socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

In an age of ever increasing marketing spend to attract customers, how do you make sure you aren't spending more acquiring a company than they are worth? Michael Greenberg: My co-founder, Emad Hasan, led the business marketing operations at Facebook. We spoke with Retina's CEO, Michael Greenberg , to learn more. How do you do that?

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Dollar Shave Club Artificial Inteligence Customer Custom 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

I’m not recommending that you saturate your discussions with lingo, but responding with a blank stare once-too-often won’t convince anyone that you can build the next world-changing business or outpace the market. Seed-round investment. Sweat equity. Equity crowdfunding. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat.

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Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

Professionals maintain that there is plenty of money for equity in qualified startups, and funding marginal startups via any source will only make more people unhappy. But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined.

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Funding Equity Entrepreneur Sample 106

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less).

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2013

With over 650 accredited investors and over 450 companies seeking to raise funds via SeedInvest, the February 2013 launched firm projects a better future than other platforms in the equity crowdfunding market. It also has free virtual due diligence sessions, investment dashboards, an advanced data room and virtual boardroom features.

Software Review 69

Software Review Platform Equity Tool 69

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The newest equity model was passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability in the USA, waiting for the rules to be defined by the SEC: Startup equity crowd funding. People can invest (donate) money to a project which has good moral/ethical value. Good-cause crowd funding.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages. We bring value to those small guys who can't compete against a $60 million marketing budget. Really, we're the sales and marketing arm of those companies. We sold that to a very large private equity company.

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Startup Metrics Customer Custom 174

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). Loss of control.

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Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 89

socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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Startup Mobile Advertising Organization 196

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

K5Launch (www.k5launch.com) is modeled after the successful Y-Combinator and TechStars acceleration programs, and invests equity, provides mentors, and runs a three month program to get very early stage startups off the ground. Amir Banifatemi: Our first class will be in winter, starting in 2012, most likely in January.

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Orange County Southern California Startup Class 192

Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

draws closer, more gene therapy players are entering the public markets. If approved by the FDA, it would become the first ever marketed gene therapy in the U.S. Audentes is entering the public markets without any human clinical data as of yet. million in equity financing since its 2012 inception, and had $80.3

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Pricing Equity Marketing Tool 40

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: It was officially May 9 of 2012, when David and I and others within YP and AT&T decided that given where we were with AT&T, their core focus on wireless, we should figure out how to take the business out of AT&T, so that we would not be constrained on our investments, and we could go after markets in a more strategic way.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

We also know we''re not a startup, and don''t have equity to offer. An example of that, is we have a product in alpha in a couple of our markets, where, in real time, a user can fill out a form and it goes out to the top five service providers who we already have vetted and screened. We''ve been very aggressive on the technology front.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

CircleUp is an online social marketplace that supports direct equity investments from individual investors to small private consumer and retail companies. So this past October 2012, after years of investigative scientific research “ Electrified ” became a reality. image EPA/Andrew Gombert. Word of mouth travels far.

Startup 104

Startup Technical Review Search Engine Optimization Los Angeles 104

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This time by the efforts of Adeo Ressi to introduce a new kind of structure called “ convertible equity.” My initial reaction to Adeo when we spoke was that while it may have solved some issues (debt versus equity) it didn’t solve the ones that I’ve been warning entrepreneurs about most loudly.

Startup 354

Startup Pricing Equity Venture Capital 354

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. The top five tournaments for “StarCraft 2″ in the month of June 2012 had combined prize-pools of over $150,000. is a good monthly investment?

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. Start in a business domain you know well.

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Entrepreneur Startup Invest Incubator 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2014

By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, usually for a share of the equity, hoping to capitalize on their success, or at least strengthen the local economy. Initial funding. Expert mentoring and training. Peer support.

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Incubator Entrepreneur Technical Review Mentor 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2013

By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, usually for a share of the equity, hoping to capitalize on their success, or at least strengthen the local economy. Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 12/17/2012.

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Incubator Help Startup Technical Review 115

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Reuters TV Interview by Rhonda Schaffler Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money.

Startup 91

Startup Invest Incubator Ideas 91

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. The market had tanked. The market wouldn’t bottom until Mar ’09.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

I had been trading emails & Tweets with venture capitalist John Frankel and we were to meet in person in March 2011 at SxSW to talk about Klout and other investments he had made. Other people were convinced including Kleiner Perkins who lead their $30 million fund raising in 2012 (they had previously also invested in 2011).

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Cornerstone OnDemand Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup 303