Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

One of the simplest questions I get from aspiring entrepreneurs, and ironically one of the hardest, is “How do I start?” They just aren’t prepared for the life they want, and are really asking me how to learn to be an entrepreneur. It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. Learning doesn’t have to be all work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. Marginal legality or poor public image. If you want U.S.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 29, 2013

His talk was entertaining and informative and contained a number of witty entrepreneurial insights, such as: "Startups are like high school. During the course of his talk, Brian mentioned that, "Startups are like pouring a bucket of water down a hill. In addition, the hill''s slope will also affect the water''s course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. Everyone is predicting a rise in massive open online courses (MOOC) , that will drive the need for new course content, architecture, and delivery approaches. Education: More students and different classes. Women: On the move.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

If you could share one startup lesson with a young entrepreneur, what would it be? So I ask prospective new entrepreneurs, ''What is it specifically that you can bring to the industry?'' Kutay: "Of course, it can be argued that authenticity is an unattainable goal in travel. How have you made it work? Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

Hint: He was an entrepreneur. The same is true of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is so highly valued in the Western World that some people try to convince themselves that they are an entrepreneur, when in fact they would be better off at a Big Dumb Company (“BDC”). Entrepreneur Does Not Equal Inventor.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Great networking skills, which are critical when you want to be about to reference entrepreneurs & concepts and bounce your ideas off of other people in the industry. He was also an undergraduate of the one place that I think is cranking out some of the best young entrepreneurs and investors these days – Wharton.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It seems that most of you entrepreneurs I meet in my role as business advisor are convinced that starting a new business requires equity investors, exponential growth, and a plan to go public via IPO. If your passion is customers, you definitely will be happier as a lifestyle entrepreneur.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 23, 2018

My wife quickly adopted Alexa as a member of the family, relying on her for recipes, jokes, telling the time, predicting the weather and, of course, playing music. The evolution of home entertainment offers numerous opportunities for startups to leverage the new and innovative ways consumers are digesting audio content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. Marginal legality or poor public image. If you want U.S.

Startup 126

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

At the Technovation Challenge LA Pitch Night hosted by Iridescent , we saw six teams of high school girls from various Los Angeles City Schools pitch a number of mobile app ideas to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. The winners, Techno Unibot Freaks, with In a Flash received a prize courtesy of EA entertainment.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2017

Anna Barber: Before this, I hadn't been involved with Techstars as a mentor, however, I'd been an entrepreneur and mentored at other accelerators. However, I always wanted to get into a broader role in the startup ecosystem, where I could help other entrepreneurs work on their ideas. What are your goals at Techstars?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. Everyone is predicting a rise in massive open online courses (MOOC), that will drive the need for new course content, architecture, and delivery approaches. Education: More students and different classes. Women: On the move.

Demand 83

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

One of the simplest questions I get from aspiring entrepreneurs, and ironically one of the hardest, is “How do I start?” They just aren’t prepared for the life they want, and are really asking me how to learn to be an entrepreneur. It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. Learning doesn’t have to be all work.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 21, 2013

As part, of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Eucalyptus Systems' CEO, Marten Mickos shared his insights and advice regarding what it takes to be a serially successful entrepreneur. Early in his talk he demystified success, noting that, "I am (a) serially unsuccessful entrepreneur. Learning To Be An Entrepreneur.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. For us, it was a big departure from social networking and a new commitment to social entertainment. The third one, of course, is Myspace!

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

The pay equity fights that the women’s team has led are still ongoing ( and suffered a setback earlier this year ), but Nortman and Portman saw an opportunity to chart a new course for the league with the combination of both of their support. After a meeting to discuss Time’s Up and All Raise, the two bonded over soccer.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Of course, I immediately gave him the whole spiel on Visible Networking and Steve was totally game to make our networking visible. My clients are typically entrepreneurs who have other jobs and are looking for help to get their side projects going but don’t have the time or skill set to launch it themselves. I can see that.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

I shared my humble opinion that entrepreneurs should spend less time reading and more time experiencing reality. This same phenomenon occurs when emerging entrepreneurs read business books. There is no doubt that business books can be entertaining and, in some cases, enlightening. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. Meredith Publishing.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

It gives us the ability to do what we love, which it to create engagement and content that people find entertaining, informative, and authoritative, and moves an audience, and introduces the right kind of selective sponsors and clients to that engaged audience, in a respectful way. That, of course, is what you're selling to your advertisers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

Beyond entertainment, ad tech is huge with Rubicon''s IPO and the TrueX $200M acquisition by Fox. Also looking forward to the community continuing to grow with more events, investment, connections to the city and universities, and of course Silicon Beach Fest 2015 in June. This is just the start. Watch for more in 2015. READ MORE>>'

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

As is often said if you don’t get at least a few fellow VCs (and entrepreneurs) scratching their heads you may not be funding ideas with enough upside. We look at stage, geography and of course sector. in fact we still look at many deals in the media sector whose main objective is to entertain people. 6SensorLabs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2013

Entrepreneurs inherently understand that they have to be the initial leader of their startup, but often they don’t have the experience or the training to know where their leadership competencies lie, or how to build a leadership team. Entertainer. Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 04/29/2013.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. Marginal legality or public image. If you want U.S.

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Tech.Co

JULY 18, 2016

Several startups have been selected to demo their products for other founders and entrepreneurs. This year, we’ve partnered with the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) – which produces the CES – for the global conference that will bring together tech leaders, influencers, investors, and of course, early-stage startup companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. And of course a place of idyllic weather, culture and a lifestyle. ” And of course it’s not a true assessment. Of course if you’re already known you could put your name or location on your fund name.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Successful entrepreneurs make similarly educated guesses. While creating a new course for UC Santa Barbara’s Entrepreneurial Program entitled, “The Past, Present and Future of Entrepreneurship,” I was recently blessed to come across Steven Johnson’s PBS series and accompanying book, How We Got To Now. 1. The Hummingbird Effect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. Marginal legality or public image. If you want U.S.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. In specific terms, “the new… book… (leverages) Alexander Osterwalder’s business model generation book as the frontend of entrepreneurs thinking about their business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2016

Entrepreneurs inherently understand that they have to be the initial leader of their startup, but often they don’t have the experience or the training to know where their leadership competencies lie, or how to build a leadership team. Entertainer.

Entrepreneur 56

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InfoChachkie

MAY 30, 2011

In the course of one meeting, I observed the following trifecta of stupidity. During the course of our meeting, some of the mid-level executives chuckled over the fact that they had recently extended the length of the prompt a user heard prior to leaving a voicemail message. Sadly, I was right.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venture capital. What''s the best way for entrepreneurs to approach you? Any advice you would give entrepreneurs? You had quite a bit of success in the past with your startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. Marginal legality or public image. If you want U.S.

Entrepreneur 101

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. Academia's arbitrary, bureaucratic structure, combined with its predominant focus on theoretical issues, causes many entrepreneurs to depart college early. Curiosity is a common trait among serial entrepreneurs. Honesty is a core competency of most successful entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. Everyone is predicting a rise in massive open online courses (MOOC), that will drive the need for new course content, architecture, and delivery approaches. Education: More students and different classes. Women: On the move.

Startup 57

Startup Demand Course Summary 57

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Banks won’t underwrite an individual based on qualifications like their Instagram following, of course, and given that influencers don’t typically have a consistent income or a W2 statement to showcase their earnings, they may not be able to receive a bank loan to invest in their own brand. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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