Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

As an entrepreneur, you always need to be on the lookout for ways to expand your current business, and always on the lookout for your next big thing. These could be support related, or education related, or a package of product and services for a new class of customers. Tags: entrepreneur startup new opportunities business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2013

One positive aspect of having worked in a large company is that they usually provide actual training and education for a new role, rather than all “on-the-job training.” Well defined and well documented processes don’t exist to guide you. This transfers well to startups, and should give you an advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2019

Most entrepreneurs are quick to assert to potential investors that their product or solution will kill the competition, but unfortunately your opinion alone is not enough to convince most experienced investors. We want to see a documented business plan that clearly addresses this challenge.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Yet we took this document, the business plan, because we knew nothing else and said, ‘Go write one of these.’. Do You Need an MBA To Be A Startup Warrior?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

If you use the mentor-driven model that we pioneered at TechStars, you get entrepreneurs who are deeply connected with the broader entrepreneurial landscape. ” Brad went on to address the issue of a diluted entrepreneur talent pool and its potential impact on the efficacy of new accelerators. I think it’s a huge positive.

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MAY 18, 2009

This morning's interview with Daryl Bernstein , CEO and co-founder of Santa Barbara-based RightSignature (www.rightsignature.com), a firm which has created an online, software-as-a-service offering to collect legally binding signatures on documents. We've also got a huge list of additional document types in the works. and the E.U.,

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. As a teacher, you can share documents with colleagues, or visit and forum and have discussions with other teachers.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Successful entrepreneurs make similarly educated guesses. Today’s entrepreneurs should take these historical commonalities to heart, as a means of predicting the future. Entrepreneurs who recognize such ramifications are well positioned to shape and commercialize emerging innovations. 1. The Hummingbird Effect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

I found this perspective validated in a new book, “ Plan Commit Win: 90 Days to Creating a Fundable Startup ,” by serial entrepreneur and strategic consultant Patrick Henry. The result is a win-win-win situation for investors, entrepreneurs, and customers alike. More value delivered and success for all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2013

When you anticipate losses for the first year or two, it is more important to properly document all expenses, including tricky ones like business travel, business meals, and your home office. Don’t be shy about investigating local classes as adult education, or even a seminar with the SBA on bookkeeping. Corporate records.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2018

Whereas, at Cross Culture, we had to first learn how to build a brand, and make entrepreneurs aware that we were a credible organization, that could be very helpful to their company. In addition to that, black and brown people have been pretty well documented as earlier adopters of technology and consumer products.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

So it’s becoming easier to see how a President Trump or President Clinton might approach questions of keen interest to entrepreneurs and investors, like the merits of the carried-interest loophole in the federal tax code, or how to handle visas for high-skilled workers. Education and Workforce Development. Immigration.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

And a few teams of super talented, educated and bright entrepreneurs make a few mill. And precisely because buyers usually prefer to have limited money go to investors – investors almost always have the ability to say “no” to transactions in the terms of their funding documents (aka “blocking rights”).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

As entrepreneurs, you always need to be on the lookout for ways to expand your current business, and always on the lookout for your next big thing. These could be support related, or education related, or a package of product and services for a new class of customers. Add services that are complementary to your product.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2016

If you are in college, advise a High School entrepreneur club. If you are a seasoned executive, work with a team of aspiring entrepreneurs. Who you are – your interests, experiences, education, why you are so bloody interesting. Ask yourself, “If we hired an entrepreneur, what would they change about the way we do business?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2016

When you anticipate losses for the first year or two, it is more important to properly document all expenses, including tricky ones like business travel, business meals, and your home office. Don’t be shy about investigating local classes as adult education, or even a seminar with the SBA on bookkeeping. Invoicing and payments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2017

People who are good at solving problems for other people make great entrepreneurs. In my role as a new business advisor, I sometimes see people who are very intelligent and well-educated, but not adept at problem solving. Entrepreneurs are often too passionate and impatient. That’s what a business gets paid to do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

The good news is that everyone expects entrepreneurs to make mistakes, since founders explore uncharted territory. If the market is new and competition is minimal, then the time and costs of educating potential customers probably exceeds your survival time and budget. Confidently believe that you have no real competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2012

