socalTECH
MARCH 8, 2011
A new study released by the Kauffman Foundation this week shows that the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) has the highest number of entrepreneurs per 100,000 people, of the top fifteen largest MSAs. The report covers all business entrepreneurs, not just those in the high tech industry.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 16, 2014
Of if your VP Sales isn’t complaining about marketing she’s trying to get the function reporting to her. They review competitors offerings and analyst reports. It’s easier to create strange job titles so that nobody feels slighted than to agree clear reporting lines, roles & responsibilities.
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InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
Someone on Quora recently asked me to answer the following question: Why Do Digital Entrepreneurs Hate MBAs? Tech entrepreneurs' consternation with MBAs does not rise to the level of loathing. As noted in Startup Advice From College Dropouts , successful entrepreneurs are often poor students. Look For MBA Outliers.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 26, 2010
This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. The best entrepreneurs focus on details.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
She actually IS the prototypical entrepreneur. But Tracy did what entrepreneurs do. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. In the first 5 minutes you’ll realize that she’s a classic entrepreneur. More on that later. That may soon change.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
I use George Bush vs. Al Gore as allegory and I’ve been using it with entrepreneurs for years to sink in a simple point about how to communicate with the market. Most Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs I know are more like Al Gore. The stories he told were the stories she reported. It is election season.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. I think there is also no denying the role that Richard Rosenblatt has played in building the LA tech ecosystem and spawning great entrepreneurs who followed in his footsteps. “There’s something going on in LA.”
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