Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2014

Most aspiring entrepreneurs are convinced that the strength of their initial idea somehow defines them as a leader, as well as the success potential of their derivative business. It takes leadership ability, as well as a good idea, to make a successful entrepreneur, and great leaders evolve from key leadership decisions along the way.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Ideas Framework Tips 111

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne: FEM is a video discovery platform that provides quality, relevant video recommendations for any website, app, or content network that is seeking to drive more engagement around video. The metrics are very solid. On average, we''re doubling the time on a site where our platform is embedded. What is FEM? READ MORE>>.

Google 233

Google Content Startup Venice 233

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2015

Most aspiring entrepreneurs are convinced that the strength of their initial idea somehow defines them as a leader, as well as the success potential of their derivative business. It takes leadership ability, as well as a good idea, to make a successful entrepreneur, and great leaders evolve from key leadership decisions along the way.

Entrepreneur 103

Entrepreneur Ideas Framework Tips 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

On a regular basis, I am approached by entrepreneurs who assert that business plans are a waste of time. They cite sources like a recent BusinessWeek story, “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ” and this NY Times article. Major platforms are available online to find Angel groups or VCs, including Gust and AngelList.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Technical Review Writing Slides 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2020

One of the characteristics that every good investor looks for in an aspiring entrepreneur is resilience , or the ability to learn from and bounce back after a failure. With startups, almost every entrepreneur I know has failed at least once, often several times, but never gave up, and ultimately achieved their goal.

Startup 173

Startup Mentor Activity Entrepreneur 173

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2021, from 280 to 360 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Set milestones and manage to those targets.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media News 104

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

But we do it anyway, because we believe that the short-term metrics probably aren''t indicative of the long term.”. As I discuss in Entrepreneurs Should Go For The Quick Buck – Then Stop , there are situations in which a startup can generate profitable, near-term revenue that does not support, and may even undermine, its long-term strategy.

Tips 223

Tips Framework Metrics Cloud Computing 223

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

As discussed in Hiring Entrepreneurs, the impact of each new hire during your startup’s early days is tremendous. As noted in Optimistically Pessimistic , successful entrepreneurs are indifferent as to the specific tactics they must employ to accomplish their fervently held strategic objectives.

Tips 280

Tips Startup Framework Customer 280

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

Social Media 93

Social Media Media Entrepreneur Platform 93

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2011

Landry is a serial entrepreneur, and active investor, having been co-founder of TagWorld. Specifically, it allows the automatic creation of ads, the automatic optimization of ads based on conversions, and other things that help companies advertise more effectively on Facebook, and using it to run large scale campaigns on the platform.

Advertising 198

Advertising Startup Santa Monica Social Network 198

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Milana Rabkin: As a platform, we work on a consensus model. They can use Stem as a platform to distribute that content. As revenue comes back from the platforms and services they've monetized that content on, we automate the disbursement of payments to everyone at the same time. Currently, that's music and online video.

Startup 140

Startup Content Metrics Platform 140

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. No-one challenged this number, and it became an unattributed source of the metric for market size for years. Sources for your data.

Company 156

Company Companies Metrics Resource 156

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever.

Tips 161

Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. Incorporate brand personality and voice.

Social Media 135

Social Media Framework Media Metrics 135

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit. It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. What's the story behind Ranker?

Startup 195

Startup Platform Sites Java 195

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

Southern California 150

Southern California CTO Coach CTO Hire Social Media 150

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Most aspiring entrepreneurs are convinced that the strength of their initial idea somehow defines them as a leader, as well as the success potential of their derivative business. It takes leadership ability, as well as a good idea, to make a successful entrepreneur, and great leaders evolve from key leadership decisions along the way.

Startup 141

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Framework 141

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. entrepreneur Ric Dragon startup social media business'

Social Media 102

Social Media Media Product Metrics 102

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

Shane Bernstein: We look at actionable data points and data metrics which are quantifiable across the web, and we qualify them and normalize that data, and sort them based on what they've done. The first product is a platform, a technical recruitment engine. Shane Bernstein: We're an evidence-based, recruitment engine.

