socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. What is Fuel50?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why? Since 2010, $6.3B

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon. On paper she’s more qualified than Yves or myself so with that out of the way can we now just focus on her skills and how you help me recruit her?” She had all of the skills and traits we sought?—?leadership,

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As a small business and startup advisor, I find that entrepreneurs often love to talk about their latest idea, but not their execution. For example, Elon Musk is recognized as a visionary entrepreneur, but his fortune and his impact has come from the great companies he has built, including SpaceX, Tesla Motors, and PayPal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

If an entrepreneur can’t build a culture of excitement and commitment at a startup, the chances of long-term success are negligible. That’s why they insist on spending a day with your team as part of the due diligence process. As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I often get asked what you can do to build the right culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It seems inherent in the mind of most first-time entrepreneurs that it was their idea, and they must do all the work themselves to make it happen. He has spent many years coaching and consulting with over 200 organizations, and he has helped me articulate the benefits of delegation, and better understand some of the key barriers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The entire dinner was a discussion of what it would take for our software to help this customer be successful, what he liked about it and where we needed to improve. Who else is going to tell a VC if he got a bad reference from an entrepreneur or fellow VC? The press don’t get your financials. The disdain isn’t hidden.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In my experience, consummate entrepreneurs tend come up with more startup ideas than they can ever implement, and some of the ideas may not even make business sense. But how does any entrepreneur know which ideas to implement, and which ones are best left behind? Now we are starting to see a computer on every wrist.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. The Foundation was created in 1997 by tech pioneers, Jean and Steve Case.

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Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 141

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There was no money train. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Although his focus is naturally on bigger companies, I contend that his recommended strategies apply equally well to entrepreneurs and startups: Demand a mindset of deep thinking for the long term. In my experience, even in startups, longer-term strategy often gets pushed off the agenda due to current challenges.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

Those are faculty members who have a commercialization idea and want help with that. We don't have the resources to do typical diligence and assessment, so we just piggyback on other deals. We also will help others make investment in teams at the startup garage, because we understand the progress of those teams and where they are.

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Most aspiring entrepreneurs believe that a great idea alone will assure business success. In fact, I believe modern entrepreneurs need to be super sales people, in the most positive sense, to their team as well as customers. Entrepreneurs set the price of their solution based on their costs, and their perception of value.

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Sales Entrepreneur Customer Custom 106

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. Fables of the reconstruction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In the interests of helping you work smarter and last longer, I would like to offer my top ten list of key resource drains to avoid in early businesses and startups, based on my years of advising entrepreneurs and my own business experience: Expanding your product line too quickly for scaling. Use multiple small orders at first.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

It got me thinking about the tech industry. Because often these Conference Hos bring back their latest idea from the hot tub cocktail session with their favorite tech superstar. I never lived beyond my means and it’s always a warning sign for me when evaluating companies and entrepreneurs. They want to be ballers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2017

As an advisor to startups, and a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m still surprised at the number who are determined to go it alone. Even worse, when they figure out that they really need help, the first place they look is for an intern or untrained helpers. That’s a win-win for both partners. No “one night stands” need apply.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2019

Most of you aspiring entrepreneurs have no idea how dramatically your own role has to evolve as you develop a solution, start a business, and expect it to scale into a successful self-managed company. At this stage, I typically find a solo entrepreneur who creates, manages projects, directs, and oversees every step in the process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Investors have also learned not to invest in ideas but only in entrepreneurs and teams who can deliver solutions. As a result, Google has become a verb, and the company is a tech giant with record growth rates and a revenue of $74.5 Targets are benchmarked against competitors, customer reviews and industry expert expectations.

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Ideas Technical Review Google Startup 59

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. This benefits you, the entrepreneur. It takes options off of the table.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2019

A refrain I often hear from technology entrepreneurs to investors is that their product or solution is so innovative that it will cause a “paradigm shift” in the industry. Due to qualms of customers and governments, he sold less than 30,000 of the devices over the next five years.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2017

For the first time, in a long time, traffic deaths and crashes are rising, due to drunk and drugged driving. How did the company and its technology come about? He's trained many thousands of people over the decades for the program, which is now nationwide, in Canada, the United Kingdom, and around the world.

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Pasadena Angels Pasadena Technical Review Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The tech market is filled with many stories of early-stage funding. HealthDataInsights (HDI) is a company that helps to recover money for the government or private insurers who have been incorrectly billed or fraudulently charged. Women Entrepreneurs. ” Let me explain all three. ” Let me explain all three.

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GRP Partners Technical Review Truecar Invest 285

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. It might tell you that you need better sales training or to hone your key selling messages. Similarly I liked to keep myself apprised of the technical decisions we were making.

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Startup CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 308

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2013

I agree with the seven survival challenges from Michael Fertik, in an old Harvard Business Review article , for executives making the transition: Empire-building skills are counter-productive. Establishing and wielding influence may help you move resources in your direction in a large business. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Startup Training Technical Review 105

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2019

Most entrepreneurs realize and budget for the additional costs of incorporating a business, marketing, equipment costs, and manufacturing. Every smart entrepreneur I know thinks he can do everything personally, perhaps with a few interns or family members to help. Staffing and people-management costs.

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Startup Software Review Technical Review Social Media 105

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. Do entrepreneurs need to have a particular idea in mind to participate?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We're here to help them solve the problem of compliance and retail policy enforcement, and to understand what people are saying about their products next to their buy buttons, what kind of reviews they are getting, and to understand other things that influence sales. Andrew Schydlowsky: I'm a serial entrepreneur.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

Pressure Helps You Break Through Your Breakdowns. "Mickey "Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner." " [Tweet this quote].

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In a bid to change that, there are a few groups working on helping women entrepreneurs, investors, and others, including the Pipeline Fellowship (www.pipelinefellowship.com), which recently launched itself into the Los Angeles market. The program helps them learn the tools to become angel investors in female led enterprises.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

And of course the most successful technology companies: Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com [duh], Oracle, Microsoft all have loads of sales people. And you can’t use the API argument to get out of helping with integration. As in, “Well, as a tech firm we put tons of effort into APIs so that you can do your own integrations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

Saving cost wont help you if you cant make the daily innovations required to stay competitive. Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Visit the contract location, investigate their skill level, training, and quality of their facilities. Marty Zwilling.

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Outsource Development Outsource Offshore Software Review 95

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2013

One such entrepreneur was Adam Miller , Cornerstone OnDemand , CEO, who kicked off the conference at ROC. He said it’s easier to get to know the tech community down here and you’re not competing with thousands of startups like Silicon Valley, more like hundreds. This advice was helpful to hear as I build up my team.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Santa Monica Technical Review Startup 93

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We could provide a steady stream of Internet shoppers at our Return Bar, and use that foot traffic to build out our network, and help anyone operating a typical retail store with providing foot traffic. They were interested in the foot traffic that represented, and we provided the technology and training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2016

In business, this means an entrepreneur who never says no to any customer is doomed to a hard life and some expensive mistakes. Thus, I have developed some guidelines that I believe will help you know when it’s appropriate to go all-out for a customer, and know when it’s better to say no with conviction and finality.

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Customer Custom Startup Satisfaction 65

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Bill Gates once famously said that people tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the 1-year timeframe and underestimate its impact in the 10-year timeframe. I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. Their first batch of shipping is due out in the next few weeks.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

The good news is that everyone expects entrepreneurs to make mistakes, since founders explore uncharted territory. It’s tempting to tell everyone about all the future potential uses of your new technology and risk confusing them, having them wait for your future or disappoint them with several poor solutions. Hire slow and fire fast.

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