socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Editor's note, TuesdayNights is running its Impact Conference in Santa Monica on Friday, where we are a Media Partner) Photo: Left, Melinda Moore and Right, Justine Lassoff. One of them is Dana Settle, one of the leading venture capitalists in Los Angeles, and who also happens to be a woman. What is TuesdayNights?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 5, 2012

LED and solid state lighting professionals will gather for a 2-day conference and exhibition featuring presentations from the US Department of Energy, Marriott, Cooper Lighting, Bridgelux, NIST, IKEA, OSRAM Sylvania, Cree and more.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yammer offers instant messaging focused on internal corporate communications, and is the result of work by engineers at Geni. style genealogy and social networking web site headed up by former PayPal founder David Sacks; the firm is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and Founders Fund. Geni is the online, Web 2.0-style

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 29, 2014

Maybe they’ve hit a few set backs: They’ve struggled to raise money, they haven’t gotten press coverage or they haven’t gotten accepted to present at prestigious conferences. Seriously, hang up your cleats now and go back to your corporate job. But how do you get past gate keepers? Nothing beats a warm intro.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2010

in a Series B funding round from Syncom Ventures, Monitor Venture Partners, Tudor Ventures, and Barshop Ventures. IVT's services are used for webcasting investment conferences, training sessions, and other corporate events. McGovern has also served at Business.com, Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, and IBM.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2021

While the attendee interactions might be more limited due to Zoom, we found our leadership roundtables, conferences, and showcases all showed significant increases (50 - 100%) in participation. We do that by acting as a smart super connector bringing together key ecosystem stakeholders, so we can work together in a unified fashion.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

Earlier this month, the annual Montgomery Summit conference was held in Santa Monica, including a special portion of the conference dedicated to the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur. We had over 400 attendees, including some who came from the core conference. What's your role at March Capital? I think it's a fantastic program.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital? We discussed: 1.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

VW Group, Intel’s computer vision subsidiary Mobileye and Champion Motors said in November they plan to deploy Israel’s first self-driving ride-hailing service in 2019 through a joint venture called New Mobility in Israel. TechCrunch will be at Nvidia’s annual GPU Technology Conference from March 18 to 21 in San Jose.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2009

West Hollywood-based Yammer , the corporate microblogging site inspired by Twitter, is moving from the Los Angeles area to Silicon Valley, according to founder David Sacks. Yammer provides a Twitter-like corporate microblogging platform, essentially a version of Twitter restricted to specific corporate domains. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Business Etiquette Tips for dealing with VCs and Corporates at Conferences. With the LeWeb conference about to start in Paris I thought the timing of this post would be appropriate. Right after Techcrunch50 Michael Arrington wrote this great post on how to interact at business events and conferences.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2012

How do you cut out all of the effort required to discover, find, and book venues for your event, wedding, or conference? We also received funding from Crosscut Ventures, NEA, and New World Ventures. I also had the chance to do a conference, and had knowledge of that. is trying to figure out.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

It’s why I love the idea of the FailCon conference and hope to speak there one day. 33:15 Thank you to Detroit Venture Partners for supporting the show. 49:30 Steve: When’s the last time venture capital actually led an innovation? 1:03:15 Thank you to Scott Walker at Walker Corporate Law for supporting the show.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 2, 2014

TechZulu will be onsite streaming the most inspiring and innovative executives in Wearable, IOWT, government, gaming, health and fitness, and lifestyle industries to this year’s conference. Steven Holmes, VP of New Devices Group and GM of Smart Device Innovation, Intel Corporation. Casper De Clercq, Partner, Norwest Venture Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The overall trends in our industry have breathed a new life into the venture capital industry. Facebook went mainstream after the F8 conference and its big push beyond college campuses. Why is this?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2018

What's the best way to build a strong portfolio of technology companies, which tap into the broadest markets and avoids the "bubble" group-think of many venture firms? For this morning's interview, we sat down with Marlon Nichols , co-founder and Managing Partner of Los Angeles-based Cross Culture Ventures (crossculturevc.com).

