socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2012

Los Angeles-based NationBuilder , a startup developing an online system to help political candidates and other organizations to create web sites, organize volunteers, coordinate campaigns, and more, said Thursday that it has raised $6.3M in a funding round. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). I'm a bit of an anti-VC, as you know. As a result, I really saw Visalus as a technology company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

We all like to think of startups as “non hierarchic&# organizations and to some extent that should be true. I never built a Google-sized business but I did build an organization from scratch that grew to 120 employees in 5 countries before we sold it. This applies to both founders and to VC’s that work with them.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Somehow in a world of rapid change Mark had been able to right his ship much faster than the highly bureaucratic organizations that places like Google, Yahoo! So Nick drove strategy & tech from the UK and remained an active board member and CTO of the company. and Microsoft had become.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

David Beisel puts it another way: Being an early hire at a startup gives an individual the ability to make tremendous impact on an organization as it grows – and both the founders and those hires should know it. How To Calculate Sweat Equity Startup Equity For Employees A VC: Employee Equity: How Much? the better the startup will be.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Your goal should be to turn your VCs into extended members of your team to get real value from them. Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. Ask your VC to send a critical email to a contact.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

As Steve Blank likes to say: A Startup Is a Temporary Organization Designed to Search for A Repeatable and Scalable Business Model The unfortunate reality is - an MVP is not the above! What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC? Great analysis from John Greathouse: Do You Speak VC? Investors demand more than that.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Scherzay was previously the CTO at CrowdGather, and also had founded social media software firm FavRav. For organizations that have subscription or recurring revenue, Thaeres is a billing system that fully automates the operations and administration of payment services. What is Thaeres about? Where did the service idea come from?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

People like Vinod Khosla, Keith Rabois, Brian Singerman, Marc Andreessen and others have all made head-scratching private comments to me that sounded so foreign to what I thought other people were doing in VC that they caused me to challenge and ultimately change some of my own views. Draw from Frameworks.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

The company was incorporated in January of 2004, and we provide outsource e-commerce services to organizations, such as brands and retailers. We started getting approached by venture capital and private equity, and we have eight figures in revenue. What's the background on Onestop Internet and what you do?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

At night I had a group dinner where I met 6 new entrepreneurs and hung out with some old friends from law firms, banks and other VC funds. Last time we met I didn’t have my CTO with me. Would it be alright if I brought her by your offices for a super quick coffee?” It’s hard to completely grok reading it.

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2016

Wearable IoT World (WIoTW), based in San Francisco and heralded as the world’s first accelerator dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), wearables and emerging technologies, today has officially launched the U.S.-Pan WIoTW’s executive office and WIoTW Labs will be opened at Cyberport in Hong Kong. Closing a round of USD 4.5

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

If they have a requirement in their organization, they'll share that with us, because they can't find a solution from either major vendors or startups which solves the problem. We have our own small seed fund, which we trigger to fund that company and hire a team, a CEO and a CTO. Also, we have a lot of corporate investors.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

We went out on the Android and Blackberry, and as we were going out to market, we realized that we could use that consumer launch as a proving ground for our technology, and leverage that to the B2B market. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. How is the company funded?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. So I was surprised at the sheer volumes of decisions that had to be made when I became a startup CEO.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

I’m planning on going to a Tech Coast Angels mixer tomorrow and the topic for me is whether there is angel funding out there for startups that don’t meet classic VC models. Do you need to get past the organizations to the individuals? If there are, then who are they, what are the criteria, what does it typically look like?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

He became a VC at London-based Benchmark Europe (now Balderton) and then CEO of Endemol, a large multibillion media company best known for creating & owning global franchises for Big Brother, Deal or No Deal and other unscripted television. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. billion deal to Disney.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

After my first Tweet with the Notorious mothafucka quote , I thought about my role as a VC and I Tweeted the following. And I spoke with the CTO of another great company I used to be on the board of and enlisted his support in potentially being an advisor to one company. It came from my weekend activities.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Greg Memo: I was most recently the general manager of the consumer business organization at Cisco, which developed the Linksys Router. My group ran that organization, all of Cisco''s connected consumer products, or what is usually termed as devices connected to the Internet. Explain the problem you are tackling more?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

. —Embodied, based in Pasadena, CA, and founded by USC computer science professors Paolo Pirjanian (the former iRobot CTO) and Maja Matarić, are developing robots to care for people.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. I need to take some VC meetings. I don’t care if you’re a 10-person organization, a 1,000 person organization or a multinational corporation – often it is the few key players that change the dimensions. Community Leaders + Organizers.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. In second venture - compared Salesforce.com vs. S3 - as platform. If you are building a VC backed company with large growth, too much risk to bank on salesforce. I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2013

He believed we had a weakness with his CTO. That’s how I see the role of a VC. organizations perceive a poor effort. and they don’t respect organizations that don’t fix them. The CTO had at-will employment with no notice period. This was not the first discussion I had had with the CEO. So I fight.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Zondigo, Inc.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. " Is Your VC Founder Friendly? Let's see why.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. While I agree that many VCs are crummy seed investors, I think there are some that are excellent seed investors. How it happens.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. I'm Tired of Creating Your Content - Babbling VC , November 12, 2010 Jeff triggered this post in regards to his Check-in Fatigue on Foursquare.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model. Today, there is still seed capital to be found, but you have to show the investors (especially very early stage investors) that you have a viable business. Many entrepreneurs have an idea but don’t know how to monetize it.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Zondigo, Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

The rise of the social enterprise and Chief Digital Officer – what it means for the CIO. The emerging “cloud focused” IT organizations, and the benefits they are able to obtain. He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

You want somebody who can raise $15 million to build out your R&D, business development and sales organizations. They often are very good at getting information out of people, helping create a framework for making decisions and pushing for support amongst the organization from those that back the decision and those that do not.

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Frank Addante

MAY 22, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. .

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Jake Wood serves as President of Team Rubicon , the organization he co-founded following the massive earthquake in Haiti. Capsule is an event planning and group sharing platform built to help anyone who is planning, attending, or organizing a trip, party, or event. Jameson Morris – Founder of Organic Soul and Conscious Box.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut.

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