Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2019

As the co-founder and president of Highland Capital Management, James Dondero made sure that the company he built will include charitable giving as one of its missions right from the very beginning. This is the time when he and co-founder Mark Okada decided to relocate the firm from Los Angeles to Dallas.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Hypemarks was a Los Angeles social sharing startup that after about a year of failing to gain traction and turn a profit, changed course, moved to San Francisco and became Tint , an embeddable social-feed service. For Tint, founder and chief executive Tim Sae Koo says his focus is building a strong team. start-up world.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- To build a community. I wanted to be a part of a community of consultants that would provide me with the opportunity to build relationships with other practitioners, share lessons learned, and periodically collaborate. Photo Credit: Will Bachman.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Eldon Mascoll’s media career began at HBO Pictures in Los Angeles, where he worked as an intern learning the ins and outs of the development and production of feature films and television programs. a nonprofit organization that helps disadvantaged communities learn about and experience culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Wonderful human being who is civically engaged, mother of 3, mentorer of younger founders, hard worker and arguer extraordinaire (so says her current Twitter bio).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. We have been on a drive to add more operational partners. I was the first operational startup partner added – having built and sold two software companies. Los Angeles'

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” I joined Upfront Ventures in 2007 and took over as co-Managing Partner in 2011 along with the founder, Yves Sisteron. ” Numero uno.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors. To this day, although New Frontier Data has been successful, Aguirre de Carcer still feels the effects of biases against women that are often held by the business and tech communities. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 That’s the problem.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2014

George Elfond is the co-founder and CEO of Rallyware. Elfond concentrates on business strategy, business development, and operations. Consulting’s Los Angeles and London offices. Consulting’s Los Angeles and London offices. Prior to Rallyware, George worked as a strategy consultant at L.E.K.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2020

I mentioned being a sports fan in the intro, because the leader I look up to the most is Phil Jackson, former mentor of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers. Lloyd and Mary are the founders of the co-op we now know as REI. One of the few people I look up to in my industry is Jason Fried, the founder of Basecamp.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Jason is the Founder of 37 Signals, makers of Basecamp, with over 3 million users and 2.8 Abcast (Camas, WA), Operator of digital radio platform - $500 thousand. Communication Intelligence Corp (Redwood City, CA), Supplier of electronic signature solutions for businesses - $2.2 10 million.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Though customers understand your franchise has a national presence, they may not realize each unit is individually owned and operated and could forsake the entire system because of issues with one location. It’s no doubt part of the reason why F45, which was established in 2012, now has over 1,300 franchises operating worldwide.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We expanded to Houston, San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles within months, and we were generally doing all the things and seeing all the things that a startup needed to do and see in order to feel good about VC funding prospects. Those were teachers, accountants, consultants, entrepreneurs, and community leaders.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. How do you meet them?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. The founder of Parachute, Ariel Kaye , had a clear vision for what she wanted to disrupt and how she thought she could do it. from Charter’s subscribers.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, establish your presence, interact with your community, and be active. When it launched its Los Angeles-to-San Francisco service, I tweeted my appreciation for the in-flight entertainment, and I almost immediately received a reply. Make sure you have a content strategy in place, and don’t post carelessly.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Applicaster helps content owners, broadcasters, cable companies and mobile operators of all sizes deliver innovative and profitable mobile broadcast experiences. Our mission is to help content owners, broadcasters, cable companies and mobile operators of all sizes deliver innovative and profitable mobile experiences. Our project.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Co-founder Anum Hussain talked about her company’s mission. What we need are systems for actually consuming all that information, and we believe our advantage is operating in this space. Tell us about the startup ecosystem in Los Angeles, where Acciyo is based. We sense a similar community feel in L.A.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2014

It’s important to note that many of today’s small businesses are owned and operated by women. The benefit of helping this group of entrepreneurs will result in increased revenues and job growth in community across the country. They represent nearly 50% of privately held companies but only 2.6% to substantially grow their businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I have been involved with a high profile one in Los Angeles – Launchpad LA – and we’ve decided to make a shift so I thought this was a good time for reflection. She joined Launchpad as a very non-traditional founder and defied every conventional expectation to build one of LA’s fastest growing companies.

