Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded early by one of the 318,000 active Angel investors in the USA alone. Most of these investors are members of Angel groups that have a rigorous filtering and screening process, to select the top 3% and most fundable proposals. Get your Internet domain name and website.

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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? He started the group because he wanted to help companies succeed.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The small startup in Los Angeles created an online movie player to be embedded anywhere on the web. “We Yekra Theater does not send viewers to a specific site to their movies, it keeps them in the same place and prevents any distractions and confusions from the viewers. Yekra Theater does things a little differently.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Huntington Beach-based AnyMeeting , the provider of free web conferencing and webinar services, has updated its site, in a major update for the service. The update--which went live Friday--includes a redesigned interface, faster screen sharing, and better overall web conferencing management features. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 10, 2012

How do you make it easier for consumers to try out different outfits, when they can't because they're in front of their computer screen? A Los Angeles-based startup, Zugara , is looking to overcome that with a softwar eproduct which allows users to virtually try on outfits using augmented reality. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. The Gust Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company.

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MARCH 27, 2012

Los Angeles-based TeleSign , the developer of two-factor, phone authentication services which are used by Internet retailers and web sites to protect against online fraud, has linked with a provider of device identification and fraud prevention serviecs. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2016

Los Angeles-based DreamJobbing.com , the startup founded by Lisa Hennessy, Alex Boylan and Burton Roberts, which offers up true "dream jobs" to its users, has tied with outdoors product site TheClymb on a set of dream jobs for Instagram photographers. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. The AngelSoft Deal Funnel from the last 12 months indicates is that 70% of the interested companies never make it past the initial screening process. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company.

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JULY 11, 2014

Los Angeles-based deal site Slickdeals (www.slickdeals.com), an online deal site, has nine million, highly loyal users and a daily updated list of great, user-generated, deal listings. Those might be on household items like laundry detergent, or it might be gadgets like tablets or a large screen television. It''s amazing.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

We're helping Los Angeles-based StartEngine screen possible startups this Wednesday at their offices all day. If you'd like to be considered to pitch us at StartEngine, submit your application on their site today. Interested in getting into one of the local startup accelerators?

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JUNE 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango , the movie ticketing and information service, said today that it has had the best ever number in May for traffic and ticket sales, for the company's entire 12-year history. Fandango is owned by Comcast, which acquired the movie site back in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , which supplies ad optimization software to web publishers, announced today that it has released a new version of its VANTAGE Firefox browser plug-in, which helps provide its publishers with revenue and impressoin statistics and other information. READ MORE>>.

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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. Trying to find local, high tech savvy employees?

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JANUARY 5, 2012

That means that the site now allows users to sign-up and have their content personalized based on their interests. What's new now is that the site allows you to sign up and provide your Twitter and LinkedIn information. The site will look at your activity on these sites and the content of what you share.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

Los Angeles-based Withoutabox , which is now a part of Amazon.com's IMDB.com division, said this week that it has launched a new service targeted at film festivals. The site is looking to supplant the existing process of mailing DVDs to film festivals for screening.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Some positions posted to the site recently: Sr. Accounting Manager / Assistant Controller , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. Platform Senior Software Engineer , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. SVP /General Manager with Internet, P&L Experience , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. Linux System Engineer , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group.

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JULY 25, 2016

Our interview with a startup entrepreneur this morning is with Avantika Shahi , the founder and CEO of Haus (www.grademyhaus.com), a new Los Angeles startup hoping to create a new way for people to search for homes. The early stage, self funded startup recently launched its beta in Los Angeles. What is Haus all about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based Break Media , which operates a online network of web properties focused on men, announced this morning that it is teaming up with Quantcast to collect demographic information about its sites. The service will collect demographic data about who is viewing the firm's web videos.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

But as we’ve all gotten used to the standard “banner&# across the top of our screens or the “sky scraper&# along the right-hand side we’ve trained ourselves not to look there any longer. The standards were set by the IAB ( Interactive Advertising Bureau ), which was founded in 1996. They cancelled this program.

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JANUARY 27, 2009

Los Angeles-based Break Media , an online video and entertainment site focused on men, said Tuesday that it has tapped a new team of writers, directors, and producers for a new "Creative Lab", which the firm said will create original content for its branded advertisers. Exact size of the new team was not disclosed by Break.

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MARCH 2, 2012

The founders, who are part of the Los Angeles StartEngine accelerator, talked to us about what they're doing. We had been working with Fortune 5's, and had done really well in social media, creating micro sites and interactive landing pages, and have a really deep history in marketing. What exactly is PageWoo?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

It only cost 2 Euros to become a producer and was influenced by other epic projects including “Artemis Eternal” and “ A Swarm of Angels.” Their site beckons, “Download our business plan, and find out our strategy to turn the film industry upside down.” There will be a smattering of special screenings worldwide. Not too shabby.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Angel investors, like me, have long figured out that asking to see the prototype is a quick way to separate the ‘wannabes’ from serious players. Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens.

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MAY 16, 2012

It's an election year in the United States, and the screens and airwaves are full of provocative sound bites, pundits, scandals, and the latest political gossip of the day. We sat down with the two Los Angeles founders and heard more about the service. What's the story behind the site, and when did you come up with it?

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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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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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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. What happened with smart phones, is consumers are buying more and more applications, but a screen can only fit a dozen icons.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. Jason is also behind the popular "Startups Uncensored" events in Los Angeles, so we also pinged him on how those events have been going. A year ago, we were around 3.5 READ MORE>>.

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MAY 16, 2012

It's an election year in the United States, and the screens and airwaves are full of provocative sound bites, pundits, scandals, and the latest political gossip of the day. We sat down with the two Los Angeles founders and heard more about the service. What's the story behind the site, and when did you come up with it?

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. They're looking for deeper social networking, and more of a gaming element on sites.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. But, by the time you go to all of those sites, you have dozens of tabs open. What is Laudville? Phoebe Scott: It is.

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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. In an intensely competitive area, how do you differentiate yourself and grow a company?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

Yekra has introduced the first DRM-protected player that can run on any connected device or screen. This traveling player can allow direct digital rentals from any blog, Facebook page, Twitter profile or other online site. by angel investor Maurice Gallagher and UK’s Bray Capital. The company has been funded for $3.1M

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion. Michael Tringe: We are an online web series school.

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MAY 11, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based EcoMom (www.ecomom.com) launched its "green" parenting site, with backing from Dave McClure. Jody Sherman: We are a site for eco-conscious, health minded parents. Once that a product has made that initial screen, we look further, to make sure it's also cost effective and easy to live with.

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