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. Innovation doesn’t even require technology.

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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. It is also a result of pent-up demand. So we loaded up on flat screen TVs, multiple generations of iPods and trips to Hawaii. See point 2 below. That’s around 1 out of 7 working-age Americans.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 7, 2009

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 -- UCLA Internship Fair for Small and Start-up Businesses. The goal of the Fair is to match entrepreneurial companies in need of talent in a variety of corporate functions with Anderson MBA students searching for both academic and paid internships.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. I love how transparently Danielle lives her startup (& encourages other to join in) because it provides much needed transparency to other startups. Let’s set up a framework. Gross Burn vs. Net Burn.

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JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. ” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

I think I’ve read Paul Graham’s post on “ Startup = Growth ” three or four times now. “The growth of a successful startup usually has three phases: There’s an initial period of slow or no growth while the startup tries to figure out what it’s doing. I talked about some of that here.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their customers via messaging, has been acquired for about $42 million in cash by Medallia, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Shoes Of Prey , a fashion startup which allows women to custom order shoes to their specifications, has raised $15M in a Series B funding, and set up shop in Santa Monica, according to the company. The company was founded by Michael Fox, Mike Knapp and Jodie Fox in Sydney in 2009. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 21, 2009

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 -- Legal Advice for Startups. Startups Uncensored. The topic will be Legal Advice for Startups with an open and frank town-hall conversation talking about the legal questions that face start-ups and issues like incorporation, stock options, hiring employees, and much more.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2010

column, we have the second part of Jon Funk 's analysis of the return on Southern California IT startups, and how they have created value for investors. Earlier this year, socalTECH.com profiled a study of the financial outcomes of 700+ southern California IT startups from 1995-2009, and how they have created value for investors.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

A group of startups have moved into a new, downtown San Diego startup incubator run by CommNexus , as that group's EvoNexus incubator expands into a second site. The startup incubator effort is being headed by Kevin Hell, the former CEO of DivX. The new startups moved into the incubator last week. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

For newly launched start up, Readitfor.me Cunningham walked into his office one day and thought, why wouldn’t I make content with the information from my favorite business books, but speed it up and make it visual? Cunnigham talks of the ups and downs, but more about the serendipity of the project becoming a business.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2010

The Tech Coast Angels said today that the angel group invested in seven new deals, and seventeen follow-on deals in 2009, a total of $4.7M Tags: startup investment funding angel capital venture angels coast tech. in investments.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Interested in getting some help in getting your startup off the ground and funded? Launchpad LA , the Los Angeles startup accelerator program which is run by Sam Teller, and was founded by venture capitalist Mark Suster, is gearing up for another class, to start next month.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2020

Los Angeles-based Acquicent , the startup which is developing a marketplace that allows users to invest in "museum-grade" collectibles such as art and vintage automobiles, is announcing this morning that it has added Kevin Conroy, CEO of ConroyMedia and former director of Sotheby's, as both an advisor and ivnestor.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. It is to out friend. Enjoyed this post? Disruptive. We get it! I Be specific.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

On March 10, socaltech.com profiled a study of the financial outcomes of 700+ southern California IT startups from 1995-2009 completed by Jon Funk of OceanRoad Partners and others. We have applied this methodology to the 67 IPO's completed from 1995-2009 by southern California venture capital-backed and self-financed IT companies.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. We need to make sure we have these numbers.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Southern California startup founder Isaac Saldana --who co-founded SendGrid --is hoping to help other entrepreneurs create companies , after the $3 billion, all-stock acquisition of SendGrid by Twilio in October. Saldana is based in Irvine, where he co-founded SendGrid in 2009. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Tony Hsieh , the founder of Zappos--and a big angel investor in Southern California startups-- has died, at the age of 46 , according to Las Vegas media. Hsieh co-founded Zappos in 1999, and sold it to Amazon in 2009, for approximately $1.2 Details on the death have not been released. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

Expansion League Teams In The Startup World. In the past year, the number of startup accelerators and incubators across the US has grown faster than expansion league baseball. In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. .” If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

” Here’s how all the drama started for me. A rounds back then seemed to be anywhere from $2-3 million (LA or NYC) or up to $5 million in Silicon Valley. $5 So VCs started writing some smaller A-rounds. If you want a great primer on how the VC and startup funding scene changed here’s a great primer.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. Our investment strategy has always been to do predominantly Series Seed & A round deals, which makes up > 85% of our first investments. And daunting.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

I was just asked about a particular startup situation (seed stage, CMO hire, non-founder) and particularly what compensation and equity is appropriate. Seed Stage Compensation What are typical compensation numbers?

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2017

Hollod is now joined up with Burkle and recording artist D.A. How did you end up here in Los Angeles doing investments? Chris Hollod: Growing up in Atlanta, I was completely oblivious to California and more specifically LA. I immediately started to bombard various LA professionals with LinkedIn messages.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Sunday, November 22, 2009 -- LA Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Saturday, November 21, 2009 -- LA Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. See [link] (more).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Friday, November 20, 2009 -- LA Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Lanzone replaces current Tinder CEO Elie Seidman, who the company said will return to working with early stage, venture-backed startups. Lanzone previously had a short stint in Southern California's high tech industry, having been CEO of Los Angeles-based online video guide service Clicker back in 2009. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2013

The Honest Company , the online brand offering up natural products for babies and families founded by Jessica Alba, has teamed up with daily deals site Zulily , the two said Wednesday afternoon. Lee also headed up LegalZoom, and also runs ShoeDazzle. Financia link between the companies were not disclosed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. Startup DNA. Media relationships.

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MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Thin Line--formed in partnership with LA's Wavemaker Partners--is hoping to take advantage of the growth in the clean technology market to find startups able to tapping into those now established markets, without the huge investment requirements of those first wave of clean technology companies. Lots has changed since 2009.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 3, 2009

Thursday, July 9, 2009 -- Startup University. Getting Started Legally. People who have recently started or are considering starting a new enterprise. If you've thought about branching out on your own, come and learn or reinforce the basics of how to prepare your startup for success. See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2016

Here are three Southern California startups who thrived despite--or maybe even because of--downturns. Just two years later, in 2010, the company had a successful IPO. The company was eventually acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion. >.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 4, 2010

Looking back at 2009 we had our ups and downs within the industry but the need to innovate, produce amazing content and the creation of great gadgets still remained. The Best of 2009: Interviews: Interview with Microsoft's First Blogger: Don Box. Event Coverage: Mistakes People Make Before Starting a New Business.

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