Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Start with a service you know and love. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Five-and-a-half years ago I first met Chamillionaire at a tech conference in LA. We started hanging out a bit and discussing technology and entrepreneurship. After seeing Chamillionaire interact with several entrepreneurs both at events and as an investor I started introducing him to startups in an advisory capacity.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. But I thought I’d take some more time here to expand on what I think are the challenges, and opportunities, of starting a tech company in LA. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Start – It’s The Only Way You Will Know. Mark reinforced this message by telling the students, “I didn’t start young enough. I started at 31. The difference between a wantrepreneur and an entrepreneur is that an entrepreneur starts.” Start Lean. I started with three. ” 4. .

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2011

conference , and Wherecamp are largely set around location, hence the word Where in the names. Though TAC meant Total Area Coverage, the name and design were clearly inspired by the communicators on Star Trek. Conference. conference in Santa Clara, California, followed by Wherecamp, just up the road in Palo Alto.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

If you are like us, a huge number of the conference calls you participate in are enabled by a company called FreeConferenceCall.com , which has enabled free conference calls for millions of startups and large businesses alike. But, how can the company offer up free conference calling services, and what''s the story behind the service?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2011

conference , and Wherecamp are largely set around location, hence the word Where in the names. Though TAC meant Total Area Coverage, the name and design were clearly inspired by the communicators on Star Trek. Conference. conference in Santa Clara, California, followed by Wherecamp, just up the road in Palo Alto.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. Tags: Start-up Advice. You get a lot of traffic – not always results. Let me give you an example.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. But I have to catch a flight to New York for a two-day computer vision conference and 2 board meetings, 2 board dinners and a catch up with my LPs to tell them how our fund is going.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

I think this is a perfect way to think about the world when you’re designing your product / company. Quite honestly I see way too many company pitches that are designed for Techies but I only want to invest in products designed for Normals. This is one of my favorite topics on good product design. Obvious, I know.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 9, 2018

For Overwatch League , the esports conference created by fiat from Activision Blizzard , the move is the first step in its plans for housing esports teams in cities around the country. What could be more perfect than moving the inaugural championship finals for an esports league from its Los Angeles home to Brooklyn?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Let me start out with my premise: “Data rooms are where fund-raising processes go to die.” I’m going to start with the reasons and then explain how to use your best data to your advantage. If you stick through to the end I’m guessing I can persuade most of you. I have to back up and give you more context.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

With giant conferences like E3, showing off the coolest new video games to the world, very few innovations arrive in the game industry that’s off the screen. Uong noted, “I started Doozy because I firmly believe that if you make physical activity fun, kids and adults will want to be active. The list goes on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2016

If the shopping process, delivery, and support experiences are not designed-in and delivered consistently, no after-the-fact effort or product feature can compensate for the lack of it. The specifics and need for an overall service experience design were driven home to me in a new book, “ Woo, Wow, and Win ,” by Thomas A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

in Physics who talks passionately about starting a business producing nuclear powered batteries. His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D. I have tried to convince him the general idea alone does not make a business.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2014

I started my first business at eighteen, a retail cell phone business on Main Street here in Santa Monica. Having sold smartphones when smartphone were getting started, and figuring out what users want in technology was a skill set that served me very well. You have technology and strategy to maximize ROI. What''s your background?

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

Thousand Oaks-based Xirrus , a developer of Wi-Fi networking equipment, announced Monday that it has put together a portable, pre-packaged kit which is designed for deploying Wi-Fi into disaster response and temporary events. The firm said it would offer the new product online, priced starting at $3,999. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

MAY 12, 2016

Everyone is rushing to make it to the office by the set start time, when everyone is expected to be at their desks to comply with the “butt in chair” office policy. Work some more, until the designated “quitting time,” which again, may be influenced by the unspoken rule that only slackers leave right at 5 pm.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

UCLA 48hr Startup brings together people with technical, design or business background to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startups. This Sunday TechZulu will be there streaming the final presentations, judging and the awards starting at 5pm PST. 7:30pm – Pitches Start. Start prepping for presentations.

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MAY 4, 2013

Before I tell you the reasons I’m concerned about investment banking intros, I should start by saying I think bankers are enormously helpful for entrepreneurs in raising money. start-ups are overvalued. Well, it’s not because the good start-ups look bad; it’s because the bad start-ups look good! Big difference.].

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

“We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco. ” At the conference, FBI supervisory special agent Ed You told the audience the bureau is aware of the need for new biosecurity measures.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

At this time, we have ten startups, and are starting to click and do some exciting things. Alex Schneider: We designed the space to be a real creative, collaborative environment. We charge by-the-workstation, it's designed to be really flexible and affordable office space for these startups. What is the Ventura incubator?

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. How did you end up starting the site? So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. So Nolan is behind the design of the games?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Start with a service you know and love. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat. We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. I started a handbag manufacturing company with my mom in Paris, prior to school.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2012

TechZulu is proud to team up with Digital LA and accelerators Amplify, StartEngine, Launchpad, local companies BetterWorks, PromoJam, start-ups and co-working spaces, all working together to create the first-ever Silicon Beach Fest to celebrate startups, tech, and entertainment! No crazies or flakes. Email HERE with SBF as subject.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different. Tags: Start-up Advice.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Having the pitches and showcase as part of the conference is a nice feature for the startups, so the whole thing isn’t just about the pitch. With accelerator programs for IoT, smart home services, and female founders, Start Co built an impactful organization in the Southeast. They created a space where you can follow your dreams.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. She leveraged herself and even sold many of her possessions to get started. She started her business from a personal need. Tracy started renting out her bedroom on Airbnb. Now she had an extra $50,000 to start building out her team. She never gave up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

start-ups are overvalued. The other quote from the article is this: “The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. Well, it’s not because the good start-ups look bad; it’s because the bad start-ups look good! One is that Y.C. So what they’re saying is: Going through Y.C.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. particularly like his first point, which is that you should draw out your ideas before you start coding them. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 3, 2012

For those who may think Las Vegas is just the home of Zappos, Conferences, and day/night entertainment, well you are right. However, there is a whole new breed of entrepreneurs and startups starting to emerge from the #VegasTech scene. TechZulu had the honor of being invited out to the Tracky Launch event last week.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2013

gaming and mobile tracks others took advantage of during the course of the three-day conference held consecutively at ROC , Cross Campus and Santa Monica Place. One such entrepreneur was Adam Miller , Cornerstone OnDemand , CEO, who kicked off the conference at ROC. Accelerators are a great place to start.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 31, 2019

We take a look at what's coming up, including some of the most outlandish inventions that will be dropping at the conference. CES, short for Consumer Electronic Show , is the world's largest consumer tech event, and an opportunity for companies to show their latest innovations at the start of the year. What is CES?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

When to start PR? I’m generally not a believer in too much PR until you have a product built or at least well designed. This is somewhat changing in the world of crowd funding where people actually raise money so that they can build products but at a minimum your product design ought to be complete and ready to execute.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. Search for a specific answer or learn something new from start to finish. ”. 3) Imagine it is 2010 and Lynda is a 20-year old, digital native who wants to start a company.

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