socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

We caught up with Steereo CEO Anne Kavanagh earlier this week to hear more about the company and its plans. We're a multi-sided marketplace, start with the driver. In terms of artist side, the reason they use us is an alternative to radio promotion and marketing. It's a vehicle for marketing new releases, no pun intended.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This morning, Techstars (www.techstars.org), the startup accelerator which has had great success in spreading its approach to helping to get startups to the next stage of their life�usually, funding�announced it has opened up its third accelerator in Los Angeles, Techstars LA. The focus is on helping the startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start. Below is the outline Upfront.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. When should you start a company? What company should you start? Most startups die. It’s obvious that we can be too late to these decisions of course. Start evaluating your predictions: were they correct?

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

That’s what my wife said to me back in June after I had been “retired” since 2017. Well, after months of soul searching and talking to 100 people (one of my key rules before starting any business or product) — I figured it out! We build and invest in startups with impact. Those zoom meetings and calls got me fired up!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2017

As an advisor to startups, and a mentor to many aspiring entrepreneurs, I’m still surprised at the number who are determined to go it alone. Unfortunately, some are so in love with themselves (narcissistic), that they can’t be convinced that anyone else could possibly run their finances, or take on marketing.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We started March Capital in late 2013. We did our first close in the summer of 2014, and over the first nine months we raised our fund and started investing. Fund I was fully deployed by June 30th of 2017, and we went out to raised Fund II, which was a wet close, where you invest as you close.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

That’s what my wife said to me back in June after I had been “retired” since 2017. Well, after months of soul searching and talking to 100 people (one of my key rules before starting any business or product) — I figured it out! We build and invest in startups with impact. Those zoom meetings and calls got me fired up!

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2016

John is also very involved in providing advice to young startups and entrepreneurs. John Greathouse: We opened up our practice in San Diego by investing in Zingle and Raken. I am very excited with the prospects of the San Diego market, as it reminds me of Santa Barbara circa 2005. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

Our system works on under-the-table payments of below-market wages for jobs that our non-Hispanic citizens don’t want to do and in a country where people our unemployment rate is already so low that some economists are warning about inflation due to full employment. We have an obligation to speak up or eventually they will come for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

Even the most diligent investors are often surprised by apparently solid business startups that fail, while others succeed, despite the odds. I found this perspective validated in a new book, “ Plan Commit Win: 90 Days to Creating a Fundable Startup ,” by serial entrepreneur and strategic consultant Patrick Henry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2017

Based on my own experience as a startup investor, and feedback from like-minded friends, we all get pitches for at least ten startup ideas for every one new business plan. Amazon offers a multitude of books with free ideas, such as “ Small Business Ideas ,” and “ Business Ideas: 100 Starting Points to Make Money.”

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Tech.Co

APRIL 26, 2019

The percentage of employees who are high at work has increased 60% over the past five years, moving up from just 9.7 And when the results are narrowed to the tech industry in particular, that percentage hops up to 16.9 percent to an impressive 15.7 percent) or legalized entirely (16.2 percent).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2017

Whether you are focused on your professional career, or starting your own company, YOU are the first or only brand that anyone will see and remember. That means that you need to overtly market yourself, rather than wait and hope that the right people or customers will find you. You will learn more by listening rather than talking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2017

The challenge is to retain the same sense of urgency, energy, commitment, and readiness in a mature company that you felt during the startup stage. Set a course for the destination, but also establish intermediate checkpoints to assess progress along the way. Set-up for success and don’t set-up for failure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. That means that starting soon, our doctors, hospitals, eldercare, hospice and even death care systems are going to face unprecedented demand. Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. Technology won’t solve this one.

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DECEMBER 22, 2017

Usually this stage only really starts after an investor has expressed serious interest, or already informally agreed to invest. My best advice is to put some structure and discipline into your due diligence preparation, including the following steps: Schedule a team meeting to bring everyone up to date.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2017

We all have to communicate and collaborate with other people at work, but most of us start out instinctively trying to maintain an emotional distance from others in the work environment. Yet the 2017 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. Yet the 2017 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. by Jan Yager, who has a Ph.D.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2018

We have all heard how messages change, when passed up or down the line, even without any politics or personal agendas. Market changes happen rapidly and regularly these days, requiring a realignment of skills, processes, and approaches to keep up. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/26/2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2017

Even though I love technology, I always cringe when an entrepreneur starts an angel investor pitch to me by touting his new technology. I chastise these startups to highlight the solution created by the technology, rather than the technology. Let me be clear – technology and market-driven need not be mutually exclusive!

