Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2022

Leaders with this “be bold” mindset are willing and able to take radically unique direction-setting actions in the face of today’s pace of change and customer demands. You as the leader need only to set the template and the tempo, like conducting an orchestra, and demand and reward disciplined execution of tasks that only the team can do.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

The startup was listed in TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2023 too, alongside industry heavyweights like Nvidia and SpaceX. And with direct traffic making up 71% of Caledly’s total traffic, demand for the scheduling tool is likely to remain strong into 2024. Calendly calendar screenshot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Take a hard look at SpaceX or HyperLoop. It demands that you believe in what you are doing from the heart, and that your contribution is essential to the future world you envision. Entrepreneurs in this category are real risk takers, such as Elon Musk. Develop a learn-fast mindset to seek the latest and the future.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

and who, as Sky Dayton aptly states --know that the one trait that all entrepreneurs must have: perseverance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

They need the reality check of good technologists to keep their interests bounded, and provide realistic risk assessments on new demands. Elon Musk has a deep technical background that has helped him lead multiple businesses, including SpaceX and Tesla. Ability to keep track of new technology advancements.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others. You can register for the event at Digital Family Reunion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Take a hard look at SpaceX or HyperLoop. It demands that you believe in what you are doing from the heart, and that your contribution is essential to the future world you envision. Entrepreneurs in this category are real risk takers, such as Elon Musk. Develop a learn-fast mindset to seek the latest and the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Take a hard look at SpaceX or HyperLoop. It demands that you believe in what you are doing from the heart, and that your contribution is essential to the future world you envision. Entrepreneurs in this category are real risk takers, such as Elon Musk. Develop a learn-fast mindset to seek the latest and the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2019

They marched firmly ahead with their existing model, rather than reinvent themselves in the face of customers demanding change. For example, most experts believe that Blockbuster knew and feared the movement to streaming movies, but suppressed it. Commit to an authentic and memorable purpose.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative. As I like to tell people who ask about Bird, “consumers have literally voted with their feet.” Is Bird really defensible?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2016

Bold entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk now routinely attack undefined markets, like privatized space travel with SpaceX, and high performance electric cars with Tesla Motors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2016

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.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Pasadena has a long history as a center of the technology and innovation world�all the way back to first American experiments with rocket launches in 1936�Southern California's first foray into the rocket business (sorry, SpaceX)--through the Internet boom with Idealab, to today.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. You might know Demand Media better as the people behind Cracked, DailyPuppy, and GolfLink. Elon Musk – SpaceX, Tesla Motors, PayPal. billion in shares.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. We don’t seem to get credit as a community for SpaceX or recognition as one of the fastest growing communities for commerce: Honest Company & JustFab. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite. He led and sold MySpace to Fox for $650 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2021

Innovate to meet future demands you foresee. When Elon Musk talks about us becoming a multi-planet species, or alleviating earth travel congestion with a network of tunnels, people now listen, especially when he can show that SpaceX and The Boring Company are already demonstrating results.

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