socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform.

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

We caught up with co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Belinda Tan to learn more about the company. One of the areas where people are starting to look at innovation, is using technology to make trials more accessible to patients. We're now starting to plan to open this to Phase 4 studies. What is Science37?

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

Smith , the founder of Croquet (www.croquet.io), a new Los Angeles startup which actually has its roots at the very beginning of the modern computing era. You can spin a coin, pick up an object. In the real world, you pick up an object, and you can hand it to seomeone else. For today's interview, with talked with David A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2012

A while back, I wrote about the value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment, and using every opportunity to highlight and emphasize your relative advantages, whether they be price, features, or bargaining power. Train every employee to be a customer service champion. Walk the talk.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The topic of &# strategic&# investors came up. So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. They’ll pay up for it and promise much. The other strategic was a train wreck. Strategics can have some negative impacts: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Leaders who are able to optimize these find multipliers of 20 percent up to nine times the average productivity. Like most investors in startups, I rank the credentials of the team well above the value of an idea in deciding where to put my money. Time investment standards fall directly on the CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2012

There is no substitute for diving into the key details of a new startup. These executives won’t survive long in a startup environment. A diligent entrepreneur should certainly work the important details for his or her startup, especially when it comes to assessing any negative fluctuations in the business.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Coming up with a new idea, and launching your startup is one thing, three entrepreneurs do this every second. This amounts to a huge 100 million new startups launching every year. It’s less sexy, but setting up stable foundations for building a new enterprise means the difference between next-level success, and fizzing out.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

We also look for a cultural fit with Upfront, which includes the gravitas to deal with executives and founders at the startups we back as well as the other board members. We roll up our sleeves and help you do the work and analysis and try to be supportive but then we step back and you own the next move.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Fortunately, basic leadership and entrepreneurial skills can be acquired from experience and training. The world is full of high-achievers and high expectations, but without the proper framework for turning entrepreneurial determination into real leadership accomplishment, you risk going nowhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2015

Fortunately, basic leadership and entrepreneurial skills can be acquired from experience and training. The world is full of high-achievers and high expectations, but without the proper framework for turning entrepreneurial determination into real leadership accomplishment, you risk going nowhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2018

Fortunately, basic leadership and entrepreneurial skills can be acquired from experience and training. The world is full of high-achievers and high expectations, but without the proper framework for turning entrepreneurial determination into real leadership accomplishment, you risk going nowhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2014

Fortunately, basic leadership and entrepreneurial skills can be acquired from experience and training. The world is full of high-achievers and high expectations, but without the proper framework for turning entrepreneurial determination into real leadership accomplishment, you risk going nowhere.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

The panelists were JR Alaoui , CEO and co-founder of Eyeris , a deep learning and emotion recognition startup; Rob McHenry , vice president of public sector operations at PARC (and former DARPA program manager); and Leila Takayama , founder of Hoku Labs and a professor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz (formerly of GoogleX and Willow Garage).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

This applies equally to VCs, startups & big company executives. Despite the importance of creativity, there seems to be almost no focus on teaching it, encouraging it, training at it & incorporating it into our daily routines. It’s ironic because I believe creativity is the most important success criterion for a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. In a world where perhaps foreign governments start propagating false information to influence our society, guaranteeing authenticity would become a very big deal.

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