Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. Sometimes the best way to grow is to acquire other companies or other products, and sometimes you need a public stock in order to go that route. The market is moving back up, but slowly. Is your spotlight bright enough to start a new wave?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Highlights included Tyler Crowley (of Sqweal and the Launch conference), Myke Armstrong and William Barnes’ presentation of Votoboth and how it’s not about badges anymore, but county fair ribbons (keep this in mind as you gamify your product).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. But it might not.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products. Launchpad LA was founded by prominent VC Mark Suster of GRP Partners in 2009, and invests in each company that is accepted into the program. The founders previously ran another company together.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Internally, we look very similar to a tech company, in that we have a development team, go-to-market team, and product people, and the ultimate goal of what we want to accomplish is to create companies that can run independently, with their own management teams. We created a product that would allow you to print barcodes.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2010

Like 2009 (and 2008), Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are pushing their motion-controlled products on an all-too-eager public. From The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, to Eye Pets and Dance Central, we tested out each company’s motion product and will give you our thoughts. You’re in for a fantastic 2010-2011 gaming year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). And while this data is from mid-2011 I can assure you that data is not going down. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. This figure is predicted to reach 3.8 billion by 2014.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

The giant search engine is set to end less used products or combining a number of them into more resourceful ones. In November 2011, Google’s spring clean saw a number of services shut down like Knol, Friend Connect and Google Wave. Google has from late last year embarked on an in-house cleaning project.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

They're really looking for enterprise-ready companies, who are innovative, and ready to scale, and who are really aligned with what Microsoft is trying to achieve with their customers and products. We built the first, networkable contact management product, Goldmine, to run on top of Novell. How did you get involved with Microsoft?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Prior to joining FM in 2009, she served as President at Scripps Networks Digital, where she led the charge on bringing Scripps more fully into the digital space. Starting November 3-5 (This week) BlogWorld kicks it off as will TechZulu. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

We also make some e-commerce revenue, because some people are ranking products, so we can make affiliate revenue or lead revenue on clicks on things like cars. We were in closed beta for a while, and launched in August of 2009. Our growth has been steady from month-to-month, and has just started to ramp up heavily in 2011.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

That worked well enough, we did another class in 2008 with another 10 companies, and in 2009 we expanded to Boston. One could argue that in 2010, 2011, and 2012, that growth was in the video and entertainment area. Finally, the last thing, is what is the idea and product you are trying to build.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Example: if a VC is on their fourth $200 million fund that they just raised in 2009 then you might hear them talk about $800 million under management. For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

Youtube.com, 48 hours of uploads every minute and three billion views daily, according to Youtube.com’s official blog in May of 2011. Again in 2009, sales of all pocket camcorders were just over $2 billion world-wide, growing 21% in unit sales to 13.6 With producing at our finger tips, we can film our lives to post for the word to see.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Prior to joining FM in 2009, she served as President at Scripps Networks Digital, where she led the charge on bringing Scripps more fully into the digital space. Starting November 3-5 (This week) BlogWorld kicks it off as will TechZulu. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2012

Talk about what your products are used for? Kian Saneii: We formally launched in 2009, but I started looking at the market in 2008, to see what applications were out there. But, if you can even delay that for one month, that pays for a lifetime of our product. We spoke with CEO Kian Saneii to learn more about the firm.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Material Mix connects businesses with excess, undervalued reusable byproducts; and those who seek materials for use as an input in their own production process. Then in May 2011, she earned an M.B.A. It promises to tailor materials management solution to meet firm’s unique needs. Billion Market Opportunity.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Pablo Fuentes: It first started in 2009 when I was in business school originally. Then we rescued it from nothing around the end of 2011. We were doing this one product called “Small Business Hires”, similar to the employer app we launched today, all web-based. We have been able to develop a good product.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In 2009, when the platform was just under three years old, Nielsen put out a report stating that Twitter had grown 1,382% year-over-year. The fact that Twitter built a product around the mobile phone culture right out of the gate is significant: it created a new social pipeline. What Twitter looked like soon after launch in 2006.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." By doing the job.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Technology and IP law are at the forefront of the movie, and themes include common issues in startups regarding cash flow, IP rights, tech development, product design and distribution of equity. She was a keynote panelist at BlogWorld 2009 and has been a guest on the Peter B. Follow her on Twitter at @lisaborodkin [ [link] ].

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Also at Startup Night will be 25 diverse and innovative startups showcasing their latest products, competing for prizes including: $1K from LaunchKC , Business Extra Points from American Airlines , and a fast tracked spot to the Startup of the Year semifinals competition at Innovate Celebrate 2018. Siggi Hindrichs, Principal at Samsung NEXT.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist. Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2011

We were a TechStars 2009 company, and we have raised 1M since “graduating&# the program. Your goals, new products, new direction? If you are looking for information on the internet, regardless of the subject matter, you will find your answers on forums. How big is your team? Are you Funded? How much funding do you currently have?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

From the start he saw the power of technology to augment social interaction and began forming an interactive collective which led to it’s spin off and incorporation as Syyn Labs, LLC in 2009, and gained quick notoriety for their RGM music video collaboration with OK Go. In 2011 he was selected as a National Geographic Emerging Explorer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The number of Baby Boomers starting a business from 1996 to 2011 rose nearly 7 percent, while the start-up rate by those aged 20 to 44 fell about 5 percent. They are becoming the new early adopters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Despite the third-quarter funding drop, though, funding for the full year still looks to be higher than it was in 2009. billion invested during the same three-month period in 2009, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). So the venture process isn’t dead yet, despite all the rumors. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. 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.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

trillion out of our homes and spent 2/3rds of it on flat screen TVs, trips to Hawaii, time shares, Apple products and everything else we couldn’t afford. Deflation is crippling because as consumers expect products to be cheaper tomorrow they hold off purchasing every month to see what happens leading to a negative spiraling economy.

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