TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The latest to launch is an at-home test for urinary tract infections from the Los Angeles-based startup Scanwell Health. Sales from the Petnostics product helped bootstrap the company through its first few years of development and get its first product onto the market. “I was born into the business.”

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MARCH 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango announced htis morning that it has scored an exclusive deal with Yahoo , where it will be the exclusive ticket seller for Yahoo! Fandango said the move will give Internet users access to nearly 20,000 screens across the country. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. The challenge is to find the right angel for your, and for your situation. Angel investors are people too. Or does it? Keiretsu Forum.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. tech community and to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing us in the coming years. See you there!

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Recent job postings on the site: LAMP/Perl Developers , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. Manager, Analytics , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. Director of Billing , Los Angeles, Boingo Wireless. Vice President, Business Development , Los Angeles, Boingo Wireless. Senior Web Developer , Malibu Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Our interview today is with Alan Horsager , the CEO of Pasadena-based Episona (www.episona.com), an angel backed startup which has already developed and has been offering up an epigenetic test for male fertility. Our first product is called Seed, which is a screening test for male infertility. What is Episona?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based DataPop , a new paid search ad management firm started by a pair of Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing veterans, has raised $1.7M The round was led by Rincon Ventures, and also included IA Ventures, Momentum Ventures, Accelerator Ventures, and angels. in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Anyone who has ever bought or sold a home is most likely familiar with the Multiple Listings Service (MLS), the big database of homes for sale used by traditional real estate agents. We started offering this in Los Angeles, and have since expanded to Orange County and San Diego. Where is the company now in terms of the service?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. Somehow many first-time founders equate “sales” with something that is beneath them. In sales there are also three rules: Qualify, qualify, qualify.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

One of the local firms attacking that market is Los Angeles-based FunnelSource (www.funnelsource.com), a developer of software-as-a-service tools that provide analytics to sales teams. I and my business partner moved to Los Angeles, less than two years ago. The common denominator of what I'd done was sales, sales, and sales.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

When tickets went on sale over a month ago, we expected the regular ticket sales cycle, however we were more than surprised when Startup Weekend LA sold out in 6 hours! Scott Sangster (TCA) made a quick announcement of the new LA Tech Coast Angels SeedTrack program and offered a walk-on pass to the 1st and 2nd place teams.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. Patrick Kennedy: Our customers are very active using our technology and analytics as a solution to increase the content sales from all kinds of customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. One of the most common questions I get is “How do I find angel investors?” Here are three of the largest flocks: Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. Meet angels via the entrepreneurs they’ve funded. By Monica Mehta.

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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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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Datapop (www.datapop.com) announced a Series A funding for the startup, which is developing search advertising products which better tune ads to improve click throughs. That allows marketers to drive a significant increase in sales, and a reduction in cost on the back end. Search Marketing.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2014

With around a hundred employees in Los Angeles, and $40M in revenues, Fonality (www.fonality.com) --a developer of voice-over-IP phone software and systems--has managed to rise above the crowd of commodity voice-over-IP and PBX service providers. Typically we have one owner, and they have three offices, and lots of really young sales people.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2015

Our guest insight this week is from Frank Peters, well-known in the angel and in the bicycle worlds for his podcasts and passion. When one of my clients was recruited away from a user, and all his new officemates saw his computer, pretty soon I was invited into the new companies for all those ‘me, too’ sales. – Dave.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Is there a screening process or criteria for firms to use the facilities? They screen and score companies based on their application, and if that looks good, they come in for a face-to-face interview. After the sale, Rory [Editor's note: Rory Moore] asked me if I wanted to take this to the next level.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

I started with a list of companies already screened by the San Diego Venture Group’s annual venture summit, and consulted with investors and startup mentors to refine the list. Tim Rueth, a UC San Diego entrepreneur in residence and member of the EvoNexus selection committee, also screened the list, and offered his perspective.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&# Getting a meeting with a prominent angel or VC is difficult enough. This is not unlike a major biz dev deal you’re trying to sign or a big sales campaign into the VP of a major company. I like to tell entrepreneurs to treat it like a sales campaign.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2012

Los Angeles-based HipSwap is trying to break the mold of online marketplaces, with its highly visual, mobile and online marketplace for fashion and other items. HipSwap is venture funded by Founders Fund; Greycroft Partners; Barodo Ventures; Broadbeach Ventures and other angel investors. You could be a local merchant in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. But at the highest level they’ve created a marketplace for “flash&# sales. And of course we had, TheMan. Watch this space.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. Okuno has been investing in Los Angeles startups for the past three years after selling his own company E-Z Data. Or maybe a goldmine. He is looking to find more. Founded by L.A.’s

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

You’ve pitched several angels and VC’s. Traction can simply mean showing that you’re making progress with customers, product development, channel partners, initial revenue as a proof point, attracting well-known angel investors, winning industry awards / recognition. They make progress. VC’s are the same.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Jason is also behind the popular "Startups Uncensored" events in Los Angeles, so we also pinged him on how those events have been going. Do you screen all of the documents on the marketplace, or how does that work? Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

YouTuber Caspar Lee, the co-founder of a startup called Influencer, attends the UK Gala Screening of “Wonder Park” in London, England (Photo by David M. While angel investors like Rebecca Minkoff might be savvy to the business proposition of influencers, many investors have remained skeptical. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2011

3D Movies, 3D Printing, 3D Televisions, 3DS, our entire screen world is turning 3D and now its time for your mobile screen to get in on the fun. I wanted to find out if the 3D effects were useful and people would enjoy playing with or was it just something to tack on to a mobile device to try and increase sales? Sporting a 4.3-inch

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

“Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator. It is how angel rounds come together.&#.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

One new, Los Angeles startup-- Laudville (www.laudville.com)--recently launched its service to try to tackle that huge task, of bringing your content together. When we first alpha tested this, we just had watchable entertainment, movies and TV, many of them popping up in second screen apps. Is it a challenge to cover so much?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

” The large social media screen is Enplug, five iterations later. Our goal was to provide the benefits of increased sales and client retention, all with the best customer service experience. Instead of advertising, their large, colorful screens are a direct result of these core values. (By Focus on Value, Not Advertising.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

One way is through Insteegram (www.insteegram.com) , a service recently launched by Los Angeles-based Rnddr Labs, which allows users to buy their own Instagram images printed onto a high quality T-shirt. Edward Park: My background is screen printing and production. What's your background and how did you get into this?

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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. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Time will tell.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 19, 2016

You can’t just go into the vault, you need permission, be screened and supervised when you’re in there,” said Jackson. In addition to growing the team and further developing their product, they are also going to expand their marketing and sales efforts. “It complements other tech you are using. They are great filing cabinets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. Super-angels. Responsive web technology that re-sizes text and images to fit any screen is the norm with new websites.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). Tech support is sales. they have purchasing intent ).*. But the rates are high for a reason.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Sales projections are less than one percent market penetration. The average valuation for Angel investments is about $2.5 I highly recommend that you screen your business plan and your executive presentation carefully for variations on any of these themes, and remove them. Higher numbers cause investors to walk away.

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