Berkonomics

MAY 15, 2014

During those times, VCs had lots of conferences where thought leaders gathered to discuss term sheets, deal structures and fund strategies. His Strategic Exits Corporation provides M&A advisory services, and he is much in demand as a speaker at angel and entrepreneur events worldwide. . Raising money'

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference. He is the co-founder of the Recurring Revenue Conference, the largest SoCal tech event focused on innovative business models.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

.” This historical look at Uber and its self-driving tech unit, Uber ATG, should be considered alongside more recent news, including that it’s in negotiations with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, to secure an investment as large as $1 billion for its autonomous vehicles unit. Deal of the week. Megan Rose Dickey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In my experience as an angel investor for new startups, I’m always surprised by how many entrepreneurs are looking for funding without outside advisors. At the very least, these board members extend your bandwidth to provide a presence at more industry events and networking conferences. Bandwidth is a constraint we all feel.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Other companies have only seen a slight decline and may be expecting demand to return to normalcy later in the year. The reality is that when unemployment sinks in demand is likely to get worse. Seed deals, for example, are easier to get funded than a late-stage deal for obvious reasons. That may happen. But I doubt it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2011

I’ve written about this before, but I was surprised again recently at a conference for startups when a couple of entrepreneurs started berating investors for their low rate of funding for early-stage startups. But demanding benefits that sink the company is not the answer. And like water or food, it isn’t free.

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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? The firm just announced its seed funding round, from the founders of Groupon as other last week, and has launched into Chicago as its latest market. Tell us a bit about this seed funding?

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

A large US company filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against MySQL while the company was in the midst of raising its first round of funding. According to Marten, it was a demoralizing blow that would have spooked the investors, if MySQL had acquiesced to the US company's demands. We forced them up on stage to receive the prize.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. Prorata investments rights given investors the right to invest in your future fund-raising rounds and maintain their ownership % in your company as your company grows and raises more capital.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

Demand Media hosted a welcoming opening party at the Vicerory, and Media Temple organized an amazing closing party at Cross Campus with aerialists, DJ, interactive displays - and people are still talking about the delicious food. What was your biggest lesson learned this year?

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Cornerstone OnDemand Belkin Entertainment Newsletter 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

I take my hat off to people like Adam Miller , the CEO of LA-based Cornerstone on Demand, who started at the exact same time as I did (November 1999) and is still the CEO but now of a public company valued at around $2 billion. Its a big to-do list and one that demands someone experienced in operating at this sort of scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. Tapping into global markets – There are talented people in the world who can’t earn a “global market rate” for their services but when you open them up to global demand – boom!

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, I met the infamous @jeffpulver, co-founder of Vonage, author of the Pulver Order , and creator of the #140 Conference (the premier conference on Twitter and the real-time Internet.) About a month ago, I met @lewishowes at the Perfect Pitch conference in LA. The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2013

I’ve written about this before, but I was surprised again recently at a conference for startups when a couple of entrepreneurs started berating investors for their low rate of funding for early-stage startups. It sounded to investors like me that they expected a funding entitlement for their startup idea. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. People attending marquee conferences with rock bands, prominent speakers, Gartner Group prognosticators and lots of other happy customers. Venture capitalists have raised increasing amounts of money from their investors (LPs) every year.

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2014

I’ve written about this before, but I was reminded again a while back at a conference for startups when an entrepreneur started berating investors for not funding early-stage startups. It sounded to investors like me that they felt a funding entitlement for their startup idea. And like water or food, it isn’t free.

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Startup Entrepreneur Satisfaction Custom 96

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. How does it work? Take us through your features?

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Web USC Course Guide 93

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

It starts in a crowded room at a conference or networking event. My partner was in product management at Demand Media. Not Acceptable : Can you please check out my website and let me know your thoughts (yes, I get asked this ALL THE TIME at conferences). I’m a partner at the largest VC fund in Southern California.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

We started focusing on that, and at the time we were doing only phone verification, but then we started adding in data analytics because of customer demand, we added in some other things like straight messaging rather than pin codes. So you were able to fund your growth just from customer? What were you doing before?

