One issue I hear about a lot from venture capitalists in town, is the problem of sorting through what I think of as “real” entrepreneurs from “wanna be” entrepeneurs. “Real” entrepreneurs are those who really have a business model, are fundable, and have the experience and knowledge to make a “real” business. “Wanna-be” entrepreneurs usually [...]
I read this article on Mashable today on Seven Ways To Get Your Mom On Twitter, and just had to write my own version of this: Seven Reasons Not To Get Your Mom On Twitter. Here are my seven reasons for NOT getting your mom on twitter: 1. Keep your mom from tracking your every [...]
The Technology Council of Southern California has just opened up applications for their annual VentureNet conference. The Technology Council’s annual VentureNet event has been a great opportunity through the years for great companies to pitch venture capitalists from both Southern California and Silicon Valley. What very few entrepreneurs realize is that just applying to VentureNet [...]
I happened to run across an interview by Private Equity Hub (which is published by Thomson Private Equity), and was surprised to see a legitimate publishing organization violating copyright law. You’ll note the photo they are using (which I took; folks in Westlake Village might note that the building on the left is Brent’s Deli [...]
Many of you in the SoCal technology community have seen the events run by Andrew Warner, of Mixergy. He’s been organizing the Lunch 2.0 events here in Southern California as well as other educational seminars and useful networking events. We’ve just posted a short video from Andrew on how to keep your inbox clear in [...]
Random gripe of the day: there’s been way too much hype about Mozilla Firefox 3.0 web browser. I recently installed Mozilla Firefox 3.0, and my experience has been summed up in one word: dismal. As much I have been a fan of the browser, there’s been way too much hype around this release. I regularly [...]
In our continuing series of Insights & Opinions from readers and others in the community, we’ve been trying to add articles that might be useful to entrepreneurs and others. With that goal in mind, our anonymous contributor, “Uncle Saul” has just posted a lengthy and very informative article entitled Kiss of Death – Contract Provisions [...]
Tim Kane, a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation — which is focused on fostering entrepreneurship, and is behind many studies on the area — recently talked with a couple of venture capitalists, including Southern California’s Ted Alexander, who is at Mission Ventures, and shares his takeaways on the challenges of the venture industry.
The last few years has been notable in the lack of major cutbacks (or at least, attention to layoffs) at local companies. The go-go environment has spawned far more companies than are being lost, and far more employment and jobs created than losses. However, I noted two stories today which we haven’t seen much of [...]
I spent a little time today chatting with Michael Schoenfeld, director for Ernst & Young’s Pacific Southwest venture capital advisory group, about the numbers released from Dow Jones earlier this week on venture activity. We follow this market very, very closely, but it’s always good to get another viewpoint on what’s going on here. Michael [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
