From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify Mentor Panel in full swing. Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Like good mentors Paul, Jeff, Richard, Oded and David as well as Chris and Kris create an atmosphere in which the motivated founders can take advantage of the knowledge base to which they are exposed. Setting up for Eric Garcetti.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

They have hired great people, have brought on great mentors, have raised money from top tier investors, and we are excited for a bunch of big announcements in the months ahead,” said Teller. Atlas Powered has raised $700k from Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, LaunchpadLA, and Clark Landry.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. Bill founded Idealab to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. Still though, when founders are seeking funding, “ 75 percent of the venture capital goes to three states: Massachusetts, New York, and California,” said Steve Case in an interview with Recode. Pipeline Angels (National Network).

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. With 10,000 square feet designed to inspire innovation, Amplify LA is the ultimate start-up accelerator and entrepreneurial campus — all to bring together the brightest, most enthusiastic technology minds into an environment that provides solutions, support, and collaboration.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

At least that’s what everyone would have you believe, but Marie Forleo who describes herself as ”part business strategist, part marketing maven and part spiritual ass-kicker with a side of hip-hop swagger” has captured the hearts and minds of professional women through her Rich, Happy and Hot web series and business.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. This was the first in her string of web properties. Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. InVenture is next stage microfinance – focusing on providing expansion capital. The Coloft is a space for entrepreneurs, independents, startups, programmers, designers, professionals, and awesome people in general.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. At the tender age of 15, Tanz teamed up with his friend Michael Schneider (the CEO of MobileRoadie ), to create the design firm Fluid Design. million dollars from some of the biggest funds (First Round Capital, NEA and GRP), is precisely because they solved such a huge problem.

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Mark is also currently a Partner at T5 Capital , a venture capital firm focused on investing in early stage innovative and disruptive technology companies. Do you have any mentors that have been an integral part of your success? When things get tough, what keeps you going? What are some of your tricks? Who inspires you?

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Startup Mobile Platform Ideas 82

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Bill founded Idealab to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet. In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. Bill received his B.S. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

CODA Automotive is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Monica, California that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles and lithium-ion battery systems purpose-built for transportation and utility applications. We have helped many other startups through our carefully designed investment model.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. In the past, Dinesh served as President of Skyy Consulting Inc.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

We launched with a web app, so we are only web-based. One guy was a designer, two guys were Ruby engineers, and I included – not an engineer. We haven’t had any capital to really test customer acquisition strategies. It gives us and other companies that are design forward a little bit of an edge. ML: I do.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What options do we have? How do we balance those options?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. It’s a community and work space focused on empowering entrepreneurs, startups, freelancers, programmers, designers, professionals, and all awesome people in general. In the past, Dinesh served as President of Skyy Consulting Inc.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Providing more than just money, TCA brings connections, knowledge, mentoring and operational assistance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas. Moving beyond the Internet, we have spawned companies with breakthrough technologies in robotics, renewable energy and automotive design and production among others.

Tsavo 76

Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

.” The new mansion will reportedly be inhabited mostly by Tyler, who will use it as his home base while launching West Coast operations of the brothers’ new NYC-based venture capital firm , Winklevoss Capital. Dial-A-Mentor Service Clarity Talks Stats: 12K Calls Across Nearly 50 Countries [TCTV].

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SoCal Southern California Startup Tips 77

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly Also we would like to thank our global sponsors: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Ven Corps, Twilio, Vertical Response, oDesk, Elance and OpenTok.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

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. Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. I have met dozens of brilliant technologists with fantastic ideas, ideas requiring nurturing, mentoring and support. Seek advice from a mentor.

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CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Mentor 28

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Good Design = Beautiful/Cool Design.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. ► July (1) ► June (3) ► May (5) the Rubicon Project The Journey Startup 6.0: Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0:

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Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Startup 40

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I’ve always wondered if there was some way that I could quickly deduce a new entrepreneur’s “sweet spot,” and optimize my mentoring to those strengths and weaknesses, maybe similar to the Myers-Briggs type indicator for business professionals. Picture the graphic designer, the IT expert, or the independent accountant or attorney.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Mentor Framework Web 96

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Here’s why. Take a look at the chart below.

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