Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). They have data from surveys they did with corporate development officers (e.g.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2018

A brief bit of science before we dive into how to come up with ideas: Good ideas are networks. In order to create new connections, you need to place yourself in environments that actually mimic the neural networks of a mind exploring the boundaries of the adjacent possible.”. Steve Johnson. Very clever.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Some of these businesses are still with us, including Google and the social media behemoth Facebook. The story of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, or at least Hollywood’s version of it, should be familiar to anyone who’s seen The Social Network or spends more than five minutes each week surfing the Internet. project.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

A brief bit of science before we dive into how to come up with ideas… Good ideas are networks. You are a part of a ‘liquid’ network. They’re a camera company that got started in 2002. In a human’s brain, there are approximately 100 billion of these cells. You allow your idea to develop slowly, over time. You make mistakes.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. Stick a fork in it. It’s not going to be a big deal.” Alexia Tsotsis: Yes, and we are watching that now.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. When I could take no more, I left Cape Town, got on a 26 hour flight to California, and started my life all over. Thanks to Brian Dwyre, Kidioke Media LLC ! #25

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