SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 24, 2011

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 -- SoCal Lean/Kanban Meetup. Bob will be hosting a conversation on this topic, and along the way offering some advice and suggestions on what a truly effective tech business can look like and work like. Our presenter is Bob Marshall a London(U.K.)-based based coach and consultant to technology businesses.

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SoCal Southern California Coach Technology 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 10, 2011

Thursday, June 16, 2011 -- Los Angeles VC and Angel Event. FundingPost. At our next Los Angeles event, the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing - how to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check - Especially in this economy! See [link] (more)

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Los Angeles Venture Capital Angel Writing 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 15, 2011

Thursday, April 21, 2011 -- How to Build a Great Internet Company. Jason Nazar will be interviewing different team members of Docstoc to talk about the specific tips and advice on topics such as Product Management and Design, Web Development, BizDev, Content Creation, and much more. Startups Uncensored.

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Company Companies Tips Web Development 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 15, 2011

Tuesday, June 21, 2011 -- Orange County Angel VC and Startup Event. FundingPost. At our next Orange County event, the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing - how to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check - Especially in this economy! See [link] (more)

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Orange County Venture Capital Angel Startup 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 5, 2011

Monday, May 9, 2011 -- The Art of Leveraging and Maximizing LinkedIn. Tech Coast Angels. Join Barbara and LinkedIn expert Neal Schaffer as he shares with us concrete steps to help optimize your LinkedIn presence and start integrating it as an effective and natural way to do business. and Neal Schaffer is here to help!

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Tech Coast Angels Case Study Social Media Study 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 20, 2011

Tuesday, July 26, 2011 -- The CEO and CFO, How to Build a Successful Relationship. TechAmerica.

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Networking Develop Development Company 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

But before you jump on the bandwagon, you should consider the advice I saw recently from the maven of venture capital, William H. Draper III, in his new book titled “ The Startup Game.”

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Social Media Media Draper Startup 89

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 14, 2011

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 -- Growing and Scaling Your Business. Could you use some help and advice in how to grow and scale your business and get back on track? Techbizconnection. Has your growth hit a plateau? Business execution and getting results is this months panel discussion.

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Help Marketing Company Companies 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

Ironic to be self-centered while you’re trying to offer advice to others. In 2011 I started using Instagram. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. It was a break from information overload of Facebook.

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Snapchat Product Startup AMA 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. And 18 months later, in May 2011, I have crossed 422,000 views. If you were reading the headlines from only 2.5 So which is it?

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Startup Blogging Venture Capital Writing 391

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. They wanted advice. This team is talented.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

TechEmpower

APRIL 5, 2013

We received comments, recommendations, advice, criticism, questions, and most importantly pull requests from dozens of readers and developers. At the advice of readers, this round of data was collected using Wrk ( https://github.com/wg/wrk ). The response was tremendous. New & Improved: Now with latency! Revised Environment Details.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

It’s the one bit of advice I find myself giving most frequently these days, “raise money at the top end of normal.&#. 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. I thought I’d post on one of the topics before hand.

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Startup Pricing Technical Review Marketing 336

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Again, this is highly individualized so no generic advice can be offered. The market is over-valued in 2011 relative to norms. Anyone who meets with me privately these days gets this advice: The market is whack right now. It doesn’t feel like that in February 2011. Use it to your advantage.

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Help Startup Competition Framework 303

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

I myself coined the term ENIFA (everyone now is a f **g angel) in 2011 but it didn’t stick as well as the term Unicorn did. They now have a strong VC lead from Foundry Group and from experience when you get advice from Foundry it comes with authority, experience, empathy and the right amount of straight talk.

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Angel Startup Seed Funding Invest 150

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? My advice : if you’re raising a $750,000 round and you have demand for $1.2 then the world will be fine for fund raising.

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Venture Capital Startup Funding Technical Review 269

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. So where are we now? It’s hard to say. There has been a preponderance of early-stage deals that have seen quick exits. and now they’re all buying their way into innovation and talent.

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Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 284

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I had asked Mike Jones for advice on entrepreneurship, and raised money for a startup through Mark Suster and Jon Callahan, and ultimately ended up in San Francisco in 2011. The problem with people''s opinions on how they did it that day and raised money, is even though it''s all great advice, every situation is different.

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Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series. In October of 2011, the company announced a $4.5 He used this term so often that it eventually became the title of his 2005 book on business advice. Heed Richard’s advice: “Having a personality of caring about people is important. Empathy is difficult to fake.

