Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. They are, in fact, great news for traditional venture capitalists. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2023

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. New business development specialists there can also provide good additional sources for the specific information you may need.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Because my role as a VC requires me to take and endless stream of meetings I long ago decided I need to learn as much as I can from the meetings I attend so I often just ask tons of questions and assimilate knowledge. When I think about what defines us as a VC I think: Operationally knowledgeable / strong startup competence.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

According to Lehmbeck, in an interview with socalTECH, the company's software takes key specifications from products such as televisions and other consumer electronics, and applies them to ads automatically, so that instead of just advertising a big screen television an ad might contain key terms and information about those products.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based Ad.ly , the Twitter advertising firm headed by Sean Rad, is announcing today that it has raised $5M in a new round of financing. The round comes from GRP Partners, Greycroft Ventures, and Matt Coffin, the founder of LowerMyBills. Tags: adly venture capital twitter advertising. READ MORE>>.

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GRP Partners SoCalTech Advertising Venture Capital 154

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

El Segundo-based Ripple TV , an out-of-home advertising network, disclosed this morning that it has raised $4M in a venture capital round. The funding came from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Trinity Ventures. Tags: rippletv venture capital advertising ripple. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2020

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. New business development specialists there can also provide good additional sources for the specific information you may need.

Marketing 157

Marketing Statistics Research Report 157

socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2010

Los Angeles-based HitFix , an online web site focused on entertainment news and information, has raised $1.6M 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. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based DataPop , the developer of advertising targeting technology headed byJason Lehmbeck, has raised $7M in a Series B funding round, the firm said today. The funding was led by MK Capital, and also included prior investors Rincon Ventures, IA Ventures, Momentum Ventures, and Accelerator Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 16, 2011

The moment a big job is advertised you’re fawked. You know the drill – “informational interview.&# Life is an informational interview. Are You a VC? You’re a candidate. You’re thinking about your next big gig. You want the primo role. Hot company. Senior title. Lots of responsibility.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

It was from their hometown Los Angeles exurb, that Kim and Lee first began plotting how they would turn their experience working for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young (respectively) into the software business that just managed to rake in $40 million in financing led by one of venture capital’s most-respected firms, Battery Ventures.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

We're applying that same platform and are now using it for information, commerce, and advertising in vehicles. At some point, something more compelling and interesting came up, and I left and went back to Nokia as an EIR in their venture capital fund, focused on mixed and virtual reality and IoT. That makes it very hard.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. The first investment I ever made as a VC was in a company now called Invoca. Home alarms.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

However, one area has mostly been ignored, which is vertically focus, business-to-business information. Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. Robert Flynn: Yes. plus range.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2011

You guys did a lot of self-funding before you approached the venture capital community. The catalyst was that we saw the demand and it was confirmed by some of the leading advertisers in the marketplace. One of the things the Internet was supposed to do for advertisers is enable real-time, highly engaging messaging.

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Yahoo Startup Advertising Summary 210

socalTECH

JULY 30, 2020

The funding was led by Level Equity, and also included Signia Venture Partners, Draper Nexus, and DFJ Frontier, all prior investors. The company says it has now raised $38.3M The company is led by CEO Nick Hedges, who says that the company's software has become even more important as retailers have looked to adjust due to COVID-19.

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Software Review Draper Santa Monica Google 157

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. For Meebo 1.3%

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

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. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. In the Early Days. We have also built out an amazing management team.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Advertisers. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Tags: sponsor advertisement.

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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. The service--currently only available on iPhone and Android--allows users to find reviews and information about consumer electronics products.

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. New business development specialists there can also provide good additional sources for the specific information you may need.

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Research Marketing Statistics Report 87

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

The firm's CEO and co-founder, Jennifer Sargent , has an interesting background, most recently serving as an executive at Variety/Reed Business Information. As a result, consumers would go away after they hit that information. That ended up being a great training ground to learn about online advertising as a revenue stream.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. Rahul Sonnad: Geodelic develops a system that lets you publish location-based information.

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Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Los Angeles- and New York-based venture investor Greycroft Ventures has joined in a new funding round for PebblePost , a startup which uses real time online information to send direct mail to users, as part of a $31M Series C funding. Greycroft is an existing investor in PebblePost, which is based in New York.

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Seed Funding Los Angeles Funding Capital 113

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

Santa Monica-based Broke Girl's Guide , a startup focusing in on daily deals and information for women, has scored a small debt funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week. Broke Girl's Guide runs a daily deal newsletter with offers, online promos, and sales information. READ MORE>>.

Guide 230

Guide Funding Newsletter Santa Monica 230

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. Users can vote for relevancy of results, and over time, the non-relevant information or SEO moves down below the line. What's the business model behind the site--it looks like this is advertising driven? It's pretty much been all organic.

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PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore (www.bitvore.com) has created a system which takes thousands of sources of data, and extracts intelligence out of it to create actionable information out of that vast stream of real time data. Suddenly, everyone is trying to figure out if they need to disclose more information, and need to track that local news.

Orange County 245

Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Zondigo, Inc.

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Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

That way, you can start filtering back that information, and you're not just getting a random recommendation, you're getting that from people who are truly your friend or who you've chosen to follow. That's what we're going forward with for the next few months, and then will actively go about raising venture capital.

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Startup Newsletter Customer Custom 193

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Optimization also helps you optimize ad sales if you’re doing pure advertising.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

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. I think the financial vertical offers lots of native ideas, that aren't just display advertised based, because of all of our information and data. READ MORE>>.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

If 10 percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. New business-development specialists there can also provide good additional sources for the specific information you may need.

Marketing 97

Marketing Entrepreneur Statistics Research 97

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to spend time getting to know their future VCs early because getting a feel for your chemistry is far more important than how the VC is ranked in some survey. Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else.

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Entrepreneur Marketing Venture Capital Hulu 330

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

The study, conducted by Jon Funk of OceanRoad Partners , includes data from socalTECH.com's proprietary venture database , Dow Jones/VentureSource, and Greg Martin of Redpoint Ventures. Tags: results investment exit california southern acquisition merger capital venture.

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Southern California Study Venture Capital Redpoint 29

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I’d link to it but it’s behind a paywall.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. It's all that stuff that allows publishers and advertisers to better understand their user base and how to effectively monetize it.

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization Advertising, ecommerce, monetization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization advertising effectiveness, content distribution, monetization. . Do you enjoy sharing information. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69