Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We have developed a tool that takes scientific, validated methodologies from academia, and use that to assess unconscious bias around race, gender, age, and other personality attributes, in the workplace. That's what we do over the course of our two year contract. It's the idea of bringing a modern web experience to this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cashflow personally every day. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Other popular funding assistance sites for startups, including StartupAmerica and Startups.co

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Here are some of the key new rules I have learned by starting my own company, investing as an angel in other startups and mentoring many more new entrepreneurs over the last few years: Do incorporate a company, but keep it simple. Of course, not all new startup ideas can be developed this way, so pick an idea that fits.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed? Accounting?

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Ideation & Protecting Ideas. Vet your idea with the idea checklist. Protect your ideas when sharing them with others by using an NDA. Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Business Mentors. Recommended.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2010

Mike Wolf is a mentor of mine, and a role model for many technology entrepreneurs and investors in the Phoenix, Arizona, area. More recently, he has invested in numerous local startups, while mentoring and advising hundreds of young entrepreneurs. Mike: Be honest about the quality of your idea and your own personal strengths.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. It means mentoring less experienced team members, and quickly replacing incompetent staff members. Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People.” Staff properly at every level.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

The program has been so successful that the startups have leveraged $48M in private capital to further their development. She’s also an advisor and connector to portfolio companies, and consults other angel groups to develop business plans. At NextGen Venture Partners, Ashley discovers and vets potential investments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2012

Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. It means mentoring less experienced team members, and quickly replacing incompetent staff members. Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People.” Staff properly at every level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2011

Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. It means mentoring less experienced team members, and quickly replacing incompetent staff members. Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People.” Staff properly at every level.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. Your chores can be outsourced through Porter. That’s the only thing that is outsourced. ML: I do mentor and advise a lot of young entrepreneurs, especially from USC since I went to that school. TechZulu: What is Porter?

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I have met dozens of brilliant technologists with fantastic ideas, ideas requiring nurturing, mentoring and support. It is generally a soft touch at the beginning of the development process, perhaps identifying 1-2 early alpha/beta customers to help flesh out use cases to be built upon over time.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

On the day of Miigle’s public launch, we chatted about developing his team, lessons learned, and how World Cup soccer fits into his vision. For example, take someone who is developing a travel solution as a mobile application. You can be an entrepreneur and at the same time you can be a mentor or an investor to someone else’s project.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As a mentor to startups, I see more startups that are really an individual professional, marketing themselves as a consultant or freelancer in this new gig economy. Software Development Professional. Thus smart business professionals are rapidly becoming the new entrepreneurs. Administrative Professional.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

As a mentor to startups, I see more startups that are really an individual professional, marketing themselves as a consultant or freelancer in this new gig economy. Software Development Professional. Thus smart business professionals are rapidly becoming the new entrepreneurs. Administrative Professional.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

As a mentor to startups, I see more and more startups that are really an individual professional, marketing themselves as a consultant or freelancer. Software Development Professional. Investors don’t fund entrepreneurs offering services, since these don’t scale, don’t have large margins, and need just a customer contract to start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2016

As a mentor to startups, I see more and more startups that are really an individual professional, marketing themselves as a consultant or freelancer. Software Development Professional. Investors don’t fund entrepreneurs offering services, since these don’t scale, don’t have large margins, and need just a customer contract to start.

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