Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

New entrepreneurs are always looking for a shortcut in getting their venture story and plan across to investors, and closing on the funding they need. An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In other news we announced the closing of $61 million in funding at Maker Studios , which I’ll talk publicly about soon. He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

New entrepreneurs are always looking for a shortcut in getting their venture story and plan across to investors, and closing on the funding they need. An effective tool I see used more and more, as a prelude to a more detailed business plan, is the Business Model Canvas , first introduced by Alexander Osterwalder back in 2008.

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MAY 24, 2011

Vic Caretti: The site was launched in April of 2008. We're also self funded, and absolutely have no need for venture capital. We are seeing lots of traction in the 14 cities we are live in, and people are wanting to work with us, including bands, PR people, management firms, the venues themselves, and local advertisers.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

The new site--funded by Forbes Media--said it is looking to create a "new visual discovery experience" for consumers. The advertising-driven site said it was founded by Yahoo! FlipGloss said it is funded by Forbes Media, and received an undisclosed funding round in March of 2008. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 1, 2010

But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies.

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JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So as of 2008 total LP commitments were still at nearly $250 billion.

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MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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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”. the funding and market coverage. million loss in 2008. million, compared to a $7 million net loss in 2008. LivingSocial. eCommerce is hot again! The race is on!

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JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. It was the fall of 2008, when Lehman Bros. However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. I believe that the advertisers they started with were probably disappointed that the cost per customer acquisition was not the same as search. Broadcast isn't like that.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds? Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto.

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APRIL 1, 2010

We caught up with founder Evan Rifkin --who previously founded and sold TagWorld/Flux to MTVN in November of 2008--to learn more about the startup. You have advertising networks and mediation players, but you don't really have an ad management platform like ours. What is Burstly? Our space is pretty young. READ MORE>>.

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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. Let's start with an overview of the fund. We closed our fund in August of 2008. What do you invest in?

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AUGUST 20, 2010

The company was founded in 2007, and the initial emphasis was to deliver to end users a personalized content portal on their smart phone, learning what they like anticipate what they'd like to see, and pay for it using personalized advertising. We did a successful trial in 2008. How is the company funded?

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MAY 11, 2011

How is the firm funded? Elizabeth Amini: We're privately funded by the founders. But, we never were looking for funding. But, the reason we ultimately said no, is because we have 20 percent in pretax earnings earmarked to fund and help lives, with prevention and research.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. I Be specific. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting.

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JUNE 1, 2011

We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. Clark Benson: I founded the company in 2008, and we took a little over a year to launch. But, there are not many funded players in the space. Most of that funding is going towards staffing up.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

WordHustler launched in May of 2008 in a beta. It's a great thing to have writers for clients, because they are our advertising. How's the company funded? Did you bootstrap this or get some funding? We had some small friends and family funding. We caught up with both Anne and John to learn more about the company.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

She was a painter (art not houses), who saw an opportunity and went for it, funding the company by taking a loan from her parents and selling off all of her paintings. Recycled Bride uses PayPal to hold the funds until the seller ships their item and enters a tracking number into the system. Any funding yet? Funded by LaunchPad.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

Their product offerings can benefit business from different perspectives from the producer, to the advertiser, to the end user — they have covered it all flawlessly. came to engineer and serial entrepreneur David Kaiser (Founder and CEO) in 2008 while surfing on his laptop while watching TV. has accomplished. Currently, Coincident.TV

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

This morning, Los Angeles-based Lottay (www.lottay.com) launched its online gifting site, announced its funding by DFJ Frontier, and also the appointment of former Evite GM Harry Lin as CEO. Elliott came up wit the idea in 2008, seeing the trends I just explained to you. We spoke with Harry yesterday about the company.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Mark Suster: First of all, the good news, is GRP has a $200 million fund, which we've only done three investments on. We are not looking to fund people in 2009, who are learning a new market, on our nickel. We often hear from entrepreneurs who say--I'll hire a great team, as soon as I get funded. We're really excited about 2009.

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JULY 13, 2009

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. In 2000, we set up our second fund--worth almost $400M--and for that vintage year, that fund is one of the top tier performing funds in the entire country.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I was in advertising and marketing, working in Newport Beach on the Mazda account. In January of 2008, we launched CalActive , which we thought might be a regional business. We're self funded as our own angel investor, and we thought based on the numbers in Hawaii it would be a nice sideline. How is the company funded?

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Internet advertising is good. Internet advertising is good. No, it’ Startup 2.0:

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team. Have you raised any funding yet?

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MARCH 3, 2011

So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections. How is the company funded and backed? There are hundreds of ways to do that, through merchandise, advertisements, sales of DVDs, content, and so forth.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Last month, AccessDNA (www.accessdna.com) announced it had raised a seed round of funding for the firm's shopping engine for genetic tests. I was the senior guy there, and I ran the registry/gift services, national sales and advertising, and travel services. She left her job at Genzyme, and we started the company in January of 2008.

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

So, in February of 2008, I started the website, and it caught on. It gives them preferential placement, but this is not an advertising model, because we do not guarantee them placement. Adi Jaffe: Our next step is really trying to get some angel level funding. It's not you pay us this much, and you'll show up this many times.

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JULY 16, 2012

.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008. We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors. We've obviously toyed with advertising and sponsorship as well. How long has Bccthis been around?

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MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

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MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Frank Addante

MAY 8, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Internet advertising is good. Advertising was the answer! No, it’ Startup 2.0:

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 27, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Zondigo, Inc.

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