Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2016

By avoiding an entire semester of Core classes (one fourth of my entire Wharton education), I was able to take every single entrepreneurial course offered by the University, while simultaneously earning a Minor Degree in drinking beer and playing poker. Writing / English / Public Speaking. Writ 105PS Writing for Public Speaking.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 9, 2016

So the lion recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as a supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports. We learn from our experience and education that growth comes from “top–grading” at all levels of the organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2012

As a former educator, I understand the complexity of the bureaucratic processes of secondary and post-secondary education systems. That is why I am amazed and extremely excited at how fast Pathbrite is storming through the education system and slugging home-runs.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

“Great presentation. Attending his speaking events is not only educational and useful to your business but it has often been described as very comical and entertaining. October 14: Putting the content into content strategy – effective writing for interactive media. ” -Testimonial from an attendee at the L.A.

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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. He did it yesterday, “Mark, I’m going to write a blog post following on from your VC’s aren’t dumb. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. ” His argument is as follows. Rob does it.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. Eying sustainability gains for its supply chain, BMW backs Boston Metal’s CO2-free iron production tech.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

They'll even help them with presentation skills. That course is different in that it will help mentor the engineers to write their business plans, which is very different from regular entrepreneurship courses, where it's usually an outside speaker lecturing students about what they have done in the past. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly without a big slide presentation. In school, you''re taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Touch-Typing for Dummies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. – No great presentation can be delivered like a conversation.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

A class we produce here at General Assembly called “Intro to the LA Startup Community” , has turned into a series, each time presented by a different prominent person in the startup ecosystem providing a unique perspective on the tech scene in LA.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. Once again, there is a need to educate board members that in conflict of interest cases, the corporation comes first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly without a big slide presentation. In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Touch-Typing for Dummies.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This does not mean you shouldn’t solve big, complex problems or write complex code. You give them an education in whatever topic it was that they asked about. It’s about presentations in front of large audiences. “We’re totally transforming the way education is delivered in this country.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2010

By Adam Hoeksema According to a report distributed by the Angel Capital Education Foundation , total startup funding from venture capital funds, state funds, and angel investors totals approximately $20.8 Do your homework, and prepare a professional, persuasive and passionate presentation. billion annually. Have a game plan.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 27, 2015

For example, security suppliers will have to re-write firewalls for the new protocol, but without any single organization to set the direction of the deployment of IPv6, approaches will be in constant flux. Not only are bugs annoying, they can present a real danger to your network by introducing new vulnerabilities.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. We had more than 700 resumes, short-listed 65, interviewed 16 in one-hour meetings had 6 full-day interviews including a presentation by the candidate on a selected market opportunity and we did 3 finalist dinners to test cultural fit. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. All of that is taught at UCLA by the more senior students and professors, a mix which provides an incredible education. Are people really willing to sell their stuff to benefit charities? Jonathan Lehmann: The reception of the idea has been tremendous.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

And I hope the output is that you get a glimpse into the people shaping our tech present and a sense of the kinds of conversations we have when the cameras aren’t around. A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. So some show notes if you’re a bit busy to watch the video.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. Or to softly educate the customer using phrases like ‘I’m not sure this is a good idea, the way we’ve seen others solve the problem successfully is …’. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I write this post as a warning to pick your VC’s carefully. I hired a guy, Azhar Khan, who was raised in the Indian subcontinent (Pakistan, actually) but educated and worked his whole life in the US. I came back and presented a very detailed analysis to the board. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Natalia Oberti Noguera: Pipeline Fellowship is a program to educate and bring more women into the investment side of business. We have three main components: education, mentoring, and practice. In education, we hold workshops on topics like portfolio strategy and evaluation. What is Pipeline Fellowship about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In my view, no amount of academic education can prepare you for the challenges of running a business, but real experience will quickly open your eyes to some of the challenges, and let you know how much you enjoy responding to these on a day-to-day basis. Write a business plan for your desired new business.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

You will have to hone your story well, down to fifteen minutes and perhaps fifteen slides in your presentation. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. With angel groups and funds, you should plan of spending months in the process, from application through funding. Accelerators.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

I have checked Twitter at least 10 times during the writing of this post so far and Facebook 3 times. I can’t write a blog post and then wait 3 days to publish. It’s why I don’t write for TechCrunch or similar much any more. I am good at cranking out documents, memos, presentations, letters and spreadsheets.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

And while that cliché has been said about everything in the Lone Star state for years, it rings particularly true for the hottest startups showcasing their big innovations at SXSW Startup Night 2018 presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo. Once uploaded, the company safeguards the data in their secure cloud. DatavizVR (Austin, TX).

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

What we found is that there was no present solution to do this. We will need to keep on figuring out how to educate our consumer. I’d write to my professors and say “I’m so sorry, I have this meeting or I had this phone call that I had to take.”. How can they go to the movies? Where can they access these movie audio dubs?”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

Passion is also the featured heavily in nearly every presentation I give to entrepreneurs or on college campuses or in talks with MBA students. He told me about how he grew up in the projects in NYC with a single mom and even though he had done extraordinary well in school and thus had a great education – those were still his roots.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

It was a pleasure to write them myself. He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. Funny story, after Bill presented at TED (back when Amazon was still a small company) Jeff Bezos was in the audience. Summary notes, as always, provide below.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

The very next week I organized a call with Babak Nivi of VentureHacks to present to the Launchpad LA class. We were doing an educational session on term sheets. Then David Lapter, the CFO & EVP Operations of KickAps in the same week did a Skype / Webcast presentation of his business to the SoCal Venture Alliance monthly meeting.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. 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. What’s going to happen in the future?' Short-sighted, no? Mark Twain.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I’ve always believed that you learn a great deal when you’re presenting, teaching or writing about what you know. 7 years ago when I used to publicly present what we learned at BuildOnline, team members would come up to me afterward and say, “Wow, we really have learned at lot. So it goes with blogging.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2016

Mamaw isn’t educated and, in fact, scorns “elites” but knows that if J.D. In another post coming soon I’ll write about my own journey. The first arc is when his grandmother (Mamaw) agrees to take him under her wings and let him move in full-time — escaping a substance-abusing mother who didn’t inspire Vance to better himself.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Coming up with a memorable tagline can present an even greater challenge. He is focused on delivering real business value by educating clients about the latest proven technologies, strategies that deliver improved profits and operational efficiencies, and using technology to improve life. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993.

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