Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Every entrepreneur wishes that he could predict whether his idea could be the “next big thing,” before he spent his life savings and years of energy on it. Investors, on the other hand, typically don’t even look very hard at the product or service, but prefer to evaluate first the entrepreneur, and secondly the business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

Marketing to Reach Your Customers First ,” here are the five key components to watch: Micro-blogging. Examples include SendOutCards, Google, and Amazon. Examples include Google Docs, Salesforce.com, Slideshare.net, and Box.net. If you are a true entrepreneur, by now your head should be spinning. are appearing. business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2021

Intuitively, many entrepreneurs and businesses believe that the key to faster growth and success is more products, features, and markets. Good examples of startup focus before success include Google with their search engine, Facebook with friends networking, and Apple with personal computers. Focus on the few things that really matter.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

Given TimeHop’s failed experiment, I was especially intrigued when I learned that a team of a dozen remote entrepreneurs hack the typical corporate structure and creates a company that generated nearly $100 million in revenue. I asked TaxJar’s Co-Founder and CEO, Mark Faggiano to list five reasons his decentralized venture has flourished.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2011

Every entrepreneur wishes that he could predict whether his idea could be the “next big thing,” before he spent his life savings and years of energy on it. Investors, on the other hand, typically don’t even look very hard at the product or service, but prefer to evaluate first the entrepreneur, and secondly the business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2021

As an advisor to new entrepreneurs and new ventures, I’m seeing a refreshing new focus by Millennials on work and successful new companies with a purpose, and more productivity through happy employees. Take five minutes longer to enjoy coffee without diving into emails. Repeatable – practice daily repetition until automatic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. Thus, financial projections for up to five years are a necessary element in every business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you. So what’s an entrepreneur to do to get his new business noticed these days? The best entrepreneurs are stubborn, committed, and driven by their vision to produce a product with a wow factor, and to build a platform that rises above the noise.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

Mark Suster , fellow venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, has written extensively about YouTube’s evolution from dogs-on-skateboards to its current status as an entertainment medium rivaling cable television networks. Earlier this month, Google announced that it will spend an additional $200 million to promote YouTube content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2011

Here are five solutions from an old essay by Paul Graham on “ Ideas for Startups ” that are even more relevant in these tough economic times: Automate a labor intensive process. The way to make money is to make something people or companies need (not necessarily what they want). This is the traditional realm of computers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2012

Every entrepreneur wishes that he could predict whether his idea could be the “next big thing,” before he spent his life savings and years of energy on it. Investors, on the other hand, typically don’t even look very hard at the product or service, but prefer to evaluate first the entrepreneur, and secondly the business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2011

A winning startup is a team of entrepreneurs who build and run the business as an extension of who they are, rather than some extrapolation of the Google or Facebook model. Excellence comes when the entrepreneur takes pride in doing his best. Now you can understand why less than half of all startups last more than five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

I suspect the real challenge is not the semantic web technology , but new attractive business models from smart entrepreneurs. Marketing to Reach Your Customers First ,” here are the five key components to watch: Micro-blogging. Examples include SendOutCards, Google, and Amazon. are appearing. are appearing. Mobile smart phones.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

There's the traffic, and things are twice as expensive as they were five years ago. There's a tightness which is squeezing the lifeblood from the entrepreneurs, even as it remains an amazing place. But, there is broad agreement that it would be a wonderful thing to get more entrepreneurs and venture capital into the region.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Network with other entrepreneurs. Do a simple Google search like you would on any company or individual before signing a contract. Entrepreneurs are optimists by nature, so I definitely recommend the involvement of your favorite attorney (usually the pessimist). Don’t just call, but personally visit these contacts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. overnight success entrepreneur startup Seth Godin business'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2012

A winning startup is a team of entrepreneurs who build and run the business as an extension of who they are, rather than some extrapolation of the Google or Facebook model. Excellence comes when the entrepreneur takes pride in doing his best. Now you can understand why less than half of all startups last more than five years.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. By mid-2011 he noted, “As seed accelerators have exploded in number world-wide, it’s become nearly impossible to keep this (Google Doc) working.” But it’s people that tend to be entrepreneurs who are early on their company and entrepreneurial arc.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 16, 2020

Over their longtime personal and professional relationship, the two Los Angeles-based serial entrepreneurs have invested in each other’s companies and investment firms, but never worked together until now. We haven’t noticed any slowdown whatsoever, we’re working with twenty five companies per week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As a self-made entrepreneur and former chairman of Diamond Resorts International, he asserts that the five biggest companies by market value today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, aren’t really tech, but hospitality companies. I just finished a new book by Stephen J.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Entrepreneurs often ask me why investors expect financial projections for a new startup even before the product is built and while the market is still being defined. Even Google couldn’t do that, so I would deem that not a credible strategy. You shouldn’t invest in an undefined business. Neither extreme is good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

To organize my thoughts, I found a new book, “ Burn the Business Plan ,” by Carl Schramm, who speaks from experience founding five companies, working major corporate roles, and being an active venture investor. In today’s world, more successful entrepreneurs have built on degrees in engineering rather than business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2012

Here are five solutions from an old essay by Paul Graham on “ Ideas for Startups ” that are even more relevant in today’s recovering economic environment: Automate a labor intensive process. The way to make money is to make something people or companies need (not necessarily what they want). This is the traditional realm of computers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. There, I learned that there is a lot of top level churn from small businesses because Google ads cost too much. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Others, like Guy Kawasaki , have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent enhancements or omissions that can kill your deal. Secondly, this projection usually comes with an assertion that everyone on the planet needs this, so less than one percent in five years is still a huge number.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Ali Khoshgozaran: During my five years at USC, my research was in the area of spatial and temporal information management. I spent five years researching interesting ways to organize data on time and location. I spent five years researching interesting ways to organize data on time and location. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

With the estimated 510 million live websites at last year-end, and 280,000 new ones being added every day, the biggest challenge for an entrepreneur is to get found, and get some credibility for a new startup. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

We sat down with Jamie�who has been part of LA's technology industry, either as an investor or advisor since its very early days--to get his perspective on where we are today, especially as it relates to all of the companies he's worked with over the years on a more global stage and in Silicon Valley, and his advice to entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

After you claim your identity with placeholder domain names, accounts in social networks, and common blogging platforms, your next challenge is to create enough positive content as a “Google wall” to keep negative info out of the top Google search results. business entrepreneur online reputation startup' Twittering.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

This week, entrepreneurs from all around the world have converged upon East London to attend the Tech City Entrepreneurs Festival. Second thing that we do is encourage large organizations, companies like Google, Intel and Facebook, to invest in Tech City. Where do you see Tech City going in the next five years?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2015

A great example was when Eric Schmidt, with years of experience at Sun Microsystems and Novell, joined forces with Sergey Brin and Larry Page at Google. Many of the entrepreneurs I meet prefer to focus on the technology, so they desperately need a people-oriented partner for balance. This was a win-win in business, but not a marriage.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I believe the rise in angel investing is here to stay and the professionalization of this class (aka “super angels&# or “micro VC&# ) is a good thing for the VC industry and for entrepreneurs. I will publish what I believe the five are in a series of articles.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2013

7 Business Mistakes Serial Entrepreneurs Never Make (Twice). > YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund. > Five Trick Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Answer Before Asking For Money. > > 4,500 YouTube views - Popular on BusinessInsider and HackerNews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In reality, the opportunities are greater for starting with a micro-business , ideally from your special expertise or passion, with fewer than five employees, and just enough sales to comfortably support you and your team. These are proof that you don’t have to start with the mindset of a giant. Details are important.

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