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. I’m a total believer in servant leadership and mentoring others, but nobody wins when you are in charge as an entrepreneur, and the business fails because you didn’t do your job.

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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. Funding and rollout stage. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

As a startup mentor and investor, I am approached regularly by aspiring entrepreneurs who assert that business plans are a waste of time. The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business. In fact, the whole process is a waste of time.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

In 1961, after 70-years, professional baseball created its first expansion teams – the Angels and Twins. If you use the mentor-driven model that we pioneered at TechStars, you get entrepreneurs who are deeply connected with the broader entrepreneurial landscape. Since 1961, professional baseball has grown from 18-teams to 30.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2014

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. In simple terms, it is a 20-page document which describes all the what, when, where, and how of your new business. Financial model. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Based on my experience as an angel investor and a mentor to dozens of entrepreneurs, having no business plan is the quickest way to define yourself as just a dreamer, or at best a hobbyist. Yet I continue to get funding requests that never mention any specific plans or costs to be associated with these elements.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2015

The process of getting those privileges is called credentialing, which involves sending over a whole bunch of documents, recording of where you went to med school, where you did your residency, what your board certifications are, and a dozen or so other documents. Talk about the funding? Miles Beckett: We raised $2.9

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2015

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. In simple terms, it is a 20-page document which describes all the what, when, where, and how of your new business. Financial model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. In simple terms, it is a 20-page document which describes all the what, when, where, and how of your new business. Financial model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2017

As a new business advisor and angel investor, I have assembled my own favorite list of shortcuts to avoid, in the hope of saving you from learning these lessons the hard way: Be satisfied with verbal or handshake partner agreements. Retain maximum equity by requesting minimal funding.

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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. Funding and rollout stage. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

Los Angeles-based Netki (www.netki.com) is addressing that complexity, with a product called WalletNames, which replaces those long, complex, easy to confuse strings with easy to remember, domain-like text strings. There are people who are looking for ways to be able to get to someone else's funds. What are your backgrounds?

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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. Funding and rollout stage. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

HowSimple just launched into beta a next generation browser and desktop manager named andi (Advanced Numerous Document Interface). We leverage our network in the Los Angeles community to provide members with access to potential employees, mentors and investors. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Seth’s interest in helping others grew out of his lack of having a mentor. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Join an existing angel investor group. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The second is that they are usually very experienced operators that can mentor the founding team. It’s why the best angels and seed investors are local and why the best independents are, too. I think when you choose an independent board member you should be thinking about somebody who can mentor you.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Los Angeles offers a great deal, both in terms of business opportunities and lifestyle awesomeness. Mark founded Launchpad LA, a program designed to help mentor LA’s most promising first-time startup CEO’s. Tyler Crowley – Mahalo Tyler Crowley is the Director of Corporate Strategy at Mahalo and Producer of Open Angel Forum (OAF).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Join an existing angel investor group. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Join an existing angel investor group. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Join an existing Angel investor group. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Join an existing Angel investor group. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Join an existing Angel investor group. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Investors are human and subject to human tendencies, whether they are your rich uncle, an angel investor with personal funds or a venture capital investor with institutional money. Be wary if the term sheet is a document longer than your business plan. Academic coach investors. Investors for a fee.

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