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

APRIL 11, 2022

It forces you to bridge the gap between idea and execution. The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. A business without well-defined customers is never fundable. Value propositions.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 8, 2013

MIT has come a long way in identifying tools and techniques. Explore and implement one of the many collaborative environments available through cloud computing, products from Microsoft, Google, IBM, and others. Create a document with your basic plan or idea for action. Email readers, continue here.] You can do the same.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Michael has been behind such companies as HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google) and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever). Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation. What was the big news for your company this year?

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Dollar Shave Club Userplane Tsavo Southern California 140

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

These differences are the reason that investors say that they invest in people, rather than ideas. The Google team stayed tight as they developed the technology, first working out of Larry Page’s dorm room at Stanford, then a garage. Reinforce the team message constantly: “We are one – we live or die together.”

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Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur Examples 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

One way of identifying the right characteristics and approaches is to take a hard look at entrepreneurs who have done it. They must be constantly on the lookout for new ideas and intuitively grasping their potential implications, seeing and seizing opportunities for change. What does it take to get to that level?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2019

Image via jisc 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 21, 2020

You should also use these forums to test and hone your solution idea for general acceptance, before your risk your own money and investor funds to build a shippable version. Identify misdirection can be as devastating to a business as identify theft. A positive personal brand will give your product instant credibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Examples of companies already coaching their teams on these mental strategies include Google, Starbucks, AOL, and more: Mentally be fully present and engaged in the current task. It means always paying full attention to the people, objects, and ideas around you. Presence is foundational for focus and mindfulness.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. What are your thoughts on the Google announcement? Tags: bid4spots google radio interview newmark advertising dave. Broadcast isn't like that. Sellers also have to have a win.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Examples of companies already coaching their teams on these mental strategies include Google, Starbucks, AOL, and more: Mentally be fully present and engaged in the current task. It means always paying full attention to the people, objects, and ideas around you. Presence is foundational for focus and mindfulness.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

As noted in Your Startup Ideas Should Not Be Charming , most successful entrepreneurs are haunted by their ideas and feel they must execute them before someone else beats them to the punch. Such mini-ventures, as described in Small Ideas, Big Benefits , will not only educate you, but will reduce your risk when you exit the Herd.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2020

These differences are the reason that investors say that they invest in people, rather than ideas. The Google team stayed tight as they developed the technology, first working out of Larry Page’s dorm room at Stanford, then a garage. Reinforce the team message constantly: “We are one – we live or die together.”

Technical Review 123

Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur Examples 123

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We sat down with Brett Crosby (who founded Urchin Software, the company which became Google Analytics) and Brew Johnson , the co-founders of the company, to learn more about the company and what it's working on. I came up with this idea due to a deep obsession with the mortgage industry. in a funding round.

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Southern California Google Technical Review Manhattan Beach 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

It forces you to bridge the gap between idea and execution. The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. A business without well-defined customers is never fundable. Value propositions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

I see entrepreneurs every day who are trying to change the world with a new idea, and startups that are trying to survive their hyper-growth phase by changing processes to meet demand. Just because Google sales hit $1.5 Change is hard. It’s important to separate optimism and dreams from market realities. How do I avoid scope creep?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

They regularly speaks at conferences, used to work at Google, and have other similarly impressive aspects to their background. Most of us are not Google. Identify someone who could be directly relevant to what you want to do, or who is pursuing a similar vision. I've got a lot of great ideas and things to do.

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CTO Coach Mentor Startup Technical Advisors 259

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

By the end of 2012, Rob had done a really great job of identifying the opportunity, and being a visionary on how social, local, and mobile would change how consumers engaged with brands. However, instead of just very rapidly scaling around that idea, we decided to really define what the business needed to look like.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2012

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.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Ideas Competition Startup 102

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2019

One way of identifying the right characteristics and approaches is to take a hard look at entrepreneurs who have done it. They must be constantly on the lookout for new ideas and intuitively grasping their potential implications, seeing and seizing opportunities for change. What does it take to get to that level?

