TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should you start a company?

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

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. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). But my specific point is that while everybody is busy telling you that “kids don’t use email” or “email is dead” I have actual data from portfolio company CEO’s showing the efficacy of email as a communication and marketing channel.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

After my latest company collapsed in June of 2012, I went into a bit of a depression. I love coffee, food, farming, sales, marketing and running a startup with great potential. Today, as I write this, I’m working on several deals in the world of coffee and other food products. Restarting continues. It was perfect.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. We caught on with the right product, at the right time.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Recently, we had a great opportunity to sit down and chat with Amanda Bensol, head BD/Marketing for Karma. That’s what drew me to them as I hopped on board for PR/marketing, and a little bit of sales and operations.” Fast decisions accelerated the launch and allowed them to work on the hardware production process.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

It’s a reminder that unless your prospect has a need to solve a problem they are not going to buy a product. Take for example the years 2010-2012 where every brand out there seemed to be buying Facebook “Likes.” Write down the customer pains so you’ll have them for later. It’s just human nature.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

The discipline of writing down a plan is the best way to make sure you actually understand how to transform your idea into a business. If your product is free, or you lose money on every one, it’s hard to make it up in volume. Too little focus on marketing. Even viral marketing costs real money and time.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. One method to negotiate a lower rate or no cost to have a developerwork with you > Pre sell your product. One method to negotiate a lower rate or no cost to have a developerwork with you > Pre sell your product.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Ryan Blair: As you know, I sold ViSalus back in 2012, but ended up buying it back in 2014, and then we sold the company to a public company. We want to have startups we can get productive or generating revenue pretty quickly. I had a sales force when I was at SkyPipeline, selling telecom, networking, and broadband wireless products.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

In this role, Alex was responsible for developing HostPro’s shared, dedicated and managed businesses with 430 employees in sales, marketing, engineering, and product development. Alistair is responsible for product strategy and development for this leading Enterprise API and SOA Governance company.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2012

Miselu’s seeks to “innovate products to create the next generation of musical experiences,” according to their statement on their website. Groesche got me intrigued with Miselu’s grand vision so I couldn’t help but ask him for a quick interview on the product: Tell us about presenting the product early at SXSW?

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

Evan Britton: I''m an Internet market guru. I love the web and love Internet marketing. So, at the beginning of 2012, we picked a website that we owned, to make it awesome. Instead, we build a very good product, get organic traffic, and those networks pay well. Our revenue is solid.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Members can also enhance their expert status by writing informative articles and position themselves as a contact person for other professionals to get information from. The English/International version of the platform was launched in January 2012. 2012 has been the year of internationalization. When was it launched and where?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. To start, let’s take a peek inside my train of thinking while I was preparing what I would report on for Tech Crunch Disrupt 2012. 1 Pre Planning.

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Press Startup Technical Review Email 97

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., OP: It was 2012 when my brother and I took our cousin who was visiting from Poland to go see the movie Hugo. All these efforts were to figure out what it would take to put something like this in the market. her joint effort with her co-founder and brother, Adam Polak.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

We write and create our own content for the game. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. SuperDemo: Bill Gross. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. As we know, developers always give their product a code name.

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Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Idea Mensch.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I first got the idea on a cold night during the winter of 2012 in San Francisco when I walked passed a homeless woman sleeping on the street. Some donors simply want to write a check to a national organization and move on. Have you found the capital markets to be receptive to a dual goal of profitability and making a social impact?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Luckily, he was able to talk to Steve Jobs, who offered to sell their product at an event. It was the morning of June 26th, 2012. You get to learn everything from marketing to sales to accounting to business development to being able to make pretty websites and graphics. It was a success and the group made payroll.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was mostly timing.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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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. Not just the fact that you Tweet publicly versus privately, but also that they’re open in letting their Tweet stream flow into other products & services.

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