Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I challenge them to think beyond what I call linear extensions to a current trend, such as another “easier-to-use” app for smartphones, a new dating site for pets, or another niche social network. Examples I have seen include atomic battery technology, or how marine algae could help feed the world.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

There are lots of resources available for the challenge of that activity, including the Internet and mentors like me. Some dreams sound great, but may not yet be viable or proven with today’s technology. Any startup with no patents, trade secrets, or other secret sauce is very high risk today.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Deloitte (www.deloitte.com/us/technology). Technology. Think Glendale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As a self-made entrepreneur and former chairman of Diamond Resorts International, he asserts that the five biggest companies by market value today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, aren’t really tech, but hospitality companies. Commit to continuous improvement. Improve the whole customer experience, as well as the product.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Technology. Deloitte (www.deloitte.com/us/technology). Think Glendale.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We talked with Eli Aizenstat , the founder and CEO of Beatshare�and still a student--as well as President and longtime technology vet Barry Lieberman about the startup. I've always been a mobile enthusiast, in technology and design and user experience. Barry was a lead mentor there at Chapman University's Launch Labs, and we paired up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Based on my experience as an angel investor and a mentor to dozens of entrepreneurs, having no business plan is the quickest way to define yourself as just a dreamer, or at best a hobbyist. For example, “I just patented a new cell-phone technology that will double battery life for half the cost.

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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. There are lots of resources available for that question, including the Internet and mentors like me. Look hard at the technology for feasibility and risk. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

As a startup mentor, I’m always amazed that some entrepreneurs seem to be an immediate hit with investors, while others struggle to get any attention at all. Registered patents and other intellectual property. Finally I realized that Venture Capital and Angel investors are actually humans, despite some views to the contrary.

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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. There are lots of resources available for that question, including the Internet and mentors like me. Look hard at the technology for feasibility and risk. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

As a business mentor, I sometimes feel besieged by people begging for my view and support of their latest idea. There are lots of resources available for that question, including the Internet and mentors like me. Look hard at the technology for feasibility and risk. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. Just because you passionately believe that your technology is great, and everyone needs it, doesn’t mean that everyone will buy it. Too little focus on marketing. Even viral marketing costs real money and time.

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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. The technology is a work in progress that continues to evolve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. Just because you passionately believe that your technology is great, and everyone needs it, doesn’t mean that everyone will buy it. Too little focus on marketing. Even viral marketing costs real money and time.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

Lita Nelsen has seen it up close—and played a part in its evolution—from her studies there in the 1960s, to her business-school fellowship in the late 1970s, to her 30 years working in MIT’s Technology Licensing Office. Now, her career has come to a close. LN: Right, he came on a sabbatical year.

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MARCH 1, 2018

It is here that 25 of the most diverse startups from around the world will showcase their latest technology and compete for prizes and a chance to be fast tracked as one of the Startup of the Year semifinalists at Innovate Celebrate 2018. The Mentor Method (Washington, D.C.). AdWallet (Albuquerque, NM). Beast Mobile (Kirkland, WA).

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2020

In my experience as a business mentor, one of the biggest challenges I see is a failure to focus. Here are the key elements that I look for as an entrepreneur mentor, as indications of a top level of focus: Willing to share your personal story to build credibility. Demonstrate real knowledge of your market and competitors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

As by now you likely know they had a brief discussion about public markets including about whether Uber should go public. The founding partner of Upfront, Yves Sisteron, has been a mentor for me since 1999 and was on the board of my first company. ” I told everybody I wasn’t going to and I meant it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2013

It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders, I would hope that you can learn from these failings and not stumble on the same issues. In most cases, viral marketing only begins to work after you prime the pump with several million in real marketing over a couple of years. “We It’s the market, stupid.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders I would hope that you can learn from these failings and not stumble on the same issues: “Business plans are for dummies.” It’s the market, stupid.” There is no substitute for understanding the market, and sizing the opportunity, before you climb out on a limb.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2011

It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders, I would hope that you can learn from these failings and not stumble on the same issues. In most cases, viral marketing only begins to work after you prime the pump with several million in real marketing over a couple of years. “We It’s the market, stupid.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2010

It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders I would hope that you can learn from these failings and not stumble on the same issues: “Business plans are for dummies.” It’s the market, stupid.” There is no substitute for understanding the market, and sizing the opportunity, before you climb out on a limb.

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