Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or angels. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. Open an account with PayPal.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

We recently sat down with Luc Berlin, co-founder of Miigle, a SoCal startup that has an aggressive global mission to bring entrepreneurs together from around the world. TZ: In our last interview you said that you were about 25% at capacity of your original vision for Miigle. Back then, it was just him following his dream.

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SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. Who are your customers, partners or suppliers? accessibility.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Lottay's gift are virtual things--anything you want--attached to real money, in a PayPal account. For example, I could send you $25 towards a Wii Nunchuck, with a cute picture labeled from me, and an actual $25. How did Lottay start, and tell us about your Series A? That's where I came along.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. Later on, when you are at a university, you might manage things like your resume and portfolio. Later on, when you are at a university, you might manage things like your resume and portfolio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

The caveat is that these young entrepreneurs have to drop out of college to do it. With a bank account full of someone else's money, it's hard not to feel flush with cash and have a false sense of security. But when your only capital is your hard-earned seed money, every penny that goes out will be scrutinized painfully.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

Do you believe in crowdfunding over the traditional ways of investing? Kate Drane: It is not about who prefers crowdfunding over investing and vice versa. I started my company with four of my friends and all of us are first time business owners and entrepreneurs. The cardinal truth is you put your social capital on the line.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

What are your backgrounds? We have a great variety of skills in the team from Media, Marketing, Operations, Retail – all very focus on customer service, highlighting a product or brand in the best way for the least amount of money. What is your business model? When we heard the name – it just made sense.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! Do this for a couple weeks!

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