Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. You will make mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. You will make mistakes.

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Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media Equity 124

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

These things outside your control do happen, but based on my years of experience as a startup advisor and angel investor, I still see too many strategies leading to failure that are inside the entrepreneur decision realm. Willing to start today and find resources later. Marketing should start before product development.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change. ” Climate resiliency .

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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. Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. You should never outsource the management of your core technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

These things outside your control do happen, but based on my years of experience as a startup advisor and angel investor, I still see too many strategies leading to failure that are inside the entrepreneur decision realm. Willing to start today and find resources later. Marketing should start before product development.

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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. Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. You should never outsource the management of your core technology.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. Damir Davidovic: NEOGOV is a cloud-based, human resources suite. Companies here are really held accountable to what is in the contract, and how their products are implemented. What is Neogov?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. 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.

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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. Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. You should never outsource the management of your core technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. You will make mistakes.

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Startup Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 89

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based Unitas Global (www.unitasglobal.com) recently raised a round of funding from MK Capital and Azure Capital for its vision of helping enterprises make that transition to cloud technology. Companies were saying--we want to outsource these kinds of things, because they''re not our core competency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. You will make mistakes.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2019

For our interview today, we talked with CEO and co-founder Jon Grishpul about the startup, which offers up its services for free to homeowners in the Los Angeles area. We only operate in Los Angeles County and parts of Ventura County, and from here, we're going to gradually build our network across other areas around Los Angeles as we expand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. You will make mistakes.

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Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Here are some of the key new rules I have learned by starting my own company, investing as an angel in other startups and mentoring many more new entrepreneurs over the last few years: Do incorporate a company, but keep it simple. Of course, not all new startup ideas can be developed this way, so pick an idea that fits.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Subscribe to RSS.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M That system allows us to arrange shoots and coordinate with contracted talent to produce that content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Develop your business plan. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. 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.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Develop your financial projections. Identify the resources you’ll need (and associated costs) to hit each of your milestones. Hire only for those positions you actually need and rely on contract staff, part-time employees, and freelancers for as much as you can. Build your budget. Do you have questions?

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Tips Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 90

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha Bell, Deal Flow Lead for Pipeline Angels. Lisha is a member of Pipeline Angels , a social impact angel investing group focused on women and non-binary femmes, and serves as the Deal Flow lead. The program has been so successful that the startups have leveraged $48M in private capital to further their development.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

Extending the feature set of the product would obviously be better if done by the customer but sometimes customers lack the resources to do customizations so simply telling them to get stuffed is not the answer. Importantly, make sure that you retain IP rights to your custom work which needs to be part of the engagement contract.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2014

Develop your financial projections. Identify the resources you’ll need (and associated costs) to hit each of your milestones. Hire only for those positions you actually need and rely on contract staff, part-time employees, and freelancers for as much as you can. Build your budget. Do you have questions?

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Tips Startup Outsource Development Sales 101

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But I would point out that these days there are really talented tech developers & teams everywhere. And in many communities that are new to building tech startups I’ve found that a lot of angel money is not very sophisticated at investing in startup companies. You can read Brad’s views of how to do it in his book.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

Mobilizing all the resources of localized 3D design, 3D printing, traditional manufacturing and input materials for individual custom creations with added benefits of supporting our local economy,” says Jeremy Goodwin, co-founder of SYNCFAB. Los Angeles has been the hotbed of creative innovations in recent years.

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Design Platform Patents Outsource Development 84

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2016

Los Angeles is often thought of as just the city of entertainment and creative industries�but it turns out, it's a lot more. Why is manufacturing important to Los Angeles? Finally, we found that there are a number of resources here that are hard to find, and are just starting to pop up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. There’s tremendous leverage in learning to use Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, and how to Google for sample contracts and the latest tax changes. Do it yourself and barter for services. It’s too easy, and it bites you in the end.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. We spent a lot of time developing talent coming out of YouTube, and helped to grow that business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. There’s tremendous leverage in learning to use Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, and how to Google for sample contracts and the latest tax changes. Do it yourself and barter for services. It’s too easy, and it bites you in the end.

Startup 92

Startup Outsource Development Development Team Review Equity 92

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

These things outside your control do happen, but based on my years of experience as a startup advisor and Angel investor, I still see too many common failure causes that are inside the entrepreneur decision realm. Willing to start today and find resources later. Marketing should start before product development.

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Startup Entrepreneur Writing Ideas 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. Another reality is that angel investors and venture capital groups almost never invest in a services-only company. Their perspective is that these entrepreneurs need only to sell themselves, but shouldn’t need capital up front for product development or manufacturing.

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Satisfaction Patents Outsource Development Services 91

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Los Angeles-based Postie (postie.com), backed by Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, is applying machine learning and other techniques to direct mail. We then allow you to use the print cloud, where we develop, print, and mail pieces very easily. We had to find other, more diverse ways to allocate our resources and grow businesses.

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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. Chief Human Resources Officer (VP Personnel). If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

I created this resource to have the single most comprehensive guide anywhere on all the different items involved in starting a business. Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Human Resources. Financing and Business Planning.

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