SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Monday, December 15, 2008 -- UCLA MBA Intern Fair for VC / Portfolio / Small UCLA MBA Intern Fair for VC / Portfolio / Small Companies. Companies Registration Deadline. The goal of the fair on January 13th is to match companies with both paid and academic interns.

UCLA 100

UCLA Venture Capital Company Companies 100

socalTECH

MAY 26, 2021

The funding was led by Sequoia Capital China, and also included the company other investors. Names of the other investors were not announced by the company. Ming Wang, PhD/MBA is CEO of Phanes Therapeutics. Ming Wang, PhD/MBA is CEO of Phanes Therapeutics.

San Diego 113

San Diego Research Funding Capital 113

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Tech entrepreneurs' consternation with MBAs does not rise to the level of loathing. Rather, entrepreneurs' frustrations are often due to an incongruence between an MBA's expectations versus the value they can deliver to a startup. Five reasons many MBAs struggle at startups are as follows: 1.

Entrepreneur 279

Entrepreneur Technical Review Case Study Class 279

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2010

I don’t have an MBA. I used to fear that this would put me at a disadvantage in starting my own company, but now I’m convinced that it may be the other way around. More importantly, as a parent or mentor, what should you advise young potential entrepreneurs about getting an MBA? These probably feel that their MBA was worthwhile.

Entrepreneur 60

Entrepreneur Technical Advisors Education Social Network 60

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals firm AFYX Therapeutics has named a new Chief Medical Officer, the company said this morning. The company appointed Dennis D. MBA to the position. Orexigen Therapeutics, and EnteroMedics, Inc. Orexigen Therapeutics, and EnteroMedics, Inc. READ MORE>>.

San Diego 113

San Diego Company Companies 113

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I listed on many databases – some MBA, some not. MBA fine, but not required. He’s a star who has a very intuitive feel for technology and … no MBA. Understanding the 5 C’s to decide whether to get an MBA – after the jump. He says the MBA transformed his thinking. THE FIVE C’S.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

Collaborative efforts with local companies, like Siemens Venture Capital, are available for certain technology and focus areas. Most schools also nurture relationships with local and former executives whom they use for guest lectures to MBA courses, judge student business plans, and assign as mentors for university spinoffs.

Incubator 172

Incubator Mentor Class Resource 172

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. Have a look at the companies below.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Portfolio company support & analysis. Associates often shadow partners at board meetings so that they can help follow up with the company on important initiatives between board meetings. Most firms hire associates straight out of MBA programs and usually it is a “2-3 years and out” type of job. Industry reviews.

Help 365

Help Invest Venture Capital Technical Review 365

socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2018

Irvine-based antivirus and endpoint protection software developer Cylance has added three new people to its board of directors, according to the company, adding Kirk Arnold, Michael Capellas and Joe Maglione to the body.

Software Development 113

Software Development Software Sales Develop 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The company said Peck has been involved with the company as an early-stage seed round investor. Peck is a real estate and biotech investor, and had been CEO and one ofthe owners of Meridian Leasing, although he got his start working for RCA and Intel as an MBA student in the 1960's. READ MORE>>.

San Diego 100

San Diego Develop Development Company 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

” I look for a lot of things, actually: Persistence (above all else), resiliency, leadership, humility, attention-to-detail, street smarts, transparency and both obsession with one’s company and a burning desire to win. In fact, my salary never caught up with my pre startup salary across 2 companies and 8 years.

Startup 409

Startup Invest Venture Capital Writing 409

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 28, 2017

This CEO and CFO only breakfast will focus on Drones and led by Dan Burton Founder and CEO of DroneBase, the world's leading drone services company with 15,000+ commercial drone flights in over 40 countries. Dan also worked at Goldman Sachs and the US Senate, and went to HBS for an MBA.

Services 100

Services Company Companies 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

In what it calls a "video MBA", Santa Monica-based DocStoc has launched a major new feature of the site, aimed at helping small businesses and professionals learn about everything from building a brand, pitching their business plan, running an Adwords campaign, and more. Pricing on the new courses was not announced by the company.

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Course Santa Monica Sites Pricing 178

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

Traditionally, these between a rock and hard place problems have been solved with a limited pool of expensive options – usually associated with long contracts and high billables for “MBA quality” work. Professional brands like Bain, Barclays, Deloitte, Booz Allen Hamilton; MBA/academia like Columbia, Harvard, Wharton, etc.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review Outsource 105

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

My literal response was, “She went to Princeton undergrad and has a Stanford MBA. Kara said “no” because she wanted to start her own company, which she did and I backed. Instead he championed our investment themes into sustainability and food technologies having invested in companies like Apeel Sciences and Ynsect.

Venture Capital 361

Venture Capital Startup Invest CitySearch 361

socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2010

Online search portal Yahoo said yesterday that it has named Blake Irving , most recently a professor at the Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management in Malibu, as its Chief Product Officer, heading up the company's product strategy and direction.

Pepperdine 203

Pepperdine Yahoo Malibu Product 203

TechCrunch LA

MAY 3, 2022

The company Winters was working for sponsored her MBA to Harvard Business School, and it was there that she came up with the idea for Upgrade. “I The company, which raised $1.7 The company makes money on the wig and hair sales and saw revenue triple over the past year.

