The Skills Raises $5 Million for Online Sports Courses
L.A. Business Journal
DECEMBER 7, 2020
has raised $5 million in seed funding for a newly launched online sports education platform. Manhattan Beach startup Skills Annex Inc.
The Skills Scores $5M
socalTECH
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Los Angeles-based The Skills , a startup which operates an online education site where professional sports players teach different skills, said on Friday that it has raised $5M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Will Ventures, and also included Global Founders Capital, 8VC, Maveron, Hack VC, and Correlation VC.
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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Across more than 10 years we have kept the size of our Seed investments between $2–3.5 million, our Seed Funds mostly between $200–300 million and have delivered median ownerships of ~20% from the first check we write into a startup. discipline & focus. How Does the Industry Really Work? So it’s about 20%.
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Knowable Launches Audio Classes, Backed By $3.75M
socalTECH
OCTOBER 1, 2019
Los Angeles-based Knowable , which offers up paid, audio classes on a wide range of topics, said it launched on Tuesday morning, charging students $100 per student for access to a wide range of audio course on topics ranging from launching a startup to sleeping better at night.
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Chippmunk Raises $750,000 in Seed Funding for Scaling & Product Development
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 16, 2013
Delighted about the $750,000 seed round Chippmunk CEO Brian Nickerson said, “Our passion and commitment to incomparable UX is at the core of what drives our team and we will continue scaling and investing in the product.”. The post Chippmunk Raises $750,000 in Seed Funding for Scaling & Product Development appeared first on TechZulu.
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79 Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding
Tech Zulu Event
JUNE 15, 2015
million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. The post Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding appeared first on TechZulu. Santa-Monica based Tapiture has grown in traffic by 300%, monetized from year one and raised $2.25
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Understanding What’s Going on in #LATech
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
I wrote this overview of the LA Tech Ecosystem in December and on page 15 you’ll see a host of amazing VC firms at all stages from pre-seed through to early-B rounds. https://medium.com/media/3c33723f326245292958d4b055dfb424/href Today we learned that another great fund was announced — Fika Ventures. We love LA!
What Do LPs Think of the Venture Capital Markets for 2016?
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 1, 2016
With valuations rising fastest in late-stage venture and the competition that is well-known from corporate VCs, mutual funds, hedge funds (and even LPs), it is unsurprising that LPs are most concerned about late-stage VC. But of course, for every angle of the market where one person sees caution, another spots opportunities.
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The Changing Venture Landscape
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Of course we can’t. Seed has become an option factory for many. And as a result of this there are now very robust secondary markets where founders and seed-funds alike are selling down their ownership long before an ultimate exit.
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Kensh?, ‘the antithesis of Goop,’ launches a research-based guide to natural medicine
TechCrunch LA
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
million in seed funding from Crosscut, a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, and Female Founders Fund. Many, of course, are skeptical of natural care practices because they can be untested or dependent on unscientific principles. Berlincourt and Kensh?
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Pop-up Pantry Finds $1.7M In Funding
socalTECH
JULY 26, 2012
seed funding round, led by GRP Partners, CrossCut Ventures, Adam Goldenberg (JustFab), and Michel Daher (of Daher Foods). The startup, founded by David Hauslaib and Tom Balamaci, operates a subscription service which ships out three-course, frozen meals to people which have been developed by top chefs.
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Interview With Startup Boost, Matt Stodder and Blake Caldwell
socalTECH
APRIL 10, 2018
other companies, which are already off and running are ready for aceclerators and seed funding. We occupy the space in ecosystem to service companies who are getting ready for seed or have just started to go out for seed funding. Steve Blank teaches at Stanford business school, but he's open sourced the course.
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On Funding?—?Shots on Goal
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 27, 2021
On Funding?—?Shots Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing.
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5 Preconditions for Success in Spawning a New Venture
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Of course, someone with more operating experience may be brought in once the new venture has been successfully launched. Commit a source of internal or external seed funding. There is no point incubating an innovative new venture if you don’t have the funds to launch and expect quick self-sustaining revenue.
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143 What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
So super angel and seed funds are proliferating – As a result there has been an explosion in the number of amazing early-stage investors such as Softtech VC , Floodgate , Felicis Ventures , K9 Ventures , OATV , Lowercase Capital , Founder Collective , and many, many more. I have written more in depth on this topic in the past.
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Why You Don’t Want to Give Financial Information to All of Your Investors
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 9, 2014
We all know that funding markets have changed for startups. The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth. We all can intuit the benefits to founders of these trends so there’s little reason to elaborate. What is less understood are the consequences of these changes.
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How ProGuides Is Helping Gamers Master Their Game, With Sam Wang
socalTECH
JUNE 19, 2019
We have highly engaging courses, taught by professional players, and where you track your progress, driven by data, and which also features an on-demand marketplace to help you find any coach you want to help you improve your play on any game. After finishing a course, we've found they likely also want to find a coach.
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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry
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. .”
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Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?
SoCal CTO
APRIL 2, 2012
Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. Of course, there's still hard work to be done to as the bad news is that its hard finding good Web Development in Los Angeles and certainly its tough Finding Developers Here in Los Angeles.
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10 Ways To Get The Capital You Need For Your Startup
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 21, 2023
Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide.
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106 How to Out Amazon, Amazon
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. We of course all instinctively know when we see a brand that is well established what it stands for?—?Warby Here are some ideas of what I believe matters.
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10 Alternative Funding Sources For Your New Venture
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 29, 2020
Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide.
