Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching online courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Usually these will not give you money, but will provide inexpensive expert mentoring and office services. If you need money now, is has to come from friends and family. Early or embryonic stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Don’t look for formal venture capital levels of funding, but certainly early-stage Kaufmann grants, incubators, and entrepreneurship incentives are available from endowments and state funds. Early-stage funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

Every university has educational courses and can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Look for evening courses, or special programs for entrepreneurs, like the ASU Technopolis program mentioned below, available to non-students. I’m involved with their community outreach program as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2012

Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Don’t look for formal venture capital levels of funding, but certainly early-stage Kaufmann grants, incubators, and entrepreneurship incentives are available from endowments and state funds. Early-stage funding.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Mentor Research 92

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly But how do you actually get the right people to be your mentors?

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Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 22, 2010

Virgina Lorimor There are several options for financing a start-up business that tend to follow a natural course in a business’ development: Personal Investment. Remember, help is only a mentor away. “OC’s Premier Incubator – Supporting Start-Up Businesses in Our Business Collective&#. www.WINopp.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

I’ve always wondered if there was some way that I could quickly deduce a new entrepreneur’s “sweet spot,” and optimize my mentoring to those strengths and weaknesses, maybe similar to the Myers-Briggs type indicator for business professionals. Of course, discovering your entrepreneur type is only the beginning. Some are very positive.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc? It's not entirely exclusive, however.

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2023

If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching online courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Usually these will not give you money, but will provide inexpensive expert mentoring and office services. If you need money now, is has to come from friends and family. Early or embryonic stage.

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Startup Funding Organization Incubator 122

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, crowdfunding still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

You need to build business relationships with partners, team members, investors, and of course customers. Asking someone to be your mentor is not a sign of weakness, and most mentors love to help. As an introvert myself, I remember worrying that I could never be comfortable giving a sales pitch, or networking to find clients.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching online courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Usually these will not give you money, but will provide inexpensive expert mentoring and office services. If you need money now, is has to come from friends and family. Early or embryonic stage.

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Organization Startup Incubator Ideas 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Advisors and mentors are busy people. Optimize your advisers and investors.

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Entrepreneur Startup Resource Course 145

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge.

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Entrepreneur Outsource Development Satisfaction Equity 129

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

If you need help at this stage, look for a local university teaching online courses on entrepreneurship , or how to build a business plan. Usually these will not give you money, but will provide inexpensive expert mentoring and office services. If you need money now, is has to come from friends and family. Early or embryonic stage.

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Funding Startup Organization Incubator 94

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

What Miigle does is make it easier for entrepreneurs to grow their ideas and startups by connecting them with people including other entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, potential product users who share their interests and want to help. I want to change that. Making these connections with the right audience is key to an entrepreneur’s success.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We select ten per class, and help those startups connect with mentors and other people in that local environment who can be helpful to the business. Since then, we've replicated the model with a local managing director, local mentors, and have expanded to roughly 25 different programs around the world. billion combined.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

Spearheaded by Alex Donn , the event was designed for both technical and non-technical attendees to build apps over the course of a weekend at Io/La , an incubator/co-work space in the heart of Hollywood. On July 27, 2012 the AT&T Developer Program and Apigee produced the Mobile App Hackathon in Los Angeles, California.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. Of course, you should monitor social media such as Twitter, the social news sites, Facebook, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator.

Funding 107

Funding Startup Equity Examples 107

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator.

Startup 106

Startup Capital Equity Funding 106

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2019

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Advisors and mentors are busy people. Optimize your advisers and investors.

Startup 99

Startup Entrepreneur Resource Course 99

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Over the course of my “retirement” (yes, it is in quotes because I’m not sure it really was one! We provide a startup studio which incubates and accelerates businesses and a pre-seed / seed investment fund. More on that later.) I had the chance to do a lot of self reflection. Those zoom meetings and calls got me fired up! In a big way!

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Startup Case Study Ideas Invest 105

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham of Y Combinator, and Dave McClure of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Advisors and mentors are busy people. Optimize your advisers and investors.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Startup Resource Course 92

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2017

Anna Barber: Before this, I hadn't been involved with Techstars as a mentor, however, I'd been an entrepreneur and mentored at other accelerators. Of course, there's a lot of concentration in LA along Siliocon Beach, but there are great things in Pasadena, Claremont, Downtown, and the Valley.

Startup 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Funding 96

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

The idea, is to make it accessible as a multi-disciplinary part of Tel Aviv University, so that young people, alumni, and students with ideas for a company can join the fund, not only to be funded with seed money, but also so they can be accelerated and potentially incubated before they go out. Behzad Kianmahd: Nothing is easy.

El Segundo 100

El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Community Sponsors.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

She has been interviewed by Tony Robbins “as one of the world’s leading lifestyle and online marketing experts and mentored young business owners at Richard Branson’s Centre of Entrepreneurship in South Africa.” Online content isn’t a small market, nor is it going away anytime soon. ” Collaboration was also key.

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego. It’s a place where we’re going to put 250 like-minded people, where I can mentor him, you can mentor me,” Cohen said.

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San Diego Incubator Avalon Mentor 40

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2017

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham of Y Combinator, and Dave McClure of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Advisors and mentors are busy people. Optimize your advisers and investors.

Startup 60

Startup Entrepreneur Resource Course 60

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Over the course of my “retirement” (yes, it is in quotes because I’m not sure it really was one! We provide a startup studio which incubates and accelerates businesses and a pre-seed / seed investment fund. More on that later.) I had the chance to do a lot of self reflection. Those zoom meetings and calls got me fired up! In a big way!

Startup 52

Startup Case Study Ideas Invest 52

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Community Sponsors.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

You can be an entrepreneur and at the same time you can be a mentor or an investor to someone else’s project. Or an incubator or an accelerator, but as we have seen there just aren’t enough of these institutions to support all the entrepreneurship around the world. Personas in Miigle are very important.

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SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

And then of course our friends at TechStars launched an accelerator in collaboration with our friends at Disney so now there was six. There are many great companies that have been associated with Launchpad over the years and of course I’m proud of everybody we’ve had relationships with. Almost none remain from that era.

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