Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2016

As a mentor to startups, I see more and more startups that are really an individual professional, marketing themselves as a consultant or freelancer. Of course, entrepreneurs delivering services have existed for some time, including business consultant, independent contractor, and freelancer titles. Sales Professional.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, usually for a share of the equity, hoping to capitalize on their success, or at least strengthen the local economy. Expert mentoring and training. Peer support. Facilities support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Of course, if you want to be in that number, or you want that number to go up, you have to know how to locate potential investors who fit your profile, requirements, and expectations. Customers benefit from early solution access, priority input on requirements, and personalized customer service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2022

Most people I know in business begin by capitalizing on technical strength or passion for change , such as engineering, or focus on saving the environment. Of course, you can always ride on someone’s coattail, and let them do the leadership, while you do the hard work in the shadows. Luckily, you can learn needed leadership skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2023

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. Or ask PlanetRx, an online service for prescriptions, before the Internet was pervasive. If you ask them for a reason, most will insist that they couldn’t get funding, or they ran out of money too early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching online courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Usually these will not give you money, but will provide inexpensive expert mentoring and office services. Sometimes these will ask for 5%-15% of your equity for their support services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2023

Of course, there are some basic principles that people in all careers follow today in maximizing their success, including discipline, determination, learning from mistakes, and practice. An example is the famed mentoring relationship between Bill Gates and Warren Buffett , both very busy and very smart people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, crowdfunding still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2021

I learned a lot about the mindset and actions required from a classic book, “ Serial Winner: 5 Actions to Create Your Cycle of Success ,” by Larry Weidel, a serial winner in the financial services business world over a forty-year career, while helping other people do the same. Trying is not enough, you have to deliver.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

As a mentor to startups, I see more and more startups that are really an individual professional, marketing themselves as a consultant or freelancer. Of course, entrepreneurs delivering services have existed for some time, including business consultant, independent contractor, and freelancer titles. Sales Professional.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

With the current volatile economy, as an active startup mentor, I’m seeing a new surge of entrepreneurs and startups, with the commensurate scramble for funding. Of course, they can be renamed and moved, but that may negate the cost and time advantages originally sought. The reverse merger process itself doesn’t raise any capital.

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Funding Summary Entrepreneur Acquisition 104

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

APRIL 12, 2020

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. Or ask PlanetRx, an online service for prescriptions, before the Internet was pervasive. If you ask them for a reason, most will insist that they couldn’t get funding, or they ran out of money too early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Many leaders do this today by supporting and promoting a higher-level purpose, beyond profits, such as helping the disadvantaged, sustaining the environment, or Conscious Capitalism. Your role is to provide this enablement, through listening to their needs, and providing personal coaching and mentoring as required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Don’t look for formal venture capital levels of funding, but certainly early-stage Kaufmann grants, incubators, and entrepreneurship incentives are available from endowments and state funds. Early-stage funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge.

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Entrepreneur Outsource Development Satisfaction Equity 129

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. Trade equity or services for startup help. Solicit venture capital investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. Natural mentors – a desire to help. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. Community builders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

With the current strong economy, as an active startup mentor, I’m seeing a new surge of entrepreneurs and startups, with the commensurate scramble for funding. Of course, they can be renamed and moved, but that may negate the cost and time advantages originally sought. The reverse merger process itself doesn’t raise any capital.

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Summary Startup Entrepreneur Funding 121

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2012

Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Don’t look for formal venture capital levels of funding, but certainly early-stage Kaufmann grants, incubators, and entrepreneurship incentives are available from endowments and state funds. Early-stage funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching online courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Usually these will not give you money, but will provide inexpensive expert mentoring and office services. Sometimes these will ask for 5%-15% of your equity for their support services.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?” ” Fred & I are both in agreement that there is a tension between capital constraints and creativity. What you may not know is that Fred has been a behind-the-scenes mentor to many of the newer VCs in the industry including myself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching online courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Usually these will not give you money, but will provide inexpensive expert mentoring and office services. Sometimes these will ask for 5%-15% of your equity for their support services.

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Organization Startup Incubator Ideas 93

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

The most active person responding negatively said, “so an ENITRE industry is undervaluing their services? See there are tons of people who play the role of mentor in their own capacity. VENTURE CAPITAL. And finally that brings me to obvious topic of venture capital. Not possible. ” Or there was this one.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

We caught up with co-founder Michael Wong , who told us about how the company is looking to change the model for local check-ins, and also help businesses with getting the word out about their services. We had worked together for six years before starting MergeLocal, which came about on the golf course. What is MergeLocal?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Game mechanics have become a popular way of increasing user engagement and pushing user adoption, referral and retention, and many startups have sought ways to incorporate game mechanics into their sites. Your service: the game. It’s simple.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 22, 2010

Virgina Lorimor There are several options for financing a start-up business that tend to follow a natural course in a business’ development: Personal Investment. Angel Investors & Venture Capital. Remember, help is only a mentor away. Venture Capital, Business, Management, Funding, Money, SBA, Lending, Equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2014

By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, usually for a share of the equity, hoping to capitalize on their success, or at least strengthen the local economy. Expert mentoring and training. Peer support. Facilities support.

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Incubator Entrepreneur Technical Review Mentor 103

LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

WeTransfer : A six-year-old bootstrapped, Amsterdam-based file-sharing service introduced to the SMASHD team by a Harvard professor, which has been profitable for the past six years. Each mentor spoke for nearly an hour to the entire group, answered questions, and sat with each company for one-on-one mentoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2013

By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, usually for a share of the equity, hoping to capitalize on their success, or at least strengthen the local economy. Expert mentoring and training. Peer support. Facilities support.

Incubator 115

Incubator Help Startup Technical Review 115

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2015

I learned a lot about the mindset and actions required from a new book, “ Serial Winner: 5 Actions to Create Your Cycle of Success ,” by Larry Weidel, a serial winner in the financial services business world over a forty-year career, while helping other people do the same. Trying is not enough, you have to deliver.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Mentor Startup Course 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

With the current strong economy, as an active startup mentor, I’m seeing a new surge of entrepreneurs and startups, with the commensurate scramble for funding. Of course, they can be renamed and moved, but that may negate the cost and time advantages originally sought. The reverse merger process itself doesn’t raise any capital.

Summary 79

Summary Startup Entrepreneur Funding 79

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2015

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. Or ask PlanetRx, an online service for prescriptions, before the Internet was pervasive. If you ask them for a reason, most will insist that they couldn’t get funding, or they ran out of money too early.

Startup 105

Startup Netflix Entrepreneur Social Media 105

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). This connection here very much helps this scenario.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

Of course, if you want to be in that number, or you want that number to go up, you have to know how to locate potential investors who fit your profile, requirements, and expectations. Customers benefit from early solution access, priority input on requirements, and personalized customer service.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” Invest more heavily in platform services. I created an accelerator & mentor network (Launchpad LA). ” Numero uno. I was nowhere to be found.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2018

I learned a lot about the mindset and actions required from a classic book, “ Serial Winner: 5 Actions to Create Your Cycle of Success ,” by Larry Weidel, a serial winner in the financial services business world over a forty-year career, while helping other people do the same. Trying is not enough, you have to deliver.

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