Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

I just read the Q1 2011 report from CB Insights , which shows venture capital is back. billion jump in funding over the same quarter of 2010 with a similar number of deals, so it clearly shows a trend to larger deal sizes for fewer startups. Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

What they do, is accelerate that team or company to get them to the next level, and then go through and put in some investment money, help them build out the management team, and help with vendor relationships, help with overall strategy, and then help those companies riase their next round of capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2011

We've done really well since then, were profitable in 2010, and have had some really great clients. We've worked with Microsoft, Live Nation, Variety, and other clients, plus just closed our funding of $2.2M I was a co-founder of a company called TagWorld, which was a social networking website we ended up selling to Viacom.

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Advertising Startup Santa Monica Social Network 198

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars - Steve Blank , November 24, 2010 When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

We built a Proof of Concept in 2010, went into closed beta in 2011 and opened up to the public in Dec 2012. Rob and Lance made multiple business trips to the USA and UK in order to understand the offerings and strategy of existing payment providers, social networks, banks and financial service providers. The name just stuck!

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Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

22, 2010. They make it easy to collect investment funds, track ownership, and provide targeted updates to investors. Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. Event Details: When: Wednesday, Sept 22nd, 2010 - 5:00 p.m.

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Company Companies Web Evite 106

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. I was there from when the company launched until March of 2010, when I left to start MomentFeed. That was in addition to the social media work I'd done.

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Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

’ &# His message was that in 2010 great business can be built anywhere if there is a great team and the will to make it work. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is currently a Managing Director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund and sits on the boards of IMI Exchange, Xfire, Playsino, ExpressCoin, GoCoin, FGL, Spicy Horse Games, KnCMiner.cn, Robocoin China and the Mastercoin Foundation. Mr. 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

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. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . Social Networks and Citizen Commerce: Reinventing Ecommerce.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! Community Sponsor.

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Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

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). Current round: $10mm in Series B by Norwest (lead), Storm Ventures and Adams Capital.

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. How startup can leverage social media to get investors attention. Event Details: When: Wednesday, Sept 22nd, 2010 - 5:00 p.m. 22 @ 5:30pm PT.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

He has contributed to the success of dozens of companies, including the funding and strategic acquisitions of Movoxx, Tsavo and People Media. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Venture capital. Social media. Social networking. Social games. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. In the UC System alone in 2010, Southern California UC schools formed 49 startups, trumping the 22 started up north. Editor’s picks. Featured stories.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Startup Keiretsu Platform Invest 135

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. Angel Capital Association (ACA). So get out there and network today, and you can be one of the lucky ones who is touched by an Angel without having to go through hell first. Marty Zwilling.

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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.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Angel Keiretsu Invest Networking 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

It boasts more than 1,000 member-managed groups and VCs, with 40,000 investors, and over 1,800 startups funded in the last 12 months. It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. Angel Capital Association (ACA). Keiretsu Forum.

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Angel Keiretsu Organization Invest 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Angel Keiretsu Invest Networking 67

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Let’s help get their funding get finalized or the company sold if it’s already in play. And VCs scrambled to raise their own funds. So I encouraged entrepreneurs to think about raising their funds as quickly as they could because. Fundings boomed. Let’s review all of our existing investments. Depressing.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com.

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