Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 30, 2020
In my role as a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I find that most have the technical challenges well understood, but many are a bit short on some basic street smarts , or basic business realities. Although Elon Musk doesn’t talk about it very much, he owns over 350 patents through Tesla, just one of his many companies.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 23, 2021
I’ve always wondered if there was some way that I could quickly deduce a new entrepreneur’s “sweet spot,” and optimize my mentoring to those strengths and weaknesses, maybe similar to the Myers-Briggs type indicator for business professionals. Ultimately, most get the best help from business advisors and mentors.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 7, 2021
As a mentor to aspiring business owners. Sometimes, to scale the market you need drive expansion by co-opetition or fostering common platforms. Elon Musk offered his battery patents free to all takers in order to expand the electric car market, and provide a common infrastructure. Understand and exercise political judgement.
Tech.Co
MARCH 1, 2018
The event is open to tech enthusiasts who want to join an event filled with some of the top leaders, investors and mentors from tech industry to network, find mentors and build their companies. DatavizVR is the world’s first big data analytics and visualization virtual and augmented reality platform. AdWallet (Albuquerque, NM).
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 11, 2011
Co-creator of Farmville and the technical platform for Zynga. Co-creator of the Lotus Share platform, which powers the new Lotus Connections Files and Wikis components at IBM. 8 patents pending, and world programming finalist. There will be technical and product mentors there to help. Co-founder of Yammer, and Geni.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
Jonathan Simkin: I was actually in high school when I decided I'd either start a company when I graduated, or go into patent law. They've got a program called Springboard, which helps really young companies get set up with mentors, and guides you through the startup process. They act as mentors and help companies grow.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Eli Aizenstat: Beatshare is a multimedia messaging platform, where we are bringing music into the heart of the communication space. Barry was a lead mentor there at Chapman University's Launch Labs, and we paired up. What were your backgrounds before Beatshare? The video and picture are from our service. All are separate.
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