Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

Yet crowdfunding is no panacea for hungry entrepreneurs and startups. Crowdfunding may look easy, via popular sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, but their cost in time, effort, and money by entrepreneurs is daunting. In fact, there are many types of crowdfunding, including donations, reward, pre-orders, loans, and equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

It was a stock option incentive related “expense” but I bet you didn’t know that because in an era where we only read the headlines — they must be a train wreck losing billions. I often ask entrepreneurs to consider, “What’s your objective? I don’t want to pretend that stock-option grants have zero impact on you as a shareholder.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Entrepreneurs who experience promising initial success also play a similar game. Nearly every successful entrepreneur is offered a relatively modest amount of money for their adVenture during its early days. As described in What The Heck Are My Stock Options Worth? , Total options granted to employees.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 17, 2015

Entrepreneurs and startups operate within a David versus Goliath environment. In fact, improvements in technology, like big data as a service, mean there are options for all companies regardless if they’re massive corporations or fledgling startups. Entrepreneurs and Flexibility. This is a weakness entrepreneurs need to exploit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2016

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of those demanding angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. These groups are now largely run by volunteers at no cost to entrepreneurs. Lack of checks and balances on startup valuations.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. This benefits you, the entrepreneur. It takes options off of the table.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Los Angeles is the capital of on-demand apps, for just about anything you want. One of those areas that combines LA's passion for on-demand apps, and its active lifestyle, is Fitspot (www.fitspotapp.com), which brings athletic trainers to you or your local fitness center. What is Fitspot?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2016

We’re essentially a data platform and envision others building applications to take advantage of this information. Density is simply the data & analytics platform. It’s been so great to collaborate and work towards this common purpose) and with Jonathan Triest at Ludlow Ventures, Amit Kapur at Dawn Patrol and several others.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. No platform is naïve enough to allow an outsider to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without an appropriate tax or benefit to them. But you should.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

Just 20 years old and a recent Harvard University dropout, Olenka provided insight into her transition to Los Angeles, life as an entrepreneur, and how she’s passionate about helping non-English speakers see American movies in their own native language. So being an entrepreneur is a lot like being a student. You have deliverables.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. Tell a friend! Not so much.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. .

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. AdWords is on Google.com, AdSense is a distributed platform across many different Web sites where if youre a small publisher and you put AdSense on your Web site and someone clicks, you get part of the revenue and Google gets part of the revenue.

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