Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 384

Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

A San Diego civil engineer who has developed an alternative technology for automating the measurement of water flow gave the best presentation at EvoNexus Fall Demo Day, an event that drew nearly 400 entrepreneurs, investors, and supporters late Thursday to Qualcomm’s corporate headquarters.

San Diego 40

San Diego Startup Orange County Artificial Inteligence 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. To get started, go to the International Business Innovation Association web site, and use the search tool provided to see what’s available in your area.

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Organization Incubator Startup Resource 92

SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

Of course, given the size of this list and having kids, I really can't attend a lot of these. So, if you happen to read this and want to meet me, just reach out directly.

Los Angeles 198

Los Angeles Southern California Angel Enterprise Forum 198

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. To get started, go to the International Business Innovation Association web site, and use the lookup tool provided to see what’s available in your area.

Resource 159

Resource Startup Incubator Seed Funding 159

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 176

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. This is a very common scenario when entrepreneurs pitch VCs and frankly is a very common scenario when VCs try to raise money from LPs. At night I had a group dinner where I met 6 new entrepreneurs and hung out with some old friends from law firms, banks and other VC funds. The dialog was great.

Software Review 381

Software Review Startup Email Conference 381

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We now invest in more companies, include better trainers and involve 3 times more investors in the demo days. Brian Mac Mahon is a serial entrepreneur and investor and has owned companies in over 35 countries. In addition we have extended our initial 8 week program to a 8 month program which is focused on, your guessed it, traction.I

Southern California 113

Southern California Technical Review Santa Monica Invest 113

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

FabFitFun also has been streaming live shows on its Facebook page; experimenting with subjects like sale previews, product showcases, and “Founder Chats” between its co-founder and editor-in-chief Katie Rosen Kitchens and various entrepreneurs. The new slate of live programming will run from Sept. 24 to Oct.

Los Angeles 114

Los Angeles Sales Commerce Networking 114

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 13, 2011

The LA AppShow brings together app developers to demo their newsworthy new apps and unrecognized app gems to a live audience with an exciting social backdrop. The events are also streamed live on the web via Ustream.tv (and archives are available to view online). Tuesday, April 19, 2011 -- LA AppShow.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Web Mobile Networking 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Web Summit. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. And there’s conferences.

Venture Capital 374

Venture Capital Invest Press Startup 374

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

However, demonstrating that value to clinicians without a DEMO or a pilot is a challenging aspect of the market adoption. Habra: Mobile Therapy spent the majority of the time leading up to the initial pitch competition perfecting our platform and ensuring that both the application and the Web dashboard is 100 percent rooted in real science.

Competition 123

Competition Mobile Startup Technical Review 123

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I wrote this on my flight home from f.ounders & web summit in Dublin, Ireland late last year. My trip was scheduled around the annual Web Summit and the f.ounders conference, both of which have become the hottest must-attend event in Europe and rivaling any great conference in the US. The Origins of Web Summit / f.ounders.

Conference 392

Conference Startup Web Truecar 392

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. We launched a Digital LA - Women series with four panels starring female founders, entrepreneurs, developers and PR, which will also continue into the new year.

Dollar Shave Club 272

Dollar Shave Club Technical Review Santa Monica Southern California 272

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

As an aspiring entrepreneur, one of the most important things you need is a memorable “ elevator pitch ,” to communicate your startup value proposition and leave a great first impression on friends, investors, employees, and future customers. For investors, an executive summary of your plan is appropriate.

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Sample Summary Startup Slides 127

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The program is set to begin June 30, concluding with an Investor Demo Day in September where each team will present their company to a room of industry leaders and investors. Also joining the team will be Yohei Nakajima , former academy program director at CoLoft, a popular co-working space for tech entrepreneurs in Santa Monica, California.

Entertainment 102

Entertainment Santa Monica Ideas Mentor 102

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

After some pre-game mingling, we began our evening with demos from companies that had been picked from months of company submissions. and web plug-in capabilities (Yelp), Storitz definitely gave the biggest eye opener of the evening with their revelation that Storage Units is astonishingly, a $20 billion/yr industry.

Technical Review 94

Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) The main reason that your advisors tell you to focus on your vertical, your age demo or your users favorite destination is that this is the obvious way to interest your user base. Here’s how you should think about your PR plan.

