Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Real-time search engine.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments. So, they let me start StockTwits.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

Venture capital activity ended the year with a strong finish in San Diego, as investors poured $498.4 The annual total was slightly ahead of venture activity in 2016, when VCs put slightly less than $1.9 million into 61 companies during the last three months of 2017, according to Venture Monitor data released Tuesday.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. It''s really a combination of the two.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. Capital to date? $20k Get Angel capital and build a prototype. If you can’t keep up, you are dead. Not any more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Add a blog to give yourself a voice, show your expertise, but skip the sales pitch. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). You need executive buy-in, committed budgets, and education for the whole team on objectives and activities.

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Xconomy

APRIL 10, 2018

Venture capital investors sank $547.2 The amount of capital invested in the San Diego area was up slightly from the $541.2 The amount of capital invested in the San Diego area was up slightly from the $541.2 Venture Monitor data on first-quarter venture capital activity was released Tuesday by Seattle-based PitchBook and.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. You could just outspend. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. Chris runs a popular web interview series on TechCrunch so is used to being the guy asking the questions. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you.

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2018

Sunnyvale, CA-based CrowdStrike, as an endpoint protection and response platform, uses next-generation antivirus software, scans for behavioral indicators of malicious activity, and deploys other threat detection measures to prevent cyberattacks and mitigate harms when they occur. CrowdStrike’s Series E financing round was led by General.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. was starting.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Since the advent of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, we’ve seen such networks proliferate, from the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (remember The WELL?) Nowadays, Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world , with more than 2 billion monthly active users.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Mark is a serial entrepreneur who is now active in the venture capital community for early-stage startups. He also co-authored the book "Inbound Marketing" about the power of social media and blogs. Huffington Post, Small Biz Blog , co-founder Arianna Huffington. Both Sides of the Table , by Mark Suster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2017

It works best through effective use of social media, mobile apps, societal initiatives, becoming an influencer, and providing a modern easily-found web site with credible customer-focused content. If you are not yet using this channel natively, your brand will be lost from view to key constituents.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I often tell people that raising venture capital is more difficult than getting married. Not so in venture capital. Do a web search to find companies that they didn’t give you. I list all of the companies (except one in stealth) on my blog and this includes both VC investments and angel ones. I’m the same.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Capital Help 298

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

IPO activity at a sluggish pace—so sluggish, in fact, that this year could end with the fewest IPOs and the lowest level of capital raised since 2009, according to PitchBook data for the first nine months of 2016. Uncertainty surrounding this year’s presidential election has kept U.S.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

1 of a product up and running in a few months weeks getting thousands of users for next to no capital, in Los Angeles many folks will take over a year and spend a million dollars just to get a beta product ready. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away.

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Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

in venture capital and publicly launched in May 2011. He also helped accelerate growth at Eventbrite, Socialcast, Webs, World Golf Tour, WordPress.com and Songkick in hands-on marketing advisory roles. He blogs at startup-marketing.com. Based in Newport Beach, CatchFree has raised $5.5m Dr. Richard Sudeck.

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Orange County Miramar Startup Tech Coast Angels 106

Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

Venture capital investors poured more than $28.2 companies during the first three months of 2018—marking the strongest single quarter in at least a dozen years, according to the Venture Monitor Report released today by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). billion into U.S.

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Venture Capital Funding Capital Report 74

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. If they need to dial in make sure they’re on a web conference and you can see them and vice versa. When you dial in by voice most people have a harder time being totally in sync with the conversation and are often distracted by other activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

Of course, she assumes that you are confident and courageous, and willing to capitalize on all your strengths and opportunities to market yourself. Start a blog and write for industry forums and newsletters. Every organization and web site is begging for content, so spread yourself around. These relationships can be mined later.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

I actually worked in the offline business world until Web 1.0. We're also self funded, and absolutely have no need for venture capital. We also have a very popular blog on our site, where we only mention one band a day, and we have lots of bands, artists, and labels vying for that position. Vic Caretti: It's rather diverse.

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Social Media Startup Sites Advertising 241

Xconomy

AUGUST 28, 2018

San Francisco-based Puls, founded in 2015, offers to dispatch technicians quickly to a customer’s home or office to replace malfunctioning parts, mount a widescreen TV on the wall, or install smart home devices such as security systems, voice-activated assistants, and Internet-connected thermostats. The 24/7 service operates.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

I always tell founders … “An investors job is to deploy capital and make a return. For simplicity I’ll assume you’ve raised some money from angels or seed investors and you’re either raising an A round or a B round of venture capital. This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon! Plan accordingly.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A breakout of regional deal flow so far this year indicates that venture activity in San Diego. As head of the non-profit organization supporting local startups, Krenn says the venture group will help to bring over 150 VCs to San Diego this year, including many from Silicon Valley. That is an insane data point.”

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San Diego Venture Capital Startup Activity 70

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

I co-founded LoveIt with Tom Soulanille and Wei Guo alongside our two active board members, Harry Tsao and Talmadge O’Neill. We’re interested in being at the leading edge of how people search and explore the web based on images. We’ve secured $6M in Series A funding from Juvo Capital and PG Ventures. What is your business model?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools. Recycling Waste Platform. Problem She is Solving.

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San Diego Education Platform Web 55

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Bad times often require more capital but ironically this is when capital is dried up. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 29, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ▼ August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? Venture Capital - What's the rush?

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Outsource Development 40

Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

San Diego angel investor Taner Halicioglu, a UC San Diego computer science graduate and one of the early employees at Facebook, has emerged in recent years as one of the region’s most active individual investors. Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B Street, 92101. His interests include … Next Page » Reprints | Share:

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San Diego Guide Tech Coast Angels Startup 74

Frank Addante

MAY 20, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? ► October (1) New Video! . Zondigo, Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Post-Launch: Marketing Web Apps on a Budget.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Showing little concern for stock-market volatility or worries over the Brexit, venture capital firms pumped $15.3 billion into 961 deals across the United States during the three months that ended June 30, according to the MoneyTree Report on venture capital activity. venture capital market leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Marina Del Rey Invest Venture Capital San Diego 40

Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

billion acquisition ( disclosed last November ) by the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The deal also reflects Petco’s expanding interests in technology following the company’s $4.6-billion

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San Diego Los Angeles Mobile Equity 52

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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