Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Before you act, shut up and listen to employees, customers, and futurists.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Looking to reach Southern California's high tech executives and. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. tech economy, with interview with the movers and shakers in the industry, coverage of. venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 24, 2012

However, while most high tech, biotech, cleantech and sports companies have wonderful technologies, relatively few have good business models. Thursday, January 26, 2012 -- Realizing Value from Innovation. To translate innovation into real value, you need both great technology and a great business model. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Need office or Tech Space? Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Funding great entrepreneurs. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Think Glendale. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com). Technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2014

Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. A good place to start looking is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups. Stringent spending controls. Violations can lead to jail time.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Entrepreneurs seeking funding should emulate Addie''s efficient and focused pursuit of perfection. When securing funding, entrepreneurs must balance the desire for perfection with the urgent need to ensure the process is efficient. Better than Amazon''s customer experience for any brand" and "LinkedIn on Steroids.". One-liners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. A good place to start looking is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups. Stringent spending controls. Violations can lead to jail time.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Need office or Tech Space? Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Think Glendale. Technology.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Today's Insights and Opinions piece -- where we feature content from experts and thought leaders in the community -- comes to us from angel investor Dave Berkus , who recently posted a list of ten factors to see if the vision for your technology might be attractive to customers or investors. and is a partner in Trenchant Ventures, LLC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2011

Now that President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package has been out for a while, including $50 billion aimed at alternative-energy initiatives, applying for grants has become the rage for high-tech startups. A good place to start is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A quick message on a very busy funding day, to thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Need office or Tech Space? Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Technology.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Patrick Kennedy: Our customers are very active using our technology and analytics as a solution to increase the content sales from all kinds of customers. So carriers are a major customer of yours? Patrick Kennedy: We have customers of different kinds. Patrick Kennedy: We have customers of different kinds.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Today's Insights and Opinions piece -- where we feature content from experts and thought leaders in the community -- comes to us from angel investor Dave Berkus , who recently posted a list of ten factors to see if the vision for your technology might be attractive to customers or investors. and is a partner in Trenchant Ventures, LLC.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2013

There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding, and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing their startup. When you have invented a new technology, you need expensive models and testing, including samples for potential customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding, and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing their startup. When you have invented a new technology, you need expensive models and testing, including samples for potential customers.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2011

Derek Norton is head of Los Angeles-based Watertower Group (www.watertowergroup.com), a firm which helps companies raise funding, one of the rare companies which has a track record and good reputation helping companies with fundraising, and also runs its own investment fund. Derek Norton: I'm a fourth generation Angeleno.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding, and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing their startup. When you have invented a new technology, you need expensive models and testing, including samples for potential customers.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

We also have launched directly to customers, and this became available for sale on our website back in January. Plumbers are not exactly known for their adoption of high tech products. How are you funding the startup? Gabe Halimi: We've done a couple of rounds of venture funding to date.We

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2012

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive. Later on during funding or execution, rejection can cost you your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Because this document is “outward facing” the tone and level has to change to be understandable by customers and investors. Business model, executive team, marketing & sales, financials, and funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Taking other people’s money to fund your startup changes your life in ways you cannot predict. At the very least (or perhaps it’s the very best), they ask me how to get ready for funding. She is a true angel investor, and has helped package and secure funding for many high-tech startup companies in the area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2011

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive. Later on during funding or execution, rejection can cost you your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Because this document is “outward facing” the tone and level has to change to be understandable by customers and investors. Business model, executive team, marketing & sales, financials, and funding.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

The company went from a venture backed high tech startup to an IPO as a publicly traded firm, and over its time has battled the perception of being a "content farm", suffered through Google and its Panda update, and now has emerged as a major content partner for Google, via YouTube.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2010

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive. Later on during funding or execution, rejection can cost you your company.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It may sound counterintuitive, but startups are often tight on cash, which doesn’t make them great customers. Instead of charging the entrepreneurs, we work with enlightened public and private funding partners who understand that a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem is the best long-term play for a region.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Because this document is “outward facing” the tone and level has to change to be understandable by customers and investors. Business model, executive team, marketing & sales, financials, and funding.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. To fund his passion, he began shaping and selling surfboards in 1968 from a small shop. A decade later, Standup Paddle Sports has become a leading SUP brand, serving customers globally.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. You’re a tech guy. I have published many of these PR Tips before. I had had enough. We take MBAs. You know, business people.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 22, 2008

Eysenback for the Journal of Medical Internet Research ) “The high tech industry is a strong supporter of eHealth initiatives such as ePrescribing that lower healthcare costs and improve the safety and delivery of care,” said Matthew Kazmierczak, Vice President, Research and Industry Analysis, AeA.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. billion dollar mistake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2013

The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. Customer service. Only the under-35 age group need apply. Executive Assistant (aka Secretary).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

The fifth one was a high-buzz, high-tech play with lots of big-name angels, and we eventually brought in a rock star CEO and a major VC followed us in with many millions. My second, six years later, took only $2 million in VC funding. It, too, went down the tubes. David: Being an entrepreneur is tough.

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