Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2016

In fact, the latest figures show that crowdfunding has already grown to over $30 billion in 2015, exceeding the amounts contributed by either angel groups or VCs alone. In 2015, the new Kickstarter Pebble smartwatch raised $20.3 Have you ever wondered what professional startup investors think about all this?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 29, 2019

Most of the buzz about esports focuses on high-profile professional teams and audiences watching live streams of those professionals. This is like talking about the NBA and the value of its sponsorships and broadcast rights as if that is the entirety of the basketball market in the US.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Not only has he become the richest man in the world again, leapfrogging a certain Mr Musk, but it has also been revealed that Amazon has quietly acquired ecommerce platform Selz. There's nothing particularly unique about what Selz does. ” However, the platform shuttered in 2015, just five years after its launch.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I called an (ex) LP to tell him about her and my goals for her. Leadership is about recognizing your next generation of talent and helping lift them up. Or, maybe it’s just about getting out of the way and watching what they can achieve. And all the platform stuff. Wait, What About Yves?

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2017

We spoke with CEO Matt Levin to hear about how Donut Media is looking to speak to the Millennial car enthusiast through both its online videos as well as social content. The way we're doing that, is we are creating video content, which we distribute across social platforms. It's pretty broad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2023

Way back in 2015, the Kickstarter Pebble smartwatch raised $20.3 Have you ever wondered what professional startup investors think about all this? I would summarize the qualms and feedback from professional investors as the following: Crowdfunding platform costs trickle down to angel groups. billion to USD 3.62

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

I received a press pass to DeveloperWeek 2015 last week in order to attend the “Advice to Live by from Women Developers” career panel moderated by the lead of Dice’s engineering team, Jennifer Petersen. Now you’d think we’d be a bit farther along today in 2015, right? for customers).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Way back in 2015, the Kickstarter Pebble smartwatch raised $20.3 Have you ever wondered what professional startup investors think about all this? I would summarize the qualms and feedback from professional investors as the following: Crowdfunding platform costs trickle down to angel groups.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

According to Julie Ask, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester in this CNBC article , developing a retail app costs about $2 million, plus 80 percent on top of that each year to maintain it. RetailNext data shows that sales over the 2015 Thanksgiving weekend were down by 4.7 MYTH: Development costs are too high.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) March 14, 2015. But the beautiful thing about Twitter in the first place – a bit like the beauty of democracy itself – is that it lets you spout off your opinion and then watch it debated in the public square. Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) March 14, 2015. Josh Elman (@joshelman) March 14, 2015.

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APRIL 22, 2016

We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. What is unique about our mobile app, is you can send a physical gift without actually having a physical address to send it to. Who are your typical customers?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

I had started keeping a personal blog (on Blogger) about family life just for my friends and family and I realized how hard it was to get even my closest family members to remember to visit there to see updated photos of the kids. And I noticed how many comments his posts generated and I thought that would be a very useful platform for me.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2015

This platform takes our web-based technology from the computer screen to the concert experience, as L.E.D. ” “For the team, this has never been simply about infographics. The post Emotional Intelligence Technology To Light Up Santa Monica at 2015 Twilight Concert Series At The Pier appeared first on TechZulu.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company. It's a much smarter way of understanding shopping behavior, using data about human tastes to deliver recommendations to grocery consumers. The challenge of any AI platform, is to understand that. The company has raised $1.9M What is Halla?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. Thats what uCast is all about. Were part of the uCast Global video highway, which is our way of illustrating how content is being driven locally, regionally, and globally, using our platform, but also technology we have integrated and continue to integrate with our partners.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2017

We talked with Ryan Kim , the company's CEO, to learn more about the company, how it spun out of Belkin's WeMo efforts, and how water usage is a huge area ripe for innovation. That's pretty staggering, if you think about it. Ryan Kim: We had started to develop this technology awhile ago, while we were developing the WeMo platform.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 12, 2015

In fact, I wrote about a company recently that lets you design, choose, and print customized vinyl decals for your car – it’s super cool. There’s a company in LA, Qtee.com , which specializes in taking custom clothing to an entirely new level with their web platform. CoolHaus Ice Cream. Tawnie and Brina Jewelry. Sports Brat.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

