Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Do you imagine eventually raising VC and trying to build a faster growing company?” Venture capital isn’t right for many business but if you do want to raise from a VC at some point you need to understand that often investors care more about growth than profits. They raised $5 million in venture capital to fund growth.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Solicit venture capital investors. Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Look for a warm introduction to make this work. Apply to local angel investor groups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Solicit venture capital investors. Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Look for a warm introduction to make this work. Apply to local angel investor groups.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

Wil Schroter: We're a crowd-funding platform for startups. The issue with most companies that I saw, is that they are outside of technology, and they just don't have access to the traditional funding sources like angels and venture capitalists. If you start an apparel company, there's no YCombinator, no Sequoia Capital for that.

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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”). Of course, both are impressive and both already exceed VC investments annually.

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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”). Rose, according to his recent book, “ Angel Investing.” billion collected in 2014.

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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”). billion collected in 2012.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Moderated by 500 Startups founder Dave McClure (who openly admits to knowing nothing about Bitcoin), our panel consisted of a mix of venture capitalists, angel, and accelerator investors: Joyce Kim – VC at Freestyle Capital. Adam Draper – Of Boost VC, an SF Incubator/Accelerator. Trading platforms.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). billion deal to Disney.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Solicit venture capital investors. Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Look for a warm introduction to make this work. Apply to local angel investor groups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Solicit venture capital investors. Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Look for a warm introduction to make this work. Apply to local Angel investor groups.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. 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%). We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Solicit venture capital investors. Most metropolitan areas have groups of local high-net-worth individuals interested in supporting startups, and willing to syndicate amounts up to a million dollars for qualified startups. Look for a warm introduction to make this work. Apply to local Angel investor groups.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

AGN was sold to Net-TV pioneer Pseudo Programs and Rubin served as VP of Games and Sports programming. In that position, Scot served as Executive Producer of the QB Club Chanel, a joint venture with the NFL. Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN). It generates revenues through Subscription, Virtual Currency and Advertising.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer. Long Term Value – Look at your adVenture objectively, in the same manner as a Venture Capitalist (VC). VCs typically evaluate their investments based on their best guess as to the startup’s ultimate exit value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. It powers over 1,000 investment Angel and VC groups in 80+ countries. More than 200,000 startups have already used the platform to connect with 45,000 investors. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally).

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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]. Dropped Calls, Students Protest AT&T Network Coverage Facebook Patents News Feed, Social Net Confusion Ensues Trying to Work from Home More Efficiently?

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves. But throughout the transition I had my safety net. I’m sure we missed out on a number of great people, but the net effect is that everyone in the team is focused on the same mission. We always focused on making the story bigger.”.

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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. Long Term Value – Look at your adVenture objectively, in the same manner as a Venture Capitalist (VC). VCs typically evaluate their investments based on their best guess as to the startup’s ultimate exit value.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Acquisition Pricing .Net 124

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

If you are a publisher, and have receivables from agencies, ad networks, sell side platforms, we'll aggregate them and give you a single payment every month, and put cash in your business on an ongoing business. Jed Simon: We have a tech enabled product which accelerates payment, not unlike a traditional factor or AR lender.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Kelly Tompkins: Yes, in 1998, there was Away.com, iExplore, and there was significant venture capital thrown at that segment. What AdventureLink allows us to do is cast a very wide net, to build distribution partners and tap into mainstream travel. Thanks for the interview, and good luck!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I speak to colleagues who participate in trading crypto who tell me that there are coordinate rings on encrypted instant messaging platforms like Telegram to have coordinated buying and selling of new currencies. In many ways, it could even become a new tool for earlier shareholder liquidity including the exit of some VC money.

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