Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2013

” Michelle and her business partner Andrew Ekelem are the founders of Chariot Mobility, a company dedicated to updating the manual wheelchair to a low-profile, efficient and ergonomic chair that better serves the needs of its users. “We thought we could use this opportunity to learn efficiently and write a better plan.”

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California Sacramento San Francisco Entrepreneur 66

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active. ““What’s the “Market Type” of your startup?&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. I'm from Stockton, California. So, Lenore started something called the SF New Deal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

Differences in how people are reached, their expectations of the buying process, how their trust is earned, the price point they’ll accept, what distribution methods are most efficient, the messaging that attracts them -- all these factors (and more) may represent different sub-segments. Halbut are flatfish.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Charles Edge :: Partner, 318 Author :: Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book April 16, 2007 1:37 AM Shashank said. in Computer Science.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 9, 2015

Like Douglas McGray , the CEO and EIC of California Sunday Magazine , a newly launched multiplatform magazine. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly. Hunter Walk: So a few months back this amazing magazine called California Sunday started showing up monthly.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2017

I therefore value business partners who share my values and vision, and who don’t just see me as an investor, but as a member of the team. Finally, the Paris startup space is now receiving private sector support through more than 60 incubators. People: I want to be an active investor who helps projects grow.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2014

One recent development has been that larger companies are now looking at small innovative companies in a new light — as potential partners in developing new products, processes and services. The result of all of these factors is to slow down innovation potential at large companies. A Case in Point.

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Intellectual Property Philadelphia Small Business California 106

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

Ideally, you will interview a few candidates and pick the partners you feel comfortable working with for a long time. California can be appealing to California-based investors (particularly fast-growth tech companies) despite high income and corporate taxes, and franchise fees for all businesses regardless of size.

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Delaware Stock Nevada Technical Review 83

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

As a bonus it meant the 1,400 aerial applicator companies could be a potential distribution channel partner. We’re now piloting our application with Tree Farmers in California and working with crop specialists at U.C. All of sudden what was an additional engineering and development effort now became a small, variable cost.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

A former partner in two leading Los Angeles media law firms, Lee holds a J.D. He is a current member of the California State Bar, and the Hollywood Writers Guild. With Growthink, Lee has continued his deep involvement with film, digital media, content delivery protocols, gaming technologies and sports initiatives. in History from UCLA.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. Sean Seton-Rogers, Partner, Profounders Capital, breaks the conversation into three areas: Control: voting/veto for new deals, share of management company. So assessing fit is critical. What should the firm do?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

million people EMPLOYED in California. Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals. How Do I Encourage Dissent Between Amongst the Partners? 22 million filed in just 4 weeks?—?for And only 8.7

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Michael Mondavi , founder and coach of Folio Fine Wine Partners. In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. In 2004, he launched Folio Fine Wine Partners with his wife Isabel and their children, Rob, Jr. Before that, restaurateurs would never compare California with France.

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Silicon Valley California Entrepreneur Cofounder 139

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) Or at times an even more honest answer, “My senior partners say this is the only way to do it.” Because it isn’t until after first customer ship that a startup discovers that their initial hypotheses were simply wrong (i.e.

Customer Development 238

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Michael Mondavi , founder and coach of Folio Fine Wine Partners. In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. In 2004, he launched Folio Fine Wine Partners with his wife Isabel and their children, Rob, Jr. Before that, restaurateurs would never compare California with France.

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Silicon Valley California Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Seth saw friends move out to California, go to school, and launch Plaxo. Brands like Samsung, LG, and Dunkin Donuts pay Meebo to advertise to users on our partner sites. Mobile is another very important distribution place for the internet and Meebo is on the iPhone, Android, and BB. Why did you pursue an MBA at Stanford?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. What’s bringing them here?

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

– I spoke about GRP’s recent exit of Ulta in which we returned $320 million to our limited partners. Can you please expand on your post about distributed teams? It was a verbal discussion on my post on distributed teams. - Yes, that was the value that we actually returned as opposed to the value of Ulta.

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Southern California Venture Capital Seed Stage Angel Investor 210

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Austin has been one the fastest growing cities in the country for the past 20 years that I’ve been here, but it feels like COVID-19 and California wildfires broke the floodgates already under pressure from high taxes and expensive real estate in landlocked coastal cities.

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Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

From California, to Illinois, and New York many of the largest U.S. Second, the Board can usually avoid a public vote or referendum by leasing to a new partner, something politicians fear. municipalities are also the most fiscally troubled. Some of the country’s greatest cities are on the brink of calamity. Ironically, given the U.S.’s

Private Equity 130

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 130

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

This week they were testing their hypotheses about Partners. Partners are the external companies whose product or service combines with your Value Proposition to create a complete customer solution or “whole product&# to satisfy customers. They worked on understanding their partners. The Nine Teams Present.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

By now, the new company they formed called The Curative has performed something like 20% of all COVID tests in the state of California. Because if you can do a lot of tests in the lab but you can't actually distribute it, there's not much point. We were supposed to have the kickoff meeting. Fred Turner : Yes.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Today, The Bean has approximately 350 company-owned stores, with locations in Southern California, Las Vegas, Honolulu, New York City and Southeast Asia. Darius Bikoff, who distributed his enhanced drinks to health food stores, independent retailers and mom-and-pop stores in the New York area. Energy Brands was founded in 1996 by J.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

One of the ways vendors and partners--whose behind-the-scenes assistance often is crucial to a start-ups success--can get a piece of the action is to exchange services for equity. Graham is careful about whom he chooses to partner with. FROM OUR PARTNERS. ); ); ); ADVERTISEMENT. Such an arrangement is hardly unprecedented.

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Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. We’re excited to welcome the CEO Michael Agustin to Los Angeles.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 5, 2009

You make several first order approximations about your business model, distribution channels, demand creation, and customer acceptance. You leave the comfort of your existing job, convince a few partners to join you and you jump off the bridge together. There is no certainty about a startup on day-one.

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Silicon Valley RSS Vertical California 212

Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

So I got out out of the building to meet and understand our customers and distribution partners. I remember after a month or two of talking to 14-22 year old male gamers (our potential target market,) I realized that for the first time in my career I had no emotional connection to my customers or channel partners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

and Union College found that what they label the “c factor” (another term for collective intelligence) is correlated with “the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group.” It means that teams understand what can be undone.

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Lean San Francisco Employee California 140

Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2017

However, while the culture of California startups has always been to scale first, then monetize; Texas’ startup culture is money first, then scale. The internet became one big opinion section where Google and Facebook made all the money in the distribution, but never helped in the creation or printing.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 3, 2012

As an example, I pretty much love all the beers created by Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California. Often this is done through alliances with strategic partners and other opportunities for synergy. Since my supermarket doesn't carry it, I'll drive 20 minutes to a beer distributor that does.

California 111

California Stock Distribution Advertising 111

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Same partner all along: Jorge Alonso, Creative Director. I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create. Absolutely.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

From Inside Higher Ed : An erstwhile associate kinesiology professor at California State University at San Bernardino remains on the lam after police raided his home last week and found a pound of methamphetamine and a cache of guns. Pretty amazing stuff. There is a dark side to entrepreneurship on campus.

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Southern California Kentucky Caching California 37

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. — Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

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