Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

It’s simply about a team of dedicated individuals that failed. Make It Work was an amazing company. With over 38,000 cult-like testimonials, one cannot dispute the company delivered a valuable service in a way like no other company has come close. The company achieved many milestones along the way.

Capital 234

Capital Pricing Press Custom 234

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote. I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. If you are interested the Vimeo is here. and profits!

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2011

2011 and Wherecamp 2011 just happened this past week. The conference coincided with the news that three-year-old start-up is looking to raise funds at a price that valuates Foursquare at about $500 million. She gave us a great presentation about context. Conference. Enter the Where 2.0 Both Where 2.0 The Where 2.0

Conference 77

Conference Startup Mobile Ideas 77

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

spends hundreds of millions of dollars on a media property, runs it for about seven years, and then decides to unload that same property for a fraction of the price it paid to a Southern California technology--not media--company. How about IGN ? Well, could be. in a $580M deal.

News 159

News Southern California Sales Los Angeles 159

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” I know this seems obvious but I promise you that even smart people forget this when talking about profitability. Internet scale.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

I say “struggle to overcome&# because I care about young people entering our industry with a set of realistic expectations about what “normal&# is. That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. I did that?

Startup 391

Startup Blogging Venture Capital Writing 391

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2011

2011 and Wherecamp 2011 just happened this past week. The conference coincided with the news that three-year-old start-up is looking to raise funds at a price that valuates Foursquare at about $500 million. She gave us a great presentation about context. Conference. Enter the Where 2.0 Both Where 2.0 The Where 2.0

Conference 63

Conference Startup Mobile Ideas 63

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the proliferation of starutps in the past 2 years. Are we seeing a time in which pre-revenue companies are more valuable than our offline institutional brands? New stuff gets created, it’s fun to play with and talk about. It seems almost incomprehensible that only 2.5

Startup 309

Startup Cloud Computing Venture Capital Marketing 309

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

How do you go about trying to completely disrupt the entire telecom industry? No fly by night startup -- the company is backed by the founders of Skype -- we talked with COO Stephen Sesar about how FreedomPop can provide free wireless Internet, the firm's expansion plans, and how the company hopes to turn the telecom industry on its head.

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

Entrepreneurs are inundated with success stories, but far less is written about ventures that do not succeed. It’s simply about a team of dedicated individuals that failed. Make It Work was an amazing company. In doing so, I will assume all of the personally guaranteed loans and lines granted to the company. I was wrong.

RSS 170

RSS Technical Review Capital Email 170

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

I first met Greg about 4 years ago or so. He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. So I started introducing him to portfolio companies. Approachable.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

I myself coined the term ENIFA (everyone now is a f **g angel) in 2011 but it didn’t stick as well as the term Unicorn did. And from Nancy Hua … “Too many angels can also hurt a start-up and be taken as an indication that a company is not strong enough to attract any one “lead” investor, said Ms. Hua of Apptimize.

Angel 150

Angel Startup Seed Funding Invest 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Don’t and you might make one catastrophic mistake that leaves you in the annals of Effed Companies. Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). Backstopping is when banks feel they are protected by VC’s investing in the company.

Acquisition 304

Acquisition Startup Custom Customer 304

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on the skills I’ve developed in my career. I think being knowledgeable about your sector can be important. If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great.

Invest 284

Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 284

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? The panelists will share their experiences and insights about these programs and investors and offer a wide-range of information to the attendees before ending with a Q & A. What do they offer and how do they differ?

Incubator 64

Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 64

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#. The thing is – even if your services business is a smaller scale than this – you have complete control over the decisions about where to take the business. You’re a small fish.

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on my background. And if I were an entrepreneur I’d rather find investors who understood “my space&# so that in tough times they felt comfortable about “doubling down.&#. That’s what he knows best.

Invest 152

Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 152

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2016

We spoke with Michael Brylawski , the CEO of the company, to talk about the company--plus how it is hiring and expanding here in Los Angeles. By doing this, and also by using primarily electric vehicles, we can provide this service at a price which is cheaper than using your own car. driving for on-demand services.

Demand 100

Demand Los Angeles Inglewood Pricing 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5 I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. What IS relevant about the size of a VC’s fund?

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Funding Invest GRP Partners 269

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. I am on record speaking effusively about AngelList. I worry about that.&#. I know Jason well.

