Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

To grow faster businesses need resources in today’s financial period to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2011

Ever since the huge success of Monrovia-based Green Dot in its IPO last year, netting a huge return for local angels, investors here have taken a second look at financial startups. We've only been advertising for about 90 days or so, as we have been in beta for a year making sure everything is working.

Class 168

Class Monrovia .Net Customer 168

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

Venture Capital 311

Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding Rustic Canyon 311

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50 percent and a net margin in the 20 percent range. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Organization Invest Customer 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets, or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50%, and a net margin in the 20% range. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit.

Startup 58

Startup Organization Invest Customer 58

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

We've had close to 2 million tasks people have put into there in the last four months, and all this without any PR or advertising, completely organic. The net-net, is they want to simplify their lives, and we've given them an application that allows them to simplify their life, save money, and share.

Mobile 168

Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. It literally drove FOMO.

Venture Capital 363

Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 363

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

They knew that price restructuring would significantly impair their gross revenues as well as their net income, which would dramatically impact their stock price. Cloud computing pioneer RightScale is a prime example of a company which utilized a consultative go-to-market strategy as a means of funding its initial operations.

Entrepreneur 225

Entrepreneur SaaS Pricing Cloud Computing 225

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

How is the company funded and backed? The net of it, is we're really in the big data business, and we're taking what was formerly a totally monolithic piece--a single DVD, or video game, or sports game--and converting that into something that is consumable in the social web. Finally, what are the most popular clips on site?

Redpoint 201

Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. You struggle to get advertisers to pay your CPM rates and get your page clicks up in a business where you become a near commodity to ever other website out there. In fact, that’s all that I fund as a VC.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. In 2000, we set up our second fund--worth almost $400M--and for that vintage year, that fund is one of the top tier performing funds in the entire country.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team. Have you raised any funding yet?

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Last week, Altadena-based AdventureLink (www.adventurelink.com) announced that it raised a Series A funding round, for the firm's adventure travel reservation network. The round came from Anthem Venture Partners and the Mail Room Fund. Speaking of the economy, how difficult was it to get funding given the economy?

Web 100

Web Altadena Sites Activity 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate. We're advertising supported, what a lot call a premium/freemium service. I helped build out the advertising sales model there, and then helped found a company based out of Redmond called InfoSpace.

Email 113

Email Yahoo Startup Google 113

Berkonomics

APRIL 17, 2014

Simply stated crowd funding or crowdfunding is the raising of capital in small amounts, from a broad base of investors. Participants can raise funds without having to do a public offering, which is a costly undertaking. The offering is conducted through a registered broker or “funding portal”; and.

.Net 209

.Net Pricing Ideas Invest 209

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

My fund was an early investor in Overture. Dropped Calls, Students Protest AT&T Network Coverage Facebook Patents News Feed, Social Net Confusion Ensues Trying to Work from Home More Efficiently? If you look at why Google is so successful today, the overwhelming majority of their revenue is from sponsored search.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Advertise and get noticed with us! AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. is funded by: Y Combinator, Alsop Louie Partners and Draper Associates. The first shirt in our series is a question of authority: When you die, will you trend? .

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

workers who are paying taxes into economy that fund their retirement plans. Advertisers, wake the f**k up. Latinos drove 69% of total net increasing in U.S. In fact, for every retired person in the United States, they are supported by 2.9 If you removed Latinos that would leave just 2.1 Latino purchasing power will reach $1.7

Media 269

Media Content Course Technical Review 269

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Advertise Locally on WSJ.com.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44