socalTECH

JULY 8, 2010

HauteLook, one of the first firms to capitalize on the sample/private sales market, is already profitable and is growing rapidly. The firm is headed by Adam Bernhard , a veteran of the fashion sales industry. Backers: ACME Group, Google, Idealab, NRG, Oak Investment Partners, The Quercus Trust of California.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

I think that’s the beauty of both capitalism and innovation. Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! What if Google had paid attention to Dodgeball – would there be no FourSquare today? That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails. So which is it? Feast or famine?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital. How does this work? The majority of our time is now spent online.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The process for raising money from a VC is a sales process and as such much of what is taught in enterprise sales can be applied. While this post is written about raising venture capital (which I always remind entrepreneurs IS a sales process) the lessons can be applied to any sale or biz dev deal.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

For instance, if you anticipate that your venture will require $10 million of investor capital over its life, an exit below $50 million is unlikely to be acceptable target to most VCs. Avoid too much specificity, as you may risk sounding like yet another startup that is, “Waiting For Google.” Avoid stating a specific exit value.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

People were not just going to Google, they were looking all over the place. So, by pushing these job opportunities quickly to people, through a text, or email, as they occur, they have the opportunity to take their resume and quickly go to the top of the pile. You've got to have great sales enablement.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Cloud Capital--has managed to coax those equipment rental yards into the digital age, and how the company has tackled other challenges in focusing its business. They were putting online advertisements through Google Ads to solicit people to rent equipment, who could not figure it out on their own. Cloud Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” According to FLAG Capital there are 100 active VCs (as defined by making at least $1 million in VC per quarter for 4 consecutive quarters). The industry is dying, except for the top 2%.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 29, 2012

For instance, if you anticipate that your venture will require $10 million of investor capital over its life, an exit below $50 million is unlikely to be acceptable target to most VCs. Avoid too much specificity, as you may risk sounding like yet another startup that is, “Waiting For Google.” Avoid stating a specific exit value.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one, including the engineers who work on Google’s constantly evolving search algorithms, fully understands how to reliably and consistently boost search results via artificial means. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I was excited to read it because Robert Cialdini had been a speaker at Google when my wife worked there and she told me that many members of the senior management team at Google had been raving about his work. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice. I decided not to be bothered by the cheesy title and to read it anyhow.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. On top of that, we allow users to comment and read other comments, and email other users within the system.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 60,000 members around the world. With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

1 of a product up and running in a few months weeks getting thousands of users for next to no capital, in Los Angeles many folks will take over a year and spend a million dollars just to get a beta product ready. Loosing talent is a HUGE problem and the reason why Google will give big bonuses and cash to keep their teams in tact.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. After the sales meetings I would ask the exec afterward, “how do you think it went?&# We used to do this in our sales slides.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

You can post TechZulu content directly to Facebook, Twitter, email or IM. If you look to the bottom of your browser you will see to the far right the ability to connect to Facebook, AIM, Google Talk and other chat networks. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google. Also, with the meebo bar comes meebo chat.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. Let me be very direct. That is how great businesses are built.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Here are three of the largest flocks: Angel Capital Association (ACA). This is a series of templated websites for matching angel investors seeking investment opportunities with entrepreneurs seeking capital. I’ll come back to that later.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google. How Quigo Went Head-to-Head With Google. How is that unique?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The firm is co-founded by Jake Steinfeld, of Body by Jake, and ExerciseTV, and has received investment from prolific angel investor Ron Conway and Polar Capital, the investment firm of former Google President Tim Armstrong. The other founding investors are Ron Conway, who you know, and Polar Capital Group, Tim Armstrong fund.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. Adam Bernhard: We're a platform that does flash sales. Adam, thanks for the time. We work on behalf of brands, as a web site that has a membership base of over 2.5

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit. I don't have a long sales cycle, because I'm talking to people who have already chosen Jetty. Where does Webtide fit into the software world? It's extremely widely used.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Why buy me?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

Given the limited nature of how many people you’ll approach (ie not that many) I actually just do these in Google Sheets. I literally have a Google Sheet for nearly every portfolio company who is in the process of raising a round. All of this, of course, is Sales 101. No matter how tempting it is. So best to be humble.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

Fine Art America handles all of the details of fulfilling sales for images. our marketplace, you go to Fine Art America, join, and you get an online profile, much like a Facebook or Google Plus. You hit submit, and your images are instantly available for sale as prints on our website. from photographers and artists.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and others have had to raise tons of capital and have super-solid foundations to go with the hyper-local play. How did you connect with Kevin and ScOps Venture Capital, and why did you decide to raise a round?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. Type “personal financial management&# into Google. They achieved all of this before they raised even a penny of venture capital.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

When tickets went on sale over a month ago, we expected the regular ticket sales cycle, however we were more than surprised when Startup Weekend LA sold out in 6 hours! From your core first hires and building a board of advisors to raising angel and seed capital, team and community makes a world of difference. is also hiring.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The startup is backed by Morpheus Ventures, NextEquity Partners, Visa, and March Capital. We tie into the point-of-sale systems, so we can track every campaign and purchase, and provide powerful offline data for these brands. Amit Jain: What we do, is we have integrated with all of the major point-of-sale systems that retailers use.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Check Google , Yellow Pages , and local directories to ensure your business name is not taken. Find sources of capital— friends & family, business bank loans , angel investment , venture capital or even crowdfunding ( Crowdfunder , Fundable ). Pick an internal email system ( Gmail , Outlook ). Recommended.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

After recent announcements by Google and Apple, the mobile advertising ecosystem is abuzz with optimism and flush with venture capital. Moderator: Vince Thompson, Managing Partner, Middleshift LLC Speakers: Carrie Coffee, Mobile Sales Specialist, Mobile Advertising, Microsoft Evan Neufeld, VP Marketing, GROUNDTRUTH.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

The firm announced a funding round last week, from DFJ Frontier, DFJ JAIC, Gold Hill Capital, and angel investors Gil Elbaz (Factual), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), and Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners), and many others. For the first time, that social media activity is actually taking place at the point of sale. Rob Reed: Exactly.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

In contrast, TaxJar, a SaaS solution which makes automates online sales tax calculations, reporting and filings, is an entirely virtual company. He then joined Picasa and was instrumental in its acquisition by Google. No venture capital.”. Some companies allow employees to work remotely one day a week or on an ad hoc basis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 19, 2016

The round is led by Subtraction Capital, and includes investments from PayPal co­founder Peter Thiel , Indicator Ventures, and venture debt lender Western Technology Investment (WTI). Investing in Caplinked was an easy decision for us,” explained Subtraction Capital General Partner Jason Portnoy. You’ll have to share sensitive data.

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