Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2023

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2019

If you discover and become convinced that your vision is flawed, or the product impossible to create within cost and time expectations, or the demand impossible to quantify, or revenues never close to plan, then it would certainly be time to rethink the plan and product. Could you pivot to save the company?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2019

If you discover and become convinced that your vision is flawed, or the product impossible to create within cost and time expectations, or the demand impossible to quantify, or revenues never close to plan, then it would certainly be time to rethink the plan and product. Could you pivot to save the company?

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Incubator Venture Capital Invest Capital 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, like lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find. Meet the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them. Diversity breeds success.

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Startup Tool Design Demand 159

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 22, 2017

LAEDC’s Future Forums series focuses and examines on how technological innovation and globalization take the economy in new directions, and how this region is destined to be an incubator for business opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Neither breakthrough technology nor maximum features will assure that “if we build it, they will come.” In fact, NISI recommends starting with the minimum focused set of features and technology that will drive a customer purchase. Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right.

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Technical Review Customer Custom Entrepreneur 143

Berkonomics

JANUARY 12, 2012

And if the vision of the entrepreneur is flawed, or the product impossible to create within cost and time expectations, or the demand impossible to quantify, or revenues never close to plan, then it is time to rethink the plan and product. That return proved to be the best investment return any of us saw in the several years that followed.).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

We''re proud to announce the Socaltech 50 , our list of the 50, up-and-coming people in Southern California''s technology ecosystem. Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator). Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Ophir Tanz , GumGum (Los Angeles, advertising).

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

These are industries where structural impediments to technology adoption have only recently been broken down by the advent of incredibly powerful mobile devices. As Fifth Wall’s newest partner Greg Smithies noted last year, there’s a massive opportunity in building retrofits and startup technologies to improve efficiency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

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Organization Startup Incubator Ideas 93

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. Carbonics is focusing on wireless technology, using new semiconductors that bring us into the 5G era.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

Neither breakthrough technology nor maximum features will assure that “if we build it, they will come.” In fact, NISI recommends starting with the minimum focused set of features and technology that will drive a customer purchase. Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Han Chen to better understand what the company is working on, and some of the complexity of getting their technology to market. Our population is going to increase significantly, and we have thirty years to increase plant productivity in order to meet demand, or the world could face starvation.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. We were working on a bunch of different projects when we first started at the incubator. Stacy Stubblefield: We were part of the incubator, so we had some other contracted employees who were working and helping us develop the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

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Entrepreneur Funding Incubator Startup 102

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. And importantly we’ve had revenue. I’m paranoid about the evaporation of revenue.

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. I had been seed investing and incubating businesses, and was sitting with a friend of mine, John Miller, who ran Caliburger, which is a 35 location burger chain, which is exporting the California lifestyle, much like In-N-Out does. The demand is there.

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2015

In a world awash with on-demand startups, Los Angeles-based Serviz (www.serviz.com) stands out--not because of the market segment it is tackling, but because it was founded by two, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline. Zorik Gordon: We incubated this at ReachLocal, and spun it out in February of last year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This technology is not only spawning a new generation of entrepreneurs, but is also changing the educational landscape, all the way down to early grade school. Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, including lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Technology. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. However, there just hasn't been the underlying technology to make it possible to pull all of that together. What is Postie? Both of us are purely digital.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

That's what we call OT, or Operational Technology. However, in the last ten years-- especially with the power grid--regulatory agencies have started to demand that those systems be able to be monitored for compliance. Paul Myer: Veracity was originally part of Frost Data Capital, as part of their incubator.

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Networking Startup Incubator Orange County 124

socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2013

Will all that activity help create the next big technology, advertising, gaming, or e-commerce startup? Much of the focus is on absorbing that energy, the enthusiasm of the startup community here has created over the last few years. It's unclear.

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Startup Commerce Santa Monica Mentor 256

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

As the demands and supplies grew for advertising, we built a stable capital to create Engage:BDR. We also license our ad serving technology to publishers, advertisers, and other ad networks. To progress and be LA tech-focused, we started incubating ideas. Are incubating companies one of the main focuses of Engage:BDR?

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Marketing Startup Incubator Advertising 96

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. We technology leaders also make this mistake. It was so tempting for me to throw extra resources at our technology debt for a couple of quarters.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, like lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find. Meet the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them. Diversity breeds success.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Tool Design Demand 98

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago.

Startup 100

Startup Entrepreneur Funding Incubator 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

Neither breakthrough technology nor maximum features will assure that “if we build it, they will come.” In fact, NISI recommends starting with the minimum focused set of features and technology that will drive a customer purchase. Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Customer 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

Neither breakthrough technology nor maximum features will assure that “if we build it, they will come.” In fact, NISI recommends starting with the minimum focused set of features and technology that will drive a customer purchase. Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right.

Startup 64

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 64

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Neither breakthrough technology nor maximum features will assure that “if we build it, they will come.” In fact, NISI recommends starting with the minimum focused set of features and technology that will drive a customer purchase. Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right.

Startup 118

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 118

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

Resource 94

Resource Startup Organization Incubator 94

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Neither breakthrough technology nor maximum features will assure that “if we build it, they will come.” In fact, NISI recommends starting with the minimum focused set of features and technology that will drive a customer purchase. Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right.

Startup 114

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 114

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals.

Startup 92

Startup Organization Incubator Ideas 92

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. Technology and innovation has historically been the thing that has pulled the economy out of recessions, and I think that is especially true right now. For OCTANe to be successful, we want to see our technology ecosystem grow.

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174