Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

In the kelp beds off the coast of Southern California, one can find thousands of species of fish, but two of the most sought after by commercial fishermen are the California Halibut and the White Seabass. A good way to think about market segment is by thinking about fishing. You can order it on Amazon.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. Alexia Tsotsis. Thursday, August 9th, 2012. View Staff Page. Follow me on twitter. Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

On the other hand, you don’t want to come across as arrogant by name-dropping. Instead of using words to “name-drop” all the important people you’ve worked with or have been endorsed by, the following 4 methods will prove more effective: 1. This is a powerful way to add credibility to your business, and “name-drop” without bragging.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2019

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I came up with my company name by asking myself, what will I be doing often? When I was naming it, I had a few criteria.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2017

It lets you specialize in a specific area of environmental consulting such as hazardous waste, or land-use planning to name a few. This program, which is offered by University of Southern California among others, uses geospatial technologies to address major global challenges such as the environment.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2014

Even the card is in the name of the entity. is an author, speaker and financial business coach based in Southern California. Credit cards are another area I see business owners get bitten. Almost every credit card carries a personal guarantee – with the full ramifications above. Emily Chase Smith, Esq.

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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. They were giving us names of people that were not salespeople. I'm just gonna call the 28th name on this list of 50 people that I have to talk to that day.

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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. Ben & Jerry’s is a quirky ice cream company that’s best known for its creatively-named flavors and outspoken political advocacy. Ben & Jerry’s.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica. So many had names of partners (Kleiner Perkins) or local favorite identifiers like trees (Sequoia).

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The program was created in collaboration with some of the biggest brand names in the world, including Nike, IBM and Buzzfeed, and is aimed at passion-driven careers, like music, sports and media. In other news, Wired launched its Integrated business master’s program in collaboration with the University of Southern California.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. His name was Chip Kelly and he came off of a very successful stint as the coach of the collegiate Oregon Ducks. We can be blunt but we believe that builds healthier relationships. He had a sense of purpose and everybody knew what it was.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

I’ve met Sam several times and each time I’ve been at an event with him I’ve heard his opening line, “My name is Sam Jones. My name is Sam Jones. It goes like this, “My name is Mark Suster. I’m a partner at the largest VC fund in Southern California. I buy dead magazines.” He gets a stare every time. He’s a master.

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Up and Running

APRIL 16, 2012

Stop and think about all the material you produce to support your small business: ads, catalogs, stationary, envelopes, mailing labels, business cards, reply cards, websites, socials media pages and blogs… Your company name and logo appears on an extensive range of supplementary marketing collateral. But how memorable is it?

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

Operating in Southern California does make it hard to keep up with the flow of information and connections that takes place in the Valley across dinners, parties and happy hours, but Miller said he viewed that as an advantage because it helped him step back and think long-term about the business instead of being swept up in the moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

Because I’d made a name for myself as an innovative marketer in consumer financing, I was then recruited by GE, which still had a consumer finance brand at the time called GE Money. Two weeks later, I was named the executive director of global marketing for GE at the corporate level, working for Beth Comstock.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

My parents and my brother live in Southern California. There was a guy in New Jersey government named Ross Dakin. We onboarded a guy named Mike Flowers. Eric Ries : Please name some names. I'm forgetting Dylan's last name. So I'm lucky to have that. My brother is actually a surgeon.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0. I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? We downsized from 35 people in 2001 and are now a size that allows us to work directly with clients.

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 6, 2015

The frenzy at these higher levels, and the continuous stories of first time entrepreneurs in their early 20s who magically start these amazing companies is creating a demand at the bottom of the funding market, like the pyramid schemes in Southern California in 980 (see below). Look out for this trend, put your wallet away.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. The community has matured – The LA / Southern California market has many people who are now on their second and third companies. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2011

I’m a creative who participates in Writing projects on crowdSPRING, or in other words I primarily name stuff. I was born and raised in the South Bay area of Southern California, which is also where I currently live and work. Soon thereafter, I was hooked on phonics, I mean naming and took it up as a hobby.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Meanwhile, as much fun as the folks in Silicon Beach are having, JibJab CEO Gregg Spiridellis quibbles about the name. Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. Posted | Updated.

