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?” If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you.

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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?” If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Here again, the entrepreneur will be the one hurt most, by having fewer funding sources to access.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. On October 24th tech enthusiast will come together to discuss the latest in Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming. Sponsored giveaways and contests.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Here again, the entrepreneur will be the one hurt most, by having fewer funding sources to access.

Startup 106

Startup Angel Entrepreneur .Net 106

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Here again, the entrepreneur will be the one hurt most, by having fewer funding sources to access.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. On October 24th tech enthusiast will come together to discuss the latest in Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

Being called a lifestyle entrepreneur should be a point of pride, not an insult. Of course, even lifestyle entrepreneurs want to be happy, and want their business to be “successful.” Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. It seems that more people are focused on money today. Cobb and M.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups.

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Steve Reich

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Last week, the WSJ ran a great article (add link) on the value of college humanities courses, and used comments from a successful entrepreneur to make their case. The company builds a SaaS mobile banking platform for community banks. With the right technology, they can compete with the Megabanks and Wall Street.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

That's the idea behind a new startup, Fundable , headed by serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter , which allows you to use rewards -- product, company schwag, an even equity -- as a tool to get your startup to the next stage. Wil Schroter: We're a crowd-funding platform for startups. It's just nowhere as efficient as it is in technology.

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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?” If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you.

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Funding Startup Equity Examples 107

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Truly disruptive technology solutions are suspect, since many fear change and are not motivated to move away from current approaches. Witness the difficulty even today to find success with alternative transportation platforms, including Segway, electric bicycles, automobiles that fly, and even electric cars.

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.Net Examples Custom Customer 73

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

A profile of the state of the Bitcoin industry and its presence of female entrepreneurs. A clear distinction our female entrepreneurs have made here has been their active decisions to hit the ground running. The next portion of the discussion moves into investments into Bitcoin: the currency, technology, and in startups in the space.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum. Clients have included MoveOn.org, Rep.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. It also wasn’t clear at the time what types of apps would be built on top of the platform, other than cheaper IVR systems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. Gust claims to have facilitated over $1 billion of investments in 650,000 startups to date, via connection through their platform to over 85,000 angel investors in 190 countries. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups.

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Startup Keiretsu Platform Invest 135

socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2019

For this morning's interview, with caught up with serial entrepreneur James Citron , the founder of Pledgeling (www.pledgeling.com), a startup which enables any business to help connect their business with social causes. As a serial entrepreneur, oftentimes I wasn't around. What is Pledgeling? A few things happened to me personally.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Entrepreneurs who experience promising initial success also play a similar game. Although the offer was gratifying, it was clear to the Founders that this windfall would ultimately fall far short of the value that could be created by productizing the technology and generating substantial user adoption. The payout was also unique.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Acquisition Pricing 124

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Entrepreneurs who experience promising initial success also play a similar game. Although the offer was gratifying, it was clear to the Founders that this windfall would ultimately fall far short of the value that could be created by productizing the technology and generating substantial user adoption. The payout was also unique.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Acquisition Pricing .Net 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. Gust claims to have facilitated over $1 billion of investments in 650,000 startups to date, via connection through their platform to over 80,000 angel investors in 190 countries. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

is a lot more of: Show me how youre going to commercialize this technology, I want to understand how it makes money. Well, that technology came from an L.A. before which is second-time entrepreneurs. of Internet entrepreneurs following up on the successes of the first generation (Overture, etc.). Thats not Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. More than 200,000 startups have already used the platform to connect with 45,000 investors. angels entrepreneur funding groups startup' It powers over 1,000 investment Angel and VC groups in 80+ countries. Keiretsu Forum. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. Gust claims to have facilitated over $1 billion of investments in 500,000 startups to date, via connection through their platform to over 70,000 angel investors in 190 countries. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. New England Investment Network. and Dave McClure.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur? What guidance can you give to anyone in a financially safe career who longs for the exciting life of an entrepreneur? But throughout the transition I had my safety net. We always focused on making the story bigger.”.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

If you are a publisher, and have receivables from agencies, ad networks, sell side platforms, we'll aggregate them and give you a single payment every month, and put cash in your business on an ongoing business. Jed Simon: We have a tech enabled product which accelerates payment, not unlike a traditional factor or AR lender.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I personally enjoy traveling, and looking at the space from a technology automation perspective. What AdventureLink allows us to do is cast a very wide net, to build distribution partners and tap into mainstream travel. The underlying technology has two and a half years, and four and a half million dollars put into the platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Being called a lifestyle entrepreneur should be a point of pride, not an insult. Of course, even lifestyle entrepreneurs want to be happy, and want their business to be “successful.” Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. It seems that everyone wants to make a quick buck these days. Cobb and M.

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Entrepreneur Startup Equity Course 96

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Being called a lifestyle entrepreneur should be a point of pride, not an insult. Of course, even lifestyle entrepreneurs want to be happy, and want their business to be “successful.” Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. It seems that everyone wants to make a quick buck these days. Cobb and M.

Startup 92

Startup Entrepreneur Equity Course 92

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

I love learning first hand about the differences in analytics platforms, social media conversion, the effectively of copy, how to cultivate an audience, etc. I have learned lots of lessons over the past 20 years about technology, entrepreneurship and investments. It’s a great experiment for me. So it goes with blogging.

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Blogging Social Media Writing Startup 250

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. But putting large sums of money in the hands of first time or even experienced entrepreneurs with absolutely no oversight is a recipe for disaster.

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