SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 -- Angel Investing - Demystified. In the current economic and venture capital climate, angel investment is an increasingly important component of the start-up capital structure. Angel networks, where high-net-worth individuals come together to screen and vet deals, are the source of much of this funding.

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Invest Angel Tech Coast Angels Southern California 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Rose, according to his classic book, “ Angel Investing.” Neither does David S.

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Funding Startup .Net Invest 144

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Rose, according to his latest book, “ Angel Investing.” Neither does David S.

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Startup Angel Funding .Net 76

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Rose, according to his recent book, “ Angel Investing.” Neither does David S.

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Startup Angel .Net Entrepreneur 106

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Los Angeles-based Soteria Intelligence said yesterday that it has launched a new, social media threat assessment service, to help find threats voice on social networks in real time. The company says its client include high net worth individuals, corporations, and law enforcement agencies. The new company is led by Aaron Schoenberger.

Social Media 153

Social Media Media Social Network .Net 153

TechCrunch LA

JULY 22, 2020

It’s a strategy that has now netted the company $33 million in financing led by the Silicon Valley-based investment firm Altos Ventures and New York’s Left Lane Capital. Hyde Park Angels, Fika Ventures, FJ Labs and Silicon Valley Bank also participated in the round.

Services 187

Services Los Angeles .Net Mobile 187

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Angel groups fear the loss of members for the same reason. billion collected in 2012.

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Invest Angel Funding Startup 111

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which actually funds more startups then all other venture sources combined (over $25 billion annually). Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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Angel Startup Venture Capital Seed Funding 106

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month. I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.

Startup 383

Startup Company Companies .Net 383

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2012

A new, Los Angeles startup, AtomicMe , said this week that it is looking to tie together social networking activity with the interests users are passionate about--by sharing advertising revenues with those users.

Social Network 157

Social Network Networking .Net Advertising 157

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Sales of WholesaleWare, as the platform is called, Xu said, have seen more than 800% growth over the last year, now managing “several hundreds of millions of dollars of food wholesale activities” annually. Underpinning its tech is the sheer size of the operation: economies of scale in action.

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Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The company’s stock tanked by more than 26 percent, representing a $230 billion reduction in market cap and a $31 billion drop in Zuckerberg’s personal net worth. Plenty of analysts shared that this was the biggest dollar amount single-day drop for a company’s market cap ever. ” my colleague Aisha notes.

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Marketing Newsletter Technical Review News 246

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

However, most often, these funds are solicited by a well-meaning entrepreneur from investors who are not qualified as accredited investors under the law (currently requiring a proved income of $200,000 a year or $1 million in net worth for an individual investor). Professional angels: This is the arena where I work and play.

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Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

On a earnings call discussing its second quarter results, CEO Steve Streit said that it is seeing "significant" new card activations at both Walmart and other retailers, attributing the rise to both a tight credit card environment and increasingly expensive bank pricing models. The firm said it had net income of $4.6M Friday morning.

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Customer Custom .Net Southern California 160

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Audi revealed Tuesday evening in Los Angeles the e-tron Sportback as the German automaker begins to chip away at its plan to launch more than 30 electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids by 2025. Audi was able to improve the range by increasing the net battery capacity. It also decoupled the front motor and improved the thermal management.

Design 162

Design Los Angeles .Net Course 162

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2021

Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. You need it for communicating to your team, finding strategic partners, or soliciting investor funding from friends and family, angel investors, VCs, and crowd funding. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff. Executive summary glossy.

Entrepreneur 156

Entrepreneur Tips Funding Startup 156

socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2009

Los Angeles-based MySpace has released an upgrade to the firm's set of application programming interfaces, saying this morning that it has released an upgrade to MySpaceID, the firm's API for allowing other websites to access its information. The firm also said that it will be adding Google Android support soon. READ MORE>>.

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PHP Java .Net Resource 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

Public stockholders are more easily swayed by emotion and the activities of the crowd, than real market conditions. Thus most startups I know don’t even mention the IPO exit option, when applying for angel funding, and most angel investors will react negatively if you do mention it.

