InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

A decent showing, but well below a number of larger schools, as the ranking is based on the number of graduates who secured VC funding. Instead of a traditional business school''s case study and textbook approach, UCSB''s Technology Management Program (TMP) emphasizes experiential learning.

Santa Barbara

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Almost every entrepreneur and new business owner I mentor is certain that his/her idea has a very high probability of success, and all find it hard to believe that ninety percent of startups ultimately fail. Growing too fast kills many new ventures, due to staffing costs, inventory, and funding delays.

Technical Review

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2021

Thus, in my role as mentor to young entrepreneurs, I always recommend that you first take a hard look at your own values and priorities, before jumping into any new startup, as the founder, or even as a side hustle. I do first recommend getting some business experience, building relationships, and managing risk.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2022

As a mentor to many business professionals and owners, and aspiring entrepreneurs, I find a wealth of innovative ideas, but often less insight on what it really takes to transform ideas into an income stream that can excite new customers into long-term business success. Investors expect this step to be proven successful before funding.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Students and teachers could rarely be friends on Facebook and no student would want their Physics or Math teacher telling them to study thoroughly for their term paper, but things change and so do we. Meritful is a professional network for students and mentors. Meritful is a professional network for students and mentors.

Help

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

As a startup mentor and investor, I am approached regularly by aspiring entrepreneurs who assert that business plans take too much time, are inaccurate, and rarely add value. Most of these scenarios involve attracting outside investors, strategic partners, or key team members: You are the team and you don’t need outside funding.

Technical Review

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The second is that they are usually very experienced operators that can mentor the founding team. I think when you choose an independent board member you should be thinking about somebody who can mentor you. Feel free to study CBS or Weinstein Company to find out what happens when you have crony independents on a board.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

As a startup mentor and investor, I am approached regularly by aspiring entrepreneurs who assert that business plans are a waste of time. Most of these scenarios involve attracting outside investors, strategic partners, or key team members: You are the team and you don’t need outside funding. Clemson University professor William B.

Technical Review

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Of the 80 companies that have completed the program since its 2007 inception, 49 have received funding, 8 have been acquired and 8 have ceased operations. That book is a compilation of our writing and a bunch of the mentors and the entrepreneurs in the TechStars program. That was a little bit more of a managed process.

Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

He cites several studies, in addition to his own experience, that highlight the following key people drivers to business success: Founders need to be driven by impact rather than money. Other studies indicate that a top reason for many startup failures is that the founders just gave up too early. Use active listening to learn the most.

Technical Review

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We have a Startup Studio and Early Stage Investment Fund. A number of years ago, I did a case study for Harvard Business School. We provide a startup studio which incubates and accelerates businesses and a pre-seed / seed investment fund. Doing good is good business! I’m super excited about it! In a big way!

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2022

Yet, based on my own years of experience “in the business”, mentoring many entrepreneurs, and following stalwarts like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, even these potentially controversial mindsets ring true to me: All risk isn’t risky. Save the celebration until you have cold cash in hand, or the funds are verified. You are odd, and it’s OK.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Even during the recession, the Edelman Good Purpose study found that 68 percent of global consumers would remain loyal to a brand if the organization practiced social responsibility. More and more customers choose a company based on their perceptions about the good that they do, as well as the price and service. Marty Zwilling.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

a couple of people that worked for Softbank plus me got together and with sponsorships from Softbank created a separate venture fund.”. The thing you should do is study Silicon Valley and try to understand what’s great about it and try to institutionalize within your community some of those things. Was it David Cohen’ Idea?

Venture Capital

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). Behzad Kianmahd: There's a bit of a history there.

El Segundo

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Yet, based on my own years of experience “in the business”, mentoring many entrepreneurs, and following stalwarts like Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, even these potentially controversial mindsets ring true to me: All risk isn’t risky. Save the celebration until you have cold cash in hand, or the funds are verified.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2013

Yet, based on my own years of experience “in the business”, mentoring many entrepreneurs, and following stalwarts like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, even these potentially controversial mindsets ring true to me: All risk isn’t risky. Save the celebration until you have cold cash in hand, or the funds are verified.

