Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

One thing I have learned the hard way in business is that implementing new ideas is usually much more difficult than conceiving the idea in the first place. That’s why I caution my aspiring entrepreneur clients against proclaiming to investors that they are a great “idea” person. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2019

Photo by Juliette F on Unsplash Networking is a critical part of relationship building and there is no event more valuable to building relationships than the proverbial “breaking of bread” with people. You should allow a period for general networking, a chance to eat your first bites of food and some casual catch ups. It matters.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

The critical skill is not just your immediate network but the network beyond that you can tap into if you’ve earned the right through nurturing your 1-degree relationships. Building Your Network. Either you have a well established network or you don’t. It always struck a chord with me. How did I get here?

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 20, 2017

We asked him about building relationships and advice for founders needing to expand their network. What is one practical tip you’d give a young entrepreneur who is just setting out to build a professional network? There is no better network builder than providing value. What was your biggest networking faux pas?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 -- LA Fintech Mix Mingle Network. Find partners, talk about your project, bounce ideas, discover LA Fintech. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-fintech-mix-mingle-network-tickets-31488471867. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Tues February 28. Laws from 1930-1940 (old right?)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 18, 2017

Tuesday, January 24, 2017 -- LA Fintech Mix Mingle Network. Find partners, talk about your project, bounce ideas, discover LA Fintech. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-fintech-mix-mingle-network-tickets-28900632570. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Tues January 24. Laws from 1930-1940 (old right?)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 16, 2018

Thursday, March 22, 2018 -- LA Fintech Demo Mix Mingle Network. Find partners, talk about your project, bounce ideas, discover LA Fintech. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Thursday March 22nd. Learn about the newest and fastest changes going on in financial technology. Laws from 1930-1940 (old right?)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 -- LA Fintech Demo Mix Mingle Network. Find partners, talk about your project, bounce ideas, discover LA Fintech. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Tues February 20th. Learn about the newest and fastest changes going on in financial technology. Laws from 1930-1940 (old right?)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 -- LA Fintech Mix Mingle Network. Find partners, talk about your project, bounce ideas, discover LA Fintech. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/los-angeles-fintech-mix-mingle-network-tickets-27314588670. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Wed Setp 21.

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Southern California Edison Blog

APRIL 21, 2020

Network speeds are closely tied to an organization’s ability to stay productive and remain competitive and profitable at all times. As businesses expand and take on new services, technologies, and a larger workforce, they require more network capacity to support growth without sacrificing efficiency. .

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 17, 2016

Tuesday, August 23, 2016 -- LA FinTech Mix Mingle Network. Find partners, talk about your project, bounce ideas, discover LA Fintech. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-fintech-mix-mingle-network-tickets-26711963201. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Tues Aug 23. Laws from 1930-1940 (old right?)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 25, 2017

Tuesday, July 25, 2017 -- LA Fintech Incubator Mix Mingle Network. Find partners, talk about your project, bounce ideas, discover LA Fintech. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Tues July 25. Learn about the newest and fastest changes going on in financial technology. Laws from 1930-1940 (old right?)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Tuesday, September 19, 2017 -- Los Angeles Fintech VC Mix Mingle Network. Find partners, talk about your project, bounce ideas, discover LA Fintech. Cast your vote for 2017 LA Fintech Awards HERE. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Tues September 19th. Laws from 1930-1940 (old right?) See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2017

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 -- Los Angeles Fintech Demo Mix Mingle Network. Find partners, talk about your project, bounce ideas, discover LA Fintech. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Tues June 20. Learn about the newest and fastest changes going on in financial technology. Laws from 1930-1940 (old right?)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 17, 2017

Tuesday, May 23, 2017 -- Los Angeles Fintech Demo Mix Mingle Network. Find partners, talk about your project, bounce ideas, discover LA Fintech. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Tues May 23. Learn about the newest and fastest changes going on in financial technology. Laws from 1930-1940 (old right?)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 22, 2017

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 -- LA Fintech Demo/VC Mix Mingle Network. Find partners, talk about your project, bounce ideas, discover LA Fintech. Come mix and mingle with other Financial Technologist's Tues January 24. Learn about the newest and fastest changes going on in financial technology. Laws from 1930-1940 (old right?)

