Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur these days, or trying to grow an existing business, everyone is telling you that you need to use social media. " He has one of the first books on this subject, and he breaks the process down into nine key activities, as follows: Get focused and identify goals. Get attention and reach your audience.

Social Media 69

Social Media Media Metrics Satisfaction 69

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Manatt Digital Media is a professional digital media service for businesses. In early October, Manatt Digital Media was a proud sponsor of Siemer Silicon Beach Summit. TechZulu met with Hale Boggs, from Manatt Digital Media, and discussed Manatt Digital Media and the future of LA’s startup scene.

Los Angeles 84

Los Angeles Media Invest Startup 84

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2023

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. He speaks from a wealth of personal experience in private equity, as well as top executive positions at American Express, Sears, and Citigroup.

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Customer Custom Social Media Metrics 140

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It seems that most of you entrepreneurs I meet in my role as business advisor are convinced that starting a new business requires equity investors, exponential growth, and a plan to go public via IPO. Personal income is related to operations versus equity. With major investors, your equity and return is diluted and delayed.

Statistics 124

Statistics Equity Satisfaction Entrepreneur 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business. Support and enable mutually beneficial activities inside and outside the organization. Shared and collaborative activity (connectedness).

Organization 126

Organization Social Media Examples Customer 126

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity. Communicate what is happening and why to everyone.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 118

TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

.); the actors Uzo Aduba, America Ferrera, Jennifer Garner, Eva Longoria, and Lily Singh and former US Women’s National Team players including Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, Rachel Buehler, Shannon Boxx, Amanda Cromwell, Abby Wambach, Lauren Cheney Holiday; social media stuntman Casey Neistat, and more. “We’re venture capitalists.

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Writing Los Angeles Equity Startup 171

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Funding Innocal Offshore 124

Tech.Co

JULY 19, 2017

Independent media network WelkerMedia is launching the world’s first no-equity and not-for-profit acceleration program with a focus on digital activism, social impact and creative projects. The program’s three tracks include digital activism & media; social change and non-profits; and creativity and art.

Mentor 71

Mentor Media Activity Competition 71

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Lots of firms are now talking about this pretty actively.”. Since Revolution launched in 2005, venture capital activity in underrepresented markets has grown significantly. Sieg recently joined us on Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital podcast, to explain the firm’s “rise of the rest” philosophy.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

In particular, PwC said there was a surge in fourth quarter activity, with 55 IPOs completed in the quarter, worth $23.5 PWC said that among the reasons for the surge was a return of private equity and venture capital portfolio companies using the U.S. PwC tallied up 154 IPOs completed this year so far, raising $37.5

Cornerstone OnDemand 190

Cornerstone OnDemand Marketing Report Southern California 190

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 24, 2016

For new businesses, social media marketing may seem a bit overwhelming. Here are four steps to help you get started building a great social media presence. Their internationally known typographic logo is classic and benefits from years of brand equity. Construct a social media style guide. Invest in a professional brand.

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Social Media Media Content Guide 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity. Communicate what is happening and why to everyone.

Technical Review 151

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2020

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. He speaks from a wealth of personal experience in private equity, as well as top executive positions at American Express, Sears, and Citigroup.

Social Media 128

Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 128

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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Internet Brands Westlake Village Woodland Hills Beverly Hills 190

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 16, 2020

Norton’s latest fund is the only the most recent act in a career that has seen the investor traverse the financial services digital media and the early days of the internet. Norton built Digital Boardwalk, a pioneering internet service provider and the second commercial partner for the trailblazing browser service, Netscape.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

LAVA inducted Mayor Riordan--who had a long and involved career in venture capital and private equity before his efforts in politics--into its LAVA Hall of Fame. The group, which promotes the venture capital industry in the Los Angeles area, also honored local companies for their funding and exit activity.

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LAVA Zumbox Technology ReachLocal 166

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

funding led by Level Equity. 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. It's been quite a few years since we spoke with the company. What is MomentFeed up to nowadays?

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Google Paid Search Mobile Activity 127

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

There’s no straightforward road for Meta to follow, they have to blaze a trail where others are actively failing and keep the rest of their company together while they do so. The point is, this stuff is hard, and the people who have been building in public are hurting even as they spend billions to develop the tech.

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Marketing Newsletter Technical Review News 246

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 103

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Professionals maintain that there is plenty of money and equity for qualified startups, and funding marginal startups via any source will only make more people unhappy. But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined.

Funding 101

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Invest 101

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2018

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. He speaks from a wealth of personal experience in private equity, as well as top executive positions at American Express, Sears, and Citigroup.

Social Media 96

Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 96

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Mike is actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member. Venue Sponsor.

Tech Coast Angels 105

Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Angel investors are still the lifeblood of early-stage startups, despite the surge of activity in crowdfunding and an increasing early interest from venture capitalists. In the interest of getting you off on the right foot, here is my priority list of recommended preparation activities.

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Angel Startup Technical Review Social Media 65

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2019

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business. Support and enable mutually beneficial activities inside and outside the organization. Shared and collaborative activity (connectedness).

Organization 52

Organization Social Media Examples Customer 52

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 63

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

Professionals maintain that there is plenty of money for equity in qualified startups, and funding marginal startups via any source will only make more people unhappy. But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined.

Funding 106

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Sample 106

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

There's content, digital media, and enterprise, and obviously eSports is centered here, AR and VR should be centered here, though we're early on that so we'll see how that plays out. Jamie Montgomery: I think we're on the cusp of some real activity in M&A. The third area, are the private equity players.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Conference Silver Lake Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business. Support and enable mutually beneficial activities inside and outside the organization. Shared and collaborative activity (connectedness).

Startup 99

Startup Organization Social Media Customer 99

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

Bricault was the founder of The Mailroom Fund, which was focused on early stage investments in Southern California digital media, and prior to that spent significant time at William Morris Agency. The standard model for an accelerator is, they provide a tranche of equity, along with a suite of services that varies by different accelerator.

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Startup Los Angeles Entrepreneur Media 254

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. Sweat equity. Equity crowdfunding. This term is used to describe non-traditional ways to incent growth such as social-media and viral marketing.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. He speaks from a wealth of personal experience in private equity, as well as top executive positions at American Express, Sears, and Citigroup.

Social Media 99

Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 99

socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2015

Geoff Campbell: My professional life has all been in digital media. Through their professional services, I ended up investing in a private equity firm called iFormation, which was a three way joint venture between Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic Partners. That was all in digital media.

Mobile 100

Mobile Buzzfeed News Tool 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business. Support and enable mutually beneficial activities inside and outside the organization. Shared and collaborative activity (connectedness).

Organization 57

Organization Social Media Customer Custom 57

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

You might be aware of their products – perhaps having seen their digital media signs in your favorite local restaurant or bar, but what you might not know is their compelling founders’ story and unique company culture. ” The large social media screen is Enplug, five iterations later. Focus on Value, Not Advertising.

Social Media 106

Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 106

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2014

They may not have noticed the wave of “open businesses,” spawned by the Internet and social media. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business. Support and enable mutually beneficial activities inside and outside the organization. Shared and collaborative activity (connectedness).

Organization 93

Organization Social Media Customer Custom 93

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Discover the what the future holds for you and this game changing media platform. Keynote: Jordan Rohan, Managing Director of Equity Research, Internet and Digital Media, Thomas Weisel Partners 9:30am: Keynote Panel: The State of Mobile: The Economics Of Critical Mass? Krishna Subramanian, Co-Founder, Mobclix.

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Mobile Media Case Study Advertising 40