TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

But at the same time, Los Angeles–based Boulevard got this funding infusion at a boosted valuation because it has been on a roll. Focusing on the U.S. We’re excited to support the Boulevard team as they continue to grow.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

If you’re a very early stage startup that just raised your first angel money it is very possible that the funding announcement will be your first big tech news. But succinctly this press places a marker in the ground for your company. But with fragmentation of the press people just miss stuff. Why does that matter?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Competition. So if you’re raising money – from angels or VCs – you’re going to have to address the question of whom you’re competing against. And the reality is that if you have no competition it will likely be perceived as a negative, not positive. Harvey Balls.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2015

Good news, Fixed , the San Francisco app that helps drivers fight tickets has just launched in Los Angeles after raising an additional $650,000 in seed funding last February. Fixed is not without competition, LA-based Cited launched last year and charges 20% of the cost of the ticket. Yeah, purposefully vague. If you lose you pay $1.95

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers. What is Coverfly?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 31, 2014

It isn’t the biggest secret that the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins aren’t the best of friends, especially on the football field. The pitch competition was split into two categories, a technology and nontechnology section.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking web site said late Thursday that it has kicked off a competition to send a MySpace user to the Davos World Economic Forum. The competition is being driven by user-submitted videos, where aspiring reporters can explain why they should be chosen to travel to Davos. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. And importantly we’ve had revenue. It’s when the game slows.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

By popular acclaim, San Diego-based Echo Laboratories founder Eugene Cho claimed top honors, and a $15,000 check, for his two-minute presentation last week in the 10th annual “Quick Pitch” competition, hosted by San Diego’s Tech Coast Angels. Crowd Gathers for San Diego Tech Coast Angels “Quick Pitch” Competition.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Most newspapers are written at a third-grade reading level, White House press releases average a fourth-grade reading level and the New York Times is easily digestible by the average fifth grader. A restaurant is a generally appropriate for a bank, but not an Angel investor. Competition. Real World Executive Summary Template.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based Tilofy (www.tilofy.com)--out of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage--is doing just that, helping to highlight what is going on around you, by absorbing all of that location data out there at any particular time and place. Markets now, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Las Vegas. How did Tilofy come about?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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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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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. In response he sent me a competitive analysis. It looked like every competitive analysis I had done for 20 years, (ok maybe better.) And it made me sad.

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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. Each of your angels or seed investors may have 20-30 investments. Assign away.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

There are various models of this but amongst the most successful I’ve seen executed is FabFitFun , based in Los Angeles. Curation is obviously also a form of competitive advantage for companies like StitchFix, TrunkClub and DailyLook who offer stylists to help you curate your clothing experiences. even a DTC company?—?if

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

3. We then addressed competition in the context of SiteAdvisor and how it is important for journalists, customers, and the companies themselves. 4. This mention of journalists and how they frame stories led to a quick discussion of how it is important to build meaningful, real relationships with the press (i.e. “be

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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. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

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. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

APRIL 28, 2008

President on April 16th, with the hope of addressing our country’s competitive position in the world as it relates to Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM). Such action will allow for the fulfillment of the commitments made in your American Competitiveness Initiative and in the America COMPETES Act signed into law last summer.

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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. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

How could Bird really be worth the reported $2 billion valuation that I read about in this press? You can expect some strong competition, but it’s unlikely that there will be 5 great scooter companies. Does it surprise you that the fastest-growing “unicorn” was launched in Los Angeles and not San Francisco? Not at all.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Funding for pre-revenue startups used to be the domain of angel investors, but they have moved up-stage. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Since selling Matt has gone on to become one of the smartest angels I have seen operate. o Huge on PR, “Be Everywhere” is his motto – fly to NY, proactively everywhere he could get press. o Put a timeframe/money – competition in the picture. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. million users making it considerably larger than some of its peers that have historically received more tech press inches. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Founded in 2007.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Funding for pre-revenue startups used to be the domain of angel investors, but they have moved up-stage. It’s also the keystone to convincing investors that you have a “sustainable competitive advantage.” It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Register some intellectual property.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

pitch and technology competition at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, I couldn’t help but feel like it might be a hall of crickets with a few passionate women warming the front row. .” investors look through press, do not use it to explain current traction. So when I heard about Women 2.0

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

Step 6: Full Court Press – If you identify an appropriate cadre of investors, gain their attention online, obtain a referral from a trusted source and then exceed the expectations you set, obtaining adequate capital will be relatively easy. His secret was to invite multiple buyers to view the car at approximately the same time. Stay Limber.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. She can anticipate reactions to price increases or product changes by customers and she can sustain competitive challenges because she knows the customer will stick by her. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

For simplicity I’ll assume you’ve raised some money from angels or seed investors and you’re either raising an A round or a B round of venture capital. As a VC I of course want you to come see only me because that means I have no competition and have time to properly get to know you. How Many Investors Should You Speak With?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

I get to do a deep dive on their business model, product roadmap and competitive positioning. 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. I work hard, don’t get me wrong.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Moderated by 500 Startups founder Dave McClure (who openly admits to knowing nothing about Bitcoin), our panel consisted of a mix of venture capitalists, angel, and accelerator investors: Joyce Kim – VC at Freestyle Capital. Brock Pierce – Digital Currency Entrepreneur and Angel Investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2018

Whether you’re fund raising from angels, seed investors and VCs?—?as I remind founders that the no’s come early because it’s super easy to qualify out a deal that you know is unlikely due to stage, focus, geography, competitive deal you’ve done or even just the fact that you’re too busy right now. Reid Hoffman is in?

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From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 27, 2013

Institutional Investors, whether they be accelerators like Amplify , venture shops like Anthem Venture Partners , or even a super angel investor like Ron Conway’s Silicon Valley Angel bring tremendous value beyond the money they put into a company. Can you afford the distraction?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

Very, very few founders have an easy time despite what you read in the press. It’s the exact same phenomenon in sales when you’re in a competitive RFP and 5 firms are pitching. Read the press and gather every named investor you’ve never heard of before and see if they’re increasingly active. Fund raising is hard for everybody.

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