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Interview with Minnie Ingersoll, TenOneTen Ventures

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Minnie Ingersoll: A few things, but most recently I started by own company, in 2013. We write checks from $500K to a million dollars, and we like to fund engineers turned entrepreneurs. It's not necessarily to be the sales person, but to be able to sell me on the vision. What were you doing before joining TenOneTen?

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10 Cash-Flow Surprises That Could Kill Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Cash is king when it comes to the financial management of a growing company, so this is not the place for shortcuts and sloppy practices. No matter how small your company is today, there are more moving financial parts than you can manage dynamically in your head. Seasonal sales fluctuations eat cash.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). After we sold it to that public company, I founded HashtagOne. What's the theme of your investments?

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How to Quit Your Job

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I would take all of the one-on-one conversations that I have with entrepreneurs from the things I’ve learned and just write them up for anybody to read. This is advice that I end up giving ALL THE TIME and every CEO of a company I’m involved with will have heard this from me. The reality is the same. Tomorrow if possible.

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Is Your Startup Growing Too Quickly For Cash Flow?

Startup Professionals Musings

Cash is king when it comes to the financial management of a growing company, so diligence is required. No matter how small your company is today, there are more moving financial parts than you can manage dynamically in your head. Seasonal sales fluctuations eat cash. You can be on budget, and still run out of cash.

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Freelancers Are The New Entrepreneurs For Services

Startup Professionals Musings

These were once called secretaries, who looked forward to a long career with a single company, starting in the typing pool, with careers often paralleling top executives. Writing specialists. The days when these roles were stable careers for company employees are gone. Information specialists. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneurs Can Thrive on Services or Products

Startup Professionals Musings

These were once called secretaries, who looked forward to a long career with a single company, starting in the typing pool, with careers often paralleling top executives. Writing specialists. The days when these roles were stable careers for company employees are gone. Information specialists. Marty Zwilling.