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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? Forget to get around to setting up that Employee Stock Option Plan and want to be able to give the early guys their options at a low strike price? He mostly covers Southern California. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

Any great VC will know that’s how the world works and if that’s how you influence them it’s probably the tool you use to influence journalists, customers, prospective employees and corporate suitors for M&A one day. We’re the largest fund in Southern California. How to Work with PR Firms.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

I need to get you into both the Southern California Tech Central and the B2B Marketing Zone. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? More general resources are: Tracy Williams at Olmstead Williams for PR. BLOG: [link] LINKEDIN: [link] TWITTER: [link] What's a phone booth?

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What has your logo done for your lately?

Up and Running

For example, if you live in Southern California it’s practically impossible to see a red arrow without thinking about In-N-Out Burger. A quality logo initiates loyalty from your clients and employees, providing something for them to rally around. Foster a lasting, favorable impression. Foster customer loyalty.

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California Startup Gold – bring it here to scale it

Scalable Startup

Great PR and finance firms, but not many startups. Southern California, The “Silicon Basin” - - With the convergence of social media, the Internet, and digital entertainment, Southern California is now humming as a great startup region. If you plop your company here, great things could happen.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. Pepperdine Business Press Room – Graziadio School PR [.] This seems like a meaningless statistic.

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Transcript of Building a Fanocracy Around Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

He is an online marketing strategist, an author of a number of books on marketing including the classic, The New Rules of Marketing and PR, one of my favorites, Marketing the Moon, there are countless other books he’s going to share with us how many there are. And he’s a dentist in Southern California.