Jim Armstrong is Managing Director at Clearstone Venture Partners. Jim is very active helping Southern California's aspiring entrepreneurs, and has been instrumental in helping to promote the ...

There is much money to be made in software and tech. AI and innovative paradigms are booming! So, you want to leverage your software or tech offerings to expand in an adjacent market. But how? What is ...

I've spent a reasonable amount of time thinking, over the Christmas break, of what types of startup companies succeed, what types raise funding, what types are capital intensive. It's also been ...

Joe Platnick, a member of the Pasadena Angels, recently posted his list of some criteria for selecting an investor at the group's blog, Ask The Angels, and he gave us permission to repost it here.

The allure to of a company-changing deal with a BDC is strong. Big companies make a number of seductive promises, including access to large markets, significant financial resources and vital public ...

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court made clear what has been a gray area of copyright law – copyright owners must register their work with the U.S. Copyright Office ...

“You're walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.” – Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street” A week before Groupon’s initial public ...

In real estate, location is everything. In business, not so much. Thanks to a tipping point in technology, the physical location of a company’s employees is irrelevant to its customers and even ...

For the past 20 years, I have had a front row seat in watching the evolution of the angel and venture capital sector from both the legal and venture finance perspectives. I have witnessed how the ...

Jared Reitzen is CEO of MobileStorm, a Los Angeles firm which provides digital marketing services. Jared posted this on his blog Tuesday and we thought our readers might find his tips useful. As I sit ...

The price per share of the Series A Preferred Stock that the venture capital investor is willing to pay is equal to the pre-money valuation of the company divided by the total number of shares ...

In this article, Peter Lee, a venture capitalist at Baroda Ventures, discusses company valuation, and what the real goal of setting a value on a company is, and should be. Peter originally posted this ...