Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2014

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Doing business is a human process.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? Consider this blog post titled, “ Christmas 2012 Shatters More Smart Device and App Download Records.” Do I have data or facts to present so the story has legs? I am a VC. I hand out money. Final example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 Follow with a killer executive summary, investor presentation, and financial model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

Marketers see it as a better way to target customers, but the current consumer offerings have been slow to deliver. But entrepreneurs need to look more broadly into the B2B space for more lucrative opportunities. See who checks into your competition. Understand the competition. Sponsorships and advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. For entrepreneurs there’s too much money sloshing around. And it’s true that I still take a whole lot of first meetings with entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Customers today trust those they know and those they see others trusting. Increase customer leads and conversion. Maximize customer retention.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2015

Whether you’re a networked entrepreneur or just finding your way in the LA tech scene, TZ Tech Crawls give you a fun way to discover new things about the community and each other. ZehnerGroup designs and builds custom websites that scale. Praedicat is an independent corporation launched in March 2012. Praedicat, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. You are particularly vulnerable if: You have revenue concentration (few customers each providing a large total of percentage of your revenue).

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2012

You have security wherever you go because you have become big entrepreneurs and are giving talks all over to up and coming entrepreneurs and app developers. Our team was founded in May 2012 and we released our app on October 8 th , Chicago, IL. Competition? How unique are you from the competition?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

We told you about young twins behind Social network LAGbook , Today we caught up with two 19 year-old entrepreneurs from Naperville, Illinois. DinnDinn launched on Tuesday, August 28 2012. Any Competition? Juckins and Jeremy A. Juckins founded DinnDinn , an app changing the way we taste and ch0ose the best burger shop in town.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Want to be an entrepreneur? In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. The company was acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company during August of 2012, for approximately $65 million. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

pitch and technology competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, I couldn’t help but feel like it might be a hall of crickets with a few passionate women warming the front row. Explaining that customers were. A Silicon Valley conference is a room full of suits, with the occasional skirt suite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. McKinsey estimates, for example, that the upper middle class in China will grow from 14 percent in 2012 to 54 percent by 2022. Speak the customer’s language. Don’t try to do it all at once.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

Michael Chasin: We initially started with $30,000 in angel funding from an entrepreneur here in Los Angeles. Michael Chasin: The most challenging part of any startup is getting in front of people, and finding customers. It sounds like you have some angel funding? They run a few businesses and believed in the concept.

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