Highlights for Entrepreneurs (07/18/24)
Paul Shapiro
CPA (retired), Startup Advisor (CFO and Controller for early stage tech and internet companies); Highlights for Entrepreneurs newsletter
I'm heading off to NJ in the morning to see family and friends. I'll miss some great local LA area events (see prior newsletters!) but I hope to come back recharged. I appreciate you for taking the time to read or skim this, and I thank you for sharing your feedback, thoughts and questions with me. And to all the people I've recently?met and talked to, thanks for keeping me on my toes and I'm looking forward to helping you progress!
I know that you are very busy, but I hope you have time to enjoy the curated information and the?music selections?in this newsletter.?Get in touch if you have any feedback,?sources or other interested?readers - feel free to forward!??If you hear of any?upcoming events, please pass them along too! If the links speak to you, consider subscribing to the source! If you find a link particularly interesting, let me know so I can look for more like it.
PSA:?I'm well into the outreach for my 2024?Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF)?100 mile bike ride which will be in Idaho this year! My goal is to raise?$30,000 once more for?Type 1 diabetes research (over $6k raised to date)?If you'd like to lend your support, here's the link:?Click here: No donation is too small and every dollar truly makes a difference.?Thanks to those of you who have already donated!
Have a great week, be safe and healthy...?and take some time to care for yourself!?Here are this?week's resources for you to check out?and thank you again for reading, subscribing and sharing! Here's my?TOP 15 links for this week,?followed by some tasty?music selections.?
Here's one extra link for an event happening later in the year:?Early Stage LA & Startup Starter: Investment Week 2024 (In person Santa Monica Oct 19 $$$)? I'm putting this in early, because if you're interested in going, you can save some money by pre-registering
Best,
Paul
- "join us for an inspiring event with two teen entrepreneurs whose work has reached millions of people!?Plus - light dinner and refreshments provided! It’s a FREE event, but space is limited. Register soon!"
- ?a fundraising workshop designed to get founders started on the right path to raising investor money: Interactive Fundraising Session plus ?Networking & Community Building
- "This is a nice, relaxed get-together with family offices, angel investors, fund managers, and fund of funds. We want to share what we're doing in the web3 space, and what makes us excited about our Fund II, that we've just launched."
-?Discover essential sales strategies and activate a self-sustaining cycle of client acquisition and retention with Dora Rankin.
- Learn of the Edison Track in this workshop, which will include an opportunity to meet fellow SoCal climate tech founders and investors that can help prepare you for your next fundraise. Aaron Fyke, Managing Partner, Thin Line Capital who will demonstrate how to tell your startup story to Investors and take your questions.
- The speaker will present how to use AI to get more high quality leads and appointments booked on your calendar using bots, how to increase your conversion, launch products faster than ever to the marketplace,...how to automate mundane tasks and much, much more!
-?Learn how to develop a custom roadmap for business growth tailored to your unique needs and strategic goals
- Check this short list of grants to apply for by the end of July (some may be ongoing)
- Hiring your first sales rep is such an important milestone. Read these short tips to improve your odds of getting it right
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- As you build, or plan to build, your Minimum Viable Product, be sure you are going down the right path: "We’re engineers and we wanted to test all the cool technology, but you want us to test whether we first have a product that customers care about and whether it’s a business..."
11)? Michael Wolfe : My Story Or why you might want to listen to me and why you might not (Blog post)?
- Are you on a startup journey, either as a founder or future entrepreneur? In this article - and series - read about Michael Wolfe's zig zag story as a founder and startup veteran, and what can be learned from his? experience.?I can relate to this quote: "I’m energized by the founders I meet and their ideas. They are solving big problems in health care, clean tech, productivity, and economic development using technologies that didn’t exist just a few years ago. I’m amazed by how much more they know than I knew at their age. But I also see how people like me can help accelerate their journeys."
- Join NPR as they'll be traveling through history to find the origins of our economic way of life
- "If you want to build a successful, profitable business, you can have a very comfortable life on $5M in profits every year. But you’ll have to find another way to fund it, because that doesn’t fit the VC model."
- You're growing, you have some cash and it's time to hire. These tips will help position you to be a desirable place of employment (or help you on your own job search if that's your goal)?
- Learn about actionable tactics, including the pivotal role founders can play to drive client engagement and increase success in closing B2B deals for early-stage startups.?
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In Memoriam (an occasional section, hopefully)?
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4 个月have a great trip paul!!