Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

You don’t need to invent an innovative product to be a real entrepreneur. Many of these new entrepreneurs were regular employees a few years ago, focused on a skill specialty. Writing specialists. Software specialists. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs. specialist entrepreneur startup freelance business'

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

I want to invest in entrepreneurs that have the capacity to be number one at whatever they are doing, and do it within our skill base, which is direct-to-consumer. So, now, as a VC, I swore I'd never treat entrepreneurs like those VCs treated me. I love entrepreneurs. What's the theme of your investments?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The challenge is when and how to make the switch to the entrepreneur lifestyle. As a mentor to young aspiring entrepreneurs , I often get asked for tips on a strategy to get started. Even if you are an introvert, you will find peers and experts in these groups to help, and your confidence will grow.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

On why you should be an entrepreneur, “A lot of people do what they have to do. As a teenager he experimented with writing & producing his own rap music and received a lot of feedback from elders that he had a talent with words. There are many analogies here for software development.

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APRIL 21, 2020

Nobody will be immune because in a bull market executives are paid to “innovate” so they sign software contracts and run projects. It takes time to sell in your software, get it implemented, prove the value, build a business case, gain executive support and then roll it out more broadly. What Do You Need to Prove to Raise an A Round?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

You don’t need to invent an innovative product to be a real entrepreneur. Self-employed services specialists are just as important, and are a growing part of this new “ age of the entrepreneur ” that I discussed last week. Many of these new entrepreneurs were regular employees a few years ago, focused on a skill specialty.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 The advantage is that in many of our best deals we now have $50+ million invested so we can really support entrepreneurs as their businesses scale. It takes all types and helping people realize their best skills and interests is an incredibly important part of the job.

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JULY 14, 2015

The rise of powerful new tools for automation and management of business tasks is taking the world by storm, because it lets one entrepreneur accomplish much more with their time than they ever could before. Automated mailing tools are a major resource for entrepreneurs. There is something for just about every entrepreneur out there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2019

For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product. Now, with powerful high-level tools and open source software, winning smartphone apps can be built by a good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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MAY 6, 2018

The best entrepreneurs in our industry focus on it year-round as opposed to just once every 18 months. Let’s say you have built a SaaS company where a large part of the early revenue comes from a few big customers or a large part of the revenue is services based vs. software based. Below is the outline Upfront.

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APRIL 7, 2019

The eight-people team is led by Cheng Lyu, the 29-year-old entrepreneur who goes by Jesse and helped Baidu build up its smart speaker unit from scratch after the Chinese search giant acquired his voice startup Raven in 2017. Let AI write the script. .” Rct studio wants to build the Westworld experience in virtual worlds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2019

Even if it’s only a few PowerPoint slides or typed paragraphs, writing something down is the first step toward making it real. Always write in the future tense, what you will do, and name yourself as the key person responsible. Create a specific plan to network to get the help you need.

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JUNE 27, 2011

If I can help you avoid some of my first-time mistakes it would be a victory. I actually like finding entrepreneurs who are more circumspect, less braggadocios and generally more planned about their actions. Where Stealth is Bad – I do meet entrepreneurs who clearly fall on the other side of spectrum and are totally closed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. What you don’t realize is these famous investors only deal with entrepreneurs who sold their last company for a $100M dollars or more.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Julie Schoenfeld: When we talked last, we were focusing primarily on helping publisher monetize their archived content. Congrats on funding.

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MAY 9, 2018

This is a very common scenario when entrepreneurs pitch VCs and frankly is a very common scenario when VCs try to raise money from LPs. I then had to review a nefarious IP lawsuit filed against another company and help the CEO figure out whether we should just pay it or join forces with the other companies named and fight it.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Traditional software vs. SaaS. To be clear – I’m not saying huge successes make a VC less likely to be helpful to you – I’m just saying it’s not a guaranteed predictor. Most VCs are book smart.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2014

I had been thinking a lot about this recently because I’m often asked the question of “what I look for in an entrepreneur when I want to invest?” Back then there was no “cloud” so we had to plow money into hardware, software licenses and web hosting. Why not offer to work for $50k to help run biz dev?

