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. billion investment in 2018.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Without the promise of riches or with reduced interest in blockchain-based exclusivity, where will consumer demand go? million in pre-seed investment from investors including Liberty City Ventures, Digital Currency Group and Coinbase Ventures. NFT infrastructure startup NFTPort raised a $26 million Series A round led by Atomico.

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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. There are large sums of money to be invested and if investors can get comfortable with “downside protections” they’ll still write checks.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

According to Marten, it was a demoralizing blow that would have spooked the investors, if MySQL had acquiesced to the US company's demands. They all invested. We took an investment of 2M Euros. Marten noted that a year after Oracle acquired InnoDB, MySQL made an unexpected announcement at their annual Users Conference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Even if a board member won’t work for equity, and demands a monthly stipend, the value of their contacts can easily make the difference between a successful rollout, versus an expensive pivot. At the very least, these board members extend your bandwidth to provide a presence at more industry events and networking conferences.

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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. At the end of 2013, we were excited when there was an investment round of $20M to $30M.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

This is true of any buying process where a customer has to make a large investment decision on your software or when an investor must decide whether to give you $5 million. Do they have authority to invest? you’ve at least gotten informed about the LA market for when you do ever want to invest? Do they have influence?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

They often create the biggest tensions between investors who are investing at different stages in the business. 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

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? New World is the investment firm of the Pritzker family, and they really have an understanding of this business. 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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Inventory your items with photos, store it in physical storage, demand back items when you wanted them and only what you wanted. One VC firm who decided to invest – High Peaks – liked the deal so much that one of their team members, Rahul Gandhi left to join MakeSpace! If you have storage, neither do you. Did she have it?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 9, 2010

I was chairman of a company that had been offered an investment by a Fortune 500 company making a strategic investment in our business, which was capable of driving new demand to the large company though a series of new web services creating a greater need for the large company’s products.

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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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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

To find scalable Ethernet services that can handle increasing demands as you grow, you need to evaluate providers and services on a specific criteria set that’s designed to accommodate growth. workers regularly participated in video conferences. As you scale, those demands will only increase. Start Local.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Thus entrepreneurs began building prototypes and designing new products without the traditional huge investment. Relationships are best built while working and learning together, rather than over drinks at a mixer or industry conference. Meet the new consumer demand for customization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pick your niche, and continually invest in improving your expertise and keeping up with trends. Today, customers and future managers put a higher value on relationships, and expect to know you from industry conferences, social media, or recommendations from peers. Build relationships to attract future business or roles.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. If you don’t believe in your bones that you’re amazing then it’s no wonder you don’t want to sell them on making the investment.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The question is how we develop our future role and potential, while satisfying all the business and personal demands on our time today. Only you know your strengths and learning preferences, from jobs, conferences, books, websites, and videos. Make the investment. Learn from peer relationships, examples, and feedback.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject. Siemer & Associates runs its annual conference next week to delve into the same topics.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Announcing that you are a consultant, and hoping demand will set your focus, is not a good strategy. In addition to relationships, today’s clients want to see you and your expertise on videos online, industry conferences, and social media to feel the trust for differentiation. Shape your business by design, not by default.

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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. Did you take investment initially? Fundraising was something we just weren't investing in.

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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. The discussion came to a boil earlier this year after a small New York investment bank hired scantily-clad women to attend its cocktail party at the J.P.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Without further adieu, I present to you the winners of the 1st annual REACH NeXT conference: Entertainment: Storygami. EnvoyNow is innovating in the on-demand food delivery space, targeting the underserved college market. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat. Greg has led Series A investments in tech-based enterprises.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

That was primarily driven by the economy; when the economy is down, investments are down, and it is increasingly difficult to d a startup. 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. It's been kind of lean.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” He built & IPOd Demand Media. ” Or if you ask the venerable Greg Bettinelli, he’s #LongLA.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments. 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.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

This year at CES 2018 Eureka Park, the mega startup hub of the conference, the hottest early-stage startups from around the world will showcase their products and services aimed at disrupting their respective industries.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

They typically don't invest in companies that are in the startup phase. We soon had Steve Ballmer doing his monkey dance at our conferences every year. Tell us a bit about what you're hoping to do there? Instead, they really focus on companies that have between $2M to $10M in revenues, and have already raised between $8 and $15M.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Technology wise, we've got our own engineering expertise, and we've built our own video softphone with HD video--which we have in alpha--for HD videoconferencing on a standard CPU, as opposed to the extremely expensive, $20,000 systems that exist now in corporate conference rooms.

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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. That says a lot about what's happening in LA, in terms of the investment scene.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

His main company Providence Holdings has invested in real estate and several small businesses. In November 2011 I was honored at the White House as an Empact100 recipient and participated in the FEE Summit conference (Now Empact Summit). Who are the founders/ background? He attended The Ohio State University where he studied business.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . Richard Rosenblatt. Leila Chirayath Janah. . Dave McClure. . Rick Heitzmann.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2019

As a startup, you need to build a large customer base quickly, as Airbnb did with social media work around oversubscribed big-city conferences. Uber and Airbnb managed to remain “under the radar” of the giants by snatching up excess demand until they had their own foothold in the market. Hit competitors where they are vulnerable.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. because every community needs its local tech press to report on companies and run conference. I prefer not to do any angel investments because I focus on my VC funds but it was gratifying to write some small checks to support local teams.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. I spoke at the NextGen conference last week to a large audience.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. The 99% conference is aimed at creative professionals and is focused on Edison's "99% perspiration." The sunk costs trap.

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