InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

If the tech community believes that a certain area is the epicenter of a particular industry, motivated entrepreneurs will start their ventures in such locations, thus reinforcing the geography’s perceived advantageousness. As shown in the following chart, the overwhelming focus of investments during Q1 of 2011 was in later stage companies.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Technical Review 233

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Venture capital is about backing the leaders of tomorrow who imagine the world as it should be and aren’t constrained by what it is today. As an industry we’re not always as good as we could be about our own “creative destruction” to create the tomorrow of venture capital. And all the platform stuff. Does This Mean You’re Retiring?

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Venture Capital Startup Invest CitySearch 361

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Steve Streit , the founder of Monrovia, California-based Green Dot , which provides prepaid debit cards and other products, has been tapped for a national award recognizing entrepreneurs. Streit was among nine entrepreneurs awarded in an event hosted by Jay Leno in Palm Springs. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Monrovia Entrepreneur Capital 147

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2011

The Clean Technology venture capital sector, which includes alternative energy, soared 68 per cent year-on-year during the first quarter of 2010. Production and testing today center around rapeseed oil, soybeans, sunflower oil. I expect another increase this year. Bio-diesel can be created from used or virgin plant oil.

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Technology Venture Capital Competition Funding 94

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. This benefits you, the entrepreneur. Rinse & repeat.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

I just read the Q1 2011 report from CB Insights , which shows venture capital is back. Sure, there is always some seed funding (10% of overall deal flow), but you can bet that this money goes to entrepreneurs who have been there before and won. Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active.

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Venture Capital Startup Capital Seed Funding 93

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 18, 2011

Monday, July 18, 2011 -- How to Raise Money in a Tough Economy. Jackson as we delve into the endlessly fascinating topic of raising capital in tough times. Jackson, a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur, advises startups and nonprofits on their product and business strategies. Tech Coast Angels. oin Barbara and Eric M.

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Tech Coast Angels Los Angeles Entrepreneur Capital 100

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Those of us in the business of calculating (guessing) this mythical peak in value often make the same mistake as our entrepreneurs. Competitors, seeing a successful development of a niche, flock into the competitive void with products or services built with a fresh view of the current environment.

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Pricing Invest Email Competition 120

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc.

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Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

This conversation seems to come up very frequently these days both with portfolio companies and with entrepreneurs just looking for mentorship. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand.

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Help Startup Competition Framework 303

InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. companies should… focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial. Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group.

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Marketing Blogging Startup Venture Capital 233

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. You’re unlikely to want to make this sort of investment with the product or the market not yet validated. The risk wouldn’t be appropriate. That’s fine.

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Startup Pricing Technical Review Marketing 336

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

But before you jump on the bandwagon, you should consider the advice I saw recently from the maven of venture capital, William H. Being thinly capitalized doesn’t necessarily mean you need a big cash infusion. Draper III, in his new book titled “ The Startup Game.” Is the money going to be enough?

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Social Media Media Draper Startup 89

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Participating in this event also included world recognized security expert and Co-founder of Fonality , Samy Kamkar , Danny Schreiber (Managing Editor of Silicon Prairie News) and Rob Jadon (serial-entrepreneur and angel investor). Guests, visitors and teams mingled away enjoying appetizers and snacks along with this LASW’s 3rd keg.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

Phil Hui-Bon-Hoa , the CEO of El Segundo-based Kaleo (www.kaleo.com), is a serial entrepreneur who has previously built and sold four companies, including one acquired by IFILM, and another by Sun Microsystems. We're trying to save companies money, and increase the productivity of employees.

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El Segundo Southern California Startup CTO Hire 169

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. So here is what I have been telling entrepreneurs privately for the past 6 months. I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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Startup Mobile Advertising Organization 196

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2012

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Steve Blank, author of Four Steps To The Epiphany , Stanford Professor and noted entrepreneur. The subject discussed in the video below is Steve’s belief that Venture Capitalists should begin their careers as operational entrepreneurs. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur SaaS 239

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. Having great relationships with entrepreneurs is not good enough, you need to have equally good relationship with other VCs and big companies.

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GRP Partners Southern California Technical Review High Tech 170

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Raising capital isn’t the be all and end all of startup success.

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Startup Technical Review Oracle Entrepreneur 102

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Also at Startup Night will be 25 diverse and innovative startups showcasing their latest products, competing for prizes including: $1K from LaunchKC , Business Extra Points from American Airlines , and a fast tracked spot to the Startup of the Year semifinals competition at Innovate Celebrate 2018. Joanne Chen, Partner at Foundation Capital.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Southern California's technology community--despite all of the recent excitement around Silicon Beach--continues to be underserved in terms of capital, with a lack of venture capital funds (with money), and other private technology investors. The second reason is that we are a hybrid fund with a unique strategy.

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Acquisition Software Review Technical Review Equity 168

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

The value that is being “added” is often at arms length or via a specialist who interacts with the entrepreneur. But like a Darwinian experiment, the extent to which these gifts are utilized remains entirely up to each individual entrepreneur.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

million led by GRP Partners, with participation from Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin Ventures, Clark Landry, Andy Rankin, and Launchpad LA. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products.

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Silicon Valley’s big VC firm’s The Social+Capital Partnership, Andreessen Horowitz, Formation8, Ron Conway, and Anand Rajaraman have today launched Data Elite , to help tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges through data science. Venture lab & early stage fund for big data startups and scientists.

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Netflix Incubator Class Funding 82

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson has created a collection of short films which beautifully underscore Mr. Jobs’ definition of creativity (the term beautiful is appropriate here, as the production values are sweet). Of particular interest to entrepreneurs, Part III discusses the creative process of technical innovations. You be the judge.

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Startup High Tech SaaS .Net 255

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Internally, we look very similar to a tech company, in that we have a development team, go-to-market team, and product people, and the ultimate goal of what we want to accomplish is to create companies that can run independently, with their own management teams. We created a product that would allow you to print barcodes.

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Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. This figure is predicted to reach 3.8

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

We're providing a very unique benefit, which is an entrepreneur-friendly incubator. We've had tremendous success so far, with six graduations, with $55 million in early stage capital raised by those companies coming through the incubator after only two years of operations. That led to the expansion to the second location.

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Incubator San Diego Technical Review Development Team Review 212

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of July 4th, 2011. When: Thursday, July 14th, 2011 – 6:00 p.m.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011. What is total assets under management? -

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Venture Capital Funding Invest GRP Partners 269

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

As we know, developers always give their product a code name. We built a Proof of Concept in 2010, went into closed beta in 2011 and opened up to the public in Dec 2012. We built a Proof of Concept in 2010, went into closed beta in 2011 and opened up to the public in Dec 2012. The name just stuck! When was it launched?

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Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92