Berkonomics

AUGUST 14, 2014

Best possible press: too early to market. These and other efforts to be first over the years have led me to ask my current crop of CEOs as I serve on various boards, “Do you have the resources to evangelize the market, educate your potential customers, AND sell your product?” Cover story for industry magazine.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The entrepreneurs--who own The Wonderful Company--will go towards research into what Caltech says are the "most pressing challenges" in environmental sustainability. In a statement, Stewart Resnick said that "Science and bold creativity must unite to address the most pressing challenges facing energy, water, and sustainability."

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

And a few teams of super talented, educated and bright entrepreneurs make a few mill. It has even gone so far that we now have evocative headlines in the tech press such as “ Buy or Die ,” which is what got me thinking about this post. The numbers you see announced in the press for deals are hardly ever right.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

On 03/20/08, we are hosting an event entitled “How Going Green Impacts The Bottom Line.” ( Click here to see our official press release! ) Or scroll down through this blog to see what issues we will be touching on!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But the narrative in the press about Al Gore was that he was a smarmy know-it-all. Bush had the opposite narrative in the press. Obviously press narratives of people are characterizations that seldom match reality. You give them an education in whatever topic it was that they asked about. Before that he was a US senator.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship. This education will continue. So we went ahead.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

talent shortage is the most pressing challenge facing the industry today. But we don’t yet have enough people with the right skills to build that future. Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and former executive chairman of its parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL ), argues that the A.I.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

Kleiner has taken a lot of s**t in the press over the past few years and as someone who has known many of the partners and staff over the years I find almost all of it unwarranted. I had a public education all the way through college and my under grad – UCSD – actually cost less than $2,000 per year to attend between 1986-1991.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

That compares with a reported 330 million for Twitter which had a nine-year head start and so much more free press from famous users over the years. And the tools for most are available, sometimes free, for the educated marketer. Soon, Discord could become dominant, even before an entire generation of millennials even knows the name.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

Today's interview is with Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of iPad-based music education software, which uses note detection to help users learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo. beta launch, with no press, and we'd specifically withheld putting it out there for the public. It's the gamification of music education.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Whether it was sticking with bitcoin and blockchain as a sector when naysayers abounded, working to develop talent on my team, or investing in travel and education as a vehicle for personal and professional growth, I find one generally reaps what they sow. Michael Terpin: Biggest lesson is that persistence and hard work pays off.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Successful entrepreneurs make similarly educated guesses. Examples: Guttenberg leveraged the wine press to create the printing press, the railroad jackscrew was used to create modern municipal sewers. Examples: Printing press led to the need for reading glasses while urbanization resulted in air, water and sound pollution.

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StartUp Beat

MARCH 10, 2020

Attendees of this year’s networking and educational event included senior-level marketing decision-makers […]. spurse announced the pre-launch of its Social Reward platform at the Influencer Marketing Conference & Expo 2020 (IMCX 2020) that took place the 25th February in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

We did a full-court press led by Steven because once we decided this was the team we wanted to work with and this opportunity mapped to our belief system that content + tech will build a generation of great Internet companies. Plus physical. Parents & kids. This is so clearly our future. It is what Seriously was designed to do.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

This was exactly the approach Steve took when he self-published Four Steps via Café Press, at the behest of his then star pupil, Eric Ries , Co-Founder of IMVU and the author of The Lean Startup. According to Steve, “The original version (of Four Steps) was printed on tree bark at Café Press. I have to thank him for that.”.

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Tech.Co

MAY 13, 2016

Be prepared to be inspired, amazed and educated on how these evolving technologies will impact your business for the better.

