Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

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. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media News 104

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. CompStudy 2008 Report on Equity and Cash Compensation at Technology Startups.

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Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors.

Entrepreneur 137

Entrepreneur Tips Startup Education 137

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

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. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology.

Tips 161

Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Here are my thoughts on the right focus at a college or university: Take entrepreneurship courses, but major in a more specific discipline. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

Startup 97

Startup Writing Coach Incubator 97

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

You need to build business relationships with partners, team members, investors, and of course customers. As an introvert myself, I remember worrying that I could never be comfortable giving a sales pitch, or networking to find clients. Actively expand your business networking activities.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Mentor Activity Startup 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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Startup Capital Equity Funding 106

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

These are industries where structural impediments to technology adoption have only recently been broken down by the advent of incredibly powerful mobile devices. over the course of 2020 (and their combined estimated price tag of nearly $100 billion), it’s not surprising that the Biden plan begins with a focus on resiliency.

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Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Here are my thoughts on the right focus at a college or university: Take entrepreneurship courses, but major in a more specific discipline. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Tips Writing Coach 98

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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Funding Startup Equity Examples 174

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Before skimmers race to the comments or Twitter to complain – I’m not saying intro’s aren’t valuable – of course they are. It’s exhausting.

Startup 317

Startup Technical Review Venture Capital Email 317

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Here are my thoughts on the right focus at a college or university: Take entrepreneurship courses, but major in a more specific discipline. Practical business courses are better than an advanced degree or MBA. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

Writing 111

Writing Coach Incubator Entrepreneur 111

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 112

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

The idea, is to make it accessible as a multi-disciplinary part of Tel Aviv University, so that young people, alumni, and students with ideas for a company can join the fund, not only to be funded with seed money, but also so they can be accelerated and potentially incubated before they go out. Behzad Kianmahd: Nothing is easy.

El Segundo 100

El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego. The other partners are Edward Adato and Daniel Schwarzblat.). “I billion under management.

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San Diego Incubator Avalon Mentor 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

First, we’d like to thank our exhibitors, sponsors, and venue (Dave and Buster’s Westchester) for supporting the all-encompasing day of industry insights and networking. And of course, we’d like to thank our amazing panels of speakers for pouring their knowledge into the mental chalices of our present and virtual attendees.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Of course they pretend that they are trying to avoid alerting competitors prior to launch, but too often it becomes an excuse to move slowly in a world that’s all about getting to market fast. Openness is part of the business culture of entrepreneurs and technology centers around the world. Find your real competitors.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Startup News 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors.

Startup 51

Startup Education Entrepreneur Tool 51

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

Of course, every approach has pros and cons. This source often gets overlooked, but it should be a major focus these days due to government initiatives on alternative energy and technology. Startup incubators. If you are looking for $25,000 to $1 million, the next step is to tap into a local angel network.

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Technical Review Equity Incubator Venture Capital 103

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We spoke earlier with Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars America and who leads the program in LA, to hear more about why the startup accelerator operator is opening up its third accelerator here, why Los Angeles has turned out to be one of the leading sources for startups across its network, as well as Cody's advice to entrepreneurs.

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Mentor Class 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2011

Of course they pretend that they are trying to avoid alerting competitors prior to launch, but too often it becomes an excuse to move slowly in a world that’s all about getting to market fast. Openness is part of the business culture of entrepreneurs and technology centers around the world. Find your real competitors.

Startup 101

Startup Search Engine Optimization Course Media 101

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Funding 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors.

Entrepreneur 58

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 58

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The intersection of entertainment and technology has been a long time coming. Top CEO’s, entrepreneurs, technology gurus, venture capitalists and executives will be looking at the tech ecosystem from different perspectives, including e-commerce, enterprise software, digital media and consumer technologies.”

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues. He’s a star who has a very intuitive feel for technology and … no MBA.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Naturally, the next step in Bernstein’s evolution from blogger to businesswoman was a technology startup. Robertson is the founder of Influence , a networking tool for influencers that’s expected to announce its Series A financing in the coming weeks. Last month, the product launched with $1.2 invests exclusively in the space.

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Probably the biggest drawback of Los Angeles is the distance and traffic that makes networking more difficult.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

Funding 107

Funding Startup Equity Examples 107

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

Of course, every approach has pros and cons. This source often gets overlooked, but it should be a major focus these days due to government initiatives on alternative energy and technology. Startup incubators. If you are looking for $25,000 to $1 million, the next step is to tap into a local angel network.

Startup 93

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 93

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2010

Of course they pretend that they are trying to avoid alerting competitors prior to launch, but too often it becomes an excuse to move slowly in a world that’s all about getting to market fast. Openness is part of the business culture of entrepreneurs and technology centers around the world. Find your real competitors. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 91

Startup Search Engine Optimization Course Media 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

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. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

Startup 113

Startup Entrepreneur Funding Equity 113

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This time I'm getting to know Mark Geller ( LinkedIn , @markgeller ). Details coming soon!)

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. Thank you all for your continued support in highlighting the many innovative technologies emerging in Southern California!

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Of course, there are pros and cons to each of these. This source often gets overlooked, but it should be a major focus these days due to the Obama administration initiatives on alternative energy and technology. Startup incubators. If you are looking for $25,000 to $250,000, the next step is to tap into a local angel network.

Funding 59

Funding Startup Technical Review Equity 59

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. Summary of Topics. Big or Bust?

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Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95