Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

According to a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets. Join a startup incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets. Join a startup incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets. Join a startup incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Join a startup incubator. The good news is that the cost for new startups is at an all-time low.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

If that’s news to you, here are eleven of Los Angles’ best and brightest. Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Incubator: Amplify LA. That’s so yesterday. Get to know them now before they become household names.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Lean startup.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Hank: Seco Sys has developed a range of web services that are dedicated to managing all types of water. Our “everything water” web service, called the HydraCommunity, is designed to allow collaboration between water agencies, water customers, water use equipment, and other water related services.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. This groundbreaking model gives publishers a completely new monetization stream and provides brands the opportunity to reach highly targeted mass audiences.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Bitcoin has had a rough start to the year (to say the least) – with a never-ending news feed consisting of massive bankruptcy , scandal stories, and car chase media fiascos. Zeroblock , the highly successful mobile and web app was recently acquired by the world’s most popular Bitcoin site and online wallet, Blockchain.info.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. This groundbreaking model gives publishers a completely new monetization stream and provides brands the opportunity to reach highly targeted mass audiences.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application. In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. Tell Rod about the LA CTO Forum.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

She was a morning business anchor for KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco and made frequent appearances as an expert on Internet investments and trends on CNBC, Fox Business News, and CBS. . In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Alex Quilici.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Idealab also continues to partner with leading venture capital firms and other strategic investors to provide the resources to maximize the potential of these companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Idealab also continues to partner with leading venture capital firms and other strategic investors to provide the resources to maximize the potential of these companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Bill founded Idealab to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Silver Sponsor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Behind the easy to use interface is a powerful, real time search and discovery engine, which creates a news feed of all of the intersting things happening in your surroundings. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

One of the attributes identified by all of the venture capitalists questioned was, “Frugal use of capital.” A mistaken assumption can result in a crash landing, and the pilot’s grieving family on the 11:00 news. Capital efficient, web-based businesses should have a credible plan to self-sustainability.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. Who can get help get access to their capital?

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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. Mobile is a different animal than Web. It’s very much a physical connection between people; friends recommending new apps. In total, America women spend $350 billion a year on fashion.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Starting a dev team to build a brand new idea is harder. Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Financial News. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups.

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