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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2018

You’d be hard-pressed to find a workplace today where using technology isn’t an integral part of the job, whether it’s an AI-powered recruiting tool, special coding software for app development, or even just Google Sheets that help workers keep track of budgets.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

In a press release The Disney Accelerator highlights the success of Sphero and announced: “They have a multi-property lineup for this year including the App-enabled Ultimate Lightning McQueen, the voice interactive Spider-Man, and more.”. “And

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. Higher education. We’ve just been biased by our narrower view from “people like us” and the tech press who are in our same demographic.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

Full press release with more details is here. We decided that V2 would have a more formal education program taught by real practitioners rather than just hosting discussions on topics as we did in V1. Today we announced Launchpad LA V2. We will be selecting 10 startup companies to participate. The companies are listed on the website.

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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. If nothing else you will create board cohesion and board education by engaging your board. Ask for help reviewing your press release. ” His argument is as follows. Assigns tasks. Already covered. But seriously. Assign away.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MAY 15, 2011

Either directly or through members or sponsors, the resources TCVN delivers address numerous categories: education, accounting, legal services, banking services, intellectual property protection, funding, marketing, sales, publishing, strategic planning, administration, professional information, government-related guidance, and others.

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Xconomy

JUNE 8, 2016

There’s an “easy button” in the hospital that I press a hundred times every day. With each press, I make myself a better doctor. This is well-meaning, but fails to recognize that the education and culture change needed to implement new requirements is extraordinarily time-consuming. It’s not a button on a computer.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Because if you’re truly that early / novel there’s a good chance that you’re too early and will spend lots of time / money educating the market. or the variant, “if there’s no real competition it is going to take way too long to educate the market and adoption will be slow – yuck.” Either of these is a problem.”.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. The program itself is incredibly daunting initially, but it was really valuable for us, especially as an educational experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We will have two well-funded companies educating the market on why this market opportunity for the $24 billion US storage market is ripe for disruption. Everybody reads the tech press. Clutter is LA based and many of my friends invested. So why would I want to damage a bunch of friendships for no reason?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

That money is being distributed across real estate, educational, and local business redevelopment, as well as moving Zappos into the old City Hall in downtown Las Vegas. Simply dubbed the Downtown Project , it’s spearheaded by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. Hsieh’s got quite a personal stake in the matter — $350 million to be exact.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Panels: Developer, Arts/Education; Green, Good and Government. This year’s fest expands upon last year’s inaugural success, which attracted more than 2,000 attendees, received national press coverage, sparked collaboration among industries, and resulted in the creation of new start-ups. Saturday Night Closing Party by Media Temple.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 23, 2012

It is this intersection of business and technology in understanding data to augment our decision making that gives us both tools for more educated progression. Like never before, a new focus on form, function and iteration, that is accessible can give business a more sophisticated culture. According to Patil, there are.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

Talent – in a world where startup founders are rewarded handsomely for taking risks of building their own startup companies and where the press shines a brighter light on them, much of the early-stage company traction will come from startups. I described that here in this post. “ And my fear? The only thing that slows us down?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

It’s a question that often circulates in the business press and on tech blogs. Entrepreneurship education is a great start. To unleash the potential of teenage entrepreneurs, we need more educational opportunities and accelerators designed for high school students. What is the ideal age to start a company?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Online education. There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. Almost nobody believed and now look at it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

As we went from a small band of missionaries hell bent on making our idea a reality, raising capital, getting press, and selling to customers – we were all having fun. In my personal case I knew that my company had outgrown both my skills and my desires. But at 90 employees in 5 countries my job became less fun to me personally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). You need executive buy-in, committed budgets, and education for the whole team on objectives and activities. Create an integrated conventional marketing and social media strategy. Don’t forget the metrics and analytics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

When pressed not enough of these entrepreneurs can answer questions about why users would still be using this product in 5 years, about why their product is going to solve a consumer or business problem that isn’t being solved today. But what about education? I would encourage you to think bigger. I have no problem with it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

We need to take some risks in education and in innovation in this country so anybody that it trying to break through the traditional mold and try to create a new model ought to be lauded, not attacked. The value of a college education. I am very passionate and on record about the value of education. Education is self discovery.

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