socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To understand how one local company is making that transition, we talked with Los Angeles-based All About Addiction (www.allaboutaddiction.com), a company that grew out of Adi Jaffe's work at UCLA as a trained psychologist. First, what is All About Addiction about? The idea was to make it simpler for people to find rehab.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

It really is possible for an introvert to succeed as an entrepreneur, even though you can’t expect to start and build a business alone. Yet I soon found that knowledge is power, and a little training and determination goes a long way toward removing the qualms. It doesn’t work in business.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

The shootings that targeted police officers at a peaceful protest in Dallas, which followed the officer-involved shooting deaths of Philando Castile near Minneapolis and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, LA, also have raised distressing questions about racism in America and our criminal-justice system. Need more convincing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In fact, some pundits argue that the best entrepreneurs, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, actually dropped out of school early to start their businesses, implying a negative relationship to training. This isn’t about not having a boss. Starting a new business in an industry you know nothing about is fraught with risk.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

Our interview today is with serial entrepreneur Neel Grover , the CEO and founder of Indi (indi.com). If you're a big influencer, you might get paid by a brand, but every day, people are providing word-of-mouth advertising, posting about their favorite things. Retailers will pay them for those recommendations.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In aviation circles, we read in our pilot magazines about “Never again!” or “I learned about flying from that.” How about the entrepreneur -founder? Professional investors rarely attach a red letter upon a failed entrepreneur. And these were emotional experiences to say the least. We ask ourselves “what if?”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to set the culture you need for a thriving business, as well as thriving employees, customers, partners, and vendors. I recommend that every aspiring entrepreneur and serious business professional take each one of these to heart from day-one of their startup: Talent is the whole ball game.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Most entrepreneurs spend far too much time thinking negatively about competitors, and can’t resist making derogatory statements about them to their own team, investors and even to customers. As an investor, I always listen carefully to what an entrepreneur says, and does not say, about competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2023

Most entrepreneurs spend far too much time thinking negatively about competitors, and can’t resist making derogatory statements to their own team, to investors, and even to customers. As an investor, I always listen carefully to what an entrepreneur says, and does not say, about competition.

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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. We caught up with Fuel50 founder and CEO Anne Fulton to learn more about the startup. What is Fuel50?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

Most of the entrepreneurs and business owners I work with recognize that they must occupy and practice a primary leadership position , but many will admit that they are not thriving in this role. Be prepared to create and train a dedicated support group that can keep up with your now larger and growing install base of demanding customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Most people think that being the best requires more intelligence, more training, and more experience. In reality, in business or even in sports, the evidence is conclusive that it is as much about how you think, as what you do. I agree they certainly apply to the great entrepreneurs I have known. They find their passion.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

My immediate family members were entrepreneurs from as far back as I can trace. So, it seemed perfectly natural that my brother and I find our separate callings as entrepreneurs from the very start. First, our family DNA made us comfortable talking about risk and self-discovery in running a business, even without formal training.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

We sat down with Kelly ahead of the announcement to chat about the new fund, why they think military veterans are particularly well suited as startup entrepreneurs, why the two went from organizing individual deals for funding to a formal fund, and more. Tell us about this new announcement? That was the umbrella.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2021

One of the business ironies that many entrepreneurs have learned the hard way in the past is that ideas which are truly disruptive carry the highest risk of failure, take the longest to gain traction, and thus are the least likely to get external funding. Great entrepreneurs aren’t just dreamers, they are doers. Unpack your best ideas.

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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. Like most investors, I’m convinced that success in business is more about the plan and the person than the idea. Positive relationship building is always a plus. Investors like happy teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

On why you should be an entrepreneur, “A lot of people do what they have to do. We also talked about getting more young African Americans interested in entrepreneurship & technology. It made me confident about what would work. “All the failures that people get so scared of is what I did.

