Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave’s a great guy with a good sense of humor and a broad knowledge of the market, which is why I was excited that he could be on the show. Investors: August Capital (David Hornik) (lead) with existing investors Charles River Ventures. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. 15mm in Series A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. 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

DECEMBER 30, 2022

They don’t realize that these are still rare, require a large risk, and may not be the best way to keep up with change in the market. As an alternative, I usually recommend more incremental innovation , derived from recognized market changes, done on a regular basis, without the big-bang expectation.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Today, we're featuring Erik Rannala , founder of MuckerLab , the startup accelerator focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year?

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Santa Monica- and Columbus, Ohio-based Fundable said that it is looking to provide a crowdfunding platform for "serious startups". The site allow early stage startups to gain capital from anyone, using the new JOBS Act to raise money from anyone interested in a startup, and not just professional investors and banks.

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Startup Santa Monica Incubator Sites 224

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

” Once Oliver started doing research into the market and discovered that there were only 460 fertility clinics in the U.S. You’re not creating software, you’re creating life,” said Adam Struck, the founder of Mate Fertility’s lead investment firm, Struck Capital.

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Lancaster Screening Startup Los Angeles 201

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. 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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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

We talked to Ted Dhanik, the founder of Engage:BDR, about his company and the future of marketing. I moved in marketing for NextTag and I was part of the team that launched consumer lending products. After MySpace was acquired by Fox, I learned that there was a huge market for ad inventory. Let’s talk about marketing.

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Marketing Startup Incubator Advertising 96

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation. So this fall, we launched Science Blockchain, a new incubator that partners with leading entrepreneurs to build a portfolio of blockchain and cryptocurrency related businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

Others are really marketers out to make money fast, and believe that they can entice customers to any offering. His framework seems to be picking up some traction, and is already in use informally by several entrepreneurship platforms, universities, and even high school programs. But none have any lock on success.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2012

Pagewoo--which is in private beta--was part of Howard Marks' StartEngine incubator earlier in the year. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Silicon Valley’s big VC firm’s The Social+Capital Partnership, Andreessen Horowitz, Formation8, Ron Conway, and Anand Rajaraman have today launched Data Elite , to help tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges through data science. Limited big data funding & incubation. The package of a lifetime.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. That distributed print cloud enables a speed of iteration that most marketers would not expect is possible. What is Postie? What is a print cloud?

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CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S. There are more and more valves, actuators, and pumps, as well as monitoring platforms, which have become computerized over time, especially over the last four or five years. We raised money from Frost Data Capital.

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Networking Startup Incubator Orange County 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers. Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors.

Entrepreneur 137

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

-A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

Buck Jordan: Miso Robotics is bringing the power of automation to commercial kitchens, and addressing one of the biggest challenges of the food industry, which is increasing production with the expansion of the delivery market, while also safely decreasing human contact. You no longer have to be an investor in a giant venture capital fund.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2013

a crowd-powered platform that gives accredited investors access to exclusive deal flow and technology transfer opportunities has launched in beta its crowd-powered portal for startups, JumpStartFund. How its online incubation works. Those with market potential are selected and moved into a “work in progress” state.

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El Segundo Social Network Startup Patents 76

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

OCTOBER 17, 2016

They had been huge fans of the platform, and I think they had a super, genuine connection with Youtube, thus with Google. The second piece, is our theme on the disruption of brands in e-commerce, influencer marketplaces, and investments in social marketplaces, where we've been correct on the general trends in the market.

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Dollar Shave Club Entrepreneur Startup Google 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

According to recent statistics , there are already over 500 website crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter , available; and over $5 billion was raised this way last year. A micro venture capital firm. A “genesis” venture capital round. Startup incubator seed funding. Here they are: A crowdfunding campaign.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. Marketing: SteelHouse. An ad:tech Innovation Award-winning company, SteelHouse is the technology industry’s real-time marketing solution for online retailers. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. We feel that we can really help with manufacturing and bringing products to market. That said, we still need investors here. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I got to see how different marketing and middlemen in the industry, such as Teleflora, 1-800-Flowers, and FTD, operate. The florist business center we launched recently empowers florists, with tools to run email marketing campaigns, reach out through social media, and even gives them a point of sale system and website builder.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2007

I've been reading or hearing quite a bit about how startups these days don't take nearly as much capital to create as they used to. Sure, there are some fun things you can create quickly on platforms like Facebook that may get viral uptake. What used to cost $1M now takes $100K. I don't really agree that $100K is the new $1M.

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Venture Capital Startup Incubator Examples 150

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education. 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. As the President of Start Co.,

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

Startup 150

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

We spoke with Nikhil, to hear why he thinks the site is important for green technology companies and investors, as well as how the effort is related to his own incubation firm, Artilient Labs. Nikhil Jain: The concept behind Artilient Labs is it's a way to take a business, from the ground up, with very low capitalization.

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Southern California Startup eHarmony Sites 193

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

That said, YouTube Network Fullscreen platform is blazing this new trail with 2.5 ” It was really interesting to hear all the different perspectives, marketing tips and how each channel represented on the panel helps those who participate on their channel and the success of this genre. This is the wave of the future.

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Diamond Sponsor. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 112

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Recently, we had a great opportunity to sit down and chat with Amanda Bensol, head BD/Marketing for Karma. Amidst the search she found her way working with NYC based incubator Techstars as an associate. Amanda talks a bit about life working for an incubator. Their year will incorporate a significant marketing push.

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Outsource Development Startup Incubator Press 108