Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2019

Image by Origa via Wikipedia I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Larry is the primary thinker about the company’s future direction, and still weighs in heavily on key hiring decisions. It didn’t disappoint me.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

.” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. I have thought a lot about anonymity over the years and actually have enjoyed debating the topic with those passionate about anonymity’s benefits because of course that’s how I learn.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. We talked with Walter Grieves , who is working on ROC's Community Integration efforts, about the space and what's happening there.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Google, it’s worth noting, is doing something similar with its Mobile Edge Cloud. The general idea here — and that’s not dissimilar from what Google, Microsoft and others are now doing — is to bring AWS to the edge and to do so in a variety of form factors. Google, meanwhile, is betting big on Anthos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In my experience, consummate entrepreneurs tend come up with more startup ideas than they can ever implement, and some of the ideas may not even make business sense. But how does any entrepreneur know which ideas to implement, and which ones are best left behind? Separate nice-to-have ideas from ones solving painful problems.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). no, I''m not talking about SVB, Comerica, Square1 and the like.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

In my experience, consummate entrepreneurs tend come up with more startup ideas than they can ever implement, and some of the ideas may not even make business sense. But how does any entrepreneur know which ideas to implement, and which ones are best left behind? Separate nice-to-have ideas from ones solving painful problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Brands book is based on the implementation of nine principles of innovation originally developed by Google way back in 2008 by Marissa Mayer. Entrepreneurs should look for ideas from anyone, inside the organization or outside, top down or bottoms up, but the implementation responsibility is all yours.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. contextual text ads (e.g. It’s for all of us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Every startup begins with an idea, but from that point forward, it’s all about execution. Founders soon learn that customers only spend real money for solutions rather than ideas. Investors have also learned not to invest in ideas but only in entrepreneurs and teams who can deliver solutions. But Google is not unique.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2022

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Larry is the primary thinker about the company’s future direction, and still weighs in heavily on key hiring decisions. Google now employs about 140,000 people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2013

Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

I have a certain friend who called me a while back, all excited about his latest revelation. I’m sure you all realize that there could be quite a distance between a great idea and a great startup. Use Google or one of the many other search engines to search for existing solutions to this problem. No idea is worth that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2017

Potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, but there is no market for ideas. I’m often approached by people with a “million dollar idea,” but I haven’t seen anyone pay that for one yet. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2017

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Larry is the primary thinker about the company’s future direction, and weighs in heavily on key hiring decisions. Google now employs about twenty thousand people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Brands book is based on the implementation of nine principles of innovation originally developed by Google way back in 2008 by Marissa Mayer. Entrepreneurs should look for ideas from anyone, inside the organization or outside, top down or bottoms up, but the implementation responsibility is all yours.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2011

I have a certain friend who called me again a while back, all excited about his latest revelation. I’m sure you all realize that there could be quite a distance between a great idea and a great startup. Use Google or one of the many other search engines to search for existing solutions to this problem. No idea is worth that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2012

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Larry is the primary thinker about the company’s future direction, and weighs in heavily on key hiring decisions. Google now employs about twenty thousand people.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. We operate at scale and speed unprecedented in human history.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2019

The law proposes that the value of a network increases in proportion to the square of the number of endpoints—an idea that turns out to. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2011

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Larry is the primary thinker about the company’s future direction, and weighs in heavily on key hiring decisions. Google now employs about twenty thousand people.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 31, 2013

Drew Baumann got his lucky hands on Google’s ongoing project, Google Glass. We get in touch with Drew and talk about his new BEAM app, Google Glasses, and the future of tech. I thought Google Glasses was allowing people to easily share life’s moment through YouTube. How hard was it to work on the Google Glass?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Most entrepreneurs dream of achieving the exponential expansion of a Google or Amazon, but few investor pitches I see outline any strategy beyond simple marketing to make this happen. Get your community involved in both the idea and the delivery. Why not make your idea an unstoppable movement, and not just a business?

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. What can you tell us about MuteSix as an agency? Greg Gillman: We’ve been around for about nine years. For agencies that work with large brands, usually it’s more about impression buying versus performance buying.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

[Email readers, continue here…] Innovators make use of golden strands of opportunity left when the unfinished vision of another cries for completion, or when a genuine new concept changes the very way people think about their lives. What about Edison, Bell and tesla? ARPANET becomes the Internet.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I roughly know about MakeItWork, but tell me a bit about where you spend your time day-to-day. Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. It’s something I speak about quite a bit (see Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospects and Social Media for Service Professionals ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

Take a deeper dive into your idea before you declare. High-level ideas rarely make good business solutions. From the work and feedback, you will learn much on how your solution will fare with customers, before building the product Tap expert sources in other domains for ideas. He is quoted as saying, “I have not failed.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

They were early to that idea: Danna describes it as “creator tools for YouTube before YouTube built them itself,” and he said they came up with the idea for Boulevard out of a joke between them. “We started obsessing about this,” Danna went on. Things then took an investigative, plainclothes turn.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. When the early teams: angels, lowercase capital & first round capital funded Uber they had no idea it would be one of the most revolutionary ideas of our time. Far from it. It was an early and smart bet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Everyone knows that startups are risky, but they also expect that the job will be exciting and potentially very lucrative (think early employees at Facebook and Google). Yet we have all heard stories about the high turnover, unstructured work environment, lower base pay, and unpredictable expectations from the top.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2010

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Larry is the primary thinker about the company’s future direction, and weighs in heavily on key hiring decisions. Google now employs about twenty thousand people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In my efforts of assist aspiring business owners like you, I find that too many see it as a short sprint to get over that one hurdle, like finding that innovative idea, or attracting an investor. A few years ago, Google went on a quest to understand how the right teams lead to success. The shift – break away from dreaming to action.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2016

(www.science-inc.com), the startup �studio� led by former MySpace CEO and technology veteran Mike Jones , just saw its third acquisition out of its portfolio this year�the acquisition of FameBit by Google/Youtube. Mike Jones: (chuckles) I think I get the feeling that Google chooses you, and you don't choose them, in a weird way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2021

In my own view, the recovering pandemic economy is ripe for new startups, but successful startups are more about the right person, than the right idea or the right climate. It does mean you have a compelling new business idea, and a willingness to face risk. This is a necessary, but not sufficient reason to start a business now.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 31, 2013

As an investor and a civic duty geek, I’m excited about the promise Garcetti holds for the city. The core idea behind the event is to tap into the hacker spirit in each community in a way that leverages the latest tech and open data to strengthen our democracy and communities across the country. Not a coder?

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Berkonomics

MARCH 24, 2016

Dave’s note: This week we welcome guest author, David Friedman, to tell us about his favorite startup CEO, and his take after interviewing her – asking for her list of attributes for startup success. . Selling is required whether it is for sales of the company’s products or selling the business idea to investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2021

If you are the first to deliver this, your startup might be the next Google! If you add the next generation of natural language processing (NLP), you will be able to ask Google Voice Search or Apple Siri the questions right through your smart phone. Just think of the fertile ground all this opens for startups!

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