TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Don’t worry about scaling just yet. channels (search, social, viral, new media), cost-efficient distribution We often reference Dave’s work when talking to innovators. If you know of more resources on this topic, or want to talk about anything startup or tech related, we’d love to hear from you.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Your first customers for any product or service form your reference base, the important group of allies that your marketing and salespeople rely upon when attempting to create buzz and make a mass market for a new product. And I am serious about the “…at all costs” admonition. Greatly exceed expectations at all costs.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The reference was in the form of a gold tablet that stated, “By the strength of the eternal Heaven, holy be the Khan’s name. This golden reference effectively communicated the Emperor’s sentiments in absentia. Modern-day references are effective because they rely upon a powerful principle of influence, Social Norming.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When it comes to content, the group wants Netflix to increase its funding of trans and non-binary talent, bring employee resource groups into conversations about potentially harmful content, hire more trans and non-binary content executives, and revise internal procedures around commissioning and releasing sensitive works.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

How about the size of the group? How about using the names for marketing, fundraising? How about “chairman” of the advisory board? University professors, industry gurus, lawyers familiar with patent law and former executives of competitor companies are typical recruits you might consider.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

So let’s summarize what we've already found to be different about searching with LLMs: What’s Different About Search with LLMs Search methods powered by LLMs stand out as transformative tools, offering businesses an edge in their information retrieval and customer engagement processes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever get I’m about to offer you some fund-raising advice that flies directly in the face of what most conventional wisdom will tell you. Reference Calls I do the exact same for reference calls. Why you should never have a data room?—?the How should I best prepare for that?”

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Berkonomics

JUNE 9, 2022

He referred to the three as legal advice , moral advice, and political advice. Remember that this was a book about politics. “There are three types of advice,” the wise White House Senior Counsel to the President told the young White House attorney.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of talking to Samir Kaji on the Venture Unlocked podcast about a wide range of topics that we as venture capitalists think about everyday, including: How to build a generational firm?—?retaining And again, just like in enterprise sales, this is all about differentiation ?—?what Let me explain.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 25, 2024

Everyone, even seasoned CEO’s can use a good coach who knows how to bring out the best in a person, is knowledgeable about the business process, and who has an extended list of relationships to call upon to fill needs that become obvious in the coaching process. Business coaches come in all sizes and shapes. It is worth asking.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 19, 2020

Who would have thought about COVID 19 and public’s panic responses? And how about “Contagion” and the many books and movies about pandemics? Broadening our frame of reference. Our frame of reference must be as broad as possible when asking “what if” questions to protect our future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2021

This refers to the human tendency to select and interpret available information in a way that confirms pre-existing hopes and beliefs. This refers to our mind’s tendency to give excessive weight to the first information we receive about a topic or the first idea we think of.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2021

For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have an article from Tony Cristiano of Pivotal Arc, talking about 3 Steps to Software Market Entry Success. Which flagship sales will you reference? Do you have an article that would be useful to the SoCal startup and technology community? Let us know! Will it work?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2022

Enlightenment refers to an interest in staying informed and approaching every interaction free of prejudice. An effective leader is intellectually curious, constantly learning, and genuinely in pursuit of wisdom about people, places, technologies, scientific advances, economies and cultures.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

” Musk has talked about producing an all-electric pickup truck for years now. Little is known about what this cyber truck will look like, although there has been plenty of speculation. Instead, it appears Musk is tying the reveal to the same date that’s listed in the opening title for Blade Runner.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Email readers, continue here…] Let’s refer to this as managerial ideation. Empathize –learn about the audience for whom you are designing. And if the response is less than we expected, what can we do differently? Should we start the “what” cycle again to refine the concept? Ideate – brainstorm creative solutions.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I called an (ex) LP to tell him about her and my goals for her. Leadership is about recognizing your next generation of talent and helping lift them up. Or, maybe it’s just about getting out of the way and watching what they can achieve. Wait, What About Yves? She’s empathetic and brings great humor to her work as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2023

More importantly, he talks about the actions required to build a network of contacts at the highest level. Friends to the end talk about what’s important to them and aren’t afraid to discuss private matters. I recommend that you use the top floor as the reference point to think about your own business relationships.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2020

As worries about the spread of a new virus from China--which has resulted in the quarantine of Wuhan, China , a city of 11 million--a Los Angeles company, Dimer UVC Innovations , is offering up its technology to airports and officials, at no cost, to a number of airports.

