Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2011

Many people believe that good entrepreneurs are naturally born, rather than trained or experienced in the art of business. On the natural born side, some entrepreneurs seem to have a strong vision and the ability to inspirationally lead others. Every entrepreneur enters the game with a unique combination of genes and skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2010

Many people believe that good entrepreneurs are naturally born, rather than trained or experienced in the art of business. On the natural born side, some entrepreneurs seem to have a strong vision and the ability to inspirationally lead others. Every entrepreneur enters the game with a unique combination of genes and skills.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2011

Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham and Marcia Brown’s Stone Soup , the seemingly innocuous board game Monopoly has played a pivotal role in the edification of several generations of entrepreneurs. The players who go first have a higher probability of landing on an available property during their initial trips around the board.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Entrepreneurs can emulate de la Guerra’s strategy and make their adVenture appear far larger than reality and thus increasing its influence and market reach while discouraging competitive threats by creating an industry alliance. Tags: Entrepreneur Networking Partnerships The Fringe. The same phenomenon is true for startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2015

I have met several young people in business recently who believe that they are natural born entrepreneurs, and actually seem to feel that traditional training and experience may be a detriment to their success in this new world. Every entrepreneur enters the game with a unique combination of genes and skills. Active listening skills.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 11, 2010

How often we connect and how we connect has been paramount to our history as a civilization - and to our modern economy. We will then hear from three entrepreneurs that are pioneering advanced uses of mobile technologies - right here in our community. Wednesday, March 17, 2010 -- Convergence Of Mobile Devices With The Physical World.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

I have met several young people in business recently who believe that they are natural born entrepreneurs, and actually seem to feel that traditional training and experience may be a detriment to their success in this new world. Every entrepreneur enters the game with a unique combination of genes and skills. Active listening skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. Understanding culture is paramount, but measuring results is even better. Lead-stage content performance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Others, like Guy Kawasaki , have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent enhancements or omissions that can kill your deal. Entrepreneurs in this category are usually dreamers. Investors are not looking for conservative entrepreneurs. None of these cases are credible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2015

When starting a new business, an entrepreneur has to take a “hands-on” role. In the context of a startup, there are many “hands-on” attributes that every entrepreneur must demonstrate and enjoy if he or she hopes to succeed in building a new business. Track and measure both long-term and short-term objectives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2018

Every entrepreneur knows that good demand generation marketing is the key to growth these days, but very few have the discipline or know-how to measure return in a world of a thousand tools and techniques. Understanding culture is paramount, but measuring results is even better. Lead-stage content performance.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Bordo has previously served at Paramount and MGM, in addition to a stint at SocialVibe.com. My first studio role was in digital media at Paramount Pictures. NowLive is trying to do just that, leveraging both technology and the entertainment world to build its business. What is NowLive all about?

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2010

Brian McKelvey: For the last ten years, I've worked in software engineering, ranging from building social viral games for Paramount, Lionsgate, and GSN. Tags: brian mckelvey worlize social gaming virtual world interview startup entrepreneur. What's your background? We want to see lots of users excited about it, and for it to grow.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

And for the entrepreneurs who have tuned in, he also gives some insights into best practices for those looking to raise cash, so you don’t want to miss out! Chance is a local grown entrepreneur with a 15 year track record. His dual experiences, both as an entrepreneur and investor yielded him double the frustrations.

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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. Many people will argue that total customer satisfaction is paramount, but I’m a pragmatist who believes that treating everyone the same really means treating all of them poorly.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Frank Addante, who founded Rubicon, is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded L90, which was acquired. relationships and brand are paramount to get invited to review the best searches.". Los Angeles has a strong online advertising industry, and Rubicon Project is one of the companies we heard has been doing well and.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

We quickly branched out of music, working with television companies like NBC Universal, and working with film studios like Paramount and Warner Bros. Matt MacNaughton: I started in the music business, and I saw the big opportunity to build a comprehensive platform to license to companies of all sorts of sizes, shapes, and markets.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Defining your unique self-fulfillment needs is paramount to living a content and rewarding life. . During the early stages of a startup, entrepreneurs typically cannot afford to pay their employees a market-rate of cash compensation. How To Get Someone To Hate What They Do For Fun.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

In addition to bringing together the right set of skills, experiences and mindsets, it is important that every team member and their leader practices and believes in the following principles: Showing respect for other team members is paramount.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 7, 2010

Despite the pathetic nature of Barney deals, the big purple dinosaur offered sound business advice to entrepreneurs in a TV episode entitled, “Sharing means caring.” If you intend to grow an existing revenue stream or reduce existing cash outflows, a mutually agreed upon point from which the improvements can be measured is paramount.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2018

The value of increased productivity to your business is self-evident More importantly, the value to your health and your career is paramount. Don’t forget to take a hard look at your own work habits, for opportunities to improve.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

If I'm Paramount, for example--and we've done a number of campaigns with Paramount to help promote upcoming movies--you understand video content. So, generally speaking, most entertainment companies couldn't participate in the ringtone growth, but now they have a great way to participate in video.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

Ryan is a serial entrepreneur, having previously co-founded email marketer NetCreations, and also has been an angel investor in local startups. We launched that section with Paramount, with the movie ad as the lead sponsor. First, for those not familiar with CauseCast, what is the company all about?

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

Kevin Kent: I was working on video games, and just worked on a game for Paramount, the School of Rock, Jack Black for the iPhone, and prior to that the Hanna Montana game for Disney. Tags: guitar controller videogame entrepreneur startup instruments inspired kent kevin instrument music interview. So how do you get over that challenge?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

About two years ago, we spent a lot of time talking about the SoCal community, trying to figure out if it''s vibrant enough, if the ecosystem is strong enough, and if there were enough successful entrepreneurs who had built and exited companies, so we''d have the genetic stock in our ecosystem. That''s paramount to a great exit.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

What I truly feel is absolutely paramount to any successful entertainment project, is the content itself. Tags: entrepreneur startup kids children video videogame game content world virtual myminipeeps media masher gunther sherry. There's always technology involved. It's never about technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. You’ll never make a great entrepreneur. So your journey to fund raising begins by strengthening your relationships with other entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

The same variables apply, but here skills and experience are paramount. The next big challenge for a multi-partner startup is the allocation of roles. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? If you are an inventor and have the key patent in hand, that doesn’t mean you should be CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The same variables apply, but here skills and experience are paramount. Tags: splitting equity entrepreneur startup co-founders business. The next big challenge for a multi-partner startup is the allocation of roles. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? The same logic applies to splitting equity with co-founders. Marty Zwilling.

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