socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2012

Remember Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the startup headed by Jason Calacanis and backed by such investors as Sequoia Capital? In a recent blog post, Calacanis said that the firm has now seen more than 950,000 downloads of its apps and 200M videos on YouTube, in the last six months.

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Mahalo Education Content Santa Monica 147

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2018

. “ Shipwell’s full-service, digitized brokerage platform can streamline the way many of our Anchor LPs and portfolio companies approach large-scale freight shipping,” the firm’s principal — and newest Shipwell board member — Vik Chawla wrote in a blog post announcing its most recent deal.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2019

Risk capital would be allocated based mostly on evidence, data, progress towards milestones—in short, on proof. In the real world, of course, proof is hard to come by. Venture investors know they’ll lose many of their bets—that’s why it’s risk capital. Hope, avarice, or fear of missing out often drive investors to plunge ahead.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

billion valuation from Lone Pine Capital, Sequoia, Forerunner Ventures and others. Founded in 2014, Glossier is widely touted as one of the earliest breakout successes of the DTC model, and raised its Series E last July at a $1.8 E-commerce sales typically account for 80% of Glossier’s revenue, the Business of Fashion reported last July. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Of course, this kind of leadership has a big risk, since you have no one to blame if you get it wrong. This may mean attending industry conferences, taking college courses, or reading some key books. It may be time for you to start your own blog, write a book, or volunteer as a speaker at public events in your domain.

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Entrepreneur Course Satisfaction Guide 132

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

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. Does he blog about venture capital and try to advise entrepreneurs? Has written a book on venture capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2010

With modest variations on Paul’s pattern, this new class of mentors-plus-capital programs has grown to include TechStars operating in Boston, Boulder, and Seattle, Austin Capital Factory , deep in the heart of Texas, LaunchBox in the DC area, and a number of others. He blogs at www.startwithmoxie.com.

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Incubator Mentor Capital Startup 80

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2015

There are so many great, young funds in the market and many of them are attracting LP capital. To mark the occasion of launching this inaugural report I am also proud to announce that we’ve also launched the Upfront Insights blog. It will also serve as home to our partner blogs and to our company announcements.

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Marketing Newsletter Venture Capital Blogging 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Instead of following a proscribed course which may lead nowhere, entrepreneurial leaders such a Thiel are sparking a change in the way we think about success. Thiel is providing his mentees with capital to make their startups a reality. When you don't accept capital from someone else, you aren't beholden to anyone else's input.

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Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Here is a sample of the reading list for the course that gives you a flavor for just how modern and practical this course is. I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. And that leads me to today’s post.

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Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It’s not easy to catch up with Bill Maris at Section 32, the venture firm he founded last year near San Diego. It took a while to arrange a call to discuss how Foundation Medicine’s Michael Pellini had joined Section 32 as Maris’s first investing partner, and what they plan to do together.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It’s not easy to catch up with Bill Maris at Section 32, the venture firm he founded last year near San Diego. It took a while to arrange a call to discuss how Foundation Medicine’s Michael Pellini had joined Section 32 as Maris’s first investing partner, and what they plan to do together.

Course 45

Course San Diego Invest Funding 45

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start. just don’t lead with them!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

Of course it makes no sense to have great people management and a crappy product. ” Of course we all go into businesses expecting to be aligned with our co-founders but over time life changes. Anybody who follows this blog knows that my mom was the most influential person on my entrepreneurial career.

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Startup Technical Review Course Press 340

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

But of course it’s hard to advise people that they should do PR without a guide to how to do it on the cheap or how to do it at all. Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. It’s OK to push out extra ones on your website or blog.

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Press Startup Writing Training 319

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I divided success into the phases of venture capital and 18 months into writing my first check here was my view (details on each in the link above). 5 years ago. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. The monkey on my back.

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Venture Capital Downey Writing Press 387

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. It’s funny how scarcity of capital can focus one’s mind. So if you’re able to raise easily no problem. End of story.

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Metrics Startup SaaS Course 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings. Early in his days when he was raising capital for DocStoc he came to see me a lot. Think about it – who knows angels the best? ” Be authentic.

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Venture Capital Press GRP Partners Blogging 407

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

Of course as a non-Korean I can only generalize but when it was my turn I told her my experience of living in Europe and Japan where failure seemed less tolerated than my experience of living in California and working in the tech sector. Perhaps that’s changed in the decade since I left but that was my experience when I lived there.

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Startup Press Blogging .Net 261

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2013

We of course remember the positive outcomes, the rewards, the press celebrations at key moments or at the finish line. We of course get all of the accolades if at the tape there was a financial pay day. There are of course also external factors you can’t control. Until you know. There is less ego.

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Startup Press Course Entrepreneur 412

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?” ” Fred & I are both in agreement that there is a tension between capital constraints and creativity. Perhaps that’s rational capitalism at its extreme. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper. This is classic Fred.

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Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill. The company plans to give creators and influencers more independence from existing platforms by allowing them access to funding from a team well-versed in their unique capital needs.

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. There are many times when being overly capitalized before you’re ready is a negative. Plus, most early-stage M&A fails so this isn’t likely a good use of capital for a young company). Profitability.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. Of course they can be duped. We then went on to film an amazing 90 minute discussion afterward for This Week in Venture Capital.

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Social Network Startup Blogging Venture Capital 329

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. There was another important topic I didn’t want to skirt and that was the topic of the over-capitalization of our industry right now. But not many others.

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Venture Capital Startup Invest Cloud Computing 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. And of course a place of idyllic weather, culture and a lifestyle. ” And of course it’s not a true assessment. Think about venture capital. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out.

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs.

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Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 112

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Of course the naysayers are out again. And not enough capital embracing these moonshots. Of course backbencher has also become a slang term for “someone who exaggerates their actual power, influence, or importance, usually for nefarious purposes.” Of course not. I’d love even 0.5% Working on it.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Of course, Id like to believe the important community building work well be doing at the Alliance will be transformational to SoCal. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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Southern California SoCal Pasadena Startup 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2017 we began inserting an “Inclusion Clause” into our term sheets because we believe that the culture one establishes at the earliest stages of one’s business will set out the course of how it will grow and develop. We believe that diverse teams produce diversity of thought and that this leads to better decisions and outcomes.

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Venture Capital Coach Ideas Startup 284

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

I read commentary or Twitter or blogs and realize that there are also strongly held convictions that there are these evil VCs who do terrible things to mostly altruistic founders. And of course we help with business development introductions and with fund raising events. Often we are asked to get involved in executive-level recruiting.

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Startup Technical Review Equity Report 217

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Of course that website isn’t completely up to date but it’s a great resource for seeing the overall picture. Of course unsolicited spam has very low open rates and is filtered by the major providers. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

I always tell founders … “An investors job is to deploy capital and make a return. Of course there’s no exact number of VCs you should meet?—?these 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. these are simply guidelines.

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Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Of course that was a wrong narrative for both companies. 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. Any other angle is just sour grapes.

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Snapchat Invest Technical Review Dollar Shave Club 214

InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

However, Eric recently posted the following insights on his blog. The company was always seeking capital. As an entrepreneur, my greatest lesson learned here was how difficult it is to find capital for a services business. As a result, the company was always under-capitalized. We sought capital just in case.

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