TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

When “Law and Order” ended its twenty-year run in 2010, it had already cemented its place as one of the longest-running television dramas in history. Its success was a testament to the enduring popularity of a good mystery. Solve began as a series developed within the mobile-focused entertainment studio, Vertical Networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Montgomery expects M&A to rebound to the normal recent levels at 450 deals by 2010. Nearly 50% say they will increase their activity levels in 2010 (hallelujah!) He thinks demand for IPOs (from buyers) remains high while supply is low because Sarbanes Oxley amongst other things has made less CEOs want to go public.

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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. Paul talked about Neuhaus Partners, a 65 million Euro fund with the remit to invest in German-speaking countries.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

On Demand). Invested in more than 30 companies, a large percentage of which have had successful exits or continue on as successful companies, including: AdECN, AMG, AndroMedia, AudioMill, Data Sage, GameFly, GameSpy, Kongregate, Mob.ly, People Support, Smilebox, Sometrics, Three Rings, Scopely, PlayDek, and Universal Audio.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Too bad, as the initial funding round has increased over 4,000 times in value, making a $250,000 investment worth more than $1,100,000,000. A VC has done their job when their funds include enough great companies to generate an industry-leading outcome. Nope, that’s not a typo. Note: I am not disclosing my friend's identity.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. SV Angel / Ron Conway closes $20mm venture fund. 10mm in Series C.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

We started focusing on that, and at the time we were doing only phone verification, but then we started adding in data analytics because of customer demand, we added in some other things like straight messaging rather than pin codes. So you were able to fund your growth just from customer? What were you doing before?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

UCB Economics 2010 summa cum laude. Any funding yet? Growing our base of theaters as fast as possible to match our customer demand. They did some research, and found that around 88 percent of seats were empty and about 95 percent of seats were empty after opening weekend. They then decided to do something about it.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

In 1999, I was involved with GE Financial, launching a broker platform, so that they could self-score and autodoc their funding deals. We did very well last year, and started very strong offering both an on-demand and an on-premise product. How are you funded? How did the company start? It was a very manual process.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is currently a Managing Director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund and sits on the boards of IMI Exchange, Xfire, Playsino, ExpressCoin, GoCoin, FGL, Spicy Horse Games, KnCMiner.cn, Robocoin China and the Mastercoin Foundation. On Demand).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

We have a long relationship with them, and have been funding research in their labs, and have a continuing relationship. We're doing our development in El Monte, and we think we'll be operational by the beginning of next year, and full scale by the end of 2010, with product launch in 2011. We refer to them as plastic solar panels.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Njoku in April this year closed an $8m funding investment round from Tiger Global and another $2m from a Swedish firm, Kinnevik and still he says more is yet to come. iROKO Partners was launched in December 2010. Tell us about funding rounds you have had? However building Iroko Partners was not a walk in the park.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I responded to his tweet, we chatted on the phone and he asked me to co-host the event on Dec 14th, 2010. is providing funds for food, AV, security and an amazing venue at their HQ complete with every amenity one could ever need to pull off a successful meetup. I of course agreed to get involved. ’s HQ in Burbank.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Yet 2010 is already showing me how connected our lives and our health are starting to become. So as I contemplated the kick off to 2010 I thought again about Weight Watchers. I got so excited about this company that I reached out to the CEO to enquire about fund raising. Seemed such a fantasy back in 1992. No keying in required.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. Xobni’s main competitor that I know about is Gist, funded by Brad Feld at Foundry Group. Others I have not.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. They make it easy to collect investment funds, track ownership, and provide targeted updates to investors. Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. 22 @ 5:30pm PT.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. He runs the Southern California Venture Capital Alliance (VCA) and is on the board of advisors for the venture capital fund of the UCSD Rady School of Business. 1B+ Revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

But if you've spent all your money on the website for party supplies, you may not have the funds to have the site redone. As your services gain demand, your time becomes more valuable and you can charge more. Businesses can be built on sweat equity. Making cakes, making baby clothes, or making birdhouses, for example.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. In fact, that’s all that I fund as a VC.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification. He joined WebVisible, a leading provider of local online marketing software and services, as chief operating officer in 2009 and was elevated to CEO in 2010.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

It kept growing and growing on a grassroots basis, and by 2010, it had just taken off. We like to fund Make-A-Wishes, particularly for kids with rare and neglected diseases. it's every bit as demanding at DonateGames. How do you help those kids?

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. My fund was an early investor in Overture. Recent Comments | 3 Total February 26, 2010 at 6:37pm by bill right L.A. RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. then in Silicon Valley.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . The PepsiCo10 program in 2010 saw the company team up with Mashable and Highland Capital Partners to.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. I have personally reported ThingFetcher to Rackspace twice, by the way. Sad but true.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

-Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. Total raised: $16.0mm. Other Deals.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Venture Capital Funding 7. ► October (1) New Video! . Relaxing 2. Incubation 3. Go-to-Market 5.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

One year ago I predicted that in 2010/11 the economy, far from being on the path of permanent recovery was on a temporary resurgence and there was a strong possibility of a “double dip” recession. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer. The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it.

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