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.
SAM Preccelerator Program company GoGet! has announced their launch into the App Store. GoGet! is an App and Marketplace that helps Store Owners and Consumer Users make money by obtaining a marketing commitment from the Store Owner and giving money in small increments to loyal and new customers in exchange for sharing information.
To learn more and to download the app, visit www.goget.la
For more information about our Preccelerator Program, contact Heidi Hubbeling at (310) 746-9803 or hhubbeling@100.26.91.60.
SAM Preccelerator Program company Fleck, launched their 2.0 version in mid-December, and have reached more than 50,000 users, tripling their user base. Upon launch, Apple also featured Fleck as the #1 Best New App, and they maintained being on that list for 3 weeks after launch. Congratulations on the continued success Fleck!
To download the app, click www.getfleck.com
About Fleck
Curated inspiration from a global community of artists. Share your inspiring photos to topics like Street Art & Typography. Vote on submissions and influence tomorrow’s top photos. Each day, explore the best photos selected by the Fleck community
About the Preccelerator Program
Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP is one of the leading start-up law firms in Southern California. We pioneered a fixed fee start-up package making the formation and organization of your start-up as seamless as possible. Our Preccelerator Program is a new platform offered to select start-up companies out of our Santa Monica office that provides interim office space and sophisticated legal services, with the objective of helping you grow your idea from business concept to funded startup. The Preccelerator Program provides free co-working space and other perks for 5-6 promising young startups.
For more information about the Preccelerator Program, contact Heidi Hubbeling at hhubbeling@100.26.91.60 or (310) 746-9803.
Espree Devora is known as “the Girl who Gets it Done”. She is Comms VP and Podcast host at WeAreLATech, a virtual tourist office for LA Startups, in addition to being a contributing journalist for TechZulu. On her blog SaveBusinessTime.com, she curates and reviews the best business software for startups to be more productive. She has provided seminars in entrepreneurship and technology to many corporations and universities including CBS, Disney and USC Executive MBA. Connect with Espree on Twitter @espreedevora or LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/espree.
1453 3rd Street Promenade, Suite 300
Santa Monica, CA 90401
4th Street/Broadway ramp or in the Santa Monica Place Mall