Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. An expanding customer base demands better support. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

Startup 106

Startup Pricing Cloud Computing Customer 106

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

According to statistics by Fundly , crowdfunding contributed $34 billion in funding last year around the world, including peer-to-peer lending. 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. by either angel groups or VCs alone.

Equity 72

Equity Entrepreneur Statistics Funding 72

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. An expanding customer base demands better support. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

Pricing 123

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 123

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo! who gladly offered to sponsor the event and provide the venue at Yahoo!’s YouTube and many others. ’s HQ in Burbank. We are expecting a full house! Isn’t social networking amazing?

Social Network 196

Social Network Networking Social Media Yahoo 196

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

Snapchat 74

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago. Steve Curry: I had been at Yahoo managing their storage operations. After I left Yahoo, I spent a couple of years with Forsythe Solutions Group, as a liaison with account executives. What drove you to start MetaCloud?

CIO 207

CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

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)

Technology 216

Technology Google Commerce Southern California 216

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

Startup 96

Startup Course Yahoo Funding 96

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. An expanding customer base demands better support. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

Startup 116

Startup Pricing Cloud Computing Customer 116

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

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. Because it is a “series&# I plan to get into some of the deeper complexities of funds such as “cross over funds&# and “why VC’s hate to price their own deals&# at a later stage.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Invest 265

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?” Solutions that may be viewed as “nice to have” or “satisfies a higher-level need” won’t get funded. Design a product or service that you can sell.

Snapchat 55

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements. Perhaps the best they can do is to help fund their successors. Or at least diversify the future fortunes of their shareholders in the way that Yahoo! earned handsomely from Google’s success.

Startup 376

Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

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.

Southern California 124

Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. An expanding customer base demands better support. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

Pricing 105

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 105

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

94 new startups have launched since January 2013 to June 2013 and the startup ecosystem has raised $500 million in funding in 2013 so far. 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.

Report 104

Report Orange County Startup West Los Angeles 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. An expanding customer base demands better support. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

Pricing 52

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 52

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.” He built & IPOd Demand Media.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is currently a Managing Director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund and sits on the boards of IMI Exchange, Xfire, Playsino, ExpressCoin, GoCoin, FGL, Spicy Horse Games, KnCMiner.cn, Robocoin China and the Mastercoin Foundation. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! On Demand).

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. In the last four years, we built Moviepilot.de, which is like Yahoo Movies or Netflix on steroids.

Startup 164

Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

When you look at the industry as a whole, there are couple of well-funded players. 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. The last place I worked was at Yahoo. How's the firm funded and financed?

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2013

Hike is a person to person messaging app and mobile portal which Yahoo Japan is interested in working with. BSB is a start-up funded by Bharti SoftBank led by Kavin Bharti Mittal. However, we’ve seen some tremendous traction in terms of demand and growth in the last couple of weeks since we went live. Who are its founders?

Competition 58

Competition Startup Yahoo Media 58

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. He runs the Southern California Venture Capital Alliance (VCA) and is on the board of advisors for the venture capital fund of the UCSD Rady School of Business. 1B+ Revenue.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

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.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

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. . Richard Rosenblatt. Dave McClure. . He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures.

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo!

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

TenHands is also a platform that others can use to deliver real-time communications in any browser-based application, from Enterprise Social and Collaboration Applications like Jive, Salesforce and Box to applications that are more oriented toward consumers such as Facebook (check out at https://apps.facebook.com/tenhands ) or Yahoo.

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

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! And when I say this I don’t mean they funded billion dollar companies – they literally created them. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. Shopping.com.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

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). My fund was an early investor in Overture.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. 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! That’s one model.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. 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. NAME Google.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Thanks in advance!

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Founded in Los Angeles by Latinos to address the growing demand for short-form online video for Millennials it is probably single-handedly improving the diversity of the tech industry as the employee base is overwhelmingly Latino and proud. AOL and the like. Of course anybody can produce Hispanic content.

Company 150

Company Companies Netflix Content 150