Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

To grow faster businesses need resources in today’s financial period to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 27, 2014

However, such alignment is missing at most tech startups, and thus there is little causality between a celeb’s investment and their ability to drive meaningful product adoption. Celebrity investors aside, I am a fan of high net worth individuals who are willing to allocate some of their risk capital to foster a startup''s success.

Entrepreneur 193

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

This latest round valued the company in excess of a billion dollars, entering them into the overly-hyped Unicorn Club. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser. Unicornless.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

In my role as a Professor of Practice within UC Santa Barbara’s entrepreneurial Technology Management Program (TMP), I have worked with approximately 8,000 students over a ten year period. Additionally, independent organizations, such as Pitchbook, compile annual lists of the number of VC-backed companies launched at US Universities.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Class Patents 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Bockerstette, Main Street Venture Fund As I outlined last week, trophy angel investors are always looking for trophy entrepreneurs. The result is that the Main Street Venture Fund consistently has more money available than good opportunities for investment. By Joseph A. Proposition.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. In fact, if you add the capital flows of the past ten years, there have been just shy of $50 billion in net cash outlays.

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Venture Capital Capital Marketing Seed Funding 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Today around 90 percent of successful startups are still acquired by bigger companies, as the safer and preferred method of growth and funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). I just don’t see it happening any time soon. Neither does David S. billion collected in 2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Yet they still see warning lights in many geographies around the world, due to political uncertainties. Public companies are always at risk for takeovers.

Startup 87

Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 87

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

There's been a revolution in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the last few years, by both startups and large companies, to help in a large number of areas. With each company that we've started, we've concentrated on a particular market. You've done this before in other industries--what led to new company?

Artificial Inteligence 124

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Self-funding from your savings is the preferred source of cash for your startup – if you have it. The advantage is no time and effort searching and preparing for the other alternatives, and you don’t have to encumber yourself or give up control of your company. Just don’t quit your day job before your new company is producing revenue.

Funding 59

Funding Startup Technical Review Equity 59

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

Investor in Twitter, Foursquare, DISQUS, and (by Naval’s own admission) “a lot of other companies you have never heard of”. I recommend you first review Dharmesh’s article and then listen to Naval’s thoughts. Value Prop Twitter Style : AngelList is the productization of raising startup funding. The whole environment has changed.

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Startup Software Review Summary Technical Review 273

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

In reality, only 3 out of 100 companies who apply are successful with Angels, and the success rate with VCs is even lower. Self-funding is the preferred source of cash for your startup – if you can do it. Just don’t quit your day job before your new company is producing revenue. Friends and family. Small business grants.

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Technical Review Equity Incubator Venture Capital 103

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). Ditto for enterprise software companies.

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars-Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. You mentioned a little bit about the mentoring, what what other benefits would companies get from becoming part of an accelerator?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The idea is to have a partnership between Cedars Sinai and Techstars, where we select ten healthcare startup companies focused on innovative technology and care delivery in healthcare. You mentioned a little bit about the mentoring, what what other benefits would companies get from becoming part of an accelerator?

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review ! The company’s stock tanked by more than 26 percent, representing a $230 billion reduction in market cap and a $31 billion drop in Zuckerberg’s personal net worth. Last week, we talked about about the “de-stonkifying” of the market.

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Marketing Newsletter Technical Review News 246

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

In reality, only 3 out of 100 companies who apply are successful with Angels, and the success rate with VCs is even lower. Self-funding is the preferred source of cash for your startup – if you can do it. Just don’t quit your day job before your new company is producing revenue. Friends and family. Small business grants.

Startup 93

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 93

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Smart entrepreneurs now avoid this option like the plague, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Today 70 percent of successful startups are still acquired by bigger companies, as the safer and preferred method of growth and funding. Public companies are always at risk for takeovers.

Startup 98

Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 98

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

An investor called the founder, spoke for 30 minutes on the phone and committed to funding having never met the team. If Nivi ever sent me a deal I’d meet the team without any question or pre-review. Where I think Robert’s comments are slightly wrong is that AngelList is a net positive for VCs. Isolated incident?

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Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. was the “static&# web.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

As 2010 approaches, a whole new year of exciting start-ups, tech news, gadgets, and much more is ahead. TechZulu wants to thank not only the Los Angeles tech community but the entire tech community for all the awesome support you have given us throughout this past year. We already have a jammed packed schedule for 2010.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

It boasts 595 member-managed groups and VCs, 30,203 investors, and 2,900 new company applications a month. As a member of one of these local organizations, I use Angelsoft on the investor side to review business plans, deal flow, and help orchestrate presenters at monthly meetings of the local organization.

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Angel Keiretsu Organization Template 102

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

Al Eisaian: IconApps is built around simplifying people's lives through mobile technology. As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. Al Eisaian: It's been angel funded so far.

Mobile 168

Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. There is an exemption from the requirements that these investors be accredited with net worth or income minimums to qualify legally to invest in your company. Angel investment groups or funds.

Equity 156

Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156

socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2019

If you see all of the examples, like Salesforce, Warby Parker, the companies that do good outperform all of their peers. Pledgeling has built a technology platform that makes it super easy to integrate charity into their customer experience, and, as we say, grow through giving. How did you decide to get into this as a company?

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Software Review Mogreet Platform 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

We spoke with Dipanshu Sharma, Chairman of the firm, to learn more about the company and its products. That's the case with every other company we know of and who we have talked to. Most companies use Microsoft Project, and although there are a bunch of other projects, Microsoft has the most market share.

Startup 100

Startup Software Review Technical Review Software 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. License your original work on AudioMicro - we accept for review and potential licensing representation all content that meets our minimum quality and sample rate standards and Terms of Service.

Stickam 71

Stickam Technical Review Draper SoCal 71

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 6, 2010

TechZulu is heading out to CES and we got tons of products/gadgets/games/companies to review and interview. AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. is funded by: Y Combinator, Alsop Louie Partners and Draper Associates.

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Stickam Technical Review Draper Venture Capital 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We also want to create more capital for women entrepreneurs to increase the chances of being funded and connected to a bigger network. We get a lot more emails from women entrepreneurs who say they are a high net worth in their community and we should come and help boost the number of angel investors in their companies.

Mentor 84

Mentor Invest Entrepreneur Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. License your original work on AudioMicro - we accept for review and potential licensing representation all content that meets our minimum quality and sample rate standards and Terms of Service.

Stickam 40

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

But a new poll this week shows support has dropped sharply since the summer as drug companies have poured near-record amounts into an anti-61 campaign. The firms will sell the data, stripped of patient identities, to drug companies looking for insights as they develop new cancer drugs or plan clinical trials. ” ASH THURSDAY.

Research 40

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. License your original work on AudioMicro - we accept for review and potential licensing representation all content that meets our minimum quality and sample rate standards and Terms of Service.

Stickam 60

Stickam Content Draper Web 60

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

We chatted with Alan about the company, the process of taking a new, genetic test to market, and his experience taking research from the University of Southern California and University of Utah and commercializing that research. Alan Horsager: We are an epigenetics data company. Where was the technology for this developed?

USC 100

USC Technical Review Startup Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

(Hint: 60 million US Latinos driving US growth engine) I am beyond excited to announce the Herb Scannell has agreed to move from NYC to Los Angeles to take on the role of CEO at mitú, the fast growing Latino digital media company, serving more than 100 million monthly unique viewers. Latinos drove 69% of total net increasing in U.S.

Media 269

Media Content Course Technical Review 269

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur 329