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Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

SoCal CTO

Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. And in most cases they are not ready to hire developers either. Using my StartupRoar as a radar, I came across a great post by Gabriel Weinberg Do you really need a full-time hire for that?

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SpotOn raises $300M at a $3.15B valuation and acquires Appetize

TechCrunch LA

Last year at this time, SpotOn was on the brink of announcing a $60 million Series C funding round at a $625 million valuation. The acquisition of Appetize extends SpotOn’s reach to the enterprise space in a major way. The acquisition is not the first for SpotOn, which also acquired SeatNinja earlier this year.

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Taylor Freeman of UploadVR on Building a Passionate Culture for Good

Tech.Co

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. He ended up building a digital agency that did everything from custom apps and web development to branding and digital marketing. The company caught the attention of investor from China and secured a seed-funding round around $1.5

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A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive

SoCal CTO

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. What can they do for funding, where can they go for help? Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. Unicornless. com> 4/25/08.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

socalTECH

Back in the early days of LA venture capital, I was first an associate of a fund, and then partner of a fund, Entertainment Media Venture Partners. Our largest investment was a partnership with Norman Lear's Act III Communications, we did a series of acquisition in the movie theater space. It's very much a low cost model.

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