socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

The logic behind this, is that 80 percent of our bets are founder bets, and we believe we need to use every resource we can to help entrepreneurs be successful in hitting milestones. That's the framework we've build with Evolution. What drove your decision to focus on mental health and this aspect for entrepreneurs?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2023

As the business economy is rebounding from the pandemic, many entrepreneurs are thinking that life will soon get easier, and their opportunity can only grow. In reality, the business world gets tougher every day, with new entrants, new technology, and competitors more easily entering the fray from around the globe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2016

If you define your self-worth as an entrepreneur by how busy you are, it’s time to find another lifestyle. For survival, entrepreneurs need to be all about accomplishing results that matter for themselves, their team, and their customers. Rule your technology, don’t let it rule you. That’s productivity. Why is this so hard?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2021

These things change so fast these days that the primary role of the entrepreneur as CEO is to be the Master of Realignment. The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate.

Social Media 143

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

com) is using technology--mobile apps, telemedicine, and more--to overcome those and other challenges. Belinda Tan: Science37 is a technology-enabled, clinical research company. One of the areas where people are starting to look at innovation, is using technology to make trials more accessible to patients.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2020

As the business economy is expected to rebound from the pandemic, many entrepreneurs are thinking that life will soon get easier, and their opportunity can only grow. In reality, the business world gets tougher every day, with new entrants, new technology, and competitors more easily entering the fray from around the globe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever.

Tips 161

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

I see entrepreneurs every day who are trying to change the world with a new idea, and startups that are trying to survive their hyper-growth phase by changing processes to meet demand. Here are ten of the key questions that apply equally well to the world of startups and entrepreneurs, as they do to large organizations.

Startup 155

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 23, 2013

encourages engineers, designers, product managers, marketers and entrepreneurs to come together and work on building a new project, product or service involving WebRTC in an intense 12 hour hack session. AnyMeeting WebRTC Hackathon,?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2012

These things change so fast these days that the primary role of the entrepreneur as CEO is to be the Master of Realignment. The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate.

Entrepreneur 93

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

As I discuss in Entrepreneurs Should Go For The Quick Buck – Then Stop , there are situations in which a startup can generate profitable, near-term revenue that does not support, and may even undermine, its long-term strategy. He was not an expert in technology, inventory logistics or publishing.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Soon into college he realized that a career as a professional athlete is not what he wanted and instead quickly caught the entrepreneur/startup bug. Audiolife was built on a framework to handle all the back-end work through store fronts allowing musicians to focus on what they do best. The Way It Works.

Technology 95

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

I'm more of a serial entrepreneur. We're launching five more over the next couple of months, as our team builds out the technology framework. They're developing the content, loading it into the framework, and getting it into the marketplace. That framework is beautiful in that way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2013

As the business economy rebounds, many entrepreneurs are thinking that life will soon get easier, and their opportunity can only grow. In reality, the business world gets tougher every day, with new entrants, new technology, and competitors more easily entering the fray from around the globe. Way back in 1979, Michael E.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

I have often said that what separates real entrepreneurs from pundits and bystanders is a bias towards getting things done versus over analyzing things. The startup entrepreneur knows that they’re going to be wrong often. They over think the decision framework. Great entrepreneurs find a way. But here’s the thing.

Startup 335

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2016

Every entrepreneur and business executive knows that continuous innovation is required to survive, but most struggle with this more than any other challenge they face. Govindarajan recommends a simple and practical “three box” framework for allocating time, energy, and behaviors in the proper balance to foster continuous innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

I see entrepreneurs every day who are trying to change the world with a new idea, and startups that are trying to survive their hyper-growth phase by changing processes to meet demand. Here are ten of the key questions that apply equally well to the world of startups and entrepreneurs, as they do to large organizations. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 108

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

As discussed in Hiring Entrepreneurs, the impact of each new hire during your startup’s early days is tremendous. As noted in Optimistically Pessimistic , successful entrepreneurs are indifferent as to the specific tactics they must employ to accomplish their fervently held strategic objectives.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

We're owned by Sirona, a large multinational, which provides almost anything a dentist needs to practice medicine and dentistry, from large scale technology to devices, to digital scanners, to really mundane things like glue and gauze. That's the path that led me here, and really what I'm doing here is building a marketing technology company.

