Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. And build great business they have.

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Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Berkonomics

JUNE 12, 2014

We should think of the creation and growth of a high valued company as the sum of three parts, with three distinct classes of participants helping to make real value out of a raw start-up. First, there is the entrepreneur , the visionary, and force behind the venture from start to finish. Email readers, continue here.]

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 6, 2022

First, the marginal exit event: Sometimes the end game or sale of the company is not a happy event for the early investors, including the entrepreneur or the founders. Promissory notes come before any equity, and most late equity investments come before early equity investments, even of the same class of security.

Venture Capital 156

Venture Capital Sales Pricing Equity 156

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If this is your first foray into the entrepreneurial arena, with no track record in business or technology, your best and perhaps only supporters will be that class of investors known in the trade as friends, family and fools (FFF). Thus the best entrepreneur strategy for funding is to build solutions, not technology. Marty Zwilling

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Resource Ideas Funding Research 102

Berkonomics

JULY 5, 2018

Or if you’re an employee with stock options, are you aware of the increases in value you can make with your efforts? Most businesses fall into the class of those that can be sold someday to a willing buyer. Ever think about growing your business with the plan to sell it someday, cashing in on your hard-earned work over the years?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

On the other side, entrepreneurs and CEO’s usually have a natural fear of giving too much information to us investors after the initial investment is received. If there is a concern over some investors gaining a competitive advantage, the amount of information may be reduced to the minimum for some classes of those investors.

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Class Course Report Competition 120

Berkonomics

MAY 27, 2021

This could happen when a board votes to take in new money at terms that would be unfavorable to the class of investor represented by the board member. Approving the budget and watching over it during the year and approving any actions that would dilute ownership including stock option grants, are two examples.

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Resource Acquisition Class Help 156

InfoChachkie

APRIL 24, 2012

Kim Kovaks, Founder and CEO OptionEase , recently spoke to a class of emerging entrepreneurs at UC Santa Barbara. With over 700 customers, OptionEase has become the leading enterprise class SaaS solution for stock option and equity compensation tracking and compliance. One of the primary messages she conveyed to the Inc.

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Startup Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Class 258

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

If this is your first foray into the entrepreneurial arena, with no track record in business or technology, your best and perhaps only supporters will be that class of investors known in the trade as friends, family and fools (FFF). Thus the best entrepreneur strategy for funding is to build solutions, not technology.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A just-announced partnership between the social giant TikTok and the ecommerce giant Shopify could mint a brand-new class of TikTok-friendly ecommerce stores. If you're a TikTok-savvy entrepreneur interested in launching a Shopify store, now seems to be the time. But the first step is making sure that Shopify is your best option.

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Help Platform Startup Social Media 149

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The naïve entrepreneur thinks he can relax, after he finally cashes the check from a professional investor, but in reality that’s when the work and the pressure starts. These are not optional suggestions, so treat them as management objectives that will get you fired if you don’t perform. Personal visits from key investors.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup Class 96

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team. Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation.

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Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 123

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The naïve entrepreneur thinks he can relax, after he finally cashes the check from a professional investor, but in reality that’s when the work and the pressure starts. These are not optional suggestions, so treat them as management objectives that will get you fired if you don’t perform. Personal visits from key investors.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup Class 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2015

One obvious alternative is to become an entrepreneur. As a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m often asked what it takes to switch and get real satisfaction from this lifestyle. In fact, Mehta focuses on a special class of entrepreneurs that he calls disruptors. So don’t be afraid to take a hard look in the mirror.

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Satisfaction Entrepreneur Writing Startup 57

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Sometimes the end game or sale of the company is not a happy event for the early investors, including the entrepreneur or the founders. Promissory notes come before any equity, and most late equity investments come before early equity investments, even of the same class of security.

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Angel Sales Pricing Equity 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team. Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 123

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

We know that if you start with ho-hum founders you’re less likely to assemble a world-class team. Find people to “punch above their weight class”. I wrote an entire blog post about this in the past highlighting my belief that you should hire people who “punch above their weight class.” Allocate them enough options to salivate.

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Startup Class Blogging Company 399

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

I grew to appreciate this approach much more when I interviewed a popular serial entrepreneur, Rich Christiansen a while back, who has done almost 30 businesses wholly by bootstrapping. Use voicemail, a world-class website, and personal customer service, with small expenses, to beat your big competitors. Act big, behave small.

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Organization Startup Summary Entrepreneur 111

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

If this is your first foray into the entrepreneurial arena, with no track record in business or technology, your best and perhaps only supporters will be that class of investors known in the trade as friends, family and fools (FFF). Thus the best entrepreneur strategy for funding is to build solutions, not technology.

