SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 25, 2011

Thursday, March 31, 2011 -- startupSD: Mark Suster from Both Sides of the Table. Mark is a UCSD graduate and writes one of the best startup blogs on the Internet. Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com.

GRP Partners 100

GRP Partners UCSD SoCal Southern California 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 10, 2011

Thursday, June 16, 2011 -- Los Angeles VC and Angel Event. At our next Los Angeles event, the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing - how to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check - Especially in this economy! FundingPost.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles Venture Capital Angel Writing 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 15, 2011

Tuesday, June 21, 2011 -- Orange County Angel VC and Startup Event. At our next Orange County event, the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing - how to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check - Especially in this economy! FundingPost.

Orange County 100

Orange County Venture Capital Angel Startup 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Thursday, October 6, 2011 -- EFactor presents: 7 Steps to a Successful Startup. Entrepreneurs don't like to write business plans, but how do you know if there is real potential for you idea? Are you an entrepreneur? Do you have a great idea? Do you want to transform it into a successful startup?

TechEmpower 100

TechEmpower Startup Tips Writing 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. I started by writing 3-4 times / week. I didn’t have any grand ambitions other than to write, share ideas and try to build awareness of who I am through my thoughts. And 18 months later, in May 2011, I have crossed 422,000 views. I did that?

Startup 391

Startup Blogging Venture Capital Writing 391

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. In 2011 I started using Instagram. In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. Ironic to be self-centered while you’re trying to offer advice to others.

Snapchat 150

Snapchat Product Startup AMA 150

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Guy’s latest book, Enchantment , was released in March of 2011, to overwhelmingly upbeat reviews. Guy, how would your 2004 book, Art Of The Start , differ, if you were writing it today? If I were writing the book today, there would be a whole chapter or two…about how to use Facebook and Twitter. That doesn’t work.”.

Santa Barbara 262

Santa Barbara Technical Review Social Media Startup 262

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. As an early stage investor you’re often planning around 10x your investment at the time your write your first check so in this case you’d be going into your investment expecting an exit of $800 – $1.2

Startup 336

Startup Pricing Technical Review Marketing 336

InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

One of the firm’s more infamous marketing stunts was their 2011 music video, entitled I’m A VC. We write blogs, we do music videos, we show up, we engage with people…we love our product. Write Your Own Playbook. If you have ever dealt with pretentious investors, you may pull a muscle laughing. We have never done a press release.

Marketing 233

Marketing Blogging Startup Venture Capital 233

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. I didn’t want to write it because the bloggosphere doesn’t always do nuance well. So why I am writing it then? 2011 is one big cocktail party all over again.

Venture Capital 267

Venture Capital Writing Blogging Startup 267

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2012

At the moment the startup has released biology, economics, psychology, sociology, anatomy and physiology, history and writing online materials for use in colleges. According to Diaz Boundless Learning materials use openly licensed educational content, prepared and shared online college tutors and lecturers for over 20 years.

Education 61

Education Journal Content Writing 61

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).

Venture Capital 161

Venture Capital Funding Capital Startup 161

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. This figure is predicted to reach 3.8

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. However at the 2011 Hospitality Conference, he allowed his desire to make an impact impair his reasoning when he hired a band of masked parcours.

Marketing 209

Marketing Conference RSS Angel 209

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. Even if one disagrees with the premise, why would anyone feel the need to attack Mike for writing it? I was trying to cheekily suggest that it was the new status symbol. This is a hard one.

Angel 150

Angel Startup Seed Funding Invest 150

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

One of the hardest things about being a blogger is drawing that line between being a business owner and writing for passion. Most bloggers wouldn’t turn down the opportunity to make a full time income from writing their blog. Who are you writing to…What are their fears, their dreams, their lifestyles? Write your content.

Blogging 83

Blogging Email Writing Sites 83

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

Invest 284

Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 284

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We realized afer 2011 that we were spreading ourselves thin by trying to make five to ten websites great. Evan Britton: We had worked our tails off in 2011, but at the end of the year, all of our sites were flat. That might be good if you''re writing a book report, but people love quick facts. It was discouraging.

Google 236

Google Sites Startup Web 236

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Since launching 2011 global membership has grown to be over 500k people actively collaborating and supporting each other to move film and television projects forward. When the beta was ready in 2011 Botto emailed a link to 100 of his industry contacts, asking them to send it along to five more people if they enjoyed the experience.

Education 82

Education Entertainment Class Manhattan Beach 82

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 15, 2012

All you need do to become an Angel is identify a promising venture and write a check. According to the NVCA, only 45 first-time funds were launched in 2011. I define a "VC" as, "a professional investor who deploys third-party funds into relatively early-stage companies."