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David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

In early 2012, my HBS Alumni Angels colleagues and I launched the Venture Capital Access Program (VCAP), an initiative to help women and minority-led businesses to raise capital from the Harvard alumni angel community. In the first full year of operation, VCAP attracted 159 applicants.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

Ive done a lot of placing people into positions, and I have never used a job board as a way to do that," says Rich Sloan , co-founder of StartupNation. Every type of business has their own meetings," says Martin Zwilling , founder and CEO of consulting group Startup Professionals. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 1 way to recruit talent.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

I didn’t set out to write a book but as we looked around the market for an operational playbook for sales, we couldn’t find one, so I tapped into my 20 years of sales experience and my network so that we could create a valuable resource for founders everywhere,” said Schwartzfarb. 16: Los Angeles, CA Oct. Denver, CO?—?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 29, 2018

Mitú, specifically, which is headquartered in Los Angeles and has operations in Miami, New York, Chicago, and Bogotá, broadcasts on more than 7+ platforms from Snapchat to television. They are Influencers outpacing the reach of even Oprah and the Kardashians.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners.

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

They are the founders of a new VC firm called SoGal Ventures , Pocket Sun and Ellie Galbut. About Pocket (from the SoGal website): Pocket Sun founded SoGal, one of world’s largest communities of diverse entrepreneurs with 10 chapters worldwide. I’m pleased to announce my first guests.

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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. One by one the markets in which you operate shut down. I think every founder, every CEO, every leader, could learn something, could take heart from Brian's example and I hope they will. I hope you will. Eric Ries : Hey man.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

While supporting the LGBTQIA+ community at-large is a personal interest of mine , I must admit that my attendance at this most-recent ROMBA event was purely motivated by self-interest. Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers. there are many avenues.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2018

Working with other business owners and entrepreneurs we are looking to create workshops for the local community to help assist them in entrepreneurship and winning the career lottery. Taking risks allows The Tylt to creatively explore new ways to serve our community which we’re confident will have a huge impact on our business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

How are user-generated reviews changing how restaurants operate and how we eat? 02:00 PM: Andrew Huff (Online News of Tomorrow) & Mark Milian (The Los Angeles Times) Studio SX – ([link]. 11:00 AM: Clay Shirky Presentation Ballroom D – Clay Shirky is just cool ([link]. But will the titans of P2P prevail?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

For more page-turning corporate drama, including the feud between Intermix co-founders and UCLA college buddies Brett Brewer and Brad Greenspan, Nasdaq delisting, proxy contest and lawsuits by Greenspan after he was fired as CEO, see Stealing MySpace by WSJ reporter Julia Angwin. MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc., of MySpace, Inc.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

The Los Angeles-based market research firm estimates that growth rate to hit nearly12 percent annually over the next five years. While Atlanta has B2C “operational talent” — evident by the city’s cluster of major media and marketing companies — it lacks B2C “entrepreneurial talent,” Cummings said. “We Dragon Army launches.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Or as founder Joe Fernandez recently told me, “we’re building the ‘PageRank’ for people.” If I Tweet about the Wynn Hotel while I’m in Las Vegas that Tweet has a different value to local business than if I Tweet it from my office in Los Angeles. Companies like Klout already use this information to determine who has influence.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 11, 2017

In his recent book The Givers: Money, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age , Inside Philanthropy founder David Callahan warns that we "face a future in which private donors – who are accountable to no one – may often wield more influence than elected public officials, who (in theory, anyway) are accountable to all of us."

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Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2014

Business attorney Nina Ries of Ries Law Group in Los Angeles, recommends a five-step process: Research. independently owned and operated by members of the community. Once you’ve figured out how you’re going to turn your hobby into a business, a next good step is to find out as much as possible about your industry.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way. I remember specifically one of the founders that we’d backed, when we kind of shook hands on our first investment said they were never going to raise anymore money and keep the team close and small. That founder has now raised almost $200M in funding.

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