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52 Articles match "Help","Mentor"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Find the best and brightest next generation of entrepreneurs and help them to be more successful
Encourage the most successful LA tech entrepreneurs who had previously started companies to get involved as mentors, instructors or just informal advisors
Help these companies get funded and let them know that if they stayed in LA there was an ecosystem to support them
Today we announced Launchpad LA V2 .
Full press release with more details is here . We
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
DreamIt Ventures gives 10 startups a year a little money ($10,000 - $25,000) and a lot of mentoring to help them launch their businesses. invited one of the seed fund's co-founders, Steven Welch, to talk about how they pick the 10 startups and how they help turn ideas into businesses.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
have met dozens of brilliant technologists with fantastic ideas, ideas requiring nurturing, mentoring and support. It is generally a soft touch at the beginning of the development process, perhaps identifying 1-2 early alpha/beta customers to help flesh out use cases to be built upon over time. It is gently laying the foundation for a subsequent financing, helping the CTO set sensible milestones to be achieved that can demonstrate execution skill and release cycle Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media....
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Andy Liu is the guy that past Mixergy guests recommended I interview because he helped them build their businesses. When I interviewed Ben Huh , he said that Andy recommended that he buy ICanHazCheeseBurger.com, and that Andy both invested in the business and helped him strategize. Neil Patel told me that Andy isn't just his business advisor, but a life mentor too. In this interview, you'll see why they rave about Andy.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 -- Entrepreneur Mentoring Session. Nitro will help strengthen the region's eco-system for successful entrepreneurship by providing startup entrepreneurs with access to powerful mentoring and executive in residence (EIR) resources. The goal of the group's first event is to introduce entrepreneurs/researchers to experienced mentors, in a working session environment, so that both sides can see if there is mutual interest in continuing to work together. NITRO. Entretech is launching Nitro a new program designed to "Get more companies funded
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Rather they should get a part-time Acting CTO who can help close the gap. Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum . Bottom line – if as you recognize this gap, then reach out to get a slice of a CTO who can help bridge the gap. Founder Developer Gap I’m assuming that the founders understand what they generally want to do with the business and where the product should be going. Here's why... Attracting a CTO to your startup I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
DreamIt Ventures gives 10 startups a year a little money ($10,000 - $25,000) and a lot of mentoring to help them launch their businesses. invited one of the seed fund's co-founders, Steven Welch, to talk about how they pick the 10 startups and how they help turn ideas into businesses.
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Evan Pagan, one of my mentors, talks about this as the ultimate area of leverage in a business there’s nothing else you can do that can almost instantly take your business and from the existing amount of visitors, traffic, attention that you have create 2 times, 3 times the amount of results that you get from that.
Well, there’s a few elements to include in your page that help you build trust. While most online companies struggle to get hits to their sites, Chance Barnett is attracting customers and racking up sales .
Most people don’t know Chance.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
What can you learn about building a startup from an investor who helps launch multiple companies at once?
Matthew Jacobson is a partner at Launch Box Digital , a seed investment and accelerator program that helped launch 9 companies last year. Get mentors - In his program on how to get funding, Dan Gould said getting advisors is the first step because they open doors to investors. In the program he recorded with Mixergy, he offers advice for startups, including:
Find the real problem - MyGameMug, a Launch Box investment, found the real problems that gamers had by
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Evan Pagan, one of my mentors, talks about this as the ultimate area of leverage in a business there’s nothing else you can do that can almost instantly take your business and from the existing amount of visitors, traffic, attention that you have create 2 times, 3 times the amount of results that you get from that.
Well, there’s a few elements to include in your page that help you build trust. While most online companies struggle to get hits to their sites, Chance Barnett is attracting customers and racking up sales .
Most people don’t know Chance.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
The Harvard Business School Case Study on Heidi Roizen talks about the dinner parties she hosts for tech leaders like her personal friend, Bill Gates, and how people skills helped her build one of the most admired careers in Silicon Valley.
like this quote in the Harvard case study on how that helped her build relationships.
Offer I invited Heidi to Mixergy so we can learn how she builds relationships.
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
When you do get time the advisers are often too removed from the details of the company to help. Let’s face it, to help a company you really need to understand the details. But I would argue that you can develop relationships with many advisers, mentors and VCs that will help with introductions for no equity. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice . Many startup companies hire advisory boards.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
And you can always bring on a senior person as a mentor / coach to help guide you personally to become a better sales leader until you’re ready for somebody more senior on your team. In One of the things that I had done to help me gain access to senior people that I didn’t know was to bring on a senior guy from industry as a mentor. He helped set up Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class
This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice .
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