TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S. Fables of the reconstruction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product. You should never outsource the management of your core technology.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2019

Los Angeles-based Elevate Services , a developer of enterprise, legal management software, has received $25M in an investment round, from private equity investor Kayne Partners, according to the two companies. Elevate said it will use the new, minority investment to scale its operations and to enhance its software.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2020

El Segundo, California- and Austin, Texas-based Slingshot Aerospace said this morning that it has received $2M in funding to go towards developing of a new, space training simulation tool for the U.S. Space Force.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

I like their recommended framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Building through internal development, or organic growth, makes the most sense when you have a core set of skilled internal resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. You will make mistakes.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Software development companies tackling services for niche industries, like commercial real estate subcontracting, continue to find Los Angeles to be fertile ground for development. The latest company to raise funding from a clutch of investors is BuildOps , which raised $5.8 Co-founded by former ServiceTitan devel. ”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

As a startup investor, I often see business proposals looking for funding that really look like expensive hobbies looking for donations. I still see entrepreneurs who spend money and time for months on a new business idea without any separation of personal and business funds, and any formal accounting system for their new business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. That’s why investors say they invest in people (bet on the jockey, not the horse), rather than the idea. The operations superstar.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures). For starters we’re an LA-based venture fund who invests nationally (and sometimes internationally, but less so). But some of our largest investments have come from all across the country: BillMeLater (Baltimore, $1 billion eBay), DealerTrack (NYC, $1.3

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product. You should never outsource the management of your core technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. Equity investing is very risky, but huge returns are possible if you pick the next Facebook, but failure means your entire investment is lost.

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2013

It all looked good at the time: oil company Exxon needed to develop a more earth-friendly way to produce oil, and San Diego startup Synthetic Genomics needed funding to get its technology off the ground. But then, ExxonMobil cut back its original investment--worth up to $600M--in Synthetic Genomics. What happened? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It provided an industry-leading graphic development interface, but was not so strong on modeling and simulation. As a result, we shared in capturing a new high-end market, without major new marketing or development. Good strategic partnerships often lead to strategic investments, or great acquisition relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. You will make mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs the last couple of years is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Good-cause crowd funding. People can invest (donate) money to a project which has good moral/ethical value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs these days is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. This new model will allow large numbers of “regular” people to invest small amounts each online to fund early startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. That’s why investors say they invest in people (bet on the jockey, not the horse), rather than the idea. The operations superstar.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2014

While not investing in certain areas may seem like a good idea in the short-term, not spending enough on key elements could shortchange your business, leading not only to headaches but requiring expensive fixes down the road. Here are some areas where it pays to make the necessary investments to get it right the first time: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product. Target income and expense by year, including funding.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I. He’s one of the founding members of AI Global , an initiative with the goal of promoting responsible development and deployment of A.I. technologies.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

which provides game development and outsourcing, is investing $3.5M studio in Suzhou, China, and invest the remaining $2.0M UltiZen provides outsourcing and development of video games, and has its U.S. UltiZen provides outsourcing and development of video games, and has its U.S. READ MORE>>

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Using its proprietary printing technology, Relativity says it can slash the time it takes to develop a rocket from design to launch by up to two years. “Our entire investment strategy is to invest at the inflection points where things cross over from froniter to mainstream investments,” says Knauf.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

As a startup investor, I often see business proposals looking for funding that really look like expensive hobbies looking for donations. I still see entrepreneurs who spend money and time for months on a new business idea without any separation of personal and business funds, and any formal accounting system for their new business.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

If you thought youve exhausted all sources of funding and investment for your business, think again. If your company is positioned in a science, technology, or education field, you may be well poised for a government grant to validate your idea, develop your product, and grow your business. Can Help You Grow Your Business.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

The financing includes both new investment funding and a conversion of debt to equity, according to a notation in the filing. Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

It's a story you hear too many times: a venture or angel funded firm just can't figure out its business, runs low on cash, can't get another round of funding, and soon all that's left is a few chairs and servers. In addition, the investors decided they were just tired of their investment, and wanted to move on.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I am fond of quoting that about 70% of my investment decision of an early-stage company is the team. My rationale is simple: everything goes wrong and only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. Final startup grind from msuster. figure out roles. and so forth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product. You should never outsource the management of your core technology.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

And, many of the presenting companies received sizable funding commitments and offers of ongoing help. One of the promising companies that participated in Startup Boosts Fall 2018 cohort  Lawgood (link: [link]  uses AI as part of their service to provide review and authorship of legal contracts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. You will make mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For example, many investors I know tell me they look for business plans that allocate the largest portion of a requested investment to marketing, but most often see the top “ use of funds ” to be further product or service development. Always test the relationship before signing a contract.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

In reality, it doesn’t take a huge investment of money and time to build a prototype today. With a realistic prototype, you can get more accurate feedback from customers on their real need and what they might pay, before you invest millions on the final product. You should never outsource the management of your core technology.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Startup Ideas Tool 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. You will make mistakes.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, you must first create the playbook by which an independent sales rep can readily sell your product, including: identifying objections and developing strategies to overcome them, creating reference accounts and establishing meaningful customer adoption. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Every school recognizes the power of “hands-on” work to help you develop your own ideas into a business. Universities have the links you need to patent attorneys, prototyping companies, investment groups, as well as a wealth of peer talent to round out your team and share the work. Take advantage of free startup programs and mentors.

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