socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

The firm said its Q4 was "a record quarter" for the firm, which provides software-as-a-service tools for helping business teams manage projects and work. Garcia said that with the economic downturn and layoffs, he suspects there's been a push towards more virtual workers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

It makes it easier to persuade others to join you, it alerts other angels & VCs that you’re a company to be on their radar screen, it helps potential customers know that you may be worth doing business with and it builds you up to announce other milestones down the line. They help create confidence amongst your staff in your future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. This world changes rapidly and needs a highly focused specialist to keep up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2013

examines and analyses this entrepreneurial revolution to reveal critical lessons every Gen-Y entrepreneur and marketer must learn. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Past layoffs at big companies usually means more great employees on the market now for newer companies.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2016

Drone maker 3D Robotics , the high profile, consumer drone maker, has closed its San Diego offices and is now refocusing on the enterprise market, according to a number of reports. The shutdown of 3D Robotics' San Diego offices also sees the loss of 3D Robotics co-founder Jordi Munoz, who helped founded the drone maker in San Diego.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). And being populist helps that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2012

examines and analyses this entrepreneurial revolution to reveal critical lessons every Gen-Y entrepreneur and marketer must learn. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Past layoffs at big companies mean that there's a surplus of great employees on the market now. Snap up top talent.

Entrepreneur 93

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

San Diego-based Somaxon Pharmaceuticals , a developer of sleep medication, said today that it has cut 60 percent of its non-field based employees, and has hired a financial advisor to help sell the company. The firm said it has hired Stifel Nicolaus Weisel to help in "strategic alternatives", and cut its staff to minimize its cash burn rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2013

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. Neither banks nor investors will help you on this one. If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2020

Grega longtime veteran of venture investingalso shared his thoughts on the current pandemic, how investors are viewing the current market, and what startups can do now to survive through these unusual times. Tell us what you're up to now? Greg Martin: I raised a fund called LiquidStock, with three partners. We closed in January of 2019.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. This world changes rapidly and needs a highly focused specialist to keep up.

Entrepreneur 89

Entrepreneur Services Product Search Engine Optimization 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2016

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. Neither banks nor investors will help you on this one. If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs.

Startup 64

Startup Sales Layoffs Slides 64

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2010

It might be a VP of Sales, Marketing or Technology. better yet, they’ve said, &# help me understand what we could improve so you’d be happier staying&#. So you have more experience in helping to manage the process. Trust me, if they were doing layoffs they wouldn’t keep you an extra month just to be nice.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

A small percentage of people in each free-market society generate the jobs for everyone else. Thus, you can pursue new markets that are further from the mainstream and too small to interest a BDC. Looking for small ventures will help you open your eyes to the myriad of opportunities that surround you. What is the market?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. I went on to Oversee.net, and helped to build that company from 60 to 250 employees. Josh Stomel: We're seeing more and more layoffs every day.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 6, 2013

One, they are trying to help the industry fill unsold seats in a way that it doesn’t hurt their business. Marketing that our tickets are on sale is a huge problem and in the live entertainment/sport industry, that’s just bad. The other is to make sure we help that industry fill those seats up without hurting their business.

Startup 79

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2010

examines and analyses this entrepreneurial revolution to reveal critical lessons every Gen-Y entrepreneur and marketer must learn. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Past layoffs at big companies mean that there's a surplus of great employees on the market now. Snap up top talent.

Startup 51

Startup Geni Layoffs Entrepreneur 51

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2010

transferring to a different group with a new boss or talking about the issue with senior person at your company who may be able to help) then by all means move on. I’ve already covered some such as changing geographies, going through layoffs, changing career direction, etc. Are there any exceptions to your job hopping rule?

Startup 285

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. This world changes rapidly and needs a highly focused specialist to keep up.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Startup SEM 48

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 6, 2013

One is to help the industry fill unsold seats in a way that doesn’t hurt business like traditional discounts. This is a huge deal to a half a billion dollar industry market that our tickets are on sale. The other is to make sure we help that industry fill those seats up without hurting their business. What is ScoreBig?

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

. —In other news from the moonshot day, Biden warned researchers in academia and industry that they would risk losing federal funding if they didn’t follow the law and report their clinical trial results to the public ClinicalTrials.gov database… IBM said it would deploy its Watson systems to help the U.S.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

So, how is it you ended up going from a technology infrastructure entrepreneur at SkyPipeline, to the consumer market with Visalus? I'm an operator, and I know about firing, hiring, layoffs, shutting things down, opening this up, expanding, scaling, and how you go through doing all of that. Execution is everything.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

In a related move, the company said that it has engaged the services of Lazard to help the firm develop and implements its business divsestiture strategy. NextWave was originally a buyer of government radio spectrum, but instead went on to develop semiconductors for the wireless market. READ MORE>>

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