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10 Top Reasons For First-time Entrepreneur Failure

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. They count on learning from their mistakes, and use the experience to move to the next idea. Idea has limited business opportunity. Not every good idea is a good business. How can you improve your odds?

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

The idea came from having been recently married herself and seeing how expensive it can be to buy a new wedding dress. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. Once off the ground she could attract mentors from her industry. How’s that for an ex painter?

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Proven | Founder Interview with Pablo Fuentes. Job Markets, & The Future of Mobile

Tech Zulu Event

The original idea was how to get jobs for people using text messages. The current iteration of what we are doing now has been around since 2012. It was cool that I spoke at the White House last year about mentoring. I am very active in mentoring women and minorities. TechZulu: Let’s start off with an obvious question.

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Pipeline Fellowship | Raising Women to Become Investors

Tech Zulu Event

There were only 22% women who invested in 2012. We have three main components: education, mentoring, and practice. In mentoring, we match experienced angel investors with, what I like to call them, “angels-in-training” so they can share the lessons learned. There are a lot of mentoring programs out there.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

Tech Zulu Event

The evening will consist of a series of live stage demonstrations guaranteed to impress and inspire new ideas among all in attendance. We write and create our own content for the game. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? Around $400 billion of imports & exports pass through the LA ports each year, which set the national high-water mark in 2012. You can hear many other amazing stories in this 1:1 interview ). 36% of all apparel jobs in the US are in Los Angeles.

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From Nothing to Something with Howard Marks & Nanxi Liu

Tech Zulu Event

Investors in LA are not jaded and are still very receptive to ideas, unlike in Silicon Valley. It was the morning of June 26th, 2012. As a young entrepreneur, you get introduced to mentors and successful entrepreneurs on a daily basis who want to help you. Marks and Liu finished by talking about LA as a whole.

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