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Resource Entrepreneur Social Network SpaceX 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2019

Many more, as detailed in a new book, “ Trillion Dollar Coach ,” by Google executives Eric Schmidt, Alan Eagle, and Jonathan Rosenberg, tout the value of self-proclaimed coach Bill Campbell in Silicon Valley. Give people the room to debate differences. Build community, inside and outside of work.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 15, 2014

As a response to the growing fears over internet security, Google released a new network security tool in November called nogotofail, the goal being a safer internet for everyone. The main purpose behind Google’s nogotofail network security tool is to find those applications and programs that are most vulnerable to SSL/TLS attacks.

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Tool Networking Google Web 85

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 4, 2013

According to Google Maps, it would take the average person 915 hours — or a little over 38 days — to walk from Washington D.C. That places the burden on them to move forward with their next big idea well aware that they’re likely to hit a wall of outdated regulations. to San Francisco. appeared first on TechZulu.

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Google Ideas News Technology 81

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2010

Boone Pickens; Aptera Motors , in Carlsbad, which has funding from Google and Idealab; and Phoenix MC , based in Ontario. Car makers are not the only firms in Southern California playing a role in the alternative vehicle market. A number of companies providing systems and infrastructure for the industry are also here.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2012

Upstart approaches risk capital differently, investing in youth as they wait to fuel the next generation of entrepreneurs our economy so desperately needs with their future earnings as security not the project or idea or firm as they chase their dream career in whichever field they want. Upstart received a $ 1.75

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Its novel radio hardware provides a cost-effective, plug-and-play means to identify and locate wireless devices. The startups software associates the identified people and “things” with their existing online data. That’s where they come in. They call this hyperlocal context.

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Competition Startup Social Media Software 83

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2011

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.

Startup 92

Startup Ideas Competition Demand 92

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

By early 2010, I found my stylistic voice and identified my audience of emerging entrepreneurs and thus dropped my penname. Google likes these entries, as evidenced by the significant organic traffic it consistently drives to them. Ideas Are Worthless. For the first couple years, I wrote under the pseudonym Uncle Saul.

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Newsletter Blogging Santa Barbara Content 205

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Google, Hulu, Riot Games, Demand Media, and many other big name players residing in Silicon Beach, it is no small wonder why many tech startups flock towards the sunny beach-side view. A healthy startup community needs to communicate and create new ideas together. With Yahoo!,

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

It forces you to bridge the gap between idea and execution. The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. A business without well-defined customers is never fundable. Value propositions.

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Funding Startup Activity Customer 57

InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2016

Keep An Idea Journal. As Stephen Johnson demonstrates in Where Good Ideas Come From , epiphanies are rare. Most breakthroughs result from the collision of small ideas which combine to form big ideas. Modern day entrepreneurs use Evernote, Google Keep, etc. Practice puts brains in your muscles”. Get A Coach.

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Company Companies Startup Mentor 80

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

She offers seven ways that business owners can identify and evolve with future trends, which I agree with and amplify here: Take advantage of industry research and trend reports. Use tools and analytics to identify trends and directions. Learn to accept, and even schedule change regularly.

Customer 57

Customer Custom Technical Review Software Review 57

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2015

One way of identifying the right characteristics and approaches is to take a hard look at entrepreneurs who have done it. They must be constantly on the lookout for new ideas and intuitively grasping their potential implications, seeing and seizing opportunities for change. What does it take to get to that level?

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2014

One way of identifying the right characteristics and approaches is to take a hard look at entrepreneurs who have done it. They must be constantly on the lookout for new ideas and intuitively grasping their potential implications, seeing and seizing opportunities for change. What does it take to get to that level?

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Resource Social Network SpaceX 114

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2013

He identifies the key business misperceptions of most engineers, and provides a workbook approach to provide a quick-start on various business lifecycle topics. I’ve summarized his points, and added my own, as follows: “Everyone loves ‘cool ideas’ and new technology.” Hence the pressure to deliver.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

You would think the obvious thing I would tell somebody is, “yes, of course it’s a great idea.&# You’d be surprised. In this particular case I wasn’t convinced it was a good idea from the limited information I had. Some of the ones I would identify are: Not very status oriented. Very decisive.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 384

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

What's the story behind the idea--where did it come from, and how did you decide to present it at the business plan competition? We figured--if people thought the idea was good enough to win the competition, it was probably something we should pursue. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC.

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