arkansas is home to Fortune 500 companies including Walmart, Tyson Foods and J.B. Instead of charging the entrepreneurs, we work with enlightened public and private funding partners who understand that a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem is the best long-term play for a region. A reasonable cost of real-estate.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. The company- now has around $50M in recurring annual revenues. Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

Amazon is famous for their Two-Pizza.Teams (no bigger than two pizzas will feed), allowing an entrepreneurial mindset more autonomy, agility, and accountability. This person assures that haste and manager bias are avoided, the interviews are systematic, and candidates fit well beyond immediate roles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Every business founder knows the need for a culture that promotes continuous innovation, an entrepreneurial spirit, and one that creates sustainable value across all functions in the business. Kaplan is a leading expert in building innovation cultures, and speaks from his real-world experience with many companies, as well as academic study.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

8 ) Although you wrote an excellent business book ( The Map Of Innovation ) that is consistently well received by my UCSB entrepreneurial students, I know you are not a huge fan of most business books. If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do, you will have the best experience of your life.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 21, 2019

As the Flapper fashion trend fell out of favor, the company courted Hollywood actresses, including Elizabeth Taylor, to wear their bras in films, thus introducing brassieres to a national market. In 1949, the company launched its iconic, “I dreamed __ (fill in the blank with a mundane task)… in a Maidenform Bra” campaign.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

In today''s electronic world, there is an immense number of data sources creating millions of data points that companies are hoping to make sense of. There are lots of products that might look for any mention of a product name or company name, and yes, we do that--but more importantly, we are also analyzing situations that arise.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. What makes their story more remarkable, in the age of 20-something billionaires, is that both of the company’s founders are in their 50’s.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2009

For example, one of our investments was Boom Studios, the company that publishes comic books and turns those into films. One of the things that is really helpful about the network, is before we do a deal, we check it with partners all over the world, to see if they've seen similar companies.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

We're looking for inventors interested in commercializing and spinning out their technology into a company. Universities have a bunch of companies on either side that have done that. If an existing company is not interested in licensing, and a researcher is not an entrepreneurial spirit, those projects go no where.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. The interviewer asks some questions and the interviewee does the same. Companies have a fairly predictable life cycle. Yes, even bootstrappers. liquidation preference. Charles Darwin.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

In fact, for the past 27-years, he has specialized in bringing exotic travel destinations to those of us who are healthy and active but whose competitive sporting days are long behind us. My research led me to Wildland Adventures, one of the pioneering companies in the ecotravel space. Ever fantasized about climbing Mt. but we don''t.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

I was at a dinner recently in Chicago and the table discussion was about building great companies outside of Silicon Valley. It’s not the great companies you build, it’s the silent killer of those that should have been build locally and weren’t. Klout was an LA company – sold for $200 million to Lithium.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 5, 2011

I’m continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I’m always selling. Such selling goes beyond promoting a company’s products and services. In addition to selling, hard work is a recurring theme of entrepreneurial success, as underscored in my interview with Guy Kawasaki. "Sweat

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

And for many companies a good deal of their business is still closed over the phone–through their call centers. This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. You’re right.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. The company that innovated that model was called Overture.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately. The Application. Stay Tuned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2010

Marty: Welcome to Startup Professionals interviews. We invest in early stage IT startups and then oversee those portfolio companies through to exit. Stephanie: I love building companies. I will tell a story, though, about one young woman who I very much hope continues on an entrepreneurial path. Tell us what you do.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. Overture was sold to Yahoo!

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

The world’s largest skateboard company, Skate One produces many of industry’s best-selling brands, including Powell•Peralta Skateboards , BONES Wheels and Mini•Logo Skateboards. This is the first of a two part, extensive interview I recently conducted with Mr. Powell.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

How is the company funded? Kalvin, my co-foudner, and I, started at Dialpad, an early Internet telephony company that was a precursor to Skype. What are you currently focused on with the company? John Nahm: The main reason, is we have a lot of entrepreneurial friends here in Southern California.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

Through simple design, extensive sensing mechanism research, and behavioral science principles, Moving Analytics is carving out its own innovative niche in a heavily competitive space by providing a simple solution for highly sedentary people. A walking interview? How is Movn different than your competition?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. Ever the community builder, Derek booked Clay to speak at his event but instead of interviewing him he asked me?—?somebody to do the interview. It’s no wonder they’ve both performed so well. somebody he knew from afar?—?to

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

After starting three companies, I've found that some widely accepted advice lead me to failure while. You work in (or run) a services company. Intrapreneurship: Embracing Disruptive Innovation Within Your Company. The last couple of years have seen a significant increase in IT and interactive companies placing be.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

. ► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ► September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you.

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