Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2014

He also had the clever idea of making my home screen banner on the blog be a visually stunning image from Los Angeles, my home. Finally, Kyle has promised to help me procure the equipment and figure out the process to relaunch my web series, This Week in Venture Capital under a different name. This Week in Venture Capital'

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2010

Santa Monica-based Jacked , a developer of second-screen, companion applications for TV broadcasts, has been acquired by Roundbox , a New Jersey-based developer of mobile broadcast software. Jacked was venture backed by Provenance Ventures, Core Capital Partners and Gabriel Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Santa Monica-based Jacked, a provider of second screen information for sports broadcasts, said Monday that the firm has inked a deal with the NBA. According to Jacked, it will provide an interactive, second screen companion to a number of NBA teams. The deal also will have participating NBA teams. READ MORE>>

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

John laid into a well-honed thesis on why the social web needed a “Page Rank” equivalent for people. I almost don’t want to tell you because I love the product and would love for them to stay under the radar screen from investors. 5:30 John: Brands with a proven track record are attracting capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2009

According to Topps and Total Immersion, interactive codes will be included with Topps 2009 baseball trading cards, which--when those cards are held up to a webcam--will allow baseball players to "magically" spring to life on screen. Total Immersion's technology projects interactive video and graphics, overlaid on top of live, web-cam images.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Among those involved in TheBlu are Andy Jones (Avatar), Joichi Ito (MIT Media Lab), Scott Yara (EMC/Greenplum), Yair Landau (MK Capital, formerly of Sony Pictures Entertainment), among others. Secondly, it's critical that we see the future of entertainment as being on the web, versus at the movie theater.

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Cloud Computing Web Entertainment Media 208

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Many “tech companies” now have green screens. The costs of building a company have gone down dramatically, from $5 million to get to launch in the late 90’s to $500,000 (or even lower) today for web companies. Spark Capital, Flybridge, Founder Collective, NextView Ventures … all in Boston or Cambridge not west of the city.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The top screen of the “tactile tablet” is peppered with small holes, through which a liquid-like substance rises up to form. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Carriers are certainly a big class of customer, and we also have content aggregators, who are aggregating games, news and information, mobile applications, and web sites. What happened with smart phones, is consumers are buying more and more applications, but a screen can only fit a dozen icons. We're really headed for three screens.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 28, 2018

To fix a broken screen on an iPhone, for example, a customer would pay $69, according to the Puls website. The 24/7 service operates. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are. Time will tell.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The idea was to feature early stage companies in the region that have not attracted much attention or raised a substantial amount of startup capital. I started with a list of companies already screened by the San Diego Venture Group’s annual venture summit, and consulted with investors and startup mentors to refine the list.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Do you screen all of the documents on the marketplace, or how does that work? Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content. We want to make sure the marketplace is for professional content, so we screen to make sure the seller is a professional or small business owner, or a startup or entrepreneur.

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Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

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. He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Either it’s a bunch of pictures or screen shots or it’s a bunch of words. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. was starting.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

in venture capital and publicly launched in May 2011. He also helped accelerate growth at Eventbrite, Socialcast, Webs, World Golf Tour, WordPress.com and Songkick in hands-on marketing advisory roles. In addition, he is on the board of directors for the Angel Capital Association, a national angel trade association.

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Orange County Miramar Startup Tech Coast Angels 106

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Mobile Web America, Inc. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

But I find that the more informed your board is and the more you’re staying on their radar screen the more effective they’ll be for you. If they need to dial in make sure they’re on a web conference and you can see them and vice versa. Of course it’s not required and many don’t do it. It happens. It is a HUGE MF distraction.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2014

To do that, we''ve help organize our members into subject matter areas, whether they know IT, or web stuff, or engineering, or manufacturing. We now have two person teams reaching out to applicant companies, after we do an early screening, weeding out those companies with no change of getting funding from our group.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

If you want to hear an entrepreneur talk about this topic listen to Farb Nivi tell the story of how he got Rob Lord to invest in Grockit and how that led to Reid Hoffman and in turn Benchmark Capital, Integral and Atlas – more than $15 million in total. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice. So what are you waiting for?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. InVenture is next stage microfinance – focusing on providing expansion capital. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

I always tell founders … “An investors job is to deploy capital and make a return. For simplicity I’ll assume you’ve raised some money from angels or seed investors and you’re either raising an A round or a B round of venture capital. even if it’s just a web conference call walk through. these are simply guidelines.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

It’s not because the statuesque pair wants to give Armie Hammer a run for his money on the silver screen. ” 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. .”

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Idealab also continues to partner with leading venture capital firms and other strategic investors to provide the resources to maximize the potential of these companies. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking. When using the Handjob app , users must shake the app up and down or side to side and out pops a pre-screened job applicant. All presentations were of extremely high quality and teams did a killer job.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Facebook was largely a web-based company and none of its revenues were generated on mobile, where many analysts were predicting it would be too hard to replicate the revenue potential of the larger real estate on desktop computers. Tact stated with a user-centric approach from Day 1. And of course we welcome Microsoft Ventures.

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Software Mobile Artificial Inteligence Oracle 105

Both Sides of the Table

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. It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing. Press the flesh.

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Through having communities center themselves around common interests (genre, artists, even outside interests like Minecraft) content would naturally be screened for relevancy. Building the development team came once they were ready to raise capital. ” Plug.DJ Strikes Chord s. Skill sets-wise, we were very different.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology. Clark Benson is the founder of Ranker , a consumer web startup that is a platform for ranking.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 10, 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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