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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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. I think there are two reasons for this: 1.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The business terms had been agreed between the business development officer of the investing company and our board, as both companies turned the details over to their respective attorneys for documentation.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 22, 2019

At our next event, the panel of Investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! Exhibitor passes include: - 3 tickets - Table top to display product / service - 4-minute speaking slot at the end of the normal 60- second pitches.

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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. Today's interview is with Jon Ferrara of Nimble (www.nimble.com), the maker of contact management software-as-a-service. How does customer service tie into all of this? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Santa Monica-based online advertising analytics firm Adomic has scored the top prize--and $160,000 in cash plus services--as part of the annual Siemer Silicon Beach Summit awards. startup award conference wavemaker siemer adomic' READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2014

Five startups have been named winners at the Siemer Summit , the tech confab which has been being held in Santa Monica for the past couple of days by local investment banking company and investor Siemer Ventures, highlighting some of the top startups in the region. TrueCar''s Scott Painter was also honored as part of the awards. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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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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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 18, 2018

[Email readers, continue here…] I was chairman of a company that had been offered an investment by a Fortune 500 company offering to make a strategic investment in our business, which would be capable of driving new demand to the large company through a series of new web services creating a greater need for the large company’s products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

Participate in trade shows and industry conferences. Trade shows and conferences can produce hundreds of new qualified leads for your business, as well as build relationships with industry leaders, outsourcing vendors, and potential partners. Be prepared to give away to participants something memorable that they actually want.

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Companies can no longer rely on standard network solutions, they need scalable infrastructure and business internet service that can meet rapidly escalating needs. Many are turning to Ethernet services to solve their local area network (LAN) needs. Unfortunately, not all Ethernet services are created equal. Start Local.

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Berkonomics

MAY 15, 2014

Each one of these terms includes aspects of fairness, ethics, law, business, entrepreneurship, psychology and investing. Angel investing today is similar to where venture capital investing was in the mid-1980s. As a result, there is tight agreement today on the form of VC term sheets and definitive investment agreements.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 16, 2017

The State of Digital Money is Los Angeles’ premier professional event and conference focused on the conversation of the evolving trends and emerging technologies disrupting the global financial system and worldwide transactions.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

PayDivvy , unveiled today at the Finovate Conference in San Francisco, was conceived a few years ago while Mike Melby was attending the Wharton School of Business. Bill pay aggregation software has been around for a few years now and is nothing revolutionary, but PayDivvy is not just an aggregation service.

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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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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The funding round came from Eric Schmidt via TomorrowVentures, ZIG Capital, Chris Burch via JCB Investments, Moore Venture Partners, La Jolla Holding Co., BUMP Network said its customers include large shopping malls and retailers, conference companies, medical services providers, sports companies, and others.

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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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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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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

million in pre-seed investment from investors including Liberty City Ventures, Digital Currency Group and Coinbase Ventures. Anita had the chance to attend the conference, so she’s back with some thoughts from the field: . NFT infrastructure startup NFTPort raised a $26 million Series A round led by Atomico. TC+ analysis.

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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. We think we're at the tip of the iceberg in the office-as-a-service concept. How is it that you're investing in a fund out of Israel connected with Tel Aviv University?

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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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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

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. In reality, however, we’ve only just begun to figure out how to coax the immune system into killing cancer.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The West Coast biannual AdAge Social TV conference took place in Beverly Hills earlier this week. The Walking Dead ” and “ New Girl ” were some examples mentioned during the conference. All casting for the show was done through Facebook, creating pre-show buzz and invested followers. They all gather different metrics.

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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. He previously held C-level roles at Overture Services/Yahoo!, RiverOne, Academy123, Bowne & Co and RR Donnelley & Sons.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. Many young startups are being advised not to have a professional services business and in my opinion this is a big mistake.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based IVT , a provider of web casting software and services, announced today that it has named Jim McGovern as its new CEO. IVT's services are used for webcasting investment conferences, training sessions, and other corporate events. McGovern replaces founder Greg Pulier, who is now CTO of the firm.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software , which develops software for the wireless industry, said late Tuesday evening that it is suspending its 2011 annual revenue guidance, and will withdraw from a investment conference this week, after it says orders from a "key customer" will fall below expected levels.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

How do you turn your software application into a fully operational, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), without investing a lot of time, programming resources, and money into the effort? Corent was named the 2012 Cloud Product of the Year at the High Tech Innovation Awards Conference. See [link].

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution. After leaving News Corp.,

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