Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2013

Here are a few facts from the National Council on Economic Education emphasizing the need for more business training, starting much earlier: Only 34% of teens can balance a checkbook. The average college student graduates with $27,600 of debt. The entire family can be active in the business venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2010

The entire family can be active in the business venture. The positives include: Learn to make money. Even young children (ages 5-10) can and need to understand the concept of income – expense = profit. They need to understand that having money is not an entitlement, and not related to the volume of their demands.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. We need venture debt, factoring companies and public markets. That may be a great return for him/her but for a venture investor it’s not. We picked up activity aggressively in 2009. Answer: Not much.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. Has convertible debt won? If you are an entrepreneur or active in the angel/seed sector, you should read it.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Your Interactive Life Venture starts much earlier than the Ideation Phase (3). Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, education, MBA. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization community, education, marketing. . Easy as 1 + 2-->3.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. VCs were very active in this period. You would think it would be better for M&A to be more active when the markets are down – better prices. Consumer spending 70% of the economy and vulnerable (wealth effect, build up debts). Why is that?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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