Tech.Co

JUNE 1, 2017

However, federal laws still remain staunchly opposed to legal cannabis and there are more than enough politicians looking to keep cannabis from making an appearance in the market. Take a look at our interview below and decide whether or not you want to invest in cannabis. So as an investor, what do you do? The Ground Floor.

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MARCH 6, 2015

I began asking around who the likely investors were for such a market. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Len Short is truly an online marketing pioneer, heading up marketing at Charles Schwab, AOL and then (PRODUCT)RED. Before his career moved online, Len worked on major marketing campaigns for credit card companies and rolled out MCI’s highly successful “Friends and Family” marketing campaign.

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2017

We are also launching beverages and coffee, two new categories, next month. With brands today, as you probably know, every consumer category is being massively disrupted by the long tail. Additionally, we're very sales and marketing driven. The problem is that there's no access. There's no access, for two reasons.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Entity’s sweet spot is a bifurcated one, Schwab said in an interview. Women in both categories are coming to Entity because they would like to consider tech jobs or more technical promotions, but have found their expertise lacking to do so. Thankfully, now that appears to be changing.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). All of this has fundamentally changed the efficiency of the market, with prices anywhere from fifty to seventy-five percent lower. com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. Brett Rossman: ConsumerTrack is a performance-based, online marketing company. What is ConsumerTrack all about?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. We then allow them to understand the true potential velocity of markets online.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

While this clip is only 1-minute long we talk about it more in the full interview. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. You need to invest in good markets and bad. That always stuck with me.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2014

Erik Rannala: Really, it''s the quality of the companies in the market, plus the level of activity. We spent our early days validating the hypothesis that Los Angeles is a good market for seed stage investments through MuckerLab. What''s the biggest thing you''ve learned in your time in this market? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2019

For this morning's interview, we had a chat with Eli Portnoy , the CEO and founder of Culver City-based Sense360 (www.sense360.com), Eli Portnoy: We started with food as our first category, and we have been very focused on it, specifically with quick server restaurants. Why it is that you've seen the most uptake in the food sector?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

That realization set forth our current business strategy, which is to create a portfolio of vertical shopping sites which allow consumers to discover and be passionate about categories they are interested in. Scott Morrow: Sports/outdoors is quite interesting, that's the fastest growing lifestyle category in e-commerce.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

Our current categories are electronics, photo equipment, cameras, lenses, appliances, music equipment, and baby products. I owned and ran my own search marketing company, and started and ran a digital consulting company. We''re now in five categories, and we''re looking into computers and video games next. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

But it highlighted the misperceptions many people have had about serving urban markets. And of course African Americas and Latinos over-index in spend and consumption in many categories including many health & beauty products, movie theater attendance, mobile phone usage and even social media. The story was nearly universal.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

To hear how he bootstrapped the company to that size, we caught up with Asher earlier this week for a quick interview. As someone with a good view of the mobile ad market, are there any things you think about at the industry level? One big new category for us is data and targeting. It''s actually motivated me more. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

VentureHacks laid out the debate in a truly awesome interview & PowerPoint slides if you really want an in-depth understanding of the issue. The fact that I invest less just means the company is earlier stage and needed/wanted less or without a product/market fit we weren’t yet prepared to invest more heavily.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take. I was in the midst of sizing the mobile handset markets in 3 regions: US, Europe and Asia. They were more scientific. I encourage it.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Scott Cannon , the CEO of BigRentz (www.bigrentz.com), which is creating an online marketplace for big equipment--an industry known notoriously as not adopting new technology. We bring value to those small guys who can't compete against a $60 million marketing budget. The results speak for themselves.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. Who are your ideal customers and market?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. What does FutureDash do, and how do you fit into the home energy monitoring market?

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. So, it's quite new.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

In emerging markets and the developing world, access to banking, capital, and financial resources is fare more difficult than here in the U.S., Shivani Siroya: Tala is a data company that is working in emerging markets. What we've developed, is an Android app that allows us to open up financial access to customers in emerging markets.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Unlike the thirty five different categories on sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter, we only have video projects and YouTubers who need to raise money. Given you observation of the market, what''s the biggest issues you see right now for content creators? What''s Tubestart? That is, your friends, and friends of your friends.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Jason Reid , CEO and Co-founder of Giftagram (www.giftagram.com), which announced a $3.2M How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. How does Giftagram work?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. So it is a combination of markets and people. The contextual ad market was attractive. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. But it’s more atypical for investors located in this market.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2014

There is no bigger category than automotive, and there''s no gnarlier problem than buying a car. Consumers are paying as much as 30 percent more for the same car, in the same month, in the same market. In our category, we have about 3 percent market share, and we''re only monetizing one dimension of a 4, 5, or 6 legged stool.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Why did you decide to incubate this firm--rather than fund something already in the market? But why we decided to incubate this one, is we looked at the category to see what we could find in terms of early stage companies, executing against what we had identified--and we didn't find any out there. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2010

Our interview this morning is with Lolita Carrico, founder of Gloss Network for Women (www.mygloss.com), an online network of sites focused on women. Those are our three biggest categories as far as sponsorship and readership. Tags: lolita carrico gloss network startup interview content women advice entrepreneur modernmom.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: It was officially May 9 of 2012, when David and I and others within YP and AT&T decided that given where we were with AT&T, their core focus on wireless, we should figure out how to take the business out of AT&T, so that we would not be constrained on our investments, and we could go after markets in a more strategic way.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In a bid to change that, there are a few groups working on helping women entrepreneurs, investors, and others, including the Pipeline Fellowship (www.pipelinefellowship.com), which recently launched itself into the Los Angeles market. Or, screening out those companies involved in tobacco or alcohol. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I think their number is a bit higher than that, but it also skews towards the lifestyle category--restaurants and retail. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. We''re now figuring out to take that to market and driving it through our sales channel. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I must say I’ve become a regular user of ShopperSeeks every since this interview. And you will to after this interview. I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: What’s been the most after sought category of items?

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

A small percentage of people in each free-market society generate the jobs for everyone else. Thus, you can pursue new markets that are further from the mainstream and too small to interest a BDC. Exercise II: Your Fortune Magazine Interview. How did you establish and maintain your leadership position in the market?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2016

When trying to cobble together a startup degree, consider the following categories of classes. marketing, finance, sales, etc.). Comm 120 Interviewing Theory and Practice. Comm 120 Interviewing Theory and Practice. Comm 166 Marketing Communication. Communication. Comm 138 Advertising Literacy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon.

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