Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

New entrepreneurs are always looking for a shortcut in getting their venture story and plan across to investors, and closing on the funding they need. An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. It's a comprehensive bucket. That's the framework we've build with Evolution.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

The Los Angeles Mayor's Council on Innovation and Industry (LAMCII) has been meeting since March, to help identify the top issues facing growth companies in the region, and to propose activity to spur additional entrepreneurial activity and innovation, according to the group.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. Hamet came up with this idea after 3 years consulting for Nielsen Media helping them to figure out the value of branded integration and trying to define ways to measure efficacy of the unit. Please help me welcome him to our firm.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

It is not hard to find strands of gold in the carnage left by failed businesses lost when a bubble bursts, such as in 1857, 1902, 1929, 2001 and 2008. How many entrepreneurs used that new Internet infrastructure to create an expansive vision of what could be? Sometimes, innovators enable unfinished visions of others.

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JUNE 27, 2013

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Wouldn’t we be a bit hypocritical if we talked with entrepreneurs about innovation and change but we weren’t willing to take it on ourselves? We also saw that the same types of entrepreneurs were repeatedly getting funded.

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JUNE 25, 2015

Brian Garrett: The fund is really continuing what we started back in 2008. We'll do about eight to ten deals a year, which will enable our four full time managing directors to have the time to work with our entrepreneurs, and help them hit milestones and attract follow-on funding.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

Aliso Viejo-based OCTANe , the industry group which is looking to help spur new companies and innovation in Orange County, said this morning that it has named a new Chairman. Grant has previously served at Allergan, and has been a board member since 2008. According to the group, Robert E. OCTANe also said it has added Andrew J.

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors. Unlike other groups, ABL members all belong to either healthcare or technology industry-focused roundtables.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2010

A few days ago I met a 26 year-old entrepreneur with an attitude that exemplifies what I believe it takes to succeed in this new economy and new world. Our mission is to revolutionize the jewelry industry and fundraising as a whole, by helping non-profits run money-raising events.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The really important distinction is that non-technical business people can build, deploy, integrate, and create reports on these applications to help them run their business. H&R Block bought my company a year and a half into that venture, which was a great deal, and we helped H&R block integrate the systems together.

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MARCH 24, 2014

I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. I helps me be even longer in the positions I am still in.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion). . <Note:

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. Indiegogo has brought more than 800,000 ideas to fruition since 2008. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

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APRIL 20, 2011

Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5 First Round Capital invests heavily in its own infrastructure to help add value to the portfolio companies. This becomes a support group and allows them to help each other succeed.

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MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. 2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. The best VCs don’t try to help entrepreneurs. Get to the entrepreneurs earlier next time. Shame on you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

New entrepreneurs are always looking for a shortcut in getting their venture story and plan across to investors, and closing on the funding they need. An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 -- techVC Roundup. EVC and Softec.Softec and the EVC are partnering to hold the first-ever dinner to help local entrepreneurs pitch their ideas and find capital for technology-based companies.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. As I like to say when asked, “For entrepreneurs you generally need to go to 2-3 cities max and probably pitch 5-15 investors. Was it hard to raise the fund?

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. We want to help them, and will. Idea Mensch.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Friday, September 26, 2008 -- "Rising Above the Gathering Storm in the OC: A Business Incubation Network helping move OC Start-up Companies Forward" UC Irvine Office of Technology Alliances.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). He’s bound to be able to help a company or two at the time of a sale. And key driver of success will be the ability to help companies exit to the right buyer and importantly at the right time. I agreed to help.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I knew it wouldn’t last forever, but 2008 accelerated its demise and while we continued to do great things, fate and progress eventually took control and it was over. I’ll also admit that I went to see a doctor for the first time in years and when she told me I needed help with my depression, I figured why not.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

However, one of the biggest beneficiaries of that boom-- TaskUs (www.taskus.com) has been far lower profile--but has grown from only five employees three years ago, to over a thousand employees today who are helping behind the scenes to power those startups. The two of us really wanted to be entrepreneurs. That was really what did it.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Portugal was hit hard by the global financial crash of 2008. The city is currently favoured by young entrepreneurs looking to launch their business ideas, thanks to the low cost of living, thriving cultural scene, and the high quality of life. Lisbon to House a Mega Startup Campus.

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JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. It’s always such a pleasure for me to spend time with Farb because he has all of the enthusiasm and energy you love to see in entrepreneurs. He’s also candid, humble and helpful.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.

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MAY 25, 2016

At Idealab, we saw many shots on goal with companies who were consumer focused, and we have found the quality of entrepreneurs going to consumer Internet companies has changed dramatically, which represents a real opportunity. It's all about the entrepreneur. You have to help people get better, and not try to fix things.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2014

The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors. Unlike other groups, ABL members all belong to either healthcare or technology industry-focused roundtables.

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JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. A bank can help you balance fund raising with running your company. They have relationships that are hard for entrepreneurs to build.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

The 55-64 age bracket exhibited the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity every year from 1996 to 2008, while the 20-34 bracket actually had the lowest rate. If you connect these dots, it becomes clear that middle-aged entrepreneurs will play a central role in leading us out of our recession and restoring normal levels of employment.

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APRIL 4, 2013

We focus on connections, helping them further their reach, expanding their Rolodex, and helping them share information on athletes in a more efficient manner. It enables promoting coaches, primarily the high school, club, and junior college coaches, to help athletes find the right match. It''s exclusive only to verified coaches.

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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. Segment Four, “VC Discussion – How Should Entrepreneurs Think about ‘Strategic’ Investors?”. You can watch the TWiVC episode with Jim Armstrong here. AppDynamics.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

As the markets went down, just like any other investor, they were very conscious of investing more carefully--but, that said, it also meant that there seemed to be more entrepreneurs, for various reasons, were newly interested in starting companies. Scott Sangster: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and I have been angel funding personally.

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