Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

These authors speak from their own wealth of experience in creating and growing technology startups, marketing, and fundraising. Book smarts represent your current depth of understanding of technology and business concepts. I recommend that you get more visible at industry conferences and on social media.

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Help Mentor Paramount Technical Review 130

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

The board’s job is to review the company’s financial performance and strategy and help provide counsel to the executive team. But I find that the more informed your board is and the more you’re staying on their radar screen the more effective they’ll be for you. Some boards are highly functional, many are not.

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Tips Slides Startup Technical Review 212

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Explore investor websites and conferences. Investor conferences are also a good place to keep up with what is going on, get to know some potential investors for you, and find what is hot. Typically you can browse them by region or technology to find founders. Your best job leads will come from other entrepreneurs.

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Sample Entrepreneur Technical Review Startup 101

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

From apps to hardware, to KickStarter successes and international startups, we’re inching closer to finding out who will take home the title of Startup of the Year competition at our annual Celebrate Conference in October. Clinicians must be convinced that this positively disruptive technology will indeed help them provide better treatment.

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Competition Mobile Startup Technical Review 123

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

This year’s AT&T Hackathon at SXSW is focused on technology and travel. With travel on the hackers’ brains and technology at their fingertips, these geeks are going to get knee deep in some code! For the hack, AT&T has partnered with American Airlines to create a venue for these techies to fly technology into the future!

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Software Review Technical Review Ideas Conference 79

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

Explore investor websites and conferences. Investor conferences are also a good place to keep up with what is going on, get to know some potential investors for you, and find what is hot. Typically you can browse them by region or technology to find founders. Your best job leads will come from other entrepreneurs.

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Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Conference 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

Professional investors and advisors, on the other hand, usually refuse to sign these agreements today due to the risk of litigation and administrative workload, and will walk away. Unsolicited proposals or requests for information. The same is true for people who may approach you at networking events or industry conferences.

Ideas 106

Ideas Technical Review Patents Entrepreneur 106

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

I had a chance to discuss AngelList Syndicates with Naval at Michael Kim’s Cendana LP/VC conference on a panel with Naval, Roger Ehrenberg (IA Ventures) and Mike Brown, Jr. AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. Must be doing something right! Bowery Capital).

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Venture Capital Invest Course Technical Review 356

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 Better that you find that out before showing off your wares at the next trendy conference only to smoke your friends & families’ money.

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Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

I know that advertising is important to inform consumers of offers – the same reason many tech companies use SEM. So only the technology companies can make money from ad links and not the creators of content? But we all accept it because we know that it is the norm for conferences. It sure pushes the boundaries.

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Advertising Technical Review GRP Partners Google 277

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

Marc Friedmann: SciVee serves the STM - Science, Technical, Medical - market. However, it's a very large market--we peg it at around $11 billion a year, and some estimate it to be as big as $20 billion a year, including scientific journals, academic journals, scientific societies, and conferences. Can you describe how that works?

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Journal Technical Review UCSD Web 124

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

You are constantly faced with decisions and there is always incomplete information. The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. &# ) I believe that being successful as an entrepreneur requires you to get lots of things done.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

As 2010 approaches, a whole new year of exciting start-ups, tech news, gadgets, and much more is ahead. TechZulu wants to thank not only the Los Angeles tech community but the entire tech community for all the awesome support you have given us throughout this past year. We already have a jammed packed schedule for 2010.

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Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia).

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. We were high tech at the very start of the boom. Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic.

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Startup Email Technical Review Course 295

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

Good news: a quick review of TechCrunch’s March 2015 List of Top 20 U.S. In advance of LaunchTN’s flagship conference, 36|86 , June 8-10 in Nashville, Jason shared with me the following three ways an accelerator should add value beyond demo day. Savvy entrepreneurs - seek out programs which incorporate these post-graduation activities.

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Startup Class LAMP Santa Barbara 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms.

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Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

LATechDigest

MAY 12, 2016

Santa Monica-based talent management software firm Cornerstone OnDemand announced the launch of its suite of people analytics products at its annual Convergence Conference. Our clients now have access to four distinct analytics applications that will help them to make smarter, more strategic and more informed talent decisions.”.

Cornerstone OnDemand 40

Cornerstone OnDemand Product Artificial Inteligence Organization 40

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2013

Campbell was new to Los Angeles, freshly inspired from a TED conference, and after attending a smattering of Barcamps and Westside Meetups he was ready to produce his own event that was a mixture of all. I was bored with bar scene, and started an informal party with talks downtown called Mindshare,” said Campbell.

