Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2021

It works best through effective use of social media, mobile apps, societal initiatives, becoming an influencer, and providing a modern easily-found web site with credible customer-focused content. If you are not yet using this channel natively, your brand will be lost from view to key constituents.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2017

Venture capital firms didn’t exactly take their foot off the accelerator, but the pace of VC investments continued to weaken in the three months that ended in December, extending a slowdown that began in July, according to two venture reports issued today. The report found that venture firms invested $12.7 billion in 1,736 U.S.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter. Luck has it, I'm also a small investor though an investment in BetaWorks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Simple: according to Mike Polaris has followed on nearly every seed investment that they’ve done. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Bill.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

You may dream of developing a new silicon chip technology, but a bit of research should tell you that most disruptive solutions take billions in investment, and more time than you can afford for acceptance. More important than a business plan may be early networking, a web site and blog, and building relationships with key industry experts.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

That business includes our main registrar platform, which supports 20,000 resellers around the world, and also includes such acquisition as we''ve done such as name.com, domain auctions with Namejet, and a bunch of other activities. That''s especially true when you think about the investment we are putting into the domain side.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. Chris runs a popular web interview series on TechCrunch so is used to being the guy asking the questions. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year. Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

Venture capital activity ended the year with a strong finish in San Diego, as investors poured $498.4 The strength of fourth-quarter deals, lifted by a $125 million financing in November for the molecular diagnostics company Progenity, brought total venture investments in San Diego to nearly $1.92 billion in 215 deals last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

billion into 961 deals across the United States during the three months that ended June 30, according to the MoneyTree Report on venture capital activity. Still, the amount invested marked a 12 percent drop from the $17.4 billion invested in Venice, CA-based Snapchat. billion investments in 251 companies.

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Xconomy

APRIL 10, 2018

The amount of capital invested in the San Diego area was up slightly from the $541.2 million invested during the final three months of 2017, according to Venture Monitor data. million invested in the first quarter last year. It was almost 4 percent higher than the $526.7

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. If you don’t believe in your bones that you’re amazing then it’s no wonder you don’t want to sell them on making the investment.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. The time to build investor relationships is before you need the investment. Optimize your web history and presence. Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. prefer instead to divide it according to the mindset of users: whether or not they are actively looking to purchase something (i.e. friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2016

You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. The time to build investor relationships is before you need the investment. Optimize your web history and presence. Stealth mode normally means no time for search engine optimization prior to product launch, not to mention relevant blogging activity, and link building.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. Content is king of the road.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I personally believe that there are lots and lots of good developers working inside of organizations who would love to work on the interesting projects that we work on all the time, yet they arent out actively looking, so its almost impossible to find them. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. in Computer Science.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2017

It works best through effective use of social media, mobile apps, societal initiatives, becoming an influencer, and providing a modern easily-found web site with credible customer-focused content. If you are not yet using this channel natively, your brand will be lost from view to key constituents.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Maneesh works with Miramar portfolio companies to identify growth drivers, potential business partners and evaluate prospective investment opportunities. Maneesh’s prior investing experience includes an associate position at El Dorado Ventures. He blogs at startup-marketing.com. Managing Director of Miramar Venture Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

I wrote a post about how to build relationships with VCs over time and about investing in lines & not dots (which cuts both ways). In fact, they will think better of you because you’re demonstrating that you’re the kind of thorough person that they wanted to invest money into in the first place. I’m the same.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

For me, these are folks who are actively involved in wide variety of technology-enabled businesses. Why does this hurt, well I was just reading a few blog posts yesterday on finding startup co-founders: Where do you Find Cofounders? First - let me say what I consider to be a good audience - interesting people. in Computer Science.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 24, 2016

Invest in a professional brand. The Artful Parent is a blog that provides an excellent example of quality content regarding art activities for children. Over 500,000 parents and educators follow and share this blog’s content on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. If they need to dial in make sure they’re on a web conference and you can see them and vice versa. When you dial in by voice most people have a harder time being totally in sync with the conversation and are often distracted by other activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2012

A startup that has been incorporated for two years or more without shipping is already seen as a bad investment. In addition, a website needs several weeks of presence for indexing by search engines, search engine optimization, blog activity, and link building. Prime the investor world.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. I actually wrote a long blog post about this but I’m trying to get TechCrunch to publish it before putting it on my blog. Measuring my daily activity. Next up for me is measuring my daily activities.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications. In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

San Diego angel investor Taner Halicioglu, a UC San Diego computer science graduate and one of the early employees at Facebook, has emerged in recent years as one of the region’s most active individual investors. Keynote Talk by Upfront Ventures Partner Mark Suster. Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B Street, 92101.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2011

A startup that has been incorporated for two years or more without shipping is already seen as a bad investment. In addition, a website needs several weeks of presence for indexing by search engines, search engine optimization, blog activity, and link building. Prime the investor world.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

If you do a Google search for AAPL, the stock ticker for Apple, the top search results are typically Yahoo Finance, Twitter, Google Finance—and StockTwits, a social media communications platform for Wall Street traders and active retail investors.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

28 year old Allison Carmen’s Material Mix began operations in June and she says its helping waste and recycling professionals reduce operating expenses and recover investment on inventory via a dynamic, web-based, customer regulated exchange platform with supply chain management tools. Recycling Waste Platform. Problem She is Solving.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2010

A startup that has been incorporated for two years or more without shipping is already seen as a bad investment. In addition, a website needs several weeks of presence for indexing by search engines, search engine optimization, blog activity, and link building. Prime the investor world. Marty Zwilling.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

billion acquisition ( disclosed last November ) by the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The deal also reflects Petco’s expanding interests in technology following the company’s $4.6-billion

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. The founders now need a $1M Angel investment to do the marketing for a national NewCo rollout, build a team to manage blogs and other resources, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. 500K might be a low estimate.

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