Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Even with this, crowdfunding today means any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2017

Put it in the slides: At the 2016 event, Liu & Huang overlooked the need to include some of their key findings in their slide deck. Delivery is key: The guys picked up the pace of their presentation after going too slowly in 2016. This time, they made sure to include all of their pertinent analysis in their presentation.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Marking the 10 th Techstars corporate program, the accelerator will provide funding, three months of mentorship and guidance from senior leadership at Cedars-Sinai and the Techstars network of more than 7,000 founders, mentors, investors, and corporate partners. We look forward to welcoming program participants to the city in 2016!”

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

A few recent successes include: 2016 winner ShearShare closed a round of funding and won Google Demo Day, TurboAppeal, a 2015 top five finalist, was acquired by Paradigm Tax Group, Maxwell Health, has continued to grow their customer base and has raised almost $57MM since being named Startup of the Year in 2013. . Startup of the Year!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2016

As an Angel investor, I quickly look behind the idea or solution, to gauge the mindset and the leadership capabilities of the entrepreneur. Those who proactively seek knowledge and learn fast build knowledge pools and tap into the wisdom of mentors and industry leaders to raise their game. Take a hard look at SpaceX or HyperLoop.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). It was the Summer of 2016, if I'm not mistaken.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2016

In my experience as a mentor to many entrepreneurs and an angel investor, the keys to experiencing a satisfying and timely exit are included in the following steps: Look at your strengths and motivators. Don’t wait for a crisis to get you thinking -- be proactive in talking to advisers and mentors on timing and alternatives.

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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 results were so encouraging, we’re doing it again. Webroot withheld terms of the deal.). I widened my net this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The Best Startup Accelerators Of 2016 ” But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

These often lead to angel investors and venture capital investments later, or connections to local company venture funds for selected focus and technology areas. Access to entrepreneurs-in-residence, business mentors. Most schools have a rich pipeline of real-world executive volunteers available for mentoring.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

JOANY is backed by Foundry Group and Techstars Ventures, along with Birchmere Partners and angels such as Esther Dyson and Charles Hudson. He provided all kinds of feedback from a product standpoint, and we found a lot more mentors like that at Techstars. In April of 2016, we raised our seed round, of $1.3M. What is JOANY?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2016

As an angel investor, I’ve seen aspiring entrepreneurs who seem to be convinced that bravado and passion are a good substitute for real information and a plan. These include other business leaders, mentors, visionaries, and influencers. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 08/15/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2016

As an advisor to startups and an angel investor, I encounter many Millennials as entrepreneurs who are leaders and great role-models for the rest of us in business. Actively solicit mentoring from people with more experience. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 08/09/2016.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Los Angeles-based Fuel50 (www.fuel50.com) You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. I think we're seeing our growth finally is starting to be exponential, while back in 2015 and 2016 we found we needed to have some patience. versus New Zealand?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. In the Early Days. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

But these requirements have been relaxed with the Crowdfunding JOBS Act implementation in 2016. Join an existing angel investor group. Angel investment amounts per startup per investor usually range from $25K to $250K. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round.

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