socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
Amos Schwartzfarb: I have been in and a part of early stage startup companies since the mid 90's, in San Francisco. I left HotJobs, and started another company, with Jake Winebaum, called Work.com, while he was running Business.com. I thought I'd swear off early stage companies, even though I ended up three or four more after that.
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 12, 2018
The company is ServiceTitan, and its market… is air conditioners. Both programmers, the two reconnected after doing stints as custom developers during and after college, and then when they were developing tools for their families’ businesses as residential contractors in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale.
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socalTECH
APRIL 10, 2018
It's a term to help people understand that we're here to help companies get ready to scale. The concept, is we want o get them to an accelerator, get them investment, or get them to revenueany one of those paths would be great. other companies, which are already off and running are ready for aceclerators and seed funding.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2010
We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Almost anyone can start a company today on a shoestring budget, following these cost-cutting recommendations: Establish a solid legal structure for your business.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 13, 2013
Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. This is a very important to do when you first start a company.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 15, 2010
It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). We had a big discussion about DST and why these investments.
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