Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Her post is short & well written so definitely worth a read if you’re a startup person and want to hear some sensible views on sales. However, I advocate a more nuanced approach for early-stage startup teams” 1. As your team grows you start to segment sales into sales executive & sales engineers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. But we have a great city for building technology companies. I have one message for you, ‘get over it!’

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

In this context, I definitely agree with the need for new ideas and principles, as was expressed in a new book, “ Wild Thinking: 25 Unconventional Ideas to Grow Your Brand and Your Business ,” by branding though leaders Nick Liddell and Richard Buchanan. Building a business is not a solo act.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

Brian Nickerson: It''s definitely a crowded space. One, is most of our team has worked together in this business for several years. All of them offer the same kind of coupon information for a store or category, but many of those sites that show up have very poor results. What''s the background of your team?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Note: This is the third installment in the Startup Team Building series. Did they build a team, did they go solo, did they dive into the task with relish or did they take on the mantel of a martyr? For one thing, it is tricky to properly map candidates to the categories noted below. Hiring Is Like Comedy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video. If you’re interested in sports tech (or want to argue with a 49ers fan) you should definitely follow Greg.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

Those companies wanted to partner with us, and to put commercial arrangements in place with the Dodgers, to better validate their product and why they were building what they were to solve industry issues. What's the big value of linking a sports team like the Dodgers to these startups?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

The first is to be more precise in your definition and understanding of where you are, and how the money will be spent. Your fundability with investors now depends primarily on the execution capability of your team. Thus the best entrepreneur strategy for funding is to build solutions, not technology. Expanding the product line.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Building a strong tech industry to rival that of Silicon Valley is definitely no easy feat, but the overall feeling within Cal Tech’s Baxter Hall at last week’s event certainly bodes well for the year. Their presentation ended in a quick trivia round about science, a category which (of course), the techy audience chose.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2014

That''s the definition of entrepreneurship, taking on the challenge that no one else is, and solving thing the way you want, and to prove that you''re right and can build a business. There is no bigger category than automotive, and there''s no gnarlier problem than buying a car. All those things are rarely in the same person.

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socalTECH

JULY 5, 2017

I really wanted to go build a lifestyle, premium brand. I think that that's what makes what we are doing in the apparel category quite unique, and differentiated from traditional apparel. We created a world class team, and are scaling the business in incredibly rapid fashion. The list of opportunities has no definite certainty.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

I think, to be a great entrepreneur, you have to look at what is missing in the category that you will be playing in the industry, and figure what you can deploy with a little bit of strategy and technology to bring a better service and price. By definition, they liked you and thought they were a good fit for you before their applied.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

No folders, submenus, or “category-container-box-lists” Write your reminder with a string of hashtags: #todo #pickup autobiography of arnold schwarzenegger from #amazon. We discuss productivity, emails, communication, and the dynamics of the team. ” The Fetchnotes team’s thoughts on this? Enter, social.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

When you can live where you want to live and make money doing what you love to do, you are, by my definition, a screaming success. Three decades later, it has matured into a multi-hundred million dollar product category. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

Andrea and her team are awesome and provide such a great service for those who want the right type of shopping experience. I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: What’s been the most after sought category of items? Calm down guys.).

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

Kate Drane, hardware category lead at IndieGoGo joins us and talks about IndieGoGo and crowdfunding. But crowdfunding is definitely changing the financial and fundraising landscape. KD: I would definitely see more startups using crowdfunding to get the business up on the mound.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

As one of our most fully stacked events to date, we thought it wouldn’t quite each of our five categories justice by recapping the entire event and skimming only for highlights. Ian Harris, VP of local Cleantech incubator believes ‘Cleantech’ is now more a political term than a technological definition.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

Here’s how I break down the four quadrants (and I’ve put my definitions in here – not Covey’s). As the CEO you have a team that is counting on you and a board that is measuring your performance. Responsive Low Hanging Fruit – I view email in the category of urgent but not (always) important.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. They’ll only do this if they believe you’re a high potential team and are likely to raise money at some point.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

On top of that, we build components that can be included in applications, such as Cometd a messaging service, which we've done reference implementations for, we do AJAX push, to do live events across the Internet, and provides reliable, face communications to large numbers of people across the world.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

301 URI messed up by Google", TRUE, 301); header("Location: $canonicalUri"); exit; } } By definition, heuristic checks barely scratch the surface. With the shortcut returned build the short URI on-the-fly $shortUri = getBaseUri()."/".$suriShortcut; If you want to use your URI shortener with a Twitter client, then build an API.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This class of investors is more diversified across categories plus is investing personal money and therefore feels the hit in assets declines first. VC funding is definitely back from the constipation that was 2009 replete with frothy valuations chasing dreams of the next Facebook, Groupon or Zynga.

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