Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. That changed very quickly.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. We need to see a company which has already verified their use cases, has customers, has some form of revenue, or something that shows us that they can differentiate themselves, plus have the right team. Why not Los Angeles? Why not Silicon Beach?

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. A great leader knows customers and has direct relationships with them. He seemed to never care about fans (customers) who also were happy to let the door hit his butt on the way out. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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Startup Coach Course Invest 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. Tell us about that.

Startup 337

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). Or, as always, summary notes available below.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Frank Addante

JUNE 25, 2015

While she was attending San Diego State she started running, and she was so committed to it that she ultimately became an Olympian. Be grateful: Be grateful for your friends and family, be grateful to your teammates, be grateful to your customers and your clients, be grateful to your community.

Coach 40

Coach Startup Ideas UCLA 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 25, 2015

While she was attending San Diego State she started running, and she was so committed to it that she ultimately became an Olympian. Be grateful: Be grateful for your friends and family, be grateful to your teammates, be grateful to your customers and your clients, be grateful to your community.

Coach 40

Coach Startup Ideas UCLA 40

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. It sounds like a lot of this might be aimed at financial customers? Curtis Staker: It's certainly financial customers.

Technology 124

Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. In terms of the software, our student learning software, we're able to provide a very customized, personalized learning experience for students. Ramit Varma: I've been sort of in and out of the venture space since we started.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2011

So, one day Yotam and I were driving to San Diego and stuck in traffic and he asked how we could offer musicians the same sort of advertising services that I was used to using in my day job. He also produces and writes for a number of Los Angeles-based artists and he handles all things Rock and Pop. That’s a great thing.

Startup 80

Startup Design Advertising Search Engine Optimization 80

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. Dinners were consumed with customers or in hotels and often past 10pm. I flew from San Diego (where I was visiting for Thanksgiving) to New York to persuade investors to stick with us.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check. If you hit a groove on funding and customer growth it does become a challenge to ramp quickly. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. In our regions? Fuggetaboutit – show me the money !

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313