SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

We started this week’s show with a Q&A session where I answered viewer questions about fund raising and the VC industry. If you enjoy this blog I think you’ll enjoy watching the first 14 minutes of this video (just click on the image of me below). No problem to have some developers in remote locations.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Southern California 210

Xconomy

JANUARY 7, 2020

When a group of scientists from Amira Pharmaceuticals wanted to start a new biotech after the company’s 2011 acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb , Celgene provided seed funding.

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Seed Funding Equity Research Acquisition 63

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

Last year I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. I see this a lot in funding where an entrepreneur has struggled to raise money and spends all their time lamenting how lame investors are. I could link to a bunch of blog posts that come across this way but prefer not to single anybody out.

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Startup Press Blogging Entrepreneur 371

Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3 million in seed funding to spin out its consulting business, and focus instead on providing its core Web content management technology as a subscription-based software-as-a-service.

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Web San Diego Seed Funding Web Development 71

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

10 Blogging Tips. My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. Here’s why. Silly, right?

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

So my simple advice is to start PR as early as possible (and certainly earlier than most of your investors will advise) when you have your head around your product plans and are well into execution (or ready to launch) precisely because your recruiting, seed funding and initial user base may depend on it. I raised a small seed round.

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Press Startup Writing Training 319

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. I told David, “Look at the changes we’ve seen in the VC / funding market. It was very widely read. It should be: Local; Right-sized; and.

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Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

As associate members of NextSpace we will continue to attend Amplify’s mentor series and happy hour and will gladly meet with any entrepreneurs that they support; should they need help in regards to branding, market entry penetration, digital strategy, responsive design, user experience or product development.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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Startup Technical Review Venture Capital Email 317

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. Example of publishers include: moviefone, Fandango, Jingle, SayNow, and voice blogs. Total raised: $18.3mm.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Fandango 230

socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. It's developed quite a bit from when we first conceptualized the firm in 2008.

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Invest Framework Coach Startup 113

InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

College group projects force students to develop a diplomatic leadership style, in order to encourage their peers (whom they cannot order around) to accept their suggestions. You can also check out my hands-on startup advice blog HERE. Maturity - A significant amount of emotional growth occurs between the ages 18 and 22.

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Entrepreneur Case Study Education Seed Funding 150

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

As associate members of NextSpace we will continue to attend Amplify’s mentor series and happy hour and will gladly meet with any entrepreneurs that they support; should they need help in regards to branding, market entry penetration, digital strategy, responsive design, user experience or product development.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Some readers of this blog also pointed out that “pivoting&# can be disruptive on the employees of an organization. You want to hire a crack team of developers but you haven’t raised enough money yet. All traits of an entrepreneur must be exercised in concert. Some “kick it up a gear&# and react how Toby did.

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Entrepreneur Startup Slides Seed Funding 288

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. The CEO of Patreon , one of the first businesses to develop a tech solution for artists and creators seeking consistent income, recently announced Super Patron, a $50,000-per-year grant for creators, according to The Verge.

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. Do fewer business development deals but make the ones you do have more impact.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

— 5D Robotics , founded in 2009 in Carlsbad, CA, (about 30 miles north of San Diego), has developed a device that integrates GPS, inertial guidance, optical positioning, and other technologies. Ritter and co-founder Mike Milton raised much of their initial seed funding from farmers in Nebraska and Iowa.

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San Diego Seed Funding Guide Technology 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.).

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 285

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The Pasadena, CA-based urban office real estate investment trust (REIT), founded in 1994, has grown into one of the country’s largest developers of world-class collaborative science and technology campuses. We’re providing space, mentorship and a seed fund to help their growth. So it ranges.

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Venture Capital Startup San Diego Class 40

Xconomy

JULY 26, 2017

Genomics startups are increasing in number and quality, so much so that three-year-old Illumina Accelerator has expanded with its latest class to accommodate five of them. Xconomy got an early look at the specialty accelerator’s sixth cohort, which includes a company named for a butterfly and the accelerator’s first digital health startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. Do you work as a civil engineer on water projects and have great access to wealthy project developers? Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh?

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 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! Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► October (1) New Video! .

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