Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Thus, I was happy to see some real actionable advice on this challenge in a new book, “ The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed ,” by Linda Yates, the founder and CEO of a leading growth incubator for global businesses. Commit a source of internal or external seed funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined a long time ago from a funding perspective. If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching online courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Funding or rollout stage. Early or embryonic stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined before from a funding perspective. If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching online courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Funding or rollout stage. Early or embryonic stage.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc? It's not entirely exclusive, however.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2010

By Jim Flowers A few months ago, Marty invited me to comment on business incubation and what a startup company ought to expect from an incubator. They are funded and staffed by groups of accomplished entrepreneurs. Tags: entrepreneurs incubators relationships startups. Relationships , I said back then.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

” Perhaps it is time to seek some funding, but how do you get advice from the same people that you’ll need money from? Well, perhaps it’s time to consider an incubator/accelerator program: Programs like Silicon Valleys’ Y Combinator which essentially put entrepreneurs through a 3+ month startup boot camp.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. The incubator so far includes startups Lottay , Geodelic , and a number of other Internet and other technology firms. Tell us about the incubator--how long as it been around?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

In my experience as a business advisor and occasional investor, many of you won’t make it that far, succumbing to the high costs of getting those first customers, funding an initial inventory, and building an operational support process. Start networking for funding before the crisis. Build your plan around resources you know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. They helped create over 5 million new businesses in 2022, a forty percent increase over the previous year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. Of course, there are thousands of other companies that don’t achieve their minimum goal, requiring all contributions to be returned. Donation good-cause model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined some time ago from a funding perspective. If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching online courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Funding or rollout stage. Early or embryonic stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Of course, you have to propose solutions, request funding, and marshal peer support for credibility. Build a small dedicated team, sometimes called strategic planning, or change incubator. Balance the focus on productivity versus creativity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The professors know how to get grants to fund development for you in strategic focus areas, like biotech, that would otherwise cost you many thousands of dollars. Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Early-stage funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. Over 600,000 new businesses were created in the last year, or over one per minute of every day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2012

The professors know how to get grants to fund development for you in strategic focus areas, like biotech, that would otherwise cost you many thousands of dollars. Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Early-stage funding.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

The 9+ incubator has already closed $2 million in funding and has already attracted gaming entrepreneurs eager to create a new breed of mobile services including gaming entrepreneur Jason Citron who developed the early iPhone hit Aurora Feint and the hugely popular OpenFeint platform. 2 million raised. Growth hackers.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

over the course of 2020 (and their combined estimated price tag of nearly $100 billion), it’s not surprising that the Biden plan begins with a focus on resiliency. The bulk of Biden’s efforts to pour money into manufacturing represents another $300 billion in potential government funding. ” Climate resiliency .

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. According to the National Business Incubator Association (NBIA) , there are currently over 1,200 members in 30 nations. Initial funding.

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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. Companies were getting funded more easily and many more companies were actually being created. So we went for it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. Of course, we all realize that this approach will take longer, and could jeopardize both roles if not managed effectively. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

Of course, discovering your entrepreneur type is only the beginning. You go all over the country, the world, and the Web searching for “best practices” in marketing, finance, planning, and funding. Overall, I see real value in using this methodology in conjunction with incubators, business accelerators, and mentoring.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We have a Startup Studio and Early Stage Investment Fund. Over the course of my “retirement” (yes, it is in quotes because I’m not sure it really was one! We provide a startup studio which incubates and accelerates businesses and a pre-seed / seed investment fund. Doing good is good business! More on that later.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Of course, there are pros and cons to each of these. Self-funding from your savings is the preferred source of cash for your startup – if you have it. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. Startup incubators. You have to be relentless in this pursuit to win.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. The company plans to give creators and influencers more independence from existing platforms by allowing them access to funding from a team well-versed in their unique capital needs. Naturally, these were also the first business to get funded. focused fund.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. Oh, and did I mention that their users have mapped 35,000 courses in 127 countries? Then get VC funding, rent a cool space, hire a big team, rebuild and relaunch. Of course not. Not any more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

MuckerLab is one of a number of accelerators who have managed to scoop up venture funding for its companies, with such portfolio companies Surf Air, Retention Science, Wallaby, Chromatik, and others. That is, once you invest in a company, you''re a shareholder, and you help that company for the course of its life. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 22, 2010

Virgina Lorimor There are several options for financing a start-up business that tend to follow a natural course in a business’ development: Personal Investment. “OC’s Premier Incubator – Supporting Start-Up Businesses in Our Business Collective&#. Looking forward to launching our new LA incubator soon!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Of course back then it literally was sold in a package and stored on a shelf!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

They are likely to be able to get grants to fund development for you in strategic focus areas, like alternative energy sources, that would otherwise cost you many thousands of dollars.< Every university has educational courses and can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. < Business plan creation.

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