socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

I want to invest in entrepreneurs that have the capacity to be number one at whatever they are doing, and do it within our skill base, which is direct-to-consumer. So, now, as a VC, I swore I'd never treat entrepreneurs like those VCs treated me. I love entrepreneurs. It was really the same business, but with less capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Find enough venturesome capital. Innovate or die.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 16, 2020

Over their longtime personal and professional relationship, the two Los Angeles-based serial entrepreneurs have invested in each other’s companies and investment firms, but never worked together until now. With the new capital coming in, Norton expects to back some 30 to 35 companies, he said. Image Credit: Watertower Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

On why you should be an entrepreneur, “A lot of people do what they have to do. Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Chiefly, they thought that robotics and machine learning were going to transform everything from aerospace to industrial manufacturing and retail, and they saw Los Angeles as a unique location from which to deploy capital. But it’s not the capital that sets the firm apart, according to the pitch deck viewed by TechCrunch.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2018

Maverick, founded by Brooke Chaffin and Catherine Connors--both former Disney executives--said the seed funding came from Matt Robinson of Heroic Ventures plus Susan Lyne and Nisha Dua of BBG Ventures and Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn. Los Angeles-based Maverick , a new startup launching a social network for girls, has raised $2.7M

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socalTECH

MAY 1, 2014

Lionsgate said that it has named digital media entrepreneur Peter Levin as President of its new Interactive Ventures and Games unit, which will help expand Lionsgate into video games and other interactive ventures. He also had been at Creative Artists Agency, Walt Disney, and Bellrock Media.

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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). “I think the best VCs help drive exits alongside their entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

We are often asked how companies get funded, why VCs make the decisions we make and what we’re looking for in entrepreneurs. Andrew & Petri posed a question to me, “If Walt Disney were starting his company today, what kind of company would he build?” The Walt Disney Corporation. And Seriously.

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2011

The new site--the latest from entrepreneur Jake Winebaum --said that the funding was led by Mayfield Fund. Brighter.com is aiming at helping uninsured Americans find discounted pricing on dental procedures, providing upfront, pre-negotiated prices on major dental procedures nationwide. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Find enough venturesome capital. Innovate or die.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Find enough venturesome capital. Innovate or die.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Richard Branson , Walt Disney and Mark Zuckerberg. For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. Academia's arbitrary, bureaucratic structure, combined with its predominant focus on theoretical issues, causes many entrepreneurs to depart college early. Look around.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. This is often in the 5-7% range. TechCrunch.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Richard Branson , Walt Disney and Michael Dell. Ignorance is not bliss in business, but it does allow entrepreneurs to face the unknown with a measure of confidence. Ignorance is not bliss in business, but it does allow entrepreneurs to face the unknown with a measure of confidence.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 23, 2019

It’s a problem that serial entrepreneur Josh Bruno has seen first hand. America has an addiction problem. And it’s why he has launched a new company called Path , which pitches access to specialized substance addiction treatment professionals as an employee health benefit, to do something about it.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2012

TechZulu is proud to announce that we are a sponsor of the Variety 2012 Venture Capital & New Media Summit and will be there in full force bringing you all the action. Variety is pleased to announce the return of its Venture Capital and New Media Summit on June 27 at the Sofitel Hotel in Los Angeles. Speaker List.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2013

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Find enough venturesome capital. Innovate or die.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. Yesterday I had lunch with a really interesting and capable serial entrepreneur who is raising his A round. Many serial entrepreneurs who have been burned would use something less kind than quotes. The reality is that their core business is not venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Fortune Brainstorm.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The company's venture backers include Mucker Capital and Commerce Capital, as well as angel investor Minal Hasan, of K2 Global Ventures. Customers might be cutting their cable to same some funds, but they're not cutting Netflix or Disney Plus. For those not familiar with Grow Credit, talk about what your service does?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2012

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Find enough venturesome capital. Innovate or die.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2012

TechZulu is proud to announce that we are a sponsor of the Variety 2012 Venture Capital & New Media Summit and will be there in full force bringing you all the action. Variety is pleased to announce the return of its Venture Capital and New Media Summit on June 27 at the Sofitel Hotel in Los Angeles. Speaker List.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Brad Brooks is an accomplished entrepreneur with a successful track record of investing in, building and scaling companies in the technology and media spaces. Previously, Brad was President of DIC Entertainment, an international children's media company, which he acquired with Bain Capital from the Walt Disney Company in 2000.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

Phil Hui-Bon-Hoa , the CEO of El Segundo-based Kaleo (www.kaleo.com), is a serial entrepreneur who has previously built and sold four companies, including one acquired by IFILM, and another by Sun Microsystems. In B-to-B marketing, it ends up that there were people at GE Capital doing the same jobs at GE Healthcare.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. When the early teams: angels, lowercase capital & first round capital funded Uber they had no idea it would be one of the most revolutionary ideas of our time. He simply is inspirational as an entrepreneur, an inventor and as somebody who wants to make a difference in the world.

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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. Being early got me my first $1 billion exit (Maker to Disney).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

As the markets went down, just like any other investor, they were very conscious of investing more carefully--but, that said, it also meant that there seemed to be more entrepreneurs, for various reasons, were newly interested in starting companies. Scott Sangster: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and I have been angel funding personally.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Typically, venture backed companies, always entrepreneur led.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses. Prior to running OrganicStartup, Sangster was responsible for strategic planning and corporate development at the Walt Disney Internet Group. Community Sponsors. Giving Away An Apple TV.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Not that they’re “such a bad idea&# but more that there are inherent problems for entrepreneurs in the process of raising angel money that need to be addressed. This leads to the problem of “herding cats&# for entrepreneurs raising angel money. Here’s where I feel common ground : 1.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Facebook, Google, Zynga, (can we count Disney Interactive?), They are used by almost all the entrepreneurs I met with and have gained some serious traction in the marketplace. Almost, two years since the inception, he has built up a team and product making a name for himself as one of the city’s most promising entrepreneurs.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Prior to founding MuckerLab, Erik was most recently at Harrison Metal Capital where he helped lead one of the most successful seed-stage venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Marks was the founder and CEO of Acclaim Games (now owned by Disney), and the co-Founder of Activision and Chairman of Activision Studios (1991-1997).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2010

As startup entrepreneurs we all want to work with them because having their name as reference clients makes it so much easier for marketing, PR, selling to other customers, fund raising and even recruiting. Unrealistic warrants – Many entrepreneurs create complicated or unrealistic warrants structures. You want them to earn.

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