Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

Since then, Brant and Patrick have been tireless advocates for the whole Lean Startup movement. From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. Market segments drive your business model.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. 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.” Correspondingly, your products’ names contribute to, but do not dictate, their success.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

It’s not easy to name a new company or product. During the brainstorming process, you may think you’ve found the perfect name only to learn that name already belongs to someone else. All businesses should have access to affordable, high-quality company naming services. Hi, My name is Shaunda Lindsay.

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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. Oblong, led by Kwin Kramer, which houses more MIT grads per startup than probably any other in LA. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica.

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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. And many of the ones that do want to do startups are plotting their one YCombinator company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

They are l ongtime sales leaders, practitioners, and professors of Entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Also, they are investors, startup advisors, and co-founders of Agency18, a firm that helps mission-driven companies adopt their Unsold Mindset.

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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. Advice For The Young At Heart business advice Emily Chase Smith Entrepreneurship financial management money management startup' Credit cards are another area I see business owners get bitten.

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 6, 2015

By most measures, we are in crazy times right now in the tech startup world. or also called triple-F – friends, family and fools, who have a few thousand dollars they would like to put into the startup “market” are the fuel at the bottom of the market that get things started.

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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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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

One startup has been trying to change this by providing real-life career experiences for students before they face their intimidating career choices. BrandedU is one of the startup’s 3 programs offered. In other news, Wired launched its Integrated business master’s program in collaboration with the University of Southern California.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Department of Defense, Nestle and University of Southern California. What has the startup experience taught you about life? Tell us your favorite thing about being based in Pasadena, California. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

More specifically, Miller suggested that it was much easier to find vendors like a good auditor and bank to work with than it would have been in Silicon Valley with its greater saturation of startups. In its early stages, losing a customer would have doomed the startup, so it placed a strong emphasis on service. “We Miller noted.

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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. All 10 startups that are part of Launchpad LA got the chance to stand up for 2 minutes. It goes like this, “My name is Mark Suster. Tags: Startup Advice. He’s a master.

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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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ReadWriteStart

MAY 17, 2012

Outsourcing is pretty much de rigueur for modern startups looking to conserve capital. But making outsourcing work for your startup isn’t always easy. The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals named near-sourcing one of its top trends for 2012. One of the first steps is figuring out where to outsource.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

11:54) Raylene on how USDR has been built like a startup and the exponential rate of growth. (12:44) 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.

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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

MARCH 26, 2019

If you need help with vendor or employment, take a look at Quickly Legal , which offers entrepreneurs, small businesses and startups an easy and inexpensive way to create, sign and manage business contracts , with many you can start using right away. Other breweries hire in mobile canning services like The Beer Monks of Southern California.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. 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?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

When I counsel startup entrepreneurs I give them my blunt dose of reality, “If you can’t easily identify target leads who have a problem you can solve then hang up your cleats – you’re not going to succeed.” I think that’s where many startups and even VC funds go wrong. Why Buy Anything ?

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Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

Well executed, the development and testing process yields the kind of product that Steve Jobs made famous at Apple — and that startups such as Square seek to replicate — that just works: Simply, elegantly, effortlessly, or at least relatively painlessly. On a customer satisfaction scale of 1–10, this experience scored a zero.

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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. Then she did something extremely audacious – named it Nasty Gal. Risk Taking.

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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. Great PR and finance firms, but not many startups. Houses were cheaper, you couldn’t get good engineers, etc.

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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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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

See Also: From Problem Solving to Organic Pickles: 7 Startup Lessons from an Inspiring Entrepreneur. Initially, she cast a wide net, focusing on any angel investors who would meet with her locally in Southern California. See Also: How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors. See Also: How to Find a Mentor.

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www.startupspecialistnetwork.com

APRIL 29, 2013

Startup Specialist Network. A Tech Startup’s Guide to Navigating Insurance. in Startup Ecosystem. There are a lot of moving parts to a startup business. Name (required). A Tech Startup’s Guide to Navigating Insurance. in Startup Ecosystem. in Startup Ecosystem. in Startup Ecosystem.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Like any business startup, the Philips faced challenges; plus, the trade-off of skipping shortcuts is having a harder road. that were authorized by Congress in the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. See Also Maternova and the Business of Saving Lives. The little cart that could. Licensing was a big issue,” Stuart says.

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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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