Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In mid-October, eleven college students will be flying to California for an opportunity that would be the envy of any Ivy League MBA candidate—they’ll meet the venture capital firm partners who will personally mentor them throughout the school year. Only about one percent of investment professionals at VC firms are black, according to.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

They don’t realize that according to statistics from Startup.co , almost 60 percent are funded with personal savings and credit, and another 25 percent get their money from friends and family. That leaves only about fifteen percent that actually get their funding from investors, through crowdfunding, banks, angels, and venture capitalists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2023

My experience confirms that managers are needed to achieve organizational goals through implementing processes, such as budgeting, and staffing, while leaders are more focused on making decisions on new challenges and capitalizing on growth opportunities. Most team members aspire to career growth as managers, then leaders.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. In the case of Invoca we led both the seed round and the A round and didn’t wait for somebody else to come and provide more capital. Over the past 2.5

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

I guess no one told him about the medical startups that were purchased by Medtronic, Linvatec, Storz, Mentor, etc., Naval Ravikant describes how Silicon Valley’s dominance over the venture capital landscape will evolve over time in the previously mentioned interview. all of which continue to thrive in Santa Barbara to this day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

They don’t realize that according to statistics from Startup.co , almost 60 percent are funded with personal savings and credit, and another 25 percent get their money from friends and family. That leaves only about fifteen percent that actually get their funding from investors, through crowdfunding, banks, angels, and venture capitalists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2023

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. According to more recent statistics , fewer than a third of all crowdfunding operations end up being successful, and the rest have to return anything they do collect.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. We''ve been wildly successful in helping junior college players find four year schools, and helping high school athletes get offers to colleges they''d never known about otherwise.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

I was influenced heavily before my career even began because in my undergraduate work I took a ton of statistics classes that showed how easily we human brains fall prey to easy biases and slights of data and try to draw conclusions that don’t exist. I wrote about these experiences 7 years ago in a post I titled “ 73.6%

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2023

There has long been a big debate about the best approach to starting a new business. Historical and current statistics still show the chances of failure on any given startup are better than even. I’m definitely a proponent of this latter approach. Odds are you are going to fail before you succeed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

Small business statistics have long shown that the failure rate for startups within the first 5 years is higher close to 90 percent. Thus every serious investor reserves a certain amount of his investment capital for follow-on rounds, which allows them to stay to course to success, even with dilution. They will need more money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. We all hear about the big winners, such as the game Clash of Clans , which still pulls in over a million dollars a day, and the smartphone version of Skype , which is making money through credits as an extension of the website version.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

We sat down with Steve to chat about what the Alliance is working on, and why he decided to champion the growth of the technology industry here. Tell us what the Alliance is all about? The idea came about because of my work in both regions, and comparing and contrasting the two, and figuring out the game in Southern California.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

There has long been a big debate about the best approach to starting a new business. Historical and current statistics still show the chances of failure on any given startup are better than even. I’m definitely a proponent of this latter approach. Odds are you are going to fail before you succeed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Although I hear more and more about “global warming,” and the many ways we are destroying our environment, I still don’t see many global business winners in this space, comparable to Facebook and Amazon. The EPA estimates that 75 percent of the American waste stream is recyclable, but we only recycle about 30 percent of it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Let’s talk about kids for a moment. I wasn’t going to write about it since he had just covered the topic and echoed my point of view. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. Nature vs. Nurture. You’ve all heard the question before. I like surveys.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Southern California's technology community--despite all of the recent excitement around Silicon Beach--continues to be underserved in terms of capital, with a lack of venture capital funds (with money), and other private technology investors. Jeb Spencer: We consider ourselves a private equity firm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Every entrepreneur needs to be honest about their strengths and weaknesses, and realistic about their reasons for choosing the startup route. Statistics show that at least 50% of new startups fail within five years, and many of the survivors eventually fail. If your passions are elsewhere, don’t try running the family business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Every entrepreneur needs to be honest about their strengths and weaknesses, and realistic about their reasons for choosing the startup route. Statistics show that at least 50% of new startups fail within five years, and many of the survivors eventually fail. If your passions are elsewhere, don’t try running the family business.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2019

We caught up with Randy Saaf , the CEO of Lucid Sight, to learn more about how exactly the company is doing that, and why. Lucid Sight recently announced a $6M funding round from such investors as the ML, Salem Partners, The Galaxy EOS VC Fund, Digital Currency Group, Breakaway Growth, Frontier Venture Capital, and Animoca Brands.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Consistent with the statistics cited in Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs , the large majority of John and Kyle''s classmates accepted positions at investment banks and consulting firms upon graduation. an email) to about 35 people. Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. crawl(ing) up.".

