socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2009

The firm said that the move was because business conditions in the firm's industry have "further deteriorated" and demand has dropped for its products. Cymer announced the move in conjunction with reduced earnings estimates for Q4 2008. READ MORE>>.

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Layoffs San Diego Demand Capital 100

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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. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. a fbFund winner. Current round: $4.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

In the last few years, perhaps in reaction to the business integrity issues leading to the recession way back in 2008, I am seeing a renewed focus on other less tangible attributes which can set your startup apart. Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008. Investors will demand clear channel definitions. It forces you to bridge the gap between idea and execution. Key resources. Customer relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). What are your predictions for the road ahead.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Southern California Company 241

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. It is also a result of pent-up demand. My advice : if you’re raising a $750,000 round and you have demand for $1.2 In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary.

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Venture Capital Startup Funding Technical Review 269

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

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. When you see evidence that there is this so called “product / market fit&# then you may be ready for larger amounts of capital. Respectfully, of course.

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Help Startup Competition Framework 303

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There is a lot of pent-up demand. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008. Investors will demand clear channel definitions. It forces you to bridge the gap between idea and execution. Key resources. Customer relationships.

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Funding Startup Activity Customer 57

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. We had companies pitching us that had almost no revenue at all and they were raising $10-15 million in capital at a $40-50 million pre-money valuation. There is no such thing as a uniform price.

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Startup Pricing Technical Review Marketing 336

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Peter Csathy is CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a division of Manatt Digital Media, which offers innovative full-service business consulting and legal services, as well as venture capital. On Demand). Csathy previously served as the CEO of social network and online video technology company Sightspeed, Inc.,

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. First Round Capital meets Chris’s definition of a “big fund&# and they do seed and A round investments.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Invest 265

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

It was the fall of 2008, when Lehman Bros. However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. So, I tried to figure out what I could do with my skill set, in engineering, investment banking, and operations, and figured out I could do venture capital.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification. Ron Paul’s presidential bid, the Arizona League of Conservation Voters and the 2008 California No on Prop. Clients have included MoveOn.org, Rep.

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Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

We did a successful trial in 2008. We can help you organize video on demand and pay-per-view offerings. Patrick Kennedy: We've had fantastic funding from a venture capital firm called Mobile Media Ventures. Why is that important for your customers? Patrick Kennedy: That's the really cool thing about this.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jeff Kupietzky: I think, like other folks, we had challenges at the end of 2008, and through 2009. Frankly, most people don't have the capital and management depth to be able to scale up and take advantage of the economy of size. You were seeing great growth in last few years, how has economy affected you?

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Oversee.net Yahoo Startup Google 207

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia. These are both either “remnant” or free ad types.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

I left MySpace in 2008 to help MySpace to monetize its inventory better. As the demands and supplies grew for advertising, we built a stable capital to create Engage:BDR. After MySpace was acquired by Fox, I learned that there was a huge market for ad inventory. How much did Engage:BDR grow?

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Marketing Startup Incubator Advertising 96

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. As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. , He blogs here and tweets here.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most prefer not to say this publicly for two reasons: 1) they have an entire portfolio of startups, many of whom are raising capital and 2) they prefer not to be attacked publicly or seem “anti entrepreneur.” Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. This is how VCs feel.

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Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150

Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? ► October (1) New Video! .

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Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? ► October (1) New Video! .

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Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? Venture Capital Funding 7.

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Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

A standard entrepreneur retort I heard back then (2008-09) was “I don’t know what my company is worth now. As in, “your money into my company will convert at a 15-20% discount to the next round of capital I raise with a maximum price of $8 million pre-money valuation (or whatever the cap was).”

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Startup Pricing Equity Venture Capital 354

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JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. So why would raising venture capital be any different. Our 2008 fund looks spectacular.

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

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MARCH 6, 2011

He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. It could be a bubble or better balance of supply and demand. We talk about all of this in the video. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million. raise capital and move up north as soon as they got successful.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. What does this mean if you’re an investor?

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million).

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