Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My macro theme was “great entrepreneurs&# who mapped to my belief system about the kind of entrepreneurs I wanted to work with. My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. They know what you bought the last time you were shopping.

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Mobile Advertising Media Marketing 329

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

Thus smart business professionals are rapidly becoming the new entrepreneurs. Of course, entrepreneurs delivering services have existed for some time, including business consultant, independent contractor, and freelancer titles. For existing trained professionals, it’s an opportunity to become an entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

Thus smart business professionals are rapidly becoming the new entrepreneurs. Of course, entrepreneurs delivering services have existed for some time, including business consultant, independent contractor, and freelancer titles. For existing trained professionals, it’s an opportunity to become an entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 20, 2013

” I have long thought about and written about the personal toll that being an entrepreneur places on your life. These were amongst some of the most read blog posts I have written, which shows me that the stress, pressures and loneliness of being and entrepreneur resonates. They start with their own journey.

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Entrepreneur Startup Writing Social Network 370

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2013

Most investors tell me that an A entrepreneur with a B idea is much more fundable than a B entrepreneur with an A idea. This entrepreneur gets out there and actively looks for people who can help make an idea into a business, including potential customers, suppliers, employees, investors, friends and peers. How many do you know?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2016

Thus smart business professionals are rapidly becoming the new entrepreneurs. Of course, entrepreneurs delivering services have existed for some time, including business consultant, independent contractor, and freelancer titles. For existing trained professionals, it’s an opportunity to become an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 56

Entrepreneur Services Startup Social Media 56

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Successful entrepreneurs understand the difference between a good business relationship with more people and having more friends. In the world of entrepreneurs and startups, professional relationships are critical. Many entrepreneurs will admit that they get almost all of their business through relationships.

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Entrepreneur Social Network Technical Review Social Media 66

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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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. 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

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2016

By now if you follow me on Twitter you probably know that I do near daily “Snapstorms” or a collection of short videos (usually < 5 mins in total) with entrepreneur advice on Snapchat. Snapchat has an enormous audience of mobile-first consumers tuning in every day looking for content to consume in a way that YouTube doesn’t.

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Snapchat Course Media Venture Capital 150

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2013

” It is one of the easiest pieces of advice to give as it is almost always valuable if entrepreneurs follow it as a guideline. Microsoft throwing money at me to build a mobile app. In due course. In the absence of conviction, experience or pain-in-the-ass board members it’s easy to veer off course. Or DropBox.

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Course Resource Social Media Design 368

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Email users, continue here… ] That is the quandary which entrepreneurs face today in building models for new companies around a web presence. Of course, giants like Facebook, Instagram, and Google have such large eyeball numbers that they can use display and positioning ads to achieve great profits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2012

Most investors tell me that an A entrepreneur with a B idea is much more fundable than a B entrepreneur with an A idea. This entrepreneur gets out there and actively looks for people who can help make an idea into a business, including potential customers, suppliers, employees, investors, friends and peers.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Ideas Metrics Activity 97

Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

And I’m sure they had no idea what they were fathering with that effort which eventually became ARPANET, and then of course, the Internet itself. How many entrepreneurs used that new Internet infrastructure to create an expansive vision of what could be? The Internet and AI – new opportunities for innovation.

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Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 156

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start. Recently I was reviewing a book on content marketing, “ Accelerate! ”

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Examples Content Marketing Entrepreneur 93

Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have weighed in from time to time and their answers tend to fall into two camps. High school students also make great entrepreneurs because of their natural open-mindedness and drive to take risks. What is the ideal age to start a company? The first group advocates for the 20s as the optimal time.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

And I’m sure they had no idea what they were fathering with that effort which eventually became ARPANET, and then of course, the Internet itself. How many entrepreneurs used that new Internet infrastructure to create an expansive vision of what could be? And millions of innovators are at work extending these capabilities.

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Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 256

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Two years ago I made a commitment to stop bringing my mobile phone into my bedroom and with like a 95% compliance rate this made a big improvement. I’m happy to say that this has been a huge improvement in my life and productivity and I notice the downside of this behavior when I travel and have my mobile phone in my hotel room.

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Social Media News Mobile Snapchat 267

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We asked the same four 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 week. I think mobile payments and online education will finally hit their stride in 2013 benefiting companies like Braintree and Dwolla and Coursera respectively.

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Southern California Technical Review High Tech Venice 215

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Our strategy is to get into a company, sometimes early, in the A, B, or C round, in a theme or entrepreneur we really like. Of course, we have a different focus than, say, a consumer focused fund, where there is a lot more volatility. If your company was mobile, or cloud based before, now it has to be AI-enabled.

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Funding Capital Artificial Inteligence Startup 160

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2013

In today’s mobile hardware environment, that means able to set up meetings, convert text messages to voice, find contact information quickly, and search the Web intelligently for outside info. I believe the current major drive to mobile devices and apps has slowed the progress toward this new semantic environment, but it’s coming.

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Web Entrepreneur Software Review Google 98

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

And of course he’s right. The video is simply amazing and is a must watch for any investor but I think will be enjoyed by all entrepreneurs, too. Tristan Walker spoke of his journey from the projects to Wall Street to Stanford to entrepreneur. ” – Earvin Magic Johnson. And we shouldn’t deny it.

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Startup Course Entrepreneur 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Of course, every new direction has some challenges, so the super angel model isn’t perfect. Yet, in my view, every early-stage entrepreneur should be exploring this new funding alternative before approaching VCs. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.

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Guide Venture Capital Funding Class 136

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

*. What is the role of a VC for entrepreneurs? I was recently contacted by an entrepreneur who was consider a few different business models for his company. My job isn’t to predict markets but rather to find entrepreneurs who want to create markets through insight and conviction.” ” I responded.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Course Guide Entrepreneur 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Calls are changing but not dying. Much more data in the full post.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Both Sides of the Table

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. ” Boston is still a great tech hub.

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Company Companies Startup Snapchat 369

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.

Technical Review 82

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review USC 82

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

Santa Monica 256

Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

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 Class Press Custom Development 229

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

an upgrade to their Wi-Fi video doorbell, which enables users to answer the front door from their mobile device. SkyBell is available for purchase now on Amazon.com , BestBuy.com , and of course directly on SkyBell.com. Talk with whomever is at your door using your mobile device. SkyBell Technologies, Inc. SkyBell Version 2.0

Mobile 93

Mobile Press Activity Technology 93

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. And of course many more of us are gluten intolerant or want to live gluten-reduced lives.

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Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. Where are we today? and hasn’t abated.

Venture Capital 398

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

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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Help Coach Startup Tips 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2021

Of course, if you are new to the challenges of business, it’s especially hard to anticipate correctly and react wisely to complex business situations. I find that some of the smartest entrepreneurs are the most reluctant to accept new realities, and unwisely keep charging down a road now leading in a new direction.

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Patents Mentor Custom Customer 138

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

Entrepreneurs can still build big businesses on the outskirts.” David encourages entrepreneurs to stay away from the big tech firms (such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple) because they are hard to compete with. Of course not. Fortunately the forest is expanding, overrunning traditional industries.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299