A few random ideas I have picked up from talking to entrepreneurs over the years (my favorite part of what I do is talking to entrepreneurs and learning what makes them tick). Interestingly enough, you soon realize there many common themes when you talk to the successful entrepreneurs. 1. Execution matters more than ideas. Key [...]
Every year, Deloitte (one of our sponsors) highlights rapidly growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 rankings. This year, their Los Angeles program is also looking to find “rising stars” within that group, who have the highest growth rates between 2008 to 2010. Interested companies can get the details below: Deloitte’s Technology Fast [...]
Is RSS dead? Not so, based on how many people have asked me where the RSS link for this blog is recently (obscured in some past page design update ). The direct RSS feed is right here. We’ll fix that, and you should be able to just point your reader at blog.socaltech.com for auto discovery [...]
Reading Groupon‘s S-1 recently, I kept getting flashbacks to probably one of Southern California’s biggest flameouts, MVNO Amp’d Mobile. Amp’d had raised over $375M in venture capital, managed to push annual revenues to over $500M, but ended up declaring bankruptcy rather than seeing a spectacular exit or IPO. Amp’d (which disappeared back in 2007), had spectacular [...]
1. Your grandmother tells you she’s going to buy Groupon’s IPO, because it sounds like a great deal, and she loves their daily deals. 2. When you run into entrepreneurs who tell you they’re into startup so they can “party like Mark Zuckerberg” 3. Your cousin, who majored in philosophy, tells you they just got [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
