Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2016

A question I often get as an adviser is whether or not to join a business incubator or accelerator as a way to move forward faster and smarter and increase the odds of business success. Most incubators start their program with some aptitude and business acumen tests. Costs, returns in equity and funding access.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2023

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. The incubator organization can help you find them or show you how to apply for a government grant.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

Popular programs like Opportunity Zones, New Market Tax Credits and Community Development Finance Institutions could be used to boost the government’s commitment with private capital, the plan’s authors argue. Revenues for these companies have dropped precipitously as consumer-facing demand has fallen off a cliff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave’s a great guy with a good sense of humor and a broad knowledge of the market, which is why I was excited that he could be on the show. Investors: August Capital (David Hornik) (lead) with existing investors Charles River Ventures. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. Enter ShoeDazzle.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 12, 2012

If they are not achieved within the expected time, the reasons must be analyzed and acted upon to avoid loss of capital beyond plan or expectation. My favorite story of a fast failure was of a technology incubator started in the year 2000 with optimistic money from a number of angel investments, including mine.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

We talked to Ted Dhanik, the founder of Engage:BDR, about his company and the future of marketing. I moved in marketing for NextTag and I was part of the team that launched consumer lending products. After MySpace was acquired by Fox, I learned that there was a huge market for ad inventory. Let’s talk about marketing.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Josef Gorowitz , Swagbucks (Torrance, online marketing/rewards). Amanda MacNaughton , PromoJam (Glendale, marketing software). Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator). Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Adam Goldenberg , Intelligent Beauty/JustFab (El Segundo, fashion).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant.

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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. I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Finally for startups there’s a $31 billion available for programs that give small businesses access to credit, venture capital, and R&D dollars. Specifically, the proposal calls for funding for community-based small business incubators and innovation hubs to support growth in communities of color and underserved communites.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S. If you were a big company like Proctor & Gamble, for instance, you'd have a whole side of your business with IT, for your sales, marketing, and financial folks. We raised money from Frost Data Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. So explain where you are now with the taking your technology to market?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The company is backed by Canopy Rivers, Finistere Ventures, and Middleland Capital. We caught up with co-founder and CEO Han Chen to better understand what the company is working on, and some of the complexity of getting their technology to market. We hope to see this product in the market in the next few years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content. a fbFund winner. Current round: $4.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago. That's the most important thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. That''s why the IPO markets coming back is so critical. David Siemer: More generally, the M&A market is solid. which is still a premier market for the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

The most common support organization at this level is called a startup incubator or accelerator , and these exist in most countries, usually sponsored by a university, local government organization, or even local individuals. The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

SEO marketing vs. social marketing. The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. And so is venture capital. Commitment.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2016

Our key markets are the U.S. and Canada – and we have offices in both locations, helping us to grow our key markets. There are so many startups, and a great demand for talent as a result of this. Mohsin Ali Khan is the Head of Marketing at hide.me We operate outside of our key markets (U.S., We work with U.S.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

Buck Jordan: Miso Robotics is bringing the power of automation to commercial kitchens, and addressing one of the biggest challenges of the food industry, which is increasing production with the expansion of the delivery market, while also safely decreasing human contact. You no longer have to be an investor in a giant venture capital fund.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. That distributed print cloud enables a speed of iteration that most marketers would not expect is possible. What is a print cloud?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Rick was a Partner with Pequot Ventures.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2018

In startup-land, however, the presumptions about where housing demand is going looks a bit different. Seeking roommates and venture capital. housing markets, so it’s difficult to categorize their offerings as cheap. And housing shortages in major cities indicate there’s plenty of demand for non-Airbnb options.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator. We now have a team of nine engineers and scientists, with experience from companies like IBM, Demand Media, and Google, all part of our core engineering team. What drove your interest in this area?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

they can build teams that really focus on building & marketing great products. My point of view is that most Internet markets create “winner take most&# outcomes where the largest player is super successful and disproportionally less for everybody else. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. . Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Branding / Marketing / Publicity marketing, PR, publicity. . Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. Why cater to a market that makes you eat ramen when you can slap on a suit and get budget for sushi? Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Bootstrapping marketing, Start-up, Technology. .

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 Another client of Mr. Rappaports, Mich Mathews, formerly the head of marketing for Microsoft. Rappaports, Mich Mathews, formerly the head of marketing for Microsoft.

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