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Berkonomics

JULY 3, 2019

There is a bit of the teacher in all of us, and a request for help is a natural trigger to bring this out. And there should be an equal – if not stronger – bit of a student in each of us as well, allowing us to drop our egos a notch and ask for help when we need it. Here’s a puzzle where the answer come first.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There was no money train. Nobody cared about our valuations any more. If they didn’t care about him they certainly didn’t care about me or Jason Lemkin or Jason Calacanis or any of us. 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

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. Expert mentoring and training. The reality is far different. Initial funding. Facilities support. Learn by doing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2022

Deciding to be an entrepreneur is a lifestyle move, and should be part of a long-term strategic plan. From my experience, and the experience of other entrepreneurs, here are the key elements you should think about as part of the process: Personal interests and aspirations. Education and training roadblocks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). Hire real help and learn to delegate. Lack of communication.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Phoenix communities are celebrating because JPMorgan Chase has made several local charitable investments to support underserved entrepreneurs and small businesses with the goal of creating jobs and spark a growing economy. Supporting underserved entrepreneurs and small businesses helps revitalize communities and creates jobs,” Tripp said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2019

Don’t you wish you were better at saying “no” to all those extraneous requests for a bit of help at work? For example, as a software executive, I once had a talented engineer working for me who was always helping others, to the extent that he consistently missed his own project deadlines, and was ruining his health through lack of sleep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Most people think that being the best requires more intelligence, more training, and more experience. In reality, in business or even in sports, the evidence is conclusive that it is as much about how you think, as what you do. I agree they certainly apply to the great entrepreneurs I have known. They find their passion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2016

Most entrepreneurs spend far too much time thinking negatively about competitors, and can’t resist making derogatory statements to their own team, to investors, and even to customers. As an investor, I always listen carefully to what an entrepreneur says, and does not say, about competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2013

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. Expert mentoring and training. The reality is far different. Initial funding. Facilities support. Learn by doing.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I spend a lot of time with startups and thus hear many companies talk about their approach to sales and their interactions with customers. From these meetings you can really tell the leaders that care deeply about their customers and those the look down on them. We were talking about raising money from LPs.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

To help fix that, the startup has created a mobile app to guide people through their strengths, interests, key skills, and more to guide them along the way to a career they'll love. We sat down with Deborah to hear more about the app, why millenials and other youth are having such a hard time figuring out a career, and the company's solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2014

One of the business ironies that many entrepreneurs have learned the hard way in the past is that ideas which are truly disruptive carry the highest risk of failure, take the longest to gain traction, and thus are the least likely to get external funding. Great entrepreneurs aren’t just dreamers, they are doers. Unpack your best ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2023

Entrepreneurs inherently understand that they have to be the initial leader of their startup, but often they don’t have the experience or the training to know where their leadership competencies lie, or how to build a leadership team. They tend to bury themselves in activities, but can be impulsive and select quantity over quality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2014

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). Hire real help and learn to delegate. Lack of communication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

One of the realities of being an entrepreneur is that you have to keep learning and changing to survive. That is what business leadership is all about. They also need step-by-step targets to help them visualize the journey to that destination, and see that it’s possible to achieve it. You can lead to succeed wherever you are.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

In fact, I often have to tell aspiring entrepreneurs that their inventions have zero value, at least not until they are put in the context of a business plan, with qualified people committed to executing the plan. A business is about making money, while inventions are more about spending money. Marty Zwilling.

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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. With information technology (IT) and requirements changing so fast, it’s definitely cheaper to find specialists rather than hire young employees and train them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Every aspect of your business must be about sales. In my role as an advisor to startups, I often have to remind entrepreneurs to think more like sales people from day one, in finding a real problem to solve and designing the solution. Grow by helping customers rather than pushing a message.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

We’ve worried together about the moral obligation implicit in taking such investments from people so close, even with their promise never to expect a return. And we’ve spoken openly about your fear that you must succeed and perhaps even cover any losses – even without a formal promise or requirement to do so. Venture farms.

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