Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

A question I sometimes get from startup founders is “What do I talk to these guys about?” Most successful entrepreneurs have been written up on the Internet, or in magazines, or books. Spend some time with these biographies and soak up the insights and inspiration. Adopt a mentor. Just start a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

As a startup mentor and investor, I am approached regularly by aspiring entrepreneurs who assert that business plans take too much time, are inaccurate, and rarely add value. They cite sources like Profitable Venture Magazine, “ Why Business Plans are a Waste of Time ” and this Forbes article.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2010

A question I sometimes get from startup founders is “What do I talk to these guys about?” Most successful entrepreneurs have been written up on the Internet, or in magazines, or books. Spend some time with these biographies and soak up the insights and inspiration. Adopt a mentor. Just start a business.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2015 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, January 29 from 7 p.m. We will have amazing panelists from March Capital, Greycroft, Machinima, Silicon Valley Bank and Amplify who will share their insights and forecast for start-ups in 2015. Sponsored giveaways and contests.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2015

I used to think this purpose phenomenon was primarily associated with Gen Y (Millennials), who grew up in a world of plenty. Thus I feel obligated as a startup mentor to look harder at how entrepreneurs can achieve the purpose objective, while still build a sustainable business. It is a challenging and rewarding journey.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 6, 2015

During that time, his tenure as a young engineer at HP caused him to vow that when he started a company, he would create a culture that treated all employees with respect and humility. In 1978, George teamed up with 20-year old Stacy Peralta, a world champion skateboarder. I assume you become his mentor? In a class by himself.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

They suffered in trying to live up to public perceptions and the demands to continue their successes. The road is littered with startups that shined bright before burning out. Startups are All Naked in the Mirror. Advisors / Coaches / Mentors. It was a lot to bear. Every founder knows this. The Perils of Founder Fighting.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 4, 2015

Mr. Kooper picks up the story once Wilson returned to the control room, not realizing that he was at the organ. The track was Like A Rolling Stone , which became Bob Dylan’s biggest selling song as was voted by Rolling Stone Magazine in 2011 as the Best Song Of All Time. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

And luckily I was able to catch up with Talia Goldstein the Head Matchmaker and Co-Founder of Three Day Rule for some Q & A. I grew up in Orange County and then headed east to Tulane University. Val and I started this single’s website/blog just for fun and on the side. Soon after launching it started really taking off.

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Daradiction

JULY 22, 2013

One of my mentors, Duke Stump says, "you can't create the magic, but you can create the conditions for the magic to happen". Coincidence or not, Surfer Magazine's most recent issue had a feature story on the "Baja Renessaince" and one of the key points was that gringos are coming back less for the surfing and more for the vineyards.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 21, 2012

Countless stories have been told on how people have started to create their vision boards on corksboards or posterboards cutting out images in magazines and having those exact same pictures come to life in just a few weeks. Ash Kumra is an inspirational speaker, mentor, founder of DesiYou, Inc.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us.

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