socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Santa Monica-based venture investor March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) announced last week that it has raised a second fund, worth $300M. To learn about the new fund, we sat down with Jamie Montgomery , one of the fund's co-founders, to hear about March Capital's strategy and the new fund. We started March Capital in late 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. ” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

Final le web london (june 2013) from Mark Suster. Declining prices & margins in a small market is much less interesting. I believe that market conditions drive innovation as much as great entrepreneurs do. Market meet reality. I described that phenomenon in this post. These types of trends are unsustainable.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Phoenix communities are celebrating because JPMorgan Chase has made several local charitable investments to support underserved entrepreneurs and small businesses with the goal of creating jobs and spark a growing economy. Supporting underserved entrepreneurs and small businesses helps revitalize communities and creates jobs,” Tripp said.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Dressed in suits with questions and passports in hand, a delegation of over 15 US entrepreneurs and investors--including a number from Southern California--entered the seat of the British government at 10 Downing Street Thursday. 10 Downing Street is the equivalent of the White House here in the United States.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A-Frame , a Los Angeles-based developer of personal care brands supported by celebrities, has raised $2 million in a new round of funding led by Initialized Capital. Howard, the chief executive of Irving Place Capital. “We first invested in Avametric at Initialized in 2013 and he had experience prior to that as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2013

In my view, entrepreneurship has always been the ultimate embodiment of capitalism, and quite synonymous with free enterprise. Yet I find that more and more young entrepreneurs are uncomfortable with the term “capitalism”, somehow thinking that it prioritizes “making money” above all else.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

One of the myths I often hear as an advisor to many entrepreneurs is that their lifestyle would somehow be better if they could more easily find other people’s money to build their startup. In fact, Michael Dell privatized his company again in 2013 for a few years, in his words to “unleash again the passion of our team members.”

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2013

On Friday October 25th, this innovative spirit was put on display at the 2013 Student Innovator Showcase. The judges, which featured experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and professors, made their way around the groups and listened to the different pitches. Grief Center Market Traction Award ($2500): BriskRabbit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Startups are the corporations of the future, so I have long believed that entrepreneurs who study existing corporate models, rather than ignoring them with disdain, will likely profit from the exercise. These are all huge challenges, as well as huge opportunities, for entrepreneurs. Stakeholder power. Environmental degradation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2013, the Q1 increase marks three consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists. No surprises here.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

We are often asked how companies get funded, why VCs make the decisions we make and what we’re looking for in entrepreneurs. I first met Andrew Stalbow , the founder & CEO of Seriously in August of 2013. Domain knowledge gives entrepreneurs an “unfair advantage” over newbies. (on And Seriously.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” But VC is like congress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

One of the myths I often hear as an advisor to many entrepreneurs is that their lifestyle would somehow be better if they could more easily find other people’s money to build their startup. In fact, Michael Dell privatized his company again in 2013 for a few years, in his words to “unleash again the passion of our team members.”

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

We started in October of 2013, and last year, in December, we closed our Series B with Sequoia Capital with $21M. We viewed this as a central marketplace which would allow drivers to be put in the driving seat, get paid what they want, go where they want to go, and get paid the market price, and would help solve this issue.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc.

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Jason Nazar

JULY 1, 2016

Entrepreneurs often lament big companies, but most of us hope we’ll create just that. There’s a lot more the big folks can learn from the millions of entrepreneurs hustling each day, building something amazing from scratch. After selling my last company in 2013, I was part of Intuit, one of the better-run large companies.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. We closed on a little bit more than $150 million and will do our final close above that in early 2013. Without this support we would have struggled.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. Biggest new for CommNexus / EvoNexus: EvoNexus incubator companies reached the $95M in capital raised and two companies were acquired.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

So, without further ado, here''s the list of this year''s 2013 Socaltech 50 : Basil Abifaker , Transaction Wireless (San Diego, digital gift cards). Josef Gorowitz , Swagbucks (Torrance, online marketing/rewards). Amanda MacNaughton , PromoJam (Glendale, marketing software). Ryan Hudson , Honey (Pasadena, apps).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. And here’s an important point that I think modern entrepreneurs often forget: Investors are “co-owners” of your business. There are just as many bad entrepreneurs who do bad things.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 22, 2016

That’s right, Kobe Bryant has just launched a brand new $100 million venture capital fund. Along with tech entrepreneur Jeff Stibel, Bryant’s aim with the new venture is to invest in media, technology, and data companies. So when it comes to Kobe Bryant’s latest venture, let’s hope he can make it a slam dunk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Even though these last few years have not been great financially for entrepreneurs, it always helps to look at the cup as half full, rather than half empty. Here are a few of the many things that entrepreneurs should be thankful for this holiday season, to keep the challenges in perspective: The economy continues to rebound.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 million this year versus $3 million in 2013. Source: National Venture Capital Association. history (admittedly, at 2.1 The projected $43.2

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

If you are one of the new age of entrepreneurs who hates the thought of doing a business plan as a first step in starting your new venture you will love this message. Market research techniques for trying to predict the market’s response to a new venture can be costly and are often unreliable. Build and use social capital.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company is venture backed by Polaris Partners, Toba Capital, Amplify.LA, Wavemaker Partners, and Danmar Capital. They've solved it at the enterprise paint point, where we are at the mid-market. We took it to the market in January of 2015. What's the biggest lesson you've learned so far as an entrepreneur?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Because you get to work on your 2013 annual budget. Okay, maybe financial planning isn’t as much fun as drinking egg nog, but, for entrepreneurs, it’s an essential practice that will yield far greater rewards. Does your company need to create a financial plan and build your 2013 budget right now. Absolutely.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

Phil Hui-Bon-Hoa , the CEO of El Segundo-based Kaleo (www.kaleo.com), is a serial entrepreneur who has previously built and sold four companies, including one acquired by IFILM, and another by Sun Microsystems. He had 5,000, B-to-B marketers across various divisions of GE, and they really never were able to help each other.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2013

According to Harjinder Sidhu, of Jacaranda Ventures,”SeedInvest is opening up new opportunities for a vast population of accredited investors, and will bring enormous amounts of new capital to startups. Apps & Software Business Entrepreneurship Marketing Startups' ” Over 650 accredited investors and over 450 companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Silicon Valley’s big VC firm’s The Social+Capital Partnership, Andreessen Horowitz, Formation8, Ron Conway, and Anand Rajaraman have today launched Data Elite , to help tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges through data science. Jump on board, applications are open for individuals and teams until December 15 th , 2013.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital. Coming out of ServiceNow around 2013, I realized that a lot of problems that we had been discussing and dealing with with customers adopting applications like ServiceNow into the enterprise, was establishing connections of that data and processes with systems in the enterprise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs these days is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. It has had some notable successes for entrepreneurs (over $1M in funding), as well as non-starters. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2013

In addition to being a classic children''s tale of good versus evil, the film also contains some surprising 2013 job hunting tips for joining a startup. Even with the upcoming Obama tax hikes, (relatively) favorable tax treatment of capital gains will allow you to retain a greater portion of the wealth you have helped to create.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2013

LOS ANGELES, December 10, 2013 – Some big news for local startup Plug.DJ San Francisco based Javelin Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm specializing in technology based start-ups that leverage key innovations to create scalable, high-growth companies. and their user-curated music sharing platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. And probably some money.

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