Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. It’s no fun for either side.

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Startup Innocal Offshore 138

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Based on my own experience mentoring real entrepreneurs and likely candidates, there are at least eight categories of non-starters. Of course, too much early success can kill a business, but real entrepreneurs are certain that they can grow and learn from success, just as they do from failure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Additionally, research has revealed that the average age of the founders of technology companies in the United States is a surprisingly high 39 - with twice as many over age 50 as under age 25. With longer life expectancies and greater health in later life, older generations are moving to start new firms -- and mentor young entrepreneurs.

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Technical Review Technical Support Entrepreneur Startup 126

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

As a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I often feel the frustration of someone trying to build a startup in the wrong place and time, and wrongly attributing their struggle to personal limitations. You need to be stimulated by easy access to many sources of learning and leadership, including universities, research, and other businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2022

Almost every entrepreneur needs to improve their skills in this area, so I did some research on the basics. Of course the work must be done well, but your way or the highway is not the right way. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews.

Startup 121

Startup SEO Social Media Satisfaction 121

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Universities are a rich source of new ideas from their students, their professors, and their own research, and they value entrepreneurs from the real world to decide which ones are viable in the marketplace. Product research and prototype development. Connections to a mentor. Business plan assistance.

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Startup Incubator Resource Mentor 95

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2012

Universities are a rich source of new ideas from their students, their professors, and their own research, and they value entrepreneurs from the real world to decide which ones are viable in the marketplace. Product research and prototype development. Connections to a mentor. Business plan assistance.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Mentor Research 92

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As the school year kicks off for college students, one of the big tasks of the year is buying books for their courses. You've got to find each one, and research them online. It seems like all that course information would be difficult to pull, how do you do that? They act as mentors and help companies grow.

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UCSD Course Startup Sites 185

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. The entrepreneurial wunderkinds who find success without higher education "are exceptions to the rule," says Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation. Academic research supports that this experience pays off.

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Entrepreneur Startup Course Education 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. It’s no fun for either side.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Funding Innocal Offshore 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

One of the attributes of this prize, is that USC is going to also conduct a business plan preparation and entrepreneurship course for the students. Mentors outside of the university will come and help the innovators and students who have come up with their new ideas, and help them to convert those into professionally prepared business plans.

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Competition Southern California Mentor USC 154

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

With some coaching and mentoring from other leaders, I was able to do it myself, so I know you can do it too, by committing to the following strategies: Train yourself to always look for positives, not negatives. Of course, most professionals are optimistic, so they tend to over-commit and underestimate work requirements.

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Coach Training Satisfaction Mentor 137

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. The entrepreneurial wunderkinds who find success without higher education "are exceptions to the rule," says Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation. Academic research supports that this experience pays off.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Course Education 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2019

Additionally, Kauffman research has revealed that the average age of the founders of technology companies in the United States is a surprisingly high 39 - with twice as many over age 50 as under age 25. Of course no one has any idea what the next big thing will be, but more often than not innovation comes from entrepreneurs.

Startup 119

Startup Technical Review Technical Support Entrepreneur 119

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

Universities are brimming with new ideas from their students, their professors, and their own research, but need entrepreneurs from the real world to decide which ones are viable in the marketplace. Research and development. Every university has educational courses and can provide assistance on creating your initial plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Based on my own experience mentoring real entrepreneurs and likely candidates, there are at least eight categories of non-starters. Of course, too much early success can kill a business, but real entrepreneurs are certain that they can grow and learn from success, just as they do from failure.

Startup 126

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Knowledge Base 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2018

She explains the reasons and research behind why we hate asking for help, suggests the right ways to ask for assistance, and confirms that understanding the impact of efforts is critical to success. The best way to do this in business is to proactively ask someone to be your mentor. The advisor needs to see your requests as sincere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2020

As a mentor to entrepreneurs over the years, I see many of you who don’t communicate enough, others who seem to do all the talking, and some that are hesitant to be direct and open. Examples of inquiry include asking questions to seeking the wisdom of the room, while advocacy means stating your view or urging a course of action.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

For TAE Technologies, the achievement serves as a validation of the life’s work of Norman Rostoker, one of the company’s co-founders who had devoted his life to fusion energy research and died before he could see the company he helped create reach its latest milestone.

