TechCrunch LA

MARCH 25, 2021

“There’s a long history and a lot of relationships here,” said King, one of Hollywood’s premier power players and the founder of the global media company, Macro. We’re going to show them a set of companies that they would not have seen from any [other] VC fund,” said Fenty. “We look at all verticals.

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JUNE 23, 2016

During this period Kobie worked closely with many SaaS companies including ExactTarget from its early days and the Founder & CEO, Scott Dorsey, served as a strong reference for Kobie. Importantly, our entire partnership knew Kobie and there was a strong cultural alignment with his work style, ethos and skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2020

Examples of profitable companies practicing this model include Trader Joe’s , led by Doug Rauch as retired president, and Conscious Capitalism® board member, and the Container Store , built by Kip Tindell. They recognize the integral role of culture and purposefully cultivate a conscious culture. Conscious culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. It is an LA-based company that was recently acquired by Amazon, which you can read more about in this incredibly well-researched article.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

We caught up with Brett to understand how Sole Society spun out of Hautelook and Nordstrom, what the vision for the company is, and how he's applying what he learned making Hautelook one of the fastest growing companies here to the new company. Tell us a little bit about your background? I said to them, it gets even better.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Despite the decentralization ethos of crypto, the potential for cascading failures seems every bit as possible for the crypto world as it does for traditional finance markets. Metaverse play-and-earn company Atmos Labs brought in $11 million in a seed round led by Sfermion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

It doesn’t mean that these won’t produce great companies but the prices people are paying for today’s value exceeds what the underlying value of the business is worth and does not account for the risks the investor is assuming. This can’t all be driven by increased company performance). And we ended.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As noted in Honesty Is An Entrepreneur''s Secret Weapon , your character is precious, just as your company''s reputation is its most valuable intangible asset. Maintain a healthy culture by ruthlessly eliminating people whose are ill suited to the company''s ethos. Greene: Reputation is the cornerstone of power. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2018

Examples of profitable companies practicing this model include Trader Joe’s , led by Doug Rauch as retired president, now co-CEO of Conscious Capitalism®, and the Container Store , built by Kip Tindell. Both of these are purpose-driven businesses that boast high growth, high loyalty, and very low employee turnover. Conscious culture.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Are Companies Sending the Right Message? There are plenty of companies and corporations talking about building a diverse and inclusive culture, but what steps are they taking to attract people? Per our Veteran ethos, we work very well with small teams, and pull each other forward. Find the Bridge.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2014

A humble and unassuming character, it’s almost hard to imagine he’s also responsible for arguably one of the most successful technology companies of our time. As we concluded our chat, Chat said something I’ve always felt embodies the ethos of Los Angeles entrepreneurs. He shared, “Belkin is on a campus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2016

Examples of profitable companies practicing this model include Trader Joe’s , led by Doug Rauch as retired president, now CEO of Conscious Capitalism®, and the Container Store , led by Kip Tindell. Soon, companies that also want legal recognition of their socially conscious focus will be able to incorporate as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

But it was my second company so I had already learned all o f the lessons the hard way. I believe that there is a new breed of VC emerging including True Ventures, Founder’s Fund, Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group and several others that have this founder / investor alignment ethos. He walked with 1/3rd of the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Examples of profitable companies practicing this model include Trader Joe’s , led by Doug Rauch as retired president, now CEO of Conscious Capitalism®, and the Container Store , led by Kip Tindell. Soon, companies that also want legal recognition of their socially conscious focus will be able to incorporate as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate. But I digress.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Nor do they exist in the investors of early-stage companies. They are the lifeblood of many companies yet they are different than the traditional technology startup DNA so the ways that you hire, motivate, compensate and assess performance of these individuals will be different. It’s the hardest job in the company.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2015

There's a lot of innovation here going on that just wouldn't be possible in Silicon Valley, because Silicon Valley has evolved around such incumbent, big mega companies. That's the ethos and song that people are singing. It's not just media, and not just fashion as you might think, although they are the big gorillas in the room.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2009

The company continues to impress with special effects and 3D graphics in Skies, an aerial combat game set in World War II. You can even up the ethos in combat by adding your own soundtrack from songs stored on your device. Currently at least one SGN game has been downloaded on a third of all iPhone and iPod Touch devices in existence.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Last week, the company finally embraced the dystopian origins of the name with a brilliant, tongue-in-cheek marketing campaign introducing its new Soylent Green Mint Chocolate line complete with a spoof animation of the famous last scene of the Heston Soylent Green film. I liked that the company chose that name, because it's disruptive.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2016

How did you start the company? Julie Campistron: It was definitely there from the get go, because of the history of the company being borne out of a nonprofit. We wanted to maintain that ethos, and continue supporting the mission. That's something coming from a bigger company that you don't have to deal with much.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

In his words, [in some instances] “because lots of capital is available, the company takes on the capital and that ends up resulting in no constraints on decision making and so the company decides to do five things in stead of just one.” You are defined by how you serve the companies that are struggling.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

It is tempting because you not only see that they were VP Sales at 3 other startups but also that they have great access (according to their resume) to senior executives at companies you’re trying to target. More likely this person who wants to work at your fledgling company is a decent performer but not a superstar. Not so fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Nor do they exist in the investors of early-stage companies. They are the lifeblood of many companies yet they are different than the traditional technology startup DNA so the ways that you hire, motivate, compensate and assess performance of these individuals will be different. My first startup was no different. And my favorite.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Throughout the 90′s the PC became much more popular in corporate environments, so companies began to replace dumb terminals with PCs. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing. Every startup (every company, really) was beholden to the traffic god that was Google search. the rest of the time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Nearly every company faces its crisis moments and only through the inspiration , focus and dedication of the leadership can you motivate teams to dig in deep and come out the other side stronger. I made an investment in a company with deep domain knowledge. It’s part of my ethos. ON LEADERSHIP. I argued for the opposite.

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