socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2013

Carpinteria-based Lynda.com announced this morning that it has released a number of online training courses, to coincide with the release of Microsoft's Office 2013 and Office 365. The company, which publishes online, video training courses, said the releases bring it to more than 175 courses on Microsoft software. READ MORE>>.

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Content Training Course Equity 133

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2015

Los Angeles-based MediaPlatform , a startup developing enterprise video and webcasting software aimed at corporate customers, has raised $12M in a growth equity funding. The funding was led by TVC Capital, and also included Barshop Ventures and the company's CEO. MediaPlatform is led by Jim McGovern. READ MORE>>.

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Training Equity Los Angeles Platform 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Being the leader doesn’t mean more equity, nor does it mean the leader will necessarily be CEO. You need a trained CFO to fill the financial gaps on your team. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners. The industry veteran. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 123

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I took pictures of neighbor children, developing them in my bedroom closet, selling the prints to those neighborhood families. First, our family DNA made us comfortable talking about risk and self-discovery in running a business, even without formal training. My entrepreneurial start. I was twelve. The prints were not very good.

Press 156

Press Entrepreneur Training Equity 156

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

You need 5 percent or more of revenue for marketing, maybe more for ongoing development, and people costs will double as you add benefits, insurance, training, IT and new processes. Be willing to give up 20 to 33 percent of your equity to support this. Quantify overhead costs. It’s amazing how fasts costs escalate as you grow.

Startup 116

Startup Pricing Sales Statistics 116

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Of course, that means a mindset willing to give up much more equity, and taking on a whole new level of risk. Switch your focus from product development to sales. Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management.

Startup 151

Startup Course Sales Entrepreneur 151

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Status of the solution.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 118

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

The keys to sustainable success require you to retain that sense of urgency, focus, and vigilance after the launch that you felt during the development and early funding stages. That requires trust and respect from all, as well as constant coaching and development to keep them committed to following you.

Startup 88

Startup Demand Training Custom 88

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Being the leader doesn’t mean more equity, nor does it mean the leader will necessarily be CEO. You need a trained CFO to fill the financial gaps on your team. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners. The industry veteran. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 123

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Switch your attention from product development to sales. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. There is no free lunch. Install a real board of directors.

Sales 147

Sales Metrics Guide Startup 147

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

You need 5 percent or more of revenue for marketing, maybe more for ongoing development, and people costs will double as you add benefits, insurance, training, IT and new processes. Be willing to give up 20 to 33 percent of your equity to support this. Quantify overhead costs. It’s amazing how fasts costs escalate as you grow.

Startup 147

Startup Pricing Sales Statistics 147

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Status of the solution.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 31, 2013

I took pictures of neighbor children, developing them in my bedroom closet, selling the prints to those neighborhood families. First, our family DNA made us comfortable talking about risk and self-discovery in running a business, even without formal training. The other was a grocer, then a jeweler. I was twelve.

Startup 153

Startup Press Entrepreneur Training 153

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

There are many women out there working in philanthropy and extracurricular in charities, who have capital to contribute, and who can get more involved in the sustainable development side of things. In between there, there are things like private equity funds which acquire cleantech companies, and emerging markets and microfinance.

Angel 276

Angel Invest Mentor Technical Review 276

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Being the leader doesn’t mean more equity, nor does it mean the leader will necessarily be CEO. You need a trained CFO to fill the financial gaps on your team. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners. The industry veteran. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 105

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 105

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

They still have all of these clients who want to learn from them, want to continue to train and work out, and instead of putting their content up for freeon a social platform, we can now let them upload different workouts and videos, and set a price for what they cost. Indi stands for individual.

Help 113

Help Commerce Platform Orange County 113

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Switch your attention from product development to sales. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. There is no free lunch. Install a real board of directors.

Startup 97

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Being the leader doesn’t mean more equity, nor does it mean the leader will necessarily be CEO. You need a trained CFO to fill the financial gaps on your team. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners. The industry veteran. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 57

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Being the leader doesn’t mean more equity, nor does it mean the leader will necessarily be CEO. You need a trained CFO to fill the financial gaps on your team. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners. The industry veteran. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 98

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 98

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

At your stage of development do you really think a shit-hot VP Sales is going to join you to head up sales? hiring / training / motivating staff, setting up sales compensation programs, implement ing and enforcing a sales policy) are not consistent with the skills you need in your company at this stage. To the contrary.

