article thumbnail

Is Your Advisor a Critic Posing as a Mentor?

Startup Professionals Musings

Advisors need to be mentors, looking ahead and directing you on key actions to take or avoid. Mentors have no interest in win-lose relationships. Critics tend to rely on anecdotal or academic evidence to support their position, as opposed to a mentor’s insider perspective based on years of practical experience.

Mentor 102
article thumbnail

2015 LA Investor Startup Forecast

Tech Zulu Event

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2015 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, January 29 from 7 p.m. We will have amazing panelists from March Capital, Greycroft, Machinima, Silicon Valley Bank and Amplify who will share their insights and forecast for start-ups in 2015. Sponsorship opportunities for events.

Startup 40
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I had realized that I didn’t have it within me to be as good of a player as many of them did but I had the skills to help as mentor, coach, friend, sparing partner and patient capital provider. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies.

article thumbnail

Bionic Hands, Mind Control, and AI Oh My! | Techstars Disney Accelerator Class of 2015

Tech Zulu Event

Techstars Disney Accelerator class of 2015 was announced yesterday. The participants will receive up to $120,000 in investment from Disney to develop their ideas, along with mentoring from executives. Techstars Disney Accelerator Class of 2015 appeared first on TechZulu. 2 3D-Printing Companies.

article thumbnail

San Diego Airport Aims At Startups With New Accelerator

socalTECH

The program wil run for 16 weeks, and offer up mentoring, network contacts, and input on airport specific topics--plus, the abiliy to test their ideas in live operation at the airport. SAN said the new Innovation Lab will be housed in its Commuter Terminal, which was decommissioned in June 2015.

San Diego 100
article thumbnail

San Diego Airport Courts Aims At Startups With New Accelerator

socalTECH

The program wil run for 16 weeks, and offer up mentoring, network contacts, and input on airport specific topics--plus, the abiliy to test their ideas in live operation at the airport. SAN said the new Innovation Lab will be housed in its Commuter Terminal, which was decommissioned in June 2015.

San Diego 100
article thumbnail

Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. For example, we’re now already well into our third growth fund that we started in 2015 (the first returned 2x cash in 3.5 So What Does All This Mean?