socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Burbank-based Cast & Crew Entertainment Services , which provides technology and payroll and production management services to the entertainment industry, said it has named Alex Godelman as its new Chief Technology Officer. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Remember, investors are buying into the business, not the product. Investors are business experts, while the entrepreneur is more likely the product expert. In my experience, the team's credentials are more important than the product. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/29/2015.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 21, 2019

As shown in the accompanying graph, below a certain price, the price/demand dynamics are consistent with conventional products – higher prices result in a lower demand. Veblen products are typically luxury goods, such as super-cars, which routinely sellout before production is begun, despite (or due to…) prices in excess of $2 million.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2015

Today, we have some thoughts from Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital , a private equity investment company in San Diego. Build a great team that is focused on providing a unique product or service that offers something of great value that your customers simply cannot live without. Then treat these customers well and great things will happen.maybe

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2018

One of those companies is Los Angeles-based Love Goodly (www.lovegoodly.com) co-founders Justine Lassoff and Katie Bogue Miller , who sat down and told us about their company, focused on cruelty-free, non-toxic beauty and skincare products. Love Goodly recently launched its own crowd equity funding campaign. What is Love Goodly?

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’re moving away from being this institution with multiple products and really just focusing on early-stage venture capital,” Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman said when the firm announced its last fund. And its new partners are clearly angling to make names for themselves. “KP KP used to be a small team doing hands-on company building.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2015

These are the only people likely to believe in newbies, with only minimal product evidence or business experience. The average amount per startup was $23,000, usually in the form of a convertible loan, rather than an equity investment. This is confirmation that the right people are always more important than the right product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Yet many entrepreneurs rely on expensive outside services and outside money, rather than do the networking for a co-founder or two who have the right skills to work for equity. They forget that the product or service makes the brand, not the environment. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/30/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

In fact, perhaps the most important model, equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors, is still not legal in the U.S., Product pre-order model. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. Startup equity model. In the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers. These funders often offer convertible notes, rather than the traditional priced equity. Business accelerator funding.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

funding led by Level Equity. Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. Not just what the product needed to look like, but how to sell it, and to make sure that the people we sold it to were really successful using it, and stayed with us. What is MomentFeed up to nowadays?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Our product was built specifically for the mid market, and we've been riding the wave of IT budgets, which are starting to open up, and companies are really quickly signing up because this is a big pain point, from their perspective. We took it to the market in January of 2015. Mike Whitmire: It's all about product, market, fit.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Len Short is truly an online marketing pioneer, heading up marketing at Charles Schwab, AOL and then (PRODUCT)RED. Len later joined (PRODUCT)RED as its Founding CMO. We’re focusing now on some search products…where we think there is a long way to go. Fast-forward a decade and he was the CMO at (PRODUCT)RED.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2017

More recently, the desire for extra income has become the key driver in new startups, according to a 2015 study. This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. It seems that more people are focused on money today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In fact, an entrepreneur friend of mine, who made millions on her marketing expertise, asserted recently that most inventors fail in business because they refuse to believe that any business expertise or experience is worth more than 5 percent in partner equity. Most founders bootstrap product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Entrepreneurs often ask me why investors expect financial projections for a new startup even before the product is built and while the market is still being defined. Think about the valuation implications and equity you are willing to give up for each investment amount. You shouldn’t invest in an undefined business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2016

Find team members to work for equity rather than cash. Equity is your best assurance of commitment and focus. Remote startup team members are the norm today and can be very productive with smartphones, video and the high-speed Internet. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/25/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

As a model, think high-quality marketing collateral, with text and graphics in columns and sidebars, but focused on the value of your business, rather than selling your product. Professional investors look for the right people more than the right product. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/17/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2015

