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We’re following Gatsby fever and heading to The Big Apple as we gear up for this year’s installment of the nation’s largest B2B trade show, Small Business Expo: New York, being held on Thursday, May 16, 2013 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. @ Pier 92! This year, Small Business Expo is back, and better […]
So you own a small business, it’s the weekend, and your plans are wide open. Do yourself a favor, and get yourself to Downtown, Los Angeles to City National’s ’Insight One20′s small business conference where your peers will be busy transforming business strategy and building relationships with the most innovative and successful figures of our industry. Headlining will be keynote speakers Seth Godin, Entrepreneur, […]
The most recent Private Capital Access Index report produced by Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management, in partnership with Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp., revealed that 55% of owners are less confident in their business growth prospects than one year ago (pdf). While this number may seem similar to the millions of other vague statistics […]
Last month, we had the pleasure of joining the best and brightest crowd in LA (but you don’t have to take my word for it…) for Silicon Beach LA’s 4th Weekly Unwind at the Hotel Shangri-La. Even the rain couldn’t stop this ambitious bunch from getting together to dish the deets about their latest and greatest ventures. Our @DandB […]
Dearly beloved, We are blogging here today to celebrate the hard work and dedication of entrepreneurs everywhere. Though Valentine’s day is a holiday typically reserved for star-crossed lovers, today we feel that exceptions can be made as love is not always simply a matter of romantic involvement, but rather love can be an appreciation of […]
From Plato and Aristotle to Gandalf and Frodo, the historical narrative surrounding the nature of the mentor/mentee relationship is very straightforward; young people fair better in the “real world” when they have expert mentor input readily available. Whether it’s advice on how to solicit funding for a start-up, or instructions on how to destroy the […]
Bad 90s pop references aside, and in all seriousness (+1 bouncy castle), last Thursday night we had the time of our lives at the PromoJam 2.0 launch party and 2013 LA Tech Kick-Off at ROC Santa Monica. There were lots of familiar #SiliconBeachLA faces, and we were able to catch up with some of the […]
Recently, we attended a PandoMonthly Fireside Chat where PandoDaily Founder and Editor-in-chief, Sarah Lacy caught up with Lowercase Capital’s Chris Sacca. We, among many other LA entrepreneurs and startup gazers, were literally on the edge of our seats. Lacy was able to run Sacca all the way through the gamut, not entirely unexpected from one of […]
Renaissance man would be a less than generous label for David Hornik, currently a General Partner with August Capital, lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and the creator and Executive Producer of The Lobby Conference (insert breath taking here). Docstoc’s Jason Nazar caught up with Hornik at his most recent Startups Uncensored and per usual, was able […]
We’re really excited to announce that our team has worked closely with our partners at Livestream so that we can stream tomorrow’s Access to Capital event to small business owners all over the country… for FREE! All day tomorrow, Thursday October 18th, we’ll be live-streaming panels and presentations with credit experts, traditional lenders, alternative lenders […]