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2017

As a business advisor and investor in new startups, I see how difficult it is to make any process work, no matter how well designed, if the team is dysfunctional. Of course, some balance is required. Today’s pace of change in the market and in technology is unprecedented. Would everyone on your team agree and return the focus?

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017. ICPC World Finals 2017, held in Rapid City. In 2017, it was in Rapid City, South Dakota. It was always sort of shocking to people, even on a national level, when they would hear [that Rapid City was hosting ICPC 2017],” Jensen said. Paducah, Kentucky.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 23, 2018

My wife quickly adopted Alexa as a member of the family, relying on her for recipes, jokes, telling the time, predicting the weather and, of course, playing music. Potential Startup Opportunities. Amazon remains the market leader, due in large part to its two-year head start. The entire report is available HERE.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2017

Parents, it’s never too early to start nurturing entrepreneurial talents in your kids! You may think you need more entrepreneurial courses in school, or more advanced degrees, but in my experience it’s more of a mindset, some good coaching, and learning by doing that separates the winners from the losers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2017

We are living in a new generation of business, where customers drive the experience, and highly engaged employees are required to keep up with customer expectations. Of course, these are great, but they don’t happen without enlightened leadership coming first. True leaders are tenacious, determined, and self-starting.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

Areas such as Oakland and San Francisco saw rent increases as high as 40 percent between 2015 and 2017. Plenty of workers have had enough: In the final quarter of 2017, according to real estate company Redfin , more residents left San Francisco than any other major U.S. cities in the final quarter of 2017, with 10.4

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2017

Of course, a company still needs to make a profit to survive, but supporting a worthy cause can be the most profitable brand building you can do. As an advisor to many new businesses, I see a host of advantages for every new business by being socially responsible today: Expands the potential customer target market size.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I’m always amazed that, in my role as a business advisor, bad customers somehow seem to gang up on certain businesses. As a business owner, you have to take a hard look, with your customer hat on, at what you promise and imply to your customers in your advertising, marketing materials, and your customer service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2017

Starting a new business is a long, hard process, and I can’t blame any founder for looking for shortcuts. I recommend starting early with a cheap and simple Limited Liability Corporation (LLC), and converting later to a C-Corporation, if required. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 07/14/2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2017

Startup investors tell me they invest in a new venture with a higher caliber of people, rather than the product or service, and I agree. Of course, it’s no surprise that most entrepreneurs don’t have a background in hiring teams, and don’t have a budget for training or human resource consultants.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research founding director Tyler Jacks has spent decades making important contributions in cancer research, but until forming Cambridge, MA-based Dragonfly Therapeutics, he’d never spun a startup out of his own lab at MIT. Its financials were posted here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

It is an heroic accomplishment in a brutal fund-raising market in which only market leaders can bring in that sort of money. But the story started more than 6 months ago. We started planning our fund raising as much as 14 months ago. Many had started IPO’ing and we started to think about our future.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Metropolis is a new Los Angeles-based startup that’s looking to compete with BMW-owned ParkMobile for a slice of the automated parking lot management market. The company is hoping to use its latest funding to expand its footprint to over 600 locations over the course of the next year.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

He left traditional media at the top of his game to be the founding CEO of Next New Networks, one of the first digital video startups, backed by Spark Capital and bought by YouTube in 2011. The obvious slight he made that went largely unnoticed was the lack of Latino representation and it’s a big freaking market gap that is set to explode.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

If you watch the short video below you’ll have a great sense on what is uniquely LA in 2017 — hearing from Mayor Garcetti, Kobe Bryant, Tyra Banks, Baron Davis and so many great advocates for the uniqueness of our city and some of our key stats. link] There’s no doubt in my mind that “LA is having a moment” and both VCs and LPs realize it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2017

It's a line from an old movie "Field of Dreams" which is still leading to the demise of too many startups, led by entrepreneurs who really started their business to build an exciting new product or service. Most struggle with the idea and practice of marketing and sales, and see these as a necessary evil, if even required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2017

A good executive summary, backed up by a few PowerPoint slides should be more than adequate. For the rest of you who might still be skeptics, or are not quite sure where to start, I will outline the situations where I believe a written business plan makes the least sense: You are a solo entrepreneur and your solution is still evolving.

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