TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Last week, I wrote about an alternative to venture capital called revenue-based financing and before that, I jotted down some notes on one of VCs’ favorite spaces: cannabis tech. Before I tell you about a few other up-and-coming beverage makers, I must beg the question: Does the beverage industry need disrupting? Fundraising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Thus I was pleased to see my own insights covered in a new book, “ Why Startups Fail ,” by Tom Eisenmann, a Harvard Business School professor, who has mentored many more entrepreneurs, and authored more than a hundred HBS case studies from real-world startups. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

About three years ago fledgling San Diego-based startup PvP Biologics announced a $35 million deal with Takeda Pharmaceutical that gave the Japan pharma giant rights to acquire the company down the line. The deal follows completion of a Phase 1 study evaluating the PvP drug. That day is here.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

we spoke with co-founder Chuka Ikokwu to learn more about the startup and how it's helping companies to recruit more diverse workers. is all about? We have not just engineers, but designers, UI, UX, analytics, product managers, user acquisition, marketing managers, and others. I've been passionate about that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2020

Key drivers for the drop this quarter are the general negative numbers for Q2 earnings, and concerns about how quickly or slowly the world will emerge from the pandemic. According to a dated but still relevant study by PricewaterhouseCoopers , companies average $3.7 It takes real money to find money.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The punchline is, I'm pretty excited about this story. Fair made its name early on subscriptions, can you talk a bit about the reason for the shift away from that? That really made us an extended rental car company, if you think about it. As we studied that Gen 1 and Gen 2 of the company, a few things popped out at us.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Talk about Telesign and what you do? Telesign was the first thing we were working on, but there were a bunch of different little businesses we started all about the same time. Ryan Disraeli: I was studying business with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. I was about 19 at the time. What were you majoring in?

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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. I had seen how things were working over there, and went through a number of acquisition. Talk a bit more about your cross platform strategy? It's pretty broad.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

We caught up with Skyler to hear about HeyTutor, which already has 25 employees and is growing rapidly. HeyTutor is about connecting people hyper-locally. In terms of where we offer to our customers, we have 250 different areas, from early childhood to studying for an MCAT or the bar. What is HeyTutor? Here's the reason why.

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Xconomy

JULY 30, 2019

About this time last year, DNA sequencing giant Illumina upped its financial projections, estimating its sales would grow 20 percent year-over-year. It exceeded that goal, with revenue rising 21 percent to $3.33 billion by the end of 2018. It’s a different financial story this summer. The company, which previously.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

In a study conducted at MIT Sloan’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), we found that only 12 percent of large companies (with revenues more than $1 billion) are ecosystem drivers. In contrast, the smaller companies we studied have begun to focus on gaining knowledge of their customers and becoming more networked.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Although the response was somewhat rude, it was valuable, as it caused me to think a bit more deeply about this issue. However, irrespective of how many business books you read, you cannot “study” your way to entrepreneurial proficiency. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. It’s been many years since I’ve properly cut code and my former teammates love to tease me and talk about my mean days of COBOL, DB2 and CICS. What about strategy?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2019

I started thinking about some of the people I know who I admire, respect and love the most and how they achieve their goals. Lexus studied customers in the US and predicted that car buyers had just had it with clunky US cars. Lexus upended the US car market with vehicles that were light years ahead of the junk Detroit was producing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

If you’re not even spending any time thinking about what your market could be you’re simply being lazy and unprepared. For all of the talk about Salesforce.com controlling the CRM market I’m told they still have less than 20% market share. Let me be very direct. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. So it was fun to get his perspective on topics that are sometimes too toxic for VCs to talk about publicly. Minutes 4 – 8.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Before jumping into the post I wanted to point out one thing about doing TWiVC and posting my notes here on BSOTT. In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

One of the fastest growing startups in Southern California in recent years was Hautelook, which went from just an ideas to a huge, $270M acquisition by Nordstrom only X years later. Tell us a little bit about your background? I went to school at Babson, back East, and majored in finance and entrepreneurial studies.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2015

