Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. Non-equity funding has to come from personal sources, or government grants, or bank loans. According to William R. There is no free lunch for money.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Y Combinator, the popular accelerator program and investment firm announced this week that it has promoted longtime partner Geoff Ralston to president. Shopify quietly acquires Handshake, an e-commerce platform for B2B wholesale purchasing . Luckin has dropped around 25 percent since closing its debut trading day. Fundraising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2022

If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business. Encourage collaboration by providing the platform, and setting best practices. Review your current investment in “creating goodwill.”

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2009

in equity from marketing firm Guthy-Renker. According to the firm--which is traded OTC--the restricted common stock investment by Guthy-Renker also came with an extension of an agreement the two companies have until June 2011. Tags: software security investment capital venture guthyrenker cyberdefender. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. Non-equity funding has to come from personal sources, or government grants, or bank loans. According to William R. There is no free lunch for money.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2014

We also work with marketplaces and shopping cart software, and seller platforms, anyone who does not want to build out their own sales tax infrastructure, to calculate how much sales tax needs to be collected. We''d like to build out our brand equity so that people know we are going to be here for a long time.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2014

WordPress, by way of $15M via North Bridge Growth Equity in WPEngine. The afternoon, with Tech Wildcatters ‘ Gabriella Draney and a handful of still-stealth eCommerce ventures, solidified that the industry of commerce is in Texas. Offline engagement platform EyeQ. Though, I’m glad that I did. Texas and eTail.

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Technical Review Commerce Yahoo Web 71

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2019

If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business. Encourage collaboration by providing the platform, and setting best practices. Review your current investment in “creating goodwill.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2017

This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. Non-equity funding has to come from personal sources, or government grants, or bank loans. According to William R. There is no free lunch for money.

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Entrepreneur Startup Equity Course 69

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2015

If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business. Encourage collaboration by providing the platform, and setting best practices. Review your current investment in “creating goodwill.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business. Encourage collaboration by providing the platform, and setting best practices. Review your current investment in “creating goodwill.”

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Organization Social Media Customer Custom 57

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2014

If you are at the funding stage, try the new crowd-funding platforms or micro-capital investments. Offer equity in future projects to people outside your business. Encourage collaboration by providing the platform, and setting best practices. Review your current investment in “creating goodwill.”

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Organization Social Media Customer Custom 93

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

Bricault was the founder of The Mailroom Fund, which was focused on early stage investments in Southern California digital media, and prior to that spent significant time at William Morris Agency. The standard model for an accelerator is, they provide a tranche of equity, along with a suite of services that varies by different accelerator.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

The conference is run by Jamie Montgomery , one of the local industry's pioneers in venture capital and investment. There are more consumer, fashion, e-commerce, beauty, lifestyle, health and wellness companies here, and I think those areas see a higher percentage of female entrepreneurs than you might find in semiconductors or software.

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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. Mike is actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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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. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

A consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertisers experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. We''re coining the term search commerce.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Competes with HauteLook , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , Billion Dollar Babes , ideeli , Glam List. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Jelli - I went on record saying that I wanted to invest and that I think this company will create a big success.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

The consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertiser experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. When did the split with AT&T happen?

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2015

I was at Boston Consulting Group, working in e-=commerce back in 1997 and 1998. Through their professional services, I ended up investing in a private equity firm called iFormation, which was a three way joint venture between Boston Consulting Group, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic Partners. We''d like to change that.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Everybody is Selling Something: The Arrival of "Me-Commerce". The "old school" models of e-commerce, as dominated by bulky hosted storefron. Entrepreneurism / Monetization e-commerce, monetization, Selling. . Social Networks and Citizen Commerce: Reinventing Ecommerce. A powerful revolution—Citizen Commerce—is forming.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Discover the what the future holds for you and this game changing media platform. Keynote: Jordan Rohan, Managing Director of Equity Research, Internet and Digital Media, Thomas Weisel Partners 9:30am: Keynote Panel: The State of Mobile: The Economics Of Critical Mass? Should brands offer e-commerce through apps? The advertiser?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. We are a venture capital growth equity fund in Washington DC with about $500m invested.

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Venture Capital Examples Startup Invest 277

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Competition: Gilt Groupe , Ideeli , RueLaLa (sub of GSI Commerce) , OneKingsLane , department stores like Saks and Neiman Marcus. Total raised: $129.0mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. And just when I thought I had the deal that was worthy of bringing to investment committee the world changed. Let’s review all of our existing investments. Eventually you have to invest. It was September 2008.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2013

This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. Non-equity funding has to come from personal sources, or government grants, or bank loans. According to William R. There is no free lunch for money.

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Startup Entrepreneur Equity Course 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. Non-equity funding has to come from personal sources, or government grants, or bank loans. According to a recent book by William R. There is no free lunch for money.

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Entrepreneur Startup Equity Course 96