Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Establishing the legal structure for your business, registering trademarks, filing copyrights and patents, and drafting partnership agreements used to require extensive attorney fees and ongoing consultation. I now see and believe business plans that budget $1K for all this, versus a previous $20K or more. Facilities and staff.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Establishing the legal structure for your business, registering trademarks, filing copyrights and patents, and drafting partnership agreements used to require extensive attorney fees and ongoing consultation. I now see and believe business plans that budget $1K for all this, versus a previous $20K or more. Facilities and staff.

Cost 139

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

The business plan was starting to look great and all the idea kinks were worked out. Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking.

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Hiring Technical Review 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Establishing the legal structure for your business, registering trademarks, filing copyrights and patents, and drafting partnership agreements used to require extensive attorney fees and ongoing consultation. I now see and believe business plans that budget $1K for all this, versus a previous $20K or more. Facilities and staff.

Burn Rate 125

Burn Rate SEM Social Network Angel Investor 125

VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

million businesses registered in Spain, placing the country in the 8th place worldwide – not bad [ source ]. Mobile web usage in Spain is high, at 20% of mobile phone users in 2011. More and more incubators are popping up, students are participating in business plan competitions, and actively look to get involved with startups.

Spain 108

Spain Silicon Valley Brazil Europe 108

The Next Web

JULY 27, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Aaron Pitman , an angel investor and founder and partner of RA Domain Capital. So why shouldn’t you skip traditional investors and take your business plan straight to the people?

Seed Money 130

Seed Money Massachusetts Equity Campaign 130

The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

This is a guest post by Aaron Pitman , an angel investor and founder and partner of RA Domain Capital. All this made me wonder if there were actual, scientific links between positive thinking and success in business. Among those resources, the top three she found were social capital, resilience, and big picture thinking.

Florida 167

Florida Angel Investor Entrepreneur Networking 167

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. Social gaming was naturally one of the key topics, covered in many presentations. Same goes for television.

Startup 191

Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Got around to seeing The Social Network this past weekend. I did a little searching around the web to try and find a truth vs. fiction comparison, but the closest I found was "The 10 Most Glaring Lies In The Social Network" on the Business Insider.

Social Network 28

Social Network Networking Software Review San Jose 28

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

Evaluate Business and Financing Needs - We initially went out seeking $10 million in financing, but listened to the prospective investors and watched the market. Mid-way through the process, we took another cut at our business plan and built a model where $5 million would be sufficient to get us beyond breakeven.

Venture Capital 28

Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

The only problem is I haven’t found a problem or an industry – web, enterprise software, green tech, etc – where I feel passionate. How I can find the right investor (software)? No investor cares about a business plan. investors like great companies, that’s really the filter.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM&# for small business teams.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

www.quicksprout.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Home About Answers Contact Quick Sprout What I Learned About Entrepreneurship Through 15 Angel Investments by Neil Patel on October 28, 2010 Share Share Over the last 2.5 years I made 15 angel investments with my own cash. When I wrote my business plan, I made sure not to lie (embellish) to myself, partners and potential investors.

Elevator Pitch 60

Elevator Pitch Revenue Entrepreneur SEO 60

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. I was just looking at your web site. has nothing to do with.NET, it’s just web stuff. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon Web Services. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53