socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

However, the recent surge in startup activity has attracted a lot more capital into the area, including a significant amount of capital from LA's latest fund: Karlin Ventures (www.karlinvc.com). TX Zhuo: Karlin Ventures is an early stage venture fund based in LA. We're a very new fund, but are aggressive and like to hustle.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

According to an email from Craig, the company decided to close down the BettterWorks perk platform, and will not longer be active after next Thursday. BetterWorks had raised $10M in funding from Redpoint Ventures. BetterWorks--and Paige Craig--have been one of the companies driving the growth in Santa Monica's Silicon Beach.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Today, one of the companies that is supplying produce and other items both to consumers and other services that are in turn selling food and groceries to them, is announcing a new round of funding as it gears up to take its next step, an IPO. Source tell us it is now between $400 million and $500 million.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

San Diego-based Bump.com , a new startup headed by former Active Network co-founder Mitch Thrower, said today that it has launched a new service which allows drivers to send voice, text, and email messages too people based on their license plate numbers. in funding in a Series A funding, received in June of this year.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We all know that funding markets have changed for startups. The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth. So I recommend a high-level “state of the company” email a couple of times a year but a message that you assume might get shown to others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But I continue to learn that there are a host of other factors, maybe not even related to you or your business, that could keep you from getting the funding that you need. On the other hand, venture capital doesn’t get smoothly spread across the geographic and demographic landscape, and the number of active firms has dropped sharply.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

First you need to take consolation from the fact that you are not alone, and more importantly you need to implement an active growth and marketing plan to include the following initiatives: Ramp-up visibility and strategic alliances. Actively listen to customer feedback, and don’t be a one-trick pony.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 13, 2016

Women in LAVA and Golden Seeds are excited to invite female founders (and companies with women in the C-Suite) seeking funding, to apply to an exclusive event with angel investors. Golden Seeds, one of the nation's most active early-stage investment firms, is focused on the vibrant opportunities of women-led businesses.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Of course, the response depends upon lots of variables, including whether the company is in a fund-raising mode (in which case the CEO may be spending up to 80% of his or her time on this alone). How much time do you devote to each type of activity?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. Email updates frequently. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Email - are you sending out emails periodically? Commenting?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Email - are you sending out emails periodically? Commenting?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Verifying Get the latest tech news, straight to your inbox Don't miss out on the top business tech news with Tech.co's weekly highlights reel Please fill in your name Please fill in your email Please verify before subscribing. The one-page site includes very little information other than a list of current team members, all of whom are male.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Please fill in your email. This April, the startup raised a staggering $4 million in a seed funding round. The company's founders, Damir Vrabac, Anirudh Joshi, and Viswesh Krishna, intend to use these funds to expand their operations and development efforts, so we're expecting big things from the biotech company going forwards.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Platform Newsletter 118

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2020

First you need to take consolation from the fact that you are not alone, and more importantly you need to implement an active growth and marketing plan to include the following initiatives: Ramp-up visibility and strategic alliances. Actively listen to customer feedback, and don’t be a one-trick pony.

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Search Engine Optimization Startup Social Media Metrics 131

Berkonomics

MAY 15, 2014

After being an active angel investor for about fifteen years, I realized that many of the discussions I was involved in were virtually identical to ones I’d had many times before. Email readers, continue here.] By Basil Peters. A good example was during the negotiation of a term sheet.

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

Email readers, continue here…] But most importantly, it is the constant hearing of stories by these CEOs of how they were able to adapt to changes in their environment and alter the course of their leadership, adapting to external influences that had changed in their industry or the economy. Every leader has stories to tell.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 13, 2015

Dave’s note: John Huston is founder and past manager of the 300+ member Ohio TechAngel Funds and a past Chairman of both the Angel Capital Association and the Angel Resource Institute. . Cash spent on activities which do not burnish your attractiveness is cash squandered as you prepare for the sale. By John Huston.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Getting involved with political events and fund raisers. Talking about how to inspire moms to get their children engaged with iPads and physical activity sets customized for their kids and based in part on their digital lives. Soleil returns emails at 1.30am. Sheryl Sandberg leans in? Kara perfected that. Showing me designs.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds. And just for measure, VC’s fund less than 2% of all deals they do investigate. There is a lot to say about retaining control.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

He or she wants to know how long the money you will raise will last and whether this is long enough to warrant taking a risk on funding you. VCs tend not to want to fund founders who raise too much money in a given round also because they know that sometimes having too many resources will lead to founders burning through cash too quickly.

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Berkonomics

MAY 22, 2014

Bill Payne has been actively involved in angel investing since 1980, funding over 50 companies and mentoring over 100 more. I don’t fund new companies that have prepared PPMs for investment. I have yet to read a PPM written for a startup company that meets the parameters we angels generally establish for funding new ventures.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A huge amount of cryptocurrency is believed to be stored on a device that is now inaccessible, leaving customers in the dark as to what has happened to their funds. million of the company’s money due to suspicious activity. During the dispute, the courts took control of the contested funds. ” – Jennifer Robertson.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

An email subscription is coming! The new information, gleaned from recently unsealed court documents , provides new insight into the company’s past activities and what that might mean for its upcoming IPO. Email me or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec. This brings the startup’s total funding to $3.85

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). We sat down with Derek to learn more about the new $5M fund and what it's all about. Tell us about the new fund?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2020

So far, Grill has racked up responses from a lot of the roughly 400 investors he’s sent an email to for the initial list he’s putting together. “I want to create an ecosystem where everyone can recognize that people are trying to be active,” he says. .”

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2012

They are also very active as an early-stage tech investor, partner and acquirer. And they invest n select VC funds. 6:30 Do you disclose which funds you’ve invested in? 25:00 How should entrepreneurs approach you for funding? 30:30 Are you investing in email? That they own a large piece of The Discovery Network?

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

Andrwe Bermudez: We were able to get a lot of data using those tools, and then latched onto their email communications. When they saw an email, they could just click here and be done, rather than having to go through the effort of logging into the system. How's the startup funded? It worked well. How did that work?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2014

Angel investors, particularly those in organized angel groups, are typically former entrepreneurs who have had successful liquidity events in their pasts, or executives of companies who’ve retired with the funds from their stock options. Email readers, continue here.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2023

Look for common family experiences, academic connections, or sports activities. The follow-up should be simple and to the point, such as a quick email suggesting an opportunity to continue the discussion. If you start pumping someone you have just met for funding or referrals, he or she will realize that your intentions are shallow.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

Newport Beach-based CircleUp , a startup developing group communications tools, is setting its eyes on online payments, saying today that it has launched a new service to collect money via email for teams and groups. Tags: circleup email service startup payment. 99 plus 6.9% of the payment. CircleUp is backed by Sid R. Bass Associates.

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Services Email Coach Tool 100

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

The firm announced a funding round last week, from DFJ Frontier, DFJ JAIC, Gold Hill Capital, and angel investors Gil Elbaz (Factual), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), and Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners), and many others. Once you start doing that, it also allows you to get a sense of the ROI from that marketing activity.

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Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2012

We built a social network around that, with activity feeds and stuff like that, and which allows you to share activity through the leagues, Twitter, and Facebook. You can invite people on Facebook or your friends on email to join the site. How is this all funded? People start with an equal amount. READ MORE>>.

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Sites Startup Activity Ideas 237

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Look for common family experiences, academic connections, or sports activities. The follow-up should be simple and to the point, such as a quick email suggesting an opportunity to continue the discussion. If you start pumping someone you have just met for funding or referrals, he or she will realize that your intentions are shallow.

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Networking Startup Entrepreneur Conference 171

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. Others I have not. Enter Xobni.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This morning's interview is with Billy Fried , co-founder and CEO of Kijubi (www.kijubi.com), a new startup which is looking to help people find travel activities. I was always perplexed at finding fun activities out there to do. The firm is launching itself today at TechCrunch50. It's been around for the last six years.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

Build a long-term LP based, anchored by diverse asset types (Universities, Endowments, Family Offices, Pensions, Insurance Companies, Sovereign Wealth Funds & Fund of Funds). But over time I found that with broader responsibilities (fund raising, recruiting, biz dev, etc.) I simply couldn’t be at everything.

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