Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It’s easy for entrepreneurs to postpone decisions in tough situations, in favor of more study. Entrepreneurs need to actively listen to customers, investors, and other constituents, just like sales people need to listen before they talk. Push marketing doesn’t work well today, in the age of interactive networking and peer reviews.

Sales 139

Sales Training Startup Customer 139

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Yet, according to a recent study , more than half of tech employees see their current office culture as toxic. As an executive, I found that the first step toward fixing this is actively listening to people, and not being defensive in responses. That can’t possibly be healthy for employee morale, productivity, or customer focus.

Technical Review 91

Technical Review Organization Activity .Net 91

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2008

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. invested in Q3 of 2007, and down slightly from venture numbers in Q2, when there was approximately $966M in venture deals.

Southern California 100

Southern California SoCalTech Technical Review Draper 100

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2013

There''s been a lot of activity over the past two years in the Southern California accelerator/incubator market, with numerous groups (Amplify, EvoNexus, K5, LaunchpadLA, MediaCamp, Science, StartEngine, and many, many others) looking to help entrepreneurs start and fund their companies. But, how successful have they been?

Southern California 222

Southern California Incubator Report Startup 222

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. we are not going to invest. Brad on blogging. was starting.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The result is that the Main Street Venture Fund consistently has more money available than good opportunities for investment. After considering about 200 investment opportunities over the past two years, we have established a decision making process to identify trophy entrepreneurs and startups. Participation. Partnership.

Funding 106

Funding Startup Entrepreneur Activity 106

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

It’s easy for entrepreneurs to postpone decisions in tough situations, in favor of more study. Entrepreneurs need to actively listen to customers, investors, and other constituents, just like sales people need to listen before they talk. Push marketing doesn’t work well today, in the age of interactive networking and peer reviews.

Sales 106

Sales Entrepreneur Customer Custom 106

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In fact, a Wharton Business School study in this decade of the “Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years,” concluded that only eight were first conceived by entrepreneurs, and twenty-two were conceived by employees. All you have to do is nurture this activity, rather than kill it. any organization, no matter what the size.

IBM 53

IBM IBM Java Google 53

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It’s easy for entrepreneurs to postpone decisions in tough situations, in favor of more study. Entrepreneurs need to actively listen to customers, investors, and other constituents, just like sales people need to listen before they talk. Push marketing doesn’t work well today, in the age of interactive networking and peer reviews.

Ideas 65

Ideas Sales Entrepreneur Customer 65

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2012

Upstart approaches risk capital differently, investing in youth as they wait to fuel the next generation of entrepreneurs our economy so desperately needs with their future earnings as security not the project or idea or firm as they chase their dream career in whichever field they want. Upstart received a $ 1.75

Startup 61

Startup Google Mentor Capital 61

InfoChachkie

MAY 20, 2013

So we were dating, living together, (and) we were both in tech. According to Tige, “(We went) back to Silicon Valley, back to the tech world, and grinding away, grinding away. A lot of times we''re tied up and can''t even get out for a weekend because there''s a deadline due or a release date. (It that really last.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Startup Software Engineering Technical Review 235

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Ramin Sadr is CEO of Los Angeles-based Mojix (www.mojix.com), a firm which is taking experience originally garnered by the firm's technology team in developing -- of all things -- deep space probes for NASA, and has been applying that to the RFID market. Mojix is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures, and Innocal.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Innocal Technology Software Review 113

InfoChachkie

MAY 20, 2013

So we were dating, living together, (and) we were both in tech. According to Tige, “(We went) back to Silicon Valley, back to the tech world, and grinding away, grinding away. A lot of times we''re tied up and can''t even get out for a weekend because there''s a deadline due or a release date. (It that really last.

Entrepreneur 164

Entrepreneur Startup Software Engineering Technical Review 164

AeA Los Angeles Council

APRIL 25, 2008

A study by the Telework Coaltion surveyed 13 organizations that collectively had more than 77,000 teleworkers. Many jobs require face-to-face interaction with co-workers or clients that no amount of technology can overcome. One-third listed it as the best way. The company culture can get lost without frequent interaction.

AeA 40

AeA IBM IBM Tool 40

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

No one has ever been able to execute on that from a technology standpoint before. We are a technology company, not an ad agency, and we are really just a bunch of nerds who believe we can turn this thing upside down, and let people try those apps out before downloading. It's been a resounding success. It's all about who you know.

Startup 113

Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

I’m in the team centric sphere so every investment decision I make first & foremost centers on this plane. I made an investment in a company with deep domain knowledge. You do a startup and decide you want somebody to step in and run the company so you can focus on technical excellence. ON LEADERSHIP.

CTO Hire 363

CTO Hire Technical Review Startup Demand 363

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). Silly, right?

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217