socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. Weve started with dark web monitoring, and we are adding credit monitoring to help our users better control their digital identity. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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Technical Review Startup CIO Southern California 113

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

But underlying all that, in a sense, is education. We have long run stories about STEM education, educational technology, and more—and even put out a special Xconomist report on the future of education. Xconomy’s editors from across the county will be contributing to the education channel.

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Education Newsletter Training High Tech 40

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. In Michael's case, he promised his parents that he would return to school if the sales at his startup did not meet his expectations. "I "Our business is about technology, yes.

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Tips Startup Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 247

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2012

With our Insights and Opinions section on socalTECH, we're trying to help the startup and high tech community, including including hints, tips, and other education on the world of high tech startups. Read all about Restricted Stock from Sean Greaney at Founder Restricted Stock 101. The (More.).

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High Tech SoCalTech Southern California Tips 147

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. Paul Bricault is Managing Partner at Amplify LA (Www.amplify.la), a hands-on startup accelerator and co-working and community space in Venice. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Technical Review High Tech Venice 215

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. Everything Is A Remix – Including Your Startup.

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Startup High Tech SaaS .Net 255

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? Startups succeed most often when the founding partners know how to build and run a business, rather than how to build and run technology. A great technical LinkedIn profile is a good start, but not enough to assure success in your environment.

Technology 87

Technology High Tech Startup Social Media 87

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 27, 2012

If you are not anxious, then you are probably not pushing yourself or your startup hard enough. The inevitable pressures at a startup are not inherently negative. However, despite relative salary equality, there remain far fewer high-tech women entrepreneurs. It’s not gonna be about my connections.

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Tips Startup Entertainment Entrepreneur 204

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2013

Starting today , Two Bit Circus’ Kickstarter Campaign goes live and gladly invites you to help make this truly amazing concept become a reality. Carnival, to be presented by Two Bit Circus is to be a traveling high-tech amusement event that will visit select cities in the U.S. starting in Spring of 2014.

High Tech 108

High Tech Entertainment Education Startup 108

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

In this article about Tom Perkins in the WSJ you would have had a clue before his recent letter. There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. What about Kleiner? We need to provide better education for the masses.

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Education Venture Capital UCSD Class 417

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2013

The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. Only the under-35 age group need apply. Interim executive. Executive Assistant (aka Secretary).

Startup 98

Startup Mentor Demand High Tech 98

Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

Lita Nelsen has seen it up close—and played a part in its evolution—from her studies there in the 1960s, to her business-school fellowship in the late 1970s, to her 30 years working in MIT’s Technology Licensing Office. And so that’s what Stanford did, so it was set up in that model. I wasn’t the director then in ’86.

Startup 67

Startup Compton Research Technology 67

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2016

Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? Startups succeed most often when the founding partners know how to build and run a business, rather than how to build and run technology. A great technical LinkedIn profile is a good start, but not enough to assure success in your environment.

High Tech 58

High Tech Startup Social Media Entrepreneur 58

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One trend in the Southern California high tech startup market has been an increasing number of startups--and executives--who have been looking to combine their interests in business with their enthusiasm for giving back through nonprofits and causes. Ryan Scott: We focus on a couple of things.

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Causecast Startup Content Education 222

InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

It is not rational to put oneself into the uncertain, stress-filled environment of a startup. If it were a decision to be an entrepreneur, then most right-minded individuals would decide to turn back when they encountered the first inevitable startup crises. Leading The Herd is certainly more fun than milling about its midst.

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Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Statistics 243

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

That was primarily driven by the economy; when the economy is down, investments are down, and it is increasingly difficult to d a startup. Last year, we did fifty different educational programs, talking to on the order of 10,000 people in those fifty programs. Thanks for the time this morning. How has your first year been?

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2010

It's our pleasure today to feature an interview with Yossi Vardi , one of Israel's best known high tech entrepreneurs. What is it about Israel that has made it such a center of high tech and startups? etc--which are all necessary, but is insufficient for creating a high tech industry.

High Tech 150

High Tech Southern California Writing Conference 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

Customer service has always been reactionary, meaning someone has to wake up and answer website email requests. Great startups are getting ahead of the game with “anticipatory customer service,” like providing smart phone access to product and account data to head off complaints. This exemplary customer service is just savvy marketing.

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Customer Custom Services High Tech 89

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2014

An invalidated patent or one deemed to infringe the rights of another party can devastate a startup. Provisional Protection - Most US high-tech companies begin the utility patent process by filing a provisional patent application. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. Image: Wikipedia.

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IP Patents Journal Equity 210

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

When seeking the perfect pitch, in baseball and in the startup world, less is a lot more. Following this logic, startups that lack a compelling positioning claim might experience fewer opportunities to deliver their elevator pitch and thus have greater difficulty obtaining funding. Yammer for Education) & explanatory (e.g.,

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Product Yammer Technical Review Google 208

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Hunt Transport which makes the ecosystem ripe for startups to thrive. In this interview with #StartupsEverywhere , I talk withMichael Iseman, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Junkie, about the mentorship pool, knowledge transfer, the latest happening in the ecosystem and the energy of this community within the region.

Entrepreneur 70

Entrepreneur Startup News High Tech 70

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

With the Republican National Convention behind us and the Democratic convention in full swing, it seems like a good moment to ask how a Donald Trump presidency or a Hillary Clinton presidency might affect the prospects for high-tech entrepreneurship and business growth in the United States. Education and Workforce Development.

Education 40

Education Platform Training High Tech 40

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. Last year about 40% of the total workforce was Boomers. Interim Executive.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Mentor Demand High Tech 107

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. Last year about 40% of the total workforce was Boomers. Advisory Board. Marty Zwilling.

Mentor 75

Mentor Statistics High Tech Demand 75

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I hope you enjoy learning more about Dustan and saluting him for all he has done for America. As a veteran, this day should be about honoring not only those who came before us, but those who came after us as well. MM: How did you end up enlisting? DB: I grew up in rural Michigan. MM: Tell me more about communication.

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Training UCLA Technology IP 98

Xconomy

JULY 13, 2016

it’s natural for startup entrepreneurs and others immersed in the technology world—including us journalists—to wonder about the role of innovation in solving social problems. It can help grow the economic pie, but it can’t, by itself, slice up the pie more equitably.

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Social Media High Tech Media Organization 40

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298