You know how to bootstrap a business, build it from nothing, and burn sweat-equity for long hours to push your dreams to reality. How did you make your product manager shine in the last meeting? Marty Zwilling Published on IvyExec.com on 10/20/2015. Yes, you are a fascinating person.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes. Every angel looks to scale the business after you have funded product design, perhaps with friends and family. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 2/06/2015.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Barry Lieberman: That funding round, which was a preferred seed equity round, took place in the summer of 2015, and there was $785,000 in the round. That funding was geared towards development of our product. So where are you now with the product and launch? Eli Aizenstat: We actually have 2 products.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On Monday, nine startups began a 16-week program at Canopy San Diego , a new accelerator program for seed-stage companies developing new technologies, products, and services to support the legal cannabis industry. And in fact, California surpassed France as the world’s sixth-largest economy, based on 2015 economic data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Startup equity investments imply a long-term business relationship, lasting an average of five years.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Venture capital firms have increased their agtech investments by 80 percent since 2012, bringing total VC investment in the sector to a total of $3 billion in 2015, according to a new report from Boston Consulting Group and AgFunder, an online investment marketplace for agriculture technology. They also queried 15 VC firms.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

million Series D round in early 2015, re-upped in the latest round, which included all existing investors and some debt, Tealium CEO Jeff Lunsford said last week. Tealium , founded in 2008, has raised close to $113 million since its inception, according to Crunchbase , although that number includes both debt and equity deals.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. After I sold my last company, Shift, in May of 2015, I took some time off to look for the next thing to do.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Where there are lots of players focused on different types of equity, different types of investments, different types of debt, they're doing it in a very unfocused manner. I worked on several products, and launched many things. Brett Crosby: We have been in invitation-only mode for all of 2015, and that's been growing and growing.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Enterprises are under a lot of pressure to produce great product under fast cycles. Jim Armstrong: Things are definitely down, and valuations are down at the late stage fifty percent from 2015. Each and everyone is creating their own equity scenario. But, that's just ebb and flow. That's a sea change.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

AstraZeneca got the drug when it bought ZS Pharma in late 2015 for $2.7 StemCells of Newark, CA, said this week it would wind down operations after a Phase 2 trial of its lead product, a spinal cord injury therapy, didn’t do enough to help patients. Celator planned to file for regulatory approval in the U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The fact that Twitter built a product around the mobile phone culture right out of the gate is significant: it created a new social pipeline. Why is Twitter’s user acquisition at a standstill , and why are their ad products failing? Twitter needs leadership to evolve the product, and that is exactly what they are doing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. You don’t have unlimited equity to dole out. This got him more power and with that power he executed on his belief system and had a lousy 2015 season.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Not having technical backgrounds ourselves, we were fortunate to have friends develop the app in exchange for equity. TZ: Could a Buddytruck customer potentially use your product as a delivery service for things such as Craigslist sales or giving items to friends? AJ: We are planning on having our Android app released by early 2015.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2015

.” She was part of the branding relationships with artists and connected the headphones to athletes during the World Cup who wore them incessantly creating a natural phenomenon unheard of without paying for product placement. Register here for his upcoming Silicon Beach Fest June 24-27, 2015). Novel concept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2015

So before you quit your day job, tax all your friends and investors for money, or max out your credit cards to design and build a product, I recommend that you seriously contemplate the following more basic questions: Are you prepared to adopt the entrepreneur lifestyle? Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 3/6/2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies. In the case of startups the “buyer” is the VC looking to part cash for “purchasing” equity in your startup. Other products “elastic” meaning demand falls off quickly when prices go up. What changes this equilibrium?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It usually takes more than you can collect just to build and deliver the product. The biggest surge in expectations occurred way back in 2015, when the SEC “ democratized ” everyday citizens (non-accredited investors) to participate in equity crowdfunding. Making something awesome will cost more than you expect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

It usually takes more than you can collect just to build and deliver the product. The biggest surge in expectations occurred back in 2015, when the SEC “ democratized ” everyday citizens (non-accredited investors) to participate in equity crowdfunding. Making something awesome will cost more than you expect.

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