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Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

(Among the ironies on my recent trip to the Middle East and Europe, most quick hops between domestic destinations had WiFi but the long transatlantic flights didn’t.)

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

From Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to William Rainey Harper and Charles Van Hise (to name just a few hugely impactful higher education leaders) driven, entrepreneurial leaders have helped shape and direct U.S. This is a fascinating subject as a cursory review of U.S. higher education. higher education.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Not long after the manhunt began, Albert Karnig, the university’s president, emphasized that no one on the Southern California campus saw this coming: “To our knowledge, this is the first notice that anyone on our campus has had regarding this situation,” Karnig said. “…If A college professor could easily pull it off.”.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” I would think that with a name like Smucker’s it has to be a vile disease or possibly a large, poisonous, South American leech.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

I’ve been involved with several amazing companies throughout Northern and Southern Cal; I have expanded, launched, M&A’d, relaunched, liquidated, succeeded and failed, you name it. There’s a seriousness, a buzz, confidence, reliability, completeness, professionalism.

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www.startupspecialistnetwork.com

APRIL 29, 2013

Name (required). A robust, vibrant startup ecosystem has always existed in Southern California, but recently it’s reached a whole new level. For more information, contact Matthew D. Carlson , CIC, Vice President, Risk Strategies Company. No comments yet. Leave a Reply. Click here to cancel reply. Latest Posts. Blog Posts.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Red Wagon has been named “Best of Eugene Frozen Treats” by local newspaper “Eugene Weekly,” and their ice creams have been featured in food blogs and magazines such as “Sunset” and AAA’s “Via.” Increased revenue has gone hand-in-hand with public acclaim.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The funds not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. As a result many funds are OK with big bets. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

Your business name , your logo , your website design, your beer can or label designs, and your brewpub or tap house decor should all grow from the concepts you lay out here. Other breweries hire in mobile canning services like The Beer Monks of Southern California. What is the most important part of my customer’s experience?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Department of Defense, Nestle and University of Southern California. With the state-of-the-art algorithms, Virtualitics is able to render 3D visualizations of network graphs and compute insights that range from 10 to 100 times faster than other tools on the market. The company’s clients include Moody’s, Daimler, U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

I’d put a note down against their name reminding me of this view they had and then between fund-raising cycles I’d include them on data that we had showing LA’s continued development and growth (including SnapChat, Tinder, Maker Studios, Riot Games and others). We do a lot of deals in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. We're a technology company headquartered in Fresno, California, and together with the Kapor Center in Oakland have partnered to deliver Onward US, which is an initiative to put thousands of Americans back to work. Did law school in Southern California and had no intention of coming back.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Kirsten Saenz Tobey : My name is Kirsten Saenz Tobey. Kristin Groos Richmond : My name is Kristin Groos Richmond. Pretty soon it will be too late. This is still an exponential crisis and every day matters. Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

” And in newsjacking it worked because it’s in the Oxford English dictionary now, and my name is attached to it. Scott: And so one neuroscientist named Edward T. And he’s a dentist in Southern California. And there’s so many other dentists in Southern California. He’s a dentist.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 1, 2013

Audacity is required to build an innovative startup, to invent something new, try to do things others say you cannot do, and Southern California needs many more audacious people in its tech and media startup ecosystem. In the history of Southern California, there has always been a large slice of creativity involved also.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Initially, she cast a wide net, focusing on any angel investors who would meet with her locally in Southern California. Jillian realized she would need to pare down, and target angels who she thought were more likely to be interested in MomCo—namely, women and mothers. “We See Also: How to Find a Mentor. The takeaway here?

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