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What I Learned In 2015: Hamet Watt, Upfront Ventures

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Over the last week or so, we've featured the reflections of our readers on 2015 and what it has meant for Southern California's technology industry. As an entrepreneur and a new investor, this couldn't be more relevant. As an entrepreneur, being more focused on the outcome than the process can be counterproductive.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies.

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Grandparents Day 2015 Gets a Boost from Entrepreneurs

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Young entrepreneurs are modernizing senior care for the better and creating more reliable ways to support the aging generation. Hopefully more entrepreneurs will enter this space in the near future and create even more helpful services for the elderly and senior citizen communities. . Everyone has a beloved grandparents.

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4 Strategies That Must Be Part of Customer Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

With the advent of social media and the pervasive move to smartphones, even customers who still prefer to purchase in brick-and-mortar stores have dramatically changed their shopping habits. If you refuse to play by their rules, they have the power to easily find alternatives, and actively pull other potential customers away.

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4 Communication Hacks to Entice Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

Most importantly, it’s more about being a proactive leader who connects to customers and the team deeply, rather than a bright light that struggles to be seen amidst the glare of a million other bright lights. Entrepreneurs have personal knowledge and strengths that can get them past the social level in connection.

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The entrepreneur who became a Lyft driver to conduct customer research

StartUp Beat

Grigori Mikayelyan was a failed and an aspiring entrepreneur; furnished with a new idea – and determined to make a success of it – he became a Lyft driver to conduct customer research with his passengers. What prospective entrepreneur wouldn’t benefit from canvassing such a broad scope of opinion?

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9 Entrepreneur Leadership Principles Worth Practicing

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurship is all about leading – leading customers to a new product or service, leading a startup team to peak performance, and leading a new business to the market opportunity, while providing maximum return to stakeholders. Authentic entrepreneurs lead through the power of personal influence, rather than coercion.