Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2020

You need a faster and more flexible on-demand hiring strategy, based on the current gig-economy of remote freelancers, contract personnel, and specialists. Of course, as you work with contract players, explore the potential for a long-term relationship, and wait until your organization matures to pursue career positions.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2010

At theend of last year, we decided we needed to get into the business, because of that demand. That's a lot of pain in an engineered network. The piece of technology we did--the middleware we cann Openload, is user level networking, our own TCP/UDP stack, loaded into the user space. Russell Stern: We still are.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Is Bird really defensible? Couldn’t anybody launch a competitor?

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2019

We have highly engaging courses, taught by professional players, and where you track your progress, driven by data, and which also features an on-demand marketplace to help you find any coach you want to help you improve your play on any game. After finishing a course, we've found they likely also want to find a coach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

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. Through networking with other entrepreneurs, you should find one or more to visit that have relationships with this investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. Thus you end up with Demand Media that booms until Google algorithm changes (Panda) changes send it off a cliff along with many other companies overly reliant upon one “place” and one “promotional” method. My argument is pretty simple.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. Network Up. If your closet is full of clothes and your credit card is full of debt – of course you’re going to trade clothes with other people rather than only buying new stuff. Prices down. But what else?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 3, 2022

I also had custody of my 16-year-old sister, so I was managing my course load and taking these trips, and it was during one of the those rides that I thought there has to be a better way to do this. Obviously, there’s a huge demand for it, and it shouldn’t be this difficult to access high-quality convenient hair solutions.”.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Los Angeles is the capital of on-demand apps, for just about anything you want. One of those areas that combines LA's passion for on-demand apps, and its active lifestyle, is Fitspot (www.fitspotapp.com), which brings athletic trainers to you or your local fitness center. What is Fitspot? How are you backed and funded?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Of course when you think about it it’s kind of obvious but when people make snap judgments about information they hear about companies or read about in the press they often don’t take the time to start to consider the details. The Nature of Revenue Matters Of course revenue alone won’t tell you enough.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. Much of network television can cost $100,000 / minute to produce. It’s why many talent agencies or ad networks struggle to get scale advantages.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

Our last (belated) one is from Kevin Winston , the founder of Digital LA , the big networking group which helps to connect Silicon Beach through an extensive lineup of events. We are thankful for continued support from Demand Media, City National Bank, Richardson Patel, Business Wire, Sheppard Mullin, General Assembly, and others.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Unlike most university programs that are over architected and underfunded, the TMP evolved organically, based on the demands of its students and input from the local community. iCracked - Founded in 2010 by UCSB and Cal Poly-SLO graduates, iCracked is now the largest on-demand network for smartphone repair and trade-in.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Of course that’s not disputable. He built & IPOd Demand Media. To some extent – of course they are. Of course most of you know SnapChat, Tinder & Whisper and many people immediately associate the success of Los Angeles under the SoLoMo banner (Social, Local, Mobile) and you wouldn’t be wrong.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 22, 2018

In 2017, on-demand or “gig” workers grew nearly a quarter — 23 percent — over the previous year. Is a glut of on-demand workers a sign that individuals value their freedom and flexibility, or an indication that a stable salaried job with benefits is increasingly tough to pin down in today’s economy?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands.

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

How should networks be configured and equipped to support the services businesses and consumers are demanding? The most obvious, of course, is when a wireless infrastructure provider doesn’t have enough fiber inventory where the TSP needs it or if connections are too slow to support end users. They are the future of networking.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

Those companies tend to be around for longer than one year, because of course our faculty are not working on those things full time, they're continuing to teach classes. We also have associate teams, which for the most part, are faculty associate teams. Those are faculty members who have a commercialization idea and want help with that.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

LinkedIn is by far the world’s largest professional network with more than 380 million members in over 200 countries and territories. But it isn’t meeting the needs of everyone, leading to the creation of several sites positioning themselves as the go-to professional network for niche industries.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2015

For today's thoughts, we have Lief Morin , founder and CEO of KeyInfo (www.keyinfo.com), a regional systems integrator which provides compute, storage and networking solutions and professional services for advanced software-defined data centers. And mid-course corrections are not bad things.

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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. Through networking with other entrepreneurs, you should find one or more to visit that have relationships with this investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

And of course there are startups. I spend so much of my public life talking about the challenges of startups precisely because it’s not for most people and with Shark Tank and Silicon Valley and The Social Network we as a society have so glamorized startups that we expect them to be all fun and games. ” No.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Of course, every business has unique requirements, so there is no candidate that fits all businesses, but in my experience there are a basic set of expectations which define the role: Attract, incent, and manage great people. Beyond that, he or she must balance the constant demands for more resources from marketing, development, and support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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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. Through networking with other entrepreneurs, you should find one or more to visit that have relationships with this investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

of course there are MUCH more sophisticated financial tools than either of these, but PEG is a short-hand many people use]. They hired a biz dev team to work on deals where their product could be embedded in other people’s products as a way to increase customer demand. An ad network (the middleman) might sell $500,000 in ads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Yet “Basic Office Politics” is one of those required college courses that, as far as I know, still doesn’t exist. We all have to learn the hard way all the tactics to use and avoid to be productive within the complex network of power and status that exists within every business, large and small.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2013

Today that changes as two major brands Callaway and Uber, partner to offer on-demand rides at one of the largest events in sports. “They are now more directly connected with individuals at equipment companies, with Tour professionals and with the Pro at their local course. There will be no cost for the Callaway ride option.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

Gender bias in medicine is systemic,” says Carine Carmy, the fast-talking CEO and co-founder of Origin , during a condensed chat about her startup mission to make physical therapy for women and mothers accessible and affordable across the US, both online and through a network of physical clinics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Of course, you need to listen for biases, but local angel group leaders can quickly tell you who the bad angels and good angels are, and what kind of terms they typically demand. Network with other entrepreneurs. Contact peers you have met through networking, both ones who have used this investor, and ones who haven’t.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

But the “Boardroom Ready” program, as it’s called, is the result of widespread demand for action to break biotech’s glass ceiling. Participants will also be paired with coaches and will network for board seats after the course is over.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

I suggested that he add some social network marketing initiatives, and his answer was he is “too busy.” It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. Start social networking with peers.

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