socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We spoke earlier with Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars America and who leads the program in LA, to hear more about why the startup accelerator operator is opening up its third accelerator here, why Los Angeles has turned out to be one of the leading sources for startups across its network, as well as Cody's advice to entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Investing Strategy. and Half.com.

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Capital Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 284

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Because you have multiple forces at work.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. Here’s why. Your Process Doesn’t Work.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

The study found that the greatest values for Southern California venture-backed firms were created by companies operating in Online Services (51%), followed by Communications and Networking (15%), Software (10%) and Semiconductors (9%). Tags: results investment exit california southern acquisition merger capital venture. IPO in 1996).

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Southern California Study Venture Capital Redpoint 29

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. Partners make investment decisions. ” In VC terms that means the key questions you need to answer are, is this investor: Geographically focused and have they invested in my geography before? Meet in person.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

To do that, the firm has combined the world of social networking and personal finance with its newly launched service. Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. Tell me the story behind Payoff.com?

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Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). They started in January of 2005. Can you tell our readers the story behind how you found the company?

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 24, 2011

Over 600 people came to this event to listen share and network, including entrepreneurs, VC’s and investors. William spent about half the time showing amusing new commercials and going through the evolution of his life leading up to the inception of Vizio as well as how a $600,000 investment turned into a $3 billion company seven years later.

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Orange County OCTANE Technical Review Outsource Development 104

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

We've built some social curation tools, which use social signaling--tweets, clickthroughs, or comments on Facebook--and take what the network is deciding are important stories, and highlighting those and moving them further up on our site, so that the important stories on any given day are being highlighted. How did you connect with Tony?

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Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2011

No one would call Carly Fiorina, the head of Hewlett Packard from 1999 to 2005, a wilting lily. I rarely see women at angel investment groups, either asking for money, or offering to fund new ventures. Networking, and using your network is the next most important element of learning. Others foresee just the opposite.

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Entrepreneur Statistics Startup Demand 90

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

We caught up with Peter earlier this week to get the background on Baroda, and to talk a little about the firm's investment goals. Peter Lee: Baroda Ventures is David Bohnett's--the founder of Geocities'--personal investment fund. He then invested in about twenty companies, almost all of them in Los Angeles or Southern California.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. There is a long tradition of these and it’s what formed the original angel network groups.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. And just when I thought I had the deal that was worthy of bringing to investment committee the world changed. Let’s review all of our existing investments. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. We spoke briefly about why.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

We had been talking with another of their companies, the GoBig network, which is a membership organization of investors and entrepreneurs. It took until April of 1984, and by 1988 I had met someone to invest in it, and I started the world's first digital projector company, Projectavision. Why turn to crowdfunding and Fundable for this?

Startup 252

Startup Sites Patents Outsource Development 252

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2010

No one would call Carly Fiorina, the head of Hewlett Packard from 1999 to 2005, a wilting lily. I rarely see women at angel investment groups, either asking for money, or offering to fund new ventures. Networking, and using your network is the next most important element of learning. Others foresee just the opposite.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Statistics Startup Demand 48

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

The reason passwords don't work, is because if you want a stronger password, when a system forces you to use a certain number of characters, or put numbers or special characters into a password, people can use keystroke logging to force themselves into your network or your PC. Forty-seven percent of people still don't use online banking.

Technology 124

Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2010

At Rincon Venture Partners , the single most important facet we consider when contemplating a new investment is the quality of the Serial Team. Alma mater, CallWave: 2005 IPO. The team is applying its ad network and ad serving insights to the emerging world of mobile advertising. Alma mater, Overture: sold to Yahoo. Be A Roadie.

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Startup IP Entrepreneur Software Review 150

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2010

He left to start his own firm, which only invests in data-based companies, who are all focused on accumulation and use of data. I left that environment with that mindset, to create first AdExchange, and then AdECN around 2004-2005. We've also got a huge list of strategic investors also participating.

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Advertising Startup Media Marketing 157

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I later learned that they were a spin out from an investment bank. We have invested heavily in this. People said, “invest more.”

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Seth also spoke about not accepting investment until after gaining traction. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. It then permeated my thinking and I began to explore the theme more as I looked around at web properties.

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. is a good monthly investment? In total, Demand Media owns 20 media networks in the US alone and is one of the best reasons why Paul Graham believes Hollywood is dead.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

My colleague at National Defense University, Dr. Tim Coffey, head of the Naval Research Laboratory for many years, called these two parts of discovery the "prospecting" and "mining" phases in a 2005 paper ( [link] ), where prospecting is largely the responsibility of the government and mining that of industry.

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45