Thinking Like a VC
SoCal Tech Calendar
AUGUST 30, 2018
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 -- Thinking Like a VC. Featuring: Rob Vickery, Partner and Co-Founder: Stage Venture Partners. Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship.
Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 21, 2009
On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA).
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First Look SoCal Showcase: How Do You Create More SoCal Startup Success?
socalTECH
JUNE 21, 2018
That was the question at the SoCal First Look Showcase , run by the Alliance for SoCal Innovation and the Los Angeles Venture Association at UCLA on Wednesday.
What You Missed On Your Holiday Vacation, SoCal Technology Edition
socalTECH
JANUARY 7, 2013
Southern California's Most Popular Tech Stories. LaunchpadLA Opens Up Spring Applications.
Current VC market and how to pitch it
SoCal Tech Calendar
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012 -- Current VC market and how to pitch it. The current venture market and how to pitch it - Getting professional tech investment (private, angel, venture, strategic) in these times is not easy. See [link] (more)
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Orange County FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop
SoCal Tech Calendar
JUNE 7, 2019
Thursday, June 13, 2019 -- Orange County FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop. Due to the overwhelming demand to pitch at our last event in Orange County, we're throwing an exclusive PitchFest speed dating event where you will be pitching to over 20 investors one-on-one! We're doing it again!
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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round
InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
VC's love to talk about their successes. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. What’s The Worst Mistake?
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Q3 Venture Investments For SoCal Total Around $1.0 Billion
socalTECH
OCTOBER 4, 2010
Southern California venture totals for Q3 totaled around $1.0 billion in investments, according to the Q3 analysis of venture capital deals by socalTECH.com. PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association, and VentureOne will release their quarterly nationwide results of venture activity later this month.
SoCal Investments Totals Around $700M In Q1
socalTECH
APRIL 2, 2009
Southern California Venture capital totals were up slightly in Q1 of this year from last quarter, to around $718M in deals, according to an analysis of socalTECH.com's proprietary venture database. However, venture funding totals were still well off the first quarter of 2008's nearly $1.2 billion in funding.
SoCal Venture Capitalists Shut Out Of Midas List
socalTECH
MAY 3, 2012
Forbes Magazine has just published its annual Midas List , its annual ranking of the top 100 venture capitalists, and -- despite a record number of IPOs and exits last year from southern California technology companies -- Southern California's venture capital community was shut out of the list entirely.
Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). I'm a bit of an anti-VC, as you know. As a result, I really saw Visalus as a technology company.
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San Diego FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop
SoCal Tech Calendar
JUNE 5, 2019
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 -- San Diego FundingPost VC and Angel Investor PitchFest + Pitch Workshop. Due to the overwhelming demand to pitch at our last event in San Diego, we're throwing an exclusive PitchFest speed dating event where you will be pitching to over 20 investors one-on-one! We're doing it again!
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SoCal Tech Calendar
NOVEMBER 3, 2008
Saturday, November 8, 2008 -- Venture Capital 3.0. Breakfast with Adeo Ressi, Founding Member of TheFunded.com, an online community of entrepreneurs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. See [link] (more).
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Venture Firms Invest Around $1.6 Billion In Q2 2010 In SoCal
socalTECH
JULY 6, 2010
An analysis of Q2's venture capital deals and investment activity in Southern California find that venture capitalists invested around $1.6 The most active investors in the region, by number of investments, were the Tech Coast Angels (9 tracked deals); followed by clean tech investor Angeleno Investors (3 deals).
Fundraising in Today’s Startup Market
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 3, 2023
âThe event will also include investors Julie Henley McNamara (Entrada Ventures), Mike Tucker (ScOp Venture Capital), Ken Funahashi (Wilson Sonsini) who will share their perspective on the early stage venture market on a panel moderated by Mark diTargaini (Pacific Western Bank). See [link] (more)
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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces.
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Shaking the MoneyTree 2009 Q4 Review
SoCal Tech Calendar
MARCH 3, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 -- Shaking the MoneyTree 2009 Q4 Review. Please join LAVA, PricewaterhouseCoopers and a distinguished panel of industry experts and local VCs for their insights on the results of the Q4 2009 PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree Report based on data from Thomson Reuters.
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100 Fixing the Top Fundraising Mistakes Startup Entrepreneurs Make
SoCal Tech Calendar
JULY 30, 2020
Join JJ Richa in a fireside chat with Scott Fox, CEO of the OC Startup Council, for a discussion of the top mistakes that early stage entrepreneurs make when pitching their startups for funding.
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What Mattered in 2010: Jim Andelman, Rincon Ventures
socalTECH
DECEMBER 30, 2010
All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. 1) Mobile web.
