socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why? That you cant do it alone.

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Startup Thousand Oaks Mentor Ventura 196

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I think you’ll learn more in watching the 20-minute interview that Troy Carter and I did than you will in most tech interviews because he cuts down to the raw essence of what it takes any product to be discovered and nurtured and the power of being able to connect the right emerging artist with the right influencers in a market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

The following are some lessons I learned about early-stage startup marketing. Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). I call this “marketing futures.&# You need some guidelines to make decisions.

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Marketing Startup Press Technical Advisors 380

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2023

If you are one of these, you may be missing win-win opportunities to incrementally expand existing markets, create new ones enabled by new technologies, or do good for society in this new age. Begin with a perspective on improving the current market reality without needing to disrupt what is.

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Capital Netflix Resource Custom 142

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2022

Based on my own mentoring and investing experience, the best entrepreneurs are pragmatic problem solvers. If you can explain the problem to a mentor, or even write it down, you will more likely get to the root cause quickly, and avoid emotional and blame-infused responses. Explore solutions, outcomes, and options calmly.

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Startup Mentor Entrepreneur Technical Review 135

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). Incubators, at the core level, take basic core level technology and try to build a company around it.

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Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Some get stuck in a rut and get run over by competitors with new technology, like Eastman Kodak, and others get pushed into a crisis, like Apple did, before they reinvent themselves into a new market. The best immerse themselves in these technologies, and invent new businesses, rather than fight in the old one to the death.

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Technical Review Marketing Mentor Entrepreneur 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2021

Some get stuck in a rut and get run over by competitors with new technology, like Eastman Kodak, and others get pushed into a crisis, like Apple did, before they reinvent themselves into a new market. The best immerse themselves in these technologies, and invent new businesses, rather than fight in the old one to the death.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Mentor Custom 167

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

A common request I get while mentoring entrepreneurs is for a copy of the startup checklist they need to follow, in order to build a successful new business. I’m sure you can find some gaps, niches, or extensions for each of these technologies: Internet of Things. Are you driving the technology, or is it driving you?

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Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 86

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2015

Every entrepreneur with a new technology tells me that his innovation will be industry-disrupting, meaning that it will render the existing technology obsolete, and create a new market. Entrepreneurs tend to look for big changes and big markets when seeking disruptive opportunities, when the opposite may be more effective.

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Marketing Technical Review Entrepreneur Custom 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

One of the things I’ve learned over my years as a business mentor and investor is that life isn’t fair when it comes to succeeding in business. These authors speak from their own wealth of experience in creating and growing technology startups, marketing, and fundraising. Intelligence and insight: book and street smarts.

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Help Mentor Paramount Technical Review 130

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2021

Every entrepreneur with a new technology tells me that his innovation will be industry-disrupting, meaning that it will render the existing technology obsolete, and create a new market. Entrepreneurs tend to look for big changes and big markets when seeking disruptive opportunities, when the opposite may be more effective.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Marketing Customer 157

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2021

This may seem counter-intuitive to technologists, especially in an era when technology seems to be driving the world. Yet the sad truth is that a technology not focused on a real problem is not a business, and will probably fail in the marketplace. Even the best have mentors they really use.

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Mentor Entrepreneur Ideas Networking 139

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2022

Thus, in my mentoring of potential technical entrepreneurs who have a real passion for their technology, I often recommend that they find a co-founder who can manage the marketing and execution elements of the new venture. The competition will improve, the market will change, and your customers will demand more.

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Mentor Startup Custom Customer 133

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. What happened? People were building.

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Venture Capital Startup LAMP Marketing 466

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Beyond Southern California’s coastal appeal is a vibrant technology ecosystem that encompasses enterprise software, financial services, healthcare, aerospace and defense, robotics, ecommerce and social media. And remote work means that Los Angeles could be a fixture for more investors looking to escape the Bay.

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Los Angeles Angel Southern California Social Media 191

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2015

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor Karlin Ventures is hoping to help develop rising, technology executives--particularly those at the VP level--with a new program it is launching today called Karlin Fellows. karlin ventures mentor mentoring mentorship product management' READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2010

At VT KnowledgeWorks we screen prospective clients for their Market opportunity, for the Magic that they offer to their prospective customers, and for the Moxie displayed by the start-up team. There is a growing fellowship of special-case start-up programs operated by closely-knit, permanent groups of angel-mentors.

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Incubator Mentor Capital Startup 80

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Based on my own mentoring and investing experience, the best entrepreneurs are pragmatic problem solvers. If you can explain the problem to a mentor, or even write it down, you will more likely get to the root cause quickly, and avoid emotional and blame-infused responses. Explore solutions, outcomes, and options calmly.

