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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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New Matter Gets $6.5M For 3D Printing

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

In addition to the printer itself, New Matter is also planning to launch a 3D design marketplace caled the New Matter Store, which will feature curate 3D designs. matter newmatter printing printer idealab startup indiegogo crowdsourcing crowd maker venture capital' READ MORE>>.

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What I Would Have Said at TechCrunch Disrupt

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And that was evident on today’s Angel vs. VC panel. There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. The VC industry is segmenting – I have spoken about this many times before. So in the past we needed VC to really get a startup going.

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Interview with Alex Schneider, Ventura Ventures Technology Center

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

, who founded AdECN in Carpinteria, which was bought by Microsoft, is starting his second venture, Trade Desk, which is in stealth mode at the event, there's Netplenish.com, headed by Dave Compton, who founded Aqua Scientific, has a bitoech firm in Ventura, and is launching at the event. What is the Ventura incubator?

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Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple

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MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? I would agree that Apples product design would suggest that it aims at Time Poor buyers. Its certainly something to keep in mind.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Venture Capital - What's the rush?

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AUGUST 29, 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. ► July (1) ► June (3) ► May (5) the Rubicon Project The Journey Startup 6.0: Hire Entrepreneurs!

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Interview with Joe Fisher, Contour Energy

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2010

Joe Fisher: Back about three years ago, Caltech took some of the intellectual property involved with this to an event, where once a year they invite venture capital groups to come in. The different professors present to the VC community, about new things and opportunities for new businesses.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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JUNE 28, 2018

That has allowed the company to launch in many markets, build amazing applications, design future versions of the scooter and monetize while many companies are still just drawing up their go-to-market plans. This allowed Bird to then raise $300 million from some of the top VCs in the country.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

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JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. I believe that.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Their first company was called Traffic.com, which they sold in March 2007 to Navteq for $180 million (not too shabby). Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). Another example.

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Federa added that the entire Solana network is designed to keep fees low in the long term. In 2006, a platform called FanLib raised $3 million in venture capital to launch a platform where copyright owners (like ViacomCBS, which owns “Star Trek”) could host fan fiction contests to engage fans.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. InVenture is next stage microfinance – focusing on providing expansion capital. The Coloft is a space for entrepreneurs, independents, startups, programmers, designers, professionals, and awesome people in general.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. To explore how new technologies impact society.

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Webtide is designed to be a company which is the expert on using Jetty in companies. I see you were at Gluecode, and also were in the venture world at Mission Ventures--can you talk about how you've bootstrapped this firm and how it compares? We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit. It's extremely widely used.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. To explore how new technologies impact society.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU to 3,500 entrepreneurs in 50+ countries

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MAY 20, 2007

► 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. ► July (1) ► June (3) ► May (5) the Rubicon Project The Journey Startup 6.0: Zondigo, Inc.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

“When we raised our Series A, we put a lot of effort into meeting with VC’s to find the right fit for us. One of the many great things about having Jason on our team is that he’s got a lot of experience raising money and many contacts in the VC community, so he was able to set up all the right meetings.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 2.0: The Internet is Coming! How will we make money?

Frank Addante

MAY 8, 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. … dumber: I would have raised venture capital for a company/business plan that would not have scaled.

This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

New Matter Gets $6.5M For 3D Printing

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What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt

Interview with Alex Schneider, Ventura Ventures Technology Center

Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple

Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Venture Capital - What's the rush?

Interview with Joe Fisher, Contour Energy

All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Inside the Realms of Ruin

Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Frank Addantes FounderBlog: FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU to 3,500 entrepreneurs in 50+ countries

Guide to the LA Startup Community

RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 2.0: The Internet is Coming! How will we make money?

Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 3. Virtual Location, Location, Location

Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 2. Under Process, Over Deliver

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