Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. Make your app support all platforms. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI). One of these experts, David T. Display advertising. Email marketing. Cold calling.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

2020 seems like a decade away into space, however Motreal-based reelyActive, the winner os Startup World Competition , is doing just this. The Montreal-based startup beat 15 entrepreneurs from Europe, Africa, North/South America to emerge top at the competition held at Parisoma co-working space. Hyperlocal context. Internet of things.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

The opportunity set is much bigger than ever (50x more users, 10x time online, mobile, social, credit-card enabled, global) … when things work they work faster and at an unprecedented scale. to raise “opportunity funds” to fund the prorata participation of their best early-stage investments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. Individual angel investors and crowdfunding have been adding to the momentum, some say exceeding VCs in total amount invested. Super angels sometimes drive up valuations.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. — Balaji S.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. That is the quandary which entrepreneurs face today in building models for new companies around a web presence.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

We have made 5 online video investments in total – some we will talk about later this year. 40% of all of YouTube is viewed on mobile devices and of high-quality content I believe it is between 60-70% based on my insider data. You must invest in technology. This is 14% of world population and 33% of all people online.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

The web is so powerful today, that Croquet allows them to now create truly collaborative applications that could not be done before. How did you get investors interested in investing in such a large project like a new operating system? Are Android and iOS then your competition? David Smith: That's a very good question.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the new class of Super Angels, who may look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. What characterizes them is the number of companies they invest in, as well as the size of their investments (less than $250,000), and the seed or startup stage where they specialize.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

That allows our media buying team an dour content team to make moves, to buy more inventory on the web, and drive more traffic on the website, with the whole goal of bringing in more consumers and acquiring more customers for our clients. The world here is constantly changing -- particularly with shifts to mobile, Google algorithms, etc. -

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI). One of these experts, David T. Display advertising. Email marketing. Cold calling.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Los Angeles-based Radical.FM (www.radical.fm) thinks it has a new formula for Internet streaming, and can take on Pandora and others in head to head competition. More recently, we found the technology wasn''t really appropriate for mobile. As you know, in this day and age, if you don''t have mobile, you''re nothing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI). One of these experts, David T. Display advertising. Email marketing. Cold calling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. Make your app support all platforms. Build your own marketplace platform.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2012

SGN is the social and mobile gaming developer headed by former MySpace founder Chris Dewolfe. Josh Yguado: We're the leading developer and publisher of cross-platform, social and mobile games. We tested a few games, and they just did very well, so we continued to invest in the space. Is it all mobile now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. Social mobile web. Responsive web technology that re-sizes text and images to fit any screen is the norm with new websites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

Indeed, while the rules and technologies for lead generation have changed, Forrester and other experts still see it as the most effective way for businesses with limited budgets to maximize their return on marketing investment (ROMI). One of these experts, David T. Display advertising. Email marketing. Cold calling.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

My team is responsible for building tools to help improve the online customer experience, whether that's through native apps, devices, or the web. From a scale perspective, we process anywhere from 11 to 12 million desktop requests daily, and on the mobile side, 22 million requests a day. Third, Carlsbad is an awesome place.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

My team is responsible for building tools to help improve the online customer experience, whether that's through native apps, devices, or the web. From a scale perspective, we process anywhere from 11 to 12 million desktop requests daily, and on the mobile side, 22 million requests a day. Third, Carlsbad is an awesome place.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Let me not bury the lede. Nice sweep!

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

million led by GRP Partners, with participation from Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin Ventures, Clark Landry, Andy Rankin, and Launchpad LA. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). Think of web vs. mobile. Fred Wilson wrote perfectly about sticking with struggling investments. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) It’s not you.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. Here’s why. Your Process Doesn’t Work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

What I’d like to do is tell you the story of how the investment came to be, what my thesis is / was and share some thoughts on macro trends. The Team – I’m on record as saying that 70% of my investment criteria are team related. I’m also on record as saying I invest in lines & not dots. He wanted to be an entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking. All applications crash and this is especially true in the nascent mobile world where dealing with device types, OS’s & networks adds one hell of a configuration management problem. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

The Bitcoinference served as day 1 of 2 for 500 Startups’ “Commercism” series, with an official agenda that covered industry happenings, social dynamics, and a look into the investment environment. The next portion of the discussion moves into investments into Bitcoin: the currency, technology, and in startups in the space.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2011

I dropped in to check out the contest a few times during the competition and the environment was uplifting and exciting. Sparqlight – parts prebuilt before competition. Quick Web App Builder (QWAB) – parts prebuilt before competition. Welcome to the accelerated version of Startup Weekend. Teams: CoderTie.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I first wanted to invest in this trend by backing a company called Filmaka. I didn’t end up investing but I always loved the concept. They help find talented film makers globally, enter them into competitions and advance the best of them toward winners that get to produce full-length films. means specifically one thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. Time will tell. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. They make it easy to collect investment funds, track ownership, and provide targeted updates to investors.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. They make it easy to collect investment funds, track ownership, and provide targeted updates to investors. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

PayDivvy provides a smarter way to manage bills by allowing you to pay, send and share bills…simply and socially…via web or mobile. His idea and subsequent business plan won the Wharton Venture Award in 2009 and was a finalist for the Wharton Business Plan Competition.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. The constrai.

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