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6 New Venture Funding Realities To Guide Your Efforts

Startup Professionals Musings

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio.

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HotOutlines.com Looks To Cut Class Time, Earn Students Money

socalTECH

A new, Los Angeles startup, HotOutlines.com has debuted its service, which lets students and colleges and universities upload their class notes, outlines, and study guides, and sell them for a commission.

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The Authoritative Guide to Prorata Rights

Both Sides of the Table

But I’ve started putting in a rule that the majority of our class of preferred shares can vote to waive these rights entirely or in part. I don’t want angels to get screwed. So I’ve started allowing angels prorata rights regardless of their check size.

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The Complete Guide To Southern California Accelerators and Incubators, Part I

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We've defined an accelerator program as a class-based, limited-time program which ties mentors, educational events, and often, seed funding, to help ideas become startups, and to help get startups to the point where they are fund-able. We've split this into three lists, depending on how the programs are structured.

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

John gave me the book after I spoke at his entrepreneurship class at UCSB. The book is a layman’s guide to understanding how we as humans make decisions and is underpinned by data-oriented studies to prove his claims. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. You should, too. (no,

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Video Interview: Joel Ifill, DASH Systems

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For this morning's interview, we talked with Joel Ifill the CEO and founder of DASH Systems (dashshipping.com), a startup which has developed a system to guide packages directly from airplanes to the ground, to accelerate delivery of cargo without the need to land those airplanes. DASH Systems is one of the Techstars Los Angeles 2019 class.

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Take this test to predict your success:

Berkonomics

Your success must be based upon data that is solid and sometimes flexible enough to pass several critical tests if it is to guide a business enterprise to greatness. Do you have a world-class management team? Here in brief are ten tests for your successful vision.

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