socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. The firm just announced that new fund, and a new name, Upfront Ventures (www.upfront.com). Tell us about the new fund?

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Funding Venture Capital Los Angeles Social Media 196

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 23, 2009

Thursday, January 29, 2009 -- "Accessing Government Funding for Research: Partnering for Success in Challenging Economic Times" Southern California Biomedical Council. Such grants offer non-dilutive funding, confer validation from peers, and provide invaluable feedback from experts. Numerous U.S. See [link] (more).

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Research Funding Southern California Writing 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 22, 2019

Thursday, March 28, 2019 -- Interested in meeting and pitching to early-stage Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists in Southern California? At our next event, the panel of Investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check!

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Los Angeles Venture Capital Angel Conference 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

So you need to do one and have it in your back pocket ready to whip out your presentation or your laptop at any moment and go through it in case you’re asked or in case you’re not building the rapport you hope to just verbally. Very few people fund individuals. It is also the best thing to send in advance see here.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. So how does this apply to you?

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. This morning's reflections are from Richard Wolpert , a longtime Southern California investor, and now author of The Soul Of A Deal ([link].

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Southern California News Class Writing 100

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then.

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Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2019

Minnie Ingersoll: I grew up here in Southern California, in Pasadena, and have been in the Bay Area for a number of years, and just became a new partner at TenOneTen Ventures. TenOneTen Ventures is an early stage, seed investor here in Southern California. Tell us a bit about yourself?

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Southern California Startup Layoffs Venture Capital 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. We've created over a billion dollars in public market capital created by our investments here.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We spoke with Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale , who are behind TYLT Labs, and who told us a bit about their new fund, its investment criteria, and where it sees the promise here.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 22, 2010

Thursday, January 28, 2010 -- Accessing Government Funding for Research. government agencies provide funds, such as SBIR and STTR grants, to small biotech and medical device firms in support of their RandD and commercialization activities. Numerous U.S. See https://www.123signup.com/register?id=jyvcp. 123signup.com/register?id=jyvcp.

Research 100

Research Funding Writing Conference 100

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

I helped them raise a few rounds of funding, ran their European operations. I've also worked with startups in Southern California, including TouchCommerce, and I was with them when they were on their first round of funding. Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

the Private Fund Transparency Act) and any other such legislative proposals that will, unnecessarily, impose new regulatory burdens on the venture capital industry whole-scale. I want to relay to you my deep concern regarding S.1276 1276 (a.k.a. I want to relay to you my deep concern regarding S.1276 1276 (a.k.a.

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Venture Capital Southern California Startup Writing 133

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 23, 2009

Thursday, January 29, 2009 -- SoCalBio Workshop on Accessing SBIR/STTR Funding for Research. Attend this workshop to sharpen your grant-writing skills and learn how to tap various government funding opportunities from such sources as the NIH, NSF, DoD and Energy Department, to support your RandD efforts. See [link] (more).

Research 100

Research Funding Writing 100

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I have been through many months with them but because of lack of funds, I spent lot of time doing non-technical work for first 4-5 months, spending time with them on putting pitches for investors, cash flows, budgets, writing business plans, product prototype setups etc. So … I have probably more questions than answers.

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CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach Equity 167

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. in Computer Science.

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CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective.

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Demand Media eHow Content 240

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

A number of Southern California angel investors, including Jody Mulkey , the CIO of Shopzilla, have backed Scripted.com , a new online marketplace for freelance writers.

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Angel CIO Southern California USC 173

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I have been through many months with them but because of lack of funds, I spent lot of time doing non-technical work for first 4-5 months, spending time with them on putting pitches for investors, cash flows, budgets, writing business plans, product prototype setups etc. So … I have probably more questions than answers.

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CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach Equity 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

We started this week’s show with a Q&A session where I answered viewer questions about fund raising and the VC industry. Heck, stick around and watch me discuss the seed funding debate that is going on right now and what is happening in the VC industry overall.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Southern California 210

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 15, 2010

Yet many would-be entrepreneurs feel that they don’t have enough access to investors and that the opportunity to present to a group will help them short circuit the fund raising process. In my next post I will write about one of the five companies. This can be true if it’s the right event, but most of these events suck.

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Angel Startup Tech Coast Angels MyShape 254

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. The company plans to give creators and influencers more independence from existing platforms by allowing them access to funding from a team well-versed in their unique capital needs. Naturally, these were also the first business to get funded. focused fund.

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

One of the challenges is simply timing: so many things have to happen at once for these projects to get off the ground, and most governors and mayors lack the timing skills required to get them over the finish line. Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. How can you practice timing? All appears well.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. Tags: SoCal Stuff.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’ve heard it many founders of VC backed companies in LA who tell me that in their NorCal VC meetings they are told, “we might be interested but we’d want you to relocate to the Bay Area if we funded you.&#. So can you really build a great tech firm outside of Silicon Valley? Let me use LA as an example. Los Angeles.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

This is stuff I tell people verbally at least twice / month so I’m glad to finally get it into written format. 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.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

CapLinked says the round of funding and new appointment are an advancement in their move to displace the legacy left by Virtual Data Room (VDR) with their intuitive new product for coordinating on complex business deals such as asset sales, financings, and mergers and acquisitions. 25 Years of Writing Code.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 3, 2018

At our next event the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing (VCs and Angel investors), and a fireside chat about ICO basics: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! ICOs raised a global record 6.7 billion dollars in 2018 alone according to ICOdata.com.

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Los Angeles Angel Venture Capital Writing 100

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. In 2000, we set up our second fund--worth almost $400M--and for that vintage year, that fund is one of the top tier performing funds in the entire country.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. I didn’t want to write it because the bloggosphere doesn’t always do nuance well. So why I am writing it then? Most VCs fund companies with a degree of traction.

Venture Capital 267

Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I left there in 2010, and starting looking at the electric vehicle market, what Southern California Edison was planning, saw these charging networks, and how all of this was planned to be an intelligence network. We understand you have some funding? Neal Roche: I worked the trail of angel investors around Southern California.

Help 178

Help Startup San Fernando Southern California 178

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Dave’s Note: William Fisher is CEO of Quicksilver Software, a software and Internet game development company in Southern California. Bill has survived multiple cycles in the game industry, and writes here his thoughts about his longevity in a volatile niche. Guest Post by William Fisher. Fourth is embracing change.

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Offshore Examples Southern California Email 189

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Last week, the University of Southern California 's Viterbi School of Engineering announced that it had established a new, business plan competition, the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition ([link] specifically aimed at students in the engineering school. Now, I run a hedge fund and finance firm in Southern California.

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Competition Southern California Mentor USC 154

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 11, 2013

You can then convert the funded research project into commercial business opportunities. Attend this workshop to learn how to write successful proposals to any of the 11 government agencies that run Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs.

Research 124

Research Writing Technology Funding 124

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. You are self funded too, we recall. Gary Bishop: Yes, we're a self funded company, which was founded in 2004. The technology has just exploded.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I had my own list on my iPhone, writing down what I wanted to watch, and where those shows are. Joey is a longtime entrepreneur and friend, and we've almost worked together a number of times over the years, and it happened he was selling his adtech company while we were in Southern Arizona together in 2019, and he asked me what I was up to.

Startup 113

Startup Netflix Ideas Content 113

socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

How it is you were at Etsy, and ended up here in Southern California? So, you have to assume that bugs exist, and that attackers are going to try to attack your applications, so you have to be reactive to those actual attackers, rather than just assuming they are not getting in because you've fixed all your bugs.

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Web Startup Southern California Software 138