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SURE: Bringing The Insurance Industry Into The Digital Age, With Wayne Slavin
socalTECH
JUNE 23, 2017
The insurance industry today is one of the last industries to fully jump into adopting technology for offering up their products, says Wayne Slavin , CEO and founder of SURE (www.sureapp.com), and just needs some help in getting there. We're here to serve, as a technology distribution platform, to help those insurance carriers become digital.
Bridge Financing
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 31, 2011
So your VC or Angel investors have given you a term sheet for your A round. The investors are happy with the due diligence results so far, and negotiations are going well. Thursday, November 3, 2011 -- Bridge Financing. Tremendous! The investors expect to close in four to six weeks! You have to make payroll this Friday.
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One Weird Trick to Build a Personal Brand
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
What Jason has achieved in no time flat in VC is astounding. Without inventing the browser he has single-handedly created a personal VC brand on a shoestring. I recently saw him Tweet this so I thought it would be a great title for my post on his spectacular early success in building his VC profile and bona fides.
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Interview with Matthew Jenusaitis, OCTANe
socalTECH
MAY 14, 2010
Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. Technology and innovation has historically been the thing that has pulled the economy out of recessions, and I think that is especially true right now. For OCTANe to be successful, we want to see our technology ecosystem grow.
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174 How to Raise Capital for Your Startup
SoCal Tech Calendar
APRIL 27, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012 -- How to Raise Capital for Your Startup. An intensive 3-hour course on how to think about, plan for, prepare and execute a capital raise for your startup. Includes a detailed review of local incubators, vc's and angels. Taught by Jon Funk, a 25-year LA vc veteran. See [link] (more)
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Angel Funding Advice
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 14, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. I know you’re not a tech guy and haven’t done anything other than an HTML course you once took, but if you’re inspirational and a leader you’ll find somebody to moonlight for free to get your prototype built. They might be as hard as raising VC.
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Bridge Financing
SoCal Tech Calendar
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
So your VC or Angel investors have given you a term sheet for your "A" round. The investors are happy with the due diligence results so far, and negotiations are going well. Thursday, November 12, 2009 -- Bridge Financing. Tremendous! The investors expect to close in 4 to 6 weeks! You have to make payroll this Friday.
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Bridge Financing
SoCal Tech Calendar
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
So your VC or Angel investors have given you a term sheet for your "A" round. The investors are happy with the due diligence results so far, and negotiations are going well. Thursday, November 5, 2009 -- Bridge Financing. Tremendous! The investors expect to close in 4 to 6 weeks! You have to make payroll this Friday.
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100 A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 25, 2010
“Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator. This is all explicit decision making.
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Interview with Peter Lee, Baroda Ventures
socalTECH
MAY 27, 2009
Peter Lee: Essentially, we are Southern California focused, through we will be looking at out of SoCal investments--we're not closing our doors to those, but our interest is really in focusing down here. where do you see the VC industry here now? LA VC's haven't been quite as active. or $1.5M, for our first investment.
Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 25, 2010
On Losing in VC. They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. VCs have a seat at the table in deciding future investors. China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system.
Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 25, 2010
On Losing in VC. They had a prominent NorCal investor already so I thought a SoCal lead would make sense – that I could help them in a more hands-on way. VCs have a seat at the table in deciding future investors. China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system.
5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California
SoCal Delicious
AUGUST 28, 2012
VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Venture capital. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. There are a lot of misconceptions about SoCal and it’s time we set them straight. Whats Hot Menu. Skip to primary content.
Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups
SoCal CTO
MARCH 22, 2007
skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. in Computer Science.
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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks
Tech Zulu Event
MARCH 10, 2010
The time has come for us to say goodbye SoCal (temporarily of course) and HELLO Austin! License your original work on AudioMicro - we accept for review and potential licensing representation all content that meets our minimum quality and sample rate standards and Terms of Service. Echo - is the next generation commenting system.
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71 I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2010
I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Optimization technology is not new. Tags: Featured SoCal Stuff.
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282 Embrace Losing
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 15, 2009
They hired a consultant to help them with the review. And surprise, surprise the decision came back 3 weeks later than none of the preferred 3 vendors had won but rather this tiny little competitor owned by the consulting company charged with doing the review. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC.
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151 Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 1, 2010
I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. One out of ten of Americans are out of work. By doing the job.
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175 Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles
SoCal Delicious
OCTOBER 8, 2012
Loading… Tech. SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. The tech industry is going south. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these.
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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010
SoCal CTO
JULY 13, 2010
10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. " Is Your VC Founder Friendly?
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SoCal CTO
AUGUST 3, 2010
5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Angel vs VC? - Here’s why.
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