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JULY 17, 2014

The latest venture capital totals from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association''s MoneyTree Report was released this evening, tallying up $761.12M in investments in Q2 of 2014 in Southern California, up from Q2 of 2013, when $616.83M was invested in the region. Image courtesy Bigstock. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

First you need to take consolation from the fact that you are not alone, and more importantly you need to implement an active growth and marketing plan to include the following initiatives: Ramp-up visibility and strategic alliances. Capitalize on competitor weaknesses that you can fill with minimal new investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2021

Every business I know is intimately familiar with outbound marketing, or pushing your message out to customers through email, newspaper, and television advertising. smartphone penetration now exceeds 85 percent , and mobile activity averages are well over five hours per day , the advantages of inbound marketing continue to increase.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

SweetLabs says it has over 300 software developers and advertisers using its platform to help drive installs on the PC platform, and that it has a "unique focus" on the 1.5 billion daily active users of Windows. SweetLabs is venture backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Google Ventures, and Intel Capital. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M in 29 venture capital deals for Q1. in investments, IT services--which includes many online advertising firms--was at $35.15M in investments. According to the report, released today, Southern California investments totaled $686.5M across 31 days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2020

First you need to take consolation from the fact that you are not alone, and more importantly you need to implement an active growth and marketing plan to include the following initiatives: Ramp-up visibility and strategic alliances. Capitalize on competitor weaknesses that you can fill with minimal new investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. As an active angel investor, I look for this level of alignment and understanding in every funding presentation I hear. Key activities. Value propositions.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

Los Angeles-based investor Siemer Ventures has backed social media advertising and analytics firm Optimal , Optimal said Monday. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Thiel is providing his mentees with capital to make their startups a reality. When you don't accept capital from someone else, you aren't beholden to anyone else's input. But when your only capital is your hard-earned seed money, every penny that goes out will be scrutinized painfully. You can keep overhead low.

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APRIL 4, 2011

For today's interview, we caught up with Clark Landry , the chairman of GraphEffect (www.grapheffect.com), a Santa Monica company which is helping other companies to hone their advertising on Facebook. Landry is a serial entrepreneur, and active investor, having been co-founder of TagWorld. Thanks for the time today!

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JUNE 28, 2010

Pikover was founder of Access360 and a co-founder at Xylan and is an active angel investor in the Southern California area. The Tech Coast Angels said that HitFix gets around one million monthly unique users, and is advertising-driven. Tags: hitfix venture capital online news entertainment content hollywood yuri pikover.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

At the time Whisper had roughly 20 million monthly active users across its app and website, which the company was looking to monetize through programmatic advertising, rather than brand-sponsored campaigns that had provided some of the company’s revenue in the past. Heyward did not respond to a request for comment.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2016

Venture investment firm Greycroft Ventures , which has an office and is very active in Los Angeles, has led the investment in Performance Horizon , a San Francisco digital marketing software developer. in its Series C funding, which was led by Greycroft Growth, along with Mithril and DN Capital.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Los Angeles-based videogame developer Seriously --which is backed by Upfront Ventures, Northzone, Korea Investment Partners, Sunstone Capital and Daher Capital--has just rolled out a new promotional video , which features Kate Walsh of Grey's Anatomy and YouTube stars Joey Graceffa and Rosanna Pansino.

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MAY 31, 2012

Dayton is joinig the company's board, according to TechCrunch, and will be taking an "active role in the company." Diffbot's API helps developers extract text from web pages, including analyzing pages for major parts such as headlines, advertisements, articles, and more. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2022

Actively build trust and integrity into every relationship. Capitalize on your strengths, and focus on a niche. Build and advertise yourself as a “brand” that is the best at what they do. Take full advantage of every mentoring and coaching opportunity, and network with peers both inside and outside the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

SEM is the most common form of online marketing, which increases your website visibility on search engine results pages through optimization and advertising. You need executive buy-in, committed budgets, and education for the whole team on objectives and activities. Never “sell” or push out your message like conventional advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. Operates a ‘Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising Network’ called MobileAd Xchange that delivers in-call voice advertisements and follow-up visual engagements (SMS, MMS). Scans the web for a kid’s activity in realtime and sends alerts. -Co-Founders

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Earlier today, we talked with Greg Martin at Archer Venture Capital. 2) Advertising in the Facebook ecosystem. Facebook now accounts for a staggering 25% of all display impressions (up from 9% last year), and Facebook and its advertisers are finally beginning to understand how to leverage the platform's unique capabilities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Contrary to a popular myth, word-of-mouth and viral marketing are not a substitute for more basic branding activities. Actively lead conversations, as well as real listening. Capitalize on the massive trend and power of mobile. Use personized smart advertising to target your customers.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. 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.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. We have what is called a mult-dimensional, segmentation engine, that helps them understand their fans on the platform, and provide advertisers with specifics. How did you get into this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. As an active angel investor, I look for this level of alignment and understanding in every funding presentation I hear. Key activities. Value propositions.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital. It's almost like native advertising, which recognizes an article mention is a hotel and turning it into a link. How does this work? We're taking a different approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. 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. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

Anne Kavanaugh: Currently, our network is over 14,000 drivesr, and we are active in New York, Austin, and our newest markets are LA, DC, and Philadelphia. That was my first time in buying and selling of digital advertising. So how far along are you on this now? We'll have ten more markets by the end of March this year.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

We're also self funded, and absolutely have no need for venture capital. We are seeing lots of traction in the 14 cities we are live in, and people are wanting to work with us, including bands, PR people, management firms, the venues themselves, and local advertisers. First, there is advertisement revenue, which is happening right now.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

That allowed us to bring in a new investor, Level Equity, and we raised a little over $16M in capital to scale the business. In 2013, Facebook local pages, Google Pages, and Yelp were not all that active. They want to advertise on Facebook and Instagram, and they want to see what they can do with Waze, Snapchat, and Yelp.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. Mickie Rosen: There are a couple of things.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

Anne Kavanagh: Currently, our network is over 14,000 drivesr, and we are active in New York, Austin, and our newest markets are LA, DC, and Philadelphia. That was my first time in buying and selling of digital advertising. So how far along are you on this now? We'll have ten more markets by the end of March this year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you work at a company that has raised $20 million in capital or more this is the likely situation unless you had overnight and meteoric growth that gave you the power to hold on to a board majority.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Cloud Capital--has managed to coax those equipment rental yards into the digital age, and how the company has tackled other challenges in focusing its business. In the last few years, we've seen a spurt of activity where technology has started to penetrate the industry, and has started to change it. Cloud Capital.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. prefer instead to divide it according to the mindset of users: whether or not they are actively looking to purchase something (i.e. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2011

Los Angeles is the creative capital of the world, and we're where the next opportunity is--the connected consumer. It's like New York, which because of all the advertising folks who have spun out of the companies and agencies there where the economy tanked, and have started creating innovative companies. Now, time is on their side.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As an active angel investor, I’m accustomed to hearing entrepreneurs pitch their expectation to quickly create a new dominant brand, based on their disruptive technology. More capital is available for scaling and brand building. Only recently, I realized that times are rapidly changing.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2012

They are also very active as an early-stage tech investor, partner and acquirer. 36:00 Andrew: Display advertising has a real problem. They are best known for their magazine titles such as The New Yorker, Wired, Vanity Fair and Vogue. But did you also know that they are a large cable operator? That they own Reddit?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2017

Every business I know is intimately familiar with outbound marketing, or pushing your message out to customers through email, newspaper, and television advertising. smartphone penetration now exceeds 80 percent , and mobile activity averages are approaching five hours per day , the advantages of inbound marketing continue to increase.

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