SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 22, 2019

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 -- Start-up World Cup - Los Angeles Regional Pitch Competition. Last year, Leuko Labs was the $1,000,000 USD winner from the U.S. See [link] (more)

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Competition Angel 100

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show.

Startup 280

Startup Netflix Los Angeles Innocal 280

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. In fact, the incumbent is usually very dismissive of this new competition as our the large buyers of the incumbent’s products.

Startup 376

Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

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. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Public Storage is the Blockbuster Video of their industry and we set out to build Netflix. I’m a stickler for focus, being efficient with capital and building out operational excellence, so our strategy initially was very constrained. Little old us. Sound familiar? It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist.

Startup 150

Startup Pricing Marketing Product 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. Topics we discussed in the first 45 minutes of the video include: What is VC like in NY? We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2019

The market caps of some of the most successful tech titans reach as high as $1 trillion. Yet in 2018, perceptions about these dominant companies often reflected uneasiness and doubt—and for some, so did their stock performance.

Platform 43

Platform Marketing Company Companies 43