Blogging 309

Blogging Journal Press Startup 309

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

The web is so powerful today, that Croquet allows them to now create truly collaborative applications that could not be done before. Right now, we're a web-based solution, and we have additional game engine solutions going forward. Are Android and iOS then your competition? David Smith: Actually, we work on them.

Platform 168

Platform Startup Examples Web 168

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

One of the biggest complaints you hear from both entrepreneurs and investors in Los Angeles, is the lack of a credible, visible startup accelerator in the Los Angeles area. However, we think there are probably enough great companies and entrepreneurs in Southern California to full up the classes. Where did the name MuckerLab come from?

Technical Advisors 176

Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. with the clips.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

Remember, I was an entrepreneur for 10 years before a VC). Even though I got a “no” he helped me understand why I wasn’t a fit for him and that always set the bar for how I wanted to treat entrepreneurs?—?friendly, even if it’s just a web conference call walk through. Most entrepreneurs don’t put enough effort into these phases.

Venture Capital 332

Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2011

A mobile and web platform that lets our users give and receive text messaging advice in a anonymous social community. Then fellow Trojan Alex Banayan gave a talk about the three traits of success in an entrepreneur. Anyway, then came the REAL demo pitches and after the final one, judges were off to deliberate. Neighborly.

USC 82

USC Startup Tech Coast Angels Guide 82

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Investors Really Want Evidence of Traction So you built your MVP; you bring it to the investor; you demo it; and I will guarantee they will ask you: "So how many users do you have? You may have to build something out to show it working for someone to evaluate whether it really works better than what else exists.

Metrics 264

Metrics Venture Capital News Product 264

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. We’re a tool for hackers, designers, and entrepreneurs - effectively everyone who reads Hacker News. Hacker Downside.

News 198

News Sites Startup RSS 198

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year. A number of VC’s stopped by our booth or watched our demo on the DEMO website and we had about 5 proactive inquiries. The first VC I met with came from attending DEMO. After Office 2.0 Folksonomy.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

All that combined is what lead us to the amazing group of participating companies that follow: CapLinked lets entrepreneurs focus on what they do best, while making sure their investors always stay in the loop. Codeita is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based, web development environment. What: A Startup Demo event. to 11:00 p.m.

Company 106

Company Companies Web Evite 106

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. came to engineer and serial entrepreneur David Kaiser (Founder and CEO) in 2008 while surfing on his laptop while watching TV.

Screening 109

Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. was starting.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Last week I had two very contrasting presentations from entrepreneurs that gave me the idea for this post. Pitch 1: I had an awesome young entrepreneur come in this week to talk about his seed stage business. Pitch 2: This entrepreneur had a full house. A Tale of Two Pitches. It was a 1-on-1 meeting between the two of us.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Yahoo 288

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Valarm is an Android mobile app and integrated suite of web-based tools that will track almost anything via GPS, and remotely monitor almost any environment via built-in and external sensors. to create, market and sell an interactive cookbook as both an iPad App and web-based book. Spotlight Companies. digmybrand. based BakeSpace.com.

UCLA 97

UCLA Santa Monica Mobile Web 97

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Atlas Powered has raised $700k from Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, LaunchpadLA, and Clark Landry. . · YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 The company’s CEO, Brendon McQueen, graduated from Columbia with 12 loans that totaled over $120,000.

GRP Partners 96

GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Last Friday was the final deadline for all StartupDemo applications to be submitted and we are hard at work selecting the best Startups to Demo during the event. A co-working space based out of Santa Monica, CA, Coloft feels that Entrepreneurs are of a different breed; put them in a room together, and they are just that much more effective.

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Software Review Santa Monica Tech Coast Angels 58

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. Rannala said being an entrepreneur is all about figuring things out, getting hands dirty and executing cheaply. Some flew in from overseas, different states and from Silicon Valley to attend.

Class 100

Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. Start Engine offers a team of mentors who have proven themselves as successful entrepreneurs – not professional investors – ensuring that its startups are guided by the right people for the right reasons. RSVP: AGENDA.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

. “Let us come together and celebrate…” The mashup theme was reflected in the SBF programming, which included panels highlighting accelerators, VCs, startups, developers, movies, TV, music, web content, art, fashion, social good, surf & skate, and more. Demo Day / Angel Pitch. Tons of info and tons of fun!”

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67