Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2022

Every business needs repeatable processes to grow and thrive, but modern business processes need the right people to make them efficient and productive. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

According to the school, it has launched the The LMU CBA Business Incubator , a brand new startup incubator focused on companies in the technology and consumer products area. Choi--is launching with nine student and alumni companies, and provides space, advisors and mentors, and connections to startups.

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MAY 2, 2014

Tehrani is founder and President of Allied Group, a product design and manufacturing company, and also has been very involved in the. Holly is a well known figure in LA''s technology landscape, having most recently been Vice Provost for Innovation at USC; Holly also had spearheaded similar, innovation efforts at MIT. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

I’ve always wondered if there was some way that I could quickly deduce a new entrepreneur’s “sweet spot,” and optimize my mentoring to those strengths and weaknesses, maybe similar to the Myers-Briggs type indicator for business professionals. Picture the graphic designer, the IT expert, or the independent accountant or attorney.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

This is the confirmation that your product or service fills a real need in the marketplace. Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. Even with the perfect product, your customers won’t even know you exist without marketing.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We've used that funding to product our app, which is based on React Native, which allows us to simultaneously develop and release on both iOS and Android. That's proving very useful for our design. Million Women Mentors has a network of both women and men, helping underrepresented women pursue careers in STEM and STEM related fields.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2013

In today’s uber-connected, social media, everything-is-public, people tell you there’s killing it with these new features, investor & mentor whiplash – it’s hard to avoid the latest thing. 4 months later every f **g product I see looks like Pinterest. Skeuomorphic design. FLAT design.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

But, advisors, coaches, and mentors can often fill the bill. In creating Mentor Night , I’ve been happy to hear how giving most people are. If you present a mentor with an interesting startup challenge in a space where they have experience or expertise, the mentors are quite willing to spend a few hours to help the founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As a business advisor, I have too often seen technical entrepreneurs get a product or service off the ground with ease, but then struggle mightily when their business reaches a couple of million in annual sales, or the employee count grows beyond a handful. Now the experiments are over, and high productivity is the objective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

There is nothing more inspiring than seeing the results of your mentoring and leadership. Watching the orders come in, or the product moving off the shelf, is the feedback you have been looking for. Start even before the product is ready. Your own learning should be the biggest inspiration of all. Marketing is top priority.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 29, 2018

Sunil Koduri, cofounder and Chief Listener of Zsolutionz , a software company developing a computer vision and machine learning product for the health and wellness space called Zofie based on fuzzy logic, said gaining information from the industries has helped him realize opportunities. Add Mentors to Your Roster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

This is the confirmation that your product or service fills a real need in the marketplace. Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. Even with the perfect product, your customers won’t even know you exist without marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. In short, we’re after venture returns.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Beware of Mentors. In both cases, I was the mentor telling the person that the idea, as I understood it was "not great." " One was an enterprise software product. Would it take more work to sell the enterprise product than they could make on it? It was a top post on StartupRoar on Tuesday.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based ShopNation , one of the current class of the LaunchpadLA business mentoring effort, has partnered with fashion focused and editorial site theFashionSpot , the firms said today. theFashionSpot is a part of Los Angeles-based AtmoicOnline, and has around 70,000 registered members focused on design, style, and fashion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2021

In fact, as a mentor to entrepreneurs and an investor, I recommend that entrepreneurs avoid using the term disruptive with investors, since many see it as implying extra high risk, a long time for payback, and extensive marketing to build the new market. So why would any investor ever believe any of these claims?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

This is an incredibly rewarding milestone and an apt tribute to the vision of my late mentor, Norman Rostoker,” said TAE’s current chief executive officer, Michl Binderbauer, in a statement announcing the company’s achievement. It’s the opposite of a [Tokamak].

