I had a great time at the San Diego Young Entreprenuers meeting yestday at the offices of DLA Piper. Cliff Currie and Robert Reyes are the hosts and founders of StartUpCicle (follow them on Twitter). Their idea is to be able to help startups get together, feed off each other's ideas, and watch young businesses …
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Over the weekend, I was thinking about how to make our site more valuable to our users. We have two of them – customers (students) and teachers. We have been wrestling with the idea of how much content our site should have since, in all candor, we don't make a cent from web content. We …
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Image via CrunchBase Josh Kopelman with First Round Capital has a simple, yet true post today on Entrepreneurship. He mentions a couple First Round portfolio companies where the CEO's/Founders really had to struggle through hard times in order to make it. It is through the difficulties that we see what we're made of, and how …
Here is a great interview between Guy Kawasaki and Pamela Slim I found on American Express OPEN forum. It's worth reading by anyone fed up with being a cog in the wheel. There is no better time to start a business than now. Big companies are laying off people, the cost of acquisition is dropping …
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Earlier this week, I was speaking with a few people at a breast cancer fund raising event at the San Diego Hard Rock. I was introduced to two budding entrepreneurs who had just launched a new music site geared towards helping bands market their services. When I asked them to tell me a bit about …
“We’re Going to Be the Next… (facebook / twitter / The Killers / fill in the blank) Read More »
Image via CrunchBase For all my fellow entrepreneurs: Here is a FREE term sheet generator for equity invesments. This tool will generate a venture financing term sheet based on your responses to an online questionnaire. Sponsored by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, one of the the premier legal advisor to technology and growth enterprises worldwide. …
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Here's a quick five minute interview with Bambi Francisco and Charlene Li on what to do when pitching a potential investor or member of the media. Always remember to focus on the following 3 steps: 1. What's the problem?2. How are you solving that problem in a differentiated way3. How are you going to make …
From Vator.TV – The Best Pitches Are Done in 7 Minutes Read More »
We are social animals. Thus, we have an absolute need to communicate. Communication connects us, identifies us to our species, and makes up whole. People split up because they simply stop talking to each other. Being that we crave communication, when a person is not getting it, they automatically seek it somewhere else. Once it …
On behalf of students and parents in the State of California, we ask the school board to carefull review their Plan B decision to cut the arts out of schools. We all want kids that are successful in school and well-prepared for the workforce. Learning and playing music starts kids on the right path to …
Steven Answers Article in Union Tribune on School Budget Cuts Read More »