Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

In my role as a business mentor and advisor, I now always look for a culture and recommend team roles that nurture collaboration rather than contention, communities rather than silos , and transparent communication at all levels. Capitalize on diversity to anticipate and meet change.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I divided success into the phases of venture capital and 18 months into writing my first check here was my view (details on each in the link above). Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. I’m already back to work.

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Venture Capital Downey Writing Press 387

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

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. Utilize business content curators and coaches.

Entrepreneur 137

Entrepreneur Tips Startup Education 137

Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

” For startups entering program they receive investment capital, access to coworking space at Disney’s creative campus and mentor support and guidance from top Disney executives, entrepreneurs, investors and other notable business leaders from the entertainment and technology communities, and have a Demo Day at the campus. Epic Games.

Artificial Inteligence 108

Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Machinima is venture backed by MK Capital and other investors, and recently scored $3.85M in funding. Machinima's content uses video game animation to create online movies and videos. Machinima will handle all production, marketing, and distribution of the content, through its own site and sites such as YouTube. READ MORE>>

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Hollywood Mission Hills Coach Sites 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

ringDNA is backed by Backed by Goldman Sachs, Bryant Stibel and Palisades Growth Capital. According to ringDNA, the combination will allow ringDNA and Paul to deliver "best practices, stories and sales tips from a vast network of the world's best and most influential sales leaders." Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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Artificial Inteligence Sales Tips Los Angeles 140

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

The San Francisco events will be run by Chris Sacca (of Lowercase Capital ) and Kevin Rose of Digg. They called themselves a “social OS.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. Team Pip.io had a very ambitious project.

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Angel Technical Review Software Review Platform 254

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Perhaps the best known new VC platforms of the last 10 years that are done on more modest scales are First Round Capital and True Ventures.

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Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. What is LifeRay? Bryan Cheung: We're an enterprise software company.

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Diamond Bar Custom Customer Organization 169

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Helpers may be cheaper and quicker to find, but they cost you dearly in managing, coaching and error recovery. The objective is not to delay payments, but to avoid the expense or capital payment altogether, by working in house, bartering for services or just doing without. No proprietary content is death.

Startup 96

Startup Mentor Entrepreneur Social Media 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

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. Utilize business content curators and coaches.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 112

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

I still get a lot of pushback from VCs (but) I think by now people understand that we don''t change or alter or in any way, um, vary content on the site. in 2008 and 2009, we had at that point righted many of the wrongs in the venture capital industry, but that didn''t mean that entrepreneurship was all of a sudden healthy.

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Technical Review 232

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

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. Utilize business content curators and coaches.

Startup 51

Startup Education Entrepreneur Tool 51

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

What content are they licensing? The career centers at the elite schools are paying anywhere from $3,000 to $15,000 to license content to redistribute to seniors looking for jobs. Those include how-to on resumes, aptitude tests, videos, coaching seminars, and more of that nature.

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Startup Content Sites CTO Coach 223

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Dr. Yager is a real guru on this subject, having been a productivity coach, trainer, and author for many years, and still found time to squeeze out over 30 books, including five related to this subject. In the startup world, these can make all the difference in closing on a key new customer, or capitalizing on a new business partnership.

Technical Review 104

Technical Review Entrepreneur Email Social Media 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

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. Utilize business content curators and coaches.

Entrepreneur 58

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 58

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2014

Dr. Yager is a real guru on this subject, having been a productivity coach, trainer, and author for many years, and still found time to squeeze out over 30 books, including five related to this subject. In the startup world, these can make all the difference in closing on a key new customer, or capitalizing on a new business partnership.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Technical Review Email Social Media 105

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

All viral adoption starts with one thing – great content. Advice, coaching, intros? Tune into the show – we get into a long discussion of eCPMs on YouTube, his history of ad / revenue shares and why he believes it isn’t the right model for JibJab. How did you go viral initially? That’s what JibJab focused on.

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Startup Venture Capital Pricing Writing 303

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Sand Hill Road has so many venture capital firms and they are so large, and they have been around for so long and they are very closely coupled and tied with Stanford [University]. Report Content February 27, 2010 at 11:05am by Antone Johnson Great interview. And what happened in L.A. is--were not Sand Hill Road, right?

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. So why would raising venture capital be any different. Of course much of it is conflicting. Make fund raising a habit.

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