socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. You definitely see some distinct clusters 30 miles North and 30 miles South of us.

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Ventura Incubator Technology Startup 200

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2013

Things definitely look to be heating up in the software recruiting world, at least, if you judge the latest offer from a local startup to find local recruits for software developers.

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Software Software Development Los Angeles Mobile 204

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

Over the last couple of weeks, we''ve featured a number of reflections on the year from movers and shakers in the local high tech community. As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Belkin Entertainment Newsletter 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2015

According to most definitions, anyone who starts a business is an entrepreneur , but most people don’t realize there are many startup types out there, and picking the wrong one can be just as disastrous as being stuck in a cubicle at work, or doing things with no interest and no skills. Fulfill your legacy and responsibility to society.

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Startup Entrepreneur High Tech Services 104

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

We caught up with Nick--who is a veteran of the area's high tech industry, most recently serving as CEO of Velocify--to get the latest on MomentFeed, which provides services to multi-brand, location businesses. Our interview today is with Nick Hedges , the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. Google triangulates a lot of information.

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Google Santa Monica Networking Software 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

It’s definitely positive to have a product plan. For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. Don’t get me wrong.

Product 92

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. I’m definitely not proposing the “traditional” style of mentoring, where the goal was a one-way transfer of a broad range of knowledge or information. Good people won’t want it to work any other way.

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Mentor High Tech Coach Guide 101

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson has created a collection of short films which beautifully underscore Mr. Jobs’ definition of creativity (the term beautiful is appropriate here, as the production values are sweet). If you have not yet discovered Everything Is A Remix , I strongly encourage you to invest the time to check it out.

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Startup High Tech SaaS .Net 255

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2012

I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. I’m definitely not proposing the “traditional” style of mentoring, where the goal was a one-way transfer of a broad range of knowledge or information. Good people won’t want it to work any other way.

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Mentor Product High Tech Coach 91

socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2019

MLBAM invented high tech streaming, when they saw the Internet becoming a major way people consume media. That's not 100 percent true, but there's definitely a demographic change going on right now. They also know they have to bridge the gap to the digitial future. Our pitch to them was very straightforward.

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Examples Startup Platform Venture Capital 157

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Even in the every-changing, cutting edge world of high-tech startups, planning is still essential. Top-down projections certainly serve their purpose (potential investors will definitely want to see this), but for your own purposes, a bottom-up financial projection gives you much more realistic expectations. Do you disagree?

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Startup Guide Capital High Tech 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

It’s definitely positive to have a product plan. For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. Don’t get me wrong.

Product 93

Product Entrepreneur Outsource Development Competition 93

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. TechStars has several excellent mentors on staff, led by founder and CEO David Cohen.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Startup Seed Funding 86

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. TechStars has several excellent mentors on staff, led by founder and CEO David Cohen.

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Incubator Startup Seed Funding Mentor 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2011

I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. I’m definitely not proposing the “traditional” style of mentoring, where the goal was a one-way transfer of a broad range of knowledge or information. Good people won’t want it to work any other way.

Mentor 95

Mentor High Tech Coach Guide 95

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

When added to my volume of Facebook messages, LinkedIn requests, blog comments and Tweets my head is definitely below water. First, when somebody is calling you by definition they’re interrupting something that you’re working on. Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many.

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Product Startup Email Technical Review 280

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2010

By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. About that time the bubble burst, causing more than 80% of them to disappear.

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Incubator Startup Seed Funding Mentor 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2010

I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. I’m definitely not proposing the “traditional” style of mentoring, where the goal was a one-way transfer of a broad range of knowledge or information. Good people won’t want it to work any other way.

Mentor 88

Mentor High Tech Coach Guide 88

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Going from a rigid military life back to civilian life is a significant change and was definitely a shock to my system. I was the definition of a non-traditional student. I worked on the auto assembly line, I worked in high-tech avionics, and I was able to stay close to my family while I was serving my country.

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Training UCLA Technology IP 98

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Later authors have refined this definition to include a company’s character, its deeply entrenched perspective that influences the way that organization develops new ideas, weighs options, and responds to changes in its environment. Costs for entry and for modernization are high.

Organization 89

Organization Training Layoffs Journal 89

Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

It was the 10 th consecutive quarter that venture firms put at least $10 billion into startups and other high-tech companies, including a $3.5 Over the last few quarters, we’ve definitely seen the funding levels come down” from 2015, said Tim Holl, an EY audit partner in San Diego who heads the firm’s technology practice.

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Marina Del Rey Invest Venture Capital San Diego 40

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

But there are some things that DEFINITELY come with other people’s money. She is a true angel investor, and has helped package and secure funding for many high-tech startup companies in the area. All problems will go away. They’re new and different problems. You can contact her directly at francine@stealthmode.com.

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Outsource Development High Tech Outsource Startup 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

It’s definitely positive to have a product plan. For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. Don’t get me wrong.

Product 48

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 48

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. Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size.

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Santa Barbara Startup Sales Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? That pace has definitely slowed down a little bit. Siemer & Associates runs its annual conference next week to delve into the same topics. The large acquirers, the Microsoft and Yahoo''s of the world, were buying 20-40 companies a year.

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Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

VC funding is definitely back from the constipation that was 2009 replete with frothy valuations chasing dreams of the next Facebook, Groupon or Zynga. But a double-dip recession couple with contracting VC market highlighted by Paul Kedrosky, a Kauffman Fellow, will surely bring back a period of inertia.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

What it will definitely do is fill the coffers of U.S. But the point is that these are the kinds of bills that would greatly benefit folks like you who work in the high-tech industry. academic scientists, which is necessary to a point, of course.

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45