Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

The firm says nearly 20% of all brides now shop for or sell a gently used wedding dress online, compared with just 6% in 2009 and they firmly believe Recycled Bride is helping make the sales even more possible. Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. Any funding yet? Funded by LaunchPad. Any challenges?

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking? eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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MARCH 14, 2011

Scot Richardson: We started our product in the middle of 2009, and the product has been basically available since January of 2010. Scot Richardson: We've done two rounds of funding, both angel rounds. million comedy fans through our social media email list, we we think we can see the same in the music industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Stacey Horowitz, Founder of SFAC, started the non-profit business from a trip to Peru in 2009. An Indiegogo campaign has been setup to help fund and gain more traction for their non-profit model. SFAC wants to increase their reach and impact from generous contributors and through social media. charities.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. Yet their next fund had Facebook in it. billion in returns.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. Sometrics is venture backed by The Mail Room Fund, a Los Angeles-based early stage fund backed by Accel, Venrock, and the William Morris Agency.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

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APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. He then joined their venture fund, TheMailRoom Fund, which is where I met him. And of course we had, TheMan.

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MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”. the funding and market coverage. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. LivingSocial.

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APRIL 16, 2010

After starting CheapCheapCheap to understand the consumer behavior and trends, I decided to get into the hyperlocal area in 2009. Albert Ko: With social media right now, it's definitely scalable. Finally, how are you funding this business? We rode the recession wave, as all people became bargain hunters. READ MORE>>.

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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. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. There is a much better technique. It is to out friend.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In recent years, the company has expanded beyond its core technology to help its customers track their customers through affiliate marketing, display advertising, and online search and social media, and to target market segments with specific product offers. “We Lunsford oversaw WebSideStory’s IPO in 2004, and Limelight’s IPO in 2007.

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MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million? It literally drove FOMO. Maker Studios?—?sold The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 13, 2011

Started in 2009 by founder Myke Armstrong , he believes Lissn is reinventing online conversations by creating a unique user experience, by allowing user to chat with two people at a time and allowing anyone to “lissn&#. But – you will instantly be paired up with someone.

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JUNE 10, 2011

As Mark states below “Forums are the original social media&# , people sharing information across the web on all sorts of different topics. Forums are the original social media, and they’ve been steadily growing with the scale of the internet since it came into being. Are you Funded? We are funded.

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MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. There's a convergence between the paradigm of the music business, and the business of social media. Talk a bit about your recent funding. Where did you get the funding?

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MARCH 1, 2012

Shortly after that, the CEO of NBCi and myself started a venture fund, invested in a handful of companies, had a couple of good exits, and then I went on to become part of the founding team at ZeroDegrees, the social networking platform focused on the jobs space. We moved back down to Southern California, and never looked back.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

The emergence of Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the social Web as a global force in the last several years has done a great deal to highlight their potential to fundamentally alter the way we communicate and collaborate both at home and in business. Disconnects between older and newer generations of social media.

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JULY 23, 2010

This week, Santa Monica-based ThisNext (www.thisnext.com) said it has raised another round of funding for the firm's social shopping site. Matt Edelman: The last company I ran and co-founded PeopleJam, which was a social media business for people interested in self improvement. How long have you been at the firm now?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Marketing Director for Paypal Inc. CapLinked was founded in late 2009 by Eric M. As an investor, Christopher also appreciated how frustrating it could be on the other side of the table, where investors often go for months without hearing from the entrepreneurs they trusted with their funds. Jackson and Christopher Grey.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . Bootstrapping Marketing Strategy, social media marketing, web applications. . In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization cosmetics, social media, women in tech. .

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. Standalone URI shorteners work fine when you want to shorten mostly foreign URIs, but that’s a crappy approach when you want to submit your own stuff to social media.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

Beginning with hip hop in 2009, they’ve since included different genre verticals into their model with rock, poetry, news, even bible. We had users, and even when people wanted to give us money – they wouldn’t even have known how to fund us. But YC was how we got serious. ” The Team.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Team Rubicon unites the unique skills America’s returning veterans offer with the expertise of medical professionals; all while interactively engaging donors through social media. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen. OTHER DEALS.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Dec 26, 2009). They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur. We’re Living In The Dark Ages Of Social Media - rosskimbarovsky.com , August 9, 2010 If you believe the media and social media “experts&# , we’re living in the Renaissance of social media.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. Today, brands are hiring social media specialists for customer support, crowdsourced product development, promotions and even leads generation.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

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