Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

It’s an unfortunate artifact of our educational system that young people spend a dozen years focused more on memorizing facts than the learning process, and then thinking that they will have all they need to know for the rest of their lives by the time they graduate. These include the following: Networking with people who know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2010

It’s an unfortunate artifact of our educational system that young people spend a dozen years focused more on memorizing facts than the learning process, and then thinking that they will have all they need to know for the rest of their lives by the time they graduate. These include the following: Networking with people who know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. The entrepreneurial wunderkinds who find success without higher education "are exceptions to the rule," says Robert Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Every startup mentor has his favorite list of basic strategies to avoid pitfalls, and I’m no exception. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Unfortunately, for every success story you see, there is an even longer list of failure stories with mistakes that you don’t see. Create intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Every startup mentor has his favorite list of basic strategies to avoid pitfalls, and I’m no exception. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Unfortunately, for every success story you see, there is an even longer list of failure stories with mistakes that you don’t see. Create intellectual property.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

The event is open to tech enthusiasts who want to join an event filled with some of the top leaders, investors and mentors from tech industry to network, find mentors and build their companies. The company also educates people about their rights on capture data when interacting with law enforcement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2010

More importantly, as a parent or mentor, what should you advise young potential entrepreneurs about getting an MBA? In some recent surveys, as many as two-thirds of entrepreneurs felt that their entrepreneurial spirit was more ingrained than learned, so maybe the education level is irrelevant. Consider it a waste of time.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Seth’s interest in helping others grew out of his lack of having a mentor. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Following graduate school, he worked in Film Finance and Sales at CAA, Creative Development at Vuguru (Michael Eisner’s multi-platform studio), and Content Partnerships at Blip Networks. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2010

Every startup mentor has his favorite list of basic strategies to avoid pitfalls, and I’m no exception. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Unfortunately, for every success story you see, there is an even longer list of failure stories with mistakes that you don’t see. Create intellectual property.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 29, 2016

Due to environmental and social barriers that our country is working to overcome early in the education system, there are fewer women who gravitate towards careers in science. So when an executive position opens up, it is not enough for hiring managers to rely on existing networks or tried-and-true approaches to fill the role.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

It is the world´s leading ridesharing network, transporting over 1 million people each month. The service can be accessed by computer, mobile phone ( iPhone , Android ) or social network ( Facebook ). The majority of our users are highly educated, young professionals between 25-39 years of age. What is Carpooling.com?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. 8:30 – 9:30pm – cocktail reception and networking. Dinesh Ravishanker , CEO & Co-Founder at CallFire. RSVP: AGENDA. 6:00 – 7:00pm – check-in. 7:00 – 7:10pm – introductory remarks.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Mark founded Launchpad LA, a program designed to help mentor LA’s most promising first-time startup CEO’s. a network of widely read blogs including Engadget – ranked # 1 by Technorati, Joystiq, Autoblog, and Blogging Baby.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

For a startup or small business executive serving as mentor, the proverbial “win-win” is created as they benefit from an injection of essential bandwidth, youthful energy, and technical expertise. Perhaps your intern might be given the freedom to design and implement an entire strategy for your company (social networking, for example).

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. Teach Like You’re the Student - Steve Blank , August 10, 2010 “I never have let my schooling interfere with my education.”. Social gaming was naturally one of the key topics, covered in many presentations. Has convertible debt won?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

The Internet and its information wave have changed everything – it’s the problem, with constant change, and it’s the solution, if you use it to navigate quickly and self-educate. When I do mentoring and writing about current experiences, I realize all the things I don’t know, and this gives me more incentive to learn more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The Internet and its information wave have changed everything – it’s the problem, with constant change, and it’s the solution, if you use it to navigate quickly and self-educate. When I do mentoring and writing about current experiences, I realize all the things I don’t know, and this gives me more incentive to learn more.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Customer Care Today.

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