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Every Dollar Spent At A Startup Should Yield A Return

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You cannot afford to speed, gun the engine, take detours, or spend your precious cash on a killer stereo to entertain you during your trek. When you embark on your journey, it is prudent to plan on crossing the desert on a single tank of gas. However, do not count on it.

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10 Tests of Your Modern Entrepreneur Lingo Savvy

Startup Professionals Musings

See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity. Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. Startup pivot.

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Interview with Paul Bricault, Amplify

socalTECH

The standard model for an accelerator is, they provide a tranche of equity, along with a suite of services that varies by different accelerator. Before we started this thing, we spent three months traveling around to accelerators around the country, in Cincinnati, Austin, San Francisco, Waterloo, and Vancouver, Canada, and New York City.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. After BITSource was successfully acquired, I moved to L.A. Details coming soon!)

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

Their purchases are limited to restaurants, bars, retail clothing outlets, travel and entertainment. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. My own view on these services is nuanced. I get why people from 22-35 would find this service fun and attractive. Wildfire Interactive. 4mm in Series A.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

socalTECH

Sam Rogoway: I'm an entertainment attorney by trade, and have represented a number of the largest reality production companies, as well as award winning filmmakers, both scripted and documentark filmmakers. What's your background, and where did the idea for the business come from?

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

Tech Zulu Event

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. Dinesh earned his B.S. in Computer Science and his MBA from UC Irvine.