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.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

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. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale. Internet scale. Simplifying: Revenue -.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. Today, innovation is happening at an increasingly faster rate and , that being true, Thomas thought it was more efficient to match capital to ideas than execute the ideas himself. Net neutrality (1:09:00).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. USA Angel Investment Network. Angel Capital Association (ACA). Keiretsu Forum.

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Angel Keiretsu Invest Networking 67

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Although relatively new, AngelList already has featured over 42,000 businesses and provided over 28,000 introductions to potential investors in a format that''s, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and Angels. Keiretsu Forum.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. People were not just going to Google, they were looking all over the place. That provides a lot of efficiency in how we deploy capital, and simply just makes it work better. Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. What is CareerArc?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Breakout companies become much harder and this isn’t likely to improve unless we give new companies the tools and capital they need to flourish. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The format is more social networking in nature, and they also will soon provide a recruiting portal for crowdfunding with unaccredited investors, now that the US JOBS Act has been passed. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum.

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Angel Keiretsu Organization Invest 108

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This one claims to be the world’s largest angel investor network, with 850 accredited investor members throughout twenty one chapters on three continents. New England Investment Network. Angel Capital Association (ACA). Keiretsu Forum.

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Angel Keiretsu Organization Template 102

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. Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers.

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Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show. Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN). AGN was sold to Net-TV pioneer Pseudo Programs and Rubin served as VP of Games and Sports programming.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Here are three of the largest flocks: Angel Capital Association (ACA). This one claims to be the world’s largest angel investor network, with 750 accredited investor members throughout sixteen chapters on three continents. Keiretsu Forum.

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Angel Keiretsu Startup Template 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. This team is talented. They wanted advice.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

This is only an educated hypothesis but I’ll bet it’s pretty close to grounded in reality: Everybody saw “The Social Network” and everybody has a belief that suing will net them millions whether they’re in the right or the wrong. Make sure you have standard vesting – even before your raise capital.

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Startup IP Writing Ideas 150

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 John Greathouse <john *@ *.com> com> 4/25/08. to Jim, Kevin.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

All you have to do is hover over any video or image and drag it to the network or service of your liking. If you look to the bottom of your browser you will see to the far right the ability to connect to Facebook, AIM, Google Talk and other chat networks. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google.

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Stickam Content Draper Web 60

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. I never built Google. So how did I come to work in the world of venture capital?

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 285

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

All businesses need to have access to the scale, cost structure, and flexibility that the Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world have built internally. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves. But throughout the transition I had my safety net. To a large degree we rode Amazon’s coattails.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The firm is co-founded by Jake Steinfeld, of Body by Jake, and ExerciseTV, and has received investment from prolific angel investor Ron Conway and Polar Capital, the investment firm of former Google President Tim Armstrong. The other founding investors are Ron Conway, who you know, and Polar Capital Group, Tim Armstrong fund.

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Media Pricing Sites Training 168

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Sand Hill Road has so many venture capital firms and they are so large, and they have been around for so long and they are very closely coupled and tied with Stanford [University]. If you look at why Google is so successful today, the overwhelming majority of their revenue is from sponsored search. And what happened in L.A.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

SXSW Interactive features five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders and an unbeatable line up of special programs showcasing the best new websites, video games and startup ideas the community has to offer.

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Technical Review Stickam Web Conference 40

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Google. The southern migration is taking place as companies like Google. 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.

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