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Why Successful Startups Often Have A Pair Of Founders

Startup Professionals Musings

The simple solution I recommend to inventors is to find a partner who can focus on business and marketing, while you focus on technology. Understanding what drives customers to buy, in different market segments and cultures, is usually just as challenging as creating and combining technology to deliver function.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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7 Steps To Turning Business-As-Usual Into A Moonshot

Startup Professionals Musings

Moonshots are simply efforts that demand breakthroughs that are not possible within business-as-usual practices. Elon Musk has done it with SpaceX and Tesla, and Steve Jobs did it on a regular basis at Apple. Patents and other intellectual property must be secured at this point. Move into full project execution mode.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

In a recent interview, Goldenberg stated that the online apparel market was a “bigger than $100 billion” business and that his company and others like it were poised to “take market share from traditional retailers”. Given Goldenberg’s Internet marketing prowess, I’m sure JustFab will continue to shape online retail for years to come.