Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. In my view, savvy “super angel” investors such as Mike Maples, Jr. ,

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Pipeline Fellowship teaches women to become angel investors and become a more powerful and helpful voice in the investment world. We like to give women a chance to see and learn all about investing and what it takes to become an angel investor. I’m passionate about women becoming angel investors.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 22, 2010

In order to qualify, you have to have high net worth, a strong credit score and significant skin in the game. Angel Investors & Venture Capital. Groups like Tech Coast Angels and Octane hold pitch sessions to hear entrepreneurs sell their businesses. Understand how to value you company (more to come in a future blog!)

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

You can review all the specifics of this approach in a book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur''s Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. In my view, savvy “super angel” investors such as Mike Maples, Jr., Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 113

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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?” These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. In my view, savvy “super angel” investors such as Mike Maples, Jr. ,

Startup 64

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 64

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

You can review all the specifics of this approach in a recent book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. In my view, savvy “super angel” investors such as Mike Maples, Jr. ,

Startup 118

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 118

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. Meet angels via the entrepreneurs they’ve funded. By Monica Mehta.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2015

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. Pitch your company, not your product. Executive summary glossy. Written business plan.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. Pitch your company, not your product. Executive summary glossy. Written business plan.

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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?” These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors.

Funding 107

Funding Startup Equity Examples 107

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2014

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. Pitch your company, not your product. Executive summary glossy. Written business plan.

Entrepreneur 108

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Slides 108

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

You can review all the specifics of this approach in a new book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. In my view, savvy “super angel” investors such as Mike Maples, Jr. , Marty Zwilling.

Startup 114

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 114

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

On July 27, 2012 the AT&T Developer Program and Apigee produced the Mobile App Hackathon in Los Angeles, California. Developers were allowed to code in any language they were most comfortable with including Objective C, Java, Javascript, HTML, C #, Dot Net, and XNA. Here is a list of the winners.

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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?” These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors.

Startup 113

Startup Entrepreneur Funding Equity 113

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Working with professional athletes combined with my natural leadership ability and experience in business development makes me uniquely suited to lead a technology company in the health and fitness industry. We closed an angel round of funding in March for $415,000, 90% of which came from investors in Chicago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Join an existing angel investor group. Angel investment amounts per startup per investor usually range from $25K to $250K. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Join an existing angel investor group. Angel investment amounts per startup per investor usually range from $25K to $250K. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2013

Most surprisingly, according to a report from the Kauffman Foundation , the highest rate of entrepreneurship in America shifted about three years ago to the 55–64 age group, with people over 55 almost twice as likely to found successful companies than those between 20 and 34. Angel investor. Interim executive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Most surprisingly, according to a report from the Kauffman Foundation , the highest rate of entrepreneurship in America has already shifted to the 55–64 age group, with people over 55 almost twice as likely to found successful companies than those between 20 and 34. Angel Investor. High-travel sales and buyer positions.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Demand High Tech 107

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Join an existing angel investor group. Angel investment amounts per startup per investor usually range from $25K to $250K. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators.

Invest 73

Invest Startup Equity Incubator 73

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Join an existing Angel investor group. Angel investment amounts per startup per investor usually range from $25K to $250K. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Invest Incubator 102

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Join an existing Angel investor group. Angel investment amounts per startup per investor usually range from $25K to $250K. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators.

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Startup Invest Incubator Ideas 87

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

In case you think that all of these are employed by big companies, listen to these statistics: According to an article in U.S. How can you beat finding someone who has been there and done that, able to mentor Gen-Y, has lots of connections to people in your industry, and is often willing to work for equity alone? Angel Investor.

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Mentor Statistics High Tech Demand 75

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Join an existing Angel investor group. Angel investment amounts per startup per investor usually range from $25K to $250K. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators.

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Startup Invest Incubator Ideas 91