After studying at UC Santa Barbara''s entrepreneurial program , he returned to Spain, excited to start a venture and make a positive impact on his homeland. Geographically, the distance between Spain and the US is about 4,715 miles. I promise I will never tweet you about lousy music or tell you about that killer burrito I just ate.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Tell us a little bit about your background and the company? Before, no one was teaching you how to look at comedic content, how to study it, and how to replicate it. It sounds like you're really about the technology, not the content? It's not about us creating content, yet. What's the business model behind Laffster?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 7, 2016

coast bearing the brunt of Hurricane Matthew, we send our thoughts and more to those who have more pressing matters to worry about this week. —Longtime partners Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: REGN ) and Sanofi (NYSE: SNY ) reported positive news for dupilumab in a Phase 3 study to treat atopic dermatitis, a severe form of eczema.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2016

Evoke’s late-stage study failed to show a significant benefit to the drug, EVK-001, versus placebo at all 41 of the sites that tested it nationally. In about one-third of the sites (13 out of 41), patients in the trial who took placebo reported an improvement in symptomatic diabetic gastroparesis.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We caught up with Zach James and Rich Raddon , co-founders of MOVIECLIPS, to learn more about the company and also hear about the firm's funding round. First of all, what is MOVIECLIPS.COM about? Studies show, if you don't, people will turn to piracy. Why don't you talk about your backgrounds?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. And whom you know is really just about who is willing to go to bat for you, break through filters, and vouch for the quality of your product and of you. It’s the same story.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

We caught up with Matthias Galica , the firm's founder, to hear more about the company. First of all, what's ShareSquare all about? We have about 500 pretty active users, ranging from agencies to major record labels, to individual artists. Mathias Galica: We are a company that was born out of the Founder's Institute last.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

By now you will likely have read Andy Dunn’s scathing post about Venture Capitalists in which he decries the industry’s masses. After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. But VC is like congress.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Just this year alone we have studied 3,400 North American enterprise software companies including many in SoCal and dug in deep on over 200 of these companies. Jeb Spencer: 2015 was about supersizing everything in pursuit of the next monster, billion dollar on paper valuation. It was truly the year of the Unicorn. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition. Matt will speak about social media analytics and ROI, and how conversation is not enough without conversion. Krishna will speak about the future of mobile advertising, and how to maximize its potential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2014

According to the Small Business Administration , about 600,000 new businesses are started in the U.S. According to a 2012 study by PricewaterhouseCoopers , companies average $3.7 You better have lined up a major international expansion, some major acquisition candidates, or a wealth of unfilled orders.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I was excited to read it because Robert Cialdini had been a speaker at Google when my wife worked there and she told me that many members of the senior management team at Google had been raving about his work. In the book he talks about movement over the past decade to get us to reuse our towels more when we stay at hotels.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2017

More recently, the desire for extra income has become the key driver in new startups, according to a 2015 study. Every lifestyle entrepreneur starts their business to be their own boss and follow their passion, so they don’t even think about having investors, a board of directors, or going public.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Health concerns about vaping continue to mount, and the feds could get involved. OK, that’s a rhetorical flourish—we are talking about politics, after all—but with the debut of the House drug-price legislation this week, there are now plans of various stripes in both houses of Congress and the White House.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Now let’s talk about the bases that need to be covered. The best way to do this is to highlight a recent similar company payback to investors, via going public or acquisition exit. The details can be added later. Outline the potential investor return, and payback process.

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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. You received some significant amount of funding last year, can you talk about that?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them. Is there a downside to Accountability?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

As an angel investor, I hear many entrepreneurs making negative comments about competitors or asserting they don’t have any competitors. Use real case studies and customer feedback. The best way to support your acquisition potential for $100 million -- or going public -- is to find a competitor who has shown it can be done.

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