From the Venture Trenches
APRIL 30, 2013
As a fourteen-year veteran of the venture industry I have often heard the phrase, “value added investors”, which is usually touted by certain VC’s as their biggest differentiating quality. Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
The group says that so far, from 2009 to 2011, it accepted 23 companies, of which 19 received funding worth a total of $80M; the accelerator said that the nine companies acquired exceeds $60M in proceeds. LaunchpadLA started initially as a mentoring group, but expanded into accelerating and investing in companies in the last few years.
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From the Venture Trenches
APRIL 30, 2013
As a fourteen-year veteran of the venture industry I have often heard the phrase, “value added investors”, which is usually touted by certain VC’s as their biggest differentiating quality. Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success.
Tech Zulu Event
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
The company’s CEO, Brendon McQueen, graduated from Columbia with 12 loans that totaled over $120,000. Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails.
Tech.Co
DECEMBER 15, 2017
The largest VC backed companies in this space have raised several hundreds of millions in funding to help expand their global footprint. While young people are definitely the dominant demographic in shared office spaces, the ecosystem of people, companies, and industries is actually becoming incredibly diverse. .
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 21, 2010
When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Many people start companies arse backwards. Our lives are intertwined. Good people and evil people.
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 13, 2010
Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. After starting three companies, I've found that some widely accepted advice lead me to failure while. You work in (or run) a services company. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. Intrapreneurship: Embracing Disruptive Innovation Within Your Company.
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