SAM is proud to announce that FlashFunders has established an exclusive partnership with Inuit’s Quickbooks Small Business Center. As part of that partnership, Quickbooks and FlashFunders present, “The Complete Guide to Equity Financing.”
To view an informative PDF featuring video interviews and in-depth articles from FlashFunders execs and industry experts, click here.
For more information about FlashFunders, visit www.flashfunders.com
This session will focus on techniques and ways to network in the VC and Angel Community. We will interact and share best practices on business development and promoting your start-up.
SAM Preccelerator Program participants will have demo tables where they
will showcase their companies. Check them out!
Facebook! Twitter! Instagram! Snapchat! Oh My! What’s a business to do? Which of these Social Media tools fits your specific business needs? If you don’t have the right answer or are simply guessing, you need this event!
We’ll guide you through the ever-changing waters of the world wide web (Remember when we actually called it that?) because what you did last month doesn’t always fit today’s trends.
This interactive session is designed to help focus your social media output, understand your target audience, learn proper engagement strategies and discuss best practices for Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest for Business.
We’ll help you:
1. Understand how to identify your Social Media Target Audience
2. Learn About Engagement Strategies
3. Discuss Best Practices for Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest for Business
Brian Fife – Take one part passionate wordsmith and add a dash of possible obsessive compulsive disorder. Add in a keen ear for finding a voice, vision and brand in between the clutter. Mix with a shaker of rum and you’ve got the mad science recipe for Fife. In between his fascination with the internet, finding new music and the written word, he builds Fife Star Media’s client base through wit and charm. (At least, that’s what we tell him. It’s honestly just perseverance and initiative.)
Heather Davis – Social Media isn’t just a hobby for the special events and programs supervisor turned digital marketing manager with a Pinterest addiction, it’s her passion. A glimpse at her photo blogs and Instagram account of her adorable one year old little man and a shih tzu with a big personality, will show you how everyday is an adventure in Heather’s world. She brings creativity, out of the box ideas, as well as unique perspective and experience to every client and project, usually with DIY instructions written on the latest chalkboard painted weekend project.
Fife Star Media is a collective of like-minded entrepreneurs, focused on working directly with businesses that need a visually dynamic and expressive online presence to capture new clientele. We bring individual expertise in social media, creative writing, web & graphic design as well as Google AdWords & Local Reputation solutions. As a team, we build your brand by solving the web based problems nearly all businesses face in a detailed and creative fashion. Our clients are businesses who either lack the time or acumen to manage and build their online image.
Congratulations to SAM Joint Venture FlashFunders for their being listed in Entrepreneur’s Brilliant 100 Companies to Watch list!
Flashfunders is a no-fee equity investment platform that streamlines the fundraising process by offering entrepreneurs SEC-compliant documents and FDIC-insured escrow accounts, saving them thousands in legal fees.
To view the full article on Entrepreneur.com, click here.
We are very proud to announce that our Preccelerator Program company CardBlanc is being featured as a finalist for the IDEO and MasterCard challenge: “How might we use the power of communities to financially empower those who need it most?”
View the Napkin Finance presentation:
CardBlanc is a virtual debit card that unlocks an effortless and secure mobile shopping experience. We are simplifying the process for teens to buy, and parents to provide control and supervision in a mobile environment. Napkin Finance is the brain-child of CardBlanc.
Congratulations Tina and Team! We’re rooting for you!
About IDEO – IDEO is one of the most prominent design firms in the country. They create products for IKEA, Microsoft, HBO, among others. They designed the first Apple mouse. Here is a video about them on 60 min: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/how-to-design-breakthrough-inventions-50138327/
Swggr – fashion love child of Instagram and Pinterest, is the first app designed to empower Millennial’s by providing a platform to directly style and share purchasable looks with friends all while getting rewarded! When users share styles from their virtual closet, they rack up points redeemable for discounts and exclusives from their favorite brands and retailers. TO INVEST OR LEARN MORE PLEASE VISIT: www.flashfunders.com/swggr
This course will show you how to put your best foot forward when presenting your company’s business model to potential investors. Areas covered will include:
1. What investors are looking for in your pitch
2. How to prepare a credible financial model
3. Pitching techniques that work
Eli Eisenberg has more than 35 years of hands on experience in the financial and business management of entrepreneurial companies. As founder and CEO of Straight Line Management™, he specializes in providing financial expertise and mentoring to high-potential early stage companies. Mr. Eisenberg helps them to increase profitability, secure funding, evaluate and capitalize on opportunities, streamline financial operations, and get the financial side of the business under control.
