SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 18, 2012

Tuesday, July 24, 2012 -- The Tech Coast Angels presents MEET THE ANGELS. This exclusive evening will also serve as the official location to announce the details of the annual San Diego Tech Coast Angels Quick Pitch Competition; one of the nation's best Angel investment events.

Tech Coast Angels 113

Tech Coast Angels Angel San Diego Startup 113

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. When should a VC invest? It’s the only way forward in capitalism, and it’s worth every investment you can make. Mithril is struggling to compete against ferocious competition in the growth-stage equity market.

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

started in August of 2012. Things started to slow down at that office, but around the 2012 time frame, Walmart was doubling down on their ecommerce platform. We were able to get eight, Rob was able to get five from his side, and we started Walmart in Carlsabd in August of 2012, with thirteen people. How big are you now?

San Diego 100

San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

started in August of 2012. Things started to slow down at that office, but around the 2012 time frame, Walmart was doubling down on their ecommerce platform. We were able to get eight, Rob was able to get five from his side, and we started Walmart in Carlsabd in August of 2012, with thirteen people. How big are you now?

San Diego 100

San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party. pitch and technology competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, I couldn’t help but feel like it might be a hall of crickets with a few passionate women warming the front row.

Conference 77

Conference Startup Technical Review Software Review 77

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

In a world that is hyper competitive – even amongst VCs – I can honestly say that not only is the media recognition accurate but it is amongst the proudest days I’ve had in developing Upfront Ventures and our future. Build out our junior staff including pulling through some younger professionals into the investment ranks.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Journal Invest Santa Monica 150

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

If I’m covering a company can I get evidence of what the competition is doing so the story is balanced? They are an investment bank that targets the technology & media sectors. Their website proclaims, “LUMA Partners is a different kind of investment bank. Do I have data or facts to present so the story has legs?

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

It performs "due diligence" before it makes "investments" and it measures results as a "return on its investment.". Second, our “investment” in a nonprofit goes well beyond just dollars. We want to make a catalytic investment in a high potential organization that will help them to achieve great things.

Organization 199

Organization Startup Technical Review Invest 199

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Small Business Administration as a Growth Accelerator Fund Competition winner. It also got me thinking about what was important for winning this competition. The Growth Accelerator Fund competition is for organizations that help startups grow, become commercially viable, and have an economic impact. 31 in the nationwide contest.

Funding 40

Funding Competition Chief Technology Officer San Diego 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The latest big-company addition was Ginni Rometty , who was promoted into both top titles at IBM in 2012. Distinguishing traits of male leaders are autonomy, independence, and competition, while those of women are relations, interdependence, and cooperation. Investment style. Both have their advantages. Operational style.

Startup 107

Startup Competition IBM IBM 107

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. In reality, a few thousand dollars to a few winners, is tantalizing but probably not a return on the investment. Multiple micro-investments are not manageable. Intellectual property is jeopardized.

Funding 101

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Invest 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 Identify the right people in the right venture firms.

Venture Capital 101

Venture Capital Startup Capital Seed Funding 101

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. Seriously, this happens.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

Success often comes from doing a few things extraordinarily well and noticeably better than the competition and is measured in customer feedback, product engagement, growth in usage and ultimately in revenue growth. I still plan to keep more normal pace of investment which is 1-2 deals per year. You don’t need to be hot.

Software Review 150

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

GRP Partners 96

GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. In reality, a few thousand dollars to a few winners, is tantalizing but probably not a return on the investment required. Multiple micro-investments are not manageable.

Funding 106

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Sample 106

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject. In 2012, half of all the M&A transactions were cross border, for the first time. Globalization is a big trend.

Southern California 124

Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. Seed-round investment. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

Startup 383

Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Men have dominated the world of investment. There were only 22% women who invested in 2012. Natalia Oberti Noguera is on a mission to help change the demographic of investment with her Pipeline Fellowship. TechZulu speaks with Natalia about Pipeline Foundation and her goals to change the face of business and investment.

Mentor 84

Mentor Invest Entrepreneur Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. Competition? How unique are you from the competition? As a social platform, exploreB2B is to a small degree, in competition with other social media platforms used for business (Twitter, LinkedIn, Quora). When was it launched and where?

Networking 71

Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

Greathouse: You mentioned Intrade, which was shut down by the government in 2012. If people are heavily invested in the outcome of an election, they will be more inclined to read the news and become politically active. Do you think your real competition will come from new sites or existing ones like PredictIt ?

Startup 100

Startup Sites Research Santa Barbara 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 9, 2013

He founded the company at the age of 13 with only $100 in investment making ‘manly candles’ in his kitchen after school. Mikaila Ulmer is the 8 year old owner of BeeSweet Lemonade and 2012 Teenprenereur of the Year Award Recipient. Hart Main is a 15 year old CEO of ManCans.

News 95

News Education Social Network Organization 95

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 9, 2013

He founded the company at the age of 13 with only $100 in investment making ‘manly candles’ in his kitchen after school. Mikaila Ulmer is the 8 year old owner of BeeSweet Lemonade and 2012 Teenprenereur of the Year Award Recipient. Hart Main is a 15 year old CEO of ManCans.

News 77

News Education Social Network Organization 77

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

We''re talking about an industry which is very competitive, first, and two, one that people overwhelmingly try to avoid. As part of that, we started asking professors for recommendations on who we could talk to, and we found out they only knew one person, or told us to check out a magazine, or Google this and that.

Help 240

Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

In the recent surge in interest in the clean technology and energy investment area, we're constantly surprised by the number of startups in the area focused on some aspect of the industry. That makes solar panels as a product not competitive at all, if you removed government subsidies. What are uses in smart fabric applications?

UCLA 159

UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms. They are on more solid footing than they were, but there’s no such thing as solid footing in this industry,” says Rajeev Shah, a managing director at biotech investment firm RA Capital, which had been a Vertex investor but no longer is. Has Vertex has learned from its past missteps?

Startup 40

Startup Research Sales Organization 40

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2014

That was 2012. I founded Grokker in 2012. What makes you unique from the competition? Grokker received an initial investment of $5.35 Borenstein became frustrated when she realized there were no high-quality instructional videos, it was even difficult to aggregate the few videos in one place.

Help 87

Help Content Activity Networking 87

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: It was officially May 9 of 2012, when David and I and others within YP and AT&T decided that given where we were with AT&T, their core focus on wireless, we should figure out how to take the business out of AT&T, so that we would not be constrained on our investments, and we could go after markets in a more strategic way.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

He can also spin fire while balancing on a circus ball and whistlin – but not just any whistling, eric finished in the top 10 at the world’s whistling competition in Louisburg, North Carolina. Lucien is also co-founder and co-director of a new game and interactive-based school launching in Los Angeles in the fall 2012.

Technical Advisors 89

Technical Advisors Design Education Study 89

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

ON the other side, we had incredible high ranking search results when we were baked off against the competition. When did the split with AT&T happen? But, going down that review path was not where we wanted to take it, or at least, not where we wanted to start. We have great data accuracy and comprehensiveness.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

It's something that is really neat which we invested in, which we've never seen anywhere else. We are trying to keep it competitive. We've just finished our projections up to 2012, working with a consultant, and we're about to go--in this lovely economic climate--after an angel or venture capital funding.

Writing 209

Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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. Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It should be no surprise why I invested alongside IA Ventures in the big data company DataSift. Know what I call a company in the future who’s not ingesting real-time data feeds to gain competitive advantage? ” Let me explain it with a current metaphor – the 2012 US presidential campaign.

News 324

News Web Email Startup 324