Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

Most business advisors I know will say that writing a business plan is the first step to starting your own business, but I believe that a better first step is to do a self-analysis of your real drivers, strengths, and assumptions before committing to this lifestyle. Assess your own resources as well as funding sources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. We decided to formalize our investing in October, and call it TYLT Labs, so here we are.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2013

A common question I get is “How do I get a bank loan to fund my startup?” Here are some tips and rules of thumb to improve your odds and help you understand when a bank loan or line of credit is possible, and how to get it: Write a good business plan first. Bankers, like investors, fund people rather than ideas. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. If you have neither, and choose to approach an investor, you will get no attention, and probably never again get a shot at funding with that investor. Now investors will pay attention, since scale-up funding is less risky and has a time frame.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. 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. Angel investment groups or funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. She drove her company to profitability before paying herself a modest salary. She put all of her savings into her company. When Tracy started her company she didn’t have a technical co-founder.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2015

There were days where I could write about what I was thinking about Apple or Twitter or Facebook. Or I could just write about life. can only point to three examples in the last 10 years of writing where I know that what I specifically said made somebody resent me. So can I get a wish, To end the politics. ” B.o.B.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Universities have the links you need to patent attorneys, prototyping companies, investment groups, as well as a wealth of peer talent to round out your team and share the work. Write a business plan and pitch deck for learning. Build a web site and incorporate while in school. Make a summer internship your best learning class.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. GRP Partners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). Absofuckinglutely.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. For people who haven't heard of ExtraBux, what is the site all about? How did the company start?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. Kickstarter may take a bit of the credit for this, but they admit the majority of projects without media attention don’t even approach their funding goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2021

I’m sure you have all been frustrated at least once by not being able to get the Internet domain name you want for your company. and.me (for Montenegro), as well as allowing companies to set up their own top-level domains. Starting and name a company today is a world-wide decision. Otherwise, find the owner.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

We caught up with both Anne and John to learn more about the company. Writers can log into our site, upload their project, and select from over 4,000 markets, and send their work out to the world physically with a single click. What kind of writing and writers are you targeting? What's the whole idea behind WordHustler?

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A huge amount of cryptocurrency is believed to be stored on a device that is now inaccessible, leaving customers in the dark as to what has happened to their funds. The company at the center of the scandal is QuadrigaCX, a Canadian cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2013. What is QuadrigaCX, and Who Was Gerald Cotton?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2012

I got a call from a VC friend of mine who said, “we’re looking at this deal but can’t write the full check. But I had just seen the company present at a recent tech event and thought highly of what they were building. I was interested in the company but I wasn’t chasing the deal. The CEO called me.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

We’ve spoken of financing a young company through friends and family, known as “inside angels.” The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), and similar organizations in other countries including Canada, all have web sites with directories of angel groups that are local to you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. More and more, employees work for people they respect, rather than companies. Of course, ultimately you want employees who can blog for you and your company as well. This eliminates even the standard site hosting fees.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. But I loved reading them and so did my team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

As the number of sites on the Internet floats around one billion, the challenge with every new startup is to be found and stand out. More important, if someone does find your site, the content better be enticing enough for them to come back. Blogging will improve your site search engine ranking.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 13, 2014

Companies also need an inciting incident, because, more often than not, you often will depend upon selling your story to someone. What is the inciting incident for your company? I found myself explaining all this recently to a company team that was pitching me on its story. Every good story has an inciting incident.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

We caught up with Will to learn more about the company and how it hopes its service and music can help people improve their concentration. Will Henshall: Focus@will is the first, ever music service which helps with focus and distraction, while writing, reading, and studying. And how did the company start? It's free to use.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Really!).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. More and more, employees work for people they respect, rather than companies. Of course, ultimately you want employees who can blog for you and your company as well. This eliminates even the standard site hosting fees.

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Blogging Product Startup Writing 104

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Back to regular writing this week so check back in. if you get some value out of the notes consider checking out his company or Twitter feed). Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. The company later sold for around $300 million.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. However, this town is also full of very profitable, growing, and revenue generating companies-- which have for the most part been below the radar.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 13, 2018

A spokesperson for Musk responded to a request for comment in an email, writing, “With regard to your question about drug use, as a spokesman for Elon this is ‘total nonsense’ – additionally, ‘Elon has never even met Ms. At this point, yes, of course we reached out for comment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2013

They cite sources like a recent BusinessWeek story, “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ” and this NY Times article. In fact, they are probably in such a hurry to give you money that they don’t want you to waste time writing anything down and passing it along to new investors. You need money, and plan to do crowdfunding.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. We spoke with Sunil Rajaraman, CEO and co-founder of the firm, about the company. By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Companies: Spotlight Companies. We write and create our own content for the game.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Unlike typical review sites, our platform does not use star ratings or long reviews. On myfab5, people rank their favorite places instead of giving them star ratings and write bite-sized reviews instead of writing long reviews. If you search for pizza on a site like Yelp , you will see a list of places that are between 3.5

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Here's an example of that kind of email.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Services Startup Training Writing 72

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. Kickstarter may take a bit of the credit for this, but they admit the majority of projects without media attention don’t even approach their funding goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Every investor in your startup, even friends and family, normally expects a share of your company (equity), which means your return for all your effort goes down quickly. They can find additional grants from large philanthropic directories, and your favorite alma mater site. Otherwise find an inexpensive class on grant writing.

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