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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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

And I’m sure they had no idea what they were fathering with that effort which eventually became ARPANET, and then of course, the Internet itself. Yet, so far, we have the foundation, thanks to development teams at OpenAI, Google and Microsoft among others.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Now, Microsoft-owned GitHub is gearing up to remove these references to slavery by naming primary code repositories “main” instead of “master.” When racism is built into the technical framework of a company, it perpetuates a false idea that white people are superior to Black people. . These changes will go into effect on October 1.

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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. It’s amazing how quickly competitors and “me too” products can encroach on your space, after your product debuts, with account names you should have reserved.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2013

If hopelessly outdated laws are creating regulatory uncertainty for companies like SideCar, it’s easy to imagine the constant migraines Page constantly nurses as head of Google. Ideas multiply and platforms morph seemingly overnight. The post You Give Gov a Bad Name | Mechanisms to Allow Experimentation appeared first on TechZulu.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2011

I started telling people privately that I thought Google should buy Disqus for the same reasons Facebook wants to own commenting in the first place. I’m too busy this week to find all the links for you but a quick Google or TechCrunch search should reveal many. I see their faces all the time and their names. That may be.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. If you want to have a public debate then at least have the decency to do it using your real name! It’s a powerful concept.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. At this point, we’re a little over 400 people, and we manage upward of $500 million in spend on Facebook and Google, including Instagram and YouTube. But I don’t want to limit us if it’s a cool idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2020

Too many entrepreneurs I know still believe that that their great idea will carry the startup, and they may even minimize their own value, especially if they have introvert tendencies. Yet most investors agree that the “idea” is worth nothing alone, and it’s the entrepreneur execution that counts.

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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. They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. just to name a few! For starters, a16z was only 2 years old then (as was Bitcoin).

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

Soon, Discord could become dominant, even before an entire generation of millennials even knows the name. Sometimes, it is just the right idea to brand your product inside that of a known presence. Google became an overnight industry standard for search strictly by word of mouth, never spending a dime on advertising in its early years.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The idea immediately resonated. As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2022

In my experience as a business advisor and angel investor these days, I seem to more frequently hear from entrepreneurs and business owners with “can’t-fail” or “get-rich-quick” ideas. including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. The instant gratification approach just doesn’t work in business.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

As the founder of an accelerator, I'm constantly being approached by ambitious people with big ideas, and generally we invest in 1/100th of what comes to us. Finally, Google. Google continues to shape our futures. It is the number one reason why entrepreneurs have to pivot on their ideas and why small businesses fail quickly.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

There were senior members from Facebook and Google. Paddy got the idea to invite a bunch of founders together in an anti-conference that just focused on building founder relationships and sharing war stories. Getting names of marquee speakers would obviously draw a good crowd from across Europe. Why Was my Visit So Valuable?

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2015

We recently ran into Page Howe , the Chief Engagement Officer for the.LA (www.la) domain name extension, who sat down with us and told us about why he's out making the rounds with community groups and events, promoting the use of.LA domain name, and we caught up with him to hear more about why he things everyone should get their own.LA

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Because GoTo.com was his idea. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. But bill is a BIG idea guy. Google had huge destination traffic. Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). Finally, I HATE the name. It kicked Google Video’s ass.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! What if Google had paid attention to Dodgeball – would there be no FourSquare today? But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea. I’ve kept it up for 2 years.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2015

What if searching for people to recruit to your company was as easy as running a search in Google? That's the idea behind Connectifier (www.connectifier.com), an Orange County-based startup led by John Jersin --whose founders and many of its employees have come from Google, Amazon, and other companies where search is a part of their DNA.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

He is a unique human being with original thoughts & ideas and very limited concern for having to fit into other people’s narratives. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. I hate Silicon Whatever.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. Yes, Google won. Google’s Ad Sense did, too.

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Xconomy

JULY 8, 2019

Right alongside Moore’s Law, which describes the exponential growth in computing power since the 1960s, there’s Metcalfe’s Law, which describes what we’ve done with all that power: namely, use it to connect the world. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Outgoing, full of creative ideas, and certainly the best person to teach us how, here is Kim on networking… By Kim Shepherd . To find out who will be there, Google last year’s event to find pictures and articles. Get the person’s name, exchange pleasantries, and move on. You can circle back in a while.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2021

Yet, I find them often jumping to the forefront, with many notable successes , including Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, and Arianna Huffington (Greece) at the Huffington Post. I find that most new business innovations are ideas from one discipline or culture, applied to another.

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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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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Over the past decade, startups that have been part of the Startup of the Year programs have made new partnerships, grown into household names, and collectively raised billions of dollars in funding. “We had never pitched in front of others and had no idea what was expected. And we’re so glad we did! Startup of the Year!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

In this age of relationships, you, the entrepreneur, are a very important element of your new brand, and it’s never too early to start marketing the value of your expertise, insights and ideas. After a few blogs about your concept, the comments better match your passion, or it’s time to rethink your idea.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Ideation & Protecting Ideas. Pick a company name and check any potential trademark infringements on Trademarkia or KnowEm. Determine whether your business name needs to be trademarked, and if does Trademark it at the USPTO. Vet your idea with the idea checklist. Learn how to select a good business name.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We see the stories of young founders leaving college with a big idea, going to work in their garage, and building something that changes the world. For example, Google was already a big company when Paul Buchheit was unhappy with the capabilities of external email for internal communications at Google.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

You can issue multiple numbers at one time, give each of them a name, and each of them operates as a standby, private line on your iPhone. Where'd the idea come from? The idea was that prominent people who might have a small following might post their availability to chat for 20, 40, or 60 minutes to Twitter of Facebook.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 27, 2013

Google challenged several global brands last year to take their most famous commercials and re-create them as digital campaigns. Execs at Google had imagined that interactive technology would open up new possibilities in advertising, so they decided to prime the pump with Project Re:Brief. Guest article by Hannah Murphy of BlueFirePR.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

The constraint between good ideas and growth operates in both directions. It’s not merely that you need a scalable idea to grow. If you have such an idea and don’t grow fast enough, competitors will. Not Google. “Why do founders want to take the VCs’ money? Growth, again. million and then $5.9

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2019

In my experience as a business advisor and angel investor these days, I seem to more frequently hear from entrepreneurs and business owners with “can’t-fail” or “get-rich-quick” ideas. including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. The instant gratification approach just doesn’t work in business.

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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. From Why Every Startup Founder Needs a Mentor - And How to Find One Don’t just fall in love with someone’s reputation, perceived celebrity or name.

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