Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. This article originally appeared on Inc.com. ” This is in contrast to NINAs.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

You can use your phone to really guide yourself through game day or through a live event. Why are these colleges using you, rather than investing in their own custom applications? What's the biggest lesson you've learned here so far as an entrepreneur? How did you get into this? Laurence Sotsky: That's a great question.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Legendary customer support. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?”

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

You can find some of the monthly ones in the following: Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010 Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010 Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 (..)

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

I’m trying to enter the debate with what I found to be a very destruction guiding principle that young people have started to believe. Because I have met so many young entrepreneurs who tell me, “we don’t need business plans anymore, there a waste! And they’ve invested their time and trust in you.

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