Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. I said both in the article but felt compelled to provide a statement up front for the skimmers.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to. With the pitching energy escalating in the room, regular pitches began short after.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Music Prodigy , a Los Angeles based music education technology firm serious on improving the way people learn, play and interact with music beat over 70 startups with their app Rock Prodigy to win the Silicon Beach Awards. Beat 70 Start-ups. it’s like a video game! Winning Not By Sheer Luck.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

My good friend Adam Lilling and I started Launchpad more than 5 years ago . I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. When we started talking to Sam Teller we knew we had the perfect person.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. They ask for a little bit additional information and that's it, you are up and going. You are up and going in just a few clicks.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. They ask for a little bit additional information and that's it, you are up and going. You are up and going in just a few clicks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

It has been at least a decade since going public via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been considered a credible exit strategy for startups. Draper III, in his new book titled “ The Startup Game.” The market is moving back up, but slowly. Is your spotlight bright enough to start a new wave?

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

To hear how he bootstrapped the company to that size, we caught up with Asher earlier this week for a quick interview. A lot of us in the company are having to reinvent our departments and divisions to keep up with this pace of growth. I started Golive Mobile with $10,000, and with Airpush it took under $200,000 to get started.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This morning, Techstars (www.techstars.org), the startup accelerator which has had great success in spreading its approach to helping to get startups to the next stage of their life�usually, funding�announced it has opened up its third accelerator in Los Angeles, Techstars LA. The focus is on helping the startup.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2014

While Internet and startup companies have widely adopted the cloud for both their computing and storage needs, enterprise companies are only now starting to widely adopt cloud services. The unique capability of that cloud, is of course, to be a cloud storage solution. Explain what Zadara''s products are about?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Friday, October 7, 2011 -- LAVA's Meet The VC - Application Deadline for Entrepreneurs. During the course of two hours, you will get to meet each of them and learn about what they look for in potential startup investments. Apply to present at LAVA's Meet the VC event October 11th.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Even in this age of globalization and virtualization, the geographic area where you choose to live and work can still make or break your startup business. Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? Raising capital isn’t the be all and end all of startup success.

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Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2018

million agreement to acquire General Assembly, a tech training and career development company that offers courses online and at 20 campuses worldwide. General Assembly (GA) launched in early 2011 with an incubator in New York City that was a cross between a co-working space and a startup university.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He had joined a young startup in LA called HauteLook and was interested in getting to know the local tech community. So I started introducing him to portfolio companies. 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. The guy has knowledge.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. In the late 90′s I saw a dangerous trend creeping into the startup world, which was that companies were suddenly raising huge amounts of money too early in their existence. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The competition is set up to award $50,000 to the best team each year, and is also tied to a class on entrepreneurship for engineering students. What I thought we would do instead, was to try to come up with a business plan competition for only engineers and innovators that came through the engineering school.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. Of course unsolicited spam has very low open rates and is filtered by the major providers. Google knows it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

This conversation seems to come up very frequently these days both with portfolio companies and with entrepreneurs just looking for mentorship. I’m a very big believer in the “Lean Startup&# principles as espoused by Steve Blank and Eric Ries. In some circumstances this is now stretching up to $2 million.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

The firm, which underwent a significant restructuring over the last two years, went on an investment tear over the course of 2019 as new partners went out to build up a new portfolio for the firm — almost of a whole cloth. Kleiner Perkins gets back to early-stage with its $600M 18th fund. ”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back into vogue, it is relatively rare. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. After a record low of 39 U.S. Loss of control. Don’t be driven by greed to the wrong alternative. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course. Networking : The WebmasterWorld community started PubCon in an English Pub where attendees got together to learn from and interact with others in their market space. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference.

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SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 64

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

I miss blogging because it serves as a great repository for me of my current thinking, as a way of organizing my thoughts and clarifying what I think and as a conversation started with so many of you (as Hunter Walk elegantly said, “Blog not to show how smart you are, but in the hope of soliciting feedback from smart people.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2011

Starting up your own broadcasting network is no longer out of anyones reach. Dedication, hard work, a passion for what you love and of course a great internet connection. In this installment of TZ Startup Hot Seat we have a chat with Andrew the CEO of the Guys from Queens (GFQ) Network. What is coming up next?

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Networking Startup Entertainment Entrepreneur 91

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2012

A new startup from as far as Berlin, loui AppsUG is making Facebook more interesting and personalized to as real as following status updates relating to one’s mood and preferences. The startup, loui Apps was founded in Berlin late last year. TechZulu caught up with Stefanie Hoffmann co-founder Ioui Apps. Of course not.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. For a long time, I had a line which was, ‘Whenever I hear the word marketing, it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.’”. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Other then to come hang with the TZ crew of course. Networking : The WebmasterWorld community started PubCon in an English Pub where attendees got together to learn from and interact with others in their market space. Value : We realize how much you have invested in attending a conference.

SEO 40

SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 40

Xconomy

JULY 10, 2016

I got off relatively easy with a short course of chemotherapy and radiation. Larry’s diagnosis was cancer with a big C: “I have stage 4 pancreatic cancer and have been on chemo since June with some ups and downs,” he wrote in mid-March. PerkinElmer acquired Caliper in 2011 in a deal valued at $600 million.). “I

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Just about every Startup at some point and especially if you do not have a designer, is going to need icons to help spruce up those websites. TechZulu caught up with Martin LeBlanc Eigtved Founder and CEO of IconFinder. Steffen was working in another startup called 1Calendar and studying as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. But for some strange reason they make you file your progress on fund raising, which is the widely picked up by the press. And why I woke up at 4.50am. As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. And so it goes again. But he learned.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

In this installment of TZ Startup Hot Seat we chat with Vincent Borel Co-Founder of Webdoc. As anyone in the startup world knows your team is what makes the difference and ours definitely does. Do you keep up with other companies doing similar things? Never ever give up – learn from your failures and move on.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Five years ago, in November 2011, a company from Princeton, NJ, called Pharmasset shared news that would have an impact on millions of people around the world with hepatitis C. Vertex began as a bootstrapped startup in 1989 and was on its way to being a profitable enterprise that helped thousands of patients with a devastating disease.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

Kyle: How did you get started in the entrepreneur world? Andrea: At May Company, they sold me on the buying career path by saying it was like owning your own business without having to raise start-up capital. Since then I’ve only worked at start-ups and small business enterprises. That was half-true.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

Of course, having no reputation is usually better than a bad one, but don’t wait for someone else to establish a good one for you. See my Forbes article on “ Get A Domain Name Without Bankrupting Your Startup ” Michael Fertik and David Thompson outline this issue and others in their book “ Wild West 2.0. Take heed, and take action.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

As I was reading about it recently, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings. This is the “truly disruptive technology” that startups often claim. Great startups always beat the hype.

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Entrepreneur Press Cloud Computing Technology 93

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S.

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I attempted to do a fair balance job of an increasingly important service – AngelList – started by a friend of mine – Nivi with the feelings of a colleague who I respect – Bryce – who has opted out of the service. So I feel the need to speak up. This is what I feared up front. Isolated incident?

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