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Technology Artificial Inteligence Google Orange County 354

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2015

Despite the rush in every academic institution to offer more courses on entrepreneurship, I still haven’t found it to be something you can learn in school. Of course, you can pick up the basic principles this way, but the problem is that the practical rules for success are changing so fast that no academic can keep up.

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Startup Case Study Entrepreneur Class 103

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. The entrepreneurial wunderkinds who find success without higher education "are exceptions to the rule," says Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation. Academic research supports that this experience pays off.

Technical Advisors 90

Technical Advisors Startup Course Entrepreneur 90

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2019

Almost every entrepreneur needs to improve their skills in this area, so I did some research on the basics. Of course the work must be done well, but your way or the highway is not the right way. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews.

Startup 96

Startup SEO Social Media Satisfaction 96

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Seed investors are aplenty and of course they need downstream money to fuel their early-stage bets. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Of course I would like to be in every great deal ever done.

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Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Of course I believe the market has slowed down massively. We of course need to understand markets and market dynamics but many people understand this from an analytical perspective. We are looking for a strong opinion, well researched and with strong conviction. If you’re a clear “market winner” like Stripe, Robinhood or Airbnb.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Writing 263

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. Of course, there's a lot of concentration in LA along Siliocon Beach, but there are great things in Pasadena, Claremont, Downtown, and the Valley. What are your goals at Techstars?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

” Most VCs view it as their responsibility to mentor, debate, cajole and generally assist with investments they make. Of course if it’s a company on fire I would travel to any 2-hop city from LA. Next I’d research every VC in the country and find people who grew up in or near KC. Not easily.

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Venture Capital Marketing Santa Barbara Startup 365

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2013

Kevin Cope, in his book “ Seeing the Big Picture ”, does a great job of outlining the basics of business acumen for executives, and helped me assimilate some practical ideas on building the essential elements for entrepreneurs: Reserve time daily to research the market, as well as technology. Even the best have mentors they really use.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Mentor Ideas Startup 101

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2012

We all start with what researchers term the “ knowing-doing gap.” Solicit coaching and mentoring. The final step is to vicariously or directly experience a leadership moment of a mentor or peer. Of course, these need to be customized for every culture and every business environment.

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Study Startup Activity Mentor 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2017

The best leaders are mentors to their team, and they are stewards of a company’s assets and vision. Set a course for the destination, but also establish intermediate checkpoints to assess progress along the way. Your task is follow-up in support, mentoring, and setting goals. Communicate the vision, then execute.

Company 55

Company Companies Startup Mentor 55

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

That's what we do over the course of our two year contract. Michele Ruiz: Robin Richards and I formed the company, after he approached me, after having been a business mentor for me for fifteen years. My side of this, has been taking a bunch of academic research, and turning that into software. How did the three of you connect?

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Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

What, I think, is the first technology-based, early-stage venture capital fund anywhere, American Research and Development , was founded between Georges Doriot at Harvard Business School and Karl Compton, who was president of MIT at the time. Just about nothing, one or two courses— Ed Roberts had one—on entrepreneurship.

Startup 67

Startup Compton Research Technology 67

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

Those companies tend to be around for longer than one year, because of course our faculty are not working on those things full time, they're continuing to teach classes. Another differentiating factor of the Viterbi Startup Garage is we also are associated with the National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps program.

Marina Del Rey 150

Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2015

Based on my own experience mentoring real entrepreneurs and likely candidates, there are at least eight categories of non-starters. Of course, too much early success can kill a business, but real entrepreneurs are certain that they can grow and learn from success, just as they do from failure.

Startup 114

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Knowledge Base 114

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Additionally, Kauffman research has revealed that the average age of the founders of technology companies in the United States is a surprisingly high 39 - with twice as many over age 50 as under age 25. Of course no one has any idea what the next big thing will be, but more often than not innovation comes from entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur 75

Entrepreneur Technical Review Startup Technical Support 75

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2015

Almost every entrepreneur needs to improve their skills in this area, so I did some research on the basics. Of course the work must be done well, but your way or the highway is not the right way. It will inspire loyalty, provide real satisfaction for work done, and become the basis for mentoring and performance reviews.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Startup SEO Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2012

A new book by Kevin Cope, “ Seeing the Big Picture ”, does a great job of outlining the basics of business acumen for executives, and helped me assimilate some practical ideas on building the essential elements: Reserve time daily to research the market, as well as technology. Even the best have mentors they really use.

Technology 95

Technology Mentor Ideas Entrepreneur 95

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. It’s no fun for either side.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 103