InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. I read Enchantment anticipating that it might augment my Entrepernurial Selling class, which focuses on influence and persuasion, rather than sales tactics. Drop Everything And Do What Your Boss Asks.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

I thought this post might be of interest to some of my readers, as it offers a glimpse into my approach to teaching entrepreneurship. . Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Music Prodigy , a Los Angeles based music education technology firm serious on improving the way people learn, play and interact with music beat over 70 startups with their app Rock Prodigy to win the Silicon Beach Awards. It also won the 2011 Appy Award in education and the 2011 About.com’s Readers Choice Award. Beat 70 Start-ups.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Too many startup businesses, especially in the technology world, are built upon brand new concepts that have not yet been proven in the field with products from other companies that have revenues flowing. Email readers, continue here.] I’ve often used the analogy of “flying against the prevailing winds” to prove this point.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We caught up with Sam Teller , who is directing efforts at the accelerator, to help fill entrepreneurs in on where the program fits in the world of technology and startup acceleration. For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? We got over 400 applications for the ten slots we had open in this class, and we picked ten amazing companies.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

We've attempted to do that for the last three years, trying to ferret out exactly who the people--not companies--are to watch in the region's technology industry. Gunnar Lovelace and Nick Green , Thrive Market. Congratulations to our third class of the socalTECH 50! Who are the top 50 people to watch in Southern California?

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Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2011

In the early eighties, IBM helped the PC become a tool of the office, and the product crossed over from use by early adopters to the mass market. Many other PC vendors flooded the market, including an uncounted number of “white box” manufacturers who created systems out of components imported from Asia. Email readers, continue here.]

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

Marc Friedmann: SciVee serves the STM - Science, Technical, Medical - market. It's largely a publishing market, and has been around for hundreds of years. We provide rich media to the STM market. For people who haven't visited SciVee, what's the site about? That's what SciVee is focused on. Can you describe how that works?

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Journal Technical Review UCSD Web 124

Berkonomics

JULY 26, 2010

And yet, such relationships properly used and never overused, can quickly and precisely help a CEO cut through delays in government agencies, speed the process of product planning and ultimate release, aid in positioning in the market and help the CEO avoid a myriad of mistakes that could prove costly in time and money.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I use George Bush vs. Al Gore as allegory and I’ve been using it with entrepreneurs for years to sink in a simple point about how to communicate with the market. You imagined him as the kid in your class at school at the front of the room raising his hand at every question and saying, “Oooh, me. Call on me.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2011

For our readers who haven't yet heard of your company, what's the idea behind StarGreetz? What's the technology behind this? We've been innovating over the last fifteen months, and have to patents pending on the technology right now. Eric Frankel: We've build a super-fast platform, that lives in the cloud at Amazon.

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Entertainment Startup Class Santa Barbara 159

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

Explain to our readers why you started your company, and why you created your app myLINGO. All these efforts were to figure out what it would take to put something like this in the market. Share with our readers your experience surrounding the launch of the app. What problem were you trying to solve? Entertainment.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Strategic buyers look for managerial talent, intellectual property, geographic expansion, an extension into adjacent markets – and more – that will be achieved with the acquisition of your company. There is a third class of buyer I discovered first hand when selling my company – the emotional buyer.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. But I’m opposed to using data to “prove&# unprovable facts because I know that readers are often susceptible to this kind of data manipulation. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. Here is a class of investor we’ve covered before, one usually focused upon you and less upon your business case. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. Accelerators.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Unlike Walmart, you don't have to walk through a reader or interrogator, because we have an active tag with a five year asset life, saying here I am. We started with Wi-Fi based technology, using 802.11. We've got a nice API with ties to the enterprise class applications. Jason Howe: RFID is used a lot in pharmacies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class. I believe that you should always hire people are are looking to “punch above their weight class,&# which means to hire people who want to be one league above where they are today. Weight Class : Let’s take sales. I’m not one of those. Your solution?

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Strategic buyers look for managerial talent, intellectual property, geographic expansion, an extension into adjacent markets and more that will be achieved with the acquisition of your company. Email readers, continue here.] There is a third class of buyer I discovered first hand when selling my company – the emotional buyer.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. Programming should be the middle class job of the next 20 years. Ryan’s long-term goal is to help large populations of people train themselves at young ages with world-class online teachers. Americans watch 5.3

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. There is nobody to blame for this abandonment of common sense – it is simply the market being the market and we’re doomed to repeat history. Boom and bust.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). Marketing materials. 15 minutes.

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Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

It’s a term most of you know as being somebody who is backward or uninterested in learning new technology. You can imagine that if you had spent a lifetime gaining a vocational skill and being a member of a protected industry guild that you wouldn’t be happy with technological change. Actually, the Luddites were worse than this.

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Education Resource Class Course 150