Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Cash flow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

Dave Eastman: For one thing, although we're not completely unique in this, is we don't take equity. We really focus on the mentorship, programming, and content, and the ability to access USC, and specifically its School of Engineering. There are pretty significant resources there that standalone incubators don't have.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 14, 2009

The Conference will combine the resources, energy, and connections of two of Southern California's premier business entrepreneurship conferences; the HBSAOC's (Harvard Business School Association of Orange County) Entrepreneur's Conference, (25 years), and LAVA's Investment Capital Conference (18 years).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Cash flow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Cash flow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Cashflow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 105

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

Gregg Champion: I had been a vice president of development at ManiaTV, a Gen-Y content site. We do share resources, in terms of if someone needs web help at Champion, we might borrow guys from the web, or if we need something for video, we'll go over to the video folks at Champion. Talk a bit about your previous experience?

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

Robin's latest startup is Internships.com (www.internships.com), an online site focused on aggregating internship opportunities and providing resources to potential interns. What content are they licensing? That brought us the expertise and content, which we reformatted for internships, and put all in one place.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

When you had an explosion of content developers that wanted to be in LA with all the resource that the entertainment industry has available here, all the creative people want to be here. I think from the perspective of real credibility, what we need is venture capital in the private equity marketplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Barter services and use equity to get things done for minimum cash. The patent process is far from perfect, but it’s a huge step ahead of no proprietary content. Reign-in expenses. The most important task of a startup CEO is to review every expense with a miserly hand BEFORE the money flows out. Do not delegate this task!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

Everyone on the founding team needs marketing awareness, and a marketing plan with content. If the entrepreneur is pitching a plan that sounds like this is a solution for everyone, it’s likely that resource constraints will not allow any customer segment to be served well. Leader pitches the plan, not the product.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

We're the venture capital arm of Saban Capital Group, which is Haim Saban's investment vehicle and private equity firm, which he founded in 2001. What kinds of companies are you looking to invest in, when you say digital media--content, technology, or both? Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media.

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Southern California Media Venture Capital Invest 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

We're the venture capital arm of Saban Capital Group, which is Haim Saban's investment vehicle and private equity firm, which he founded in 2001. What kinds of companies are you looking to invest in, when you say digital media--content, technology, or both? Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media.

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Capital Southern California Media Venture Capital 100

SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Under the program, the firm will offer five to six pre-funding entrepreneur groups, on a rolling basis, co-working space as well pro-bono access to the firm’s resources including legal services and introduction to sources of capital and other trusted services providers.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. The firm has a strategy-based approach with a strong focus on technology and high-quality content.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. The firm has a strategy-based approach with a strong focus on technology and high-quality content. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

By Bob Arciniaga In developing the content for this article, it was very apparent this advice is not only critical for startups but for most companies. The suggestions are even more vital in a startup environment with constrained resources. A properly built advisory board can be a huge strategic advantage to any company.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . BrianSolis.com is ranked among the top of world's leading business and marketing online resources. . Bambi Francisco.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My guess is that will be the case with a lot of different kinds of content and applications. However, in my opinion, a startup should focus most of its resources on building a great product and track total users and user engagement as gauges of success. and also to local advertisements. Lou is a friend and colleague from UCLA Anderson.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Making Decisions as a Resource Starved Dev Team. Bootstrapping development, Startup, Website content. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Apps, content, mobile. . As the technologies aimed at aiding online video distribution expand, both content creators and adve. Michael Coté, RedMonk. Chris Henry, Behance. The constrai.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. He had a version of StackOverflow installed here and I thought it was a great resource for entrepreneurs. They also avoid Reg D. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. Primarily targets SMBs.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. previously explained that it usually requires some equity, but here is some more step by step practical advice. CompStudy 2008 Report on Equity and Cash Compensation at Technology Startups. Let's recap.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Content, of course, is the same!]. In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. I think you’ll enjoy this TWiVC video because the topics were so wide ranging. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston.

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