Just saw a great post by Mark Geller - Developers wanted… in Los Angeles, U.S.A. (you can get to know Mark a bit more in my post Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller ). Mark tells us: there is a lot of demand for developers right here in L.A. who would love to talk with you. There’s quite a bit of truth to what Mark is saying about startup software developers, but If you have solid web skills and a few years experience, either with a commercial company or running your own legit projects, there are dozens of companies in L.A. reduced

I grew up believing that human behavior was 20% nature, 80% nurture.  Now In my bones I’m convinced that entrepreneurs are more nature than nurture although I know both are involved.  Fred I have recently written extensively on what I believe the 12 characteristics of an entrepreneur are. Nature vs. Nurture.  You’ve

Jeff Fluhr and his friend from school got together and created a company called StubHub which they built up and sold to eBay. I'm hearing more and more entrepreneurs tell me that they had these little side businesses back, even as far back as elementary school. Jeff, here's what I noticed when I looked you up. In 2000, people had all kinds of assumptions about buying and selling tickets to events. They assumed it was illegal or that they'd get ripped off or that it was a small-time business run by guys who stood outside of stadiums.

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice . There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0

first time entrepreneur, but had taken a company IPO and ran it as a public firm in the 90's--Prostor--which he eventually sold to Sun Microsystems. Around that operating system, we developed a line of network attached storage, at a company called Procom Technology. Today's Sun storage platforms are based on the OS we had developed at Procom. Once In what looks like what might be one of the worst real estate markets in recent memory, one which has been driven by homeowners buying much more of a home than they could afford and not being able to pay their mortgage, we were quite surprised the other day to run across a new company, Santa Ana-based icanbuy (www.icanbuy.com) looking to help consumers find what kind of a home loan they could afford.

Zareh Baghdasarian is the CEO of 15desks (www.15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. We talked with him on why he decided to head up this startup, and what 15desks is all about. First If you look at what you go through, starting high school, and maybe even middle or grade school, you go through your educational life managing courses, relationships with your teachers, and relationships with your parents. Baghdasarian was co-founder of Monterey Networks, which was sold to Cisco Systems back in 1999, has been an active angel investor in Southern California.

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