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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. The company has an R&D pipeline of similar food allergy areas it will address.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 24, 2018
Most aspiring entrepreneurs are convinced that their idea and passion are so great that failure is not a possibility. They relate quickly to one of the big successes out there today, including Facebook, Airbnb, or Snap, and can give you a dozen reasons that they are in the same category. Don’t try to be all things to all people.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 9, 2016
Good entrepreneurs are all about managing change, but too many forget that they have to change themselves as their dream evolves from a startup to a scalable business. You can’t demand total loyalty from all, so you have to learn to accept criticism without being defensive. Not every entrepreneur needs to scale.
socalTECH
MAY 30, 2019
Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, I've learned a lot, and my partner Paul has through our companies, and as a result, a lot of mistakes you make as an entrepreneur, we're not going to make.
socalTECH
APRIL 25, 2013
We caught up with CEO Dev Bhatia --a serial entrepreneur who''s been involved with such companies at Hotsocket, Screaming Media (IPO), and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo)--to learn more about. We already have live, paying customers in several categories. There''s already an existing demand, which was created by Google.
socalTECH
AUGUST 8, 2018
If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. We had to find other, more diverse ways to allocate our resources and grow businesses. What has the biggest lesson you've learned so far as entrepreneurs?
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 17, 2017
To grow faster businesses need resources in today to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. I often ask entrepreneurs to consider, “What’s your objective? They hired a biz dev team to work on deals where their product could be embedded in other people’s products as a way to increase customer demand.
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