socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2016

There has been a lot of worry recently in the high tech industry and from venture investors about "headwinds" in the technology market, particularly with valuations of "unicorn" companies dropping, investors shying away from investing in rounds, and even employees looking for safer jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Current round: $3.35mm in Series A by TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s personal investment vehicle), Saban Ventures, Founder Collective, SK Telecom Ventures. Company still in beta.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 5, 2009

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 -- Start-up Accounting and Taxes. Start-ups and early stage companies face intense competition as well as strong pressure to demonstrate a real return on investment. Start-ups and early stage companies face intense competition as well as strong pressure to demonstrate a real return on investment.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Those who are looking for investment properties can use the service to widen the funnel of homes that they can discover, buy and work on. Stech said he had a brainwave about the opportunity when he finished graduate school at Stanford and moved to Las Vegas, which at the time was at the epicenter of the housing market crash of 2009.

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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. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. That said, Amazon – through AWS – even without strong competition is as wonderful an experience as Amazon the eCommerce retailer feels to you as an online shopper. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 And maddening.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We were founded in 2009 by Mark Suster from GRP Partners. We're not investing in ideas and trying to turn them into companies. We're investing in incredible teams that have built minimum viable product and need our help with game changing, bizdev deals, fundraising connections, or mentorships. So when is the next class?

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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. Siggi Hindrichs, Principal at Samsung NEXT.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2017

Wallach on investments out of a new fund, Inevitable Ventures. How did you end up here in Los Angeles doing investments? I tragically lost my mom to cancer, my girlfriend (who I was living with at the time) and I broke up, and then my team and I were laid-off when the market crashed in 2009. All day, every day.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. 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.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We thought today for our interview, that we'd get an update on the angel investment environment here in Southern California from Scott Sangster , the incoming President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels , the biggest angel investment group in Southern California. Those are fundamentals that don't change.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. They tend to have many more investments than a concentrated VC and thus can’t cover all their bets as easily.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The VC industry has different segments in it that have different fund sizes, different investment amounts and different risk / return expectations. If you’re an angel you invest your own money and you have nobody to answer to except your spouse. If you invest it in startups you’re a VC professional money manager.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser. Amnesia sets in and we get back on the merry-go-round.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. think his strategy is essentially the Ron Conway strategy , and at his rate ("34-ish investments" in 1-2yr?) Here’s why.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

His idea and subsequent business plan won the Wharton Venture Award in 2009 and was a finalist for the Wharton Business Plan Competition. million in investments from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Goldman Sachs executives and other angel investors.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

In 2009, after their first round of investment, they launched internationally. Any competition back home? All over Europe, there are hundreds of carpooling platforms at a regional level but actually we believe that our biggest competition comes from bus and train companies. How unique are you from it?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2012

Ed Park was one of the first 100k users of Instagram back in early 2009. Park had a screen-printing business in 2004, starting with his own $4,000 investment. There was no competitive advantage once the big guys got involved. Now that’s awesome! On being an early adopter of Instagram and instantly falling in love with it.

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Frank Addante

DECEMBER 22, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. This is particularly a problem in crowded markets where they are trying hard to differentiate themselves from their competition. ► October (1) New Video! .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Competition: Gilt Groupe , Ideeli , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , OneKingsLane , department stores like Saks and Neiman Marcus. Total raised: $56.3mm.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. In todays highly competitive job marketplace, it is becoming increasingly more difficult. ► October (1) New Video! . ► October (1) New Video!

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 19, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. They are afraid of their competition finding out about the idea, a bigger company trying to steal it or some other entrepreneur doing it first. Yes, I did say competition.

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. I guess this is how a world-class firm like Sequoia Capital finds and invests in world-class companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Outwit the competition.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

This 15-20 year prospecting, as a general rule, requires a long-term investment strategy by the government. One, the Executive Office of the President (EOP) has an office called the Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP, which heads up the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) ( [link] ).

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Dec 26, 2009). How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

In 2009/2010, I joined the team which had been building out the Titan platform, with the idea that the competitive gaming model was very attractive. The competitive/skilled gaming model is where players compete in games for points, items, and sometimes for cash. Is that something new to the market?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. But let me be even more clear.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

When I described to people why I initially invested my calls went something like this, “He’s taken kicks to the face for nearly 2 years and is still standing. Jody self-funded the company and worked from his spare bedroom in February 2009. It soon became difficult to manage the many new investment leads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Despite the third-quarter funding drop, though, funding for the full year still looks to be higher than it was in 2009. But the amount invested did decline 7 percent to $4.8 billion invested during the same three-month period in 2009, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy. If I've seen companies that are similar to them--or half a dozen companies--even if the area might be big and exciting, it will be hard to make an investment. We're really excited about 2009.

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Frank Addante

JULY 30, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Do we invest more capital into the business to grow it faster? ► October (1) New Video! . ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. What if there was another competitive cash register on the market? ► October (1) New Video! . ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. because they are so focused on being better than their competition. ► October (1) New Video! . ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes.

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