TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. What excites me about this space is that there’s so much low-hanging fruit.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Now, I’m pretty on the record that being an entrepreneur is about being great at The Do. I’ve talked in the past about how I manage my own creative process. I zone out and think about how things could be different. This is one of the positive signs of ADHD that nobody ever talks about. Startups Are for Doers.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To understand how one local company is making that transition, we talked with Los Angeles-based All About Addiction (www.allaboutaddiction.com), a company that grew out of Adi Jaffe's work at UCLA as a trained psychologist. First, what is All About Addiction about? The idea was to make it simpler for people to find rehab.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Thursday, March 3, 2011 -- Drupal in a Day Training. Do you have an active interest in learning about Drupal? All you need is a basic understanding of the Internet and familiarity with how websites function, a conceptual understanding of Content Management Systems (CMS). See https://www.larks.la/register/2011/march/drupal-in-a-day-7.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2019

While thinking about it, I realized that it’s really not that different from the toughness required and trained into America’s elite military force of Navy SEALs, who are known to be cool under fire, able to sense danger before it’s too late, and never give up on achieving their objective.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In this guide, you'll learn exactly what Claude is, how it works, and all about its parent company, Anthropic. Having written about the AI revolution and the expansion of the chatbot ecosystem for some time now, I've used Claude regularly since its release. GPT-4, which powers the paid version, is trained on an enormous set of 1.5

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 -- Stop Wondering and Start Learning About Social Media. Come take a deep dive into learning more about social media and how it can make you more productive. 4 hours of training. 149 for socaltech members. Email Amani@woodsidemediagroup.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2019

Business ethics are more about religion than management or leadership. Deal with this myth by sharing with colleagues some of the highly practical tools for making sense of the issue – such as ethics audits, behavior codes, risk strategies, targeted training and leadership guidance. The reality is different. Ethics can’t be managed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Train and coach continuously. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Know your customers intimately.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Most entrepreneurs spend far too much time thinking negatively about competitors, and can’t resist making derogatory statements about them to their own team, investors and even to customers. As an investor, I always listen carefully to what an entrepreneur says, and does not say, about competition.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Those of us who keep tabs on the tech world hear a lot about the challenges of hiring and retaining IT talent. According to a forecast by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics , more than 1.3

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

As a business consultant with experience in large companies as well as startups, I often hear about dysfunctional management hierarchies, as well as the value provided by exceptional ones. We have all heard about the successes of flattened management organizations in the last decade at Facebook, Valve, Zappos, and others.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

“One of the things we’re doing as a company is moving into sports-specific training,” says Speck. “We have diverse training plans that fulfill and serve people who are just getting to the gym to people who are college students playing football helping them get to the next level.” per month or $83.99

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2015

Most business managers preach that the key to success is holding employees accountable for actions, but I have found that successful entrepreneurs are all about holding themselves accountable. They skip the blame and complain game, and make things happen despite major obstacles. People deliver excuses rather than results.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Let’s talk about lawyers… Over the years in business and as a member of over forty boards, I have received good advice from corporate attorneys and on occasion bad advice as well. There is a line that should be drawn in a relationship between corporate attorney and CEO or board.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 17, 2018

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series of posts sharing thoughts from technology leaders about 2018 trends and 2019 forecasts. Today’s artificial intelligence technologies have demonstrated they’re capable of handling specific tasks, such as identifying pictures of cats or spotting cancer in CT scans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Train them fully, give them authority, make them accountable, and tie their pay to customer satisfaction. Train and coach continuously. Companies with great service routinely spend 3% to 5% of salaries training team members – experienced as well as new. Know your customers intimately.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

I like how she was able to motivate, train, and reward employees, including the implementation of an incentive program to get every member of the team actively involved in generating new business. Employees will care only about work they create.” Hire employees who have strong skills, with the motivation to learn new ones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2016

Most entrepreneurs spend far too much time thinking negatively about competitors, and can’t resist making derogatory statements to their own team, to investors, and even to customers. As an investor, I always listen carefully to what an entrepreneur says, and does not say, about competition.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2020

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , which develops online employee training and development tools, says it is offering up its exertise to help K-12 teachers with their shift to online learning.