When you anticipate losses for the first year or two, it is more important to properly document all expenses, including tricky ones like business travel, business meals, and your home office. Don’t be shy about investigating local classes as adult education, or even a seminar with the SBA on bookkeeping. Corporate records.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2014

One positive aspect of having worked in a large company is that they usually provide actual training and education for a new role, rather than all “on-the-job training.” Well defined and well documented processes don’t exist to guide you. big company entrepreneurs public startup' Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

As the markets went down, just like any other investor, they were very conscious of investing more carefully--but, that said, it also meant that there seemed to be more entrepreneurs, for various reasons, were newly interested in starting companies. Scott Sangster: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and I have been angel funding personally.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. Fallacy: Third-party, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) representatives succeed once the sales process is defined, proven and documented.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2011

When you anticipate losses for the first year or two, it is more important to properly document all expenses, including tricky ones like business travel, business meals, and your home office. Don’t be shy about investigating local classes as adult education, or even a seminar with the SBA on bookkeeping. Corporate records.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

In school, you''re taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. entrepreneur business classes startup college course business professional' Business Writing for Email. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2012

Before you start writing, it’s important to ask yourself what you intend the document to accomplish. Consider your recipient’s motivation, culture, socio-economic status, education level, gender, and relationship to you. A poorly formatted document, unsightly fonts, and lack of white space will kill even the best writing.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Strict boundaries and a marathon of hoops to jump through just to submit your documentation as an immigrant, are resulting in less American educated immigrants staying to pursue the process, rather opting to return to their home countries. Take the U.S. category E visa for investors as a prime example of the recent troubles.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 17, 2015

Beloved by children and parents alike, the game has been lauded and awarded by education groups for teaching STEM and code skills while encouraging social collaboration. It’s like LEGO, in a social, virtual world,” added Tara Tiger Brown, a technologist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Connected Camps and Los Angeles Makerspace.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

And for the entrepreneurs who have tuned in, he also gives some insights into best practices for those looking to raise cash, so you don’t want to miss out! Chance is a local grown entrepreneur with a 15 year track record. His dual experiences, both as an entrepreneur and investor yielded him double the frustrations.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

A San Diego civil engineer who has developed an alternative technology for automating the measurement of water flow gave the best presentation at EvoNexus Fall Demo Day, an event that drew nearly 400 entrepreneurs, investors, and supporters late Thursday to Qualcomm’s corporate headquarters. was founded as Catalyst eClinical.).

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 5, 2011

As noted in RIP RFPs , entrepreneurs should generally avoid RFPs because they cannot afford to expend the time and resources required to participate in such regimented and lengthy sales processes. Thus, you may have to deferentially educate him as you assuage his objections.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Two Bit Circus combines engineering, education, and amusement to create physical marvels fueled by technology. Get free bids from lawyers on the documents and services you need! The Entrepreneur Association is the largest student association at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. An online marketplace for legal services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2010

When you anticipate losses for the first year or two, it is more important to properly document all expenses, including tricky ones like business travel, business meals, and your home office. Don’t be shy about investigating local classes as adult education, or even a seminar with the SBA on bookkeeping. Corporate records.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

The startup ecosystem is not just made up of entrepreneurs and investors; it also includes lawyers, bankers, HR and payroll providers as well as financial services providers. Draft appropriate policies and procedures — A good HR partner will keep you up to date with the myriad of compliance documentation you need to protect your company.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

It's a very linear process, and allows them to capture knowledge and link to centralized resources that relate to a topic, including documents, pictures, files, video. One of our hopes, aside from creating a way to package knowledge, is to essentially allow entrepreneurs to create their own publishing company.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Entrepreneurs create opportunities by creating ripples, and mini-ventures are great ripple creators. With the first test looming, the entrepreneurial student borrowed notes from three rather scholarly students, consolidated them into a single document and sold copies to other students for $5 each. From Small to Tall. Smooth Operator.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. Do you have any words of caution or advice for entrepreneurs who attempt to “Get Their Band Back Together”? “In Be prepared to iterate.

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