Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I have experienced many first-time entrepreneurs with too much hubris if fund-raising came easily and press was fawning and employees joined in droves and customer adoption has been rapid. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

“Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money?” This investment started with Dana Settle (Greycroft) and I each putting in $750,000 into a young company doing less than $1 million in sales and has blossomed into one of the fastest growing companies in Los Angeles if not the entire country.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

On 03/20/08, we are hosting an event entitled “How Going Green Impacts The Bottom Line.” ( Click here to see our official press release! ) Or scroll down through this blog to see what issues we will be touching on! ) Or scroll down through this blog to see what issues we will be touching on! Lee Fox, Founder KooDooZ, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

They know this model of YouTube production & distribution better than anybody else that I’ve met in my 5 years in Los Angeles. And anybody who follows this blog knows that I believe television disruption has already begun and it is more likely to resemble Internet content than streaming long-form content to our living rooms.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth. I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. You betcha.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. I just read their press release and found out that they went one step further. It was very widely read. It should be: Local; Right-sized; and.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 12, 2009

This past week has had an interesting confluence of events that's led me to conclude that I want to start doing a lot of visible networking among the tech / web crowd here in Los Angeles. I really enjoy his blog and I can't wait to mix it up with him some more on the value of Hollywood money / connections. More often 4.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

If you’ve been following the press about VC funds you’ll know this is no small feat. But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders. Oh, and did I mention: Roger – NYC, Rob/Rory – NorCal, Nick/Chris – London & me – Los Angeles. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? .

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

We did a full-court press led by Steven because once we decided this was the team we wanted to work with and this opportunity mapped to our belief system that content + tech will build a generation of great Internet companies. So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take. The results?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

She was lamenting that some startups simply see their PR company as merely somebody who corrals the press when you want to get some inches. She felt that her firm provides significantly more value as an advisor than simply a press shop. I had dinner with my friend Brooke Hammerling , founder of Brew PR recently. And I agree entirely.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

million round led by Los Angeles firm Upfront Ventures, with participation from Mucker Capital and Matchstick Ventures. Airbnb, for its part, filed a press release this week confirming its plans to go public in 2020. Landline , the operator of a bus network in the Midwest, is one of the latest companies to raise venture capital.

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Services Startup Venture Capital Redpoint 207

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The story are the early investors who had foresight to back them — Lightspeed, Benchmark, IVP, SV Angel, General Catalyst, etc. What I *SHOULD HAVE* considered was that I was in college in a time when there were no digital cameras and I’m very thankful for that or I likely wouldn’t be writing this blog post today. Mostly kidding.

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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. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. Alex Benzer: My partner and I met here in Los Angeles, in high school. We're definitely Los Angeles natives, but we got the opportunity to do TechStars. SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform.

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. Why prorata rights used to be less of a big deal to angels. In the old days there weren’t many fights about whether angels would take their prorata rights in financing rounds.

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Guide Venture Capital Startup Writing 336

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Sometimes I make a blog entry. Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. You've been blogging for a while, what are five good posts that I should check out? What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Los Angeles has seen its own startup scene develop with Silicon Beach, which stretches between Santa Monica and Playa Vista. Some of the standout technology innovators include: ClippPR : ClippPR provides businesses with a simple way to track any type of online activity — press releases, videos, blog mentions, etc.

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Social Network Social Media Press Technical Review 111

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

A key deal not only helps you raise venture capital but it can help attract employees, garner press attention, help with product focus & importantly drive customer adoption and/or revenue. They can then direct staff, allocate budgets, talk to the press, connect you with politicians and attend events. Marketing Muscle.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Los Angeles Tech Market Analysis' The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network. New Online Video Trends.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

How does the world in Los Angeles intersect differently with venture capital? The number of times I’ve had people come to me and say they want to blog more. I t culminated in a series of blog posts I wrote while on Thanksgiving break that were transformational in giving me a mental model for what was important to me in venture.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

Article after article points out that Los Angeles is on its way to becoming one of the most robust startup communities in the United States. Michael Carney , a tech reporter for Pandodaily , taught how to craft a compelling press release. About General Assembly: Back in October 2012, General Assembly arrived in Los Angeles.

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Rustic Canyon Startup Los Angeles Class 74

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

Southern California--and particularly, Los Angeles--has always been a center of the music business, which makes it unsurprising that there are many, music-focused startups which end up starting here. We wanted to do some testing ni Los Angeles, and quickly expanded to four cities. Where is the site now, in terms of launch?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. A few weeks ago I sat through two very contrasting presentations and wrote this blog post right afterward. This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&#. I’m just getting around to posting now.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Yahoo 288

Jason Nazar

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

. * Embed documents you sell through Docstore on your own personal blog to make even more revenue. And here was some of the press about this feature: Los Angeles TImes: [link]. Click Here for a full list of FAQs on Docstore. Here are some screenshots and a document of mine own for sale: Last Will and Testament -.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. I’d link to it but it’s behind a paywall. Short answer: no.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. Mentorship.

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Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Funding for pre-revenue startups used to be the domain of angel investors, but they have moved up-stage. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Register some intellectual property.

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Funding Entrepreneur Startup CTO Hire 112

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. I get to network with angels, VCs, entrepreneurs, lawyers, etc. When your site crashes and you get slammed by customers and in the press – you’re all in the sh*tter together. That’s true. Here’s why: 1.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. How are you backed?

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News Advertising Press Sites 124

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

That's what Los Angeles-based MergeLocal (www.mergelocal.com) is looking to find out, by offering up points which can be converted to real cash, when users check into local businesses. He put out a blog article and spreadsheet which outlined if you were going to be able to scale your sales team, or if something was not scalable.

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CTO Coach Startup Mobile Artificial Inteligence 223

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Funding for pre-revenue startups used to be the domain of angel investors, but they have moved up-stage. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations. Register some intellectual property.

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Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 104

InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

Subscribe to their blog. Based on your research from Step 1, you should be able to communicate meaningful and insightful comments regarding the partners’ tweets, blog content, etc. Step 2: Get Personal & Give Freely – Once you identify a handful of potential VC partners, stealthily cyber stalk them. The keyword here is authentic.

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Venture Capital Capital Research Customer 236

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” ” The punch line from this post was “angel yourself.” Nobody sees you as a CEO since you’ve never been one?

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Technical Review Startup Venture Capital IP 150

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

. “You could feel the energy and excitement from getting everyone together, from the opening party to the inspiring panels; the creative pitches at the hackathon, demo day, angel pitch fest, and student pitch fest; and the good-times bonding from the nightly parties to the beach volleyball court. Demo Day / Angel Pitch.

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