socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Vision To Reality Program for Emerging Tech Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies.

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Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

If you're FreedomPop , the Encino-based startup, you start by offering up free 4G wireless data access, and then expand to offer free, voice-over-IP services, along with home-based wireless Internet services. Both companies actually view what we're doing in the same way they viewed Skype, in that what Skype did for voice we're doing for data.

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. We caught up with Catalog's co-founder and CEO Patrick Ip , along with co-founder Jacobo Lumbreras , to learn more about the startup. Even if the price per deal might be lower, they have a greater amount of them, and more predictability of projects.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. Internet scale.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

As I’m generally a believer in ‘pricing rounds’ I initially didn’t agree with the premise of the post. Investors who commit early deserve to have a lower price. He first worked hard to get him to be an advisor to the company. Another mechanism is “convertible debt with a cap&# (max price).

Venture Capital 286

Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review Startup 286

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital? A bank can help you balance fund raising with running your company.

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Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Help 242

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

” Today I want to talk about how a VC thinks about equity pricing on your round and particularly if you’re coming off of a convertible note. Pre-money ($8m) + investment ($2m) = Post-money ($10m) and the investors now own 20% of your company $2m / $10m. How much am I willing to invest in your company?

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Pricing Startup Invest 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Dave Compton: NetPlenish is the first price replenishment search engine. How NetPlenish is different from any other website for pricing, is let's say that with the dog food- Alpo dog food--it will pull up who is lowest. We're filing a lot of IP, and this repetitive search thing is big for us. What is NetPlenish?

Compton 138

Compton Ventura Startup IP 138

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#. You own the IP you create.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Just ask former big brand companies, like Blockbuster, Kodak, Lehman Brothers, and Sears, what happened to them. Rather than enhancing the offering you have, develop and offer new products that capitalize on the customers that you already know well. Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings.

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Examples IP Acquisition Social Media 99

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. For a company like us, it's really worked out well. What is TrackStreet?

Artificial Inteligence 140

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. Theyre like companies in the US like and ATT or Verizon, or an Orange in France, or others in Poland and Russia and other countries. Whats the relationship of this company to Gary Winnick?

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2013

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Employees stop innovating.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 105

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Employees stop innovating.

Startup 100

Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2015

In fact, there are several types of valuations and they come into play at different times in a company’s lifecycle. For example, there are the private company valuation figures that get bandied about: think the numbers people reference for Uber and AirBnB for example. Business valuations = the price of the company.

IP 40

IP Equity Examples Guide 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. Clearly the founders and senior executives of a company are the most valuable resources and their time should be maximized on the most valuable tasks. Budgeting & Planning.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Metrics Startup Sales 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2011

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Employees stop innovating.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Slides IP Technology 95

Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

As is typically the case in any industry, but even more so in security, larger companies with established customers and products typically innovate more slowly than startups that are not encumbered by a legacy business. More than any other IT segment, compelling technology and defensible IP are a critical piece of any security solution.

Symantec 40

Symantec IBM IBM Acquisition 40

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2010

Jerry Fitch: The business management team at Golden Gate Capital bought Teridian in 2005. That's why Maxim came in to acquire the company, because they looked at the opportunity and saw the business growing significantly, and also the ability to grow even faster under their much larger umbrella. Thanks for the time.

Equity 124

Equity San Diego Startup Activity 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2010

Once they see you have developed credible traction, they can grab your space with less cost (meaning lower price) than you had to put into developing it. Don’t count on your IP to save you. Your mindset is your emotional capital, bolstered by disciplined optimism and entrepreneurial independence. Employees stop innovating.

Startup 57

Startup Slides Entrepreneur IP 57

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Pricing and revenue? Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Generally, 2-3 reports are good enough to start, but ultimately you’ll probably track dozens of dashboards each focusing on specific aspects of your business like.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

He taught me, amongst other things, the benefit of “ top down thinking &# that changed the way I analyzed markets, companies and people. Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses.

Technical Review 302

Technical Review Marketing IP Outsource Development 302

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

For a combination of reasons I didn’t end up talking with the CEO in time and the company quickly became over subscribed. It is probably the right thing for the stage of company. Not everybody agrees that entrepreneurs should take investor meetings outside of “funding season&# when they’re raising capital.

Startup 360

Startup Venture Capital Invest Slides 360

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’ve always been a big believer that just a couple of key individuals make all of the difference in a company’s success. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. Patron Companies. The ingredients are all here.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. Many companies that were in the process of raising money did not. I was resolute.

Venture Capital 301

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Technical Advisors 301