Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2013

How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business ,” was one of the first to predict that Gen-Y would lead the charge, bounce back from the recession, and be big winners. But the insights I see from her book and elsewhere are equally applicable to startup founders of all ages, and businesses of all ages. Snap up top talent.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

The evening cocktail party was an 80’s theme and lived up to the traditional Twiistup fame with an open bar, elaborate costumes, Hollywood lighting and poker games until 4 in the morning. The tone of the panel was set by David’s announcement that he was relocating to Silicon Valley (and dragging Geni & Yammer with him).

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The Obama administration wants to speed up cancer research with its “Cancer Moonshot” program—packing 10 years’ worth of work on prevention and treatment programs into five is one of its rallying cries. The FDA agreed this summer to reorganize the way it evaluates drugs, diagnostics, and other cancer-related products.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

Enterprise Software sucks, and if you’re an engineer or product designer, we invite you to join this hackathon to reinvent business 2 business software. The goal is to take the complicated out of softwares like CRMs and project management tools and turn them in to simple, beautiful and usable products. Second Prize: $500.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2009

Santa Monica-based GumGum , the online startup headed by Ophir Tanz which licenses photos on a CPM basis to online publishers, confirmed it had raised $2.6M Advisors to the firm include David Sacks of Geni (formerly of PayPal) and Vince Thompson (formerly of AOL and Facebook).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2010

How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business ,” seems certain that Gen-Y will lead the charge, trounce the recession, and be big winners. But the insights I see from her book and elsewhere are equally applicable to startup founders of all ages, and businesses of all ages. Snap up top talent.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 7, 2020

While the companies that occupy its offices may be sharing spaces, its the regular communication and meet ups that make the ‘vibe' of the Labs offices. Designed to inspire, motivate productivity and promote ways to thrive digitally. These events are key to the Labs approach to fostering a sense of community in its spaces.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2012

How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business ,” seems certain that Gen-Y will lead the charge, bounce back from the recession, and be big winners. But the insights I see from her book and elsewhere are equally applicable to startup founders of all ages, and businesses of all ages. Snap up top talent.

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Entrepreneur Geni Layoffs Outsource 93

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Despite the fact that he can create things on Autodesk’s Maya that their own software designers may have never have dreamed up (or more accurately, that only a few people on this Earth can), being a ‘big wig’ was never May’s intention. Every film starts with a script; CG, live action, student short, the script is the bed frame.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 1, 2011

And what better way to ring in the new year then to give companies the chance to highlight their hard work and amazing product through TechZulu's Spotlight: LA Tech event. Happy New Year everyone! Visit TechZulu for full story.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Will Hsu, Chief Product Officer for AT&T Interactive Jordan Rohan, Managing Director of Equity Research, Internet and Digital Media, Thomas Weisel Partners. Should media companies offer their content on an ad-supported basis or get users to pay up front? Derek Merrill, VP Product, MoVoxx. .

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. He uses his former home, a just-under 900-square-foot beach bungalow two blocks away, to house Facebook employees visiting from up north. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Lately the topic of leadership & teams has been coming up a lot in my daily life. Some investors are team focused, others market focused, others seems to look for product / market fit. Only then can I even care about product, market or their nebulous “fit.&#. They even fund people with no product. Dig deeper.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

They were a movement in England during the Industrial Revolution who had the objective of ruining machinery that was used to build products at scale. They thought factories were a threat to custom assembly of products and ultimately to the agrarian way of life (as more people were moving to urban environments).

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