Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Seed viral activity. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. It’s harder than it looks to exploit people’s propensity to share humorous, enjoyable or useful information - jokes, special offers, and games.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. I hope to announce one investment in this space in the next few months.

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socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2011

Los Angeles billionaire entrepreneur Patrick Soon Shiong has made an investment in a healthcare technology firm Net.Orange , Net.Orange said today. The Texas firm provides a suite of web-based applications for the healthcare industry. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 1, 2021

My favorite example of a world class pivot comes from the CEO and board of one of my most successful investments. The firm grew to dominate its new field, create an infrastructure to allow any of its current 100,000 retail stores to simple activate or load the card with money from any cash register.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

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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socalTECH

MAY 31, 2012

Earthlink founder and Southern California entrepreneur Sky Dayton is leading an angel investment in a new startup out of Stanford, which is developing a service which allows developers to track changes and extract information out of web pages. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Investors routinely go to candidate web sites to get a feel for the tone and scope of the company, as well as its maturity and offerings. Prepare an investment-grade business plan. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

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

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Many of the entrepreneurs I advise or invest with spend considerable time on the Internet, keeping up with technology, customers, and competitors, but very few feel the need for an early personal presence. There are dozens of tools available to help you monitor relevant activity, including Social Mention and Google Alerts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. Individual angel investors and crowdfunding have been adding to the momentum, some say exceeding VCs in total amount invested.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

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 the rollout, and maybe even pay themselves a salary. 500K might be a low estimate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Are you making the proper investment, and is it paying off? Leaders and investors need to know if you have and are tapping into your key sources of relevant data, including web analytics, sales management data, and customer relationship management (CRM) software. We want to make sure you can break down the silos and manage to results.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2010

Shea's Southern California headquarters in Walnut--apparently invests in early stage investments in the computer software, semiconductors, biotechnology and medical devices area, according to the J.F. Shea web site.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature insights and analysis from the local technology community, we have an article from Jeff Cohn , an entrepreneur and veteran of the angel and VC investment community here in Southern California. Tags: insights opinions venture capital angel investment exit merger acquisition.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

My favorite example of a world class pivot comes from the CEO and board of one of my most successful investments. Think of it: to shop on the web, you must have a card, not a nine digit routing and bank account number. It replaced Western Union as the preferred way to send money across great distances.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2011

Los Angeles angel investor Paige Craig is part of a new round of funding for Internet web influence tracker Klout. Craig, in addition to being an active angel investor, is starting up his own, stealthy B2B startup in Santa Monica. Klout said today that it had raised $8.5M

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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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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. That trend is growing every day. Mobile devices and apps enhance social interactivity. Inbound marketing data is more easily measured for ROI.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. So we talked about his joining.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2021

But very few are talking about how to measure your results and return on investment (ROI), and the right metrics for optimizing your marketing environment. 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. That’s where the money is.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2015

Today, we have some thoughts from Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital , a private equity investment company in San Diego. 2014 was the most active year in TVC history as measured by the number of investments/acquisitions/follow-ons/exits we completed. What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? READ MORE>>.

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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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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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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 4, 2012

They're also both active angel investors in the LA startup scene having invested in some of the most popular LA tech companies. Josh and Diego started Beachmint in 2010 and since then have raised over (wait for it.) $70 70 Million Dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This morning's interview is with Billy Fried , co-founder and CEO of Kijubi (www.kijubi.com), a new startup which is looking to help people find travel activities. I was always perplexed at finding fun activities out there to do. It's migrated onto the web in Hawaii, a simple migration, but no one had done it here yet.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We set up a digital media fund, which had the goal of investing in new digital media properties, ideas, and concepts. Right now, we're working on integrating more data from around the web, and our goal is to really aggregate and curate the information out there. What's the story behind Tecca and its links to Fuse Capital, and Best Buy?

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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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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2014

Those channels still exist today, and get around 200 million views a month--we ended up becoming one of the largest movie networks for video on the web. We saw that fan activity, and were excited about it, and thought it was really cool. But, more often than not, they''re doing different kinds of activities around a brand.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The company also disclosed that it has acquired three more websites, as the firm continues to acquire web properties in various vertical markets. The firm also reported it had acquired GrooveJob.com, which it had previously announced back in October. It appears that the firm spent around $2.7M READ MORE>>.

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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).

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 22, 2008

The AeA is actively supporting, promoting and impacting legislation to spur the deployment of Health IT initiatives – such as electronic medical records – to reduce costs, improve quality and save lives. We’ve already seen how Web 2.0

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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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