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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 . Networking with others you want to meet is second nature to some, but it fills others with dread. After all, networking is much more than cocktail parties and trading business cards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2019

They can talk with passion about their innovative new idea, and ask lots of questions, but never seem to really get started. The challenge we all have as business founders is to move from the idea stage to a real business. Create a specific plan to network to get the help you need.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2013

When someone introduces me to an “idea person,” I automatically jump to the down-side conclusion that this person doesn’t do follow-up. Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. Here are a few: Business networking. That’s the bar you should aspire to.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2013

Can tapping the power of the crowd not only help you find customers and help fund your project, but also help you shape your startup idea and find funding? A new, Los Angeles area startup, JumpStartFund (www.jumpstartfund.com) recently launched, offering up a combination of crowdfunding and crowd-advice for entrepreneurial ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2015

As a business mentor, I sometimes feel besieged by people begging for my view and support of their latest idea. In reality, I like most ideas, but I have to tell them that the real challenge is taking the inspiration from a dream to a business. Attend trade shows and network to find the right players and pitch your product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

Most entrepreneurs I meet are reluctant to disclose anything about their idea to investors before getting a signed confidential disclosure agreement (CDA). These professionals value their integrity, like your therapist or financial advisor, and will not share your business details nor steal your idea.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

As Mr. Johnson points out, big ideas generally result from the collision of many small hunches. In isolation, a particular hunch may be worthless, but when combined with other ideas, at the right time, the result can be a game-changing innovation. You’re As Smart As Your Network. Ten Step Idea Evaluation Worksheet .

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2014

This is an interesting twist on dating, how''d you come up with the idea? LinkedIn is one of the largest social networks, with 300 million users, and we fell that it has a higher quality user base. I go the idea when I was on LinkedIn, and noticed that some of my friends had been actually getting dates through the site.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 12, 2009

This past week has had an interesting confluence of events that's led me to conclude that I want to start doing a lot of visible networking among the tech / web crowd here in Los Angeles. I want to take you through a bit of what brought me here, because I think it will help explain what I mean by visible networking. More often 4.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Talks about the implementation plan, not the idea. M ost entrepreneurs are great at envisioning their business idea, but the implementation is fuzzy. If you want to attract investors, you must be willing to listen and work with others, as well as share your ideas or your knowledge. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

When someone introduces me to an “idea person,” I automatically jump to the down-side conclusion that this person doesn’t do follow-up. Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. Here are a few: Business networking. That’s the bar you should aspire to.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2014

As a business mentor, I sometimes feel besieged by people begging for my view and support of their latest idea. In reality, I like most ideas, but I have to tell them that the real challenge is taking the inspiration from a dream to a business. Attend trade shows and network to find the right players and pitch your product.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Great by Cliff Allen Business Networking Online who I had blogged about previously in Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. In this post, Cliff provides some feedback on what works when you move towards doing business networking online. Right now the conversation is about visible networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Most entrepreneurs I meet are reluctant to disclose anything about their idea to investors before getting a signed confidential disclosure agreement (CDA). These professionals value their integrity, like your therapist or financial advisor, and will not share your business details nor steal your idea.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

However, Mobigirl Media (www.mobigirlmedia.com), a new mobile advertising network, is looking to change that by specifically creating an ad network focused on girls. Jennifer Noonan: Mobigirl Media is the only mobile ad network targeting girls. We''re not the first mobile ad network. What are you all about?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Our profile this morning is with Network Automation , a Los Angeles company competing in the IT automation market. Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. You are self funded too, we recall.

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Tech.Co

JULY 10, 2017

Find partners, talk about your project, bounce ideas, discover LA Fintech. Agenda: 7:00 pm Mix Mingle Network. 8:00 pm Continue Mix Mingle Network. Finance is undergoing a massive change some call the “financial paradigm” Laws from 1930-1940 (old right?) 7:30 pm Demo. Envestnet | Yodlee Incubator by Jeff Cain.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 20, 2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 -- ExecTec Networking Dinner. An event for executives in the Entertainment, Media, Technology and related business fields to come together and network and share ideas. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

In June of 2012 over 10 internet startup ideas went through a filtering process and feasabiity analysis. The Venture Spark Network is proud to unveil 3 startups teams that have taken anidea from a napkin and brought into fruition over the last 4 months!

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 13, 2010

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 -- ExecTec Networking Dinner. An event for executives in the Entertainment, Media, Technology and related business fields to come together and network and share ideas. See [link] (more).

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