Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Only one-third make it past their tenth anniversary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. And so is venture capital. The best way – of course – is to reference check.

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From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 29, 2013

Over the past several years there have been a plethora of incubators and accelerators springing up all over southern California and particularly on the west side of Los Angeles. How you get referred into these shops is a subject for another post. Here is a list of useful resources to help you in your search: News & Resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. It’s the time when you create tremendous value out of nothing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. Erik Rannala: The name is a reference, actually, to Thomas Edison and the research lab he created. Erik, thanks for the time. It's a very similar model to YCombinator and TechStars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Only one-third make it past their tenth anniversary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Coachella Valley is referred to as the “Desert Empire” to differentiate it from the neighboring urbanized Inland Empire and the Imperial Valley. Finally, we do not have a venture capital firm. In venture capital, the expectation is that about 2 percent of companies become home runs, and we are certainly on that track.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Coachella Valley is referred to as the “Desert Empire” to differentiate it from the neighboring urbanized Inland Empire and the Imperial Valley. Finally, we do not have a venture capital firm. In venture capital, the expectation is that about 2 percent of companies become home runs, and we are certainly on that track.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. His best advice: take capital where you can get it. If your product is capital-intensive this can be a good financing option. Coworking and incubator spaces are great sources as are lawyers and bankers. Vendor funding.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. We do phone interviews, and check references for lots of our hosts. Aaron Hirschorn: I've worked for a couple of LA-based venture capital firms, GRP and Monitor Ventures. We spoke to Aaron about the company. Can you explain how DogVacay works?

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. We do phone interviews, and check references for lots of our hosts. Aaron Hirschhorn: I've worked for a couple of LA-based venture capital firms, GRP and Monitor Ventures. We spoke to Aaron about the company. Can you explain how DogVacay works?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Fellow entrepreneur, Carlo Perez, invited me down to the MarS building, a bit of an incubator built by the government for biotech startups and research, where he shares community space thanks to a government grant of his own. As I toured, he even went on to explain some of the seed funding he does along with incubation.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2010

They were eager to get behind it, incubate it, so we were able to draw on their engineering base, go through how best to put this together, and it was a great partnership. When we started ramping up the business, and needed capital, they were great following on, as was Will Hearst, who came on board personally.

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