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Berkonomics

JULY 22, 2021

First a reminder about why we hire: New hires can shore up the weak areas of a business in ways existing employees cannot – if hiring is done to fill true needs. How about the bottom ten percent rule? First, it is not a rule, just a proposition from one of the many business books dispensing advice. Do not do it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2013

Workships, according to workplace expert Dr. Jan Yager, refers to those workplace relationships that haven’t yet developed into full-blown friendships, but are closer than mere acquaintances. The best advocates do this because they care about you as a person, not because of personal aspirations. Workship - Advocate.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In aviation circles, we read in our pilot magazines about “Never again!” or “I learned about flying from that.” How about the entrepreneur -founder? I volunteered to do this several times when there was no-one else, even the founders, to do this. And these were emotional experiences to say the least. We ask ourselves “what if?”.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

A new, Los Angeles startup, myRight , is hoping to help users with some basic legal questions, through a new service geared around asking users questions-and-answers about their legal questions.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. What about if elderly people never had to ask a relative or healthcare worker to change the batteries on their hearing aids? Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2017

Your first customers for any product or service form your reference base, the important group of allies that your marketing and sales people rely upon when attempting to create buzz and make a mass market for a new product. Email readers, continue here…] And I am serious about the “…at all costs” admonition in this insight.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Maybe those references to TFA sound like bragging, or he thinks “passion for numbers” sounds silly. If having an LLM write the whole blurb seems like too much, we could also fill our empty textbox with a writing prompt: I know writing about yourself can be tough. Think about text boxes that have stymied you in the past.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2014

Why You Need to Be Sure You’re Not the Sucker ” I talked about how VCs (or other investors) get deals sent to them and how to interpret a referral. I wrote here about the importance of proprietary dealflow . I wrote here about why I avoid party rounds. I’m certain we’ll talk about it soon enough.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2013

I’ve written a lot about recruiting and hiring at startups including my controversial post on whom not to hire and my rapid response to the flame war. I’ve also written extensively on sales and on which sales execs to hire and how to think about the different kinds of sales leaders. Not always, of course.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

And there’s still about eight weeks left to go before it’s New Year’s Eve. Check out the methodology section of our most recent global VC report, from Q3 2018 , to learn more about how Crunchbase News categorizes rounds. We’re referring to the same type of projected data we use in the quarterly reports.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Glazier--who is was most recently CEO of Eventful, but has a long history in San Diego's tech industry--sat down with us to talk about the new startup. When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. How does this work?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 24, 2016

The Affordable Care Act, often referred to as “Obamacare,” has enacted major changes for healthcare providers since it was enacted at the start of President Obama’s first term. The time to begin thinking about marketplace exchanges and their inherent competitive offerings is now.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Now, Microsoft-owned GitHub is gearing up to remove these references to slavery by naming primary code repositories “main” instead of “master.” GitHub talked about making these changes as early as June, when CEO Nat Friedman tweeted that it was something the company was already working on. The other 25% are undecided.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

In a perfectly coordinated landing, two of the Falcon boosters successfully returned to Earth in Florida, with a third last seen about to land on the SpaceX drone ship. SpaceX lifted the Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:45PM ET. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2022

Willingness in analysis, vision, and numbers to think about the future. Every business strategy should still be based first on a long-term business vision and goal – referred to by James Collins and Jerry Porras in their textbook “ Built to Last ” as the Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG). Initiating and pacing the implementation process.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

do but for video production,” Xu said to TechCrunch, referring to two of the top AI content helpers of today. We’ve seen how much text-to-image can do, and I expect text-to-video to bring about even greater disruption when it’s ready,” said Xu. “We are doing what Jasper and Copy.ai

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

This post is about the “P” or pain. The point of PUCCKA was to develop a common methodology to make sure our whole team approaches sales with the same mindset and to give us a language to talk with each other about our prospects, as in, “have you identified your customers pain point yet?”. That is still “pain.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2022

In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. As the company matures, and you learn more about your customers and your market, then it is time to go broader or deeper.

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