Entrepreneur

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2012

Through one lens, it looks like a way for aspiring twenty-somethings to raise capital and find mentors that can help them pursue their dreams”. Upstarts create a profile and await its approval, and as they promote their offer, they also review and approve backers who fund them in increments of $1,000 and at times mentorship.

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

We’ve all been to a board meeting where investors criticized a fund-raising deck or investor list but you should be the person who follows up and helps. It’s one thing to push back against executive compensation but another entirely to help with benchmarking studies and help get board support for a plan.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2019

Yet, based on my own years of experience “in the business”, mentoring many entrepreneurs, and following stalwarts like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, even these potentially controversial mindsets ring true to me: All risk isn’t risky. Save the celebration until you have cold cash in hand, or the funds are verified. You are odd, and it’s OK.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Based on my experience as an angel investor and a mentor to dozens of entrepreneurs, having no business plan is the quickest way to define yourself as just a dreamer, or at best a hobbyist. Yet I continue to get funding requests that never mention any specific plans or costs to be associated with these elements.

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2017

Yet, based on my own years of experience “in the business”, mentoring many entrepreneurs, and following stalwarts like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, even these potentially controversial mindsets ring true to me: All risk isn’t risky. Save the celebration until you have cold cash in hand, or the funds are verified. You are odd, and it’s OK.

Entrepreneur

Steve Reich

AUGUST 9, 2012

At a recent accelerator event on the West Side, a friendly young founder told me that he had been coached by his mentor not to talk to Angel groups. The Angel funding process can be arduous. ” And the Kauffman Foundation just published a major study pointing out that all but the top 10% of VC firms fail to create value.

Angel

Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

Lita Nelsen has seen it up close—and played a part in its evolution—from her studies there in the 1960s, to her business-school fellowship in the late 1970s, to her 30 years working in MIT’s Technology Licensing Office. MIT’s approach to nurturing entrepreneurship has changed a lot over the past 50 years.

Startup

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We have a Startup Studio and Early Stage Investment Fund. A number of years ago, I did a case study for Harvard Business School. We provide a startup studio which incubates and accelerates businesses and a pre-seed / seed investment fund. Doing good is good business! I’m super excited about it! In a big way!

Startup

Xconomy

JULY 11, 2016

At the center of the conversation would be the results from the Diana Project, a research study that examined our industry and the stark lack of representation of women investors and funded entrepreneurs. About two years ago, I was asked to join a Babson College panel discussing the gender gap in venture capital.

Venture Capital

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

Both have been great mentors ever since. The whole getting funding and everything made me realize we had to be on this full time. Whta were you studying before the startup? Scott Ferreira: I was actually studying architecture. Was that investment how you decided to drop out of school to launch the service?

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. You invest across many funds just as VCs invest across many companies.

Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2021

Based on my experience as an investor and mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, one of the quickest ways to kill your credibility and your startup is to offer a poorly written business plan, or none at all. Marty Zwilling.

Sample

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Based on my experience as an investor and mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, one of the quickest ways to kill your credibility and your startup is to offer a poorly written business plan, or none at all. Marty Zwilling

Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2015

Based on my experience as an investor and mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, one of the quickest ways to kill your credibility and your startup is to offer a poorly written business plan, or none at all. Marty Zwilling ** First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/16/2015.

Startup

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

You recently conducted a pilot study. Can you share with us how the learnings of this pilot study impacted your strategy? HV: It was a research study that was conducted through USC, but the sites were at the Oasis Active Adults Community and we also worked with the Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing.

USC

InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

Young entrepreneurs can call upon their alumni networks for advice, recruitment of key employees and even funding. Resources – Many campuses offer entrepreneurial students a variety of free resources, such as: incubators, accelerators, mentor programs, venture competitions (with meaningful prize money) and even seed funding.

Entrepreneur

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Who are your mentors, role models? We don’t have mentors at the moment. Students have to register with their matriculation numbers, and supply upon registration, their course of study, faculty, department, mode of entry, year of entry etc. We also raised fund for CPC advertising, which doubled sign-ups.

Social Network

socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

We raised a bunch of money, and funded training programs for underserved communities for entry level jobs, which would lead to careers in the entertainment industry. Since then, I have worked extensively with mentoring youth, and helping them figure out what's possible in terms of careers.

Help

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. graph consists of a set of nodes connected by edges.

Startup