Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. Lean startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

In any case, what we have, is a product that basically patterns itself on the Amazon Web Services platform and API, and stays compatible with Amazon, which allows the management of virtualizes resources so that they can be operated as a cloud platform. earlier this year, and then got it funded, raising about $5.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. The incubation period is very short and intense, usually intending to drive entrepreneurs from ideas to marketable products in a matter of months.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. Like any entrepreneur, we had the idea that there should be local capital, supporting the local ecosystem. in initial seed funding for an early stage company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. But don’t expect incubators to magically convert your pre-hatched idea into a successful company.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with helping build Huddlewoo, Ferres is building a web marketing agency called Ciplex and also runs a company called Creative Priority that helps web marketing companies become more successful. This challenge grew into the idea that became Huddlewoo. Any funding yet? Ferres and his team moved to Arizona.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2009

The original idea behind Club Cooee came from the notion that instant messaging hasn't changed significantly since its inception. The client installs at just 3MB, but the downside is currently that the service does not support incoming text messages or Web interfaces. We'd like to see these options added in the future.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Right from the beginning, we also partnered with a young web development agency for development and technical consulting – they are now more than business partners, they are friends and part of the team. Any funding yet? They add brain, ideas, friendship and encouragement to the project! What inspired them to find it?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Accelerator programs--like YCombinator in Silicon Valley, and TechStars in Colorado--have come to the forefront of the minds of entrepreneurs as a way to boost their ideas quickly into the market, find funding, and into existence. We're providing seed funding, office space, and put them through a three month, structured program.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

But these features could benefit any creator who can profit from answering followers’ specific questions — a chef could offer recipe ideas based on what’s in a fan’s fridge, or a life coach could make a personalized video if a follower requests advice. With its $5.5

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. Index Seed : Index Ventures carves out seed fund from existing $400mm fund. We had a nice debate. Other News: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. I’ll make my next posting shorter.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today we’re online 3.1

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

So far at the company I have raised seed funds of $500,000 of which $470,000 is still in the bank so I’m in pretty good shape. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. It is usual for the partners to stroll in 20 minutes after your appointment so at best you have 40. Folksonomy.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

It's not all that often that you hear of a local startup being acquired after only raising less than $1M in funding, because the company was growing so fast, rather than because an idea didn't pan out. Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps. Keith Bonnici: No!

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. I setup a nice little home office for myself and started dabbling with a few ideas. I started dabbling with a few ideas around online advertising, search engines and other random projects. Startup 3.0:

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

What if someone copies your awesome business idea? No, the question is: What are doing now knowing that a big company will copy your idea? Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). How can I answer this question?

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