Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2012

Successful startups are all about turning ideas into action quickly and efficiently. These actions must be the hard part, since entrepreneurs always seem to come to me with ideas, and ask me for help on the actions. The future of your startup is directly tied to the quality of talent you can attract and keep.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This morning, Techstars (www.techstars.org), the startup accelerator which has had great success in spreading its approach to helping to get startups to the next stage of their life�usually, funding�announced it has opened up its third accelerator in Los Angeles, Techstars LA. The focus is on helping the startup.

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JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses.

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

The gist of MG’s argument is that he’d rather work with people who are openly critical of his ideas if it helps him to perform better than to have a bunch of “yes men” around who just say what a great job he’s doing. I would describe the responses at “atta boys” ranging from “awesome!”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series. Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it. So I was surprised at the sheer volumes of decisions that had to be made when I became a startup CEO. So we discussed his ideas several times. Or worst case your ideas can be conveyed verbally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Successful startups are all about turning ideas into action. These actions must be the hard part, since entrepreneurs always seem to come to me with ideas, and ask me for help on the actions. That has always seemed strange to me, since the magic is supposed to be in the ideas, and the actions are the same for every business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. You would think the obvious thing I would tell somebody is, “yes, of course it’s a great idea.&# You’d be surprised. A high level of confidence in your own ideas and ability to execute. It’s addicting.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

It reminds me of a line my wife and I often jokingly say to each other after seeing the awesome film “ Notorious ” about the life of Biggie Smalls. Of course I could go on and on. Let’s say your a junior developer, marketer, product manager, biz dev person at a startup or well-established technology company.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Time sure flies when you’re having fun, or building a startup. Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. ” Collaboration was also key.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

Near the nation’s capital, Arlington, VA has a thriving startup community that supports female-led companies, startups in STEM, cyber security, defense, and everything in between aimed at improving the status quo. Meet the startups showcasing at Eureka Park Startup Arlington this year at CES 2018: BooleanGirl.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The idea of not using one’s real name is something I’ve had to come to understand better through other people providing context. I was thinking it would be awesome to have systems that could help track this so more authoritative people who were anonymous could rise to the top. Of course they can be duped.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. Many people go back with lots of new ideas, experience, and energy. It helps to think positive and focus on the awesome things that are indeed possible. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Oh, they didn’t cover that in your Stanford CS course?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As an executive at the National Basketball Association (NBA), Adam Kanner saw those issues--plus the industry's own desire to sell its unsold inventory--so he created ScoreBig (www.scorebig.com), an online marketplace aimed at connecting consumers with awesome deals on below-face value, live entertainment tickets. Adam Kanner: Of course.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

Andrea and her team are awesome and provide such a great service for those who want the right type of shopping experience. You want to find someone who is as passionate about an idea as you are. And of course, we will be working on increasing our user base! Fun Fact: Andrea took C and has developed. Calm down guys.).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. upStart.LA is a startup accelerator based in Los Angeles that helps tech entrepreneurs get their business up and going. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Tons of great conversations about new startups, hardware, and the entrepreneurs building them. To cap off our 6th year at SXSW and follow up on last year’s amazingly successful Trend Lounge , we knew this year had to be bigger, better, more engaging, and of course, even more fun. A special thanks to our guests/interviewees!

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2013

Rock’s idea of unwinding was running, surfing and swimming every day to the bemusement of the town folk. Knowing how much playing sports shaped the course of her life, it pained her to see these girls denied the opportunity. Rock said, “I had no idea I was an entrepreneurial at all. This baffled Katie. The seed was planted.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to.

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JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. upStart.LA is a startup accelerator based in Los Angeles that helps tech entrepreneurs get their business up and going. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. Local capital matters.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

More awesome material also means more rubbish. By processing MIDI files through the Liquid Notes’ simple to use interface, musicians can make complex changes and chord progression adjustments on the fly, give themselves new ideas in a live environment, and overall increase their creativity capacity.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Earbits provides value to the listeners with awesome new music without non-pertinent commercials about California cheese, car insurance, or whatever; and provides value to the musicians by giving them an additional voice. Was there anything in particular that really drove it home for you guys to implement the idea? kidding of course).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Let me start by saying that Clayton is one of the most influential people on my thoughts about markets that led to both the concept behind my first startup and my main theses in investing. Startup Grind was a truly awesome conference and Derek the consumate host. Watch the 30-minute interview to hear why but summary notes below.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

You folks are just that awesome that we try and hook our readers up whenever we can so you are Welcome! Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology. Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.),

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

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. As 2010 approaches, a whole new year of exciting start-ups, tech news, gadgets, and much more is ahead. Without all of you and your support, TechZulu could not be around today.

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JUNE 29, 2011

This led to an explosion in startups. I don’t think purely option-based investing in startups suits the long-term brand of the investor. As some of the last generation of startups have gotten bigger many VCs have also chased later-stage investments that were traditionally dominated by growth equity or mezzanine funds.

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MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. I’m in Seattle this week. Can’t list them all.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

We’ve hung out periodically over the past few years and I have enjoyed debating many startup topics. Sure, of course I am. Sign me up.&# Awesome. We had a discussion about how businesses change after the company really isn’t a startup anymore. Yesterday’s show floored me. Counter-intuitive.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

I love my dad equally, of course. So the role is a strong woman leader has always been a comfortable idea for me. That’s the basis of this awesome discussion with Joanne Wilson, aka “the Gotham Gal.” She encouraged me to take acting classes as a child, which gave me confidence as a public speaker.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2015

Of course I spotted it early like many because I noticed people I’ve long followed like Ryan Hoover, Danielle Morrill at Matt Mazzeo somewhat obsessed with it. But I walked into a board meeting this week with my partner Kara Nortman and she was filming live on Meerkat asking one of her developers new product ideas.

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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. It shows a lack of interest.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Chris Dixon , September 12, 2010 My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. Why You Should Write. Your service: the game.

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JUNE 13, 2011

No private head nods are given to small startup companies to help them prepare. What is a startup to do? They risk little but of course knew better all along. They seem to have several interesting ideas. Apple built the product, so no doubt it will be freakin’ awesome. For starters, fear not. The world seldom ends.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Of course much of it is conflicting. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. He’s awesome for early-stage entrepreneurs. Earn the right to the intro.

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