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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. ” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.”

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5 Secrets That Make Jeff Bezos The Leader Of The Pack

Startup Professionals Musings

Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s most admired entrepreneurs, primarily because of his humble style and his growth from a regular person background to a current net worth in the neighborhood of $200 billion dollars. Avoid PowerPoint and graphic slide presentations. It allows investors to come into alignment with customers.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. I have a high fear of failure that acts as my safety net.

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Building Products for Mass Adoption

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Quite honestly I see way too many company pitches that are designed for Techies but I only want to invest in products designed for Normals. I covered this a bit in my post about the market definition slide in fund raising. I think this is a perfect way to think about the world when you’re designing your product / company.

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5 Ways To Engage The Right People In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Be sure to net out the opportunity and the solution in the first thirty seconds. In my experience as an angel investor, the perfect pitch length is ten slides, outlining the business problem, your solution, opportunity sizing, competition, and financial projections for the next five years. Make it light, but factual.

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American Immigration: The Invisible Wall to Innovation

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Even investors and experienced founders are caught in the same net as recently educated graduates looking to build companies. or purely invest in established U.S. nationals, making it difficult for investing founders to reach requirements, as well an application checklist with no set amount. Attracting business investment.

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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. Seed-round investment. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Could your startup be the next one?

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