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Santa Monica BarCamp Startup UCLA 92

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The seminar is due to have rich content on all thing branding. This event is being hosted by the USC Alumni Club of West Los Angeles at the USC Main Campus Davidson Conference Center on October 21, 2010 – 6-8pm. For more information and how to RSVP click here. Naming and brand architecture to visual design and brand extension.

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West Los Angeles USC Networking Los Angeles 56

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

For those of you that may not know what the Microsoft PDC conference is all about, it is a developer event focused on the technical strategy of the Microsoft developer platform. Windows Azure Platform was a big focus of the conference. Overall the Conference had great new products/services/features that came out of it.

Framework 40

Framework Conference Technical Review Tips 40

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2010

That does not mean we'll stop bringing you some of the best live streaming coverage of conferences, panels, and events. No, this will be an addition to all the greatness :) TechZulu Live will run every Thursday at 2pm PST and every month we will be focusing on a different subject within the technology industry. Help Me Help You.

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Design Sites Conference 58

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. To start, let’s take a peek inside my train of thinking while I was preparing what I would report on for Tech Crunch Disrupt 2012. 1 Pre Planning.

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Press Startup Technical Review Email 97

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Just last month, a startup Tsien cofounded announced a round of funding to push ahead with a fluorescent technology that aims to help surgeons cut out tumors without removing healthy tissue. For more on Tsien and the rest of the week’s news, let’s get to the roundup.

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News San Diego Journal Technical Review 57

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

From covering events and startup's locally to going international to conferences like Le Web in Paris, France. Also, now product reviews to help you make an informed decision on whether or not to buy that next gadget. For more information click here to RSVP through Facebook or you can click here for the Digital LA website.

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Southern California Conference Web Help 40

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In my experience as a business advisor, one of the best ways to get all of these, is to publish a book on the technology, the journey, or some relevant lessons learned. Once you have a book, media coverage can come from book reviews and academic discussions, as well as from you and your customers.

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Writing Technical Review Entrepreneur Advertising 19

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The selection process is entirely based on Pipeline Fellowship members, by reviewing the application and choosing 8-10 applicants to speak at our Pitch Summit. At the end of the Pitch Summit, our concept is to teach them diligence and how to invest in one company as a group. Pitching isn’t a zero-sum game.

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Mentor Invest Entrepreneur Startup 84

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? One out of ten of Americans are out of work.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches. After Office 2.0

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Ramin Sadr is CEO of Los Angeles-based Mojix (www.mojix.com), a firm which is taking experience originally garnered by the firm's technology team in developing -- of all things -- deep space probes for NASA, and has been applying that to the RFID market. Our technology is a million times better compared to the previous technology generation.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Innocal Technology Software Review 113

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party. A Silicon Valley conference is a room full of suits, with the occasional skirt suite. Hunt strives to improve product search with crowdsourcing through product questions, comments, and reviews. into wild applause.

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Conference Startup Technical Review Software Review 77

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

The New York Times recently ran an article titled, “ Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind.” Tech Companies most certainly do take calls. Tech Companies & Calls: I once read a quote on Twitter that said, If you use a tech service for free then product is you. But this article missed the real trend.

Mobile 311

Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. Technology and innovation has historically been the thing that has pulled the economy out of recessions, and I think that is especially true right now. For OCTANe to be successful, we want to see our technology ecosystem grow.

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

For the next four days if you’re in the tech industry you’re going to hear a non-stop stream of information about SXSW. Many startups get caught up in the conference circuit. They have fun & meet tons of interesting people and they confuse this with the need to do be at every major tech event.

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Conference Startup Technical Review Writing 289

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." government. government. And with that disclaimer, I want to tell you – that I really hate working in Washington, DC.

Education 45

Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Where was the technology for this developed? The more the three of us talked about it, the more interested we became in how epigenetics could inform human health and disease. Alan Horsager: We started selling the test in October last year, when we launched at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, at their annual conference.

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USC Technical Review Startup Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

In my opinion no amount of clever marketing or chest beating at conferences can create a market if you don’t have an amazing product to begin with. And finally there is the most modern spin on these concepts by two individuals who have built tech startups and have done an excellent job at describing the process. Like DeviantArt.

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Startup Customer Custom Technical Review 401