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ConTraps Part III – Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid At All Costs

InfoChachkie

This series describes how entrepreneurs can craft company-changing agreements with BDCs, while avoiding Kiss of Death contract provisions. In Part II of this series, I suggest that entrepreneurs seek agreements in which “what is good for the goose is good for the gander.” Get The Cheese With Your Neck Intact.

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Interview with Thomas Russell, ETC Solar, Improving Solar Cell Efficiency

socalTECH

For this morning's interview with an entrepreneur, we spoke with Thomas Russell , the Ceo and co-founder of ETC Solar (www.etc-solar.com), a Los Angeles startup developing technology to improve the efficiency and cost of solar cells. Afterwards, we heavily engaged with the solar cell community to identify product-market-fit.

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How Catalog Is Helping SMBs Compete Against Big Brands

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M That system allows us to arrange shoots and coordinate with contracted talent to produce that content.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. Lots of thoughts here.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. Lots of thoughts here.

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Ten Rookie Startup Mistakes You Won’t Make

InfoChachkie

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. Thus, I will recruit independent distributors and they will sell my new and innovative products on my behalf. 3) Attempt To License An Idea.

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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

socalTECH

The third piece of our business, is we''ve developed the infrastructure, technology, and methodology to discover content, and put it into our own, salesforce like system, which allows our researchers to pick out videos, track down the content creators, and do all of the contracting through the system.

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