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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. We could talk with customers, meet the entire management team, review financial plans, review customer purchasing cohorts, evaluate the competition, etc. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m
socalTECH
OCTOBER 11, 2016
For the first half of our show, we actually set up a store front on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, and put their product in a retail setting, and let consumers and investors run through the gamut, allowing them to interact in real time, and get feedback on their packaging and products, and even recommend it to their friends.
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socalTECH
MAY 20, 2016
Enter Santa Monica's Digitzs (www.digitzs.com), , which has an all star set of advisors and investors, including Kevin Harrington (the original "Shark" on Shark Tank), and which is developing technology to help those platforms take payments. That percent is actually all over the board, very complex, and very competitive.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 11, 2018
If I write back, and tell them to stay at the Marriott in Del Mar, we would detect the Marriott Del Mar in your message, whether that's on Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, in a text message, in an email, or whatever, and convert that into a link to one of our merchants who are part of the Wildfire network. What does that look like?
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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.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 4, 2010
Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. Our biggest focus now is on continuing to build out the content side, and keep ahead of the competition on the technology side, as we are. Jake got a similar amount.
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OCTOBER 29, 2009
When I as a 41-year old living in Santa Monica with 2 young boys type “Halloween Costume&# into Google it is pretty clear that there is a highly likelihood or intent by me to shop for Halloween goods. If we continue our success we will have strong competition. Everybody gains. I believe Twitter will support this.
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