Startup 327

Startup Sales Class CIO 327

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

He told me it mad training people and making good products very difficult. The thing is, if you're starting a family of robotics for the food industry, you're going to be spending a lot of time developing things like dispensers to put bell peppers onto a pizza. What is Miso Robotics? On top of that, god forbid, if someone gets E.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Capital Custom 113

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

The financing includes both new investment funding and a conversion of debt to equity, according to a notation in the filing. Ostendo declined my request to talk with CEO Hussein El-Ghoroury about the new funding and about the virtual reality display technology the company has been developing for over a decade.

Technology 40

Technology Venture Capital Beverly Hills Funding 40

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2017

They don’t realize that these only increase their workload, due to training and management, rather than offloading real work. Of course, the right ones cost may you equity, but a small percentage of a big business is worth far more to you than a large chunk of nothing. Develop and propose their own problem solutions.

Help 66

Help Startup Course Technical Review 66

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

You need 5 percent or more of revenue for marketing, maybe more for ongoing development, and people costs will double as you add benefits, insurance, training, IT and new processes. Be willing to give up 20 to 33 percent of your equity to support this. Quantify overhead costs. It’s amazing how fasts costs escalate as you grow.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Pricing Sales 102

Tech Coast Venture Network

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Two Basic Colors – Debt (borrow) and Equity (buy). Planning Process – Use both external factors (industry, market, customers, vendors, regulators, competitors) plus internal factors (mission, vision, product features & benefits, cost structure) to develop functional plans: Design, Make, Market, Sell, and Account.

Design 100

Design Resource Metrics Patents 100

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). equity debate. Dec 26, 2009). Have convertible notes really won?

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Switch your attention from product development to sales. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. There is no free lunch. Install a real board of directors.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Status of the solution.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

You need 5 percent or more of revenue for marketing, more for new development, and people costs will double as you add benefits, insurance, training, IT and processes. Be willing to give up 20 to 33 percent of your equity to support this. Quantify overhead and growth costs. It’s amazing how fast costs escalate as you grow.

Pricing 57

Pricing Startup Entrepreneur Invest 57

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Switch your attention from product development to sales. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. There is no free lunch. Install a real board of directors.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Switch your attention from product development to sales. These only come with the proper training, investment in tools, and focus on customer relationships. There is no free lunch. Install a real board of directors.

Sales 96

Sales Metrics Startup Entrepreneur 96

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Because you’re a startup he cuts you a deal (these sales guys are so good at this to work for only $120k basic in exchange for some equity [no, I'm not sales person bashing - I think sales reps are the lifeblood of any company - I'm just offering my realistic sense of a sales person's salary negotiation strategy!]. Not necessarily.

Startup 293

Startup Sales Marketing Product 293

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Instead of seeking more venture capital or taking on equity partners, many business owners decide to sell when they believe they have reached a certain level of success and can best leverage company assets. As reported by Reuters in the article, Bain to buy Blue Coat for about $2.4 Conclusion.

Startup 40

Startup Acquisition Outsource Development Outsource 40

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

If you look at an enterprise developer of IT team with DevoOs, they have to create applications, manage those applications, and now are dealing with open source, hundreds of different web services, network elements, all virtualized and with containers and new tools. Each and everyone is creating their own equity scenario.

Southern California 113

Southern California Capital Funding Invest 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Good listener, take in information, • Have pulse on what the market wants (hard to train that) cannot take this from customers only. If you need money to even hire a developer [means you cannot even excite one person to put in some sweat equity – not a good sign about your ability to motivate people.].

Acquisition 304

Acquisition Startup Custom Customer 304

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

Training Materials. Company Founder, 31-year old Raj Jeyakumar, developed the concept after a nearly 7-year-long career in strategy and management consulting, topped with a volunteer trip, organized by the Gates Foundation to Kenya, where he created a marketplace for local farmers. .” Marketing & Branding. Investor Decks.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review Outsource 105

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Clarify who gets equity , and how much. Hire and train salespeople. Go mobile and consider app development. If outsourced development is needed, use Guru or Elance.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40