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Develop Development Product Funding 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2019

Sit back and let people talk through options, intervening only to reinforce first principles and, if needed, to break a decision-making tie. Every entrepreneur and every manager should strive to develop that same insight, and I assure you, it will make you the leader you need to be.

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Coach Mentor Examples Satisfaction 87

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

We have an expert team, marrying world-class IP from Hollywood, and videogames and bringing that into this new format. Our product, at the end of the day, has to be more exciting than other existing options for entertainment today. Our new format lets guests take a journey into amazing experiences together, with their friends.

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Entertainment Santa Monica IP Startup 180

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

We want to be the first place entrepreneurs go when they think about starting a company. I participate as a guest speaker to Professor Andrew Fry’s class each semester, as well. Can you tell us more about what your company/organization does? What’s the most exciting thing that has happened for Tacoma in the past year?

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Startup Class Resource Examples 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2019

Every aspiring entrepreneur I know is convinced that his or her idea could be the next big startup, blossoming into a billion dollar unicorn. Customers don’t want to read instruction manuals these days, or attend a class to learn about features. Investors, on the other hand, make it their business to look for these attributes.

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Startup Custom Customer Examples 91

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. So here is what I have been telling entrepreneurs privately for the past 6 months. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. I believe that.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 17, 2015

-based Connected Camps and Institute of Play have come together to offer an affordable 4-week online Minecraft camp for kids (parents are welcome too), pricing out at around $150, with options for free play and discounts. An additional 1-week coding class is available for up to 25 campers. 50 add-on 1-week of programming (optional).

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Los Angeles Research Guide Design 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) So we went for it.

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Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2012

Entrepreneurs sometimes assume an initial agreement with an Angel is a commitment, so they start spending before any money is received. It’s true that Angel investors typically do not present entrepreneurs with overly complicated deal structures, especially when compared to venture capitalists. Define equity type.

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Pricing Startup Entrepreneur Angel 89

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. If you've shown entrepreneurial abilities, you're allowed to make it a business creation option. When did you create the business?

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UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Entrepreneurs sometimes assume an initial agreement with an angel is a commitment, so they start spending before any money is received. It’s true that angel investors typically do not present entrepreneurs with overly complicated deal structures, especially when compared to venture capitalists. Define equity type. Marty Zwilling.

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Invest Angel Startup Pricing 91

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

A few years ago I interviewed a serial entrepreneur, Rich Christiansen , who has done almost 30 businesses wholly by bootstrapping. Use voicemail, a world-class website, and personal customer service, with small expenses, to beat your big competitors. Isn’t this contrary to why you signed up to be an entrepreneur in the first place?

Equity 96

Equity Startup Summary Tips 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team. Thus I was happy to see a new book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. dream team entrepreneur startup technical'

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Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team. Thus I was happy to see a recent book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation.

Technical Advisors 105

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2013

Include here articles of incorporation, bylaws, shareholder minutes, board minutes, state filings, stock ledger, copies of stock certificates, options and warrants, and copies of all securities law filings. Don’t be shy about investigating local classes as adult education, or even a seminar with the SBA on bookkeeping. Marty Zwilling.

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Patents Tool Organization Startup 93

InfoChachkie

APRIL 3, 2012

They profess to be entrepreneurs, but are they actually Wantrepreneurs? A Wantrepreneur is a well-intentioned person who wants to be an entrepreneur, but does not have the skills, personality and or risk profile to be successful. They smile, they laugh on cue and they have a rehearsed response for every conventional interview question.

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Entrepreneur Startup Equity Journal 219

InfoChachkie

APRIL 29, 2013

In searching for world-class examples of public responses to irate customers'' complaints, I found one that emanated from an unlikely place, Savusavu, Fiji. Below are some customer complaint rebuttal lessons entrepreneurs can draw from Tige''s skillful approach. Left unattended, such attacks are detrimental.

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Social Media Custom Customer Media 213

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Last year I interviewed a serial entrepreneur, Rich Christiansen , who has done almost 30 businesses wholly by bootstrapping. Use voicemail, a world-class website, and personal customer service, with small expenses, to beat your big competitors. Isn’t this contrary to why you signed up to be an entrepreneur in the first place?

Tips 96

Tips Startup Summary Entrepreneur 96

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. And no one could see me as anything but a startup guy, so I started a second company and called myself a serial entrepreneur. Then everyone just started calling me a serial entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur you have to suspend disbelief.

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Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Venture Capital 337