Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Don’t forget business writing and communication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

To organize my thoughts, I found a new book, “ Burn the Business Plan ,” by Carl Schramm, who speaks from experience founding five companies, working major corporate roles, and being an active venture investor. Most successful startups spring from local incubators. Most successful entrepreneurs are young and crazy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. Applied research is still primarily scientific study, seeking to solve practical problems, but doesn’t yet focus on a commercial product. This is the transition stage from basic research to applied research.

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socalTECH

MAY 1, 2019

That's when I realized I have to do something active. One of the legal management companies, Clio, put out a study not more than a year ago saying that the average small business spends an hour and a half a day dealing with billing and collections. I will tell you, I was miserable. I was really miserable. My passion was surfing.

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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/).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

One of the industries which has seen a lot of activity lately in Southern California is clean technology, with a large amount of investment activity and new company formation. As my thesis in college, I studied the efficiency of salt water ponds to store solar power. Let's start with an overview of Clean Green Guy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2018

If you are looking to fund a technology study, before any specific commercial product can be considered, you need to focus on relevant large organizations with deep pockets. Find private fund incubators for technology pilots. Sources include government grants, universities, and large enterprises searching for next generation products.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

I don't think if you're active in space, or even just hardware, that you can expect overnight success. Here I am now, learning about a new industry, which is great as I was extremely interested in space and studied all sorts of stuff related to it in college, as a benefit of having been in liberal arts.

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Steve Reich

AUGUST 9, 2012

” And the Kauffman Foundation just published a major study pointing out that all but the top 10% of VC firms fail to create value. I’m personally aware of several TCA and Pasadena Angels members who are actively investing, and then sponsoring companies at their respective groups. So what do we do?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

It’s been a short, but action packed few months since we were introduced to The Immunity Project ‘s goal to “develop a free vaccine for HIV/AIDS” The organization’s aptly named Twitter handle is @hackHIV and they’re the second nonprofit organization ever to be backed by Bay Area Incubator, Y-Combinator (YC).

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). From an introduction to value pricing to case studies to client relationships, how value pricing can. Birds of All Feathers: Creative Industry Incubators. This panel will discuss various aspects of the recently proliferating Creative Industries Incubators. Funding / VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We both agree that VCs are better off not doing “seed investing as an option” type activities. 23:00 Question from the audience: Do VCs have a preference for startups that choose to work with incubators? I’ve laid out my policy on seed investing pretty clearly and publicly.

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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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