Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. This is something Ive always wondered about. Theres many good companys that will never turn into a $100M VC kind of company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Every entrepreneur starts by accepting the reality that you have a rare mindset of joy of discovery, with an intense curiosity about how certain things or people work, or why a new technology hasn’t yet been accepted. This place is often called an incubator or accelerator, or just a group of peers. The right culture is the key.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace.

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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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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

We sat down with David and Allen to learn more about how the company wants to change how startups are created. How is this different than accelerator or incubator? David Carter: There is a lot of misunderstanding on what an incubator is, and what an accelerator is. Explain exactly how Zuma Ventures works?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

Although sports purists would no doubt quibble about the impact expansion has had on professional sports, most fans agree that the overall talent level has remained relatively constant, despite the significant increase in the number of professional athletes. In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

Then we discussed how they could go about finding this startup business advisor. Advisor Generally when I talk about startup mentors and advisors, I distinguish them in terms of: Mentor focus is You: The marketing person above is looking for someone to help them with their personal challenge. Most of us are not Google.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Elementary Robotics was co-founded by Bill Gross, the brains behind an increasingly resurgent Idealab incubator, and Arye Barnehama, a former head of design at the augmented reality startup DAQRI. After about a year of research, the company launched with an initial investment of $1.2

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The service--currently only available on iPhone and Android--allows users to find reviews and information about consumer electronics products. We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. Mickie Rosen: The link really is financial.

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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. . Kirsten is the founder of ChickLabs , an incubator that focuses on helping primarily women entrepreneurs.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

There were regular events where experts talked about: fund raising, term sheets, constructing a team, product development, establishing biz dev partners, M&A, dealing with the press, etc. But wait, does that make Launchpad LA an incubator now? There are at least 6 incubators now being set up in LA.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. Can you talk a bit about your prior background? How did the incubation part come about?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. I don’t believe it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I’m sure all of you have friends who are not happy in their employee roles, and are not shy about complaining, but never seem to get around to doing anything about it. They can cite all the myths about being too old to change, not having the money, or no business degree. Most successful startups spring from local incubators.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Tell me a bit about your background. I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. And what do you think about the controversy about stealth vs. not for startups? It sounds interesting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

What''s interesting about ad-tech, is that with the exception of AdaptTV and AOL, there''s not a lot of large buyers out there for ad-tech companies. Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. How about mergers and acquisitions?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. Most VCs are book smart. But don’t over index on brains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Currently, there are about 250 micro-VC firms , including such notable names as Mike Maples of FloodGate Fund. Startup incubator seed funding. While an accelerator offers a specific program to startups for a fixed period of time, usually 90 days to four months, incubators tend to be more open-ended.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

We caught up with serial entrepreneur Greg Cohn , who brought us up to speed on what Burner is about, and the story behind the app. Let's talk first about your app. I was also very involved in the strategy on Yahoo's Brickhouse incubation effort. succeed as a technology community, and have been excited about that.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

We sat down with Steve to chat about what the Alliance is working on, and why he decided to champion the growth of the technology industry here. Tell us what the Alliance is all about? I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. I love the place.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2012

A few days ago, Wallaby ([link] the latest startup out of Los Angeles technology incubator MuckerLab unveiled itself, to solve just that problem. We spoke with founder Matthew Goldman about the startup. That really helped me understand a lot about payments. What is Wallaby? We went through our major growth when I was there.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

It’s about as close as you can get to a macro-level crystal ball for the tech industry, expressed through a rapidfire string of insights from the minds of some of tech’s biggest investors, founders, and gamechangers. Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

Google has the Googleplex, its campus in Mountain View, CA, with 3.1 About eight miles south, Apple has its headquarters at One Infinite Loop in Cupertino, CA, with an additional, spaceship-shaped campus that is more than a mile around expected to open by next year. The company moved in about four weeks ago.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. Jeff was tweeting about needing help organizing and promoting the upcoming #140conf LA Meetup. About a month ago, I met @lewishowes at the Perfect Pitch conference in LA.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

You also might enjoy hearing him talk about his background – including the fact that he was actually the executive assistant for Condoleezza Rice during one of the more historic and controversial periods of time in recent history! On the show I’ll I could get him to talk about was his travels on Air Force One.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Especially fun when you get him telling stories about his pilot experiences. So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas. Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day. Actually, I’ve done this!

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Facebook, Google, Zynga, (can we count Disney Interactive?), Peek left Freshbooks to work with boutique UX design firm, Jet Cooper , which is another major staple to the Toronto tech scene.With a team of about 20 designers, Jet Cooper is well known in their city for their work. Next thing I know, my ticket is booked.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups. Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Since then it has become much harder to find people and while we are talking about hiring relatively small numbers of people, the typical sources of candidates dont seem to be working.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. If you’re not even spending any time thinking about what your market could be you’re simply being lazy and unprepared. Let me be very direct. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Talking about whether to raise more money or not, their VC allegedly said to them: “If you had more capital, could you get to the future faster? Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete. Will (many more) millions help you get five years into one?

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