Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

If you are one of the many entrepreneurs who aspire to get beyond the “art of the start,” there are some proven principles to follow. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

But startups need to remember that even zero paid media doesn’t mean that marketing is free. New products and startups often require a culture shift to drive acceptance, which can best be accelerated by zealots or a visible chief disciple, like Steve Jobs. Long-term sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Social media is so pervasive in today’s world that every entrepreneur believes instinctively that they know how to use it for their startup. Startups should begin by selecting just a few of the vast array of social media offerings out there, and customize based on results. Concentrate your efforts on two to three platforms to start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

If you are one of the many entrepreneurs who aspire to get beyond the “art of the start,” there are some proven principles to follow. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

But startups need to remember that even zero paid media doesn’t mean that marketing is free. New products and startups often require a culture shift to drive acceptance, which can best be accelerated by zealots or a visible chief disciple, like Steve Jobs. Long-term sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

But startups need to remember that even zero paid media doesn’t mean that marketing is free. New products and startups often require a culture shift to drive acceptance, which can best be accelerated by zealots or a visible chief disciple, like Steve Jobs. Long-term sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

As a startup investor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. Startups which display real innovation, such as alternative energy sources and new medical treatments, are still rare. Followers and linear thinkers need not apply. Failure is the best teacher I know.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

The Annual TechZulu Startup Forecast is one of our most anticipated events. Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. Heather Wilburn – Founding Member of AdWords Program & Biz Dev Manager for Channel Sales team at Google. Let’s Talk Bitcoin.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

As our first time covering a 500 Startups demo day , we could only imagine the stratospheric levels of stress our Batch 8 founders must have gone through to get on stage and present their progress from their last four months of startup bootcamp. In true 500 Startups fashion, Demo Day had an almost cathartic feel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

But startups need to remember that even zero paid media doesn’t mean that marketing is free. New products and startups often require a culture shift to drive acceptance, which can best be accelerated by zealots or a visible chief disciple, like Steve Jobs. Long-term sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

If you are one of the many entrepreneurs who aspire to get beyond the “art of the start,” there are some proven principles to follow. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. You start to act cohesively as a group. Assign away.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We caught up with Zach James and Rich Raddon , co-founders of MOVIECLIPS, to learn more about the company and also hear about the firm's funding round. Especially with DVD sales declining, we offer an interesting way to help studios. Zach James: MOVIECLIPS is the largest and only collection of movie clips, licensed from the studios.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

There's been a revolution in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the last few years, by both startups and large companies, to help in a large number of areas. With each company that we've started, we've concentrated on a particular market. Tim Grace: We all get our started at HNC Software in San Diego.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2016

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. With a startup, everything is an experiment. Many don’t survive the change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2017

In my role as a new business advisor, I sometimes see people who are very intelligent and well-educated, but not adept at problem solving. For example, what looks like a sales revenue problem may actually be a new competitor offering, a marketing decline, or a lag in receivables. Clearly assign solution implementation and follow-up.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Something from a motivational panel, discussing Biz Dev strategies or maybe how to launch a lean start up. Her description starts off with a standup meeting with her product team. At Fandango, they examine ticket sales and trends over time. Instead, focus on what metric outputs, more views, more downloads?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. It's very easy to implement, and we're also starting to sign up partners not in the application space but who are traditional social networking sites. What do you mean by social targeting?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. It's very easy to implement, and we're also starting to sign up partners not in the application space but who are traditional social networking sites. What do you mean by social targeting?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Let me start by saying that Clayton is one of the most influential people on my thoughts about markets that led to both the concept behind my first startup and my main theses in investing. Startup Grind was a truly awesome conference and Derek the consumate host. Disruption of Education.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Should you have 7 people doing your seed round and why Ron Conway is the S&P 500 of Venture Capital (this discussion starts at minute 59). Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Total raised: $16.0mm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2023

In my experience with entrepreneurs, there seems to a wealth of self-proclaimed “idea people” who aspire to start businesses, but only a few who are willing and able to dig in and get the job done. Finding a co-founder is rarely a bad thing, since two heads are always better than one in meeting all the startup challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

In my experience with entrepreneurs, there seems to a wealth of self-proclaimed “idea people” who aspire to start businesses, but only a few who are willing and able to dig in and get the job done. Finding a co-founder is rarely a bad thing, since two heads are always better than one in meeting all the startup challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

In my experience with entrepreneurs, there seems to a wealth of self-proclaimed “idea people” who aspire to start businesses, but only a few who are willing and able to dig in and get the job done. Finding a co-founder is rarely a bad thing, since two heads are always better than one in meeting all the startup challenges.

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Ideas Startup IBM IBM 115

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

In my experience with entrepreneurs, there seems to a wealth of self-proclaimed “idea people” who aspire to start businesses, but only a few who are willing and able to dig in and get the job done. Finding a co-founder is rarely a bad thing, since two heads are always better than one in meeting all the startup challenges.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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