TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The company has taken a methodical approach to opening its doors as a digital bank, in part because it wants to have the necessary support infrastructure in place to service the demand that Wilk expects to see for its service. And they’re facing global competition as well. N26, the European startup bank with a $3.6

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required. Public stockholders are more easily swayed by emotion and the activities of the crowd, than real market conditions. Public companies are always at risk for takeovers.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. When you see evidence that there is this so called “product / market fit&# then you may be ready for larger amounts of capital. How do you push valuation?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Contrary to a popular myth, word-of-mouth and viral marketing are not a substitute for more basic branding activities. Actively lead conversations, as well as real listening. Capitalize on the massive trend and power of mobile. Position your products as delivery for on-demand services.

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Social Media Customer Custom Mobile 73

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity. If your investor is unknown, or peers offer no positive attributes, take it as a red flag.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 103

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

As an active angel investor, I still hear entrepreneurs asserting large opportunities with minimal risk and no competition. You can grow organically, or stretch out with big capital investments for volume and reach. My conclusion either way is that they have no market, or haven’t looked. Find the balance.

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Entrepreneur Marketing Customer Custom 107

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half 2019 global IPO activity slowdown continued, following an unusually quiet Q1 2019 as ongoing geopolitical tensions and trade issues dampened IPO sentiment. Public stockholders are more easily swayed by emotion and the activities of the crowd, than real market conditions.

Startup 84

Startup Technical Review Report IBM 84

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity. If your investor is unknown, or peers offer no positive attributes, take it as a red flag.

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Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 63

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Finally for startups there’s a $31 billion available for programs that give small businesses access to credit, venture capital, and R&D dollars. The sad fact is that water infrastructure in America has largely failed to keep up in large swaths of the country, necessitating this kind of massive capital infusion.

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Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. If you’re funding the same stuff as everybody else and if you started your activities when the clues were obvious you’re much less likely to drive enormous returns. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We caught up with CEO and co-founder Brett Rossman to learn more about the company and how it''s been able to grow, profitably, all without raising a dime of outside capital. We generate thousands of new customers everyday for clients such as Ally Bank, GE Capital, Transunion, and a few other big brands.

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Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half of 2017 was the most active first half by global number of IPOs since 2007. There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required.

Startup 87

Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 87

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). FTC is considering an investigation into Apple’s anti-competitive practices.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2015

As an active Angel investor, I still hear entrepreneurs asserting large opportunities with minimal risk and no competition. You can grow organically, or stretch out with big capital investments for volume and reach. My conclusion either way is that they have no market, or haven’t looked. Find the balance.

Entrepreneur 103

Entrepreneur Startup Marketing Customer 103

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2017

As an active angel investor, I still hear entrepreneurs asserting large opportunities with minimal risk and no competition. You can grow organically, or stretch out with big capital investments for volume and reach. My conclusion either way is that they have no market, or haven’t looked. Find the balance.

Entrepreneur 68

Entrepreneur Marketing Customer Custom 68

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. I think that the market was, however, hotter two years ago, when companies were buying more aggressively, and there was lots of pent-up demand. That pace has definitely slowed down a little bit.

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Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2014

As an active Angel investor, I still hear entrepreneurs asserting large opportunities with minimal risk or no competition. You can grow organically, or stretch out with big capital investments for volume and reach. My conclusion either way is that there is no market, or they haven’t looked. Find the balance.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Marketing Customer Custom 93

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required. Public stockholders are more easily swayed by emotion and the activities of the crowd, than real market conditions. Public companies are always at risk for takeovers.

Startup 98

Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 98

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition.

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required. Public stockholders are more easily swayed by emotion and the activities of the crowd, than real market conditions. Public companies are always at risk for takeovers.

Startup 97

Startup Report Entrepreneur Statistics 97

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. As always it comes down to competition. I’m sure this happens, too. Why are VC’s really doing seed deals?

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Invest 265

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The firm is co-founded by Jake Steinfeld, of Body by Jake, and ExerciseTV, and has received investment from prolific angel investor Ron Conway and Polar Capital, the investment firm of former Google President Tim Armstrong. The trainer makes you a daily, customized meal plan and exercise and activity plan. Thanks for talking with us.

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Media Pricing Sites Training 168

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. Fund-raising is a year-round activity and never ends. these are simply guidelines.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Who do you view as your biggest competition? Performance marketing also demands accountability. You have tremendous momentum and clearly could have raised capital from a variety of sources. Good ideas, great people and access to capital are key to any thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. You’re right.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2016

What’s more, strategic locations can benefit from varying global legislation: influencing competitor clauses, user privacy data collection, and tax laws amongst other factors that can give a company a powerful competitive edge. There are so many startups, and a great demand for talent as a result of this. We work with U.S.

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Technical Review Startup Incubator Media 40

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers. We think Asterisk is an entirely different marketplace, and therefore not a competitive threat.

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IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

InVenture has created a market for "micro venture capital," whereby everyday investors can provide expansion capital to developing businesses. Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. The Sponsors.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

InVenture has created a market for "micro venture capital," whereby everyday investors can provide expansion capital to developing businesses. Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. The Sponsors.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

We're also not directly competitive with other commercial offerings, and in fact we have commercial software vendors who test their software with Jetty whenever either side does revisions. I don't have a long sales cycle, because I'm talking to people who have already chosen Jetty. It's just sign up here, so we can get them into the system.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. That’s the beauty of markets and of capitalism. In short – no.

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Startup Company Companies Venture Capital 150

Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? because they are so focused on being better than their competition. Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? By Frank Addante Development resources are in high demand. Zondigo, Inc.

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Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . The PepsiCo10 program in 2010 saw the company team up with Mashable and Highland Capital Partners to. Bonin Bough, PepsiCo.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? Venture Capital Funding 7. ► October (1) New Video! Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

So let’s consider a bad (but likely) scenario where either you don’t hit your targets, the market sours or competition is kicking your butt making it hard to fund raise. There are ones I’ve worked with like True Ventures, First Round Capital, Greycroft, Rincon Ventures … just to name a few. But it happens.

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Venture Capital Startup Invest Pricing 314

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. So why would raising venture capital be any different. It’s just a part of your ongoing activities as a founder.

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