Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

seed and they are writing $1.25m of it you can expect them to require a board seat) The competitive landscape (If you have several sources of capital you can likely politely decline the board request or can grant them a seat but ask for it to be “common appointed” and those revokable if you need in the future). But it’s quite rare.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2018

Los Angeles-based on-demand scooter rental service Bird will have to compete against both Uber and Lyft in its fight for the San Francisco market. According to The Verge, both companies have applied for electric scooters in San Francisco, and are hoping to operate electric scooters there.

Competition 100

Competition Demand Equity Los Angeles 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

eCommerce for example grew 39% just last year - so there’s simply more demand. This is accomplished through aggregated, anonymized competitive benchmarking, market-level performance data across the major social and ad platforms, and curated news and conversation from industry leaders. Why Did I Invest in Trust?

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Product Platform Advertising Acquisition 424

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2021

Two startups won a total of $25,000 in prizes last week at the Sunstone Innovations Challenge at CSULB, a startup pitch competition involving student teams from CSU Long Beach. According to Sunstone Management, four teams from the colleges of health and human services, business and engineering participated in the finals.

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Long Beach Seed Funding Startup Competition 113

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. The result will likely be business demands that you can’t meet, loss of key personnel, potential lawsuits, and certainly not the fun lifestyle you expected.

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Startup Innocal Offshore 138

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. Investors own 25%, the founders own 75%.

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Venture Capital Pricing Startup Funding 405

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

All the confusion you hear from friends or read in the press is related to this nuance that early investors demand prorata rights and sometimes fight like hell to maintain them (Facebook problem) and sometimes prefer not to take them (overvalued company that they perceive isn’t doing as well as new investors coming in think).

Guide 336

Guide Venture Capital Startup Writing 336

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Crowdfunder , the Los Angeles startup led by CHance Barnett, has launched another crowdfunding event aimed at the local industry, saying Wednesday that it has launched CROWDIMPACT LA , a pitching competition which will award $20,000 in a top prize to a winning social enterprise company.

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Startup Competition Demand Los Angeles 215

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. A decent showing, but well below a number of larger schools, as the ranking is based on the number of graduates who secured VC funding. Organic Academia. The TMP is an example of lean academia.

Santa Barbara 258

Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value. Calculate investment amounts and timing.

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Startup Pricing Sales Statistics 116

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. The result will likely be business demands that you can’t meet, loss of key personnel, potential lawsuits, and certainly not the fun lifestyle you expected.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Funding Innocal Offshore 124

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Conventional wisdom in most companies is that “the competition is the enemy&# – it’s the rallying cry to dig deeper, get more features out the door, issue press releases citing differences and attack the competition’s weaknesses in sales presentations. A healthy respect for your competition will serve you well.

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Cloud Computing Competition Press Startup 320

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Do you imagine eventually raising VC and trying to build a faster growing company?” ” Because of the circles I run in I tend to meet many people who eventually do want to build large companies and therefore do want to eventually raise VC and “go big.” They raised $5 million in venture capital to fund growth.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

External investors will demand a financial forecast, but it’s equally valuable to you, even if bootstrapping. Project your cash burn rate to keep at least 18 months between venture capital or angel investments. Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell.

Startup 147

Startup Pricing Sales Statistics 147

socalTECH

JUNE 12, 2018

Los Angeles-based on-demand scooter rental service Bird is report raising yet more funding, at a $2 billion valuation, according to a report on Tuesday. Bird is in a massive battle with a large list of players launch or looking to enter the on-demand, "last mile" scooter rental service, including Lime, Uber, and Lyft. READ MORE>>.

Report 100

Report Funding Demand Los Angeles 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Today I’m handing her the largest A-round check I’ve ever written as a VC as we lead her $10 million A-Round at uBeam. As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. Was there consumer demand? No brainer.

Technical Review 418

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 3, 2009

This is driving massive demand for new digital content distribution networks, in addition to an entirely new ecosystem of business and technology relationships. The competition is drawing players from diverse marketsincluding digital media, internet services, and Telecom/IP communications companies. See [link] (more).

Enterprise Forum 100

Enterprise Forum CalTech IP Content 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required. Most just don’t enjoy all the challenges of communicating to analysts, placating demanding stockholders, and keeping up with legal reporting requirement.