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Every entrepreneur needs to be honest about their strengths and weaknesses, and realistic about their reasons for choosing the startup route. Statistics show that at least 50% of new startups fail within five years, and many of the survivors eventually fail. If your passions are elsewhere, don’t try running the family business.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , where are these women to fill these positions? Near the nation’s capital, Arlington, VA has a thriving startup community that supports female-led companies, startups in STEM, cyber security, defense, and everything in between aimed at improving the status quo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

David is one of the most active angel investors in New York, and also the CEO of Gust , which is an online platform for startup financing used by over 45,000 accredited angel investors, 1000 angel groups and venture capital funds, and 200,000 entrepreneurs. billion collected in 2014. They will need more money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. We all hear about the big winners, such as the game Clash of Clans , which still pulls in over a million dollars a day, and the smartphone version of Skype , which is making money through credits as an extension of the website version.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

According to recent statistics , there are already over 500 website crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter , available; and over $5 billion was raised this way last year. A micro venture capital firm. Currently, there are about 250 micro-VC firms , including such notable names as Mike Maples of FloodGate Fund.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

David is also the CEO of Gust , which is an online platform for startup financing used by over 50,000 accredited angel investors, 1000 angel groups and venture capital funds, and 250,000 entrepreneurs. Small business statistics have long shown that the failure rate for startups within the first 5 years is higher than 50 percent.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Explain what you mean about branding in the employment area? Talk more about that outplacement content? Statistically, you are 10x more likely to get hired through a referral by an employee than a non-referral. That provides a lot of efficiency in how we deploy capital, and simply just makes it work better.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

We caught up with Andy Wilson , who is behind the effort, to hear about why he thinks Pasadena needs its own technology identity. Even if you came to an event in Santa Monica, it''s so far away from this part of town, you''re already thinking about the challenges of getting home and how long it will take you. What is Innovate Pasadena?

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

Tell us a little bit about this new startup? While there, I was approached by a guy with an idea around sports statistics, and we spent about two months to figure out what was interesting about the sports market. It's actually nice that there is a shortage of capital for sports startups. I was at MP3.com,

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2015

Tell us a little bit about this new startup? While there, I was approached by a guy with an idea around sports statistics, and we spent about two months to figure out what was interesting about the sports market. It's actually nice that there is a shortage of capital for sports startups. I was at MP3.com,

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Media Startup Avalon Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Small business statistics have long shown that the failure rate for startups within the first 5 years is higher than 50 percent. Thus every serious investor reserves a certain amount of his investment capital for follow-on rounds, which allows them to stay to course to success, even with dilution. They will need more money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

But recently I was asked about success factors for services startups, and I quickly realized that there is very little published to help the thousands of startups that fall in this category. Thus it’s up to you to communicate effectively what you are about, to customers as well as your own team. Make it happen. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Consistent with the statistics cited in Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs , the large majority of John and Kyle''s classmates accepted positions at investment banks and consulting firms upon graduation. an email) to about 35 people. Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. crawl(ing) up.".

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2016

According to recent statistics from the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are about 7,000 business incubators and accelerators worldwide, with over 90 percent being non-profit and focused on incubator programs for community economic development. TechStar graduates have about an 80 percent funding rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Based on some good estimates of how many new ventures have been started in the last five years, the statistical odds of any individual startup making it to this level are less than one in a million. If your new venture is still in the idea or development stages, don’t even think about a high valuation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

You are faced with decisions about which road to take. That’s an amazing statistic and reminded me of my family’s journey. After just 4 years I become managing partner of what is now the largest venture capital fund in Los Angeles. Take hard forks in the road and don’t worry about what the other path held. Crossroads.

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