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UK-based women’s networking and private club, AllBright, raises $18.8 million as it expands into the US

TechCrunch LA

Coupled with the launch of a new networking application called AllBright Connect and the company’s AllBright Magazine, the women’s networking organization is on a full-on media blitz. The company said that the new facilities would be opening in the coming months.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. People proclaimed that there was a “new economy” and “the old rules didn’t apply” and if you questioned it you “just didn’t get it.”

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

Both Sides of the Table

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. One senior mentor to Launchpad LA recently said, “I got more out of Launchpad LA than I even put in.

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Entrepreneurs Relish The Challenge More Than Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Most successful entrepreneurs have been written up on the Internet, or in magazines, or books. Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor. Adopt a mentor. Boomers who have “been there and done that” make great mentors. Formal learning.

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7 Scenarios Where A Business Plan Is Still An Asset

Startup Professionals Musings

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. They cite sources like Profitable Venture Magazine, “ Why Business Plans are a Waste of Time ” and this Forbes article.

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Entrepreneurs Love the Learning and Ramen Noodles

Startup Professionals Musings

Most successful entrepreneurs have been written up on the Internet, or in magazines, or books. Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor. Adopt a mentor. Boomers who have “been there and done that” make great mentors. Formal learning.

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If Your Dream is to Get Rich, Don’t Try a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Most successful entrepreneurs have been written up on the Internet, or in magazines, or books. Follow up online with social networking to make contact, dig deeper, and maybe even line up a mentor. Adopt a mentor. Boomers who have been there and done that make great mentors. Formal learning.

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