Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. I think they were all brand new or just forming.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 1, 2017

As a poker player turned venture capitalist, James Conlon, a partner at Bullpen Capital knows a thing or two about risk. Take a look at our interview below and decide whether or not you want to invest in cannabis. The Ground Floor. Startups that touch the plant carry higher risk,” said Conlon.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

In our features section: Interview with Blair Harrison of Frequency. LaunchpadLA Opens Up Spring Applications. Broadcom Powering New Mac Wireless. Surf Air Gets First Aircraft. Surf Air ($2.6M, Los Angeles, subscription aircraft service). Acquisition of note: Nexsan Acquired For $120M, by Imation. TapIt Media acquired for $23M by Phunware.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 8, 2011

You can watch my interview with Brad below or on YouTube here: [link]. Second, both Jason and I felt there was a lot of timeless information…the state of the art of the Venture Capital Term Sheet hasn’t changed that much in the last 30-years. We… take apart how venture capital firms actually work and how the VCs get compensated.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?” ” Fred & I are both in agreement that there is a tension between capital constraints and creativity. While this clip is only 1-minute long we talk about it more in the full interview. But it’s not who I am.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. Second, we're going to launch it cross-platform.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To learn more about how women are looking to change the investment climate--and get involved in investing themselves--we caught up with one of the Pipeline Fellowship''s local mentors, the CEO of Beyond Capital Fund (www.beyondcapitalfund.org), Eva Helene Yazhari , who is here in Los Angeles. What is the Pipeline Fellowship?

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. Those are all categories we know well. Being so open, when entrepreneurs think about capital, we want to be top of mind. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

Our interview today is with Scott Grimes , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Stackin' , which operates a text-based, financial messaging platform. We curate the best products within each category of finance. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M What kind of financial products are you talking about?

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Scott Cannon , the CEO of BigRentz (www.bigrentz.com), which is creating an online marketplace for big equipment--an industry known notoriously as not adopting new technology. Cloud Capital. One of the mistakes that most startups make, is they get impatient, and throw lots of capital at something.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). That provides a lot of efficiency in how we deploy capital, and simply just makes it work better. com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

VentureHacks laid out the debate in a truly awesome interview & PowerPoint slides if you really want an in-depth understanding of the issue. If you hugely believe that you still have a $100 million idea then let’s go for it but please be prudent with how fast you spend your capital. More on this later.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

We have six key categories of what we do. We started getting approached by venture capital and private equity, and we have eight figures in revenue. We've never raised outside capital, but decided to do a late stage round from a VC firm. Lots of them are in the apparel space. One, is we build and design websites.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. We discussed whether investing in the second largest player in a category makes sense given that Groupon is 10x the revenue, 3.5x Tags: This Week in Venture Capital.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

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. My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately. Tesla is not. It's a great talk. Lots to learn from him.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I must say I’ve become a regular user of ShopperSeeks every since this interview. And you will to after this interview. I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: What’s been the most after sought category of items?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. in funding from Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital, DFJ Frontier, and angel investors.

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Newsletter Startup CTO Hire Blogging 216

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. Go on, have a bit of fun down memory lane!).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

In emerging markets and the developing world, access to banking, capital, and financial resources is fare more difficult than here in the U.S., It really goes into two categories, around capacity and affordability. I ended up doing 4500 individual interviews, and quickly became a walking QuickBooks.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

They had interviewed telecom operators, handset manufacturers and corporate buyers. I said, “So you interviewed the people to get a plausible story line and then just did a simple estimation of the numbers going forward? They just define their category tightly enough that they win it. They were more scientific.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

The following is a brief series of quotes from just ten of the approximately 30 different topics discussed in this incredible interview. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. Brad on blogging.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

We provide all of the categories that need to be done if you want to sell products online, at least those that are non ticket and non travel, physical products. How did you end up going from Senior Associate at a venture capital company to CEO at a fashion related business? You''ve got a very interesting background. READ MORE>>.

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Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203

socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2011

They told me they didn' t have the upfront capital, technical expertise, nor did they have the staff to handle that kind of service for donors. After interviewing a dozen or so nonprofits focused on these events, we found the response was overwhelmingly positive. I said--wow, that's a pretty big missed opportunity.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

Approximately 33% fail, another third return an approximation of the capital invested and the remaining 33% generate anywhere from 2x to “Google-x return.” Exercise II: Your Fortune Magazine Interview. For each one, answer the following questions as if you were being interviewed by a writer from Fortune magazine. Product Name.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

We don't show what those brands are, but let them know by category--say, high end denim--and there will be a benchmark which shows how they did in a time period and over time against a like brand, how dependent those sales are on discounts associated with an item, and also see the history of how their events have performed with us.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

The feedback primarily fell into three categories: better ways to discover new content, better organization tools and the option to have private collections. We’ve secured $6M in Series A funding from Juvo Capital and PG Ventures. Any funding yet, if yes how much and by who? What is your business model?

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2009

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Eden Jarrin, the President of Los Angeles-based eDivvy (www.edivvy.com). Really soon you'll see we'll be editorializing products and helping people to choose gifts in a category an dhow to pick the right gifts. Eden Jarrin: We're privately funded, at this time not by venture capital.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's in the automated translation category of the industry. From there, I left to start by first startup, Aphiniti, which raised capital but ended up undercapitalized and closed down. Tags: idris manley nativetung interview startup entrepreneur demo demofall. What is NativeTung? The last place I worked was at Yahoo.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

Our inventory represents specialty lodging, with multiple bedrooms in a unit, with kitchens and living rooms--all in the value oriented category within the leisure market, as opposed to a five star luxury hotel. Tags: travel hotel startup interview hovanec lodging leisurelink eric. Eric Hovanec: Both Steve and I are angel investors.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Today, we support four categories: house cleaning, dry cleaning – pickup and delivery, wash and fold – pickup and delivery, and dog walking. We haven’t had any capital to really test customer acquisition strategies. ML: Porter is a really simple consumer app, a one-stop shop for booking your recurring in-home services.

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Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2010

Define criteria for judging – I find that many people I know go into interviews without thinking about what is important to them first. In fact, many people just go into interviews and “wing it.&# If that’s you then vow never to do it again. and then sub categories underneath. BEFORE YOU START.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

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