Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2014

The successful ones then invest their time and money in furthering their knowledge base. These include the following: Networking with people who know. Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor. Adopt a mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2014

In that sense, you should think of an advisor more like your mentor who has done all he can. A good mentor will have some knowledge and some perspective on almost every business subject, which compounds their effectiveness. Sometimes an advisor just appears naturally, but continues to network among friends and colleagues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Solicit venture capital investors.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

So it’s a very early form of investment. If you use the mentor-driven model that we pioneered at TechStars, you get entrepreneurs who are deeply connected with the broader entrepreneurial landscape. With accelerators, it’s a very focused process, it’s 90-days long. I think it’s a huge positive.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2016

If you are a recent college graduate, mentor college students. Networking is one of an entrepreneur’s most valuable skills. You can easily avoid awkward pauses by weaving your Personal Pitch into your networking conversations. Who you are – your interests, experiences, education, why you are so bloody interesting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The successful ones then invest their time and money in furthering their knowledge base. These include the following: Networking with people who know. Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor. Adopt a mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

The successful ones then invest their time and money in furthering their knowledge base. These include the following: Networking with people who know. Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor. Adopt a mentor.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. The program itself is incredibly daunting initially, but it was really valuable for us, especially as an educational experience. We have some great mentors now. Fourth, is all the friends we've made.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

You’ll get to network and meet new people, learn new skills, and build rocking products in a weekends’ time. Main Prize: 50k seed investment from Start Up Labs. Disclaimer, I am a mentor for this event. We’ve all heard of or participated in weekend hackathon events, like Startup Weekend or #Hackfest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2010

The successful ones then invest their time and money in furthering their knowledge base. These include the following: Networking with people who know. Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor. Adopt a mentor.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha is a member of Pipeline Angels , a social impact angel investing group focused on women and non-binary femmes, and serves as the Deal Flow lead. Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education. Lisha Bell, Deal Flow Lead for Pipeline Angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

I’m talking about volunteering to be on industry panels for visibility, participating in startup weekends for education, and talking to groups of distributors or potential customers on technology trends. Travel to key groups and participation in worthy causes, such as Habitats For Humanity, are an important marketing investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Solicit venture capital investors.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

K5Launch (www.k5launch.com) is modeled after the successful Y-Combinator and TechStars acceleration programs, and invests equity, provides mentors, and runs a three month program to get very early stage startups off the ground. All of our mentors are investors as well.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We thought today for our interview, that we'd get an update on the angel investment environment here in Southern California from Scott Sangster , the incoming President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels , the biggest angel investment group in Southern California. Those are fundamentals that don't change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Solicit venture capital investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2010

More importantly, as a parent or mentor, what should you advise young potential entrepreneurs about getting an MBA? In some recent surveys, as many as two-thirds of entrepreneurs felt that their entrepreneurial spirit was more ingrained than learned, so maybe the education level is irrelevant. Consider it a waste of time.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Seth’s interest in helping others grew out of his lack of having a mentor. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Solicit venture capital investors.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We always have a local entrepreneur share their story, and there is locally-sourced beer, food, and networking built in before and after the talk. That leads to a mentor network packed with subject matter experts in retail, food innovation, and supply chain. In addition, the entrepreneurial spirit runs deep here.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

Okuno has been investing in Los Angeles startups for the past three years after selling his own company E-Z Data. Okuno said, “I have invested in over 40 startups almost always in the six-figure range.” He is looking to find more. The Blayze network already reaches or 200 million viewers and has generated thousands in sales.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher that grew to be the third largest educational software publisher in the world and was eventually sold to Cendant Software and is now a division of Havas Interactive, which is owned by Vivendi. Chris Dumler , Co-Founder of Los Angeles Startup Foundation.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2010

At Rincon Venture Partners , the single most important facet we consider when contemplating a new investment is the quality of the Serial Team. After nailing lead generation in the apartment listing space, they are now killing it with respect to lead generation for higher and career education. Alma mater, CallWave: 2005 IPO.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

It is the world´s leading ridesharing network, transporting over 1 million people each month. In 2009, after their first round of investment, they launched internationally. The service can be accessed by computer, mobile phone ( iPhone , Android ) or social network ( Facebook ). Do you have any mentors, Investors?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. RSVP: AGENDA. 6:00 – 7:00pm – check-in.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Design as an afterthought Mistakenly, many early-stage startups often don’t see value in investing in design early on, believing it is a luxury which can be bolted on later like some kind of magic stardust. Get some customers and investment will come a lot easier. Quote from John Wilshire, Artefact Cards 4. It’s time to start hustling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors. Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. angel investing tips.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

And And after 30 years of Venture investing we still have a hard time articulating why. How-to get that guy as your mentor - Gabriel Weinberg , September 20, 2010 Forming a couple of good mentor relationships can help bridge the gap between startup failure and success, especially for first-time entrepreneurs. Facebook Apps).

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. graph consists of a set of nodes connected by edges.

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