Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to spend time getting to know their future VCs early because getting a feel for your chemistry is far more important than how the VC is ranked in some survey. Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

(www.science-inc.com), headed by Mike Jones , the former CEO of Myspace. Mike Jones: Coming out of Myspace, I looked at both operational roles and joining a venture fund. One, is we'll come up wit our own ideas, and work with really early stage entrepreneurs in-house. What is Science? We'll do only a few every year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. More than one smart entrepreneur has been caught in the lofty lifestyle of big money investors, viral growth, and movie star status. Just ask MySpace, eToys, and Pets.com. But I’m not convinced that it’s as simple as that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2010

Presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, or presenting your startup as a founder to an investor, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Tags: entrepreneur startup millennials communication business. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2010

I continue to see stories of really young entrepreneurs, like this article on Business Fastlane , with kids as young as 9 years old who have successful businesses. Another one is The Little Entrepreneur by Michael H. Tags: startup young entrepreneur age business. They assert, "It's never too early! and Jay Arrington.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

which programs are--and aren't--worth looking at has become very difficult, if not impossible, for startup entrepreneurs. Notes: Traditionally has incubated its own companies (from ideas from Bill Gross), but recently, through its New Ventures group, has been funding new startups which were developed externally. Science, Inc.

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MAY 4, 2011

Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly. Where did the idea come from and how did you start working on this? We started experimenting with lots of ideas, and Namesake is the evolution of a thousand small tweaks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Aren't Gen-X creations like YouTube and MySpace largely responsible for Gen-Y narcissism? The Internet then gave each person the ability to voice their own ideas and concerns, leading to new levels of group collaboration. Gen-X is rife with entrepreneurs. Didn't punk rock begat Rock Band? They have drive and independence.

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JUNE 23, 2010

What's the idea behind Worlize? Brian McKelvey: We're building a virtual world, which attaches to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and all the social networks. Tags: brian mckelvey worlize social gaming virtual world interview startup entrepreneur. Thanks for the interview. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Carter was a co-founder/partner at Amplify.LA, and also was founder of Vertical Technologies, Thoughtstar, and S5 Wireless'' Hurff was formerly the EVP of Engineering at MySpace, and also was an EIR at Science Inc. I was then brought into a fund as an EIR, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Epic Ventures. Only companies we are creating.

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APRIL 12, 2013

There''s been a lot of activity over the past two years in the Southern California accelerator/incubator market, with numerous groups (Amplify, EvoNexus, K5, LaunchpadLA, MediaCamp, Science, StartEngine, and many, many others) looking to help entrepreneurs start and fund their companies. But, how successful have they been? Our analysis.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Students are great source of ideas because they’re willing to challenge the existing norms – the basis for all disruption. But beyond the idea that startups come from colleges, they are obviously a very important feeder system into local startups with cheap, young, hard-working talent. I thought it was an amazing idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2015

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. More than one smart entrepreneur has been caught in the lofty lifestyle of big money investors, viral growth, and movie star status. Just ask MySpace, eToys, and Pets.com. business entrepreneur mistakes Scott Fearon startup'

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MAY 18, 2011

I connected those two about three years ago--back when MySpace was actually MySpace, and Facebook was Facebook. The idea was born in Vegas. I was looking at a crowd at a club, and I noticed how the clubs were using MySpace's personal profiles as venue profiles.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time! I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2015

Some of you may remember MySpace , which came early to social media, but lost the lead to Facebook by evolving too slowly, many analysts say. A sense of urgency won’t save a bad idea or the wrong team, but the good news is that it will fail faster, allowing people to move on quickly to more productive opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2016

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. More than one smart entrepreneur has been caught in the lofty lifestyle of big money investors, viral growth, and movie star status. Just ask MySpace, eToys, and Pets.com. But I’m not convinced that it’s as simple as that.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. We will collaborate on ideas and projects. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time!

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following formula for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Marty Zwilling.

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MARCH 29, 2012

We also have a mobile platform, which integrates with Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. The idea is to take social media promotion to even things like T-Shirts, and launch that into social actions. We had the idea, is how about we sell that content to brands, who can use that for social updates.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Typically, venture backed companies, always entrepreneur led.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

In November, Michael Jones, the former CEO of MySpace, announced his plans for Science Inc. The idea, is how do we facilitate marketplaces which take under-monetized inventory and fragmented markets, and consolidate them? We're lucky to get him, and he's an incredible young entrepreneur. How about MeUndies?

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Beverly Hills Incubator Commerce Los Angeles 203

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2013

Aren''t Gen-X creations like YouTube and MySpace largely responsible for Gen-Y narcissism? The Internet then gave each person the ability to voice their own ideas and concerns, leading to new levels of group collaboration. Gen-X is rife with entrepreneurs. entrepreneurs gen-y social media startups gen-x business boomers'

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I often have career discussions with entrepreneurs – both young and more mature – whether they should join company “X&# or not. Or you have to hit the lottery and be an early player middle management player at Google, Facebook, MySpace or Twitter. Be realistic about your skills, background and ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. If you fail, it’s your loss, not theirs, no matter what the reason.

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JUNE 2, 2010

What is the idea behind Invested.in? Where did the idea come from originally? Alon Goren; I worked for a couple of years at MySpace, doing customer support and QA, and stuff like that, doing my time and working my way up. Tags: alon goren investedin startup interview entrepreneur demo investment project music.

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MARCH 10, 2010

One of the more successful serial entrepreneurs here in Southern California has been Robin D. If you have a good idea, a good marketplace with certain characteristics, every company needs technology, every company needs finance, sales, marketing, and operations--that's the hard part. com, and managing director at Tickets.com.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

For those who may be unfamiliar with the Biz2Beach conference, its a networking conference of thought leaders, innovators, and trendsetters for a day of exchanging ideas. and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

I think you will find that most investors will relate to the following strategy for keeping the right perspective and getting the profit versus growth balance right: Pick an idea that has the potential to make money. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2010

Aren't Gen-X creations like YouTube and MySpace largely responsible for Millennial narcissism? The Internet then gave each person the ability to voice their own ideas and concerns, leading to new levels of group collaboration. Gen-X is rife with entrepreneurs. Tags: entrepreneurs gen-y baby boomers gen-x. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Are “strategic investors&# (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Friendster was a fad, Second Life was a fad, MySpace was a fad, and Facebook suddenly seems old school. Engagement occurs when customers and stakeholders become participants by sharing ideas with you, or talking to their friends about you, rather than merely viewing what you publish. New can turn old very quickly. Marty Zwilling.

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MARCH 2, 2010

But, we were able to into a huge event that we partnered with Lifetime and MySpace on, and we got 50,000 girls to try out in less than a week, with hundreds of thousands of people online as voters and fans, and we had millions of impressions surrounding the event. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 30, 2010

The idea emerged from that real life pain in the market, and as we like to say, we've grown incrementally from there. They can contribute content, contribute their edits, remix video, work together as groups, and then send that content across the web to Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, or their own website. READ MORE>>.

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