TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

That data is based not just on feedback from past and current students and student outcomes, but also other channels. Entity uses all this to curate not just what courses it provides and what goes into the curriculum, but also how best to supplement that learning. “There is a lot more accountability in person,” Schwab said.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Your first customers for any product or service form your reference base, the important group of allies that your marketing and salespeople rely upon when attempting to create buzz and make a mass market for a new product. Capture every compliment and ask if you can use it for marketing purposes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. In fact, if you add the capital flows of the past ten years, there have been just shy of $50 billion in net cash outlays.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2021

Los Angeles has tried to address its carbon footprint in the past, but the efforts weren’t very successful. With this move, Los Angeles wants to hitch its wagon to this momentum and is actively looking for tech busineses that can help with carbon accounting.

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Berkonomics

MAY 11, 2023

The quest for a great management team is not a fluke, but rather a result of backward looks at the failure rate from past investments by those same angel investors and venture capitalists. As a reminder of that conclusion: Great teams are flexible and have the advantage of experience in seeing the pitfalls before them from their past.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

By observing innovations and existing market conditions, they anticipate emerging technological trends. Business success can be similarly effortless when you accurately identify an emerging innovation and properly time your market entry. Successful entrepreneurs make similarly educated guesses. Cowabunga, the waves are bitchin’!

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Every new business dreams of growing from a startup to a global market leader in a few years, like Amazon.com, but that goal is elusive. Most entrepreneurs who have built thriving companies settle into a protective and defensive mindset, clinging to core competencies of the past. Jeff Bezos has kept his focus on customers.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

So, when do we know which course to take? In one industry I know well, the dominant player with 22% market share was acquired by one of the largest companies in the technology world. What if you had abandoned that market, reallocated your resources, and focused instead upon other non–competitive geographical or industry segments?

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Chris Lorenz, Geoffrey Anderson, and James Borow may have spent their days over the past few years working at Snap, but on nights and weekends Anderson and Lorenz were laboring on a different project — improving Ethereum development tools. . “We were really working on scalability testing.” ” . ”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2023

Every business, young or old, needs to avoid the following six mistakes that he outlines: Anticipating success based on the recent past. This fallacy, often called historical myopia, essentially involves extrapolating only from recent positive events, and ignoring the reality that markets saturate or evaporate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

I saved it mostly for LP discussions that I had over the past year. Companies are now raising much more capital in the private markets now before they go public. When companies DO IPO they are worth much more at IPO time than in the past. This is the opportunity set for venture capitalists. Thus is a key point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2022

You can even give it a more elegant name, like “market-focused reinvention,” but it won’t be graceful if you don’t take the lead. In all cases, it’s more effective and less painful to do it as a planned process, rather than a crash course in survival. Real change demands new goals based on new market realities. Sherry, Jr.,

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

In numerous interviews throughout the past two years, Weiss and other executives have emphasized the company’s focus on its direct-to-consumer online shipping model and obsession with iterating the customer experience based on feedback. It may not be as glamorous as D2C, but beauty tech is big money.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

.” There are a lot of data points that one can observer to get a sense of the venture capital markets – both LP fundings into venture and VC financings of startups. They point to some widely known facts: financings & valuations are up massively over the past 7 years and non-VC money has entered the system.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.” Isolate marketing from sales for maximum customer focus.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Of course, there are external risks that cannot be controlled or predicted but can be planned for as well – natural disasters, sudden political or economic events that rattle the entire economy, and more. First, there is market risk. Is there a market for your class of product at all? Mitigating market risk is not easy.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2019

For today's Insights and Opinions Section , Rob Freelen, Los Angeles Marketing Manager for Silicon Valley Bank, talks about the startup outlook for 2019. Market swings, geopolitical tensions and shifting trends always have the potential to throw us off course. Some color around the findings: Continued. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 4, 2020

