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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Because many great entrepreneurs work with lawyers in registering their companies they have their ear to the pavement on the earliest of company formations.

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How to Start a Brewery Business: The Complete 9 Step Guide (2019)

crowdSPRING Blog

In our guide on how to start a small business , we suggest that aspiring entrepreneurs choose a niche for the best chance at success. Regional Craft Brewery – This category is somewhat vague. As you can see, this 3-tier system provides the framework within which your future craft beer business must operate.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

In other words, they've more than proved their plan can work--so much so that Bitwise now operates in two more cities and plans to keep growing. Their model in California was so successful they eventually created a new organization, Onward US, dedicated to putting American workers displaced by COVID-19 back to work. I talk nice.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. Successful entrepreneurs have a bias toward action, as illustrated in Tom and Huck. Select Category. Entrepreneur (167).

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

techcrunch.com

After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies.