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. Proceed at your own peril.

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Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 96

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MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. It isn’t written by them or any marketing department – so please take it for what it is. I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly. I like that.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

The more and more we looked into the idea, we saw there was a huge market for retailers. We've noticed many international entrepreneurs locating here recently, like yourself. We gained investors, and got a couple of guys on board, and eventually the biggest company in Finland, Nokia, became an investor. That's what we're all about.

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Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based FastPay (www.fastpaypartners.com) announced a round of funding and its services for providing advanced payment to online publishers, application developers, and game developers. We've just hired three new employees and are out there marketing our services and ready to grow.

Advertising 133

Advertising .Net Startup Funding 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

People also user our data for general market trending or academic research. Finally, for enterprise customers and application developers who need full access to our database, we have an API which allows you full access to data, which you can download and incorporate into your existing data sets. READ MORE>>.

Beverly Hills 164

Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. Alex is a proven web entrepreneur, having led and sold multiple successful startups. Alex Kazerani. Chairman & CEO at Edgecast.

SaaS 92

SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

I wrote several of the characteristics when I did the Top 10 (11) Attributes of an Entrepreneur. Marketing wants the sales teams to use the materials they’ve produced. This pissed off application developers because it became harder to find apps. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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Entrepreneur Yahoo Startup Technical Review 330

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth. But, very quickly, within the second round of financing, we started doing more and more presentations to financial markets, and getting more fundraising, and so forth.

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology. Guest: interview with a special guest, ranging from world-reknowned business entrepreneurs to leaders in technology law and policy. Christina holds a B.A. from the University of San Francisco.

IP 81

IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Again, like most opportunistic entrepreneurs, part of our growth plan was to raise venture capital.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

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MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

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APRIL 10, 2010

In a world in which you have strong client applications for consuming “multiproduct streams&# then they gain relative power to any individual stream (e.g. Actually, the latter could be a reasonable strategy for super technical entrepreneurs who can sustain themselves without big financing needs (see: Atebits, owner of Tweetie).

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Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287