Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

As a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs and startups, and an angel investor, my passion is to find and nurture those entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and acumen, to make them into successful business owners. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business. Startup and development stage.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

This week, David Steakley returns for another bite at the corporate apple, with just the right amount of tart comments that will keep this document legal for now. David Steakley, a past President of the Houston Angel Network, is a reformed management consultant. By David Steakley. Read on! - DB. Finding your ideal niche Growth!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

As a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs and startups, and an angel investor, my passion is to find and nurture those entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and acumen, to make them into successful business owners. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business. Startup and development stage.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In a collaborative effort, Ria Consulting, LLC and Los Angeles Net Developers Group are hosting this event on November 10th, 2012 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. Aaron Heckman , maintainer of Mongoose, the MongoDB object document modeler and an active member of the nodes community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2020

Yet if that leaves you with no documented business plan or unclear strategy, most investors and even customers will walk away. Remember the concept of minimum viable product (MVP), which is designed to test viability and interest before you burn through too much of your energy and resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. The right question is “What is the minimum that I need?” Product development process. Funding process.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Citrusbyte is a full stack, design and development firm that specializes in helping companies get the APIs they need to run more efficiently. Developers using Mission Control will essentially get a one stop location for all API management, key management, and documentation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

If you are one of the thousands of entrepreneurs who need equity funding to get your startup going (no loans to repay), you are probably overwhelmed at the prospect of finding, contacting and pitching to the huge number of qualified angels and investment groups around the country. File a provisional patent or other intellectual property.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based MySocialNightLife.com (www.mysocialnightlife.com) announced a seed funding round, and its technology platform for the nightclub and bar industry. You start to work with designers, but you soon realize that within five months, that design you spent hours and hours on starts to look old.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. It''s designed for business people. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers. All of our documents were done for raising money, and it was a very simple transaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. The right question is “What is the minimum that I need?” Product development process. Funding process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. Define and document the service process you sell. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 17, 2015

They joined forces to create the online virtual reality “Summer of Minecraft” camp to make coding and digital design more accessible for kids. It’s like LEGO, in a social, virtual world,” added Tara Tiger Brown, a technologist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Connected Camps and Los Angeles Makerspace.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2012

We spoke with Elliot Darvick , one of the firm's co-founders, on what the Los Angeles startup is all about. Unbucket can be used by couples, family members, and close friends, replacing something they might have kept in Google documents or maybe just in their heads. She lives in Detroit, and I live in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

This morning's interview with Daryl Bernstein , CEO and co-founder of Santa Barbara-based RightSignature (www.rightsignature.com), a firm which has created an online, software-as-a-service offering to collect legally binding signatures on documents. We've also got a huge list of additional document types in the works. and the E.U.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. Define and document the service process you sell. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

With 10,000 square feet designed to inspire innovation, Amplify LA is the ultimate start-up accelerator and entrepreneurial campus — all to bring together the brightest, most enthusiastic technology minds into an environment that provides solutions, support, and collaboration. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2015

As a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs and startups, and an Angel investor, my passion is to find and nurture those entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and acumen, to make them into successful business owners. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business. Startup and development stage.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Ideas Satisfaction Summary 109

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I had known several of the investors, both at the angel and venture level, and they were interested in a fresh set of eyes, and new energy in looking where we could take this business in its next phase of growth and evolution--and, ultimately, to look for some successful exit down the road. It's all delivered over the web.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production.

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Ideas Outsource Development Tool Outsource 53

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

A loan officer, angel investor, and venture capitalist are all looking for different things in a business plan. Angel Investor: Writing a business plan for angel investors can be tricky. If you’re pitching to a member of an organized angel group, then a business-like tone is in order. What does that mean? compelling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. The more conventional VP of Marketing role should cover branding, as well as other marketing advertising, design, public relations and customer service requirements. Chief Risk Officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2016

As a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs and startups, and an Angel investor, my passion is to find and nurture those entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and acumen, to make them into successful business owners. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business. Startup and development stage.

Startup 66

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. The more conventional VP of Marketing role should cover branding, as well as other marketing advertising, design, public relations and customer service requirements. Chief Risk Officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

As an active angel investor and startup advisor, I’ve seen many of the same stumbling blocks repeated all too many times. Building a business is much more complex than building a house, and I don’t see any houses winning awards that were built without a documented design and plan.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

Angels (invest their own money) and super angels. If you’re raising funds from angels you’ll likely need to get investments from several different players. Designate a point person to handle the relationships. For the skinny on angels versus VCs read more in Targeting Funding Sources. Venture debt.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

Most of the solutions in our market are for lots of doctors, and are on-premise solutions, and are really designed for bigger physician groups and hospitals. We then added a scheduling tool and document routing to handle all basic office tasks, and to interface with clients. We''re laser focused on small medical practices.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Here’s a hack for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

VCs and angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. The more conventional VP of Marketing role should cover branding, as well as other marketing advertising, design, public relations and customer service requirements. Chief Risk Officer.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. Meebo angel investors also include Marc Andreessen and Auren Hoffman.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Los Angeles offers a great deal, both in terms of business opportunities and lifestyle awesomeness. Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment. Mark founded Launchpad LA, a program designed to help mentor LA’s most promising first-time startup CEO’s.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 22, 2019

The solution I chose was to approach the VC, or another partner of the angel group, and explain the problem. What about designated board seats? Designated board seats cannot be changed because of investment documents. What if the person continues with his or her personal agenda or continues to disrupt? Can you change?

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