Curtis is the former publisher of the Robb Report, which he sold back in 2015, and has a long history of operating media companies that have published such titles as Home Office Computing, Home Theater, Mobile Computing, Worth, and many others. Talk about what CurtCo is working on? We're excited about everything in podcasting.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Mike tells us about the company, who uses its software, as well as how he was initially turned away from the Amplify.LA We were about a year out from our IPO when I joined, to work inside accounting. The idea for FloQast really came from the experience we had in that department, which grew to about 50 people.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2015

Marshall Kirkpatrick (@marshallk) January 24, 2015. It’s an online relationship and I actually believe that as of 2015 I’ve met more of my close connections in the past 5-7 years online before offline. years before… — Shafqat Islam (@shafqatislam) January 24, 2015. Theory: it’s really that simple.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

What is so fantastic about EVOX, is we provide automotive imagery for 20,000 dealership websites. We are across many platforms, and have a whole array of enterprise customers. We are across many platforms, and have a whole array of enterprise customers. It's a free app, and works in all of the stores, and is platform agnostic.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We spoke with Ann Wang , co-founder of Enrou, to learn more about how the company wants to help tie together the world of e-commerce and worthy causes to help improve the world. That''s where we entered the scene, as a platform for that particular type of organization. We are looking forward to a national launch in 2015.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

We sat down with Brett Crosby (who founded Urchin Software, the company which became Google Analytics) and Brew Johnson , the co-founders of the company, to learn more about the company and what it's working on. Thanks for the time today, it's great to get a chance to talk with you about your company. So, what is PeerStreet?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

I see many good video companies (media companies, mobile apps, distribution platforms, monetization platforms) but it’s often hard to distinguish good from great. Imagine if your friends could all contribute the Burning Man 2015 album and create a group story. Mark Suster (@msuster) April 23, 2015. L1I6RUWYJu.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

Now that just about everyone has a smartphone, how can you use that nearly ubiquitous, mobile access to help improve healthcare? For one�according to Los Angeles startup mPulse Mobile (www.mpulsemobile.com), you can help remind people about their appointments, and make sure they take their prescriptions�along with many other use cases.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

The BB-8 app-enabled Droid had such a global adoption among kids and adults that it was named the number one Star Wars toy of 2015. Epic Games is the creator of Unreal Engine technology, which is used by millions of developers to ship visually stunning, high-quality games and experiences across PC, console, mobile, VR and AR platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2015

With smart people, you can’t bluff your way past tough questions, and talking more and louder about your dreams won’t fill the gap of relevant content. Start talking immediately about your project and background. Flaunt how much you know about every subject. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 5/29/2015.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Paul sat down with us last week to talk about industrial networks, network security, and why suddenly those systems--used for manufacturing, the power grid, oil and gas, and other key infrastructure--need their own security tools. In the industrial area, they don't care about any of that. However, industrial security is very different.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2014

First of all, let''s talk about Tillster, for those who haven''t heard of what you''re doing. The vision early on was about fundamentally changing the restaurant ordering experience, by developing a more engaging experience on a kiosk. Our platform encompasses several things. What is Tillster?

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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 now has about 700 customers, including major companies in healthcare, financial services, travel, and technology, Lunsford said. It’s been about data.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2015

We sat down with Seriously CEO Andrew Stalbow --who previously had been GM North America for Rovio, and also was key to Fox''s content deals with Angry Birds--to hear more about the company, how it sees mobile games converging with Hollywood, and what it hopes to do with its first title, Best Fiends. There is some really fun stuff coming.

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MARCH 10, 2017

Our platform enables them to manage the digital representation of their locations, and engage with consumers in paid, social, and search, to improve that customer experience. But, in order to do that, they need a tremendous amount of information about location near where you are. How did you get involved with MomentFeed?

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2015

Los Angeles-based FameBit (www.famebit.com) has developed a new platform which lets any content creator connect with brands, without the need for an agency or MCN, to help them grow their content and network. Tell us about FameBit? We have a 98 percent approval rate on our platform. How long have you been working on this?

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

We talked with Schott Chisolm , CEO and co-founder of the software company, to hear about how the company came out of all three, and resulted in what is now a widely used software product that charities are helping to reach Millennials and others. But, what we're building now is a social contact platform. How did you start the company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Crowdfunding is the hot new vehicle for raising money to support your entrepreneurial efforts, with over 1,250 website platforms around the world to help you, according to a 2015 industry report. Crowdfunding platforms don’t have the facilities to handle non-disclosure agreements that you might expect from every professional investor.

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