Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2016

Pharmstandard International, the Luxembourg-based investment arm of the Russian pharmaceutical giant Pharmstandard (and a first-time investor in Avelas), led the round. It was joined by two other new backers, Ervington Investments and Alexandria Venture Investments, and previous investors WuXi Healthcare Ventures, Bregua Corp.,

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. 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. How did you end up starting the site?

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. What is the investment focus for this fund?

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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. It’s true this was much bigger in the dot com era but I’ve studied the data and know that over the past decade these numbers are right. You invest across many funds just as VCs invest across many companies.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

She also has served at DoubleClick, had a stint as an investment banker at JPMorgan, been a venture capitalist at Bertelsmann Ventures, and started with an Electrical Engineering degree before her MBA. It was the fall of 2008, when Lehman Bros. Investment banking was a great training ground. How did you decide to launch HitFix?

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

We got a relatively large client in 2008, after three years of chugging along, and that's when we knew that was the business we should be focusing on. Ryan Disraeli: I was studying business with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. Did you take investment initially? Fundraising was something we just weren't investing in.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

Michael Witz: We've been building smaller, lightweight games on the Facebook platform since early 2008. We approached them, explained to them what the opportunity was, and also approached them about investment. What's the story behind Mob Science and how you got here? We were really there in the early days of the Facebook platform.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration). My angel investing strategy vs Joshua Schachter - Gabriel Weinberg , May 18, 2010 Joshua Schacter has a great AMA thread on HN about angel investing. Here’s why.

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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. Studies show that anyone can be an entrepreneur, but many won’t be happy as entrepreneurs. I’m sure you know what I mean.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

DB: My service was up in August of 2008, and I moved back to the U.S. Not to mention this was August of 2008, about a month before the economic collapse. MM: What did you study? It’s about the business community investing resources. And I realized that technology was bringing us closer. MM: What happened next?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Co-founded DigiSynd, which was acquired by Disney in 2008. Early 20s: Studied EE and went to business school at age 23. Greg has led Series A investments in tech-based enterprises. Prior to Sphero, Rob was SVP of Global Creative at Disney Interactive, the digital entertainment and games segment of The Walt Disney Company.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

They see an almost immediate payback in a month or two on the investment they make in BlackLine. Another thing is the ROI studies we've had done outside our firm by Nucleus Research. Those independent ROI studies show a very, immediate payback on getting this kind of software. Therese Tucker: My background is technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

That said, the founders only committed to the project fulltime in 2008, when traffic hit over 1 million visit a month. In 2009, after their first round of investment, they launched internationally. While studying at university, one of the founders had a girlfriend who lived in another city. What inspired them?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Mojix is venture backed by Oak Investment Partners, Red Rock Ventures, and Innocal. We did market studies, talked to customers, and launched a prototype in 2006, launching the company in 2008. We spoke with Dr. Sadr about the firm. Tell us a little bit about your products?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

In addition, due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, accounting costs have gone up an estimated four times for all businesses, and 2008-2009 represented the worst IPO market in forty years. Government should learn from private industry and invest research funds just like a venture capitalist invests startup capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Since 2008, the desire for profits has trumped passion in 54 percent of new startups, according to a more recent study. This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. According to William R. Cobb and M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Since 2008, the desire for profits has trumped passion in 54 percent of new startups, according to a recent study. This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. According to a recent book by William R.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). At some point it will be quite obvious whether the super angels’ investments and strategy succeed or fail. Yesterday he outlined his investment thesis on his blog. at a $2.5M

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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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