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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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. If you have a consistent and valuable presence on your site and your social media channels, you have a better chance of a higher ranking on search engine result pages.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 13, 2014

How can you get to it more quickly and with less capital? Email readers, continue here.] He is an active angel investor, and he manages several angel funds in Texas. . Companies also need an inciting incident, because, more often than not, you often will depend upon selling your story to someone. You may not spot it at first.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

TripTrotting recruited thousands of local travel guides for their site. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. One of the founders wrote a Python script that sent out custom emails to a list they had developed. Capital to date? $20k No wonder they just raised $1mm.

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Incubator Web Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2010

Her experience includes helping startups for many years, and board positions on the Rocky Mountain and New Mexico Venture Capital Associations, New Mexico Angels, as well as several startups. Marty: What events led you to your commitment to venture capital investing? Stephanie: I love building companies. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

The firm announced a funding round last week, from DFJ Frontier, DFJ JAIC, Gold Hill Capital, and angel investors Gil Elbaz (Factual), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), and Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners), and many others. Once you start doing that, it also allows you to get a sense of the ROI from that marketing activity.

Social Media 248

Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

The Stamford site is run by Murphy Medical Associates. Finally, Resonance, the fast fashion startup launched by the founder of FirstMark Capital, Lawrence Lenihan, is using its factory in the Dominican Republic to make face masks for consumers on the island and beyond. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images).

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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. Provides publishers innovative site-search tools that enhance user engagement ( icanhazcheeseburger.com and Fred Wilson’s blog avc.com use Lijit as does Feld.com [but he's an investor]). Tags: This Week in Venture Capital.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. It would be interesting to hear about where your interests are nowdays, there was a rumor Redpoint had backed off activity here lately. We really believe in the market.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There have been a lot of entrepreneurs here in software and other industries, and interestingly enough there seem to be more self-funded, bootstrapped firms here, rather than those looking for venture capital to get off the group. In 2004, there was just rudimentary usage of web sites, and now, we've got cloud based, software-as-a-service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2014

Social media sites today, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, provide ideal forums for presenting your cause and your concept. Start actively blogging on your own site, as well as on industry forums. Capitalize on yourself early. Proactively seek out thought leaders and journalists. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down and talked with Nick Desai , CEO of Global Fitness Media , which runs FitOrbit (www.fitorbit.com), an online site looking to help users put together a fitness and connect with fitness trainers. For those who haven't visited your site, what is FitOrbit? Thanks for talking with us.

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Media Pricing Sites Training 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2016

Social media sites today, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, provide ideal forums for presenting your cause and your concept. Start actively blogging on your own site, as well as on industry forums. Capitalize on yourself early. Proactively seek out thought leaders and journalists. Marty Zwilling.

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Customer Custom Social Media Startup 58

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. The first couple of weeks, we were almost like a startup--getting things set up, infrastructure, email, and also doing lots of networking to get back in touch with the guys I've worked with in Southern California.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard Lindzon: In 2007, Fred Wilson had offered me some share in Twitter, when they were putting together their first round of venture capital investments. Early on, we realized that because Twitter was having issues keeping the site live and up, we needed to solve that for our users in order to build our business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Put your social network links on your stationery, business cards, and email. This is the time to get creative, run pilot projects to look at ROI, and educate the whole team on objectives and activities. Now is the time to capitalize on this fundamental shift in power to the customer, who now has real control over your brand message.

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Social Media Media Startup Blogging 95

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

John Tabis: Our ten second elevator pitch, is we drop ship premium, super fresh flowers from an active volcano, and ship them directly to a consumer''s door for $40 flat. There''s no continual upsell like you might encounter on other floral sites. We send you reminders by email, and deliver as many times a year as you prefer.

Services 215

Services Technical Review Startup Pricing 215

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. which are super actively traded, those stocks that we all trade.

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Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

IndieGoGo and other crowdfunding sites have been on the rise on becoming the new medium to gain capital for businesses and projects. One of the hardest times we had was getting access to capital. IndieGoGo is a global site, helping people create capital from anywhere in the world.

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Startup Funding Capital Help 74

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

You can post TechZulu content directly to Facebook, Twitter, email or IM. HUBkap allows you to: Plan - Create, manage and communicate all your daily activities with the people that matter most - all on one calendar. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

InVenture is next stage microfinance – focusing on providing expansion capital. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

Additionally, the site allows lawyers to market their legal services by sharing expert advice and engaging in discussion. andi also lets users share text, photos, videos, live panels, and soon even comprehensive queues consitsting of offline and online content in all of your popular social sites including Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

Throughout his company building career, he formed two bootstrapped companies, and a third that required significant capital. As quickly as the bill began to pass new regulatory statutes, Chance was able to build up an active network of accredited investors. Faster capital flows with a lot of velocity.” Clearing the Air.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve been an avid user of Plug.DJ’s music discovery site since early 2012, have discovered a ton of music there (which, by the way, I’m still listening to today) and originally covered their $1.25M in seed-round funding from Javelin Venture Partners. Building the development team came once they were ready to raise capital.

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Startup Product Sites Tool 107

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans. All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. Community Sponsors. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million. raise capital and move up north as soon as they got successful. Most Emailed Feed.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2009

The simple version is you want to meet someone at a specific venture capital firm, you can figure out who you know who would know that person. Many times people have extraordinary amounts of relationship capital inside their organization. People can see a prototype at our web site, and videos of our prototype.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2021

Previous backer Initialized Capital also participated in the financing, along with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, former Stockton, California Mayor Michael Tubbs, GGV investor Hans Tung and Paradox Capital’s Kyle Tibbitts. Abodu has been active in the market, selling and building its ADUs since the fall of 2019.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. Please email us reach@techzulu.com. TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Wilson Kriegel - President/COO Paltalk | former CRO of Zynga / OMGPOP.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. Community Sponsors. Applications are now open for the January 2012 program.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ▼ August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes. Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

Startup Email Ideas Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? At Starting Point, 100% of the interaction with our users/customers was via email.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Yahoo Email 40

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes. Zondigo, Inc.

Startup 40

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? Venture Capital Funding 7. ► October (1) New Video! Zondigo, Inc.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Our open source powers Hadoop, Jetty powers Google--if you look at our community site, the list of products that use use is exhaustive. Without venture capital funding, it means we've grown a little more deliberately, hired sparingly, but also left us in a place where when lots of the market has cooled, we've never had to cut personnel.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site has since grown to nearly 7.5 Idea Mensch. where entrepreneurs share their stories. Subscribe to RSS.

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