Most college econ courses teach marginal economics. There is amazing leverage in high gross profit margins once a company is past breakeven. There is amazing leverage in high gross profit margins once a company is past breakeven. So, not to scare those who didn’t take econ, here is a simple explanation.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2017

Your first customers for any product or service form your reference base, the important group of allies that your marketing and sales people rely upon when attempting to create buzz and make a mass market for a new product. Capture every compliment and ask if you can use it for marketing purposes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In the past, such statements have been credibility red flags, since “everyone” knows that a dominant brand takes decades to establish and scale. Of course, in a world which spawns over a half million startups every month, these accomplishments are very rare, but they are happening like never before.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 2, 2018

This week, we continue our series on marketing and positioning. In many markets, there are poorly defended niches, even markets with dominant players. For example, the tech company, Asus, found this golden opportunity in the notebook market and moved in quickly to overtake all other manufacturers with low prices.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

In fact, in one instance, a dealer purchased all of our sets in order to “take them off the market.” However, as the number of non-collectors entering the sports memorabilia market in pursuit of financial gain increased, the dynamic of the industry changed and evolved in a manner similar to other mature collectible markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

10 years ago we found ourselves trying to persuade LPs and VCs that it was worth spending more time getting to know the LA market and now the most common refrain that I hear from them is “there really is something going on in LA.” Back then only 15% of our dollars were invested locally whereas today 50% of our dollars are invested in LA.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 29, 2014

And being persistent I believe is the most important attribute for success in an entrepreneur (assuming of course that you have all the other requisite skills). Of course at one end of the bucket are entrepreneurs who are persistent but just aren’t polite. But how do you get past gate keepers? Of course I felt badly.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 2, 2020

In the past year, it’s seen one of the most profitable venture-backed exits of any tech ecosystem (with the $4 billion sale of Honey to PayPal) and investors are minting billion-dollar companies in the region at a torrid pace. When it comes to venture capital, Los Angeles is a city on the rise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

Every business, young or old, needs to avoid the following six mistakes that he outlines: Anticipating success based on the recent past. This fallacy, often called historical myopia, essentially involves extrapolating only from recent positive events, and ignoring the reality that markets saturate or evaporate.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

In the past two weeks we have entered perhaps to most surreal experience in any of our lives. I have lost friends who didn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel in past economic hardships. He asked for a few more weeks to gather market signals before enacting change. To say it simply …. Show empathy.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 13, 2020

But in these days of fast failures, of COVID-based markets drying up, and with the knowledge that 50% of all startups fail anyway within a few years of formation, there is a lot of learning to be had out there. Did you miss the chance to pivot based upon rapid market changes?” “Did Yes, it works both ways. Including cash.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2022

Of course, the best solution would be a new wave of so-called whole-brain thinkers, but this term is usually reserved for Einstein and Picasso, and no entrepreneurs that I can name. Recognizing past achievements and reflecting on your success helps keep your circuitous progress in perspective. Creativity is the key word here.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Yet as we enter February 2017 the VC funding markets are booming, Snap, Inc has filed for its IPO, AppDynamics was just purchased for $3.7 Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather. billion by Cisco and the only winter that can be found is at the ski resorts following California’s epic snowy and rainy January.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. 15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. But markets value high growth over short-term profitability.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. She’s more qualified than I and I know she’ll eventually eclipse the things that Yves and I have built over the past couple of decades. Marketing, recruiting, building data products & tools, event management, analyzing the portfolio, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. As a product or service you can often trade short exclusivity periods for the retailer’s willingness to spend marketing dollars promoting your product or give you better merchandising in the physical or virtual store. So Why Does This Matter?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. I thought this was a good time to reflect on some lessons of the past 10 years. Over the past 2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

This raises a big red flag with potential investors, who conclude that no competitors means no market, or you haven’t looked, and the new startup is likely not investable. First to market, for example, is not normally a sustainable advantage for startups. Thought leadership position in your market and customer set.

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