Venture Capital 242

Venture Capital Technical Review Invest RSS 242

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Then we rescued it from nothing around the end of 2011. PF: Pascal, the French mathematician and philosopher, back in the day said something like this, “I wrote you a long letter because I did not have time to write you a short one.” Meaning, write very good job descriptions, but that doesn’t mean you need to write long ones.

Mobile 86

Mobile Marketing Writing Startup 86

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this series because if you better understand how VC firms work you can better target which firms make sense for you to speak with. 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.

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Funding Invest GRP Partners 269

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

In April 2011, the Association of Coupon Professionals held an Industry Conference in Atlanta to address the present and future state of couponing. Evidence of this was seen in late November 2011, when Foursquare announced they will be incorporating a new “ social sharing ” button on their site. Paul Breummer, Search Engine Land.

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

VCs have also gone back to writing checks because as an industry we can’t be seen as “sitting on the sidelines” for years at a time. While he is publicly saying that he expects a modestly improved economy in 2011 , it’s hard to be too sanguine when you look at the data. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.) If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. In the first instance many angels made beaucoup bucks by getting in on deals that IPO’d quickly. So where are we now?

Invest 152

Invest Angel Venture Capital Startup 152

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Will Zell (CEO) is based in Columbus, OH, and is an Empact100 entrepreneur who was honored at The White House in 2011. A graduate of Ohio Northern University , Ferres built a digital marketing agency called BounceFire , which was acquired in May 2011 by a company in Phoenix, AZ. Who are the founders/ background? What Inspired You?

Mentor 94

Mentor Platform Social Network Chief Technology Officer 94

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

It helps get of how hard it is to send a postcard nowadays, where you have to look for a postcard at a kiosk, write out that postcard, find a stamp, and all sorts of other stuff. I sold that company in 2011, and then used the proceeds to start Go Trexx. Samantha Lurey: This is actually my third company.

Guide 232

Guide Framework Mobile Startup 232

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. One of the big things about Telesign, and if you go back to the founders, and the things they did well before I got here, is they spent lots of time and effort around writing patents and protecting their IP. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Web 238

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2012

In his 2010 offer letter and 2011 Levinsohn will receive severance payments, plus an equity award of 67,000 restricted stock units with stock options of 250,000 which at an exercise price of $15.80 I am writing to let you know that Ross Levinsohn will be leaving the company at the end of July. His compensation. Do Not Forward.

Yahoo 74

Yahoo Pricing Writing Entertainment 74

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Fariborz Maseeh: The first selection will be done in April of 2011. That course is different in that it will help mentor the engineers to write their business plans, which is very different from regular entrepreneurship courses, where it's usually an outside speaker lecturing students about what they have done in the past.

Competition 154

Competition Southern California Mentor USC 154

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. As the co-founder of the Underground Comedy College, for the past 3 years he teaches classes in stand-up, improv and sketch comedy writing to aspiring creative performers. Starting November 3-5 (This week) BlogWorld kicks it off as will TechZulu.

Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 75

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. I recently wrote a post about the open nature of Twitter and why I’m long on its future.

Social Media 274

Social Media Google Media Startup 274

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). Big thank you to Darius Vasefi , of EyeOnJewels for the write up. Don’t and you might make one catastrophic mistake that leaves you in the annals of Effed Companies.

Acquisition 304

Acquisition Startup Customer Custom 304

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2012

Although, the overall message of the film is quite bleak as they point to the mediocrity that more access to creation and freedom of distribution creates.

Press 100

Press Ideas Product Activity 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

BusinessWeek named Bill and Rich two of the Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs of 2011. The world’s first Buy, Register and Donate buttons that allow anyone to accept payments on their own website without a redirect or writing a single line of code are coming Tuesday 8/28. Key features and how does it work? What’s coming next for WePay?

Startup 71

Startup Tool Capital Customer 71

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

What You May Not Know: They were considered one of the fastest growing companies in their Y-Combinator batch (same as Reddit, Summer 2011) and successfully raised a total of $16.8 “It was Summer 2011, and it’s when we first started thinking of Rap Genius as a business. Before that, we considered it an art project.

Startup 93

Startup Mobile Entertainment Sites 93

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. As the co-founder of the Underground Comedy College, for the past 3 years he teaches classes in stand-up, improv and sketch comedy writing to aspiring creative performers. Starting November 3-5 (This week) BlogWorld kicks it off as will TechZulu.

Los Angeles 49

Los Angeles Angel Social Media Media 49