SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The Facebook parent-company saw its stock price get bludgeoned after a bad earnings report showcased that Apple’s ad-blocking changes are shaving billions off its books and the company’s crown jewel — the Facebook platform — has stopped growing and actually shrank this quarter.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Today, one of the companies that is supplying produce and other items both to consumers and other services that are in turn selling food and groceries to them, is announcing a new round of funding as it gears up to take its next step, an IPO. Source tell us it is now between $400 million and $500 million.

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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”). Here again, the entrepreneur will be the one hurt most, by having fewer funding sources to access.

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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”). I just don’t see it happening any time soon. billion collected in 2012.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Today, a startup that is doing this in the specific area of distressed property is announcing a round of growth funding to ramp up its team and expand its business. The funding is being led by QED Investors; Founders Fund, Susa Ventures, Navitas Capital, and Prudence Holdings also participated.

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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. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

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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. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 22, 2020

When big platforms have carved out large swaths of the delivery market, the best thing for an upstart company to do is to specialize. 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.

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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. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. Startup funding comes from personal savings and family. Non-equity funding has to come from personal sources, or government grants, or bank loans. Corporate versus personal growth really becomes a lifestyle decision. There is no free lunch for money.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”. Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

These are companies like the recent Y Combinator graduates Homestead and Rent the Backyard and United Dwelling, which has just raised $10 million in funding from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Alpha Edison. Modative isn’t the only partner from the Los Angeles community that United Dwelling has brought on board.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2019

Pledgeling has built a technology platform that makes it super easy to integrate charity into their customer experience, and, as we say, grow through giving. The crisis text line was literally sending messages using our platform to save lives. Did you get funding this time around for the new company?

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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”). I just don’t see it happening any time soon. Neither does David S. billion collected in 2014.

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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. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

One way is getting funding from your potential customers. Wil Schroter: We're a crowd-funding platform for startups. Wil Schroter: We had been in the startup space for a long time, watching lots and lots of companies--my own included--try to get funded. We believe that there is more than one way to crowd fund a company.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Let's talk about the recent funding round? Alan Horsager: The funding originally started with a convertible note, through the Pasadena Angels. We then got some additional funding, of essentially high net worth individuals, not insittutional funds. The other part of it has been thinking about the platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

You can read it in VCs discussions about hedge fund managers, activist investors or the need to have dual-share voting structures. ” It goes like this: What is your net burn rate? What is your realistic assessment of current strength if you went into a fund raising round right now? What is your cash balance?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

If you are looking for funding and customers for your new business, you need to identify your “unique selling proposition” (USP) right up front, in 30 seconds or less, to differentiate yourself in today’s information overload. The net value of this solution from the customer’s perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. Startup funding comes from personal savings and family. Non-equity funding has to come from personal sources, or government grants, or bank loans. Corporate versus personal growth really becomes a lifestyle decision. There is no free lunch for money.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based FastPay (www.fastpaypartners.com) announced a round of funding and its services for providing advanced payment to online publishers, application developers, and game developers. One is Victor Coleman, founder of Arden Realty, and the other is John Glaser, a successful hedge fund manager. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

To grow faster businesses need resources in today to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. They don’t want high burn rates but they will never fund slow growth. Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? Not necessarily.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked, Cloud-based enterprise platform for deal management and investor reporting, Wednesday announced a new suite of enterprise features in a move to take transactions mobile. Jackson, CapLinked CEO, “CapLinked’s rapid innovation gives companies and funds a much-needed option to using a virtual data room.”. iOS Compatibility.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2011

We looked at online photo marketing, and what the real needs are out there, and launched our platform last year, aimed at helping photographers publish and perfect their art. Finally, I decided it was time to remove the safety net, and had an idea of my own to pursue, so I started by own company. How is the company funded?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2017

Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income. Startup funding comes from personal savings and family. Non-equity funding has to come from personal sources, or government grants, or bank loans. Corporate versus personal growth really becomes a lifestyle decision. There is no free lunch for money.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Course 69

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. We saw people were exchanging sound bites, sending them around to friends, and using the platform as we had envisioned, which was not just for long form audio, but for actual sound bites.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.” In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5

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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.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. Unicornless. billion).

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer. Approximate valuations of each future funding round. The key is to determine if your company’s solution is a feature, a point solution product, or a platform. Total options granted to employees. Approximate valuation upon exit.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Acquisition Pricing .Net 124

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer. Approximate valuations of each future funding round. The key is to determine if your company’s solution is a feature, a point solution product, or a platform. Total options granted to employees. Approximate valuation upon exit.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Acquisition Pricing 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Sam Rogoway: We use YouTube as our hosting platform, for a variety of reasons. Every business can benefit from video, whether they're a law firm, a restaurant, a hotel, or a plumber--we're casting a wide net on the kinds of businesses we work with. How is the company funded? Where do those videos get distribute? READ MORE>>.

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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. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

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Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Adam states that Bitcoin is now a large portion of his personal net wealth and has to date, backed 11 companies through Boost. Brock has personally invested close to $1M into the currency itself, and a bit shy of $1M into the companies/ecosystem with 12 funded Bitcoin companies in 2014 alone. Trading platforms. Setting Up 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. It creates free innovation on your platform that drives user growth and engagement.

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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. You're also able to simply move conversations from platform to platform. Additionally, we have channel partners who we are working with, to provide certain services integrated into our platform.

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