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I tend to see many of the same obstacles appearing in every new startup, and since I don’t want to appear to be a downer , I’m not sure how to properly warn people ahead of time to be on the alert for these challenges. Each of these can go astray as follows: Your product or service hits unexpected snags.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2021

The key is to make decisions from data and feedback, once your business has real customers and real products. Working in isolation is fine during the creative phase of the startup, where the founder is often the designer and architect, as well as the builder. Trusting your gut at this stage isn’t good enough. Absolute control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Many entrepreneurs have a passion and an idea, or even invent a new product, but are never able to execute to the point of creating a startup. The development stage normally begins with designing and prototyping a product or service, and creating the company legal entity. Startup and development stage.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify Mentor Panel in full swing. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Like good mentors Paul, Jeff, Richard, Oded and David as well as Chris and Kris create an atmosphere in which the motivated founders can take advantage of the knowledge base to which they are exposed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. This refers to the use of game thinking and software design mechanics to make it more effective and friendly for people to engage with technology. I wish it was that easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2019

Image via Pexels Every business needs repeatable processes to grow and thrive, but modern business processes need the right people to make them efficient and productive. The right people make productive processes, not the other way around. On the other hand, I see teams with almost no process that are tremendously productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The first electric bulb was actually invented by Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, who demonstrated the concept, but gave up trying to develop a practical product after only three attempts. By contrast, Edison persevered and designed a working light bulb after thousands of failures. Build and maintain your emotional intelligence.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Ever have an idea for a great mobile startup but get stuck with just a dream because you have no skills to design or develop it and no money to pay to get it done? Some business people have friends that are designers or developers but most are not so lucky.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In my role as a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I find that many of you have your most creative ideas for your company’s first big bang , but often get bogged down with details as the company grows. When Yvon Chouinard founded Patagonia with creative outdoor products, he pitched also a purpose of helping the environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2020

As a business advisor, I have too often seen technical entrepreneurs get a product or service off the ground with ease, but then struggle mightily when their business reaches a couple of million in annual sales, or the employee count grows beyond a handful. Now the experiments are over, and high productivity is the objective.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

There is a large menu of startup accelerators in the Los Angeles, but one of more established efforts in the area is LaunchpadLA ([link] The effort actually started as an informal mentoring program, but has grown and expanded to follow the accelerator model. You need to build that minimum viable product. Sam Teller: Great question.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Previously we had to bring companies from all around the world to our 8 week accelerator program in Santa Monica and we were restricted by having to use local investors, trainers and mentors to keep our startups occupied. In 2018 & 2019 Expert DOJO made 42 investments. They made 45 more investments in 2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

What I don’t see often are new solutions that force me to rethink how we work together, or really use AI to make the collaboration process more productive. From the work and feedback, you will learn much on how your solution will fare with customers, before building the product Tap expert sources in other domains for ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

All true entrepreneurs operate off a set of tenets that are built into their psyche, or drilled into them from training and mentors. In a book a while back by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie from the Columbia Business School, “ Designing for Growth ,” the authors encourage managers to think more like designers. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2011

I believe you can be much more productive, as well as a more effective leader, if you approach most meetings as mentoring opportunities, and limit them to five minutes. I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. The mentor assumes a role of a facilitator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2012

All true entrepreneurs operate off a set of tenets that are built into their psyche, or drilled into them from training and mentors. In a book a while back by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie from the Columbia Business School, “ Designing for Growth ,” the authors encourage managers to think more like designers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Before that, I was at a multimedia design academy in high school. I've always been a mobile enthusiast, in technology and design and user experience. Eli Aizenstat: I entered into the Design Accelerator, which is an accelerator run in conjunction with the Art Center College of Design and Caltech, in the summer of 2014.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. The product right now is like basic Facebook, and we are updating it to a new format we think more people will want, sort of a hybrid between Pinterest and Reddit, so that you can have any combination of features between those two. We have some great mentors now.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

Enterprise Software sucks, and if you’re an engineer or product designer, we invite you to join this hackathon to reinvent business 2 business software. The goal is to take the complicated out of softwares like CRMs and project management tools and turn them in to simple, beautiful and usable products. Second Prize: $500.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Perks include office space, prototype lab, production facilities, mentoring, and investments up to $150,000 in the first 4 months. They are just over the halfway mark with their current class and have been continuously improving their program to increase the value for their entrepreneurs, their products and their business.

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