deal architect

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

We have a wide ranging conversation around supply chains - the challenges in the semiconductor sector, the chaos at the California ports, the labor. In the 59th episode of Burning Platform, we (again) host Bob Ferrari of Supply Chain Matters.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 16, 2021

Both are expected to roll out later this year How the COVID-Preneur Led to a Micro Business Renaissance was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In a post-COVID environment more than ever, talent and resources are rapidly flowing into Austin from California, New York, and everywhere else. Austin: a magnet for talent and resources was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 8, 2022

Is there an alternate future where Boz didn’t return to California? I still almost went to UC San Diego but figured (correctly) I would probably spend the rest of my life in California so it would be good to branch out for a few years. I’m comfortable not hearing conversations not intended for me. AB : Flight. Thanks Boz!

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. Their model in California was so successful they eventually created a new organization, Onward US, dedicated to putting American workers displaced by COVID-19 back to work.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

They're both longtime sales leaders, practitioners and professors of entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. We've got our final tonight actually, and we will be up there in front of those students side by side, just as we are here in this conversation. We do everything together.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

You can listen to the entire conversation above or via this link , but I also wanted to highlight one topic we discussed that I feel strongly about, which is how I think enterprise sales and venture fundraising are basically the same muscle. We invest 40% of our dollars in Southern California firms?—?and that’s your target market.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

At the recent Upfront Summit my partner Stuart Lander had the opportunity to show some California Love and interview three of the wealthiest Bitcoin owners, each of whom were some of the earliest owners in the asset class and who haven’t sold any of their holdings.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Alternatively, an AI system may be able to reduce labor costs on the production line at a manufacturing plant or drive conversions for a retailer by providing consumers with the information they need. Christa Martin is a Chief Outsiders CMO based in San Diego, California.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

Of course as a non-Korean I can only generalize but when it was my turn I told her my experience of living in Europe and Japan where failure seemed less tolerated than my experience of living in California and working in the tech sector. Perhaps that’s changed in the decade since I left but that was my experience when I lived there.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

We developed Pages based on actual conversations we had with our customers,” explains Kenny Rueter, Kajabi co-founder and CEO. “We A recent user community meetup at Kajabi’s offices in Irvine, California. That personal approach to software development has been a key feature of Kajabi’s culture since the company launched in 2010.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Kelly McAdoo is the City Manager & CEO of the City of Hayward in Alameda County, California. Kelly, your Twitter handle asks, "Can we please disrupt the conversation about local government?" How do we enable conversations that move us beyond where our organizations have been for the last 50 years?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

You never got around to agreeing exact equity splits but you had many conversations about it. Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? He mostly covers Southern California. Anyone who does IP law in Southern California seems to use Knobbe Martens.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

I really enjoy events where there are interesting people with interesting conversations to be had. I’m sure it sparks interesting conversations. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? But I also like to be home with my family (or playing volleyball or whatever). People understand that.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

This post is admittedly the outcome of a conversation with a few people over some beers. The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup? Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Note from the editor: We talk a lot about conversion rate optimization, and how it’s about showing the right people, the right thing, at the right time in order to get more out of your website. We use targeting in a similar way to shape our terms to boost their conversion potential. We should look toward.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Users are given the ability to schedule, prioritise, converse, and monitor work in real time, culminating in tasks being completed with great speed and efficiency. . The company’s early operations were based in Mountain View before it relocated to San Jose, San California in February, 2016.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

The quintessential California couple, they stood out in our crowd as the engineer (in his late 20′s, respected by his peers and the customer) had hair down to his shoulders, sharply contrasting with the military crewcuts of the customers and most of the other contractors.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The VP of Sales comes to a board meeting, still optimistic, and provides a set of reasonable explanations – “our pipeline looks great, but orders will close next quarter” or “we’ve got lots of traffic to our site, we just need to work on conversion.” Just had a conversation today with a student taking Steve’s class.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

No more scrawling notes from a phone conversation on a sticky or digging through your overflowing inbox for an email. Based out of California, Insightly is a CRM with features that may appeal to small businesses. Freshsales is one of seven cloud-based apps created by Freshworks , a company headquartered in California.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2022

How To Connect, Converse, And Convert Through Social Media Listening written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. She teaches a Digital Marketing course (virtually) at the University of California in Irvine. 7:44] How do you engrain this idea of conversations not campaigns into your social media team members? [9:46]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

It seems like businesses who focus on finding their repeatable and scalable sales model first get to revenue more quickly and the funding conversation becomes much easier. I see a lot of early-stage entrepreneurs waste too much time chasing money rather than figuring this out first.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. The response from across the country?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas exports more than California and New York combined. Only California and New York have more. You can launch a business in Austin or Houston but eventually you will probably need to sell to customers in California or raise funding there. More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and 6 of the Fortune 50.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

This post is admittedly the outcome of a conversation with a few people over some beers. The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup? Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This reminded me of a conversation with one of my direct reports years before my daughter was born. Our conversation went like this: Me: Jim, how are we doing with getting Ansys ported? When I explained this to him, the conversation got heated. Conversion ideas? I realized that my daughter had confused motion with action.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2010

At times I’ll do what I consider an extension of teaching; a two-day Customer Discovery/Validation intensive session with a large corporation serious about Customer Development at my ranch on the California Coast. This stifles or shuts down the important “outlier” conversations that drive pivots and iterations in the discovery process.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

At a young age I watched her open a bakery, which in the early 80′s was ahead of its time in serving croissants, gourmet coffee and high-end, homemade cakes, cheesecakes and french pastries for our small town of Sacramento, California (Carmichael, if you know the area). She started it with a partner, 50-50.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Blogs also make it easy for new people to find those interesting conversation. In this era of “open source” everything, open conversations on blogs make a lot of sense. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? That's great to hear. 2) How do these mind maps change in a 2.0

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This prestigious area code is home to some of Southern California’s most affluent neighborhoods and is associated with luxury, sophistication, and exclusivity. Building trust and familiarity with potential customers can boost engagement and increase conversion rates.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Paying 0% in state income tax in Texas versus up to ~10% in California or ~6.5% The exodus of Silicon Valley techies to Austin has largely been fuelled by a quality of life that compares to California, but comes at half the cost of living. That’s helpful in a couple of ways. On the one hand, your runway will last that much longer.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Even though most of this message was already drafted, we also had a Hail Mary of a final acquisition conversation that closed the following morning. The Whole Enchilada For those of you interested in more than The Skinny, keep reading… Countless conversations have been had with key users, customers, advisors, mentors, family and friends.

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Transformify

MAY 22, 2023

However, the Directive has narrow prohibitions on certain practices, limiting protection for emotional and psychological states, health information, private conversations, and non-work-related data. The Role of EU Institutions: EU institutions should not relinquish their role in regulating technology-driven work arrangements.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Carbon Health is now running some of the largest vaccination sites in California, most famously at Dodger Stadium, in partnership with the City of Los Angeles. Here's my conversation with Eren Bali. I think one of the things that we, who are, you have the privilege of being here, in America, in California, in Silicon Valley.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Whenever this conversation comes up, my answer is always Apple. I started the company when I was 25 years old and had just moved from California to NYC. Even if you’re from the starting line, if you commit to finish the race, you will finish the race successfully. Thanks to Eliza Nimmich, Tutor The People ! #9-

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Austin Startup

MAY 8, 2018

California is way harsher than elsewhere in the country. And the converse is true as well. Early Startup Employee Compensation was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Originally published at Silicon Hills Lawyer.

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