Equity Help Mentor 
TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 7, 2021
An edtech startup called Entity Academy — which provides women with training, in areas like data science and software development; mentoring; and ultimately job coaching — has raised $100 million on the heels of strong growth of its business, and an ambition to improve that ratio.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Most of the experience so far has been cash versus the equity feature defined by the JOBS Act – Equity Crowdfunding (Title III) , introduced back in 2016 with 685 pages of rules. In equity crowdfunding, no investor is representing their own interest. These groups are now largely run by volunteers at no cost to entrepreneurs.
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socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
In a bid to change that, there are a few groups working on helping women entrepreneurs, investors, and others, including the Pipeline Fellowship (www.pipelinefellowship.com), which recently launched itself into the Los Angeles market. The program helps them learn the tools to become angel investors in female led enterprises.
SoCal CTO
MAY 13, 2014
Here’s the other aspect that both Tony and I preach: get help. But, advisors, coaches, and mentors can often fill the bill. Getting someone who’s fully employed somewhere else to work with you on a limited basis to help close the gap is hugely important for the non-technical founder. I’m not the biggest fan of this personally.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 22, 2009
He’s joining you because your company offers him/her the hope of the big equity package but likely the step forward in his career that he’s been looking for. One of the things that I had done to help me gain access to senior people that I didn’t know was to bring on a senior guy from industry as a mentor.
socalTECH
JUNE 20, 2012
There is a large menu of startup accelerators in the Los Angeles, but one of more established efforts in the area is LaunchpadLA ([link] The effort actually started as an informal mentoring program, but has grown and expanded to follow the accelerator model. It was really just something built for the community to help support entrepreneurs.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 2, 2013
By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, usually for a share of the equity, hoping to capitalize on their success, or at least strengthen the local economy. Expert mentoring and training. Peer support.
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