Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

We chatted with Wayne about how SURE--backed by IA Capital, Menlo Ventures, FF Venture Capital, Nationwide Ventures, Assurant and AmTrust--is applying technology and working with, not against, insurance companies to make buying insurance something you can easily do with your smartphone or tablet. What is SURE?

Southern California 244

Southern California Technical Review Startup Commerce 244

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

The content is really amazing, and leverages the power of social, and applies that towards e-commerce and deals. It looks like your company has been around for a long time, but it seems like you have been pretty quiet? Josh Meyers: The company was actually founded in 1999, and it goes back to the early roots of the consumer Internet.

Content 212

Content Yahoo Los Angeles Sites 212

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Companies represented include: Disney, Warner Bros., ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups.

GRP Partners 88

GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community. We are able to correlate the connection between commerce and content through our technology.

Seed Funding 40

Seed Funding Funding Commerce Social Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2015

Launched in Los Angeles in 2012, early-­stage venture capital firm Karlin Ventures has announced a new elite tech fellowship program that will kickoff today. million per company. Managing Partner Tianxiang Zhuo says their focus is on west-coast companies specializing in enterprise software, marketplaces, and commerce platforms. “We’re

Los Angeles 40

Los Angeles Commerce Class Platform 40

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 24, 2012

Complete with mobile apps the company is piloting its own e wallet, PayRunner currently in beta. since January 2012 but Daniel Loeb with a 5 percent stake in Yahoo exposed his resume flaws forcing him to step down on May 13. eBay last year bought ShopRunner owner firm GSI Commerce at $2.4 Appointed CEO of an eBay startup.

Yahoo 65

Yahoo Commerce Google Startup 65

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Why Africa in terms of why did we set the company up there? It wasn’t really a case of ‘convincing’ anyone – our hedge fund partners, Tiger Global, approached us having read about us in TechCrunch and saw the significant potential in the company. We can’t disclose revenue as we are a private company.

Netflix 82

Netflix Marketing Technical Review Content 82

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. To be clear we will continue to see great infrastructure companies built and these will mostly come from Silicon Valley. All great communication companies.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. Social media and web data. Every day, we create 2.5 Big data can mean big profits.

Startup 103

Startup Social Media IBM IBM 103

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets?

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. On the chart below, 78% of the rounds of 80 $1bn+ companies were led by non VCs. Not so fast.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Pricing Platform Marketing 150