Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. The entrepreneurial wunderkinds who find success without higher education "are exceptions to the rule," says Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation. Academic research supports that this experience pays off.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. The entrepreneurial wunderkinds who find success without higher education "are exceptions to the rule," says Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation. Academic research supports that this experience pays off.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. The entrepreneurial wunderkinds who find success without higher education "are exceptions to the rule," says Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation. Academic research supports that this experience pays off.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

” Most VCs view it as their responsibility to mentor, debate, cajole and generally assist with investments they make. Thus, a desire to invest more locally where I think I have a competitive advantage. Of course if it’s a company on fire I would travel to any 2-hop city from LA. Local knowledge runs deep. Not easily.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. The only successful entrepreneur-investor relationships are win-win ones.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

The ambitiously competitive teams were as follows: The Brownies, with Epic Tunes, an app aimed at live concert goers, to provide information, show reviews, and access to ticket purchases. Entrepreneurship : Through working with their mentors, each team acted as a startup, conducting market research for their pitch presentations.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. In industry this is known as “yield management” and of course it needs to exist. The company was called Red Beacon. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. The only successful entrepreneur-investor relationships are win-win ones.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. Of course, since you know those questions, you can just collect up the answers and provide them to your developers. How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? What technology research is required? Probably not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

She offers seven ways that business owners can identify and evolve with future trends, which I agree with and amplify here: Take advantage of industry research and trend reports. Find mentors and advisors who have more relevant business experience, insist you see things that aren’t on your radar, and spot what’s coming around the corner.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

There''s a lot of great research and people coming out of those institutions, and creating new companies here. Of course, if you can get a referral through a person I know, it''s much more helpful because I can get that person''s opinion as well. There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. Of course, a real entrepreneur always takes a failure as a milestone on the road to success. There is no substitute for market research, written by domain experts, to supplement your informal poll of friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. Of course, a real entrepreneur always takes a failure as a milestone on the road to success. There is no substitute for market research, written by domain experts, to supplement your informal poll of friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2010

Almost every entrepreneur needs to improve their skills in this area, so I did some research in the basic principles. Of course the work must be done well, but your way or the highway is not the right way. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I often feel the frustration of someone trying to build a startup in the wrong place and time, and wrongly attributing their struggle to personal limitations. You need to be stimulated by easy access to many sources of learning and leadership, including universities, research, and other businesses.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? What technology research is required? Learning, Networking, Mentors From the question, this person is clearly looking at the issue of how to grow into this role. I believe you will find lots of CTOs quite willing to help you as a mentor.

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