Since launching his Straight Line Management consulting company in 1991, he has served as a trusted advisor to more than 70 early-stage companies, both traditional and web based, across a variety of industries including software and game companies, high and low tech manufacturing companies, wholesale distribution companies, product and services companies and non-profit organizations.
Prior to starting Straight Line Management, Mr. Eisenberg served as Chief Financial Officer for three high technology companies, served in senior financial and operational management positions (including VP of Finance and VP of Operations) in several other high growth companies, and established, ran and sold his own successful consumer products company.
Mr. Eisenberg has extensive experience in strategic planning, capital raising strategies, financial management and forecasting, business plan preparation, and development and streamlining of management reporting systems and controls. He received his MBA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 and became a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California is 1978. He is also a Fellow of the Larta Institute, where he conducts workshops and mentoring sessions for entrepreneurs in conjunction with their NIH, NSF, TATRC and USCA Commercialization Assistance Programs
What often make hyper-growth businesses look like overnight successes is smart marketing. And while most marketing strategies remain consistent, the methods and tactics vary wildly. Marketing Guru Peter Mansfield shares examples and best practices to find the sweet spot on a shoe string budget and optimize your marketing effort for different stages of growth.
Peter Mansfield –
Peter Mansfield is the quintessential startup marketing professional. Over the course of 25 years, he has been involved in a notable sequence of early stage company adventures and successes. Peter’s in-the-trenches experience makes him particularly valuable in helping new ventures move quickly and efficiently to realize their market potential. He has helped fast growth companies including Xircom, Xylan, Optimal Networks, Packeteer, and Gearworks reach an aggregate market value of close to $5 billion. Alongside his strategic and tactical marketing involvement, Peter helps companies raise money, develop customer acquisition programs, and build channel partnerships. His extensive network includes top-tier VC firms and angels, venture-focused attorneys, recruiters, and other startup experts.
In addition to his market-proven ability to drive awareness and credibility for startups, Peter also provides marketing services for larger organizations. This includes financial services leaders such as Union Bank, and non-profits like The California Wellness Foundation. On a tactical level, Peter gets actively involved in branding, website development, presentations, event/conference management, social media, SEO/SEM, advertising, collateral development, PR, and sales support.
Peter founded Mansfield + Associates in 1992. The firm works with fast growth companies across the US. Peter’s current roster of venture-funded clients includes BillFloat (San Francisco), Marqeta (Emeryville), Revolution Credit (Irvine), Wallaby Financial (Pasadena), and ClickWithFriends (Toronto).
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SAM Preccelerator Program company TrekSavvy has announced that they have launched their premier travel site www.treksavvy.com. TrekSavvy is your resource for discovering how best to experience the location’s must dos. Similar to asking a good friend who’s been there, TrekSavvy’s like-minded traveler contributors hook you up by suggesting the best way to hit multiple destinations on your trip and how to create Ideal Days by telling you which must-do’s work perfectly together. The end result is a fully personalized travel guide that can be accessed from almost any device – even offline.
For more information about the Preccelerator Program, contact Heidi Hubbeling at 310-746-9803 or hhubbeling@100.26.91.60
SAM Preccelerator Program Company Swggr, Inc. has announced their launch into the App Store. Swggr is the fashion love child of Instagram and Pinterest where users style themselves and others while being rewarded.
Users host a virtual online closet “collection” where they can instantly style and share looks for themselves, friends and followers. Users rack up reward points that are redeemable for discounts from their favorite brands and retailers, exclusive merchandise, and special access to fashion tastemakers.
For more information and to download the app, visit swggr.net
For more information about the Preccelerator Program, contact Heidi Hubbeling at (310) 746-9803 or hhubbeling@100.26.91.60.