TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Given the competition coming into the market, it’s no wonder that Wrench is raising additional capital to expand its footprint into new markets. RepairSmith , which operates a similar service out of Los Angeles and San Francisco, is backed by Daimler to provide much the same on-demand repair services.

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Demand Services Los Angeles Mobile 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. They just aren’t prepared for the life they want, and are really asking me how to learn to be an entrepreneur. Business financial aid alternatives.

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Startup Education Entrepreneur Tool 108

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. Some people draw satisfaction by pointing at you and saying, “See! They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page? In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur.

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Snapchat Product Startup AMA 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. They just aren’t prepared for the life they want, and are really asking me how to learn to be an entrepreneur. Business financial aid alternatives.

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Entrepreneur Tips Startup Education 137

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This momentum is what you need for enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as for others to see you as a business leader. In any business, you need hope, confidence, resilience, and optimism to weather the daily challenges of customers, market changes, and competitors. Build your character and reputation with personal values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2015

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. You don’t have enough control over your time, investors, the market, or your startup. But nobody said it would be easy. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Social Media 111

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs the last couple of years is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. This is not a get-rich-quick vehicle for consumers. Good-cause crowd funding. Rewards-based crowd funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

This momentum is what you need for enjoyment and satisfaction, as well as for others to see you as a business leader. In any business, you need hope, confidence, resilience, and optimism to weather the daily challenges of customers, market changes, and competitors. Build your character and reputation with personal values.

Coach 59

Coach Satisfaction Ideas Entrepreneur 59

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs these days is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Sometimes contributors may get compensated later, but usually the rewards are just kudos and intellectual satisfaction.

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Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2016

Maintaining your team’s passion and freedom to focus first on innovating for customers are only a couple of the reasons for thinking hard before you seek money from crowdfunding, angel investors, venture capital organizations, or attempt to qualify for a public stock offering. Explaining actions to investors takes time you don’t have.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2011

Jeb Spencer: The goal at TVC Capital is to do exactly this. We invest in and acquire software companies who are in somewhat niche markets, which often times the big venture capital firms have passed over, because the total available market for those companies is only $100 to $200 million.

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Capital Hermosa Beach El Segundo Invest 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2016

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. You don’t have enough control over your time, investors, the market, or your startup. But nobody said it would be easy. Marty Zwilling.

Search Engine Optimization 55

Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Social Media 55

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Meebo’s current focus is US market.&#.

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I know because I marked the occasion with a blog post on how to have a great VC meeting. The decisions were endless, the choices not obvious and the VC involved a pain in the ass. was definitely in the bucket of amazingly talented founders with a great product that hadn’t yet proved product/market fit. ” So true.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. They just aren’t prepared for the life they want, and are really asking me how to learn to be an entrepreneur. Business financial aid alternatives.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 112

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

If your business offers a service, like marketing or management consulting, you are the product. Create and maintain the highest level of customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction is very important for all companies, but it is everything for a services company.

Satisfaction 91

Satisfaction Patents Outsource Development Services 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2012

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

Startup 95

Startup Technical Review Software Review High Tech 95

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Some experts have tied this market to location detection hardware (GPS), but even that is now pervasive on all smart devices. Angel and venture capital investors look for opportunities that are highly scalable, and have already demonstrated good traction. External investors tend to focus on products rather than services.

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Advertising Content Social Media Satisfaction 63

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

If your business offers a service, like marketing or management consulting, you are the product. Create and maintain the highest level of customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction is very important for all companies, but it is everything for a services company.

Product 91

Product Services Satisfaction Patents 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. They just aren’t prepared for the life they want, and are really asking me how to learn to be an entrepreneur. Business financial aid alternatives.

Startup 51

Startup Education Entrepreneur Tool 51

Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out. Nervana Systems co-founders (from left) Arjun Bansal, Amir Khosrowshahi, and Naveen Rao.

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Artificial Inteligence San Diego Framework Venture Capital 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2011

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

Startup 95

Startup Technical Review Software Review High Tech 95

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

High on my list is the joy and satisfaction of having helped many entrepreneurs face-to-face this year, and hopefully many more by my blog reaching out over the Internet. The stock market is up 7.2%, which is finally providing some liquidity relief to concerned investors and startups alike. Venture capitalists invested $4.8

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Pricing Blogging Venture Capital Entrepreneur 80

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. They just aren’t prepared for the life they want, and are really asking me how to learn to be an entrepreneur. Business financial aid alternatives.

Entrepreneur 58

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 58

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2010

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

Invest 50

Invest Technical Review Software Review High Tech 50

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2015

Many women rose to the top of their careers only to discover how unsatisfying, soul-draining and unhealthy a lifestyle it was and completely changed careers to find satisfaction doing something completely different where they once again became successful, but in a more balanced manner. Novel concept. But I digress.

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Conference Entertainment Startup Digital Hollywood 40

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 128

Startup Social Media Satisfaction Entrepreneur 128

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I'm Tired of Creating Your Content - Babbling VC , November 12, 2010 Jeff triggered this post in regards to his Check-in Fatigue on Foursquare. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2021

housing market persists. One such startup, Abodu , has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Abodu has been active in the market, selling and building its ADUs since the fall of 2019. Next, Abodu is eyeing the San Diego market.

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Los Angeles Customer Custom Startup 322

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. It’s not too late to start.

Startup 108

Startup Social Media Entrepreneur Satisfaction 108

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself.

Startup 109

Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Satisfaction 109

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 66

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Satisfaction 66

Technology Council

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

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VentureNet Newsletter News Satisfaction 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

My fourth investment, and the first one I led, was into a mobile applications company, which was also ahead of its time and never truly understood its market. The fifth one was a high-buzz, high-tech play with lots of big-name angels, and we eventually brought in a rock star CEO and a major VC followed us in with many millions.

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