Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

billion jump in funding over the same quarter of 2010 with a similar number of deals, so it clearly shows a trend to larger deal sizes for fewer startups. Sure, there is always some seed funding (10% of overall deal flow), but you can bet that this money goes to entrepreneurs who have been there before and won.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. Michael Kleist: We''re seed funded, and have already raised money from twelve investors. We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online. How long has company been around? Tell us about your backers?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

The truth is that I’ve been warning about convertible notes since 2010 it was first declared that “convertible notes have won.” In the old days there usually weren’t convertible notes on early-stage deals and there weren’t party rounds with 20 angels or 6 seed funds.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Club Cooee was founded in 2007, and has received an undisclosed round of seed funding from Aurelia Private Equity. There are plans for a mobile Club Cooee application, however, it will not be available until Q3 2010. We'd like to see these options added in the future. Russian and Portugeuse will be the next languages supported.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

We launched the first publicly available (German) Beta Version of exploreB2B at the end of 2010. Any funding yet? We received seed funding from Investitionsbank Berlin , a state bank investing in innovation and technological advancements. When was it launched and where? Who are its founders? Any strategic partnerships?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010. In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. Index Seed : Index Ventures carves out seed fund from existing $400mm fund.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Our mutual friend mentioned to me over breakfast during the late summer of 2010 that Uber was raising a seed funding round. He is now a Senior Executive at Uber, although back in 2010 he had no formal affiliation with the company. Note: I am not disclosing my friend's identity.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

Can you talk about how your company is funded? Michael Wong: We're with StartEngine, and have received a small amount of seed funding from them. We're also funding it out of pocket. We actually know a lot about this, since we started in 2010 as a QR-code based, loyalty program.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

The firm already has seed funding from such investors as Kelly Perdew, Sugarmaker Media, and support from talent agency ICM Partners. Jeremy Gocke: The first incarnation of the idea for Fliptu started to gel between 2008 and 2010. We did that, and to bankroll that effort we went out to raise a very small, pre-seed round.

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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. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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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. between June and July 2010 (and 25% from a year ago). raise money now to weather any storms).

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures - Gabriel Weinberg , July 25, 2010 I was once a wannabe entrepreneur.

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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! ► October (1) New Video!

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