Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

This is a relatively new term loosely applied to angels who invest their own money in a portfolio of startups (typically 20 or more) and are willing to lead multiple rounds, usually starting with a seed round. These funders often offer convertible notes, rather than the traditional priced equity. Startup incubator seed funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

We know prices of deals, compensation, who’s doing well / poorly, etc. You will be surrounded by loads of like-minded people all looking for work space at an affordable price and all, presumably, interested in meeting and interacting with other startups. Anyone have positive or negative experience in such an incubator?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. The positives are that you give up no equity, and these apply to the early startup stages, but they do take time and much effort to win.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Join a startup incubator. Solicit funds from friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. The positives are that you give up no equity, and these apply to the early startup stages, but they do take time and much effort to win.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. The positives are that you give up no equity, and these apply to the early startup stages, but they do take time and much effort to win.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Join a startup incubator. Only one-third make it past their tenth anniversary.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

I had been seed investing and incubating businesses, and was sitting with a friend of mine, John Miller, who ran Caliburger, which is a 35 location burger chain, which is exporting the California lifestyle, much like In-N-Out does. There are now over 8,000 investors to date who have invested $1000 to $2000 each.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

If you go this route, be careful to make the stakes clear: i.e., that they could lose their whole investment. Angels (invest their own money) and super angels. If you’re raising funds from angels you’ll likely need to get investments from several different players. Expect to be diluted by 20-25% with each equity round.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

If there happens to be a gas station along the way where you can fill up for a reasonable price, great. One way to combat reckless spending is to instill a sense of pride in your employees to never pay full price. Rather, you should be ashamed to pay full price. Encourage all of your employees to ask, “Is that your best price?”

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Companies we've selected are those that are the most exciting, and high profile, that people will want to invest in. We allow them to post their requests, with the highest price posting for shares at the top of the list for buyers, and the reverse for sellers. We organize those that are interested in buying and selling shares.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

What we want to do is bring very good videos to businesses, at a very affordable price. How are you able to keep production values high even at a low price point? That has allowed more creative people to get into video, without having to make such a huge investment it. But, we've also found some really, really talented people.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

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. Price: $15 (Early Bird). Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. to 9:30 p.m. What: Spotlight Series Event.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Name Your Price: Influencing Customer's Purchasing Decisions. Understanding the effect of perceived discounts, multiple product levels, price anchoring, and other. Entrepreneurism / Monetization economics, human behaviour, pricing. . Build Something, Build Anything.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. There is a long tradition of these and it’s what formed the original angel network groups.

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