SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

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JUNE 1, 2011

But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea. That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails. As with tonight I got my kids to bed, did some email, caught 30 minutes of the news then sat down to type.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2014

The company--which has a significant presence in Ventura--said its new context-aware software helps users manage their email and text messages, prioritizing messages and tracking when users are in meetings or otherwise unavailable. READ MORE>>. apple smartwatch sony aware context reqall'

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Do you find yourself too much in email mode? I regularly shut down my email so that I don’t get pop-up alerts when I’m working. I can feel the ideas needing to come out and I know if I get distracted I will lose them. Or people who think all sorts of ideas about how they want to quit their job and try a startup.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

At least six, Southern California companies -- Nimble , ParkMe , Quarterly , Beachmint , Chromatik , and Dollar Shave Club -- have been named as one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Companies list today, a healthy share of the publication's annual look at the best ideas, hottest industries, and innovators.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

Don’t email him unless you have to. Most startup execs are barraged with hundreds of emails and they spend hours trying to reach the elusive Zero Inbox nirvana. Emailing – even when well intentioned – just adds to this to-do list. I love the idea of a Digital Sabbath. It’s worth the hassle.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Dynamic, growing startups consistently identify more ideas and opportunities than they have the time or resources to pursue, including: entering into potential partnerships, developing new products and accessing emerging markets. Impact – The degree to which the ideas further the venture’s objectives.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2018

Or the important one: “Is this idea on mission?” Some ideas sound unbelievably creative – and may be that. But sometimes there is a barrier, an impossibly high cost not considered, a social backlash never thought of, or competition already covering the idea that is unknown to the originator. Is this idea sustainable?”

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AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. Even if you keep it dormant for 2 years while you work on your idea. Not worth it.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

In his early career he realized the importance of email lists. He would do anything he could to capture people’s email addresses because he knew that they served as a valuable tool for future marketing purposes. His email list became his power. He would occasionally give away free music in exchange for email addresses.

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APRIL 28, 2012

When you work inside a startup with lots of clever and motivated staff you’re never short of good ideas that you can implement. Each one incrementally sounds like a good idea, yet collectively they end up punishing undisciplined teams. Sorry if you received an email with a draft version of this post.

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Berkonomics

JULY 7, 2022

First, visionary leadership: By far the most enjoyable for most of us is visionary leadership – the time we spend thinking ahead, creating new ideas for products or services, focusing on the big picture and how we can change the world with our creation. Email readers, continue here…]. Second: strategic thinking and planning.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

He sent me a few nice emails. ” He had two ideas. We never got to the second idea. But … we had committed to setting up an EIR program where we would fund people to work on their ideas in our offices and also get the dual experience of working inside a VC. And the idea? Sam had different plans.

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MARCH 23, 2014

I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. In his book he talked about mavens as being those people who are connected and through whom ideas spread faster. Get Permission.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 24, 2014

Although that is still a good idea in many cases, there is a recent alternative available to some entrepreneurs on a competitive basis that seems most attractive and positive. Email readers, continue here.] Accelerators are popping up in college towns, urban cities and near existing technology hubs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2011

When you haven’t been decisive in years, when you botched a profitable exit, when you hired a non-visionary CEO and then fired her by email – it’s time to get out of the way. If – and this is a big IF – you have other ideas. They like to criticize but they don’t have strong ideas of their own.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

“I had an app idea but no real idea how to executive it. Essentially speaking, if you can design it it can be made a functional app in our builder,” Redman wrote in an email. Never before has someone been able to build an app from just typing their idea out, let alone for this low a cost,” says Redman.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Visualization is so important to help yourself & others conceptualize ideas. You need to find what works for you to put yourself in that environment and learn how to do “self talk,&# learn how to create visual charts, learn how to test & iterate ideas and the learn how to effectively communicate results.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

