Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

As an introvert myself, I remember worrying that I could never be comfortable giving a sales pitch, or networking to find clients. For example, you may be good at active listening, analyzing data, and making logical decisions. In fact, I’m now convinced that many extraverts rely too much on their “gift of gab” to hide a lack of depth.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

If you were a big company like Proctor & Gamble, for instance, you'd have a whole side of your business with IT, for your sales, marketing, and financial folks. That allows you, for example, to access your factory in Dubai, rather than having to always fly to the site. How did the company start working on this area?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Bartering technically means exchanging goods or services as a substitute for money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping your growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Startup incubators. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Of course, every approach has pros and cons.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2007

And there will be examples of start-ups that didn't cost much (although $100K is pretty extreme and certainly doesn't count human effort costs). Further, while some viral pick-up or online marketing is possible in certain startups, if anything, marketing and sales has become harder because of fragmented attention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Bartering technically means exchanging goods or services as a substitute for money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping your growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Startup incubators. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Of course, every approach has pros and cons.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

For example: Can a 20-story office tower serve as a “vertical campus” and innovation hub for local tech companies? In San Diego, the Irvine Company provided the entire second floor of its Broadway Street building at no cost for the downtown EvoNexus incubator. 101 West Broadway tower in downtown San Diego.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Amidst the search she found her way working with NYC based incubator Techstars as an associate. Amanda talks a bit about life working for an incubator. That’s what drew me to them as I hopped on board for PR/marketing, and a little bit of sales and operations.” She wanted to get involved, which led her to startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s interesting to me that two of the most talented tech leaders of our era – Bill Gross & Paul Graham – have both opted for a model of incubation to encourage young tech entrepreneurs to build disruptive businesses. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. What did he know?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. I don’t believe that one exists.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

I like to use the example of a company I backed called MakeSpace because it’s such an easy an obvious market to understand. For example, if you’re going to build a travel planning website (as many, many startup entrepreneurs do) your basic research would be: How much do people spend on travel books / guides today?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping you growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Startup incubators. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner. Partner with beneficiary company.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The florist business center we launched recently empowers florists, with tools to run email marketing campaigns, reach out through social media, and even gives them a point of sale system and website builder. From there, we actually joined the Muckerlab incubator, and essentially have been growing florists on the supply side.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Podfund , for example, writes checks sized between $25,000 to $50,000 to emerging podcasters. Influence’s Robertson tells us venture capitalists were initially uncertain of his latest startup despite his track record, which includes the sale of multiple software businesses, including the affiliate marketing company VigLink. “We

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

For example, only qualified institutional or accredited, sophisticated buyers are allowed on the bulletin boards. Can you talk about a bit about BrightHouse, and how this company came out of that incubation effort? The way sales are handled is as old as the 1930's securities laws. Are you transacting sales through the site yet?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

For example, he explained a situation where his company could not meet payroll the next day and was about to go out of business. We were going to be interviewing with Howard Marks for his incubator, StartEngine, in the morning. When I first came to LA, there was only a handful of incubators or accelerators.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

We looked around, and decided to throw our hat into the ring, and went through the CONNECT incubator here, Nonprofits are not known to have much money to spend on technology, how does that affect you as you approach them about what you can offer? What was your background before you started the company?

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We don't get excited about derivative businesses, like yet another daily deal site, or another niche flash sales site. In our case, comapnies like ChowNow have an incredible team, for example, Jason Iseman who has helped our other companies look at how to make the right marketing hire.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

Coworking and incubator spaces are great sources as are lawyers and bankers. Examples of milestones: traction as measured by user numbers and user engagement; financial metrics such as cash flow and revenue. Venture debt. Customer financing can minimize your risk, providing more cushion to meet your milestones. Funding Strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. It was an early example of the power of direct marketing and subscription services. Jeremy Liew, a respected VC from LightSpeed, obviously saw the change to ramp up sales. Wildfire Interactive. Enter ShoeDazzle. I think of it as Columbia House meets Zara.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2012

For example], If you’re a tech leader, you have a certain image you need to portray. Kim was the Technical Lead at Triptrotting when it was incubated in Idealab and came on board to Insteegran last October. It will not be industry standard in which your percentage goes down as your sales goes up.

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Steve Reich

OCTOBER 9, 2012

You can see an example of the information on SBS here: My Round. Your friends get realtime updates on the course, your score, pictures, and your latest great shot. You can post items to Facebook and Twitter, or send people to SwingBySwing.com to see everything at once. How do consumers like it?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

We have a severe shortage of talented engineers in this country, for example, and science doesn’t seem to garner as much attention & focus in the US as it does in some other countries. Let me give you an example. Suddenly everybody wants to be an incubator. I’ll give you a real world example.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

– Digital Messaging Infrastructure Company (incubated by Addante and Associates, LLC) Age: 25 - 29 (present) Time Period: 2002 - present My Role: Founder High Point: TBD Here is a summary of my experiences to-date with StrongMail: 1. Incubation 3. StrongMail Systems, Inc. Relaxing 2. Go-to-Market 5. Spam Changes Everything 6.

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