Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck. My view.

Startup 296

Startup Evite Web Ideas 296

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2014

Terry Kay: We have always been about helping the entrepreneurs succeed, first, and then, we figure out how we get our fair share from that success. The premise was, let''s help companies succeed, and cut ourselves a fair deal, and treat entrepreneurs in a decent way. What does that mean to entrepreneurs? It''s more than money.

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Pasadena Angels Pasadena Angel Startup 162

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. He was one of the first guys that I know who laid out his stall and said I want to do “big data” investments that take advantage of the explosion of data now available on the web. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs. And do so in real life, too.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

In light of the recent success, we sat down with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson to talk about the recent exit, where they are with their fund nowadays, and what advice they have for entrepreneurs. We're starting to see some very innovative product ideas out of places like Caltech, USC, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the like.

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Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Always looking to provide the very best for our community so that you may learn and grow as a startup or entrepreneur, Bill Gross is one of the best experts we could provide. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

It's difficult to add value to a portfolio company or entrepreneur. We're helping the entrepreneur, leveraging our network, introducing them to people, and helping them think about new products. Materials is as well, and I spend lots of time at UCLA, and Caltech looking at interesting materials. That's part one.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective. There's no formal business training to be an entrepreneur, and some of what you learn is from the ambient environment, being near people and watching people solve problems they're facing.

Startup 242

Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV.

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Southern California San Diego Startup Google 96

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. The Coloft is a space for entrepreneurs, independents, startups, programmers, designers, professionals, and awesome people in general. Event Details.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

As a Resident Entrepreneur at UCLA’s Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer, she spends her time on working on the investment side of new, emerging technologies. Between Caltech, USC, and UCLA, $1 billion has been put into research expenditures. Let’s Talk Money. The floor opens up to Sandy Itkoff.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

In most cases if you can’t get a prototype done you’re probably not an entrepreneur. Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. Surround yourself with great advisors or other entrepreneurs.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. And, let’s not overlook the research juggernaut called Caltech, which managed $332 million in sponsored research and $1.77 Web Design Software. Web Hosting Software. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Acquisition. Venture capital. Developers. Infographics. Management. Electric cars.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA?

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. Too many entrepreneurs focus on dilution.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313