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How to Turn Your Million Dollar Idea Into a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Lumbard of CalTech. Draft a business plan summary. Rather than starting with a full business plan, I recommend that you start with an executive summary of a couple of pages, or an executive level presentation of maybe ten charts. Most investors will tell you that they rarely see a new idea that they haven’t heard before.

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Mind the Gap Between a Good Idea and Good Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Lumbard of CalTech. Draft a business plan summary. Rather than starting with a full business plan, I recommend that you start with an executive summary of a couple of pages, or an executive level presentation of maybe ten charts. Most investors will tell you that they rarely see a new idea that they haven’t heard before.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

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I think you'll enjoy hearing him, but if you're in a rush check out the summary notes below. He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania. Highlights/Lowlights – summary of key events since the last meeting. Howard is successful enough that he doesn't need to work.

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Entrepreneurs Need Fewer Hot Ideas and More Plans

Startup Professionals Musings

Lumbard of CalTech. Draft a business plan summary. Rather than starting with a full business plan, I recommend that you start with an executive summary of a couple of pages, or an executive level presentation of maybe ten charts. Most investors will tell you that they rarely see a new idea that they haven’t heard before.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. In Summary. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space. downtown LA].

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. Summary – there is a lot of talent here. ’ &# His message was that in 2010 great business can be built anywhere if there is a great team and the will to make it work. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.

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CEO meeting in westside Los Angeles (Santa Monica), March 13th [Updated]

CEO Flow

Bio summary: Aaron Ross is the founder of CEOFlow , which helps CEOs understand how to create predictable revenue, through guidance, groups and consulting. Starting in May, with just 4-6 CEOs, we will begin to charge for participation, so it’s a great opportunity to see if we’re a possible mutual fit.