Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

In fact, this is a complex question, with answers that are different all around the world, but I have some general rules of thumb that apply here in the USA to get you started: Create a business entity early to encapsulate your venture. For legal and tax purposes, I recommend a formal system, like Intuit or FreshBooks, for the new venture.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Along with a team of nine developers, the six young adult authors spent two months working nights and weekends to bring Realms of Ruin to life. They said that the authors, who also worked with a team of developers, ended the project because they felt that there was more to lose than there was to gain.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

In many cases, agreements crafted by BDC lawyers resemble ConTraps rather than mutually beneficial contracts. This series describes how entrepreneurs can craft company-changing agreements with BDCs, while avoiding Kiss of Death contract provisions. Such misrepresentations embarrass the BDC executives and confuse the market.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

The program has been so successful that the startups have leveraged $48M in private capital to further their development. Ashley Bowling, Founding Member of NextGen Venture Partners. At NextGen Venture Partners, Ashley discovers and vets potential investments. He has over a decade of portfolio management in capital markets.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We caught up with Michele and Dan to better understand why they founded the company, and why this market was such an interest to them. We have developed a tool that takes scientific, validated methodologies from academia, and use that to assess unconscious bias around race, gender, age, and other personality attributes, in the workplace.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

Most of the solutions in our market are for lots of doctors, and are on-premise solutions, and are really designed for bigger physician groups and hospitals. How did you determine this was the market to tackle, and how did you get into this? It looks like you have quite a bit of venture backing. How are you backed?

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Search your state’s corporation and LLC name registration database to ensure your business name has not been taken. Pick a structure ( Sole Proprietorship , Corporation , S-Corp , LLC , Partnership , LP , LLP , Non-Profit ) and ensure that you comply with business formation requirements. Creating a corporation?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

But you do need to be sure your company doesn’t just become the internal R&D department for a large corporation. Importantly, make sure that you retain IP rights to your custom work which needs to be part of the engagement contract. If not specified in contract you might find yourself with future litigation over IP.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Focusing on the key elements that larger brands examine when they consider an acquisition is crucial for obtaining the best price and for establishing a corporate brand that distinguishes itself from its competitors as a valuable asset. Leveraging Your Corporate Team. Key functions should not be outsourced.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I took a job in corporate finance as an intern my junior year at First Interstate Bank and I did system design on the side, as my main job was corporate planning.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Prior to Ranker, Clark founded four other successful companies, including eCrush, which he sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2007. 4) One of the reasons we invested in Ranker is because one of the current investors, who also invested in one of your prior ventures, told us, “Clark will go above and beyond to get you a return on your money.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Quiet-as-a-mouse Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures. True-to-his-heritage Rory O’Driscoll from Scale Ventures. Wallflower – yours truly.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. Idea Mensch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

You may have heard that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley no longer read business plans. To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. Quantify the market opportunity in business terms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. He was a great leader, and one of very few who have even been able to dent the barriers to real change in a large corporation. Key operational and pivot decisions require corporate approval.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? have focused this as advice to entrepreneurs building enterprise software ventures today. This should not deter you.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Developments Blog. Gramercy Park Condo Goes Into Contract. Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In all my years in business, I have yet to hear someone say: “I love corporate politics.” On the other hand, I meet plenty of people who complain bitterly about corporate politics—sometimes even in the companies they run. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens. More tiers = more complication = more confusion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. Real-time information drives decisions about marketing spend on movie releases. Real-time information drives commerce.

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