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Tips Startup Guide Media 264

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

The inaugural Splash LA event will be held on the evening of May 26, 2011, at The Highlands Hollywood. The evening gathering brings together high-profile, successful tech entrepreneurs sharing their lessons and advice alongside promising startups showcasing their innovative ideas. The third round is an audience vote.

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Rustic Canyon Venture Capital ReachLocal Anthem 61

InfoChachkie

JUNE 17, 2013

Paraphrasing Mike, many of his videos involve, "advice you wish someone would have given you when you were young, even though you wouldn''t have listened to them at the time." In keeping with his advice-oriented videos, I asked Mike what career tips he would give himself if he could go back to 2006 when he began his YouTube career.

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Entrepreneur Startup RSS Tips 189

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. And while this data is from mid-2011 I can assure you that data is not going down. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. This figure is predicted to reach 3.8 billion by 2014. 62% of adult US Internet users check or send email on a daily basis.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We spoke earlier with Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars America and who leads the program in LA, to hear more about why the startup accelerator operator is opening up its third accelerator here, why Los Angeles has turned out to be one of the leading sources for startups across its network, as well as Cody's advice to entrepreneurs.

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Startup Los Angeles Mentor Class 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. So where are we now? It’s hard to say. There has been a preponderance of early-stage deals that have seen quick exits. and now they’re all buying their way into innovation and talent.

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Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 152

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. But what I do see in the market in 2011 is way too many “me too&# solutions where a bunch of founders have brainstormed a way to do a better GroupOn, a better GiltGroupe, a better Twitter or a better Quora.

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Startup Cloud Computing Venture Capital Marketing 309

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

HauteLook was acquired for $270M in 2011 by Nordstrom. Stomel echoed similar advice, saying that "Don't jump on the first offer you receive," because, "You owe it to yourself to pick the best fit all around, not just the first one, or the highest salary.". big requirements for development, release, and QA engineers. LiveNation.

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Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

You often hear the advice: do one thing, and do it well. We realized afer 2011 that we were spreading ourselves thin by trying to make five to ten websites great. Evan Britton: We had worked our tails off in 2011, but at the end of the year, all of our sites were flat. It was discouraging.

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Google Sites Startup Web 236

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. We are happy to now support every & all accelerator in town that provides capital and office space and we want to focus on mentorship, coaching, advice, community building, etc. You may enjoy looking at that last link.

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Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

I joined Upfront Ventures in 2007 and took over as co-Managing Partner in 2011 along with the founder, Yves Sisteron. In the end, if you’re not developing a deep bench of talented professionals who keep you on your toes, you’re bound to be disrupted. Yet I’m always thinking about it.

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Venture Capital Journal Invest Santa Monica 150

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Guy’s latest book, Enchantment , was released in March of 2011, to overwhelmingly upbeat reviews. If you could offer one word of advice to my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students regarding how they can make themselves more Enchanting, what would it be? As they say, ‘There, but for the grace of God, go I.’”.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Social Media Startup 262

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. So my only advice to Huddle was pick a narrow enough scope to have a product category where you can be the BEST and you can scale in that category. Tags: Start-up Advice. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. File sharing? Enterprise collaboration?

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

InfoChachkie

JUNE 17, 2013

Paraphrasing Mike, many of his videos involve, "advice you wish someone would have given you when you were young, even though you wouldn''t have listened to them at the time." In keeping with his advice-oriented videos, I asked Mike what career tips he would give himself if he could go back to 2006 when he began his YouTube career.

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Startup Entrepreneur Tips Ideas 133

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

“There are many funds, incubators, and accelerators out there that entrepreneurs can turn to today for general business advice. This is the vision of Data Elite and why I’m excited to be on board,” said Ron Conway. Limited big data funding & incubation.

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Netflix Incubator Class Funding 82

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

In November 2011, Google’s spring clean saw a number of services shut down like Knol, Friend Connect and Google Wave. Current users of the service should not worry as Google promises continued technical support until their contracts expire and advice on which service to take up.

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Google Technical Support RSS Web 68

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller. Greg was the CMO at HauteLook from the early days all the way through growing the business to 12 million registered users and far in excess of $200 million in annual sales.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Founded in the summer of 2011 and their first product out a few weeks ago amSTATS wants to help users to follow fitness events and programs near them and find a great fitness trainer to help them stay fit. After the session, Andy posts a summary to Jenna’s profile with the details of their workout and a few words of advice.

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Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

What''s interesting, is that in 2011, there were seven large ad-tech firms which had all planned to go public and hired bankers. What advice would you give to startups who are thinking about being acquired? My most frequent advice to later stage companies, is they''re a little too coy with their more logical buyers.

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Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124