Group Plans Workshop to Help Entrepreneurs

Venture capitalists say the Tech Coast needs more veteran entrepreneurs with experience in management and marketing, and the Los Angeles Regional Technology Alliance plans to respond with a workshop series aimed at helping local start-ups make themselves more attractive to potential investors.

The “TechNet Ed” series (subtitled “What Venture Capitalists Really Want From You”) will include modules focusing on writing a business plan, raising money, building a professional management team, sales and marketing, and intellectual property issues. Attorneys, accountants and other service professionals from Ernst & Young, O’Melveny & Myers and Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey will conduct the seminars, said LARTA Program Director Cliff Numark.

Five sessions will be held on a monthly basis between October and February at a total cost of $450. For more information, contact Numark at (213) 743-4160 or cnumark@larta.org.