Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC? It may be the right answer for you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2010

As a startup entrepreneur you’ll have many demands for your time. Everyone will want you to speak at conferences. As a VC I struggle to say “no&# to meetings. Especially if you start to have a degree of success or build a high public profile. Service providers will want to get to know you.

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Startup Venture Capital Writing Conference 305

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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UCSD Startup Ideas Course 340

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. People attending marquee conferences with rock bands, prominent speakers, Gartner Group prognosticators and lots of other happy customers. It’s where the truly innovative separate themselves from the pack.

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

So it was my great pleasure to host Chamillionaire on This Week in VC this week talking marketing, entrepreneurship, old media and, of course, music. He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. He created demand.

Entrepreneur 356

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup Email 356

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Clearstone Venture Partners (www.clearstone.com). Venture Capital for Technology Innovators. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblog.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA. 50% Off Conference Passes for.

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Rustic Canyon Southern California Technology Council High Tech 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

Maybe this is reverse “hanging around the rim” where if you keep you VC process going long enough you’ll eventually get to “yes?” I once had a potential LP back in 2010 (when fund-raising as a VC was harder for me) tell me that he thought he was a better fit to look at our next fund rather than this one. I’d give it a bigger shot.

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Funding Software Review Entrepreneur Venture Capital 189

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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Demand SaaS Startup Sales 150

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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Marketing Course Pricing Networking 361

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. I know you’re a VC and we’re not ready for a large round – do you know any angels that might be interested in our space? I’m a partner at the largest VC fund in Southern California. Most are squandered.

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Startup Content Conference Media 315

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. However, our challenge is that there are not a lot of venture capital investors in Southern California. Thanks for the time this morning.

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2017

If you are approaching a recognized venture capital group, or even an accredited angel investor, a non-disclosure agreement is counter-productive. The same is true for strangers who may approach you at networking events or industry conferences. Don’t ask for an NDA from trusted investors and advisors. Prepare a high-level pitch.

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Technical Review Patents Ideas Social Media 61

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California. Opportunity #3 – There is Plenty of Capital for Great Team/Products.

Company 111

Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

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. percent of partners in traditional VC firms were women, Liftstream found.

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Training Class Organization Course 40

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

billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. 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%). He built & IPOd Demand Media. for $565 million to Excite.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Although, unlike Rocktr, Perez was on the prowl to raise a real seed round and was finding the Toronto venture capital scene a bit stale. 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. Same space, different spin.

Startup 109

Startup Incubator Seed Funding Platform 109

Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

Near the nation’s capital, Arlington, VA has a thriving startup community that supports female-led companies, startups in STEM, cyber security, defense, and everything in between aimed at improving the status quo.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Product Cloud Computing 70

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Not to mention the great weather, beaches, and beautiful people. He blogs here and tweets here.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jon Ferrara: I'd like to tell you a little story on how I scaled Goldmine in Canoga Park, bootstrapped with $5,000 without a dime of venture capital. We soon had Steve Ballmer doing his monkey dance at our conferences every year. How did you get involved with Microsoft? There were barely network applications at the time.

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Startup Canoga Park Email Google 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. I filled up with 20 people pretty quickly and realized this schedule was masochistic. He stated: “China is also courting trouble.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

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." Productivity.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I need to take some VC meetings. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

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 ‘lead gen’ model solely. 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.

Startup 56

Startup Incubator Seed Funding Platform 56

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. Rick Heitzmann.

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. Summary notes, as always, provide below. Overture (Goto.com).

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

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. I’m now a VC. So I attended a Red Herring conference in Laguna Niguel hanging out with Dharmesh Shah , James Citron , Rob Theis and others.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

As a VC it’s how I think through which markets will be attractive in the future, which ones I want to be in now and how the technology & business world will likely evolve. I spoke at the NextGen conference last week to a large audience. Creativity is what helps us think of our ideas in the first place.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million. Conferences. It isnt just Silicon Valley-based techies who are buying.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

If you were to run an analysis on me you’d find that I tend to follow a number of people in the VC industry as well as tech professionals. Every developer who builds on the Apple ecosystem bites their nails waiting for the annual WWDC conference to see whether their company is on the “kill list.” Or how about Google?

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Platform News Startup Invest 307