Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? Distributed and marketed across all platforms, StyleSpot helps consumers stay on trend, translate those trends to any budget, and find the best sales from their favorite stores and designers.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Shopify , which develops software for merchants to set up e-commerce, mobile, social media sites, online marketplaces, bricks-and-mortar stores, and more, is setting up a space for entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, the company said this morning. READ MORE>>.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? Distributed and marketed across all platforms, StyleSpot helps consumers stay on trend, translate those trends to any budget, and find the best sales from their favorite stores and designers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity. Use crowd funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity (coming soon).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity. Use crowd funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity (coming soon).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. million in sales last year, with great margins, and it's profitable, with a team of ten people. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

If you were a big company like Proctor & Gamble, for instance, you'd have a whole side of your business with IT, for your sales, marketing, and financial folks. That allows you, for example, to access your factory in Dubai, rather than having to always fly to the site. How did the company start working on this area?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

-Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Spread through word-of-mouth as the company has no sales team, all engineers. Site launched in October and CEO stated ad impressions are increasing ~200% month; now at 15 billion impressions/day.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

The florist business center we launched recently empowers florists, with tools to run email marketing campaigns, reach out through social media, and even gives them a point of sale system and website builder. Florists receive their orders through these other sites, but the problem is, there''s no profit. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 4, 2013

It''s much like a sales team might use software to find leads. We''re not the company which tells athletes to jump on our site, and we''ll spam you to schools and find you a place. Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. What''s unique, is it''s coach driven.

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JUNE 17, 2009

If you look at the site, it's comprised principally of individual bulletin boards for private companies. Can you talk about a bit about BrightHouse, and how this company came out of that incubation effort? The way sales are handled is as old as the 1930's securities laws. Are you transacting sales through the site yet?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity. Super-angels.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We don't get excited about derivative businesses, like yet another daily deal site, or another niche flash sales site. The second thing, is you need to make sure you're tackling a big and somewhat original problem. We also recommend to entrepreneurs to try and find a technical co-founder.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

MuckerLab has already secured its reputation as one of the hottest startup accelerators in town with a particular emphasis on product for incubation-stage software, services and media ventures. The Black Tux online tuxedo rental, which is reinventing the customer experience in the antiquated $10B+ tuxedo rental and sales industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues. Sales is the lifeblood of every organization. It’s how we move products.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. Heather Wilburn – Founding Member of AdWords Program & Biz Dev Manager for Channel Sales team at Google. For a full breakdown of each of our speakers’ backgrounds, visit our event info site !

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Developing their business directly through partnerships with sports teams, Crowd Seats has the ability to get larger discounts on potentially unused ticket sales to provide value for the fans, teams, and venues. They also gave a quick tour of the dashboard that clients would be using to customize their now mobile ready sites.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2012

It’s almost a subconscious connection vs. all other media sites. Kim was the Technical Lead at Triptrotting when it was incubated in Idealab and came on board to Insteegran last October. It will not be industry standard in which your percentage goes down as your sales goes up. It’s a breath of fresh air.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Make Millions: Re-Invent Global Sites for Local Markets.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. Community Home Loans: FOR SALE. Upstate NY Retreat For Sale.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

– Digital Messaging Infrastructure Company (incubated by Addante and Associates, LLC) Age: 25 - 29 (present) Time Period: 2002 - present My Role: Founder High Point: TBD Here is a summary of my experiences to-date with StrongMail: 1. Incubation 3. StrongMail Systems, Inc. Relaxing 2. Go-to-Market 5. Spam Changes Everything 6.

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