Technology Council

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

13 of the hottest early stage technology companies in Southern California joined us yesterday for the 13th Annual Venture Net. Presenting companies included: • [.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Funding Startup Equity Examples 174

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. So what does a VC do when he or she isn’t ready to say “no” or perhaps might like to talk with you in a year but not now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

That's the idea behind a new startup, Fundable , headed by serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter , which allows you to use rewards -- product, company schwag, an even equity -- as a tool to get your startup to the next stage. We allow startups to raise money, both based on equity, as well as rewards. What's Fundable?

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Startup Equity Venture Capital Ideas 223

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.

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Marketing Newsletter Technical Review News 246

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2010

Morgan Stanley, UBS Investment Bank, Allen & Company LLC, Jefferies & Company, Stifel Nicolaus Weisel, RBC Capital Markets, Pacific Crest Securities, Raine Securities, and JMP Securities. According to Demand's IPO filing, the firm had a net loss of $6.00M on revenues of $114.0M in the first six months of 2010.

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Demand Media .Net Santa Monica 184

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. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC? It may be the right answer for you.

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Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I spoke at Michael Kim’s excellent annual Cendana VC/LP conference today. One of the points I tried to make is that as venture capital investors as an industry we seem to have a healthy disdain for public market investors. ” It goes like this: What is your net burn rate? What is your cash balance?

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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.

Invest 187

Invest Los Angeles Resource Venture Capital 187

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Funding 96

socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2008

CalPERS, the California pension fund which is a major limited partner in venture capital funds here, apparently sold its stake in Palomar Ventures III, L.P. A partner at Palomar Ventures declined to comment, saying that the firm has a "hard and fast" policy of not commenting on matters related to LPs.

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Palomar .Net Venture Capital Equity 100

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). And just for measure, VC’s fund less than 2% of all deals they do investigate.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2011

Enter venture debt. By combining our equity investment with a tranche of venture debt, the company has avoided a larger equity round, which would have significantly diluted the Founders’ ownership share. Multiple Proposals – Venture debt terms are notoriously non-standard.

Equity 235

Equity Startup Invest Funding 235

Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 22, 2010

Often, this also involves a HELOC (Home Equity Line of Credit) if you’re a home owner with equity. In order to qualify, you have to have high net worth, a strong credit score and significant skin in the game. Angel Investors & Venture Capital. Traditional Bank Loans. Remember, help is only a mentor away.

Startup 124

Startup Tech Coast Angels TCVN Incubator 124

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. Venture farms. Then there is venture capital. Friends and family investors.

Equity 156

Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

Funding 107

Funding Startup Equity Examples 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. If you don't know any “high net worth” individuals, use your advisors to find them. Venture capital.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Equity Incubator Venture Capital 103

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

Angel 106

Angel Startup Venture Capital Seed Funding 106

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

Startup 113

Startup Entrepreneur Funding Equity 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. If you don't know any “high net worth” individuals, use your advisors to find them. Venture capital.

Startup 93

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 93

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”). billion collected in 2014.

Startup 106

Startup Angel .Net Entrepreneur 106

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”). billion collected in 2012.

Invest 111

Invest Angel Funding Startup 111

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. Sweat equity. Equity crowdfunding. Seed-round investment.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Box Office Mojo estimates that since 1980, the films have netted over $10 million in theatrical re-releases and at least that much in collective VHS, DVD and Blu-ray sales. He was prepared to share 25% of the films’ net revenue with the Beatles’ Manager, Brian Epstein. However, that is exactly what happened.

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Miramar .Net Sales Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2020

Why did you start LiquidStock rather than a more traditional venture fund? Greg Martin:I still have a venture firm, Archer Venture Capital, and continue to invest in later stage venture cpaital opportunities. However, as companies have stayed private longr, I saw there was a trend happening.

Startup 113

Startup Paramount Invest Capital 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. If you don't know any “high net worth” individuals, use your advisors to find them. Venture capital.

Funding 59

Funding Startup Technical Review Equity 59

Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Investors and entrepreneurs who won at the fundraising game during and after the Great Recession offer advice on landing equity money. million in angel and venture capital. “History is the best predictor of the future,” says Satya Patel, a partner at venture capital firm Battery Ventures in Silicon Valley.

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Tips Capital Tech Coast Angels Screening 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

But, we have a non-equity dilutive product, and we accelerate cash flow. Jed Simon: We did something unique, is instead of raise a ton of money and then try to build our product and launch it, we soft launched last year, raised money from two high net worth individuals. So how do you do that for those publishers?

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Advertising .Net Startup Funding 133

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Entrepreneurs are everywhere and capital isn’t. We get a lot more emails from women entrepreneurs who say they are a high net worth in their community and we should come and help boost the number of angel investors in their companies. I am very aware of the power Pipeline Fellowship can have in other countries.

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Mentor Invest Entrepreneur Startup 84

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side. You lose the dream.

Venture Capital 329

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur 329

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

CircleUp is an online social marketplace that supports direct equity investments from individual investors to small private consumer and retail companies. vc , Liam Martin with Staff. image EPA/Andrew Gombert. People believe in Matt and because of that they believed in his vision.

Startup 104

Startup Technical Review Search Engine Optimization Los Angeles 104

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: Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Advertising Email 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It powers over 1,000 investment Angel and VC groups in 80+ countries. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. and Dave McClure.

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Angel Startup Funding Keiretsu 115