Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

One of the highlights of my trip was a startup dinner which included Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of 37signals. At the time, they had just come out with their new book " Rework " had downloaded a copy to my Kindle, but hadn't had a chance to read it yet. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked.

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Transformify

MARCH 24, 2020

Even before coronavirus pandemic, investors were already asking tech startup founders ‘’What is your remote work strategy?’’ ’’ as they were aware of talent scarcity and ever-increasing rents in tech hubs like New York, London, Los Angeles, Berlin, etc. Work From Home Jobs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

For example, heres the video of my talk last month at Twiistup in Los Angeles (slides are posted here ): I try to post event-related updates to Twitter , but if you want to subscribe to my event-specific plans directly, Im trying Plancast (a new startup founded by a friend). Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

David Daneshgar, Gregg Weisstein, and Farbod Shoraka, the founders of BloomNation.com. But, of course, they need funding—and wouldn’t you know it, one of the founders is a world class poker player. Like many other new businesses, BloomNation started by addressing a need in the market. But flowers are not like french fries.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

Some come close, like New York or now Boulder but it’s still not quite the same. The new hot spots are San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, the east bay, etc. But they don’t quite make it. Talk about scalability! If you plop your company here, great things could happen.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. 20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55) Brian Chesky : I am Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO, and head of community at Airbnb. I hope you will.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

A mutual friend connected me in San Francisco with Ori in New York. Internet businesses are harder and harder to name since the dot com is still the leading TLD. KOTAW, the name of my Los Angeles content marketing agency was inspired by the love story of two dogs, Dakota and Woofie. 7 – Great Introductions.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2015

Alex Blumberg at Internet Week in New York. This week, we hear from Alex Blumberg from Gimlet Media and the Startup Podcast in our new Bcast Bytes segment. with Levi King, Founder and CEO of Creditera) – (12:56). Photo Credit: Insider Images/Andrew Kelly. Only have time for a Bcast Byte?

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

In addition, 83% of companies had a racial composition that was entirely Caucasian, while only 12% of founders were Asian and less than 1% of founders were African-American. For example, ff Venture Capital looks at 2,000 companies a year and invests in only 10-20 new ones (between 0.5 Conventional Founder Background.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Back in 2010, we were running a digital agency in Los Angeles for premium fashion brands when they came upon the idea for NuORDER. As a result, I cofounded Artemis Health, a company that offers a benefit optimization data platform for employers. Thanks to Sebastian Ravitz, Loudley ! #9- 9- Provide better way to do e-commerce.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

The co-owners, including myself, put our heads together to create a first-of-its-kind integrated digital marketing and PR agency, catering to both start-up and seasoned franchise companies. It was 1994: the Internet was still in its infancy and e-commerce was still a relatively new phenomenon. One less worry for moms.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. Or as founder Joe Fernandez recently told me, “we’re building the ‘PageRank’ for people.” They have focused much of their initial work on Twitter data.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

12:30 PM: Conversation with Michel Gondry 18ABCD – Elvis Mitchell, film critic at tthe New York Times interviews the director of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind&# Cool. 12AB – A discussion about the new media democracy, citizen journalism and the wisdom of the crowd. Let me show you how to rework that.

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