Startup 113

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Most technology startups seem to be founded by three types of people: product managers, engineers or biz dev types (MBAs and the like). In life I’ve found it useful to have little frameworks to try and interpret the world through. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Sales & Marketing Advice. They will not succeed at sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

McKinsey had their “ 7S framework &# and BCG had the “ BCG Matrix &# with cash cows, dogs, stars and question marks. I mean Porter’s Five forces is a useful framework but it’s basically microeconomics with a pretty wrapper. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In the case of the entrepreneur that was the genesis of this post, he had done a lot on paper. It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. If you don't understand the basics about mobile technology, then read up on it.

Guide 349

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2013

These things change so fast these days that the primary role of the entrepreneur as CEO is to be the Master of Realignment. The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 94

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Schwartzfarb is currently Managing Director of Techstars Austin, but spent a significant time in the Los Angeles technology community working with Jake Winebaum at Business.com. Thanks for the time today, to start off, tell us a little bit about what you do?

Sales 113

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2013

I see entrepreneurs every day who are trying to change the world with a new idea, and startups that are trying to survive their hyper-growth phase by changing processes to meet demand. Here are ten of the key questions that apply equally well to the world of startups and entrepreneurs, as they do to large organizations. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 101

Startup Resource Metrics Technical Review 101

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In the case of the entrepreneur that was the genesis of this post, he had done a lot on paper. It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. If you don't understand the basics about mobile technology, then read up on it.

Guide 296

Guide Startup Mobile Framework 296

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

How do you find somebody that is exceptionally bright, driven and accomplished and yet still be humble enough to understand that the founders we back are the ones who have invented technologies and have to live with the day-to-day decision-making and hard choices. I mean this seriously. Great investors know whom to trust and whom not to.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Technology was changing the business and our jobs as agents and managers, and we needed to figure out how to leverage tools to create more opportunities. At the time, the primary platforms having an impact on Hollywood were Facebook and Twitter. Talk about this funding and what's next for you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S.

Startup 61

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

until the technology matures?&#. You should be presenting data to your VCs and framing the decisions that you’re trying to make into cogent frameworks that will allow a group of experienced people to help you with decision making. I tried hard, though, never to confuse my curiosity with real wisdom.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” Tesla is not. It's a great talk. It says what?!”).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I believe that market conditions drive innovation as much as great entrepreneurs do. I broke down the types of CC companies into 5 main buckets today to give a framework to think about your startup if you’re entering this space: 1. I believe the natural success to that is Twitter more than any other technology of our generation.

Marketing 361

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2012

As the business economy rebounds, many entrepreneurs are thinking that life will soon get easier, and their opportunity can only grow. In reality, the business world gets tougher every day, with new entrants, new technology, and competitors more easily entering the fray from around the globe. Way back in 1979, Michael E.

Competition 94

Competition Startup Pricing Framework 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2012

A while back, I wrote about the value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment, and using every opportunity to highlight and emphasize your relative advantages, whether they be price, features, or bargaining power. This means know your competitors, technologies, and alternatives available.

Customer 104

Customer Custom Startup Organization 104

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

I ended up going to Lockheed Martin as Chief Innovation Officer, doing AR and VR work, creating a virtual framework used for training by the defense department. At the time, Alan was a Senior Fellow at HP Labs when we first demonstrated Croquet, chowing complex interactive worlds.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

The morning, spent with the incredible group of entrepreneurs fostering # bigDOCC (Big “D” Open Coffee Club – Dallas that is ), was focused on not just what it means to be a startup in Dallas, but Texas, and the role that industry plays therein. . * WordPress, by way of $15M via North Bridge Growth Equity in WPEngine.

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Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

Xconomy

JUNE 15, 2016

Entrepreneurs and established companies make risky decisions every day in the hope that those risks will translate into better opportunities, better performance, and greater profitability. Kenneth Bacon added, “An opportunity that presents a lot of risks is what I call the democratization of technology.

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