Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time for every startup to assess the metrics, technology, and platforms they’re using to manage the business. This metric is a measure of the total cost associated with acquiring a new customer, including all aspects of marketing and sales. Size of gross margin. Variable cost percentage.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. The Case Foundation invests in people and ideas that can change the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

1) has escaped the attention of the major Internet companies, which are better run than ever before; (2) is capable of being launched and proven out for ~$5M, the typical seed plus series A investment; and. (3) We once thought Microsoft was a monopoly on the Internet due to IE. How many ideas like that are left?” ” My 3.5

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

[Update: TechCrunch has confirmed Lime’s plans for the store, and that the deal to build it came through Lime’s investor Fifth Wall Ventures that arranges partnerships between tech companies and real estate developers. Educate them on the benefits, educate them on safety, and provide helmets.”

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

The reality television show Shark Tank makes for entertaining content but many of its underlying messages are potentially detrimental to tech entrepreneurs. A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students initially model their investment pitches on the show's contrived format. According to David S. Shark Tank Distortions.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We're here to help them solve the problem of compliance and retail policy enforcement, and to understand what people are saying about their products next to their buy buttons, what kind of reviews they are getting, and to understand other things that influence sales. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Value is created through diligent hard work. Once you prove that a substantial number of people are willing to pay more for your solution than it costs you to provide it, you can then consider licensing your underlying technology. Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis. Secure Your Intellectual Property Too Early.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

Technology advocate and celebrity Will.I.Am. Technology advocate and celebrity Will.I.Am. He also briefly talked about a smart watch he was wearing that his team created which is due to launch this year. Education & Tech. Education and Technology were also hot topics at the conference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2021

Once you have learned, your top- priority task must be to educate others around you. The technology is here to do most hard things effortlessly in business, but I find many business owners stuck in the past, refusing to change. This leads to business growth, and happier people, typically due to more and higher-paying jobs.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recommend you first review Dharmesh’s article and then listen to Naval’s thoughts. Venture Hacks is educating entrepreneurs on the game theory of how to raise venture capital. 5) Rincon Venture Partners recently invested in The Resumator , which we identified via AngelList. AngelList is the productization of that.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 7, 2012

If you are fortunate to pitch a sophisticated investor in person, assume they already believe in the veracity of your idea, the market and the underlying technological trends. Informal Education – Consideration of a Grubstakee’s formal education was usually irrelevant.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. Anne Fulton: I've always been a technology lover, although I'm an organizational psychologist by training. What is Fuel50? The whole space has been neglected.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Jon Grishpul: We realized that although there are lots of other services, and in an age of technology and automation where so many things can be automated, there are still some industries like home renovation and construction where you need to have a personal approach. Doesn't that kind of approach make it difficult to scale?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

The online flower delivery market is now an old and established market. We''ve been bootstrapped since we launched, and already got to half a million in revenues on a total initial investment of $13,000. There are lots of online flower delivery services, in a pretty established market. Closing this $1.1M

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 7, 2015

And everybody on the platform is background checked and reviewed on every session to that there’s a friendly, two sided peer review community. After all, most tutors are students themselves which makes for a more comfortable session. Why not bring tutors into this new on-demand economy? .

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Silicon Valley may still be the capital of technology with a mix of new (Google, Facebook) and old (Apple, HP) sprinkling the landscape. However, Silicon Valley isn’t the only place to grow technology innovators from the ground up. We have large market potential with a small market community feel.

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Inverted Software

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Millennials are more educated about healthy choices, are price sensitive and environmentally friendly. So which companies are ones seeing the most change in their sales as a result of Millennials making more educated choices? Millennials are health conscious and nutrition educated. Ecommerce made up 9.3% a year earlier.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

A small percentage of people in each free-market society generate the jobs for everyone else. Such mini-ventures, as described in Small Ideas, Big Benefits , will not only educate you, but will reduce your risk when you exit the Herd. “It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame.”. There Is No Try. "You

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend a small fortune to protect it before I perform any market validation. Value is created through diligent hard work. 4) Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

Here are three of the most common: When you’re incorporating — Business structure is an important decision with financial, investment, and tax implications. When you’re planning to raise outside funding — Don’t try to negotiate an investor term sheet on your own or muddle through due diligence without good legal advice.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. We’ve worried together about the moral obligation implicit in taking such investments from people so close, even with their promise never to expect a return. Angel investment groups or funds. Accelerators.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches. Page 1: Market Size. $3

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

The controversial CISA bill passed in late December, despite outcry from the tech world, now means large corporations will be able to share personal online data with government agencies. The other trend is going to be in AI related tech entering the mainstream, from robotics to ease of information management.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." Innovation – and its sister topic, STEM education, is a topic that easily falls through the cracks. government.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 11, 2022

To even make marginal improvement, one would need to thread the needle of education and accessibility — and perhaps place compassion over profits and growth. Kindbody appears to be one of the few startups in the space well on its way to tackling this behemoth of a challenge. The company today has 12 outlets in 10 cities in the U.S.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 15, 2011

He invested $800 of his button profits to purchase a classified ad in Boys’ Life magazine. Despite its failure, the venture contributed to Tony’s entrepreneurial education. Other entry-level experiences for budding entrepreneurs included selling items marketed in comic book ads. Boys To Men.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’ve just completed an investment in Ryan Carson’s new company, TreeHouse. I’m investing heavily in Internet video. So I invested in Maker Studios , which is now the 3rd largest producer of Internet video on the web. I’m investing in businesses that reinvent education. Americans watch 5.3

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Design as an afterthought Mistakenly, many early-stage startups often don’t see value in investing in design early on, believing it is a luxury which can be bolted on later like some kind of magic stardust. Unless the thing you’re building has real value to someone, it’s just a vanity project, no matter the technology.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

This money is administered by the SBA (small business administration) and is obtained through an approved bank who reviews your application. When the $350 billion is fully invested will more be made available? The goal of the program is in the name?—?payroll payroll protection. One thing that is clear. If you’re playing games?—?don’t

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

But why did Ring succeed when the entire market kept saying that Nest was going to be the winner? Why did Ring become an enormous success when it produced a hardware product and the market keeps saying, “hardware is too difficult to scale?” Here are my views … 1. we were sold on the concept immediately. We weren’t sure.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. But more broadly it got me thinking to one of the biggest mistakes tech executives get into in the first place. Guy Kawasaki said it best (paraphrasing), “you can’t do great marketing with a bad product.&# Robert’s article is worth reading.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. The Present Era.

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