That's the idea behind HypeMarks (www.hypemarks.com), a new startup looking to tap into your social graph to guide you to the web. Where did the idea come from? Tim Sae Koo: I came up with the idea about a year ago, when I was in college., I tested it out there at USC, and researched it, and really liked the idea.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 23, 2014

Some businesses are built around a single idea. And sometimes that idea is just too small a slice of the big picture to be interesting to investors. Email readers, continue here.] One of the panelists made a point that resonated with me. Investors have seen this game before.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 11, 2013

It is human nature to start in a new position with enthusiasm, lofty goals, new ideas, and a heightened awareness of those around us and their ideas for the business. There is no direct measure to determine when a manager, even the CEO, has run out of new ideas and that sense of heightened awareness. Complacency is relative.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors. You won’t be open to new ideas, new sources of deals, fortuitous meetings, new relationships that can yield results down the line. Lines, Not Dots.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

So, I’ve developed the three step dance in order to help form a repeatable method of how to create a great company from an early idea. Even if you know it all – wouldn’t it be an excellent plan to try your idea out on enough actual or potential customers to measure reasonable feedback? And most of us are not Steve Jobs.

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

Tom almost always had ideas to contribute, particularly about marketing programs and opportunities. Email readers, continue here…] One day Tom came to me and said, “I want to transfer to marketing. Five years later, I received an email from Tom. An email to preserve and show. Hello again, Dave,” it began.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. If you fold at the first un-returned email what hope to you have as an entrepreneur? You had no idea how important that brand name was until you left it behind.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Customers feel better about a company always showing its innovation with new products and ideas to help increase customer revenues, decrease costs or better serve their customers. Email readers, continue here…] Employees love progress and excitement when involved in something refreshing and new.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some businesses are built around a single idea. . And sometimes that idea is just too small a slice of the big picture to be interesting to investors. Email readers, continue here…] Far too many companies have been created around a button on a feature, and not upon a solution to a need in answer to a void in the market.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

Email readers, continue here…] …and always with clear wording on automatic loan extension if you are making progress but need additional time to meet the full set of goals. Do take loans from sophisticated investors only after you have tried everything to get them to purchase equity….

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Berkonomics

MARCH 25, 2012

Email readers, continue here.] Sound Idea (basic value, product risk) $1/2 million. Prototype (reducing technology risk) $1/2 million. Quality Management Team (reducing execution risk) $1/2 million.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Do they bet on the entrepreneur (jockey) or the business idea and plan (the horse)? Email readers, continue here.] Would you, as an investor, plow money into the plan and help to incubate the idea into a real enterprise? Early stage investors have been arguing over this for years. This is serious stuff.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

You get the idea. Email readers, continue here…] A moment, please…. Completion of a software project by the remote workers in (Philippines, Brazil, Armenia, fill in the blank… Just name a country whose daytime is our nighttime.) Now, even those late night awakenings don’t bother me.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For the first time in history content producers can build a direct relationship with views through subscribers, email addresses and mobile phone number. And you still have no idea if you will accidentally become Pinterest or if your $41 million will produce a Waterworld. How will you grab email addresses? Think about.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Attempt To License An Idea. Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic, I can sit back and collect licensing fees while someone else does all the work required to turn my idea into a successful business. Fallacy: Ideas are worthless, while skillful execution is priceless. Statue photo by Tony the Misfit on Flickr.

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Berkonomics

JULY 27, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] This is not to bend this insight into a claim that a company should wait to develop new, groundbreaking products and services until a customer asks for them.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. He was seeking $500k.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2011

Disqus emails me when somebody puts a comment on the blog or when I put a comment on somebody else’s Disqus blog and if somebody responds to me. I don’t like the idea of pushing my comments into Twitter. The idea is that people may have reasons for being anonymous (e.g. So I never have to go back and check.

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Berkonomics

JULY 17, 2014

That’s just as valuable for feedback as hearing a good, new idea. Email readers, continue here.] Although you may be completely right, the questioner’s comment may indicate that you are not getting your points across.

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