socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. When I shoed up with a few pages of conceptual, early stage ideas around consumer finance, it was immediately captivating, and it really lined up with what he wanted to do.

Startup 197

Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2015

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” focusing on the first few steps that determine long-term success. Duffy emphasizes the often overlooked personal side of entrepreneurship, including balancing finances, relationships, and your health. Let your passion drive your cash flow projections. Moderate your optimism.

Startup 109

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 109

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 31, 2010

It is not that they lack a good product! So we know that your in business to succeed - what kind of plans do you need: Business Plan. Current owner investment. Marketing Plan. This can be a competent of your business plan or a separate document, but in either case it need only be a couple of pages long.

Sample 140

Sample Social Media Incubator Marketing 140

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Open an account with PayPal. Start simple.

Commerce 99

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Open an account with PayPal. Start simple.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2018

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” on the first steps that determine long-term success. Duffy emphasizes the often overlooked personal side of entrepreneurship, including balancing finances, relationships, and your health. Let your passion drive your cash flow projections. Moderate your optimism.

Startup 63

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 63

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

Startup 333

Startup Class Conference Product 333

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” focusing on the first few steps that determine long-term success. Duffy emphasizes the often overlooked personal side of entrepreneurship, including balancing finances, relationships, and your health. Let your passion drive your cash flow projections. Moderate your optimism.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Framework 106

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or angels. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Open an account with PayPal. Start simple.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). Loss of control.

Startup 89

Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 89

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Determine whether your business name needs to be trademarked, and if does Trademark it at the USPTO. Protect your written works and code through the Copyright Office. If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Vet your idea with the idea checklist.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Lottay's gift are virtual things--anything you want--attached to real money, in a PayPal account. How did Lottay start, and tell us about your Series A? They went into full product phase over the summer, and unveiled the post-prototype, alpha, pre-beta, whatever you want to call it, at TechCrunch50. That's where I came along.

Evite 157

Evite Startup Ideas Ticketmaster 157

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. After a record low of 39 U.S. Loss of control.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Startup Report Summary 95

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. Hopefully you know your friends and family better than I do, so you decide when a business plan is required. On the other hand, your mother probably won’t read one.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 109

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

We took into account innovation and entrepreneurship, style and appeal, originality, community, and value. They make it easy to collect investment funds, track ownership, and provide targeted updates to investors. It allows users to code, develop, brainstorm, communicate and then publish projects and files to your web server.

Company 106

Company Companies Web Evite 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

Of course there are scenarios where a written business plan is not critical, but I haven’t seen one yet where a well-written 15-page document, or at least a 10-slide pitch, is a negative. Hopefully you know your friends and family better than I do, so you decide when a business plan is required.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Technical Review Writing Slides 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

One useful technique for keeping your eyes focused on what really matters is Cayenne Consulting’s Venture Value Scorecard™. The Venture Value Scorecard is a one-page summary of your company’s achievements and assets: the factors that contribute to the value of your organization.

.Net 89

.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. Higher administrative expenses.

Startup 94

Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 94

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work.

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

Do you believe in crowdfunding over the traditional ways of investing? Kate Drane: It is not about who prefers crowdfunding over investing and vice versa. It’s a piece of marketing collateral you get to create. The way you talk about your business, develop your brand voice, gauge demand, and connect with your audience.

Startup 74

Startup Funding Capital Help 74

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). It creates free innovation on your platform that drives user growth and engagement. 30% is the market opportunity.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Armed with a degree in Marketing and Business from University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and an Operations experience from Ireland, UAE and Egypt , Ciaran Connolly, 36 teamed up with Ernist Turdubaev 33, with a Master of Arts – Retail and Government Sector to launch ProfileTree. What are your backgrounds? Any funding yet?

Advertising 79

Advertising Services Social Network Startup 79

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

So that continues to be a core area of focus for us, and has grown significantly over the last few years, an in which we've continued to invest. That said, we made an entry into the commercial market in the digital content space. You mention your government business continues to expand? It's been in an interest bearing account.

Software Review 145

Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Facebook just hit 1 billion active users globally and that was great but a new social payment application is set to make Facebook users across the world get more from their connections and even allowing companies to sell or receive payments from their pages. As we know, developers always give their product a code name. What is Zunguz?

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

What's your background and how did you decide to start the site? I was in advertising and marketing, working in Newport Beach on the Mazda account. Billy Fried: We first tested it in California, which was our launch market a year and a half ago. The idea was to have tent poles up in the most important leisure markets.

Activity 164

Activity Startup Sites Web 164

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. Insider Pages.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads. Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. is a good monthly investment? Given Goldenberg’s Internet marketing prowess, I’m sure JustFab will continue to shape online retail for years to come. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. Who are your customers, partners or suppliers?

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Commercial.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? This week was had Jason Calacanis as our guest.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

I had been trading emails & Tweets with venture capitalist John Frankel and we were to meet in person in March 2011 at SxSW to talk about Klout and other investments he had made. John laid into a well-honed thesis on why the social web needed a “Page Rank” equivalent for people. I was used to this debate.

Cornerstone OnDemand 303

Cornerstone OnDemand Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup 303