socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Based in Santa Monica, his team delivers SVB's full platform to clients, including venture debt, corporate cash management, foreign exchange, strategic payment solutions, strategic analytics, private equity fund banking, private banking, wealth management and venture capital.

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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. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2017

For today's interview, we spoke with Richard Sussman , who is leading up investments for a new venture capital firm in town, NordicEye (www.nordiceye.com), which just saw a big exit in one of its very first investments, Los Angeles-based Weblife. A company which has some revenue and has proven some sales, is more important than an MVP.

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MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Bottom of the sales funnel.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. Every major VC has a stable of portfolio companies that were “in a holding pattern” – too small for an IPO yet the VCs didn’t want to sell them cheaply in a fire sale.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog.

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APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. I saw it myself in 1999-2002 when it was hard to charge for my product because all of my competitors raised large rounds of capital and were giving away their products free fueled by large VC rounds. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Combine this significant pool of sophisticated Angel capital and expertise with UC Santa Barbara’s world-class entrepreneurial program and throw in a critical mass of entrepreneurs bold enough to build businesses around their passions, it’s understandable how a modest-sized community has produced so many successful tech startups.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. source: Capital IQ. source: Capital IQ. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote. And well they should be.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. That was the first time I raised any kind of capital, $600,000 in capital, for a social gifting platformback when Facebook was very generous with data.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

My House Is Not For Sale. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. Fortunately, we had several alternatives available to us, including: Access the public capital markets via an initial public offering (IPO). Open up a “sales process” and solicit bids from multiple companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. 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. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). Current round: $10mm in Series B by Norwest (lead), Storm Ventures and Adams Capital. Other Deals.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. 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. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. 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. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

He used this term so often that it eventually became the title of his 2005 book on business advice. However, in my dual role as the head of sales and business development, I devised mutually advantageous outcomes with customers and partners which culminated in a collective “Yes” from all the involved parties. 11) Brands Matter.

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MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. It would take 2 years to catch up but believe me they have the capital to do so. That is how great businesses are built.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 6, 2010

Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. 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. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The firm made a name for itself representing Skype from formation in 2003 through its ultimate sale to eBay for $2.6 billion in 2005, and also currently represents Rdio, Beats Electronics, Riot Games, Ad.ly, Redpoint Ventures, and several other prominent private and publicly traded clients.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

They also talked about their outlook on the venture capital market, and how likely they are to be investing this year, given the worried economy. In any sale--and raising money is a sale--establishing credibility early on is important. You're not trying to make a sale in two minutes. Hi guys, thanks for getting together.

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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. It's just sign up here, so we can get them into the system.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

He left traditional media at the top of his game to be the founding CEO of Next New Networks, one of the first digital video startups, backed by Spark Capital and bought by YouTube in 2011. 30% of all real income growth in 2005–2015 was from Latinos (U.S. How about your largest increases in car sales? trillion in 2020 (U.S.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. ” (Zig Ziglar).

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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. Shivani Siroya is the CEO and Founder of InVenture , which helps to expand small businesses around the world by providing access to growth capital and business tracking tools via the Internet and mobile technology.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. Venture capital is an industry best served up from 7-year aged casks. tl;dr summary. We did not. My prognosis?

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