InfoChachkie

JULY 29, 2013

Brian Coryat, Founder and CEO of Local Market Launch and former founder of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK) recently spoke as part of UCSB''s Distinguished Lecture Series. During the course of his talk, Brian mentioned that, "Startups are like pouring a bucket of water down a hill. Easy To Start, Hard To Control. Share and Enjoy.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2013

I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. These are often the same things that cause a founder to reach out to me about helping their CTO, VP Engineering, tech team, off-shore development, etc. Walls quickly go up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

Due to founder visibility, the team is so tuned in to the visionary and current direction that every turn to the right to pursue a new idea turns the whole team to the right. Of course, many will argue that the visionary entrepreneurs can simply fix their shortcomings, and thus save resources by satisfying both roles.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

“We want to inspire, but we also want to be realistic and show beauty in real life,” Glossier founder and CEO Emily Weiss said in a 2017 interview with Inc, just as the brand had reached what Weiss herself described as “cult status.” Glossier founder Emily Weiss speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2018 Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Jennifer Schwab, the founder and CEO of Entity, has built the business since 2016 on virtually no outside funding, but said that this latest financing is a precursor to the company working on its first, more traditional VC-led equity round. Since 2016, some 400 students, almost all women, have completed the course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2014

Two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a co-founder or two. Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Each co-founder should get equity for value, based on these key variables: Lived a key role in a previous startup. Amount of venture funding provided.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 25, 2014

Amazon''s Founder, Jeff Bezos has had an incredible entrepreneurial career. If your culture rewards those who seek the truth, your team will be prone to objectively identify tactical course corrections. The post 5 Time-Tested Success Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos appeared first on John Greathouse.' Image: Wikipedia.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. two founders in a garage?—?(HP Hot, Flat & Crowded.” What Has Changed in Financing?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

Of course, this requires some discipline and focus on your part, as well as the willingness to trust team members and allow them to do their jobs. Of course, decisions and action items must be communicated immediately, but individual disagreements, comments and recommendations must never surface around the water cooler or in later reviews.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Brian Coryat, Founder and CEO of Local Market Launch and former Founder and CEO of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK) recently winged his talk at UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. I think I''ll just wing it'' and of course. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. And I said, ''I don''t know.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2014

Of course it’s a universal lesson and one that I’m doomed to learn over and over. The acquiring company wants 100% of the proceeds to go to founders whatever the cap table says because buyers care way more about incentivizing and locking in founders than they do about VC returns or legal provisions to protect VCs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Of course, we never see ourselves in this mode, yet we need to recognize that all humans see reality differently through a built-in set of “cognitive biases,” based on their own unique background of experiences, training, and mental state. entrepreneur biases optimism passion John Bradberry founder' Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The funding was led by Will Ventures, and also included Global Founders Capital, 8VC, Maveron, Hack VC, and Correlation VC. The Skills' features online courses from such sports celebrities as Michael Phelps, Megan Rapinoe, Maria Sharapova, Larry Fitzgerald, Kerri Walsh Jennings, and Shaun White. to $149.00.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. ” Of course, it’s more complicated than just checking boxes on a question list. Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) What are your big milestones?

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Tech.Co

JUNE 29, 2021

That is, of course, until the small, ambitious startup is acquired by a larger, more traditional company in its sector, or the small startup goes public with angry shareholders and regulators asking difficult questions. Don't forget the pizza parties and deskside beers funded by a seemingly endless stream of venture capitalist money, either.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Of course, even though that is your contract with the investors, way over half of those implied contracts never work out that way. Of course, you will find yourself in opposition to your investors and some of most of your board members if you do this after taking outside investment. What if you later decide to just keep control?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs. She made the right decisions not joining back then because that founder empathy is the “++” that makes a difference in this business. So why now? So What Does All This Mean?