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Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

But the “Boardroom Ready” program, as it’s called, is the result of widespread demand for action to break biotech’s glass ceiling. Morgan conference in January. The bank, LifeSci Advisors, is looking to pay penance by helping fund the training program. (But

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Yet you can run a conference and mint money. If it’s well run, people readily pay for conferences and sponsors readily pay to become platinum, gold or silver sponsors. Tech blogs can theoretically scale, tech conferences are pure service businesses. In fact, that’s all that I fund as a VC.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

From NetZero, I went to Demand Media, where I was EVP of IT. Then, two years ago, I went to my first Bitcoin event and conference, and frankly�sorry, Dawn�that I had found my first love again. There are people who are looking for ways to be able to get to someone else's funds. Our wallet name is only used to route funds.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. In addition to his leadership position with EdgeCast, Alex is a partner in several venture capital funds, and a board member of numerous companies including Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW). Alex Kazerani.

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SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.” He built & IPOd Demand Media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2012

I’ve written about this before, but I was surprised again recently at a conference for startups when a couple of entrepreneurs started berating investors for their low rate of funding for early-stage startups. It sounded to investors like me that they expected a funding entitlement for their startup idea.

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Startup Satisfaction Custom Customer 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was attending a major industry conference in Barcelona at the height of the WAP excitement. I was on stage in front of several hundreds of conference attendees. So I attended a Red Herring conference in Laguna Niguel hanging out with Dharmesh Shah , James Citron , Rob Theis and others. Kleiner Perkins launches an iFund.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Jason Nazar: Legal contracts, business forms and templates, conference presentations, financial models, research reports, any kind of professional content that you have which you use on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. There is a huge demand from people, who have gone there to buy products. It's the eBay of professional documents.

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Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Siemer & Associates runs its annual conference next week to delve into the same topics. I think that the market was, however, hotter two years ago, when companies were buying more aggressively, and there was lots of pent-up demand. There''s tons of activity, and lots of companies getting funded.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. And when I say this I don’t mean they funded billion dollar companies – they literally created them. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. Overture (Goto.com).

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Available seed funding, check; another one down for the startup ecosystem checklist. He spoke of his competitors to the South and a recent visit to Las Vegas to a ‘lead gen conference,’ which made him wary of the space. We had so much demand that we had to shut down the office for a week and draw shitty avatars.

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Startup Incubator Seed Funding Platform 109

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

In November 2011 I was honored at the White House as an Empact100 recipient and participated in the FEE Summit conference (Now Empact Summit). Any funding yet? We have received seed funding from a friend and it is personally funded. What Inspired You? That’s cool! What is your business model? They are all right!

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Available seed funding, check; another one down for the startup ecosystem checklist. Although, unlike Rocketr, Perez is on the prowl to raise a non-government funded seed round. Perez returned from the conference with a fresh idea to solving problems in the contractor industry and is building a new platform to expand with.

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Startup Incubator Seed Funding Platform 56

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. If there were more great companies coming out of LA then it would create more demand for high quality VC firms. It’s a chicken and egg problem. But there are also less great companies in LA, BECAUSE there is less access to sophisticated capital.

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Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

So, I came back into the ecosystem, started attending the game and developer conferences, and really started asking the hard questions to executives in the industry, and figuring out where the underserved areas were in the industry. This bigger calling came back to me, and I say�hey, what are you doing with your life Jon?

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

The demand for our products and services is really high, unemployment is high, the need for new technology is high, as is the need to increase efficiency from businesses. If you get ten companies funded and going, those ten companies might hire ten new employees, creating a total of a hundred jobs. Thanks for the time this morning.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. It’s been my experience that the more focused and intimate events far ‘out-perform’ (however you’d like to characterize it) the mega-conferences.

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