socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Our interview this morning is with James Borow , the co-founder of Pepper Financial (www.trypepper.com), a startup which is creating a new set of tools to help businesses grow smarter. We have a broad list of people who were influential in Snap, and who are really helpful with Pepper.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2016

Have you noticed that the really big startup wins in the last couple of decades have come from creating and dominating new market categories, more than just new solutions? Bold entrepreneurs put more effort into communicating the new market ecosystem value, and their natural product fit. But now I believe that times have changed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In reality, based on my experience as a startup advisor and investor, these constraints lead the best entrepreneurs to the most innovative solutions and new markets otherwise overlooked by their peers and competitors. Share constraint info and ask team to help. Adopt alternative business models to address challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

For example, TOMS shoes inspired everyone by highlighting and effectively communicating a higher purpose from founder Blake Mycoskie of helping the needy by donating a pair of shoes for every pair sold. Everyone needs to understand what drives you, and how they can help you achieve your purpose. People need to see you as a person.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Purpose defines the feeling that everyone wants to have from helping others and doing good for the world. Developing the ideal product the first time around is unlikely, high risk, and very expensive in today’s chaotic market. Open sharing also increases market acceptance of new products and expedites support infrastructures.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

It’s hard to remember that in 2012 it was still hard for LA VCs to persuade investors into funds that LA was a viable market for great venture capital funds or convince many VCs that LA was a market worth investing dollars into startups. but we also helped launch the entire aerospace industry with Hughes Aircraft and others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2021

Dominate or create the market category you seek. Investors are most impressed with entrepreneurs who are part futurists and part prophets, with insights to see “around the corner,” and innovation and production plans to get there first, even in a today’s rapidly changing market. Convince people the market needs what you have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

There are lots of resources available to entrepreneurs in the industry, but they are not necessarily that easy to access, whether that's deep insight into how to work with the government or with NASA, or how to work with the big primes, we felt that we could help create that resource. Mattt Kozlov: Yes, it's a three month format.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2016

There are a few entrepreneurs who seem to always be ahead of the rest, and are able to sense where the market is going tomorrow. Elon Musk seems to be highest on this list these days, with his record-setting order rate on the new Tesla Model 3 all-electric car, and well as groundbreaking progress on SpaceX and SolarCity.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

The billionaire SpaceX chief certainly knows how to build an AI company, having co-founded ChatGPT owner OpenAI back in 2015, only to sell his stake three years due to a perceived conflict of interest with his electric vehicle company Tesla.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2020

I’m convinced that it’s a lot more than the foibles of any specific market, availability of funding, and just luck of the draw. I find business people all around me who are working hard to make more money, when what they really want is a work-life balance that allows them to enjoy family and help others.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

While some of the largest privately held technology companies, like SpaceX and Tesla , have shifted to manufacturing ventilators, smaller companies are also trying to pitch in and relieve scarcity locally. “As soon as we get the green light from hospitals, 10,000 printers around the world can be printing face shields and nose swabs.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Elon Musk has built several innovative companies, including SpaceX and Tesla Motors, and is worth about $185 billion. In it he explains how the power of entrepreneurial action helps people create what they want in an uncertain world. Acting leads to a market reaction, which could take you in another direction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

For example, no one should be convinced that Elon Musk is following someone else’s lead as he charges ahead with Tesla, SpaceX, and other initiatives. It can help you be right when, without expert help, you might fail. In many cases, the challenge may just be your ability to market yourself, and what you know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

The simple solution I recommend to inventors is to find a partner who can focus on business and marketing, while you focus on technology. Understanding what drives customers to buy, in different market segments and cultures, is usually just as challenging as creating and combining technology to deliver function.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2022

As an example, Elon Musk , while best known for his success with Tesla electric vehicles, continues to make forays into other transportation alternatives, with SpaceX, Hyperloop, and others. Tap the wisdom of elders and the Board to help the business. He is known for his bold mindset, and an all-in commitment to his visions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2019

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2020

Most successful startups I know were built by a team, rather than a lone entrepreneur, so don’t be afraid to ask for help. He used his expertise on rocket ships to sell the future potential in interviews, blogs, and public speaking opportunities, long before he started SpaceX as a company. Your name is your brand to make your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2019

I’m convinced this is happening because most companies don’t have the courage to keep up with the escalating rate of change in the market today. These will help steer you away from decisions that might look attractive for short-term success, but detrimental for the long term. Business as usual is no longer good enough.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

In the last two years, Starship’s name has been coming up a lot as a delivery partner helping companies get food order to customers at a time when delivery drivers were in shorter supply, people wanted to move around less, and generally come into less contact with humans. We are chasing delivery services around the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

And space travel (SpaceX). His goal in the second project is to help humans avoid extinction. Debate helps everybody learn as I wrote about here. Raising Venture Capital Tech Market Analysis' He was interested in a few other big ideas. Energy independence (so he founded Tesla and Solar City). by Dorrian Porter.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We provide an event and experiential marketing platform. What that means, is we have a software tool, used primarily by companies who are putting on events for marketing reasons. Our clients are large, Fortune 1000 companies, like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Nike, JP Morgan, Lamborghini, and SpaceX. It's a marketing experience.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 29, 2019

Equidate, one of the trading platforms that help employees sell their shares in pre-IPO unicorn companies, rolled out a new name today and announced a $35 million expansion of its $50 million funding round publicized in July. By creating a secondary market for private shareholders, companies like Forge Global can.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2015

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2014

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

” – Elon Musk, Founder Tesla Motors and SpaceX. Nothing they learned (at Business School) will help them succeed at innovation.” In addition, successful consumer ventures serve extremely large and lucrative markets, making them attractive for MBA’s driven by out-sized outcomes. “When M.B.A.’s

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2017

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2014

Elon Musk has built several innovative companies, including SpaceX and Tesla Motors, and is worth about $12 billion. In it he explains how the power of entrepreneurial action helps people create what they want in an uncertain world. Acting leads to a market reaction, which could take you in another direction.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

We'll be launching two new programs early in the new year that will help emerging brands and manufacturing founders connect with the resources they need to scale in LA; stay tuned for some announcements early in 2018. (If What are you looking forward to most in 2018? If you are interested in partnering or sponsoring, let us know.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Rather than punish them, it may pay you to nurture and manage their outside-the-box thinking, and capitalize on their innovations that help your customers and keep you ahead of the competition. Exhibit market awareness and a drive to win. Excel at calculating risk and making thoughtful bets.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

” When Elon Musk set out to build SpaceX he wasn’t greeted with enthusiasm from the space community not used to having a private enterprise challenge the government funded space exploration of NASA. And I hope the skeptics will join in from a perspective of “how can we help?” And that is what we’ll do.”

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

Joining him on the panel was Kimbal Musk, CEO of The Kitchen Community and co-founder of PayPal and SpaceX. Since its launch last year, BMe has identified and invested in over 70 leaders, helping over 130,000 people have a positive impact on their communities. Education & Tech.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In a recent interview, Goldenberg stated that the online apparel market was a “bigger than $100 billion” business and that his company and others like it were poised to “take market share from traditional retailers”. Given Goldenberg’s Internet marketing prowess, I’m sure JustFab will continue to shape online retail for years to come.

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