Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding to build reserves. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. Solicit funds from friends and family. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. Use crowd funding. Join a startup incubator.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2018

Love Goodly recently launched its own crowd equity funding campaign. The reason why, is we want to let you fall in love with those products, and continue to let you buy them on our e-commerce site as well, and also discover all of the product line for those brands. That's another initiative we're using this funding for.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Agoura Hills-based inQ, a provider of outsourced web sales services, has renamed itself TouchCommerce, the firm said today. inQ offers web chat services for e-commerce web sites, which helps to close online sales and guide users to select and find products. inQ did not detail reasons for the name change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding to build reserves. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. Solicit funds from friends and family. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. Use crowd funding. Join a startup incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until revenue starts to flow. Solicit funds from friends and family. After bootstrapping, friends and family are the most common funding sources for early-stage startups. Use crowd funding. Join a startup incubator.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

The new funding will enable Petnet to expand its product line and sales and marketing capabilities. billion acquisition ( disclosed last November ) by the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Including the latest round, Petnet has raised a total of $21.5

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

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Artificial Inteligence Commerce San Diego Web 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

Self-funding or bootstrapping is still the most common and safest approach for startups Keep your day job until real revenue flows. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding to build reserves. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

Startup 53

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 53

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. As a result many funds are OK with big bets. Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

We had the chance to talk with co-founder John Tomich about the funding and the firm, which operates e-commerce sites for fashion brands and others. The company was incorporated in January of 2004, and we provide outsource e-commerce services to organizations, such as brands and retailers. Bessemer approached us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2012

In reality, investors fund good business plans, not big dreams. E-commerce on the Internet is a good example of this. Consultants don’t need any inventory Barter your skills or equity for services you need. Exchanging equity for services is worth negotiating with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations.

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2011

In reality, investors fund good business plans, not big dreams. E-commerce on the Internet is a good example of this. Consultants don’t need any inventory Barter your skills or equity for services you need. Exchanging equity for services is worth negotiating with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Examples Equity 93

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Manatt Venture Funds, which we dedicate a specific portion of our funds to targeted digital media investments, is also part of the Manatt Digital Media network. We still need some IPOs and some big trade sales to happen to validate the market in a big way. Commerce to me, involves a lot of advertising spend.

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Los Angeles Media Invest Startup 84

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

As a long-time advisor to entrepreneurs and occasional angel investor, I often see and hear innovative product pitches that sound exciting, but are missing one or more of the key business elements that investors deem critical for funding consideration. Specify a primary customer channel for sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2010

In reality, investors fund good business plans, not good ideas. E-commerce on the Internet is a good example of this. Consultants don’t need any inventory Barter your skills or equity for services you need. Exchanging equity for services is worth negotiating with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

Startup 51

Startup Examples Entrepreneur Equity 51

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2018

Size of the equity funding was not announced. VitaCup offers its single cup, Keurig-style coffee and tea pods online through its own e-commerce channels. First Beverage said VitaCup will use the proceeds to expand sales and marketing, for e-commerce channels, development of additional product offerings, and other efforts.

Commerce 113

Commerce Venture Capital Equity Los Angeles 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children).

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Everybody is Selling Something: The Arrival of "Me-Commerce". Social Networks and Citizen Commerce: Reinventing Ecommerce.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Let’s help get their funding get finalized or the company sold if it’s already in play. And VCs scrambled to raise their own funds. So I encouraged entrepreneurs to think about raising their funds as quickly as they could because. Fundings boomed. Let’s review all of our existing investments. Depressing.

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