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To Be Successful You’ll Need to Shake Hands and Kiss Babies.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2012
I met with local seed fund investors like Mike Venerable who is the MD of CincyTech (a local seed stage fund), Tony Shipley who is a director of Queen City Angels as well as some local entrepreneurs including Blake Shipley of CoupSmart and Sameer Mungur of ZipScene. “But, ” OF COURSE! Of course they don’t.
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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts
SoCal CTO
MARCH 1, 2010
Of course, one of the best ideas around this is to have Negative Customer Acquisition Costs. Seed funding best practices - StartupCFO , February 11, 2010 Good post looking at seed funding which often doesn’t get quite as much attention. Great stuff.
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150 Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
Therefore of course they need to be more selection when writing checks and can’t spread their bets across 75 deals. million and tell the entrepreneur that they can bring in angels or seed funds for the remaining investment if they want. Of course the same goes with traditional VCs. This is what leads do.
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356 Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2014
In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. But of course it’s hard to advise people that they should do PR without a guide to how to do it on the cheap or how to do it at all.
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Seed and Later Investments for Startups are Booming
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 18, 2013
The number of startups getting seed funding in 2012 jumped by 65% over the previous year to a total of 1749, according to a recent report by CB Insights. Seed investments” are early stage financings (typically less than $1.5 This is great evidence that the recession drag on funding new startups is behind us.
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99 Interview with Fariborz Maseeh, Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition
socalTECH
OCTOBER 11, 2010
One of the attributes of this prize, is that USC is going to also conduct a business plan preparation and entrepreneurship course for the students. After the course, we're hoping that they will then come up with eight to ten different, professionally prepared business plans based on the original idea of the engineer or innovator.
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Welcoming the Newest Partner to Upfront Ventures
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 14, 2016
The reality is the best angels, the best seed funds and the best A-round investors have choices about whom they will refer deals to and are very selective. And of course it doesn’t hurt that Kevin is fluent in Mandarin. Of course as hard as we try we’re all guilty to some degree of this — it’s human nature.
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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2019
Of course everything could be replicated if a massive juggernaut like Amazon or Google wanted to pour all of their resources into it but I’m talking about technology that is hard to replicate, takes years of know-how and once adopted is significantly valuable. Of course the media doesn’t do nuance well so this is an emotional topic.
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Tech.Co Has Been Acquired by Global Digital Media Business
Tech.Co
JANUARY 15, 2018
The constantly changing media landscape is relentless, so our seed funding part-way through our journey from the Zappos leadership of Tony Hsieh and Fred Mossler via the downtown Las Vegas revitalization efforts of the Downtown Project was particularly helpful as we adjusted, and readjusted.
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175 Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 21, 2014
An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. Of course back then it literally was sold in a package and stored on a shelf! Venture capitalists have raised increasing amounts of money from their investors (LPs) every year. And importantly we’ve had revenue.
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Knowmia | Win Win for College Students, Parents & Teachers
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 16, 2012
In the Fall Knwomia promises to bring what it calls Mini-Courses; less than an hour teacher-curated video lessons with teacher comments and quizzes to measure students progress. Knowmia is a Y Combinator startup and is self and seed funded. The application is in public beta with additional features coming.
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69 10 Ways Entrepreneurs Find Money To Start A Business
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide.
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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers
TechCrunch LA
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
The company plans to give creators and influencers more independence from existing platforms by allowing them access to funding from a team well-versed in their unique capital needs. The program, called The EduCator Incubator, planned to seed 25 to 40 “emerging video creators” with $25,000 to $75,000 in seed funding.
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170 3 Signs Your Financial Projections Are Off
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 31, 2015
VCs are interested in funding companies with large potential markets…enough to provide them with a ten times return on their investment. Of course you want to show large numbers. And of course, make sure that they support the rest of your business plan. One way to do this is by presenting a top-down financial model only.
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40 What Future for Accelerators?
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 14, 2014
And then of course our friends at TechStars launched an accelerator in collaboration with our friends at Disney so now there was six. Jim raised another venture fund as did I at Upfront Ventures. Ok, we raised two more funds, but more on that soon. Between the group of us we were probably helping launch 75-100 companies / year.
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290 10 Tried-And-True Strategies For Funding New Ventures
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 25, 2016
Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide.
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107 Interview with Michael Wong, MergeLocal
socalTECH
JUNE 1, 2012
We had worked together for six years before starting MergeLocal, which came about on the golf course. Can you talk about how your company is funded? Michael Wong: We're with StartEngine, and have received a small amount of seed funding from them. We're also funding it out of pocket.
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Enrou: Combining Causes and Commerce To Help Improve The World
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
Ann Wang: Thanks to the recent Forbes competition, and a lot of momentum from that, we actually are opening up a round for seed funding in the next month or two. We''re now releasing a brand new look to our collection, with new stories and impacts and people, and of course amazing products.
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Do Less. More.
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.
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150 Let Me Count The Ways Entrepreneurs Fund Startups
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 12, 2014
Of course, every alternative has advantages and disadvantages, so any given one may not be available or attractive to you. For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide.
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113 Bad Notes on Venture Capital
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago.
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What is it Like to Negotiate a VC Round?
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 5, 2015
In the old days there usually weren’t convertible notes on early-stage deals and there weren’t party rounds with 20 angels or 6 seed funds. Of course investors care about controls (board, protective provisions, IP assignments, non-solicitation) but these are all pretty standard. Those are the big three.
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