Sites 240

Sites Startup Tool CTO Hire 240

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. DTC entrepreneurs are more focused on immediate impact, because if they’re not selling product, there’s no large brand propping them up. If the entrepreneur has trouble answering this, it’s not going to work.

Commerce 211

Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. It is a communication platform. EcoMom’s metrics improved throughout this process and that’s when I decided to invest.

Startup 293

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 293

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2019

We've helped entrepreneurs raise over $225M in early stage, venture funding. Their goal is to partner in really unique ways with entrepreneurs, accelerators and investors, to create businesses and brands in new categories for P&G. We're here as a support ecosystem, to help founders build their companies.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Metrics Los Angeles Help 124

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

I spent six years in e-commerce, developing e-commerce platforms, and am pretty familiar with that. UCLA Anderson really seems to be a hotbed of entrepreneurs nowadays - did you know going into the MBA program you'd be starting your own company? James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering.

UCLA 256

UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little thought given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. Incorporate brand personality and voice.

Social Media 96

Social Media Media Marketing Metrics 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

They randomly churn for hours a day on a couple of their favorite social media platforms, with little though given to goals, objectives, or metrics; and ultimately give up and fall back to traditional marketing approaches. Create an action plan with metrics. Incorporate brand personality and voice.

Social Media 91

Social Media Media Metrics SEO 91

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

The service was created by experience serial entrepreneurs Mark Sylvester and KymberleeWeil, who some might know from creating service introNetworks. We're entrepreneurs, and we like to build our business, and wish we were known a little more. Socialtech is an enterprise wiki, social business platform in Palo Alto.

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

From my consulting with entrepreneurs in Europe and other countries, I’m convinced that we all could benefit from adapting to meet their environments. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. Build for sustainability and resilience, as well as growth.

Capital 138

Capital Marketing Ideas Venture Capital 138

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience.

Social Media 95

Social Media Media Startup Platform 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2023

I recognize that entrepreneurs tend to substitute vision and passion for formal processes, but using no discipline or process in building something new is a sure way to spend money, rather than see any return and build a self-sustaining business. Technologists building cool new platforms, just because they can, won’t find investor interest.

Outsource Development 115

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 115

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Brian Garrett: It's analytics, it's delivery platforms, it's optimization of technology facilitating compression to delivery of video. Like any entrepreneur, we had the idea that there should be local capital, supporting the local ecosystem. They've got some nice metrics behind them. What do you mean by infrastructure?

Southern California 153

Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In fact, the first challenge is to build a strategy, put together a budget, and define measurement metrics. As an advisor to many entrepreneurs and small businesses, I often get asked where to start, and how to proceed. Set specific objectives, budgets, and metrics for each one. Pick a theme and a team for each and get started.

Marketing 96

Marketing Metrics Social Media Content 96

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2017

chuckles) I've been in a large organization like AOL, with really large groups of engineers, and I think the biggest lesson I've learned, as with many entrepreneurs with an idea, you tend to try to use contractors and offshore services. How long do you have? It took me awhile, to realize how many advantages there were to having a local team.

Startup 150

Startup Metrics Offshore Sites 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

From my consulting with entrepreneurs in Europe and other countries, I’m convinced that we all could benefit from adapting to meet their environments. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. Build for sustainability and resilience, as well as growth.

Ideas 124

Ideas Venture Capital Software Review Technical Review 124

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Every business owner and entrepreneur I meet in my consulting rounds dreams of finding that “ disruptive ” innovation that will supercharge their business and move it into the ranks of business unicorns (billion-dollar valuations), such as SpaceX and Apple. Define realistic metrics to keep track of progress.

Technical Review 101

Technical Review Metrics Resource Software Review 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Financial forecast and metrics. See where your cashflow bottoms out.

Competition 116

Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

With this in mind, we figured it would be a great opportunity to get a direct look from someone who’s been immersed in the field, and spoke to Chance Barnett, CEO of LA-local investment platform, Crowdfunder. Chance is a local grown entrepreneur with a 15 year track record. Crowdfunder Was Created With Entrepreneurs In Mind.

Invest 83

Invest Platform Entrepreneur Paramount 83