socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Ken Button: I am a corporate attorney, and started in private practice at O'Melvany and Myers, and later served as General Counsel for a software business. We have been around software for a long time. Ken Button: We launched into beta in March, and have spent a ton of time adding functionality and stress testing the site.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

Today, when you start a brand, your first hire is probably someone to build out your Shopify site. The investment was led by Union Square Ventures and included participation from Eniac Ventures, Human Capital and Flexport. to develop some sweet inventory-planning software. Syrup Tech bags $6.3M

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We actually have a very big Wordpress user base, because of the work we''ve done with Wordpress, contributing code and integrating them into our platform. We saw early on that the cloud as we know it today--utility services, software, and so on--was an entry point to do that, including with hosting. Simon Anderson: It is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

Meritech Capital also participated in the funding. Weinman started the site and associated business because--as she told us in a 2010--that there's wasn't much industry around Ojai where she could continue her work teaching computer skills. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

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. The most effective new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

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. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. For those not familiar with Saban Capital, tell us about the fund?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It allows you to share private and confidential information about your company, and have a dialog with your investors, within a walled garden where you can put the documents you need for diligence. For entrepreneurs raising capital, the tool makes it easier to be transparent and share information. Who would find this most useful?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2009

Santa Monica-based Zag.com , the online car buying software firm headed by Scott Painter, announced this morning that it has inked a deal with the AAA, to power a new service called AAA Automaker. Zag is venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners, USAA, GRP Partners, Arcturus Capital, Callaway Cars and the Skoll Fund. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. What is TrackStreet? It allows us to start peeling the onion.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Rufus Labs is one of a number of hardware startups which have started to proliferate in the community, due to low cost hardware, 3D printing, and crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Plus, they don't collect data, and use really old, limited software. That's a huge capital savings per employee.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

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. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

Perhaps it’s time to raise a round of Venture Capital funding and want a pitch presentation a bit more composed than the dusty Keynote you put together last year for your friends and family round. Due Diligence. “Other platforms and freelancing sites lose the transparency aspect. Marketing & Branding.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2012

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

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. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Apply for contests and business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. After viewing your slide deck, if investors are still interested in your startup, they will ask for a deep-dive meeting to drill in on any hard questions before commencing due diligence. Seed-round investment.

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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. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Use crowd funding.

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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. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Use crowd funding.

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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. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity.

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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. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity.

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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. The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

Google was not descriptive of the company’s initial core competency (search) nor was it particularly easy to pronounce or spell when the site was first launched. The lowercase “c” was eventually capitalized after nearly 10 years, due to the confusion the small “c” created when the company was referenced in print.

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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. That is how great businesses are built.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2011

Early on, he wrote software to snag expiring names on the cheap. He also capitalized on the trend to try "direct navigation," and millions do it. Type in "weddingshoes.com" - a site that Ham happens to own - and you'll land on what looks like a shoe-shopping portal, filled with links from dozens of retailers.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. Richard Yen: Saban Ventures kicked off early this year. where he is Chairman.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. As long as you have a well architected site that allows Google to properly spider your content, spend the rest of your time and money focusing on maximizing the remaining marketing tools listed below.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

The firm announced a funding round last week, from DFJ Frontier, DFJ JAIC, Gold Hill Capital, and angel investors Gil Elbaz (Factual), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), and Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners), and many others. That might be check-ins, that might be photos, reviews, likes, all of those things are in one place.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

They often identify expeditious ways to make money in the early days of their adVentures, which allow them to reduce the amount of capital they must raise from outside investors. Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. 9 Women And A Baby.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

In terms of sectors, it's going to be Internet, Consumer Internet, Software-as-a-Service--though in that area, not enterprise as a Salesforce, but along the lines of business productivity tools and customer acquisition--and also digital media. Given that, the Southern California venture capital ecosystem is definitely going through turmoil.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. Both now lead with the same processors, but Dell offers custom system configuration at ship, while HP capitalizes on more impressive display and battery technology. Up-sell related products after the initial sale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2010

Early on, he wrote software to snag expiring names on the cheap. He also capitalized on the trend to try "direct navigation," and millions do it. Type in "weddingshoes.com" - a site that Ham happens to own - and you'll land on what looks like a shoe-shopping portal, filled with links from dozens of retailers.

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