TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2019

Less than a month after rebranding as Canoo , the startup electric vehicle company formerly known as Evelozcity is on the hunt for $200 million in new capital. Canoo is locking in final contracts with its vendors and is going to be in production with prototypes before the end of the year. operations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2023

First of all, I will admit that there is some risk involved with talking to any potential investors, even with an agreement, just as there is risk in all the elements of your plan, product and market opportunity. Product details in the public domain can never be patented. Sharing trade secrets.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. In today’s market, so much focus is placed on transacting business online. 10) Rob, why does the world need RingRevenue? . “In

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 14, 2019

Once completed, a new page pops up with the message “Thank you for registering. What we’ll be watching for is any information about where the Model Y will be produced, a production timeline and what manufacturing strategy the company plans to pursue. borders and into other important markets such as China.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2011

San Diego-based Covario , the search engine optimization and search engine marketing software firm headed by Russ Mann, revealed this week that it has secured its first patent from the U.S. Covario is venture backed by Dubilier & Company, FTV Capital, and Voyager Capital. Patent and Trademark Office. According to the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

First of all, I will admit that there is some risk involved with talking to any potential investors, even with an agreement, just as there is risk in all the elements of your plan, product and market opportunity. Product details in the public domain can never be patented. Sharing trade secrets.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 11, 2020

It’s basically taking a page from the application development playbook where off-the-shelf toolkits can reduce by months the time it takes to get an app into the market, according to Pragma chief executive Eden Chen. In the game industry, a game can stay in beta for years as developers work out the kinks. The company raised $4.2

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based DataPop , a new paid search ad management firm started by a pair of Overture/Yahoo Search Marketing veterans, has raised $1.7M The company's technology allows search marketers to automatically create more relevant search ads, which result in a better response rate than a standard generic ad. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2012

Last week, Los Angeles-based Chill (www.chill.com) made a stab at that, debuting a new front page meant to guide user to the most interesting videos on the web, through an easy-to-use interface. What's the whole new front page all about? It's exactly what it sounds like, a front page of video.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2012

The company, which helps hook up musicians with instruments, home recording gear, studio time, and other products and services, said it is seeing major growth via its social commerce efforts, particularly via Facebook and its Facebook page. Elevator itself is backed by private equity firm KGC Capital. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. Persuasive and empowering.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) And so it is with video. Quibi = “quick bites”).

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

In most cases, I provide some combination of the following advice: Brevity - Maximum length: two pages. Jeff Carmody, Co-Founder of Agility Capital and a successful institutional investor, provided me with the outline shown below. Capitalization. Entrepreneurs routinely seek my advice regarding their executive summaries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

Robert Blatt: The first stage, in 2013, was really nailing product-market-fit. Not just what the product needed to look like, but how to sell it, and to make sure that the people we sold it to were really successful using it, and stayed with us. In 2013, Facebook local pages, Google Pages, and Yelp were not all that active.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I had been working on the digital teams and digital marketing side of the theatrical business, and had done lots of live events. Sara Bordo: Coming from the standpoint of wearing a marketing hat, I also had different insights into the opportunities out there. The vision we have and the product suite is really exciting.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 26, 2013

From gaming, to advertising, to branding and marketing, there’s no online business plan that Facebook can’t be used for at this point. It is now a standard with any new social network to be able to cater to both the consumer and the brand; the person and the product. Without that synergy, you no longer bring anything new to the table.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We raised this capital in what has increasingly become a difficult market for fund raising so I’d like to share with you some details on how we get it done. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. And it’s easy to run circles around them as our product differentiation shows. The Early Years.

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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. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

Our perspectives on the topic wax and wane with market cycles. We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company is venture backed by Polaris Partners, Toba Capital, Amplify.LA, Wavemaker Partners, and Danmar Capital. It's was really about herding cats and getting everyone on the same page, and making sure you could get the financials out on time. They've solved it at the enterprise paint point, where we are at the mid-market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” on the first steps that determine long-term success. It is better to risk less and be on the same page than to risk more and have your spouse worried and resentful day after day. Put your risk capital into a separate checking account before you start. Mix personal and business funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

As a simple example, the Wal-Mart website now shows shoppers more products that they may like, based on previous purchases. The Wal-Mart home page is customized for each shopper based on location, local weather, and the customer search and purchase history. Algorithms and data are required to compete.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. I have always worked on early stage products. Greathouse: Great products and companies that came out (of) Santa Barbara.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

We spoke with Christopher Webb, the firm's CEO, to hear about how ChowNow's goal is to make mobile, social orders something any restaurant can afford and implement--and how a new $3M funding round from GRP Partners, Double M Capital, Daher Capital, Karlin Ventures, and Velos Partners is helping it to deliver on its mission.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. The best entrepreneurs get market feedback regularly and change their approach based on the latest information. Not so much.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

When I think about the people in our generation I most respect: Elon Musk, Larry Page, Richard Branson – they are optimists to a fault. It was really gratifying to read Larry Page’s interview in the FT this past week. And not enough capital embracing these moonshots. When we ship product. Working on it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

Many startups these days are started by young, technical or product founders who are in the idealistic phase of their lives and careers. Over the break I devoured a book about politics called Double Down , which is an absolute page turner. It’s not that I don’t love idealism – I was young once, too!

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Social media is now one of the key marketing tools, but not the only one, so the challenge is to manage the resource tradeoffs effectively by constantly assessing payback versus cost. Create an integrated conventional marketing and social media strategy. Manage your expectations, and analyze every marketing channel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2019

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. Persuasive and empowering.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Can a startup gain a foothold in the competitive market by designing the right UX and user experience to make a job and career site for everyone? There''s a huge demand for a limited supply of employees, in particularly, there a large demand for product developers, and there''s a shortage of experienced people. What is Workpop?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” on the first steps that determine long-term success. It is better to risk less and be on the same page than to risk more and have your spouse worried and resentful day after day. Put your risk capital into a separate checking account before you start. Mix personal and business funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The stock market reached a new all-time high in 2013, and is finally providing some liquidity relief to concerned investors and startups alike. Venture capital investments are returning to startups. Venture capital firms raised $4.1 Venture capital firms raised $4.1 New focus on a sustainable planet.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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