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Satisfaction Marketing Mentor Entrepreneur 53

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

As the rate of change continues to increase in business and technology, the more I’m convinced that marketing is the primary key to success for a new venture. Yet I find that many technical founders don’t feel they need it at all, or at best point to one person on the team who is marketing.

Marketing 71

Marketing Tips Technical Review Social Media 71

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. Neither breakthrough technology nor maximum features will assure that “if we build it, they will come.” Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right.

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Custom Customer Entrepreneur 143

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Ironically, as a startup investor and mentor, I have seen too many failures caused by just the opposite – too much money spent too soon, taking time to get product perfection, and assuming customers will wait. Using the solution technology that you already have, in new ways, takes fewer resources than inventing or sourcing new technologies.

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Resource Ideas Competition Entrepreneur 112

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Many people believe that new ideas are the critical element of innovation, but in my experience as a mentor and investor, long-term business success is more about implementation than ideas. Developing the ideal product the first time around is unlikely, high risk, and very expensive in today’s chaotic market.

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Artificial Inteligence Ideas Satisfaction Customer 114

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Huddlewoo a live video platform set to launch early 2013 to give people the ability to access extraordinary people for one-on-one conversations and mentoring. Technology has given us the ability to connect with others like never before, but personal access still remains uncommon. We caught up with the CEO William Zell.

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Mentor Platform Social Network Chief Technology Officer 94

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Every entrepreneur and every business I meet in my consulting and mentoring role has great intentions of bringing real innovation to the market, yet I find that most ideas are merely small extensions to existing solutions. Inventors are always talking about what they can do with technology, before sizing the need and the market.

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Startup Mentor Entrepreneur Ideas 146

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Chuang is currently Chief Technology Officer at Oversee.net,and also has served at such companies as Yahoo! Search Marketing, YP.com/AT&T Interactive and Chegg. Chuang is also a mentor at Muckerlab. Laudville, which is led by Phoebe B.

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Oversee.net Chief Technology Officer Entertainment Yahoo 190

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Pew says the Boomer demographic is the largest mainstream pool of experienced talent in the market today, and will be for the foreseeable future.

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Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur Report 147

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2022

If you aren’t yet adapting to the market and your customers, you are falling behind. In other words, change in your business has to become the accepted norm, just like it is in your market. Be proactive rather than reactive to market change. Demand and reward speedy analysis and execution.

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Competition Metrics Demand Custom 148

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In my own business career, many years as a business advisor, and mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I have validated the following strategies to practice and guide you. A broken process or a subtle quality issue can generate a flood of customer satisfaction problems, cost overruns, and loss of market share.

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Satisfaction Mentor Study Startup 152

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

I offer here their summary of purposes and inspirations that have motivated existing business leaders, with insights from my own mentoring and coaching experience. Many technologists have a passion for a new technology, but only a few are able to communicate the value in terms of future impact on society.

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Coach Mentor Custom 143

SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

But, advisors, coaches, and mentors can often fill the bill. While Bob’s post focuses on Technology Advisors and the Startup Founder Developer Gap , we also discussed advisors more broadly. In creating Mentor Night , I’ve been happy to hear how giving most people are.

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CTO Coach Startup CTO Hire Template 241

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2013

has appointed Matt Monahan as its VP Social Media Marketing to stir its digital business acceleration. He understands the nuances of social media marketing and his expertise in advertising technology, particularly across Facebook, will serve to further accelerate our portfolio companies’ growth.”. LA-based Science Inc.,

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Social Media Media Marketing Startup 82

Tech.Co

JANUARY 29, 2018

Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the producers of CES and Eureka Park, are the brains and brawn behind the Park and are potent partners to get startups in the spotlight. Add Mentors to Your Roster. Regardless of one’s stage, mentors are a must have for any founder. I am a big proponent of the mentorship program.

Startup 87

Startup Mentor Artificial Inteligence Research 87

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers.

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Resource Metrics Entrepreneur Technical Review 121

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

We talked to Ted Dhanik, the founder of Engage:BDR, about his company and the future of marketing. I moved in marketing for NextTag and I was part of the team that launched consumer lending products. After MySpace was acquired by Fox, I learned that there was a huge market for ad inventory. Proudest moment?

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Marketing Startup Incubator Advertising 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2021

Ironically, as a startup investor and mentor, I have seen too many failures caused by just the opposite – too much money spent too soon, taking time to get product perfection, and assuming customers will wait. Using the solution technology that you already have, in new ways, takes fewer resources than inventing or sourcing new technologies.

Startup 164

Startup Resource Entrepreneur Competition 164

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2021

The best leaders are mentors to their team, and they are stewards of a company’s assets and vision. Your task is follow-up in support, mentoring, and setting goals. Maintaining the velocity and flexibility to keep up with the market and competitors is a requirement for survival. Communicate the vision, then execute.

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Tips Startup Mentor Press 170