Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Don’t forget business writing and communication.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

After founding 5 companies in a row, resulting in $5 billion in market value, $1 billion in sales, 2 IPOs (one on NYSE and one on Nasdaq) and raising $300M inc capital — I realized that my calling in life is to take all of those amazing experience and channel it into the next generation of impact-focused entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Don’t forget business writing and communication.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. Commitment.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

It's hard to get that kind of rapid feedback, guidance, coaching, and mentoring in such a short period of time elsewhere. The program is an accelerator, but not necessarily an incubator. What stage should those startups be at--do they need to have customers or funding, or just an idea? Omkar Kulkarni: Good question.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

It's hard to get that kind of rapid feedback, guidance, coaching, and mentoring in such a short period of time elsewhere. The program is an accelerator, but not necessarily an incubator. What stage should those startups be at--do they need to have customers or funding, or just an idea? Omkar Kulkarni: Good question.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

After founding 5 companies in a row, resulting in $5 billion in market value, $1 billion in sales, 2 IPOs (one on NYSE and one on Nasdaq) and raising $300M inc capital — I realized that my calling in life is to take all of those amazing experience and channel it into the next generation of impact-focused entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. As we started to focus on what each of us wanted to do, Adam raised his venture capital fund – Plus Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

in 2008 and 2009, we had at that point righted many of the wrongs in the venture capital industry, but that didn''t mean that entrepreneurship was all of a sudden healthy. Adeo has worked hard to differentiate TFI from the other incubators and accelerators. In Adeo''s words, ". Nowadays it''s more like, 75,000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego. The other partners are Edward Adato and Daniel Schwarzblat.). “I billion under management.

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Steve Reich

AUGUST 9, 2012

At a recent accelerator event on the West Side, a friendly young founder told me that he had been coached by his mentor not to talk to Angel groups. With the VC ranks shrinking, founders need to tap every source of capital out there. We know we’re short of capital, particularly in LA. The conflict is built in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others. Utilize business content curators and coaches. Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. Pundits call this the “spray and pray” approach to funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

One of the attributes identified by all of the venture capitalists questioned was, “Frugal use of capital.” Capital efficient, web-based businesses should have a credible plan to self-sustainability. For many years after Microsoft became highly successful, its executives (yes, including Mr. Gates) flew coach.

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