Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more new business solutions than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Let your audience help with content creation. entrepreneurs get rich quick startups internet millionaires business'

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur is flooded with information from all directions, but despite their best efforts to absorb it, they likely miss the information really needed to start a business. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.” These are both experienced entrepreneurs and angel investors. Lessons Learned , by Eric Ries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback. Lock down the sign-off authority.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. ” Residents of Northern California (everyone north of Bakersfield) don’t understand how we do it, constantly touting Palo Alto’s tech scene. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Let your audience help with content creation. The best place to learn is by scouting around the Internet today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Let your audience help with content creation. The best place to learn is by scouting around the Internet today.

Startup 107

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

We really focus on the mentorship, programming, and content, and the ability to access USC, and specifically its School of Engineering. We don't have the resources to do typical diligence and assessment, so we just piggyback on other deals. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc?

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

We're now doing around 20 million people a month to Docstoc, and wanted to leverate that to create a marketplace where you could buy and sell professional content. Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content. As long as the content fits in the bucket, we approve it to go into the marketplace.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2011

Just as Batman repeatedly avoids Poison Ivy’s kiss of death, so too must entrepreneurs avoid the Kiss of Death provisions which BDCs attempt to include in their agreements. This ensures that everyone understands the key formulas, and thereby avoids a common point of contention in deals that go awry. Do Not Deploy a Free Pilot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The bad news is that patent trolls (non-producing companies that make their money from licensing patents) can squeeze the lifeblood out of unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the recent mess around Lodsys suing small Apple IOS developers. They know that these entrepreneurs don’t have the skill or resources to defend themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback. Lock down the sign-off authority.

Technical Review 96

Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 96

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback. Lock down the sign-off authority.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 75

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We give a huge Thank You to the following sponsors: Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK.

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Technical Review Software Review Santa Monica Tech Coast Angels 58

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Silicon Valley, in a proverbial hornet’s nest of legal intrigue has been buzzing with one of the biggest (and possibly unsettling) displays of indian giving that the tech world has seen this year. Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then).

Technical Review 74

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2015

Nothing, except Miles Beckett , a serial entrepreneur who is best known for creating lonelygirl15 and online content provider EQAL. Miles told us about the new startup, plus how he ended up back in the medical world (he started out as a physician) after a stint creating online content. Why go back to healthcare for this startup?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Let your audience help with content creation. The best place to learn is by scouting around the Internet today.

Technical Review 99

Technical Review Case Study Startup Software Review 99

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Help us understand your technology--is this focused on the automated language translation technology, or on the process of localizing a web site? Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Well, that’s easy – we deal in African content, created by Africans, for (mostly) Africans. They saw our passion for content, the Diaspora’s thirst for Nollywood movies, the site traffic and our plans to grow the company and we went from there. Naturally, there was a stringent due diligence process, and this took a couple of months.

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Netflix Marketing Technical Review Content 82

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Adrenaline Fueled Angel.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. Of course once submitted you could send out links to your friends and ask them to upvote your content and that would help.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Sit back and enjoy all the great content below and once again thank you all for making this possible :). Stewart Roberts , President of Orange County of Tech Coast Angels. CapLinked lets entrepreneurs focus on what they do best, while making sure their investors always stay in the loop. VC/Angel Panel. Adrenaline Fueled Angel.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

It's the biggest portion of our revenues at our company, and our clients include the Buffalo News, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, JDate, Spark network, and many entrepreneurs. We also have a partnership with Trion Media, which is one of the largest content providers to the radio industry. How do you think the industry will shake out?

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Yes, even bootstrappers. liquidation preference.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2013

Mindshare LA set out to gather intriguing speakers from fascinating backgrounds to present unique topics to a community of intellectuals, scientists, entrepreneurs, technologists, and the general public via a monthly evening of “enlightened debauchery.”. “I The next Mindshare L.A. will be held in Santa Monica April 26 th at the V Lounge.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Tech. SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. The tech industry is going south. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. The perfect competitors are the ones where they unable to respond due to The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it. The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer.

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. You’ll never make a great entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. companies versus the Web 1.0

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