Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. Product development at this stage is the process of scaling up for manufacturing and marketing rollout. They believe in you above all else. Specialized VCs start to jump in at this stage.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively. That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time.

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Tech.Co

MAY 18, 2017

Coolhaus is an architecturally-themed, gourmet dessert company operating a fleet of 10 mobile ice cream trucks and carts around the country. Factual is a location platform that enables personalized and contextually relevant mobile experiences by enriching mobile location signals. Direct Relief. HATCHBEAUTY Products, LLC.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Disney Accelerator , held its Demo Day for its second class on Thursday, showing off ten companies to a theater packed full of venture and angel investors. A number of the companies--showing off one huge advantage of being involved in a program run by Disney--announced deals with Disney properties to use their technology and products.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

No matter how much you think you know about Steve’s lean startup philosophy, Eric Ries’ contributions to the movement, or the methodologies by which companies have put lean startup tenets into practice, I am confident you will be enlightened and entertained by Steve’s frank and insightful remarks. . Four Steps was essentially my class notes.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2013

To hear about how the company decided to expand into the market, we caught up with CEO Loren Bendele to learn more about its new grocery store coupon app, Favado (www.favado.com). Explain what Favado is all about? Loren Bendele: It might be useful to talk about why we''re doing this, and why we''re getting into this.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

funding round this week for its mobile gifting app. Jason Reid: Giftagram is a mobile first company, that really redefines the way people gift. What is unique about our mobile app, is you can send a physical gift without actually having a physical address to send it to. How does Giftagram work?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

To build it, weve hired some amazing people, including Nick Kim, who is now leading platform development at Crosscut. So far, under Nicks leadership, weve built sourcing and pipeline management systems, a portfolio growth and development platform, and a job board to serve the entire city named Interchange.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The poor performance of the asset class (this analysis has largely been wrong as I pointed out here –> most analyses were clumsy rear-view mirror looks at the data). Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). This is a structural shift in our industry few have talked about publicly. and hasn’t abated.

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APRIL 8, 2013

How did the incubator come about? We''ve been talking about a partnership, and we just started a conversation with Kleiner about this, with the United Talent Agency getting involved last December. That''s basically how the program come about. UTA is very, very good in strategic business development.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues. Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming. About PandoDaily.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. uBeam intends to charge your mobile phones at amazing speeds while you are simply using your phone or setting it down anywhere. Would they build a world class team.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

How about if it didn't matter where you stored those files, and they were available from anywhere? Entangled Media , one of the startups out of the current class at MuckerLab , has developed Younity (www.getyounity.com), a service which hopes to do just that--make your files available from anywhere. They don't remember to.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

To learn more about how the company went from just an idea at an accelerator to a healthy exit, we spoke with founder Eli Portnoy. How did the acquisition come about? They started running campaigns with us, and were excited about the performance, and started talking about ways to work closer together. It was really great.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2011

We spoke with founder Jonathan Cooper about what the company is all about. We think ourselves as truly mobile, and our service and call centers operate in four languages. Jonathan Cooper: We were in beta for about a year, and we've now been serving customers all over the world. What is ATMCASH? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

How about Andy Milonakis? TouchFrame has teamed with 51 Minds Entertainment, part of Endemol, to develop what it says is a TV-quality play along game show. TouchFrame is one of the nine companies which launched themselves at MuckerLab's big Demo Day yesterday, the second class of startups to launch out of the accelerator.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In this profile of #StartupsEverywhere , I talked with John Machacek, Senior Vice President of Finance and Entrepreneurial Development, the Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation about the friendly startup community, job creation and emerging startups. Can you tell us more about GFMEDC?

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? We got over 400 applications for the ten slots we had open in this class, and we picked ten amazing companies. So far, eight of the ten companies in our current class have raised outside funding, and we're really happy with how it's gone so far. We're really excited for the next steps.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

Mark Suster , fellow venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, has written extensively about YouTube’s evolution from dogs-on-skateboards to its current status as an entertainment medium rivaling cable television networks. Despite the snarky rumors that Google’s content development program was poorly managed at its outset (e.g.,

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APRIL 25, 2013

We caught up with CEO Dev Bhatia --a serial entrepreneur who''s been involved with such companies at Hotsocket, Screaming Media (IPO), and Yoyodyne (acquired by Yahoo)--to learn more about. It''s pretty hard to imagine instant search in other context, and on other devices, particularly when it comes to mobile. What is SRCH2?

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

We caught up with Jim Armstrong to learn more about the new fund, areas of interest, his insights into what makes startups successful, and where he thinks the venture market is today. It's all about the entrepreneur. There's been a lot of debate about what the right size of a fund is, and what's too big and too small.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

And over the past three years, Imperson has developed conversational chatbots powered by their artificial intelligence for several Disney projects, including most recently for Walt Disney World’s Pandora – The World of Avatar , according to a press release. Epic Games.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In this interview series of #StartupsEverywhere , we talked with Lee Reeves, cofounder of Startup253, and Shadrach White, founder and CEO of cloudPWR, to talk about the differences between the cities, the uptick in the business sector and emerging startups. Can you tell us more about what your company/organization does?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

And in particular, if you're developing comedy and humor content -- which is a big segment of the content being created--how to do you help people find the content which will resonate with them. Tell us a little bit about your background and the company? Daniel Altman: We recently were in the fall class of MuckerLab.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. Think of web vs. mobile. Most VCs are book smart. Connections?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. And with mobile you even have the ability to message your users when new content is released which leads to much higher consumptions rates. Europe is roughly the same as the US. MSN & AOL.

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Steve Reich

JULY 6, 2020

At Malauzai , we learned that the typical consumer uses their mobile banking app 3-5 times per week and their desktop app another 3-5 times per month. Best in class institutions were getting a 10% click through rate on the public service ads. (A How often do we brag about being community or member oriented? I was flat wrong.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? What's your background, and what is PublishThis all about? It's all about what is happening on the realtime web.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

We spoke with Dale Quayle , the firm's CEO, about the funding and company. Dale Quayle: The best way to think about it, is FileTrek is entering into the enterprise collaboration space. Is this a mobile application, web service, or how does it work? Dale Quayle: I think you're right about that. What is FileTrek?

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MARCH 21, 2012

We sat down with Paul to learn a bit more about the program at Amplfify. Can you tell us a little bit about the basics behind the program? Can you talk about that space? We're developing a community, a co-working space, and there will also be events on a consistent basis, in addition to events just for companies in our program.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Especially fun when you get him telling stories about his pilot experiences. So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas. Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day. Actually, I’ve done this!

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2012

We caught up with Michelle Crames, CEO and Founder of SkuLoop, to hear the story about how the firm pivoted form its former focus on mobile gifting (as Giiv.com) and caught the wave of the flash sales and daily deals industry. Tell us about SkuLoop and what you do? Michelle Crames: Retail is about letting retailers take control.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

One of the startups in that area--born out of a.NET development organization here in Los Angeles--is FatCloud (www.fatcloud.com), which develops a NoSQL database which ties directly into Microsoft''s SQL Server database. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

We spoke with two of the founder of K5Launch, Amir Banifatemi and Kai Tao, to learn more about their efforts to start up its accelerator here. When is your first class, and how many companies are you going to include? Amir Banifatemi: Our first class will be in winter, starting in 2012, most likely in January. What is K5Launch?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. And of course we had, TheMan. with the clips.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2022

Add on top of this the general lack of financial understanding amongst the US population (only 57% of us are classed as financially literate), and you've got quite a cocktail for a cycle of poverty. ” – Griffin's FAQ answer about how they make money. A startup for startups! Jeenie's translators make around $15 per hour.

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