socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2015

utilities, plus an expansion of its sales team. PingThings is led by Rich Sootkoos, and came out of the Frost I3 Industrial internet incubator. pingthings venture capital predictive intelligence software electric utility' PingThings said the funding will go towards initial deployment of its product at major U.S.

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Funding Incubator Venture Capital Software 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Join a startup incubator. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary. Only one-third make it past their tenth anniversary.

Startup 136

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 136

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If you are looking for money, this question will certainly come up in one form or another when you approach professional or organized angel or VC investors. Would you, as an investor, plow money into the plan and help to incubate the idea into a real enterprise? A more complex answer. Sometimes there’s a real surprise after the fact.

Venture Capital 120

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Ideas Summary 120

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If you are looking for money, this question will certainly come up in one form or another when you approach professional or organized angel or VC investors. Would you, as an investor, plow money into the plan and help to incubate the idea into a real enterprise? A more complex answer. Sometimes there’s a real surprise after the fact.

Venture Capital 120

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Ideas Summary 120

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2007

I've been reading or hearing quite a bit about how startups these days don't take nearly as much capital to create as they used to. If that's actually true, then it creates New Rules Of Technology VC. What used to cost $1M now takes $100K. Just as they always have. Hopefully, they know some Angels personally.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Startup Incubator Networking 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

-Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Spread through word-of-mouth as the company has no sales team, all engineers. a fbFund winner.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

MuckerLab has been fairly successful in attracting venture capital interest in its prior class of companies, with a significant chunk of the group's inagural class gaining venture or angel funding. MuckerLab's model is based on the TechStars incubation model, and the group is an affiliate of that startup accelerator.

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Class Startup Incubator Los Angeles 159

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. This article originally ran on PEHub.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Would you, as an investor, plow money into the plan and help to incubate the idea into a real enterprise? Other times, the entrepreneur went on to assemble a great team and execute the plan as it inevitably changed again and again. I would not, nor would most all of those I co-invest with.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Summary Incubator 240

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Join a startup incubator. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary. Only one-third make it past their tenth anniversary.

Startup 128

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 128

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

Tips 104

Tips Startup Technical Review Equity 104

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

DataPop's product also creates landing pages, geo-targets offers, and uses pricing details, sales and promotions, product specs, and retail location information to tune those search marketing ads. DataPop is one of the companies in LaunchpadLA, the business mentoring and incubation effort being spearheaded by GRP Partners' Mark Suster.

Yahoo 145

Yahoo Paid Search GRP Partners SoCalTech 145

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

Content 175

Content Startup Social Media IP 175

Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. We started the incubator with the idea of helping people with ideas, and making some investments,” he said. Instead of stepping back, they both leaned in.

San Diego 67

San Diego CIO Incubator Startup 67

Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 22, 2010

Once you have some skin in the game, if you personally can’t get to some level of revenues in the business, or at a minimum, pre-sales or letters of intent, then on to round two – asking family and friends for help. Angel Investors & Venture Capital. Looking forward to launching our new LA incubator soon!

Startup 124

Startup Tech Coast Angels TCVN Incubator 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

Startup 87

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 87

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

According to a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. Join a startup incubator. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Equity 105

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with 90% of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. Join a startup incubator. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

Startup 123

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 123

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don''t attract investors failing within the first three years. Join a startup incubator. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Funding Startup Technical Review 113

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Influence’s Robertson tells us venture capitalists were initially uncertain of his latest startup despite his track record, which includes the sale of multiple software businesses, including the affiliate marketing company VigLink. “We Another company, Tribe , has similarly raised VC to grow its American footprint.

Platform 170

Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Venture capital. Partner with distributor or beneficiary.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Equity Incubator Venture Capital 103

Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Aha makes a program that helps project managers develop new product roadmaps, which are used by others in the customer’s business, from sales. Founded in 2013 by de Haaff and Chris Waters in the Bay Area, the company announced in July it had surpassed $40 million in annual recurring revenue from the subscribers to its software-as-a-service.

Sales 100

Sales Software Services Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Join a startup incubator. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary. Only one-third make it past their tenth anniversary.

Startup 53

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 53

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC. Talking about whether to raise more money or not, their VC allegedly said to them: “If you had more capital, could you get to the future faster? I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. He was tech.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

Develop 70

Develop Development Product Startup 70

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Venture capital. Partner with distributor or beneficiary.

Startup 93

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 93

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization music, Revenue, Sales. .

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Thomas Flake, Founder of PTI Incubator & Founder of bcause. In addition to that, Tom works with the National Institute of Aerospace and proposed the creation and funding of a small business incubator (Peninsula Technology Incubator or PTI). Mateusz (Mat) Kaliski, Associate at Rubicon Venture Capital.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. According to Shayne, only 1 out of 1000 business plans might get VC funding. His best advice: take capital where you can get it. VCs (invest other people’s money by raising funds from institutional sources). Venture debt.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Equity Funding 40

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. The way sales are handled is as old as the 1930's securities laws.

Startup 124

Startup Zag Venture Capital Equity 124

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Working for a VC firms seemed like a good option but didn’t feel right. Amidst the search she found her way working with NYC based incubator Techstars as an associate. Amanda talks a bit about life working for an incubator. She wanted to get involved, which led her to startups. From Techstars to Karma.

Outsource Development 108

Outsource Development Startup Incubator Press 108

socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2010

It's not a revenue multiple sale. EMC said--Kazeon is the most profitable part of the sale, so I want to own it. Sumant Mandal: First of all, you know our heritage is as an incubator. Clearstone itself was an incubated entity, out of Idealab, it was Idealab Capital. We were the Series A in there.

Clearstone 140

Clearstone Idealab Incubator Invest 140

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

It''s much like a sales team might use software to find leads. Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. We''re enabling those coaches to connect to one another and find athletes. We thought--there has got to be another way.

Coach 252

Coach USC Statistics Startup 252

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Market Size. But you should.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Venture capital. Partner with beneficiary company.

Funding 59

Funding Startup Technical Review Equity 59

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. There will be plenty of FREE Pizza and drinks!

Tech Coast Angels 105

Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. Babak Razi – Founder of Third Waves Ventures, innovator and supporter of emerging high technologies. How do VC’s actually know when an emerging technology is going to be promising?

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95