Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

As I like to say when asked, “For entrepreneurs you generally need to go to 2-3 cities max and probably pitch 5-15 investors. In recent years we’ve had big wins across all of our long term partners (Yves: Envestnet), (Steven: TrueCar), (Me: Maker Studios). Was it hard to raise the fund? It’s always hard raising money.

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Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Our interview this morning with an entrepreneur is with Anthony Citrano , the founder of Los Angeles-based Acquicent (www.acquicent.com), a startup which wants to make it as easy for you to invest in museum-grade collectibles such as classic cars and art, without having to invest millions of dollars in those assets.

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Startup Invest Class Marketing 189

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

The group recently kicked off a Kickstarter effort to raise money to buy 3D printers, a laser cutter, and more for use at a space in the LA Mart, which it says will be used to teach classes and support projects in software, hardware, electronics, robotics, art, filmmaking, citizen science, bio-tech, eco-tech, wearable-tech, and more.

Software Engineering 159

Software Engineering Class Los Angeles Software 159

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

I started working with David when I was an entrepreneur and he was an associate with a VC firmed called … wait for it … GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures)! We brought Ryan Lissack down from San Francisco to become Maker’s CTO and the rest is history. We have worked together ever since. Back together.

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CTO Hire Startup CTO Coach Venture Capital 320

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Indeed, whether you’re a producer, screenwriter, director, actor, cinematographer, editor, art director or composer (or some combination of these) Stage 32 offers classes to meet your specific needs. Classes with a wide geographic appeal. Among those that have paid for a Stage 32 class, 91% say they’ll do it again in the future.

Education 81

Education Entertainment Class Manhattan Beach 81

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Many experts will tell you that you can’t succeed as a part-time entrepreneur, as any good startup will require a 100 percent commitment of your time and energy. Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. One still needs to be the agreed final decision maker.

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Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Metrics 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors to give away all their patents, to infrastructure providers and even competitive car makers, without transactional agreements. TechShop, a spinoff of MakerFaire, is an example of a new class of facilities for entrepreneurs to start experimenting early.

Startup 100

Startup IBM IBM Examples 100

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Bruce, along with his wife Lynda, created a learning company from their garage, initially by holding in-person classes and later selling VHS tapes via mail order. Bruce and Lynda eventually grew their startup into a global powerhouse, offering 5,700 classes and 255,000 video tutorials to over 4 million users.

Sales 113

Sales Education Startup Class 113

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

So what is the problem and proposed solutions from the film maker? It has long been believed that people from lower-income neighborhoods can’t learn as well as middle & upper class ones due to environment issues such as problems at home and trouble in the neighborhood. It is actually a problem for us all because.

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Class Education Technical Review Writing 340

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors to give away all their patents, to infrastructure providers and even competitive car makers, without transactional agreements. TechShop, a spinoff of MakerFaire, is an example of a new class of facilities for entrepreneurs to start experimenting early.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Startup Examples 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

A critical stage for most first-time entrepreneurs is getting their idea developed into at least a prototype to validate their technology. There are professionals who specialize in grant applications, and they may even have relationships with key decision makers in the approval process, but they do cost money that you may not.

Funding 90

Funding Technical Review Startup Research 90

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

“There are many funds, incubators, and accelerators out there that entrepreneurs can turn to today for general business advice. Joe Lonsdale , Partner at Formation8 and Palantir co-founder says that world-class advisors are one of the most important determinants of success for a young company, and Data Elite has them.

Netflix 82

Netflix Incubator Class Funding 82

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2014

Having a highly functional middle class is good policy for long-term economic growth. Because they couldn’t have “normal” professions they become traders, peddlers, market makers and financiers. One only need watch Downtown Abbey to see what the wealthy classes of Europe thought of “businessmen.”

Education 417

Education Venture Capital UCSD Class 417

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2014

Many experts will tell you that you can’t succeed as a part-time entrepreneur, as any good startup will require a 100 percent commitment of your time and energy. Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. One still needs to be the agreed final decision maker.

Startup 109

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Metrics 109

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). On the surface the narratives have been. The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. We are in a bubble (with so many private $1bn+ valuations).

Venture Capital 398

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Maker Studios, leading YouTube producer, generating hundreds of millions of video views every month [Los Angeles, near Culver City]. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs. I was a former entrepreneur. They designed the next gen UI for the film The Minority Report.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

“The one-day event will bring together leading executives, entrepreneurs and professionals to celebrate this diverse L.A. Maker Studios sees the value of lifestyle and fashion channels which may be why they were considered number 1 network on YouTube during last summer’s SBF. The Mother of the Internet.”

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

They are just over the halfway mark with their current class and have been continuously improving their program to increase the value for their entrepreneurs, their products and their business. Perks include office space, prototype lab, production facilities, mentoring, and investments up to $150,000 in the first 4 months.

Startup 40

Startup Invest Chatsworth Mentor 40

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2013

You can learn from others in the space, or take a class. It's membership based, and the goal for us is to eventually be sustainable through membership, by putting on events and classes, and so on.

Startup 227

Startup Tool Ideas Class 227

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

I was influenced heavily before my career even began because in my undergraduate work I took a ton of statistics classes that showed how easily we human brains fall prey to easy biases and slights of data and try to draw conclusions that don’t exist. Coming back with an empty chamber for the third battle is much worse than not coming back.

Venture Capital 182

Venture Capital Statistics Writing Report 182

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. Other than the occasional NBA game, he consumes his video content via our iPad and Xbox. He is not alone.

Google 133

Google Develop Development Funding 133

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). But I loved reading them and so did my team.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285