Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2020

For best results, my advice is to think like an entrepreneur, even if you are a corporate employee. According to many studies, entrepreneurs tend to be happier , and over 80 percent of self-made millionaires are entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs relish change and new technology, which lead to new sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2019

The successful entrepreneurs I have met and worked with over the years all seem to share that passion for learning, and they see rapid market change not as a problem, but as an opportunity for them to move ahead of the crowd in changing the world. Successful entrepreneurs love to share, but they respond better to pull rather than push.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2016

For best results, my advice is to think like an entrepreneur, even if you are a corporate employee. According to many studies, entrepreneurs tend to be happier , and 80 percent of self-made millionaires are entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs relish change and new technology, which lead to new sales. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

based startup CoFoundersLab has addressed this issue by taking the guesswork out of matchmaking by introducing scientific methods, deep research and algorithms that have proven to lead to successful matches. Together they envisioned a Match.com type of site for entrepreneurs to find each other and make things happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. This early stage is often called basic research , well before any specific commercially viable products might be envisioned. Technology pilots.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2010

“A study by Microsoft showed just how lethal interruptions are to productivity. The researchers taped 29 hours of people working in a typical office, and found that they were interrupted on average four times each hour. Why not tell them you're implementing a new tool designed to make THEM more productive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2014

In the US, many entrepreneurs see grants as “free money,” since they are not loans and don’t have to be repaid. A grant is not an equity investment, so the entrepreneur doesn’t have to give up a stake in the company either. An advanced search tool is provided to search for a grant by eligibility, by issuing agency, or category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2015

The successful entrepreneurs I have met and worked with over the years all seem to share that passion for learning, and they see rapid market change not as a problem, but as an opportunity for them to move ahead of the crowd in changing the world. Successful entrepreneurs love to share, but they respond better to pull rather than push.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

In the US, many entrepreneurs see grants as “free money,” since they are not loans and don’t have to be repaid. A grant is not an equity investment, so the entrepreneur doesn’t have to give up a stake in the company either. An advanced search tool is provided to search for a grant by eligibility, by issuing agency, or category.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Annie’s approach is a highly-readable balance between memorable, real-world analogies and hardcore behavioral science studies. Annie is well positioned to write a book on decision analysis, combining her decades as a professional poker player with her graduate psychology research at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2016

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and a technologist, I’m happy to report that the tide may be turning, and we are experiencing a new era of opportunity for entrepreneurs, and a new appreciation of the power of the digital world. Google scores high for tools, location, and social media data sharing, but not for biometric data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

I was happy to see a real focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, “ Start a Successful Business ,” by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges. I often hear entrepreneurs who seem to rely wholly on their own passion, and the view of a few friends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2012

This is a good thing for entrepreneurs and investors, who can win big, but it’s not a given. He asserts that the problem is lack of inspiration, and he supports this with twenty years of real case studies from his own experience. Mechanisms. Not everyone has to be a leader for innovation to work. Marty Zwilling.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

One thing I have found interesting is that amongst first-time software entrepreneurs, certain “patterns” of applications kept recurring. Time and time again, entrepreneurs are tempted by one of these application categories. New research from Utpal Dholakia and Emily Durham of Rice University takes a look at this question.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2011

This is a good thing for entrepreneurs and investors, who can win big, but it’s not a given. He asserts that the problem is lack of inspiration, and he supports this with twenty years of real case studies from his own experience. Mechanisms. Not everyone has to be a leader for innovation to work. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I ended up doing some research on how young is too young for computer sicence, and found at there was already great research out there that you could start as young as five years old, as long as you removed the keyboard, mouse, and got the syntax out of the way. That was the beginning of it. That was encouraging.

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Tech.Co

JULY 31, 2017

Yet as an entrepreneur, you can rarely hide under the rock and pretend there’s nothing else happening around you and no one is demanding your attention. Next, instead of investing in an advanced industry go-to tool, try a simple, more scalable alternative first. That’s quite staggering, right?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2012

You have security wherever you go because you have become big entrepreneurs and are giving talks all over to up and coming entrepreneurs and app developers. Research has shown that people can remember only 10% of their dreams when they wake up, and also that dreams have uses and meanings for psychological research.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Of particular interest to entrepreneurs, Part III discusses the creative process of technical innovations. It happens by applying ordinary tools of thought to existing materials. As noted in What Color Are Your Elephant’s Sunglasses , the large majority of research and development expenditures are spent on product features (e.g.,

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Valarm is an Android mobile app and integrated suite of web-based tools that will track almost anything via GPS, and remotely monitor almost any environment via built-in and external sensors. digmybrand is a lightweight feedback tool to learn what people think about you – your skills, values and personality. Spotlight Companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I know because many entrepreneurs I spend time with I can tell are in their own brains when we’re meeting rather than trying to understand what my position is. You’re in sales mode. Prepare for your meetings by doing research before you go. That stuck with me long before I was ever a CEO (aka chief salesman).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

In most cases if you can’t get a prototype done you’re probably not an entrepreneur. Go research it. If you can’t get product released and validated then do user studies. Surround yourself with great advisors or other entrepreneurs. But for most businesses it is. That’s OK. of people aren’t.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

My partner and I started working on this two years ago, and had researched the situation. He has three daughters, and this really was in the wheelhouse of how this tool could help them. He came on board to really develop the tools and the platform, and aggregated tens of millions of pages on the Internet on occupations.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

For today's interview, we connected with George Ruan and Dr. Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. What's the idea behind Quub?

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Frank Addante

APRIL 7, 2016

Working for a great cause or “the why” inspires passion, and as research has repeatedly shown, passion drives higher performance. Writers have beautiful studies, and spaces for solitude. As entrepreneurs, it’s important we give our team the tools and environment they need to be elite performers.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 7, 2016

Working for a great cause or “the why” inspires passion, and as research has repeatedly shown, passion drives higher performance. Writers have beautiful studies, and spaces for solitude. As entrepreneurs, it’s important we give our team the tools and environment they need to be elite performers.

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Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

Our San Diego editor Bruce Bigelow penned a personal goodbye to entrepreneur Larry Bock, who died last week of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. After last week’s revelation of three patient deaths in its leading cancer immunotherapy trial, the FDA suspended the study. The week started on a reflective note.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

Wealth managers had very little in terms of good tools, especially things like options analysis and the tax impacts of that. Another thing is the ROI studies we've had done outside our firm by Nucleus Research. Those independent ROI studies show a very, immediate payback on getting this kind of software. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Entrepreneurs create opportunities by creating ripples, and mini-ventures are great ripple creators. the smartass entrepreneur replied, “It’s called business. To make his job easier, he created some security tools to protect the server against hacker attacks. When the Professor asked, “What do you think you are doing?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on a McKinsey Global Institute study , Gartner , and other sources : Targeted marketing. We just need big data tools to do the analysis. Scientific research in overdrive. Big Data business entrepreneur solutions startup' Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on a McKinsey Global Institute study and other sources : Targeted marketing. We just need big data tools to do the analysis. Scientific research in overdrive. entrepreneur startup Big Data opportunity business' Health care in the U.S.

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