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.

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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. Business accelerators” is another term often used interchangeably with incubators.

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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. I scan it for the most important messages to be sure nothing urgent has popped up. They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. I got rid of voicemail.

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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. Startup Accelerators and Incubators.” billion.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. Howard Marks is co-founder of Activision , and head of Los Angeles-based startup accelerator StartEngine. I don't even know where to start. SAAS is here to stay.

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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. A successful startup is more about the right people than the right amount of money.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2019

We caught up with Randy Saaf , the CEO of Lucid Sight, to learn more about how exactly the company is doing that, and why. Randy Saaf: Me and a couple of buddies started on of the first iPhone gaming companies back in 2008, called Jirbo. We started thinking about it, and we decided, if we were going to do this, we would go big.

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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. If they hit blackjack, only then will they win the trip or the equivalent cost of the trip. READ MORE>>.

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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. I like events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. Start by open listening. The mentee must not be afraid to show false starts or a naïve perspective. The primary responsibility of a startup founder is to provide vision and leadership. Give it a try.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2012

I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. Start by open listening. The mentee must not be afraid to show false starts or a naïve perspective. The primary responsibility of a startup founder is to provide vision and leadership.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject.

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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. To someone laboring in a cash-strapped startup, money often seems to be the endgame. But there are some things that DEFINITELY come with other people’s money. But there are some things that DEFINITELY come with other people’s money.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2010

I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. Management by walking around” in a good start. The mentee must not be afraid to show false starts or a naïve perspective. Start by open listening. Tags: entrepreneur mentoring startups business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2011

I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. Start by open listening. The mentee must not be afraid to show false starts or a naïve perspective. The primary responsibility of a startup founder is to provide vision and leadership.

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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.

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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. Robinson, Ph.D.,

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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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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

MM: How did you end up enlisting? DB: I grew up in rural Michigan. After high school, I wasn’t interested in pursuing college at the time. DB: My service was up in August of 2008, and I moved back to the U.S. I was the definition of a non-traditional student. All because of tech. I love startups.

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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.

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Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 48

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. We also started offering up some aspects of our software for free to help our customers thrive in COVID.

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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. Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. According to Doug, “ productivity fell dramatically whenever the surf was up.”.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

There are many things that entrepreneurs don’t know about startups—and an equal number of things they think they know, but about which they are wrong. Some common startup myths have frequently been debunked, like how running your own company will give you freedom (yeah, right!) The “truths” that guide entrepreneurs. Product trumps all.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 6, 2011

And we also managed to catch up with a few of the event coordinators (Kamran Assadi, Shelley RuggThorp, and Marco Schindelmann) from FLOOD and get some insight into the long-running Soundwalk some more! It started off with, 30-40 people, and the list has just grew organically. It’s definitely not a music event.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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