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? There is a difference between a Conference Ho and a successful entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Entrepreneurs who run startups have to be generalists to survive. Yet I’m seeing another critical group of entrepreneurs, self-employed specialists, who are a growing part of this new “ entrepreneurial revolution ” that I discussed a couple of weeks ago. Many of these new entrepreneurs were regular employees a few years ago.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

We sat down with Peter--who is now working directly for LA''s technology mayor Eric Garcetti as Chief Innovation Technology Officer--to understand how a technology insider think he can help tap into the rich technology industry here and help use technology to improve the life of everyday citizens. What do you say to them?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. Here I make the case that entrepreneurs must stay focused on the prize, not the doubters. Entrepreneurs. ” **. It can be one of the strongest motivators.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A A company like Moe will help legitimize the industry,” Bernstein tells TechCrunch. “I

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NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Or if you’re pinched on time the summary is below and the time coding can help you watch a brief snippet on topics that interest you. 3:35 The real entrepreneurs come out during a down economy. 19:30 A teachable moment for entrepreneurs: HAVE A HYPOTHESIS! 41:00 Transitioning from software to writing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Every entrepreneur I meet in my role as a small business advisor dreams of making the business run like clockwork, even without them. Frankly, I’ve never been sure what to tell entrepreneurs who want to break free of these bonds. Frankly, I’ve never been sure what to tell entrepreneurs who want to break free of these bonds.

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JUNE 11, 2018

For those not familiar with the writing process in Hollywood works, fill us in? We saw that there were a lot of talent discovery programs out there, such as screenwriting fellowships, labs, film festivals, workshops, and writing competitions. That's been our focus, on centralizing talent discovery on the platform.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : Lynda.com is: “The best, new, online way to learn how to use your software. 9) I believe that entrepreneurs who are driven by a compelling mission that is not based on making lots of money have a much higher propensity for success. Our motivation has always been to help people learn.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : Lynda.com is: “The best, new, online way to learn how to use your software. 9) I believe that entrepreneurs who are driven by a compelling mission that is not based on making lots of money have a much higher propensity for success. Our motivation has always been to help people learn.

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APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. Back to regular writing this week so check back in. In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO.

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MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. We want to help them, and will. Idea Mensch.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2016

This has led VC & entrepreneur bloggers alike to similar conclusions: start raising capital early and be careful about having too high of a burn rate because that lessens the amount of runway you have until you need more cash. I’m surprised how few entrepreneurs have this open conversation with their investors.

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MAY 19, 2017

Venice Beach-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com) has created sofdtware designed for those application developers to help protect those web applications. We decided we'd take this solution out, and help solve that same pain for a broad group of people. Andrew Peterson: It's all software. What is Signal Sciences?

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JUNE 21, 2014

You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations. Writing a book will be fun. Tim can match up with any Silicon Valley product manager and has been doing the role for global software businesses for 20 years.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

I have sold companies of my own, companies I have invested in, and helped companies I've run or invested in with corporate development partnerships to help their business. For example, some entrepreneurs might now know that sometimes it's better to say no to a deal, for many reasons that make sense, and it's the right thing to do.

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MAY 5, 2010

It's our pleasure today to feature an interview with Yossi Vardi , one of Israel's best known high tech entrepreneurs. We know, very well, that first and second generation of immigrants have an exceptionally high percentage of entrepreneurs. Yossi Vardi: First of all, it's very helpful if you have luck. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

My starting line with every entrepreneur is that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned from F’ing it up on my first business. I plan to write a whole separate blog post about this quote because it’s always stuck with me. This is part of my ongoing series, “ Start-up Lessons.&#.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

For more than 30-years, Bill Gates has been at the pinnacle of the software industry. "The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself."

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