socalTECH

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Coffin's last startup, LowerMyBills, was sold to Experian Interactive in 2005 for $330M plus earnout; he is also an active angel investor in Southern California, with stakes in ThisWeekIn, Ad.ly, Rubicon Project, Docstoc, and other prominent local Internet firms. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. prefer instead to divide it according to the mindset of users: whether or not they are actively looking to purchase something (i.e. SlideShare: VC signaling in seed rounds.

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MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. They are, in fact, great news for traditional venture capitalists. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. The reason is that no VC wants to see the venture debt provider get burned if you become bankrupt.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter.

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APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad’s start in Venture Capital. was starting.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2009

Southern California's venture capital numbers for Q4 slipped, as did numbers nationally, according to numbers released over the weekend by Dow Jones VentureSource. According to the report, Southern California's venture capital totals slipped for the first time since 2003, down more than 18 percent annually, to $3.2

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. In the last couple of weeks, we've started to ramp up, and are actively looking at new investments. You mention the firms who aren't as active--and with funds going away, not yet raising money, etc.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. And I certainly didn’t want him having to trapse up-and-down Sand Hill Road informing every VC of his next idea. ” When merchants sign up MyTime then helps them with marketing activities through marketing automation tools they’ve build across SEM, social, and email.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

We felt we'd have more impact over time, if we instead focused on people who are one generation younger, still working, and are active. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. We made a decision not to go for venture capital early. I ended up managing that project.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. I believe that.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2010

Jerry Fitch: The business management team at Golden Gate Capital bought Teridian in 2005. There was legislation moving through in 2004, which ultimately came out in 2005, which was a starting point for the smart meter discussion. Jerry Fitch: California is always a bell-weather for this kind of activity.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Prior to founding MuckerLab, Erik was most recently at Harrison Metal Capital where he helped lead one of the most successful seed-stage venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Our Panelist Include: Erik Rannala , Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ MuckerLab. Venue Sponsor. Want To Sponsor?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. We spent six plus years at a local firm, Palomar Ventures, doing Series A and Series B investments.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

This morning's interview is with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners (www.grpvc.com). GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. What's your thoughts on the local venture market? That as unhealthy.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

One of the previous companies I worked on we sold to Microsoft in 2005, and I then spent some time at Microsoft to get that company integrated. That's what we're going forward with for the next few months, and then will actively go about raising venture capital.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Wilson is the President/COO of Paltalk, a profitable leading live social interest/topic & content based video and chat community, with millions of active users a month, cross platforms. From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. So far so good.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

HUBkap allows you to: Plan - Create, manage and communicate all your daily activities with the people that matter most - all on one calendar. VentureDea l - VentureDeal is a venture capital database that provides the latest information about venture-backed technology companies, venture capital firms and transactions in the United States.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3 According to a report by Ernst & Young ”Although VC-backed activity increased, (in 2010) the median time from initial VC financing to an IPO exit remains long. years, the longest span on record.”

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3 According to a report by Ernst & Young ”Although VC-backed activity increased, (in 2010) the median time from initial VC financing to an IPO exit remains long. years, the longest span on record.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. Neither can any VC. Executive Summary.

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MAY 5, 2011

I need to take some VC meetings. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. VCs were very active in this period. You would think it would be better for M&A to be more active when the markets are down – better prices. But I guess you could say the same about VC. He was working on a VC round in the early Summer.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This morning's reflections are from Kelly Perdew , managing general partner of at Moonshots Capital (www.moonshotscapital.com). Raising money as a first-time VC fund is hard.In Many of my friends who are VCs (and some friends who tried to raise a fund unsuccessfully) warned me that raising for a first-time fund would be very difficult.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. socalTECH.com is the most respected and most read sources of information on Southern California’s technology and venture capital industry. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Governmental crackdowns Governments regularly use surveillance to track illicit behavior and curb or curtail activities. And of course all of these illicit activities take place precisely because there is so much economic interests and stake in providing “social bads” to people who want to consume them.

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