Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

According to Yahoo Finance , less than a third of crowdfunding campaigns currently reach their goals, and the rest have to return anything they do collect. Professional investors like to keep tight control of capitalization tables and all stock owners, to facilitate their own payoff when a sale, merger, or public stock offering is held.

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Equity Entrepreneur Statistics Funding 72

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

com) recently scored a round of funding from such notable investors as Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, the new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. There''s already an existing demand, which was created by Google. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com)

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Technology Google Commerce Southern California 216

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

With Yahoo!, Google, Hulu, Riot Games, Demand Media, and many other big name players residing in Silicon Beach, it is no small wonder why many tech startups flock towards the sunny beach-side view. Venture capital is also affected by the fragmented locations of startups in LA. Not enough money flows in LA.

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Report Orange County Startup West Los Angeles 104

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jeff Kupietzky: The notion is that there are now two primary upstream providers of search, Google and Yahoo. Yahoo, for the most part, is ceding to Microsoft and Bing. Frankly, most people don't have the capital and management depth to be able to scale up and take advantage of the economy of size.

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Oversee.net Yahoo Startup Google 207

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. .&# Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business. – the biggest Internet portals of the day. billion – not a bad result, hey?

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. I think that the market was, however, hotter two years ago, when companies were buying more aggressively, and there was lots of pent-up demand. Their only option is an IPO. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. Or your last boss from Google, Facebook or Yahoo! If you’re doing well you’ll have demand.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! Who can get help get access to their capital?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. Not to mention the great weather, beaches, and beautiful people.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Peter Csathy is CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a division of Manatt Digital Media, which offers innovative full-service business consulting and legal services, as well as venture capital. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! On Demand). Csathy was President and Chief Operating Officer of MusicMatch, Inc.,

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

As shown at left, Google’s initial go-to-market strategy included syndication of its search capabilities to third-party sites, including Yahoo and AOL. If the BDC demands the inclusion of one-sided terms, either reject them out-of-hand or accept them in bi-lateral form.

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Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 170

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

An example might be Demand Media, which as a ton of corporate portals and content sites, and would be an ideal target to target customers in global markets. From there, I left to start by first startup, Aphiniti, which raised capital but ended up undercapitalized and closed down. The last place I worked was at Yahoo.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

As shown at left, Google’s initial go-to-market strategy included syndication of its search capabilities to third-party sites, including Yahoo and AOL. If the BDC demands the inclusion of one-sided terms, either reject them out-of-hand or accept them in bi-lateral form.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 124

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Rick was a Partner with Pequot Ventures.

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Jetty is used in everything from Eclipse programming environments to a number of commercial application servers out there, to open source projects like Hadoop, the highly sponsored project from Yahoo which showed the fasting sorting of terabyte of random information recently. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). And what happened in L.A.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . The PepsiCo10 program in 2010 saw the company team up with Mashable and Highland Capital Partners to. Bonin Bough, PepsiCo.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

You have Demand Media here. You even got Yahoo! This all comes at the expense of access to capital, investors, and social circles that make it easier to fundraise. Since you have been in LA for a bit…what is your take on LA’s future in the startup world? JK: I think LA’s startup scene will have a number of rock star exits.

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Journal Startup Writing Media 90

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller. raise capital and move up north as soon as they got successful. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. NAME Facebook.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44