Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

You don’t want to take money from friends and family, but it’s too early for angel investors and VCs. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, angels, and VCs. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. The founder succession dilemma.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

Rose, who has been described as "the Father of Angel Investing in New York" by Crain's New York Business, and a "world conquering entrepreneur" by BusinessWeek. He chairs New York Angels, one of the most active angel investment groups in the country, which has invested over $60 million into nearly 70 companies.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Landline , the operator of a bus network in the Midwest, is one of the latest companies to raise venture capital. million round led by Los Angeles firm Upfront Ventures, with participation from Mucker Capital and Matchstick Ventures. HappyOrNot nabs $25M for its customer satisfaction terminals . The business has closed a $3.85

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool. It may include financial gain, but more likely the lasting satisfaction and happiness will result from your legacy of change in technology, or your impact on the social ecology of the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

As an angel investor, you can bet I wasn’t convinced he would ever start his next proposal. The best way to start is to enable employee decision making on customer satisfaction issues. Plan to learn from what doesn’t work, but never give up. Today the key is building momentum, customization, and continuous innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

You don’t want to take money from friends and family, but it’s too early for angel investors and VCs. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, angels, and VCs. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. The founder succession dilemma.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

Networking and relationships. Networking is the way to stay current yourself and nurture those relationships. Create and maintain the highest level of customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction is very important for all companies, but it is everything for a services company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Networking and relationships. Networking is the way to stay current yourself and nurture those relationships. Create and maintain the highest level of customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction is very important for all companies, but it is everything for a services company.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2015

For today's thoughts, we have Lief Morin , founder and CEO of KeyInfo (www.keyinfo.com), a regional systems integrator which provides compute, storage and networking solutions and professional services for advanced software-defined data centers. We'll be publishing these between now and the new year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Crowd Gathers for San Diego Tech Coast Angels “Quick Pitch” Competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

You don’t want to take money from friends and family, but it’s too early for Angel investors and VCs. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, Angels, and VCs. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. The Founder succession dilemma.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool. It may include financial gain, but more likely the lasting satisfaction and happiness will result from your legacy of change in technology, or your impact on the social ecology of the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

You don’t want to take money from friends and family, but it’s too early for angel investors and VCs. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, angels, and VCs. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. The founder succession dilemma.

Entrepreneur 57

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others.

Entrepreneur 58

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

You don’t want to take money from friends and family, but it’s too early for Angel investors and VCs. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, Angels, and VCs. Offer low cash early, with bonuses or stock options for milestones, to people in your personal network. The Founder succession dilemma.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2010

Ask for references, and call or visit previous “successes” of the company to verify experience and satisfaction. Unfortunately, in the startup and investment business, we are trained to rely on networking, connections, and professional integrity for many decisions. Tags: angel funding startups bernie madoff fraud business.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 23, 2010

Here is the press release with more details: "On a path to equip an expected 120 million Americans by end of the year with a mobile Internet experience that is turbo-charged, Sprint (NYSE:S) today announced plans to bring 4G technology to several additional markets, including Los Angeles and Miami. About Sprint Nextel. speeds (600 kbps-1.7

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2021

So far, it’s operating in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and Seattle. The company claims it can deliver an ADU in as little as 30 days in San Jose and Los Angeles thanks to the cities’ pre-approval process. Instead, it has built a network of factory “partners” across the Western U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Leverage a feedback platform like Get Satisfaction or UserVoice. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. Meebo angel investors also include Marc Andreessen and Auren Hoffman. We then spoke about startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

For those of us without angel investors, there are still plenty of reasons to move ahead with new ventures, and we are not alone: It's all you. You get the personal satisfaction of making something out of almost nothing. You can network to give and get referrals for other businesses. You get to call the shots.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Semick: In the beginning, many of our conversations were about whether we wanted funding from angel investors and eventually VCs. I’ll also add that Greg and I have a great network of advisors and friends who we can ask for advice and insights, especially at different stages of the company. It was a viable option for us.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. If network B has 20 users than it’s value is 400 (20*20). How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing.

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