Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Most associates need some entrepreneurial experience before actually making investments. Jordan joined us a couple of years ago from Fox Filmed Entertainment where he worked in corporate strategy and he previously had worked for GCA Savvian in investment banking. And we had to then build out new marketing materials and a website.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Today's contribution is from Alon Goren , the co-founder of Crowd Invest Summit and 805 Startups. Alon Goren: This year, my partners, Josef Holm (Krowdster), Darren Marble (CrowdfundX) and I started Crowd Invest Summit. Alon Goren is a Co-Founder of Crowd Invest Summit and 805 Startups. Alon Goren: Delegate!

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 29, 2009

Thursday, June 4, 2009 -- The Israel Conference. Join us for our first interactive forum to bring Israel-facing companies together to increase business and investment opportunities between Israel and California.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. With the advent of social media, customers have changed the way they work, play and buy, and businesses have had to change the way they market and sell. You'll actually feel it when it happens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. Due to the rapid growth of influencer marketing , influencer tracking systems, such as Traackr or Pixlee have emerged as reliable tools for brands that employ influencers to track conversions from their sponsorships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

As the rate of change continues to increase in business and technology, the more I’m convinced that marketing is the primary key to success for a new venture. Yet I find that many technical founders don’t feel they need it at all, or at best point to one person on the team who is marketing.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Things have already plunged so quickly at the signal of a recession that insiders fear a lengthy bear market could hit crypto far more brutally than expected — tearing tokens to lows far below the highs of the 2017 bull run. Crypto markets were down pretty bad last week (though admittedly, it’s only been downhill since then).

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2014

The 17th Annual Milken Institute Global Conference wrapped up last month at the luxurious Beverly Hilton Hotel. Education and Technology were also hot topics at the conference. Since its launch last year, BMe has identified and invested in over 70 leaders, helping over 130,000 people have a positive impact on their communities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2023

Even though many of these can be mitigated by testing and early customer feedback , you will find that it pays big dividends to do your homework before building and rolling out every new initiative: In today’s customer data overload, marketing is essential. Even more important than solution marketing is building your brand.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Instead, he''s one of the key angel investors in a new, crowdfunding site called Ramen , which launched this week at Calacanis'' Launch Conference, saying that it has raised a seed funding from Calacanis, Naval Ravikant (AngelList), and Matt Cutler, to bring its online crowdfunding service for software projects to market. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2019

. “Together we have a stronger financial profile than on our own, allowing us to continue to invest in growth opportunities,” Conroy said on a conference call Monday with financial analysts. ” In pre-market. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This morning, we have a contribution from investor and investment banker Peter Cowen of Sutton Capital Partners. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

When second place isn’t good enough because we live in winner-take-most markets. I see founders who think they can be at every conference, advise multiple companies, do side investments in angel deals, leave the office at 6pm and have a balance life. Leadership Tech Market Analysis' In fact, think about it.

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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. She, as well as several other, wonderful female investors, will be at our upcoming conference. Talk briefly about the conference you're running later this week?

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2013

the investment banking firm which got its start in Los Angeles focusing on high tech companies--and as a onetime venture capital investor--has exited the investment banking and advisory business, the firm said today. s roots as an investment firm. montgomery monty angeles investment banking' Montgomery & Co. ,

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

With multiple products on the market and many more coming, it’s easy to think that cancer immunotherapy has arrived. That’s why a mad dash is on to expand its reach, and a panel of experts invested in doing so pondered the major issues that lie ahead. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

This year, we're again sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Since the beginning, we've invested in a relationship management function within our organization, and we've always invested first in quality support.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2019

As we close out our contributions for the end of 2018, we have a contribution from investor and investment banker Peter Cowen of Sutton Capital Partners. One company that we have mentored, invested in and serve on the board of, is in lending and has hit a very exciting tipping point. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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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. billion investment in 2018.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 14, 2019

Morgan Healthcare Conference started out as a clubby get-together hosted by investment bank Hambrecht & Quist. Francis Hotel, says long-time conference attendee Joe Panetta, president and CEO of California’s Biocom, who returned this year for the 37th annual. The massive life sciences meeting now known as the J.P.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

We all see reports of venture capitalists who invest millions in new businesses, but be assured that these investments come only after you have a proven base business, and have a case for scaling it quickly. Pick a name, location, and marketing strategy early. The key is not to expect any magic or entitlement here.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Just like the sky scraping investment banks of Wall Street, the technology industry tends to be a sausage party. A Silicon Valley conference is a room full of suits, with the occasional skirt suite. able to sign up online and rent the car, with only $50,000 invested in the company, which went towards the website, database and beta car.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I’m more familiar with content marketing in B2B Marketing. Building relationships, partnering with social media experts on events (SBTwestival and 140 Conference Meetup), learning at events, building a following, testing any and all formats/venues, integrating social media into our radio show. Love the minis! Great posts.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd: Cross Campus is one of the companies I invested in, as the first, lead investor, about seven years ago. How is it that you're investing in a fund out of Israel connected with Tel Aviv University? I met david through a mutual friend of ours, before we started this conference three years ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But markets value high growth over short-term profitability. Where are we today?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Five-and-a-half years ago I first met Chamillionaire at a tech conference in LA. What Cham rarely tells people – he’s both private and humble – is that he started making some small co-investments with me in tech firms starting with Maker Studios where he was one of the earliest investors. They make a great pair.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. 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.” an investment in your company.

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Tech.Co

MAY 13, 2016

Looking to invest in the next Facebook? TECHSPO LA brings together developers, brands, marketers, technology providers, designers, innovators and evangelists looking to set the pace in our advanced world of technology. WHERE BUSINESS, TECH AND INNOVATION COLLIDE IN LA. Are you an early adopter of tech products? The Best Part?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I am fond of quoting that about 70% of my investment decision of an early-stage company is the team. My rationale is simple: everything goes wrong and only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. Final startup grind from msuster. figure out roles. and so forth.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Manatt Venture Funds, which we dedicate a specific portion of our funds to targeted digital media investments, is also part of the Manatt Digital Media network. We kind of feel like those are the markets that matter to digital media companies in the United States. More interest and money invested in LA. I mean we had our share.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

I had a chance to discuss AngelList Syndicates with Naval at Michael Kim’s Cendana LP/VC conference on a panel with Naval, Roger Ehrenberg (IA Ventures) and Mike Brown, Jr. AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. Less investments, more active.

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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

JULY 24, 2012

And over the past few years I had been egging him on from LA to get Cooley to take our market more seriously. I told him that our market was absolutely booming and was worthy of a commensurate investment. Invest they have. I told David, “Look at the changes we’ve seen in the VC / funding market.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2015

It’s no secret – digital marketing is the big brand battleground for most companies. Especially for small or medium-sized businesses, most of your time, effort, and potential reward are all going to be web-based, and getting your digital marketing strategy right is often a sink-or-swim proposition. Images via Shutterstock.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

I recently attended and presented at Dave McClure’s PreMoney conference in San Francisco. The only point we didn’t seem totally aligned on was what we happening to the “middle of the VC market.” He said that a16z prefers to invest earlier stage in these types of businesses. tl;dr version.

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