Tool 179

Tool Customer Custom Marketing 179

socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

According to Palo Alto-based Auditude this morning, Helfand has joined the company as CEO. Auditude develops technology to help companies monetize their online video. The firm was actually spawned out of a UCLA MBA business plan competition.

Woodland Hills 177

Woodland Hills Redpoint UCLA Advertising 177

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Great companies are comprised of great individual point people or functional leaders. There are plenty of great leaders who work really hard and work for big companies. If you put on paper what it would take to be successful in your company, you’d never take the first step, which is why most people don’t. They finally quit.

Entrepreneur 293

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital CTO Hire 293

Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2015

After acquiring the company with Bain Capital from the Walt Disney Company in 2000, he helped grow the company from less than $10mm of revenues to over $80mm in 2005 when he took the company public on the London Stock Exchange at a $200mm valuation.

Entertainment 70

Entertainment Invest Capital Help 70

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Many MBA programs still cater too much to the needs of large, corporate management jobs or prepare students to enter big consulting companies or investments banks. I don’t recommend that you hire traditional sales people when your company is too early-stage. Specifically, 1.

Startup 319

Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

According to an old but still relevant survey by Bain & Company , 80% of businesses believe they have differentiated offerings, but only 8% of customers agree. Even back then, experts projected that businesses with truly differentiated offerings had only an 80% chance of long-term success, compared to ‘me-too’ companies with a 20% chance.

Competition 123

Competition Customer Custom Examples 123

Berkonomics

AUGUST 20, 2015

I thought of this in a recent liquidity event in one of my portfolio companies. The company provides identity theft protection, and took a large round from a private equity firm, which returned about eight times investment in cash to the early angels, and still left them with all their stock in the deal, an outstanding result.

Equity 120

Equity Email Sales Invest 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2022

As the company matures, and you learn more about your customers and your market, then it is time to go broader or deeper. There is a big gap between people who love to try new technologies, and the rest of us, who tend to be much more “technophobic.” Start your business with a narrow niche and a focused strategy, but don’t stay there.

Startup 150

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 150

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 7, 2009

The goal of the Fair is to match entrepreneurial companies in need of talent in a variety of corporate functions with Anderson MBA students searching for both academic and paid internships. MBA student interns will contribute 8-10 hrs / week over winter (1/13-3/20/09) and/or spring (3/27-6/11/09) quarters.

Startup 100

Startup UCLA Email Company 100

Tech Coast Venture Network

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Frumi Rachel Barr, MBA Every person and organization on earth knows what they do. By WHY, we mean why does your company exist? As a result they build profitable and sustainable companies. By Dr. Frumi Rachel Barr, MBA. Some even know how they do it. but very few know WHY they do what they do. They too are a result.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur TCVN Organization Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2014

According to a survey by Bain & Company a while back, 80% of businesses believe they have differentiated offerings, but only 8% of customers agree. Today, differentiated companies enable customers to determine the precise product offering that best serves that customer''s needs. Marty Zwilling.

Product 102

Product Customer Custom Examples 102

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2021

An MBA or other academic credentials just don’t do it. It helps to work in a similar company before you start your own. Yet there is no standardized testing or certification required or available anywhere to help you decide if you are a good fit for entrepreneurship, or founding a business is right for you. Take stock of whom you know.

Entrepreneur 169

Entrepreneur Startup Statistics Guide 169

InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2011

It’s a lot of the same skills as running a company. " 5) At Pepperdine you earned a joint MBA/JD degree. Despite (or maybe because of) my Wharton lineage, I am not a huge fan of MBAs in the startup world. "If I had it to do all over again, I would have just start a company right way.

Pepperdine 234

Pepperdine Startup Santa Barbara Class 234

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Also, UsedCardboardBoxes.com (UCB) is a national logistics company focusing on the REUSE of corrugated cardboard boxes. But how to overcome the risks in politics, government relationships and IP protection remains a hurdle for U.S. See https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickForm/viewForm.do?orgId=lavandformId=109098. orgId=lavandformId=109098.

LAVA 100

LAVA IP Entrepreneur Funding 100

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2014

Here are four startup founders, who are among the hottest companies in the technology world, who got their start in Southern California. He eventually took a leave of absence from his MBA to pursue the startup, which is now a $200M+ cloud storage provider, on the verge of an IPO filing. billion as the company heads towards its IPO.

Southern California 165

Southern California Startup UCLA UCSD 165

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2019

Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference, which we co-host every year. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

Capital 113

Capital Southern California Technical Review SaaS 113

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

When I was an MBA student at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, I was frustrated that most of the Professors in the Entrepreneurship Department had never been entrepreneurs. Thus, cast your research net beyond VC-backed companies to fully understand a school’s ability to foster viable businesses.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Class Patents 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference. What was the big news for you or your company this year? Also more serial founders are doing their second, third, even fourth companies.

Capital 124

Capital Southern California SaaS SoCal 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

In any career, an advanced degree, such as an MBA or PhD, will at least give you entrée into more opportunities. The days are gone when you could hide behind the company brand. Not many of us are self-learners by default, and experience and failures take a long time. The key is to keep learning, from mentors, books, and online.

Help 130

Help Mentor Paramount Technical Review 130

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. The following year, she stepped down as CEO, and by 2016, her company filed for bankruptcy and was purchased by Boohoo. Then, Amoruso started a company called Girlboss that was likened to “Linkedin for Women.”

Startup 280

Startup Netflix Los Angeles Innocal 280