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Berkonomics

MAY 3, 2018

Many executives and managers have made the mistake of using the financial and sales forecast to plan and execute hiring of new employees – so that they could be trained and up to speed when the demand arrives. The balance between preparedness and cost. Although hiring early does add to overhead by bringing employees aboard before they.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Entrepreneurs often complain about the amount of time wasted in meetings, because one of the team members just wants to be heard, or feels that what he or she has said is not valued. Office politics are really about self-interest and self-esteem. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

Since then, Terry and Ellis were accepted into Elemental Excelerator’s startup incubator , raised about $400,000 in grant money, launched a pilot program with Tellus Power focused on preventative maintenance and landed contracts with EV charging networks and manufacturers such as EV Connect, ABB and SparkCharge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Startups don’t come with formal training courses. New entrepreneurs quickly find that what they learned in business school is no substitute for real-world business experience and training. Building a startup is more about love than money. Startups don’t come with pension, health, or 401(k) plans included.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

The shootings that targeted police officers at a peaceful protest in Dallas, which followed the officer-involved shooting deaths of Philando Castile near Minneapolis and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, LA, also have raised distressing questions about racism in America and our criminal-justice system. Need more convincing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2023

In business, leadership consists of creating the vision and direction, while management is primarily about gaining traction to achieve it. Train yourself to follow leadership best practices. Try it – you may find and train that great boss you never had. You don’t have to be a boss to be a leader or a manager. Marty Zwilling

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

In other circumstances the five-day workshop, scheduled this fall at George Washington University in the nation’s capital, might go unnoticed among the sea of executive training programs offered every day. The bank, LifeSci Advisors, is looking to pay penance by helping fund the training program. Morgan conference in January.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Start with only the very best people, demand excellence, and train them to stay ahead of the pack. How can people trust their leaders if they’re not being fully informed about what’s at stake? Team members must act intuitively, based on training and motivation. Craft mutually beneficial relationships.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2015

Back in 2012 when the Flame virus was wreaking havoc across the world, the need for army-trained hackers became a whole new frontier for IT software companies. As a result, software companies are turning to military trained hacking talent to help deal with this threat.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 1, 2019

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. What is different about you as a manager? But you know that of course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. You won’t get any credibility for refusing to admit that airplanes are competition for trains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

People need realistic expectations about how much effort and time it takes to get just about any job. You need to be able to figure out what not to do, and how to not do it, by organizing and prioritizing, and still impress your boss with your thoroughness. Productivity is much more than doing everything faster. Job Hunting Basics.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2013

We all know about Zappos customer culture and their willingness to stay on a call with a customer for up to 10 hours. The best part, when I rave about them in the social sphere they respond with appreciation and humor. Plus they knew that I cared just as much about their individual success as I did my own. The Media Company.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

After an initial focus, perhaps during an introductory meeting or training session, the salespeople hit the road. Consider a sales relationship where your product will be in the bag of salespeople from the partner company. Such a partnership requires much more than a general agreement at top levels.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 18, 2017

senators about his views, his plans for Obamacare, and personal financial transactions. Price, an orthopedic surgeon by training, is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary. Tom Price, the man who could oversee an overhaul of the U.S. He would run the $1.1

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Southern California Edison Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

One strategy that can help ensure teams use meeting times efficiently is to notify staff ahead of time about what will be covered in a call so they can prepare ahead of time and waste less time during the meeting trying to get on the same page. Train Your Staff and Offer Skill Improvement Opportunities.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 29, 2019

When ProGuides pulled the covers off of its service earlier this year, the young Los Angeles-based startup intended to give gamers a way to train with professional and semi-pro esports players from around the world. “After we launched the beta, we found some interesting user behavior,” says Sam Wang.

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