Startup 98

Startup Report IBM IBM 98

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

In the past few years, colleges have been publishing the number of businesses which they have played an active role in launching. Thus, cast your research net beyond VC-backed companies to fully understand a school’s ability to foster viable businesses. How much Angel and institutional money did they collectively raise?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Class Patents 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In a collaborative effort, Ria Consulting, LLC and Los Angeles Net Developers Group are hosting this event on November 10th, 2012 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. Aaron Heckman , maintainer of Mongoose, the MongoDB object document modeler and an active member of the nodes community.

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JavaScript Long Beach Java .Net 93

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half 2019 global IPO activity slowdown continued, following an unusually quiet Q1 2019 as ongoing geopolitical tensions and trade issues dampened IPO sentiment. Public stockholders are more easily swayed by emotion and the activities of the crowd, than real market conditions.

Startup 84

Startup Technical Review Report IBM 84

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2009

I've helped organize the Los Angeles CTO Forum for almost 10 years. In a recent conversation with a fellow CTO, we lamented about the fact that while there's very active software development and web development going on in Southern California and West Los Angeles, yet there didn't seem to be as much of a community around it.

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Southern California Software Development Software Develop 150

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half of 2017 was the most active first half by global number of IPOs since 2007. Public stockholders are more easily swayed by emotion and the activities of the crowd, than real market conditions. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

Startup 87

Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 87

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). Derek Norton: I just closed on a new fund, worth $5M, which I raised from a group of high net worth, high profile LPs.

Invest 145

Invest Funding Capital Startup 145

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Whereas we had four partners investing Fund IV we now have six partners actively looking at deals for Fund V. I think that’s in part due to market conditions being favorable to venture capital and in part it’s due to the significant uptick in Los Angeles as a major tech hub in the US. University Endowments. Foundations.

Venture Capital 396

Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2010

By Joe Bockerstette As an angel investor who has considered hundreds of startup opportunities, the concept of a value proposition may be the most misunderstood and taken for granted element that I see in newly formed startups. The net benefit of this solution from the customer’s perspective. Again, evidence here is key.

Startup 95

Startup .Net Customer Custom 95

Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

However, most often, these funds are solicited by a well-meaning entrepreneur from investors who are not qualified as accredited investors under the law (currently requiring a proved income of $200,000 a year or $1 million in net worth for an individual investor).

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Invest Class Entrepreneur 174

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Bockerstette, Main Street Venture Fund As I outlined last week, trophy angel investors are always looking for trophy entrepreneurs. A Main Street member typically joins the board of directors and actively participates in corporate governance and as an advisor to management. By Joseph A. Partnership.

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Funding Startup Entrepreneur Activity 106

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. You've had prior success, and you've been an angel investors in companies here.

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Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2014

Here is my outline of some key activities that could convince me you are a cut above the “average” entrepreneur that approaches me with nothing but a dream and a prayer: Personal video introduction with elevator pitch. Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. There is no crowd of successful entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur 108

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Slides 108

socalTECH

JULY 5, 2011

For today's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Swagbucks (www.swagbucks.com), an online site which allows users to earn virtual currency in exchange for searching the Internet, as well as other activities. Swagbucks in on its way to hitting $20M in annual revenues, and has bootstrapped since its founding.

Startup 266

Startup Sites Web Entertainment 266

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. LA By The Numbers.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2015

Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. You need it for communicating to your team, finding strategic partners, or soliciting investor funding from friends and family, angel investors, VCs, and crowd funding. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff. Executive summary glossy.

Startup 104

Startup Writing Entrepreneur Slides 104

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Los Angeles-based XCast Labs (www.xcastlabs.com) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $2.7M round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers.

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IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. Meet angels via the entrepreneurs they’ve funded. By Monica Mehta.

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Tips Capital Tech Coast Angels Screening 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. Frothy startup valuations.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. You need it for communicating to your team, finding strategic partners, or soliciting investor funding from friends and family, angel investors, VCs, and crowd funding. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff. Executive summary glossy.

Startup 65

Startup Entrepreneur Slides Content 65