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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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7 Ways To Keep All Players Centered On What Matters

Startup Professionals Musings

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. Re-evaluate processes as they are today and set metrics to better represent the new sales, operational, and service needs.

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Stem: Simplifying Payments For Creatives, With Milana Rabkin

socalTECH

The company recently raised $8M in a funding from Evolution Media, Aspect Ventures, Upfront Ventures, as well as a long list of angels. Milana Rabkin: I think we had no idea how difficult it would be to build a product, and how much work it was to clean up metadata, and create an efficient framework, tools, and technology to get us to today.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

socalTECH

Schwartzfarb is currently Managing Director of Techstars Austin, but spent a significant time in the Los Angeles technology community working with Jake Winebaum at Business.com. I was a sales person at HotJobs, but after we went public I helped open up an office in Los Angeles, and lived in Los Angeles for eight years.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head. Today, the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) published its updated economic forecast for LA and the Southern California region. Written by Arman Tabatabai.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. There was Ron Conway (SV Angel) – I think there was always Ron Conway! And some angels running around like Reid Hoffman & Keith Rabois.