Both Sides of the Table

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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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We thought today for our interview, that we'd get an update on the angel investment environment here in Southern California from Scott Sangster , the incoming President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels , the biggest angel investment group in Southern California. Those are fundamentals that don't change.

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APRIL 7, 2011

Todd has a unique view, having worked both on the venture and high technology investing side at Anthem, as well as the architecture and construction industry now. Examples of that, would be formaldehyde-free materials, using formaldehyde-free wood for cabinets, formaldehyde-free insulation, toxin free adhesives, and so on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. Take for example Accel. 2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 6, 2013

Then transactions will be pulled in and categorized by type, for example expenses from shopping, cab fares, Coffee Shops among others. ” Mint.com track one’s spending across all their accounts, credit cards, student loans and investment accounts to checking accounts. Dwolla said they were proud of working with Mint.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. Sure, there are examples of founders who have survived and prospered, such as Bill Gates and Larry Page, but these guys are the exception, not the rule. After a record low of 39 U.S. Loss of control.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

The problem with VC Seed Funding – Chris is right to raise the issue with entrepreneurs because there have been instances where large VC funds have set up seed programs where the investments have been used as “options.&# There are many problems with this. invested in the seed round they have more inside knowledge than I do.

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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. Simple: according to Mike Polaris has followed on nearly every seed investment that they’ve done. Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

The 55-64 age bracket exhibited the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity every year from 1996 to 2008, while the 20-34 bracket actually had the lowest rate. He has a diverse background as a Tier I management consultant, investment banker, technologist, and Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

If you invested in the first angel round of a startup company it is usually very hard to sell your stock – usually for many years if ever at all. The earlier you invest the higher the chances the company won’t work out and thus you pay a lower price than later-stage investors. Private markets for stocks are the opposite.

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JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital? Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008. TechCrunch.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. What do you invest in? We closed our fund in August of 2008. We spent six plus years at a local firm, Palomar Ventures, doing Series A and Series B investments.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

We thought it might be interesting to talk with one of the fund's managing directors, Jeb Spencer about the fund's success in technology investments, plus how it managed to raise another fund in this kind of environment, plus its unique goal of getting companies to an acquisition--and not an IPO.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

The information in action sports is way more interesting, for example, if you''re snowboarding on a mountain and getting airtime, surfers getting cutbacks, and all these things. That makes a few interesting applications possible, for example, in action sports, because there you''re not running in a straight line at a constant speed.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC. In 2008, we started to throw around ideas, and eventually settled on this one. An example is one of our clients, HotelTonight, where we started with just two people, and scaled with their growth into hundreds of people. Before that, I was in New York, City.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

MedCrypt, a healthtech cybersecurity startup founded near San Diego, has raised $750,000 in a seed financing round led by Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE: SFE ), a private equity fund in suburban Philadelphia that invests in healthcare, fintech, and digital media. A San Francisco investment firm, Muddy Waters Capital, announced on Sept.

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APRIL 1, 2010

Mark Suster lead GRP's investment in the firm, and Jim Andelman led Rincon's investment. 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. What is Burstly? Evan Rifkin: Basically, we are an open and free ad management platform.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. The investment will be used for product development initiatives.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. My angel investing strategy vs Joshua Schachter - Gabriel Weinberg , May 18, 2010 Joshua Schacter has a great AMA thread on HN about angel investing. But startups can shoot themselves in the foot when founders use consultants at the wrong time or in the wrong way.

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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. If I've seen companies that are similar to them--or half a dozen companies--even if the area might be big and exciting, it will be hard to make an investment. We're really excited about 2009.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

Shopping cart providers, website builders, and crowdfunding platforms, for example, can create accounts and facilitate payments for their users through the WePay API while limiting the scope of PCI compliance. WePay was founded in 2008 by Bill Clerico and Rich Aberman and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. When was it launched?

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JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jeff Kupietzky: I think, like other folks, we had challenges at the end of 2008, and through 2009. We definitely feel this is an expansion year for us, and that we'll be making investments in multiple types of businesses. An example of that is in travel, with Lowfares.com, which we acquired.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

In the Bay Area, Roudi said about 180 companies pay Plug and Play an annual fee to get an inside track on incubating startups, and in some cases could be making investments in San Diego companies as well. billion under management. Cohen described Downtown Works as a “hyper-connector.”. Downtown Works Interior.

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MARCH 29, 2012

Amanda MacNaughton: An example of this is we powered a promotion for Rock the Vote, a big campaign for them. In 2008, we built applications for musicians Travis Barker and DJ-AM, which provided a mixtape in exchange for a tweet. However, artists are not incentivized to give content away form free.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

This morning we heard from Jamie Montgomery, CEO of the venerable Montgomery & Co investment bank who is at the heart of what is going on in M&A for venture backed companies. A recent example would be Compuware’s $295 million acquisition of Gomez , a networking monitoring company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee. Jelli - I went on record saying that I wanted to invest and that I think this company will create a big success.

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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. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer.

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MAY 11, 2011

I told him, I wanted him to invest his time. An example of that is we have built in daily tips, which we have put together after going through 17,000 medical studies on what to do to reduce early memory loss. Elizabeth Amini: He's our advisor, and also chief game visionary. So Nolan is behind the design of the games?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

As of today, I will have published an article here for entrepreneurs and startups every day for the last 1001 days, since I started Startup Professionals Musings near the close of 2008. It’s been essentially my only resource, and has paid off handsomely, for example, with almost 380,000 followers on Twitter.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

WordHustler launched in May of 2008 in a beta. For example, for one day when you finish your book, you can submit it here, or there--and put those all on your wish list. It's something that is really neat which we invested in, which we've never seen anywhere else. What's the whole idea behind WordHustler?

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MAY 21, 2013

I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days.

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MAY 21, 2013

I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

See Five Things Meme as an example. as an example. MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point Map of VC Investments Open Source Business Model Entreprenuer Network ► February (10) Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. in Computer Science.

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JULY 23, 2009

For example, most companies out there--probably 99 percent of the companies out there, do their balance account reconciliation in Excel. For example, they don't know when new accounts come in, when balances change, and there's very little control and visibility. People don't have control over the Excel processes.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

For example, I could send you $25 towards a Wii Nunchuck, with a cute picture labeled from me, and an actual $25. Elliott came up wit the idea in 2008, seeing the trends I just explained to you. Lottay's gift are virtual things--anything you want--attached to real money, in a PayPal account. That's where I came along.

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