socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2009

Hamet is now helping True Ventures look at investments in Southern California, and we thought it would be worthwhile to talk to him about the firm's new interest here, his role, plus his insights into where the advertising industry is now. We stay away from Series B investments, it's all Series A and earlier. Hamet Watt: Not really.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Thanks Ben. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. in Computer Science. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

How would you compare this investment, versus the more traditional investments you have been doing at Crosscut? Just to be clear, this is a personal investment, and something that my partners at Crosscut support. At Crosscut, we tend to invest in platforms. Clinton Foy: That's a good question. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Back in January, at the annual TechZulu Startup Forecast , our panel of industry leaders and investors spent a healthy dose of time discussing the ongoing JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) and the investing sphere at large. This all, circling around 2008, a shy year for startup investments. Fundraising Frustrations.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Updates could be as exciting as closing investment deals, or harrowing as the news of losing a co-founder. In seed stage funding, we’re often told that the investments are ultimately about the people/teams, and not necessarily the metrics. A Huge Thank You! Rapt.FM – Rap battles over live chat.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

So consider this something of a recap, photo essay, and a personal thank you to all the great people who worked alongside us at SXSW this year. Well, thanks to a fantastic partnership with the good people at crowd fun ding platform, Indiegogo , we were able to do just that! A special thanks to our guests/interviewees!

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Thanks for the time today. Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film. I ended up taking a real job at Credit Suisse as an investment banker, where I spent time studying and finding hot new Internet companies that were in Silicon Valley at the time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? No, thanks. After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value).

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Which I have shown to do, but anybody who invests in tech, invests in team. My every day is trying to fundraise, reaching, re-reaching out, and trying to keep people updated with metrics. We haven’t had any capital to really test customer acquisition strategies. Thanks Matt for your time.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Once you create a small list of these queries, then you can start to formalize the ideas into specific metrics that you track daily. User acquisition via each method you use. Aggregate metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. They compete on features, price and execution.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

Thanks to the tools yall are building, we now have more far-flung friends--including people weve never met f2f--than ever before. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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