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The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary

Both Sides of the Table

She was president of the UJA in Sacramento. Hold interviews with tech people, marking people, ops people, finance people – whatever. Now let me walk you through a broader story because avoidance of the word in and of itself will seem cliche. Stay with me. When I was little I had a role model for entrepreneurship – my mom.

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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

Both Sides of the Table

And there are a ton of dog sitters in Sacramento so I’m sure we’ll be able to help.” Their business model was to help young companies accelerate their launch by helping assemble a team, do initial marketing, provide seed capital and help them raise financing. He was relaxed and told me, “Don’t worry, Mark.

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The Secret Sauce For Smarter Marketing Execution

Duct Tape Marketing

But when you work with a small business, and you've alluded to some of these, I mean, you get into operations, what is traditionally seen as operations, maybe you get into what is traditionally seen as finance. Clare Price (07:24): And that's why one of the things that I'm doing with is developing what I call a ecosystem of right partners.

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New Year, New & Improved NextView Accelerator

View from Seed

Think partners coming together to tap their own networks for your follow-on rounds of financing. The Clarity of the Terms : how will your company be financed? Every accelerator also finances its cohort companies differently. Complicated agreements with MFN clauses and confusing future financing obligations are opaque at best.

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Meet the Grand Prize Entrepreneurs of the BEC Boost

Up and Running

” The award money will finance a complete re-design of the VegiMeat packaging—which will now include nutrition facts and professional photographs—and an expansion: Freja’s Foods will introduce two new items to its product line, and it will begin distributing to larger California markets like Sacramento and the South Bay area.

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How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. — As Selections Committee chair for our Sacramento Angels investor group, I review applications from dozens of startup entrepreneurs looking for investment. data that investors, accelerators and incubators can use to inform selection.

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How to Get Out of Business Debt

Women Entrepreneurs Can

In 1998, he graduated from the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California, and now serves as a principal attorney for the Oak View Law Group in California. He has contributed to publications such as Entrepreneur, All Business, US Chamber, Finance Magnates, Next Avenue, and many more.