Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Even though I’m a big proponent of becoming an entrepreneur, it is definitely not for everyone. One would keep a regular job, with medical benefits and normal work hours, while the other was deep in a startup. They rationalize the chaos, long hours, and small paychecks from a startup in the short-term. Then be one later.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The idea, the company says, is to bring convenience and afforability of a Netflix movie service to the auto industry. The first vehicle will have enough room for seven people, with the interior space of a large sport utility vehicle in a car with the footprint of a small compact car, the company says. driver positions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2021

I started advice with the premise that no amount of exercise or food eating plan would help with long-term fitness or weight goals unless you first had a mental plan and a set of measurements to track your progress. It might work for you or at least you can use some of my ideas to find ones that work better for you. It was inspiring.

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socalTECH

MAY 1, 2019

What's the best way to get legal advice, if you're a small business? The startup offers up legal advice for just $59 per month for small business owners, matching them with business attorneys for legal work and one-on-one advice. They then require a big, upfront retainer. We caught up with Brian to hear more about the startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Some projects are big and long-term, while others are small and more tactical. When you identify a skills gap or feel you need additional expertise or insight, signing up on-demand help is the only timely solution. This team of specialist consultants is then easily tuned as your strategy evolves based on the market.

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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. Where are you at Pepper Financial now?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

He said he wanted to found this company (he had founded a previous company that sold for about $300 million) because he thought the Internet was a big idea. He was interested in a few other big ideas. His goal in the second project is to help humans avoid extinction. And space travel (SpaceX). by Dorrian Porter.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

That carried through to March, where the big theme is Artificial Intelligence in the enterprise. I got started in investment banking, focused on helping medical companies buy technology companies, and then later in the enterprise space and in the cloud. What really struck me about everyone on the stage, was how big their vision was.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

While the idea was great, they failed on execution. As your startup starts to generate returns, you will recognize the pressure of quarterly revenue goals, with qualified big customer prospects needing just one more small change to close. Narcissus complex – look inward to see what helps.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

Craig has recently uncloaked his stealth startup, BetterWorks (www.betterworks.com), focused on helping companies to manage and offer fringe benefits to their employees. Part of being an investor is questioning the ideas of founders. I sold a small piece of the firm, and traveled for awhile.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2019

How do you reduce or eliminate the huge amount of chemicals farmers need today in farming for crops such as corn, soybean, or milo -- and help overcome the growing resistance of weeds to those chemicals? Clint Brauer: We did something different, is we came up with a small, robotic swarm approach. The issue, however, is weeds.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Andrew Connell: DinnerDate.com is small group dating. Where'd the idea for DinnerDate.com come from? The idea really came from looking at the dating industry online. We wanted to use the Internet to make things easy and help create initial connections. It's trying to help people solve a problem they are passionate about.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

Startup tech businesses used to land on the scene with big ideas about how their tech could change the world. Facebook, for example, decided in 2008 that its mission was to “help you connect and share with the people in your life.” Are Startups Running Out of Big Ideas? What About the Money?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 17, 2015

With small budgets, limited staff and inexperience, they somehow have to find a way to make a name for themselves, and compete against much bigger organizations. Big data offers many promises in a number of different industries, but does it have the ability to help small businesses? Big Data Analytics.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Well, Los Angeles-based KarmaGoat (www.karmagoat.com) has figured out a way to help people get rid of those unwanted items they have--and provide those proceeds to charity. Where did the idea come from? That allowed me to take a summer to develop the new idea, and transform it into a business. It has been really amazing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2019

For over 25 years, he has failed his way to success in his own businesses, and helped transform large and small companies along the way. Too often fear of failure is rationalized as waiting for the perfect opportunity, a better time, or less risky idea. Start out with small steps that lean into your uncertainty and discomfort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2019

Visit some banks for the best rate and repayment plan that will help your business weather the financial storm. Chances are that you will find some items you can sell, or property to mortgage, to help alleviate your short-term cash flow problems. If you have employees on your payroll, enlist their help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

