Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

That has allowed the company to launch in many markets, build amazing applications, design future versions of the scooter and monetize while many companies are still just drawing up their go-to-market plans. When you think about the category of scooters you think about Bird and that becomes a brand your friends want to try.

Santa Monica 256

Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Sam’s goal was to build a tech company fulfilling the need for storing physical items in the cloud and to build a nationally-scaled business that would be hard to compete against. MakeSpace set out to reinvent the whole category. We have an amazing team of W2 drivers in NYC, Washington D.C, Innovation.

Ideas 150

Ideas Startup Technical Review Pricing 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2020

Lower targets indicate a very conservative team, or challenges that have not been disclosed. Highest on your list of fund usage categories should be business scaling requirements, such as marketing, inventory building, and staffing. Project growth equal to or better than current premium startups.

Ideas 123

Ideas Statistics Invest Marketing 123

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

“it’s smart to use an impending investment valuation to drive a higher acquisition valuation” I would like to amend her statement slightly to read, “it’s smart to use an impending investment valuation to drive an higher acquisition.” Christin goes on. A nice play if you can make it.”

Venture Capital 316

Venture Capital Pricing Social Network Acquisition 316

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We have a team of people and technology which scours the Internet, and looks for videos we like and think would be a perfect fit for our Youtube channels. That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team.

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I was pretty skeptical about the firm at first, but then I started talking with folks and getting to know the team, and saw how much revenue they were driving, and decided to make the leap. My team based in Glendale is probably 300, and we have another office in Sunnyvale, another in San Francisco, and other people in St.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I was pretty skeptical about the firm at first, but then I started talking with folks and getting to know the team, and saw how much revenue they were driving, and decided to make the leap. My team based in Glendale is probably 300, and we have another office in Sunnyvale, another in San Francisco, and other people in St.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. they can build teams that really focus on building & marketing great products.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. The Draft team will answer questions there and so will Greg and I if you have anything for us.

Startup 150

Startup Outsource Development Mobile Southern California 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Do you imagine eventually raising VC and trying to build a faster growing company?” They used the money to hire a bigger tech team so they could roll out their second product line. They hired a marketing team to promote their products more broadly. Are you looking to potentially sell the company in the next year or two?

Startup 227

Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2014

That''s the definition of entrepreneurship, taking on the challenge that no one else is, and solving thing the way you want, and to prove that you''re right and can build a business. There is no bigger category than automotive, and there''s no gnarlier problem than buying a car. All those things are rarely in the same person.

Truecar 209

Truecar Entrepreneur Southern California .Net 209

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.

Startup 196

Startup Mobile Advertising Organization 196

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We break it down by a number of vertical categories, including Indulgent--all about food, wine, and alcohol; Active--outdoor athletic endeavors; and Creative, which is arts and crafts. Finally, we have an Eclectic category, which are interesting activities which don't fit into any of those other buckets.

Startup 271

Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

There are many investors who are not looking to build enormous businesses who value the fact that you can run a business profitably). When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” Internet scale. Amazing growth!”

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

Santa Monica-based Tala , backed by Google Ventures and Lowercase Capital, has developed a tool that allows anyone with a cell phone to build a financial track record, specially for people in emerging markets. It really goes into two categories, around capacity and affordability. It took me 2.5

Startup 100

Startup Santa Monica Customer Custom 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2014

Equally important, you need to make these projections first as goals for your own use, to convince the team as well as investors that you have a business which is achievable. Build a path to 10x return. The only path to any return for equity investments is a liquidity event, like a merger or acquisition (M&A), or IPO.

Equity 99

Equity Venture Capital Invest Pricing 99

socalTECH

JULY 5, 2017

There were lots of things we did around investment and acquisitions. I really wanted to go build a lifestyle, premium brand. I think that that's what makes what we are doing in the apparel category quite unique, and differentiated from traditional apparel. I was in the consumer, retail space. Shaan Sethi: That's a good question.

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Equity Legalzoom Capital 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

To build out our technology and ad serving platform, we made the investment and acquisition around a video ad server, with a strategic investment in Redlever for branded entertainment, and the acquisition of Joost's assets. Specifically, there was a greater and higher level of consumption of video.

Santa Monica 149

Santa Monica Content Platform Networking 149

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

Having a high-caliber team with a good track record and a clear value proposition are givens. The best way to arrive at realistic numbers is by building a bottom-up financial model. Or are you seriously underestimating key metrics like customer acquisition costs (an extremely common mistake)? You can’t justify your assumptions.

Seed Funding 40

Seed Funding Course Metrics Invest 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2013

In reality, you need to make these projections first as goals for your own use, to convince the team as well as investors that you have a business which is achievable. Build a path to 10x return. The only path to any return for equity investments is a liquidity event, like a merger or acquisition (M&A), or IPO.

Startup 97

Startup Equity Entrepreneur Venture Capital 97

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

We discussed whether investing in the second largest player in a category makes sense given that Groupon is 10x the revenue, 3.5x There weren’t enough details to know whether Corduro was trying to build a mobile payments company like Zong or a retail merchant processing solution like Square. eCommerce is hot again!

Clearstone 236

Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. It’s ok to target a small market and you can probably build a niche business that is extremely valuable to you as an individual. Market Size.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). Obviously if they are very wealthy or they fit categories 1-4 above I’d have a carve out. Bad behavior but prevalent. Check ‘em out!

Venture Capital 282

Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Today, we support four categories: house cleaning, dry cleaning – pickup and delivery, wash and fold – pickup and delivery, and dog walking. We started building the project in March and we built for four months. We really did build very quickly an awesome website. We are building a team.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Combine this significant pool of sophisticated Angel capital and expertise with UC Santa Barbara’s world-class entrepreneurial program and throw in a critical mass of entrepreneurs bold enough to build businesses around their passions, it’s understandable how a modest-sized community has produced so many successful tech startups.

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Startup Sales Entrepreneur 100

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Your team operates out of a barn on your idyllic, coastal property, yet you have created a world-class product. Yeah, I have made plenty of mistakes in this category in the past. What advice do you have for an emerging entrepreneur who is in the midst of building an addVisor team? We subscribe to the same philosophy.”.

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

However, the ubiquity of the iPod including use by many folks who certainly would fall in the Time Rich category (lots of time to play with music) suggests that their product and marketing appeals to both segments. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Rufus Labs is a wearable technology startup in Los Angeles with a heavy focus on building devices for the industrial sector (EMS, police, campus/event security, warehouse, etc). Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat. Founded a series of successful startups resulting in IPOs and acquisitions. IoT: Rufus Labs.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

But, we knew that selling food was a gateway product to mothers, and we wouldn't be able to build our business just on feeding. As we continue to grow, we are adding more and more categories, all around being healthy, and making it easy for healthy choices to be easy choices. So, EcoMom took that concern out of the equation.

Software Review 200

Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

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. Jake Wood – Co-Founder and President of Team Rubicon. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

This will give you more time to build your parachute in mid-air (see “The MBA Education And Other Oxymorons” ). When working on your venture ideas please consider the following: Structure your idea in six categories. Which qualifications have to be fulfilled by your team members?Which Would you be able to find/hire your team?

Ideas 153

Ideas Startup Pricing Entrepreneur 153

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Build a SWAT team 3. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

3 million to the first place team. His first company, LegalZoom was founded with Robert Shapiro, part of the team that successfully exonerated OJ Simpson, instantly giving his company credibility unheard of in the start up community. Google quickly bought AdSense in 2003 and Elbaz’s AS team became Google Santa Monica.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75