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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I only recently invested and I only got here through persistence. The opportunity came up to invest in this one and I pounced. More on that later.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 8, 2009

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 -- Technology Strategy for RandD and Product Development. Build technology roadmaps that guide innovation and growth with customer focused technology investments. Uncover current and future customer needs. Anticipate potentially disruptive technologies. Identify innovative customer focused projects.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Monday, February 23, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Technology Strategy for RandD and Product Development. Attend this 2 day course and learn how to manage technology investments through technology roadmaps. See [link] (more).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. in Computer Science.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2009

According to Aptera, it missed its goal to deliver its first production 2e vehicles by the end of 2008, and is moving its volume production launch to October 1 of 2009. Aptera raised $24M in a Series C investment from Google, Idealab, Esenjay Investments, The Simons Family, and The Beall Family Trust back in July.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. At the time I pointed out: “If I had realized exits almost certainly it would be because I invested in a company that failed. I have done 6 VC investments – all within the past 20 months. 5 years ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

But honestly 10 extra hours in the office each day we would be there is way more productive. Success often comes from doing a few things extraordinarily well and noticeably better than the competition and is measured in customer feedback, product engagement, growth in usage and ultimately in revenue growth. The best investors do less.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The funding was led by Alsop Louie Partners, and also included Arden Road Investments, Biotechonomy, Dolby Family Ventures, First Round Capital, Idealab and frogVentures. New Matter said the funding will go towards accelerating product development efforts. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2020

For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. Or find an entirely different application for an existing product.

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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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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2011

SNTech--which has quietly been backed by SAIL since at least 2009--said it acquired the $23.4M, electric motor product line from Regal Beloit Corporation (RBC) , as part of an arrangement with the U.S. Department of Justice. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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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. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs.

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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. Unemployment continues to rise – Unemployment as of September 2009 is 9.7% This has a tangible impact on the valuation of start-ups and the pace of investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

This was 2009 and his understanding of audience engagement was far beyond anything I was hearing from most people at that time. And after one meeting they started asking for his advice about marketing, customer engagement, product design, monetization – whatever. I reached out after the event to learn more.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 -- Connect with CleanTECH San Diego. Whether you're greening your workplace, supply chain, product, or service offering; or seeking investment, this is the place to be. Join 400+ business leaders, innovators, scientists, and engineers from across San Diego's innovation economy. See [link] (more).

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JUNE 3, 2010

And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. It’s a cool product and worth checking out. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. I would argue that the shut-down of September 2009 was equally severe yet there are signs that this “VC Ice Age” has begun to thaw. Why did the VC markets freeze so quickly?

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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. VC’s don’t invest 100% of their own money. And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 These are very different.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. Lawrence Ng: When you start an incubator, your quickly learn how passion for a new product motivates the team and encourages them to work together regardless of location.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Bryan Cheung: What we're specifically doing, is a product called the LifeRay digital experience platform. How did the shift come from consulting services to a product? Bryan Cheung: In 2009, we switch to a subscription model. How is it you made it to $100M in revenues without outside investment?

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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. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 1, 2009

Saturday, March 7, 2009 -- Intellectual Property Workshop for Techies by IEEE. The workshop will include case studies on how these subjects are utilized to protect actual products or services. At this workshop, Intellectual Property attorneys will present on Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks and Non-Disclosure Agreements.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2016

There has been a lot of worry recently in the high tech industry and from venture investors about "headwinds" in the technology market, particularly with valuations of "unicorn" companies dropping, investors shying away from investing in rounds, and even employees looking for safer jobs.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

million led by GRP Partners, with participation from Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin Ventures, Clark Landry, Andy Rankin, and Launchpad LA. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment One: Jim’s background and Clearstone’s investment strategy. We also talked about Elevation Partners who invested in Palm and how this deal really salvaged their investment, which was a VERY big bet on Palm.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. 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.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. When Eric departed to pursue other things, a new partner stepped in with years of experience building and running community and product teams at AOL. Today, I’m excited to announce that Tech.Co and for the mark you left.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

We really started scaling the business in 2009 and 2010, to where we are now with 300 employees, hiring quite rapidly both here in LA as well as in our international offices. Stacy Stubblefield: We were part of the incubator, so we had some other contracted employees who were working and helping us develop the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

LPs (the people who invest in VC funds) want to know what “hot” deals you’re in. It’s been high tide since 2009 so an entire batch of entrepreneurs don’t know what low tide even looks like. In a pool of 25-30 investments in a VC fund the goal is to have 2-3 huge outliers.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

Scott Saunders: I spent nearly my entire career on the investment side, and in 2005 switched over to the entrepreneurial side of the world. In 2009, I teamed up with my partner, co-founder Eden Warner. That's compared to other financial products, which are designed for managing money, and just feel like work.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2012

The luck was Taylor Swift signing up organically in late 2009, which was our first major artist. Then, Guy O'Seary, Madonna's manager, and Ashton Kutcher invested in late 2009, which added Madonna and Ashton's connections, getting us into the right circles in the celebrity arena to get on their radar.

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