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Krista Berlincourt, the co-founder and chief executive officer of a new startup, Kensh? co-founder Danny Steiner, who previously worked at NBC Universal, Conde Nast and Hulu before pivoting to health and wellness, have raised $1.3 million in seed funding from Crosscut, a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, and Female Founders Fund.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

If your culture rewards those who seek the truth, your team will be prone to objectively identifying tactical course corrections. Ask Kevin O’Connor, Founder of FindTheBest and DoubleClick, points out in his interview , business is simple. Obsess About Customers, Not Colleagues Or Competitors. “We Be Simpleminded. Let’s do it.’”.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2021

The company sells access to online, live courses run by celebrities and experts on different areas, which allow people to interact with those celebrities while learning about different topics. The startup also said that it has added Jessica Alba, Kane Brown, and Maria Sharapova as advisors to the company as part of the funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

As you can imagine, when you introduce tech professionals or VCs to a grammy-award winning rap artist they start with pre-conceived ideas but of course that “pattern matching” is what leads our industry to underestimate people. So of course when Cham wanted to build his own startup I was first in line asking to fund him.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2014

A new, Santa Barbara-based startup, Schoolofbookkeeping.com , launched this week, offering up online courses for bookkeepers, accountants, business owners, and accounting students. The startup''s founders include Eric David Greenspan, a serial entrepreneur who previously founded such companies as MakeItWork. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 4, 2021

Kajabi's CEO and co-founder is Kenny Rueter. Kajabi's e-commerce tools are focused on helping "knowledge entrepreneurs" monetize their expertise, helping them create websites, online courses, coaching programs, membership sites and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2020

I always tell entrepreneurs that two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a co-founder or two. Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Each co-founder should get equity for value, based on these key variables: Lived a key role in a previous startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Even in most of these cases, the original startup founders were pushed out, or heavily supplemented, with “experienced” executives. Sure, there are examples of Founders who have survived and prospered, such as Bill Gates and Larry Page, but these guys are the exception, not the rule. business entrepreneur exit founder IPO startup'

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

I read commentary or Twitter or blogs and realize that there are also strongly held convictions that there are these evil VCs who do terrible things to mostly altruistic founders. And of course we help with business development introductions and with fund raising events. Often we are asked to get involved in executive-level recruiting.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Of course, Just is not the first company to offer personalized auto insurance. Although there are similarities between Root and Just, there are also distinct differences, according to founder and CEO Robert Smithson. But of course, it has far fewer customers and is only serving one market. Image Credits: Just Insure.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

SketchyMedical was co-founded and is led by CEO Saud Siddiqui, who said in a statement that the startup was born out of the real-life problem he and his co-founders encountered while preparing for their board exams in med school. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2017

According to UCLA Extension, the new membership program--part of its new "Digital Technology Department"--aims to provide access to executives and founders through webinars and special events, as well as real world projects in collaboration with tech companies. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2021

Every existing and budding entrepreneur should internalize these reality principles: Ready yourself as a founder. To improve your readiness to succeed as a startup founder, take an honest look at yourself as a founder before leaping. Too often, passionate entrepreneurs leap head first into a venture before thinking it through.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Launched four years ago, the Nanodegree courses allow students worldwide to gain expertise in areas such as data analytics, machine learning, and autonomous flight engineering by completing coursework that can take as little as six months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2021

Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes it comes right back to the founder, in terms of a malaise often called “founder’s syndrome.” Of course, no situation is this simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Of course, this requires some discipline and focus on your part, as well as the willingness to trust team members and allow them to do their jobs. Of course, decisions and action items must be communicated immediately, but individual disagreements, comments and recommendations must never surface around the water cooler or in later reviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2010

Once you are able to achieve some real “traction” with your business (paying customers, revenue stream), it may seem the time to relax a bit, but in fact this is the point where many founders start to flounder. Most founders form very close relationships with the small team that gets the startup off the ground, and that is important.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2021

Once you are able to achieve some real “traction” with your business (paying customers, revenue stream), it may seem the time to relax a bit, but in fact this is the point where many founders start to flounder. Most founders form very close relationships with the small team that gets the startup off the ground, and that is important.

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