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TechEmpower
AUGUST 7, 2023
The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies?
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2010
Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. Have a look at the companies below.
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2010
Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing.
TechCrunch LA
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. A company like Moe will help legitimize the industry,” Bernstein tells TechCrunch. “I The first phase was the rise of the media platforms: YouTube, Instagram, etcetera, that allowed creatives to build audiences.
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 30, 2012
LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 For years now, companies have been forced to choose between cumbersome, expensive Virtual Data Rooms and decentralized, unsecure email to manage their complex transactions. CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 25, 2010
Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList.
InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
This latest round valued the company in excess of a billion dollars, entering them into the overly-hyped Unicorn Club. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser.
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