InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser.

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JANUARY 25, 2015

I have many investments with early traction and I the entrepreneurs I work with must tire of my constantly saying, “Are we really making a difference? It’s ok to live-and-die by Google early. And of course it’s true in personal productivity apps, SMB apps, B2B software and so forth.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha is a member of Pipeline Angels , a social impact angel investing group focused on women and non-binary femmes, and serves as the Deal Flow lead. The program has been so successful that the startups have leveraged $48M in private capital to further their development. Joanne Chen, Partner at Foundation Capital.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We sat down with Brett Crosby (who founded Urchin Software, the company which became Google Analytics) and Brew Johnson , the co-founders of the company, to learn more about the company and what it's working on. I came up with this idea due to a deep obsession with the mortgage industry. in a funding round.

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Southern California Google Technical Review Manhattan Beach 100

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JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable. In the Early Days.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There are those amongst us the are willing to abandon the comforts of a job with a salary and perhaps the prestige of being able to tell family members, loved ones and friends that “I work for Google, Goldman Sachs, Apple, FedEx, Verizon or Coca Cola” and instead put out selves out there to potentially look stupid one day.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

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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. The reason one would accept losses is when they are investments in fueling faster growth. If you can’t raise — you’re dead.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale. Internet scale.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The Bristol, UK-based startup, founded in 2016, has now secured a total of more than $300 million in financing from venture capital firms and other investors including Microsoft and the corporate venture arms of BMW and Dell Technologies.

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Technical Review Product Venture Capital Software Review 65

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. source: Capital IQ.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2015

Ross Weber: We''re not here to replace ad platforms like Google Adsense. We each put a couple of thousand each in equity, but since we already had relationships with advertisers and OTAs, and we did our own coding, within three months we had our first iteration launched and we were already making money. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

The conference is run by Jamie Montgomery , one of the local industry's pioneers in venture capital and investment. Jamie is currently also co-founder of March Capital Partners, in addition to running the summit. One is the traditional buyer, the Microsofts, Oracles, Googles, and Ciscos of the world, with their cash.

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Technical Review Conference Silver Lake Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

There is a common belief in the angel and venture capital community that you put your money on the best team, rather than the best idea. If your team has a depth of expertise in software, that won’t help you get funding for a new hardware solution. Now, of course, Page and Brin have that same credibility with their successes at Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Here are some basic principles: Angels invest in people, more often than they invest in ideas. Angels like to “touch and feel” their investments, so they are generally only interested in local opportunities. With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Keiretsu Forum.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

We caught up with Peter earlier this week to get the background on Baroda, and to talk a little about the firm's investment goals. Peter Lee: Baroda Ventures is David Bohnett's--the founder of Geocities'--personal investment fund. He then invested in about twenty companies, almost all of them in Los Angeles or Southern California.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. Who can get help get access to their capital? Local Angel Community / Recycled Capital.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Founder, Founder, Founder At Upfront we talk regularly about how 70% of our investment decision in Seed and A rounds is the quality of the entrepreneur and 30% is the quality of the idea. Hardware + Software The world is filled with investors who will tell you, “We don’t do hardware.” Here are my views … 1.

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Startup Pricing Product Marketing 247

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

In emerging markets and the developing world, access to banking, capital, and financial resources is fare more difficult than here in the U.S., due to a less developed financial system, lack of credit tracking, and oftentimes and informal economy. How did you end up starting Tala? I love LA now.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Venture capital. Google Plus. Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Let me be very direct.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. The Past (1985-2002).

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps. That's number two.

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Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one, including the engineers who work on Google’s constantly evolving search algorithms, fully understands how to reliably and consistently boost search results via artificial means. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly.

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Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 The Past (1985-2002). It was mostly timing.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. They make it easy to collect investment funds, track ownership, and provide targeted updates to investors.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. They make it easy to collect investment funds, track ownership, and provide targeted updates to investors. Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. The Startups.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The company recently closed an impressive $19 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital to build out the engineering teams. John Busher, Harry Balls – a humorous site offering reviews and information about mobile apps, primarily indie games. ” He notes that 1.2

Mobile 71

Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. But I don’t think so.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2016

The costs of launching your business Silicon Valley and the fight for talent — with fresh faces quickly snapped up by behemoths such as Google, Apple and Facebook — means this can be a challenge and many are turning to these other locations to home their startup. NORTH AMERICA: In Toronto startups fight for new graduates.

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Technical Review Startup Incubator Media 40

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. People tend to overvalue past investments when making forward-looking investment decisions. The sunk costs trap. " Patterns in Chaos.

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