Venture Capital 267

Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? The panelists will share their experiences and insights about these programs and investors and offer a wide-range of information to the attendees before ending with a Q & A. What do they offer and how do they differ?

Incubator 40

Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 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? If these factors impact earnings the stock market may be headed South – If unemployment rises housing prices won’t.

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Startup Funding Technical Review 269

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2011

Conducted this fall, the 2011 Consumer Payment Poll revealed that consumers have dramatic and growing concerns about the safety and privacy of using credit or debit cards for online transactions. If you hadn’t guessed it, P1 is a digital payment processing company, but they do things a little differently.

Mobile 68

Mobile Study Software Review Research 68

Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

After a year in which Biogen’s share price has fallen by more than a third and one of its top drug prospects failed, Scangos, who has led the company since 2010, has announced plans to step down. Biogen is beginning a search immediately, and will consider candidates from both within and outside the company.

San Diego 40

San Diego Conference Pricing Acquisition 40

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

Recently, we learned about Solarmer Energy , a spinout of UCLA, which is developing flexible solar panels, and caught up with Woolas Hsieh , President and Founder of the firm and Dina Lozofsky , VP, Corporate Development at the firm to hear more about its emerging technology. Our company was privately funded by our partners.

UCLA 159

UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

Kyle: Andrea, tell me a little about yourself: Andrea: Right out of College I worked as an assistant buyer for May company in Boston. I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: Is this your first company? Andrea: That it’s all about me.

Startup 99

Startup Social Media Media Sites 99

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Providers make their pricing model transparent and easily available on the web, so it’s simple to calculate the cost savings of the cloud. An IDC study commissioned on behalf of Microsoft has shown that cloud computing will be responsible for creating nearly 14 million new jobs between 2011 and 2015.

Cloud Computing 85

Cloud Computing Marketing CIO Organization 85

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

The reasons companies elect to sell exclusively offline differ, but they often center on managing channel conflict with their retail partners. Founded in 2011, Z Supply, LLC has created five women’s fashion brands with a sixth brand and extension into Men’s, launching Spring 2017. John Knits.

Sites 100

Sites Sales Santa Barbara Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Just as we are summed up by the advertising methodologies of the 1950’s as unpredictable and irrational (The Economist, Sex and Advertising, 2011), not only are we both these traits, but also with the power of click-a-mouse comparison shopping we are perhaps pickier, more demanding and less ‘experience’ oriented over product features.

Custom 74

Custom Customer Advertising Demand 74

Tech Coast Venture Network

OCTOBER 25, 2010

We look at the most urgent questions being asked about the new legislation. Business owners have been asking a lot of questions about the new rules; these answers are designed to provide some clarity around a complex topic. It depends on the size of the company.

Slides 100

Slides Startup Study Resource 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Just as we are summed up by the advertising methodologies of the 1950’s as unpredictable and irrational (The Economist, Sex and Advertising, 2011), not only are we both these traits, but also with the power of click-a-mouse comparison shopping we are perhaps pickier, more demanding and less ‘experience’ oriented over product features.

Custom 72

Custom Customer Demand Advertising 72

Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

Amongst several companies to report this week, the biggest news came from Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD ), whose hepatitis C drugs have become some of the top revenue producers in the industry. After all, Gilead’s $11 billion purchase of Pharmasset in 2011, roundly jeered as an overpay at the time, brought it sofosbuvir.

Startup 40

Startup Study News Report 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

We recently had the opportunity to sit down with co-founder Sean Kilbane and talk about, well, a bit of everything. ” Article 1 discussed the digital revolution and how companies like Netflix and Hulu were taking over. It was 2011, so these were valid questions. LET’S TALK ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT.

Entertainment 98

Entertainment Advertising Startup Media 98

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” But the company insists it will stay the course with its lead product, a T cell-based cancer immunotherapy called CTL019 that Novartis could present for regulatory approval if current trials go well. A spokeswoman told Xconomy it was part of an “internal re-alignment.”

News 57

News San Diego Journal Technical Review 57

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. PIXELS IN PARADISE | Andrew Frame, founder of the Internet-telephone company Ooma, paid $5.5 Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Daradiction

JULY 22, 2013

Kris is professional photographer / photo journalist and he has some fantastic clients including TED.com, United Nations, National Geographic, and the company that I'm working for, Esri. Esri is the 2nd largest privately held software company in the US and we do lots of conferences for our users, partners, and so on.

San Diego 76

San Diego Conference Startup Class 76