Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2019

With the advent and popularity of crowdfunding platforms, including Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , as a winning alternative for funding your new venture, I find that many aspiring entrepreneurs are confused about the need to ever seek a professional angel investor. Crowdfunding is not the best platform here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

According to articles on Entrepreneur last year, there are now almost 1,000 crowdfunding platforms in existence, currently estimated to add more than $65 billion and 270,000 jobs to the economy. In fact, perhaps the most important model, equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors, is still not legal in the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2016

According to statistics , between 69 and 89 percent of projects, depending on the platform, do not meet their monetary goal and have to return anything they do collect. At least ten online portals are already gearing up to help regular people buy startup equity, without abiding by accredited investor rules.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

Dave Eastman: For one thing, although we're not completely unique in this, is we don't take equity. The final thing, it we have a lot of mentors at the startup garage, who we call innovators-in-residence (IIRs), many of whom are VCs, which is actually how I ended up here, starting out as an innovator-in-residence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

According to recent statistics , there are already over 500 website crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter , available; and over $5 billion was raised this way last year. These funders often offer convertible notes, rather than the traditional priced equity. Here they are: A crowdfunding campaign. A seed-stage “super angel.”

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

A Maker space is a place where people can work on projects but not businesses, and the majority of accelerators are focused more on software or software platforms, or a mixture of hardware and software. percent equity. Make in LA is one hundred percent focused on hardware. Do you make an investment in those startups?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Eli Aizenstat: Beatshare is a multimedia messaging platform, where we are bringing music into the heart of the communication space. Barry was a lead mentor there at Chapman University's Launch Labs, and we paired up. What were your backgrounds before Beatshare? Prior to that, we had raised $85,000 from friends and family.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Dan Dato , Mentor at upStart.LA. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

For the life sciences industry, one of the largest landlords, and closest observers, is Alexandria Real Estate Equities. Third, is thought leadership: it’s crucial to convene high-level thought leaders from across the industry, and we’ve built a collaborative meeting platform to discuss global health challenges and drive progress forward.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

Awkward topics such as equity share come into play and everyone’s roles and what value they bring to the table are questioned. I met with a lawyer, talked to an investor and a few mentors, all who are serial entrepreneurs to advise me. But a wise mentor of mine said, “Go with your gut! LESSONS AND LAUGHS.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Co-Founded by Jesse Bouman and Gaia Dempsey, the company serves technology startups and companies with a focus on sustainability.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Because putting all of us together results in amazing things –together we are even more brilliant than we are alone.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. For me, FI was great for networking with Adeo and the other mentors, who are all world class successful entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the other founders in the program. What are you working on now?

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