Startup 98

Startup Report IBM IBM 98

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Inventory your items with photos, store it in physical storage, demand back items when you wanted them and only what you wanted. One VC firm who decided to invest – High Peaks – liked the deal so much that one of their team members, Rahul Gandhi left to join MakeSpace! Of course there is competition! Did she have it?

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UCSD Startup Ideas Course 340

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. You need to listen to your product team, watch your competition and work hard on determining whether you’re truly providing value to your customers. It’s where the truly innovative separate themselves from the pack.

Marketing 354

Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

An obvious place to look for help is the venture community—Bruce Booth of Atlas Ventures pointed out in a recent blog that venture capital is doing well, and is positioned to do even better in the future. Yet despite relative plenty in the bio-venture community, pharma suffers from a shortage of drug candidates.

Product 40

Product Journal Venture Capital Demand 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

They suffered in trying to live up to public perceptions and the demands to continue their successes. In both cases the biopics portray suffering souls who find extreme and sudden success that casts them into the public eye in a way that they weren’t prepared for. I was 31. We should try to have empathy for each other.

Press 150

Press Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 150

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

If have a company and are interested in being part of this event there is still time for you to enter the competition. The event includes keynotes from Shawn Colo, co-founder of Demand Media, one of the hottest IPOs of this year, Zorik Gordon, co-founder and CEO of ReachLocal, one of the hottest IPOs of 2010. The TZ Hookups.

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Rustic Canyon Venture Capital ReachLocal Anthem 61

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

while acknowledging that San Fran deals are often higher valuations due to increased competition amongst investors. For me I think that investors have got to accept the new reality in pricing if they want to remain competitive in markets like we’re seeing now. I’m a VC so I have an obvious bias. That’s fine.

Startup 336

Startup Pricing Technical Review Marketing 336

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Finally for startups there’s a $31 billion available for programs that give small businesses access to credit, venture capital, and R&D dollars. This increased competition is good for hardware vendors and ultimately could create new businesses for entrepreneurs who want to become ISPs of their own.

Startup 229

Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. Far from it. Lots of it.

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Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362

Tech.Co

JUNE 1, 2017

. “Since 95 percent of mainstream VCs won’t touch the category today, valuations are rational and you face little competition for access – so place your bets before the party gets crowded.”. Even with little competition and an unprecedented ROI opportunity, investing in cannabis has its risks. The Unique Risks.

Invest 75

Invest Competition Training Media 75

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC. It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. It takes options off of the table. It drives perverse incentives.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Yet despite billions in VC money and plenty of hype , the future that micromobility companies promised still hasn’t quite arrived. “This had led to an imbalance of vehicle supply to rider demand as operators over-saturate the market.” It’s so car dominated and hungry for alternatives to the automobile.”.

Los Angeles 257

Los Angeles San Pedro Santa Monica Study 257

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. About 100 teams participated in that competition, and 10 teams were selected to be part of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage program. As you probably know, Viterbi is the engineering school at USC.

USC 236

USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. The result will likely be business demands that you can’t meet, loss of key personnel, potential lawsuits, and certainly not the fun lifestyle you expected.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 103

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com). Venture capital for innovators. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. pushing CEOs and business owners to innovate to outperform the competition. LLP , Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth , and Vistage. Rustic Canyon Partners (www.rusticcanyon.com).

SoCalTech 127

SoCalTech Advertising Rustic Canyon Glendale 127

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required. Most just don’t enjoy all the challenges of communicating to analysts, placating demanding stockholders, and keeping up with legal reporting requirement.

Startup 84

Startup Technical Review Report IBM 84

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. The result will likely be business demands that you can’t meet, loss of key personnel, potential lawsuits, and certainly not the fun lifestyle you expected.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Innocal Offshore Entrepreneur 63

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2016

Although mega rounds with high valuations can be an effective way for large VC firms to efficiently deploy their capital, this approach can actually decrease a startup’s chances of success. When the CEO excitedly called his venture capitalists, he was shocked when they literally laughed in his ear.

Startup 100

Startup Entrepreneur Invest Venture Capital 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Competition. Market Size.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

accredited investors in 1,000 angel groups and venture capital funds to. And what upsets people is that there are different quantities of those components available in the economic marketplace; and the law of supply and demand is pretty good about consequently assigning a value to them. BUT good ideas are NOT hard to find.

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Startup Sales Ideas Entrepreneur 189