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Radicle, a new accelerator fund focused on agricultural ventures, is launching today with plans to seed and nurture the next generation of agtech companies addressing global farming problems. The new accelerator will have locations in multiple states and around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Without risking all your life savings, you may find that corporate desk you have as an alternative is a lot more satisfying. Check Craigslist first, since most new ventures don’t have the money for executive search firms and the major job listing sites. Explore investor websites and conferences. Marty Zwilling.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 1, 2009

The 21st century will be full of great corporate challenges in this arena and the question of how to achieve innovation efficiently and how to sustain this innovation will be at the forefront. However, bringing life saving products to patients expeditiously remains a great challenge for medical device companies. See [link].

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

With a focus on female venture capitalists and founders, All Raise hosts an annual conference, several in-person and virtual fundraising workshops and networking sessions and, recently, the group began creating curated peer groups for investors. I think the movement is just gathering momentum. Scaling a nonprofit, startup style.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. Hedge funds, other public investors, corporates, etc. Upfront Ventures' Web Summit. Fortune Brainstorm. The non-conformist oath.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Venture capitalists have raised increasing amounts of money from their investors (LPs) every year. We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. .” Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

. “the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. I always encourage startups to seek a healthy balance of corporate revenue to balance their startup-company revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

Without risking all your life savings, you may find that corporate desk you have as an alternative is a lot more satisfying. Check Craigslist first, since most new ventures don’t have the money for executive search firms and the major job listing sites. Explore investor websites and conferences. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Ashley Bowling, Founding Member of NextGen Venture Partners. At NextGen Venture Partners, Ashley discovers and vets potential investments. Andrew Hong, Senior Manager at Daimler US’ M&A Technology and Venture Unit. Elizabeth Jennings, Principal, Global Analytics at Venture Atlas Labs.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2013

Naysayers will tell you SXSW has sold out with its long lines and big corporate branding, but there’s no arguing the city that keeps it weird still has an allure that keeps us coming back. Over 30,000 people registered for the conference this year, and that’s not counting those who descend on the city without a badge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Angel investors are still the lifeblood of early-stage startups, despite the surge of activity in crowdfunding and an increasing early interest from venture capitalists. Most viable startups are set up as C-corporations or Limited Liability Corporations, either of which can be done quickly and cheaply by the entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

And there’s none that makes me happier than to announce that Jordan Hudson has been promoted to a Principal at Upfront Ventures. What is a principal at a VC firm and how does it work at Upfront Ventures? Please help me congratulate him by Re/Tweeting this post (and following him if you don’t already).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer. Perhaps the best known new VC platforms of the last 10 years that are done on more modest scales are First Round Capital and True Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. Put it this way – Upfront Ventures spend on PR per year = $0. You need somebody who is thinking laterally about how to creatively get extra attention at conferences or trade-shows. I do it myself.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

Social Proof in Action … Yesterday I wrote about the benefits of using social proof and authority in raising venture capital. Leading breakout sessions at our annual conference – DreamForce. If you didn’t read that yet it might be worth having a quick skim as a primer. Heroes told our success stories, not us.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

We kept meeting at conferences over the next 18 months and he kept showing me what he was working on. I remain as childishly giddy at Nick’s vision as I did in our conference hangout we had in 2009. He travelled tirelessly to clients, data partners and to the UK to make sure the global organization was synchronized.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Its campuses, often featuring dramatic lobbies, community organic gardens, conference and event centers, restaurants, and collaboration spaces, have in many cases become centerpieces of the local innovation ecosystem. Alexandria already has its own venture arm, Alexandria Venture Investments, and is a co-founder of Accelerator Corp.,

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Venture Capital Startup San Diego Class 40

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2016

Under communicate - do not like to confer with or answer to the group. At your venture, the hunter is the rainmaker, in the form of a Business Development Executive, VP of Sales or Corporate Development Officer. At your venture, the Shaman is often the Founder. Driven to do right thing. Fast and furious. Indecisive.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

A new program to prepare high-ranking women in the biotech industry for corporate board seats has unveiled its first class of 20. Morgan conference in January. The training will focus on board-level problems such as fiduciary responsibility, corporate strategy, and legal liability, according to the organizers.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

As noted in Corporate Venturing , startups should pursue allies who have a vested interest in their success. Such revenue included membership fees, certification fees, non-recurring engineering charges (to integrate our technology with each member’s products) and User Conference fees. The same phenomenon is true for startups.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Still though, when founders are seeking funding, “ 75 percent of the venture capital goes to three states: Massachusetts, New York, and California,” said Steve Case in an interview with Recode. Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation (Fargo, ND). In fact, for the most part, all you need is a laptop and Wi-Fi connection.

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