socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2010

Monrovia, California-based Green Dot , the provider of prepaid debit cards run by Steve Streit, reported in an updated S-1 filing with the SEC this week that it has issued 2,208,552 shares of its Class A stock to Walmart, as part of a renewed distribution deal with the retail giant signed in May. in net income it earned on $60.7M

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . Why do they invest in venture capital?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 4, 2019

These include election or re-election of board members if required by the bylaws of the corporation, approval of any increases to stock option plans (which would dilute the worth of shares outstanding,) and approve any additions to the capital stock authorized to be issued. Requirements created by investment documents.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 18, 2019

Launched by the music and cultural impresario with more hustle than hustle and his business partner Jason Geder, the new collaborative investment strategy focused on tech startups will allow high net worth individuals to participate in deals. Live streaming studio, Culture Genesis, launches its first show, the quiz-based Trivia Mob.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

The problem with other companies building pre-fabricated or modular homes for what are called accessory dwelling units on California properties is that they’re not being built for middle-class homeowners. “Homeowners have this valuable property which is a detached two-car garage,” said Dietz.

Los Angeles 191

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Through these student and faculty interactions, I have gathered empirical (but non-scientific), first-hand evidence of the factors that contribute to a world-class undergraduate entrepreneurial program. Practitioners, Not Professors – classes should be taught by people who have fought hand-to-hand combat in the startup trenches.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 14, 2012

These include election or re-election of board members if required by the bylaws of the corporation, approval of any increases to stock option plans (which would dilute the worth of shares outstanding), and approve any additions to the capital stock authorized to be issued.

Class 202

Class Report Competition .Net 202

Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

This post will be perhaps a bit longer than usual, but certainly of great interest for those with interest in or have need for more capital… This stage is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. For you who fit that description, nice work.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital.

Venture Capital 89

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

LP’s who invest in funds are typically university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, large corporations and very high net worth individuals called “family offices.&# To give you an indication of how bad, for example, university endowments are suffering check out this chart. VC will shrink.

Venture Capital 311

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Steve Reich

OCTOBER 30, 2012

I have to confess that I almost ignored the article, thinking that it was one more elaborate defense of worthless, expensive humanities departments that should be defunded in favor of more math, science, CS, and business classes. The net result? Malauzai is an example of a company that tells its’ story well. It all hangs together.

Startup 65

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. That provides a lot of efficiency in how we deploy capital, and simply just makes it work better. Your finance has to be world class. Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. What is CareerArc? What do you need to be make a startup successful?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

He established a reputation as a decisive leader and change agent, growth driver and builder of world-class organizations. is backed by Bain Capital and U.S. O’Neil is not just another leader but is known for his great traits in his years at the Philadelphia Eagles, National Basketball Association and Madison Square Garden.

Ticketmaster 65

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. Frothy startup valuations.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Here is a class of investor we’ve covered before, one usually focused upon you and less upon your business case. There is an exemption from the requirements that these investors be accredited with net worth or income minimums to qualify legally to invest in your company. Then there is venture capital. Accelerators.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

Richards , who most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, and previously also was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA, the founding president and COO of MP3.com, They just can't reach into the class of freshmen, sophomores, or juniors to help companies get better candidates. com, and managing director at Tickets.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2010

Schwab pioneered first the discount brokerage industry and then online investing, capitalizing on the Internet to build the leading online trading company. But I have to admit that I feel blessed when I’m invited to guest lecture at MBA classes at one of the local universities. He even had to overcome dyslexia as a student.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. John Greathouse <john *@ *.com> com> 4/25/08.

Venture Capital 100

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I originally wrote the business plan for AdventureLink out of school in 1994, for a business class I took. Kelly Tompkins: Yes, in 1998, there was Away.com, iExplore, and there was significant venture capital thrown at that segment. I personally enjoy traveling, and looking at the space from a technology automation perspective.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Such ideas require little-to-no capital, usually last for a relatively short duration and are of nominal size. You may remember from 8th grade science class that Brownian motion describes the random movement of atomic matter, caused by collisions with molecules of the surrounding medium. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. ► July (1) ► June (3) ► May (5) the Rubicon Project The Journey Startup 6.0: Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0:

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. We let everybody “punch above their weight class&# in terms of roles & responsibilities.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million. raise capital and move up north as soon as they got successful. wsjSubnav).length

Los Angeles 44

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It has long been believed that people from lower-income neighborhoods can’t learn as well as middle & upper class ones due to environment issues such as problems at home and trouble in the neighborhood. It is a country that by foundation believes in capitalism as the best model of producing an equal society. We goofed off.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

Yes, income inequality exists and yes it’s a natural consequence of capitalism and other forms of government are decidedly worse than capitalism because they inefficiently create and allocate resources. To me it favors people like me with capital over those that are purely labor. Founders start companies.

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