socalTECH

MAY 23, 2011

Unsocial said it has created a new, location-based business networking tool which allow users to find and network with other people, in real time, at conferences. Amount of the funding was not announced. The firm said it is preparing for a Series A, and is using the new seed funding to expand its functionality.

Seed Funding 154

Seed Funding Conference Networking Los Angeles 154

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.

Capital 124

Capital Southern California SaaS SoCal 124

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2019

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, which we co-host every year. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

Capital 113

Capital Southern California Technical Review SaaS 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

Organization 92

Organization Incubator Startup Resource 92

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?

Santa Monica 211

Santa Monica Seed Funding Startup Conference 211

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

Resource 159

Resource Startup Incubator Seed Funding 159

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

” The new narrative is “will my seed funds be able to fund the prorata of their winners?” ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m Seed funds now represent 67% of all funds being created now, which is up 100% from 6 years ago. The iPhone was released.

Venture Capital 398

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Seed Funding 398

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Molecule , a platform where DAOs can back medical research projects, secured $13 million in seed funding led by Northpond Ventures. Metaverse play-and-earn company Atmos Labs brought in $11 million in a seed round led by Sfermion. Anita had the chance to attend the conference, so she’s back with some thoughts from the field: .

Newsletter 278

Newsletter Platform Capital Marketing 278

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

So my simple advice is to start PR as early as possible (and certainly earlier than most of your investors will advise) when you have your head around your product plans and are well into execution (or ready to launch) precisely because your recruiting, seed funding and initial user base may depend on it. I raised a small seed round.

Press 319

Press Startup Writing Training 319

Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

Jen Consalvo and I expanded the national footprint of events, hosted conferences and festivals, created monthly leadership summits, hosted an interactive educational speaker series, wrote a book, and launched a daily news and resource platform with a new brand – Tech.Co.

Media 175

Media News Organization Content 175

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

Incubator 87

Incubator Startup Resource Seed Funding 87

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. But with the massive growth of seed funds being raised and the huge value increase of prorata rights many more LPs have stepped in to take their VC (industry term is GP) position.

Guide 336

Guide Venture Capital Startup Writing 336

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

Incubator 106

Incubator Startup Help Resource 106

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.

Marketing 354

Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I told David, “Look at the changes we’ve seen in the VC / funding market. The whole movement to seed funds / early investments happened for a reason. He was the guy I wanted but couldn’t afford. This post is not an ad for Cooley nor for any of the fine professionals I’ve talked about in this post.

Venture Capital 299

Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

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. That means if we collaborated on a project we can do an A-Round after a brief conference call.” Must be doing something right! Bowery Capital).

Venture Capital 356

Venture Capital Invest Course Technical Review 356

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

Incubator 98

Incubator Startup Help Resource 98

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

With top-ranked accelerators Lauchpad LA closing its doors and Y Combinator rebranding itself as a seed fund, it seems fair to ask the question, “Are Accelerators Dead?”. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Good news: a quick review of TechCrunch’s March 2015 List of Top 20 U.S.

Startup 100

Startup Class LAMP Santa Barbara 100

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. As I toured, he even went on to explain some of the seed funding he does along with incubation.

Startup 109

Startup Incubator Seed Funding Platform 109

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There are so many events to attend that one could become a full time conference attendee and you could easily feel like you’re missing out with each event that happens without you and of course there is Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat to remind you just how fun it was for everybody else. For investors life is no different.

Software Review 150

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Invest 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It’s very easy in venture capital when you’ve seen thousands of companies have read thousands of decks and spreadsheets and been to numerous conferences and exchanged ideas with other investors and entrepreneurs to feel like “you know better” and that’s precisely what we try to encourage Team Upfront not to feel or how not to behave.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Startup Invest Course 150

Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

Jen Consalvo and I expanded the national footprint of events, hosted conferences and festivals, created monthly leadership summits, hosted an interactive educational speaker series, wrote a book, and launched a daily news and resource platform with a new brand – Tech.Co.

Media 70

Media News Organization Content 70

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Its campuses, often featuring dramatic lobbies, community organic gardens, conference and event centers, restaurants, and collaboration spaces, have in many cases become centerpieces of the local innovation ecosystem. Our campuses also provide great world-class conference facilities, and we also do a lot of hands-on mentoring.

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Startup San Diego Class 40

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2009

At the LeWeb conference, German startup Club Cooee showed off its desktop 3D instant messaging service as part of the Microsoft BizSpark program. Club Cooee was founded in 2007, and has received an undisclosed round of seed funding from Aurelia Private Equity. We'd like to see these options added in the future.

Seed Funding 40

Seed Funding Social Media Conference Equity 40

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 ‘lead gen’ model solely. I met the team briefly while on the facility tour with Nasser.

Startup 56

Startup Incubator Seed Funding Platform 56

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

They might put the kibosh on company travel and not attend some key meetings or conferences. The sh** or get off the proverbial pot judgment calls and the answer isn’t always “let’s fund.&# I had a friend recently call me who had been offered a pier from his VC. They might not replace an engineer or two that quits.

Startup 290

Startup Funding Venture Capital Pricing 290

Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

This weekend, much of academia and industry involved in cancer will gather in Chicago for the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology conference. million in seed funding from RA Capital Management and others to help sell a liquid formula for infants to help prevent the onset of peanut allergies.

San Diego 62

San Diego Patents Acquisition News 62

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?

Mentor 94

Mentor Platform Social Network Chief Technology Officer 94

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

So far at the company I have raised seed funds of $500,000 of which $470,000 is still in the bank so I’m in pretty good shape. A gentleman had stopped by our booth multiple times and then wrote me immediately after the conference and said that I “HAD to come and meet with his partners the very next week.” After Office 2.0

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Every industry organization has regular local meetings and annual conferences for education purposes and bringing the right people together. If you will need to supplement your own funds and assets for your business, don’t wait for a crisis to enlist family, friends, angel investors, or start a crowdfunding campaign.

Startup 114

Startup Tips Coach Satisfaction 114

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2015

Crosscut Ventures has just announced their 3rd fund and clocking in at $75 million , which will be focused heavily on Los Angeles – FTW. The threesome has the perfect mixture of backgrounds to launch a seed fund. They had only one problem. But that was so 2008.

News 150

News Funding Venture Capital Dollar Shave Club 150

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. When your favorite angel or seed fund sends you their next deal why not try my line, “I’d love to work on a deal with you. It’s exhausting.

Startup 317

Startup Technical Review Venture Capital Email 317

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Paul Graham on trends for the future - Business of Software Blog , August 25, 2010 Paul Graham spoke at last year's Business of Software conference. The expanding pool of angel, seed, and super seed funds is another. Say you want some code that does X. Want to be Mercenary? There are several reasons for this.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

I spoke last week at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference. Again, on the surface of things I know this sounds wonderful to entrepreneurs and of course I read all the the tropes about “how VC is dead” and is going to be replaced by a roving band of altruistic former founders sprinkling funding dust on startups.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Pricing Platform Marketing 150