Thus I recommend that every business publish a website and start a blog even before they have a product to sell, enabling the following benefits: Get Google to work for you in highlighting your site. Market your ideas and expertise early for customer feedback. Let them find and appreciate you.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Most people don't want injectsion, radio frequency, or ultrasounds, and it helps that we can work with pregnant women. Most of the money in the space space, all the big players, sell cosmetics and things like Botox, and there are a bunch of companies manufacturing equipment which they sell from $30,000 to $50,0000.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 21, 2010

Almost all of us know that starting a small business can be fun, exciting and thrilling, however it can also be downright scary. The owners of any beginning small business know the meaning of bootstrapping; keep every penny, hold on to each dollar, and in general, save until the revenue is consistently flowing in.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

As such, none of us had the benefit of your TMP classes (laughs). Our team formed around the idea that wearable technology needed to dramatically improve. These small molecules are byproducts of body and organ function and can provide dozens of health-related biomarkers, without a single drop of blood.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The idea is to help improve the function of failing livers, a stopgap measure that could extend the lives of patients on the U.S. For its drug-testing business, Organovo makes small dollops of liver tissue that are only about a quarter-inch in diameter. liver transplant waiting list. Organovo Bioprinter (Organovo photo).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. Nobody really knows whether or not the idea is yet going to be big, so I believe in not over capitalizing too early. This benefits you, the entrepreneur. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I believe that first-time entrepreneurs also benefit hugely from working in close proximity to other companies. I once mentioned this idea to a fellow SoCal VC when I told him I wanted a CIC in LA and he said, “Co-location is dead. But the real benefits of being somewhere like the CIC is this interaction between entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2015

Making big money is usually the last thing on their mind, and most are happy living on Ramen noodles in a sparse apartment. The common term for this is networking, but I find that many aspiring entrepreneurs like to do all the talking about their latest new idea and fail to listen. Start your own small business.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

A small percentage of people in each free-market society generate the jobs for everyone else. 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. Exercise I: Weekly Business Idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Now you can match a big company with worldwide reach for a few thousand dollars. This will keep financial and legal liabilities away from your personal assets, but won’t cost you the big initial cost and ongoing time and fees of a C-corporation. Of course, not all new startup ideas can be developed this way, so pick an idea that fits.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We naturally progressed into live events, their passionate fan base, and to the venues themselves, where we are helping fans to navigate game day or the event day experience. We wanted to let people connect with even minor league teams, small market pro teams, college, everybody. Everyone benefits from the collective experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2014

Investors tell me that they invest in people more than the idea. Branding guru Catherine Kaputa, in “ Breakthrough Branding ,” confirms that branding is all about building a recognizable identity, and associating it with benefits and positive consequences. Customers buy from people, not from a company, at least at early startup stages.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Most people suck at presenting to big groups. You’re not lecturing to a college class, you’re not at a cocktail party and you’re not chatting with a small group in a board meeting. Help us to get to know him or her. how big of a problem is it – really? But the core idea is right.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2020

Companies of all shapes and sizes are now taking advantage of digital resources to help run everything from daily tasks to tedious data analysis. The equipment and services required for this can be purchased at a low entry cost and also bring a host of additional benefits.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I will be ordering several copies for leaders in LA and will be helping to host Brad’s visit to our community later this year. It came from an amazing small startup in McKinney, Texas (30 miles North of Dallas) called NewToy , which they acquired. Think the next big startup can’t come from Dallas, TX? Think again.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Some projects are big and long-term, while others are small and more tactical. When you identify a skills gap or feel you need additional expertise or insight, signing up on-demand help is the only timely solution. This team of specialist consultants is then easily tuned as your strategy evolves based on the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2018

Owners feel they have skin in the game, and benefit from improved effort and results, rather than just getting blamed for problems. It’s a growing challenge, since we now have four generations of workers together – Matures, Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials (Gen Y), all with different ideas of how an owner should act.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio. Greathouse: I’m familiar with product roadmaps, but what’s the big problem you’re solving? Our software helps companies save time, improve their communication, and ultimately build better products faster. Semick: They are.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2016

Create a community service project, raise a small venture fund to capitalize student companies – whatever you do, it should be bold and force you to call upon all of your startup talents. Keep An Idea Journal. As Stephen Johnson demonstrates in Where Good Ideas Come From , epiphanies are rare. Sam Snead , Professional Golfer.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Wondering how, as a small business, you can reach customers in the YouTube age? Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service.

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