Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Think long-term.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She actually IS the prototypical entrepreneur. Weddings are a bit like college degrees – they often set you back financially for many years after the event. But Tracy did what entrepreneurs do. In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. More on that later. That may soon change. She never gave up.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Email readers, continue here…] First there comes a sense of relief, knowing that you no longer need to worry over daily cash or threats to your net worth. But what most entrepreneurs fail dramatically at is to celebrate the moment. The do as all good entrepreneurs do. Many fail multiple times. Take a long breath.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

There is an exemption from the requirements that these investors be accredited with net worth or income minimums to qualify legally to invest in your company. There is a rather new term for those large, individual investors who are usually former entrepreneurs made rich through sale of their previous ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. I think there is also no denying the role that Richard Rosenblatt has played in building the LA tech ecosystem and spawning great entrepreneurs who followed in his footsteps. “There’s something going on in LA.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2017

Being called a lifestyle entrepreneur should be a point of pride, not an insult. This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. Cobb and M.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2019

In 2018, geopolitical events—in particular, President Donald Trump’s hard-line stances on trade and immigration, and the repeal of net neutrality rules—were top of mind for several business executives we interviewed recently.

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Berkonomics

MAY 7, 2015

You, the lonely fisherman, have to weave a net to catch your fish. Should your net be large and bulky, requiring more effort and expense to weave? Or should it be small and delicate, to catch those fish that would otherwise fall through the net? The size of your market may well define the ultimate size of your dream.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2013

There are other social networks of the 200 or so now recognized by Wikipedia that entrepreneurs use for networking, depending on where you are in the world, like Orkut, Netlog, and Sina Weibo, but talking to friends on Facebook probably won’t help you. Volunteer to help out with entrepreneur activities at your local university.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

amSTATZ is an online community that brings fitness professionals, athletes and fitness events together into one place. Founded in the summer of 2011 and their first product out a few weeks ago amSTATS wants to help users to follow fitness events and programs near them and find a great fitness trainer to help them stay fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Think long-term.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 13, 2022

You no longer need to worry over daily cash or threats to your net worth. What most entrepreneurs fail dramatically at is to celebrate the moment. Not many founders or entrepreneurs do experience the success of a favorable sale of the business they dreamed would make them rich. Then do as all good entrepreneurs do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Think long-term.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2012

Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you. Volunteer to help out with entrepreneur activities at your local university. Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Join a local investment group.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2017

One of the hardest decisions entrepreneurs make when they start a company and raise outside capital is figuring out what an acceptable “burn rate” is. The Basics The starting point — the 101 — is knowing the difference between gross burn and net burn. GAAP Net Income, which at times isn’t a good reflection of cash burn).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Being called a lifestyle entrepreneur should be a point of pride, not an insult. This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. Cobb and M.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). And even with the significant cost of credit card debt, many entrepreneurs aggressively use existing cards to finance a startup.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 1, 2013

All month long we will unite in shining a spotlight on the international community, including livestreaming our May event – a deep dive into Publishing 2.0. Nolan Bushnell , Serial Entrepreneur, Founded Brainrush, Atari, Chuck E. Author of new book, “Finding The Next Steve Jobs” released via Net Minds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It seems that most of you entrepreneurs I meet in my role as business advisor are convinced that starting a new business requires equity investors, exponential growth, and a plan to go public via IPO. If your passion is customers, you definitely will be happier as a lifestyle entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur is flooded with information from all directions, but despite their best efforts to absorb it, they likely miss the information really needed to start a business. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.” These are both experienced entrepreneurs and angel investors. Lessons Learned , by Eric Ries.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 3, 2018

million to bring to market a service that basically hits pause on the execution of a contract so it can be arbitrated in the event that something goes wrong. Hoping to beat back the tide of bad contracts, bad code and bad actors, Sagewise , a new Los Angeles-based startup has raised $1.25

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2016

My venture firm, Rincon Venture Partners recently teamed with Jason Lemkin, Founder of SaaStr , to host the first SaaStrX event. We had a spirited discussion regarding a number of issues related to blowing past $10M in annual recurring SaaS revenue, in front of a sold-out crowd of about 400 entrepreneurs. The Most Important Metric.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

As we have developed over the last few years, we've started running our own events, and tried out our own connect weekend in 2014, and that went to a full week the next year. This is our third week of having a full week of events, and has been our most successful event so far. For example, Orange County with medical devices.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If so, then JS Saturday is the event you can’t miss! In a collaborative effort, Ria Consulting, LLC and Los Angeles Net Developers Group are hosting this event on November 10th, 2012 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

Although many are entertaining, most fail to provide entrepreneurs with a sufficient return on their time investment. Unfortunately, most business books do not offer entrepreneurs an adequate payoff. The brief chapters lend themselves to multiple sittings, allowing a busy entrepreneur to read each chapter in short increments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

Being called a lifestyle entrepreneur should be a point of pride, not an insult. This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. Cobb and M.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

But the real asset became obvious to me at almost exactly five PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. Everyone withdrew to consider a response.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

Every entrepreneur wants to hear “yes” during the fund-raising process but I would argue that being too risk averse and not pushing hard enough and be willing to hear a “no” is what holds back many people from “yes.” Possibly offend and entrepreneur leading to reputation risk amongst other entrepreneurs.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 28, 2013

Many successful entrepreneurs have compared a cofounder relationship to a marital relationship and as such have advised aspiring founders to not take searching for business partners lightly. Traditionally, first time entrepreneurs start their search in finding cofounders with friends and family. Itinerary. 9:30: End of meetup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

In working with many entrepreneurs and career professionals over the years, I have collected my own strategies which I offer to all of you as a place to start, and a focus on getting real value for your efforts: You make the first move – don’t wait for someone to pick you. Have a mindset of giving more than you expect to get.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 18, 2012

Some first-time entrepreneurs mistakenly believe that they are not entrepreneurs because they have never invented anything nor have they come up with a novel idea upon which a company could be built. However, I am no less of an entrepreneur. Only a small percentage of innovators are also inventors. What Did Philo Invent?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

If you use the mentor-driven model that we pioneered at TechStars, you get entrepreneurs who are deeply connected with the broader entrepreneurial landscape. ” Brad went on to address the issue of a diluted entrepreneur talent pool and its potential impact on the efficacy of new accelerators. I think it’s a huge positive.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 23, 2015

When it comes to any major sporting event, would you rather watch a recording of it or would you rather watch it live? But then some entrepreneurs got an idea: let’s put the power of the live broadcast directly in the hands of the people. It’s a pretty simple answer: nothing beats a live broadcast.

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Steve Reich

JULY 20, 2013

In a nutshell, new SEC rules will REQUIRE entrepreneurs to register with the SEC BEFORE approaching investors. Worse yet, Angels will no longer be able to “self certify” as accredited investors–we will have to show W2′s or proof of our net worth, and most of us will never be willing to share such personal information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Being called a lifestyle entrepreneur should be a point of pride, not an insult. This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. Cobb and M.

Startup 92

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2016

There are other social networks in the list of over 200 now recognized by Wikipedia that entrepreneurs use for networking, depending on where you are in the world, like Orkut, Netlog, and Sina Weibo, but talking to friends on Facebook probably won’t help you. Volunteer to help out with entrepreneur activities at your local university.

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Networking Social Network Activity Entrepreneur 63

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures. TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH.

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