Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day. You will make mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We slowly realized that Microsoft’s value went far beyond his technical contributions, due to his connections with key software developers and relationships with hardware manufacturers who could make the PC revolution universal. In a very real sense, we funded him, and he superseded even IBM.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cashflow personally every day. Buffer your projected resource requirements.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Barry was a lead mentor there at Chapman University's Launch Labs, and we paired up. Barry and I worked together to create Beatshare as a business and go out for funding. Barry Lieberman: That funding round, which was a preferred seed equity round, took place in the summer of 2015, and there was $785,000 in the round.

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Tech.Co

JULY 24, 2017

Pitching one or two of your smartest friends and getting them to join your startup (or at least champion it) is crucial in those early days when nobody talented wants to join a no-name fledgling company with little to no funding. But how do you go about pitching your friends? First, figure out what motivates them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2016

As a mentor to startups, I see more and more startups that are really an individual professional, marketing themselves as a consultant or freelancer. Software Development Professional. Thus smart business professionals are rapidly becoming the new entrepreneurs.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. How can we address this risk? What technologies will we use?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Based in Los Angeles, we are software developers and designers that specialize in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Cloud Computing, Mobile Development, Application Design, and most importantly, helping you solve problems. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Based in Los Angeles, we are software developers and designers that specialize in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Cloud Computing, Mobile Development, Application Design, and most importantly, helping you solve problems. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Based in Los Angeles, we are software developers and designers that specialize in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Cloud Computing, Mobile Development, Application Design, and most importantly, helping you solve problems. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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