socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2014

In a world with a rash of startup incubators and accelerators, super angels, crowdfunding sites, and more, what''s the relevance of organized angel investments groups? First off, for those not familiar with the Pasadena Angels, talk about the group? How about for angel investors, advice for them?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage. The first step toward a business with any idea is to write it down, and build a business plan around it. Separately at this stage, you may look for small funding amounts from angel investors , called seed investments.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

At the same time, Los Angeles-based trans activist Ashlee Marie Preston hosted a rally in solidarity with Netflix workers participating in the walkout. But Sarandos doubled down on his defense of the special, writing an internal email that “content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.” NetflixWalkout.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2012

A few angel investors have slipped or fallen from their lofty perch, so entrepreneurs must take great care to validate the character and reputation of every prospective investor. As long as somebody recognizes their million dollar idea and writes them a check, the source really doesn't matter. Litigious angels. Superior angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2013

A few angel investors have slipped or fallen from their lofty perch, so entrepreneurs must take great care to validate the character and reputation of every prospective investor. As long as somebody recognizes their million dollar idea and writes them a check, the source really doesn''t matter. Litigious angels. Tutorial angels.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

I moved into writing software to analyze audience data, and wrote a lot of computer graphics software. A few years ago, my CTO spotted a need that local groups and organizations have in handling RSVPs and registrations for meetings and events. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Dozens of impeccably dressed women outfitted in jumpsuits and Rothy’s gathered at the Greylock offices last week for a “structured networking” session hosted by All Raise , an 18-month-old nonprofit organization that seeks to amplify the voices of and support women in tech. Currently, All Raise manages 14 active cohorts made up of 175 women.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Based on my experience, a business plan always adds value to the entrepreneur – most people can’t build a complete plan in their head, and need the process of organizing it on paper to make it consistent and complete. Major platforms are available online to find Angel groups or VCs, including Gust and AngelList.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2012

Singer/songwriter Avril Lavigne has tapped online software from Los Angeles-based startup Invested.in Invested.in, which is headed by Alon Goren, helps power web-based crowdfunding sites for individuals, businesses, and charitable organizations. for a new crowdfunding campaign for her Avril Lavigne Foundation , according to Lavigne.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2010

A few angel investors have slipped or fallen from their lofty perch, so entrepreneurs must take great care to validate the character and reputation of every prospective investor. As long as somebody recognizes their million dollar idea and writes them a check, the source really doesn't matter. Litigious angels. Superior angels.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

As BCG writes in its report: The good news for SoCal and any region with tech ambitions is that the Bay Area has in some ways been too successful. Over the past several years we have observed a significant decrease in startups leaving SoCal,” said Greg Becker, CEO of Silicon Valley Bank.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

What I love about writing is that you inadvertently say what many others are thinking and just knowing that somebody else is thinking something similar can be reassuring. Example: Fred Wilson writing his end of 2012 post wrote. “I’ve wanted to write a year end post for days. And your favorite bloggers stop writing.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

In my role as an angel investor to startups, I’m struck by the broad variety of advisor strategies I see in investor presentations and business plans that cross my desk. Communication and organization is always a challenge, so three advisors is about the maximum that any entrepreneur can handle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage. The first step toward a business with any idea is to write it down, and build a business plan around it. Separately at this stage, you may look for small funding amounts from angel investors , called seed investments.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. If the authors are inviting fans to write fan fiction about a universe they created, who owns the derivative works? Another unabashed proponent of fan fiction is N.K.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

My favorite new VC blogger, Hunter Walk, weighed in with some thoughtful comments about how Syndicates might actually pit, “ angel vs. angel.” AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. In virtually every deal I do I leave space for angels.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

Last week, the Los Angeles-based startup led by Trevor McFedries , outed itself as the collective consciousness behind the virtual celebrity Lil Miquela and her less well known contemporaries Blawko22 and BermudaisBae in a choreographed melodrama worthy of Los Angeles’ best reality television. ” That was a lie.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based LegalZoom , the online legal document provider, is the target of a class action lawsuit in Missouri, which is looking to block the ability of the firm to provide wills, leases, and other documents.

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Steve Reich

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

was launched with nearly $2mm in Angel funding from the Pasadena Angels and Tech Coast Angels. We had an advocate in each Angel group who aggressively lead the effort. Someone has to do the heavy lifting of advocating, organizing, and building enthusiasm about your company within their Angel group.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

What that did, is it helped us to expand the service to help publishers do the following: identify what content to write, how to distribute that content to various mediums, and how to monetize that content. Journalists are notorious for not wanting to write based on revenues or commercial intersts, or having anyone tell them what to write.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

Based on my own experience as a mentor and angel investor, I find that as many as ninety percent of startups fail in the first five years, despite their best efforts. Utilize all the avenues for networking, including industry conferences, investor meetings, peer gatherings, and local civic organizations, to make your presence and value known.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). That's the first time organized, institutional, managed capital is coming into a company, right after friends and family.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

For today's Insights and Opinions section, we have a contribution from Ryan Born , the CEO and founder of Los Angeles-based AudioMicro. So the writers block consensus was to write about LA startup incubators and mentorship organizations (2x as many votes as the other proposed topics).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. I didn’t want to write it because the bloggosphere doesn’t always do nuance well. So why I am writing it then? What about “angel&# investors? A few reasons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

They cite sources like the BusinessWeek story, “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ” and this Forbes article. Based on my experience, a business plan always adds value to the entrepreneur – most people can’t build a complete plan in their head, and need the process of organizing it on paper to make it consistent and complete.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Subscribe to RSS.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

We sat down with Kelly ahead of the announcement to chat about the new fund, why they think military veterans are particularly well suited as startup entrepreneurs, why the two went from organizing individual deals for funding to a formal fund, and more. Kelly Perdew: I think you know that, since 2004, I have been an angel in LA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

By Mahesh Raj Mohan Writing a business plan can be a difficult process. you still have to write the plan for a particular audience. A loan officer, angel investor, and venture capitalist are all looking for different things in a business plan. Your business plan’s writing style should take their preferences into account.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage. The first step toward a business with any idea is to write it down, and build a business plan around it. Separately at this stage, you may look for small funding amounts from Angel investors , called seed investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

If you’re an early investor like I am that often means writing the first $2-3 million check into a business that previously had either survived on fumes or on a $500,000 angel round. The C-round CEO still gets her hand dirty but shouldn’t be a control freak or become a bottleneck in the organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

In my role as an angel investor to startups, I’m struck by the broad variety of advisor strategies I see in investor presentations and business plans that cross my desk. Communication and organization is always a challenge, so three advisors is about the maximum that any entrepreneur can handle.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack. We do that methodically.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. The whole point of delegating investment decisions to a GP is to empower them to organize their firm to win deals and get stuff done. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage. The first step toward a business with any idea is to write it down, and build a business plan around it. Separately at this stage, you may look for small funding amounts from angel investors , called seed investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

How does the world in Los Angeles intersect differently with venture capital? They are the absolute lifeblood of any organization. You’re very organized. Three years ago during Thanksgiving I told Nivi I would write down what I look for in an entrepreneur for a series of posts for VentureHacks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I had an enjoyable conversation this morning with a young team straight out of college this morning and they were calling to ask advice on how to approach fund raising (angels vs. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. It’s not you.

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