Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

He succinctly outlines the key behaviors that I believe every business leader must focus on, to drive innovation without waiting for the next competitive crisis: Avoid the assumption that current gifts will keep on giving. A business that relies on static skill replacement is falling behind, and ripe for the next competitive crisis.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

On a micro level, you can do your part to fix tech's gender problem by recruiting people with diverse backgrounds and place them in a company culture that rewards those who challenge the status quo. One of these bright lights is Santa Barbara-based HG Data - developers of the world's largest competitive-intelligence database. <Note:

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APRIL 12, 2016

Former CEO and founder Peter Diamandis remains as Chairman of the company. Shingles was most recently part of Deloitte Consulting's Innovation Group, and also previously served at Kellogg Company, Ernst & Young LLP, and as a startup founder. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to term sheet has shrunk from 90 days in 2004 to just 9 today. Companies are raising some angel money or Y Combinator money.” KP used to be a small team doing hands-on company building.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2022

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. It happens on the front end for startups to get traction, and then again later for every company as the economy, competition, and culture changes around them. Sherry, Jr.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. Talent – Every startup needs talents to give the company value. If you want to be feared.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Photo courtesy IBM Business Coaching. Especially if they have sold their companies and live comfortably upon the proceeds, these people are often the most willing to help and the most patient through the process. His average percentage of a company was 5% in return for spending a day a week as I recall. Original 1994 book.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC. In a very real sense, we funded him, and he superseded even IBM. Very few businesses can grow organically fast enough to stay ahead of competition. The power is in the people, their business relationships, and their connections.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

Companies today are paranoid, afraid that even their friends will steal their business. It’s a great survival strategy for small companies or entrepreneurs, and a good expansion strategy for even the largest companies. You see this every day in retail outlets that are not “ company stores.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2019

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? We have invested in 13 companies out of our Fund 1 so far and are more bullish than ever on the amazing entrepreneurs we are meeting and the companies we are helping them build. A few of our portfolio companies are using AI (i.e. Since 2010, $6.3B

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MAY 25, 2018

The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Business partnerships have traditionally been agreements to drive more transactions than either company could do alone. The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

He outlines the attributes of the “entrepreneurs” or intrapreneurs in your organization, and how to lead them to make your company an innovator: Love to explore novel approaches and solutions. In every company, there are a few people who don’t like to follow the accepted way of doing things. Kaihan Krippendorff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

Smart entrepreneurs are now starting to look at this option again, as well as the challenges of running a public company. Last year was quite a year for IPOs, largely influenced by the significant rise in the number of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) who went public, despite almost uniformly negative returns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

They forget that adapting their company and themselves as their customers evolve is the key to long-term survival. Don’t be the next Xerox who totally missed the personal computer market, even though they had the technology and the processes well before Apple, IBM, and others. Expand into key new sales and delivery channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2015

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM, Intel, and other hardware manufacturers. No growth” or even slow-growth companies waiting for an Angel may have a long wait. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. Talent – Every startup needs talents to give the company value. If you want to be feared.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2018

As a business advisor, I have long been surprised by the large number of industry stalwarts, including Blockbuster, Kodak, and General Motors, that have been dealt major setbacks, or even total failure, by upstart young companies, with a fraction of the resources or industry experience. Acquire and cultivate new knowledge disciplines.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2014

Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at anything, and will not survive the competition. Even a company with unlimited money and people shouldn’t try to step into those two domains for the first time at the same time. Realistically frame the competition.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million. In the mid 1960’s, large mainframe manufacturers, such as IBM, Burroughs and Honeywell, provided complete IT solutions.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

The bigger public players – Cisco, Check Point, HP, IBM, Symantec, and others – need to continually add to their arsenal of security solutions as the threat landscape continues to evolve. Thus, in the booming cybersecurity industry, valued at over $75 billion in 2015 by Gartner , these larger companies evolve their product lines via M&A.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2014

“We’ve got an exciting and innovative group of companies coming together for this event,” Kyle Ellicott, Co-Founder/CTO of Wearable World and the GLAZED Conference said. ” Additional partners including IBM, Deloitte, Nod Labs, and Plantronics have also registered to participate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. It happens on the front end for startups to get traction, and then again later for every company as the economy, competition, and culture changes around them. Sherry, Jr.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2013

Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at anything, and will not survive the competition. Even a company with unlimited money and people shouldn’t try to step into those two domains for the first time at the same time. Realistically frame the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

The fact that entrepreneurs tend to think outside the box with passion and persistence is a big positive, and it's clearly the reason many large companies now fund or buy successful startups for new innovations rather than depend on internal projects. First-to-market is a key competitive advantage.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We spoke with Ali Khoshgozaran , founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about the startup. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. Finally, what''s next for your company? What is Tilofy about? How did Tilofy come about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM and other hardware manufacturers. No growth” or even slow-growth companies waiting for an Angel may have a long wait. Fresh customer base.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2018

I will suggest to you as a business owner and entrepreneur that focus on certain key behaviors will drive innovation without waiting for the next competitive crisis: Be outspoken in communicating proactive required change. Too many companies try to force a sense of employee urgency through deadlines and performance goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

One of the most important questions you will be asked by potential investors is how your solutions beats the competition, not just today, but over the three to five year life of their investment. The concept is called “sustainable competitive advantage.” A sustainable competitive advantage is not a destination, but a journey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Today around 90 percent of successful startups are still acquired by bigger companies, as the safer and preferred method of growth and funding. Increased liability risk exposure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2016

He succinctly outlines the key behaviors that I believe every business leader must focus on, to drive innovation without waiting for the next competitive crisis: Avoid the assumption that current gifts will keep on giving. A business that relies on static skill replacement is falling behind, and ripe for the next competitive crisis.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM and other hardware manufacturers. No growth” or even slow-growth companies waiting for an angel may have a long wait. Fresh customer base.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Company : FindTheBest. Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Of course, there was so little competition back then so it easier to find uncharted territory.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

However, according to founder and CEO Frank Addante --it''s important to think of the IPO not as an exit, but as just another milestone and funding event in the company''s life. Frank talked to us about the IPO, the market, why supporting the Los Angeles startup community was important to the company''s growth, and more.

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