Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

CapLinked says the round of funding and new appointment are an advancement in their move to displace the legacy left by Virtual Data Room (VDR) with their intuitive new product for coordinating on complex business deals such as asset sales, financings, and mergers and acquisitions. 25 Years of Writing Code.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack. We do that methodically.

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

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. We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Social network app developer and ad network. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2016

If such write-downs only impacted the faux unicorns and their avaricious investors, there would be little need for alarm. For instance, a company-friendly investor typically only participates in a follow-on funding round beyond their pro rata participation with the Founders’ explicit approval.

Startup 100

Startup Entrepreneur Invest Venture Capital 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2013

If you don’t have it, you probably won’t succeed, even with funding. Here are some key ones they look for: Talks and writes well. Networked and connected. Successful entrepreneurs already have a visible network of trusted suppliers, potential customers, partners, and even investors. Listens before answering questions.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Entrepreneur Course Patents 109

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

Sales people (and website customer acquisition folks) all think in terms of funnels and yet non-sales professionals seldom do. VC meetings are easy to come by but money in the bank is the only thing that will fund your next 12 months. We all know the type of person who lives in the top end of the funnel.

Startup 150

Startup Framework Sales Venture Capital 150

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. You are writing about the essentials of business. I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong. What do you think of the concepts of visible networking ?

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

To grow faster businesses need resources in today to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. They don’t want high burn rates but they will never fund slow growth. million to fund operations in their first year of operations. They raised $5 million in venture capital to fund growth. What did they actually do?

Startup 227

Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2012

If you don’t have it, you probably won’t succeed, even with funding. Here are some key ones they look for: Talks and writes well. Networked and connected. Successful entrepreneurs already have a visible network of trusted suppliers, potential customers, partners, and even investors. Listens before answering questions.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Technical Review Course Patents 117

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Probably the biggest drawback of Los Angeles is the distance and traffic that makes networking more difficult. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out. Just over a year later, Jurvetson led the Series A round of venture funding for Nervana Systems.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence San Diego Framework Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” To grow faster businesses need resources in today’s financial period to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. We have a huge acquisition pipeline. What's the idea behind Maple Media? Why not just go and build your own apps?

Media 153

Media Mobile Startup Acquisition 153

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. Who do you view as your biggest competition?

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

We spent a lot of time talking about what type of company we wanted to create, how many employees we’d eventually have, whether we would take funding, our lifestyle, and a dozen other things that had nothing to do with writing software. Metrics related to customer acquisition, lifetime value and churn. I’ve been there.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2010

If you don’t have it, you probably won’t succeed, even with funding. Here are some key ones they look for: Talks and writes well. Networked and connected. Successful entrepreneurs already have a visible network of trusted suppliers, potential customers, partners, and even investors. Listens before answering questions.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Angel Technical Review Course 96

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.” In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

Mark Jeffrey - Q: “Is it more traditional to do your ESOP (employee stock option plan) before or after your angel or Series A funding?&# There’s some stuff here that I even prefer not to put into writing. If you are thinking about angel investors please read this piece I did on Angel Funding Advice. they take time!!

Venture Capital 282

Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

As a former hedge fund guy, Roger immediately saw the value in helping companies better sift through the masses of data; often to gain better insights into financial information. Open – Twitter made a decision from inception that it was intending to be an “open network” – the information you post there is publicly available.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing.

Web 93

Web USC Course Guide 93

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. on all the computers and established a network using Novell. And if it’s not I’m generally not that interested in funding it. It fuels our bonus payments, our quarterly earnings, our growth rate, our value at acquisition time. So back to MBAs.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. Why the new funding round now?

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

We have almost a thousand bloggers who are writing reviews about the products we offer, and we also review them from our own point of view, to help support parents decisions and learning about products in the real world. When raising money, you look to meet with people using your network. How long has the site been around?

Software Review 200

Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. Unicornless. billion).

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Write it down…. 5) As an investor, I frankly find it tiresome the degree to which entrepreneurs attempt to hype their companies by integrating “social networks and social media” into their pitches. 1) I know that you guys are in the midst of a funding round and are hiring. There’s a lot more on this for another time.”.

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

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. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. If network B has 20 users than it’s value is 400 (20*20). call to arms.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

6) Social networking is impacting all aspects of business, including recruiting. Do you intend to modulate growth based on organic cash inflows or do you plan to seek outside funding at some point? 2) Imagine you are writing a Wall Street Journal article in five years describing how ZipRecruter became the dominant online job site.

MyLife 160

MyLife CitySearch Web Technical Review 160

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2012

We caught up with Navid --one of a number of executives to have recently departed Buy.com after its acquisition a couple of years ago by Rakuten--to hear more about his new startup. We're self funded to this point, and looking to get additional funding for a seed round, to get us to the next level. Describe what Recmnd.me

CTO Hire 147

CTO Hire Startup Sites Technical Review 147

From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 27, 2013

If Groupon remained a bootstrapped entity or a business built on the back of funds raised from friends and family, Mason would still be firmly entrenched as founder and Chief Executive. Wealth family officers, who manage family trust funds, are often seen as being passive investors. What is your exit strategy?

Venture Capital 45

Venture Capital Capital Anthem Startup 45

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

6) Social networking is impacting all aspects of business, including recruiting. Do you intend to modulate growth based on organic cash inflows or do you plan to seek outside funding at some point? 2) Imagine you are writing a Wall Street Journal article in five years describing how ZipRecruter became the dominant online job site.

MyLife 157

MyLife CitySearch Web Technical Review 157

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

I had met Richard at a MaiTai tech networking trip of kiteboarders in Maui and ended up traveling again with her later that year with a fragment of the group to explore the tech scene in Australia. Available seed funding, check; another one down for the startup ecosystem checklist. Welcome back!” This is one hectic place, I tell you.

Startup 109

Startup Incubator Seed Funding Platform 109

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

I had met Richard at a MaiTai tech networking trip of kiteboarders in Maui and ended up traveling again with her later that year with a fragment of the group to explore the tech scene in Australia. Available seed funding, check; another one down for the startup ecosystem checklist. Welcome back!” Same space, different spin.

Startup 56

Startup Incubator Seed Funding Platform 56

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Anima Sarah Lavoy – Connect , Geo locational convenience for your social networks. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs. Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing. Save the best part for last, right?

Entertainment 99

Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. 2) RightScale crossed the chasm pretty quickly from early adopters (Animoto and Zynga) to mainstream customers (The Associated Press and A&E Television Networks). To a large degree we rode Amazon’s coattails.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

We write and create our own content for the game. TriNet also offers a set of Strategic Services that match companies at every point in their lifecycle, including such offerings as Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, and Employee Development. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91