Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Community means more than supply and demand. Although the sharing economy isn’t really new, here are a few of the arenas that Stephany and I believe are still ripe for disruption: Education. With crowdfunding, entrepreneurs and artists no longer need to wait for family money or venture capital.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2015

Santa Monica-based TaskUs , the startup led by Bryce Maddock which is the secret weapon behind the rising tide of on-demand and Internet startups, has raised $15M in a funding round, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Phillipnes-based private equity investor Navegar. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Educational technology companies are augmenting the traditional educational system with their online coursework offerings, but they’re also creating a competing universe where students can find alternate learning experiences that may qualify them for a job, even if they don’t have an academic degree.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

He comes from a background in venture capital from inside and outside the Valley, as well as entrepreneurship work with startup efforts around the world. I second his list of top innovation challenges and strategies to capitalize on untapped global startup opportunities: Create new markets rather than disrupt existing ones.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. ” Climate resiliency .

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Community means more than supply and demand. Although the sharing economy isn’t really new, here are a few of the arenas that Stephany and I believe are still ripe for disruption: Education. With crowdfunding, entrepreneurs and artists no longer need to wait for family money or venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

I interviewed Eric for an hour for - This Week in Venture Capital. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 1:09:50 We need education! I find myself nodding – even when the topic is one I don’t expect to agree with such as “fail fast.” ” This week was no exception.

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2019

We started with just a few tents, and saw an immediate consumer demand, and we've grown steadily from there. Ross Richmond: This summer, we decided to seek investment, so we could grow and meet the consumer demand we were seeing. We went out and started interviewing different VC funds, and loved the experience we had with Science.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

The demand for our products and services is really high, unemployment is high, the need for new technology is high, as is the need to increase efficiency from businesses. Last year, we did fifty different educational programs, talking to on the order of 10,000 people in those fifty programs. Thanks for the time this morning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Yet you can never forget the seasonal business cash flow and activity demands that are approaching, so to be prepared – you need to start the planning now. Venture capital investments are returning to startups. Venture capital firms raised $4.1 Don’t let the demands of seasonal fluctuations spoil the party.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Yet despite billions in VC money and plenty of hype , the future that micromobility companies promised still hasn’t quite arrived. One study from 2021 found that e-scooter users in Paris are mainly men aged 18 to 29, have a high educational level, and usually jump on a scooter for travel time savings. million car trips.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

I take my hat off to people like Adam Miller , the CEO of LA-based Cornerstone on Demand, who started at the exact same time as I did (November 1999) and is still the CEO but now of a public company valued at around $2 billion. Its a big to-do list and one that demands someone experienced in operating at this sort of scale.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In Europe, Creaza was focused on offering an education product. Creaza still offers an education product, but WeVideo is a different venture. When asked if they were looking for funding Svendsen said the company is in talks with “some of the largest VC funds” in Silicon Valley, with a new funding round in the process.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. Online education. There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. Far from it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2015

Community means more than supply and demand. Although the sharing economy isn’t really new, here are a few of the arenas that Stephany and I believe are still ripe for disruption: Education. With crowdfunding, entrepreneurs and artists no longer need to wait for family money or venture capital.

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2014

There are several new things happening, including the maker movement, crowdfunding, and the democratization of innovation, which will mean more startups and more demand for manufacturing. It''s not going to look like manufacturing as we knew it. That makes local manufacturing relevant, particularly for smaller production runs.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire serves clients in a diverse array of industries, from automotive, education and entertainment, to finance, healthcare, marketing and real estate. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

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Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2018

The deal underscores the growing demand for software coding and other digital skills—and employers’ increased willingness to turn to non-traditional sources to find talent. The Adecco Group, the global staffing and worker training giant, has inked a $412.5

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The Quigley Report

MARCH 2, 2008

What they are really asking, I think, is "where do VCs get their inspiration about a deal or market space". In my opinion, most of what inspires a VC to get excited about a market comes from rumor, hear say and general media publications. Getting a VC educated about your market space is no easy task.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

.” On the tech side they’re focusing on building “customization around the care delivery experience” — which boils down to building a platform that serves the target female users with “the right education and fitness and exercise content”, as part of an overarching care delivery package.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, education, MBA. . The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . Josh Kaufman, The Personal MBA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2016

Community means more than supply and demand. Although the sharing economy isn’t really new, here are a few of the arenas that Stephany and I believe are still ripe for disruption: Education. With crowdfunding, entrepreneurs and artists no longer need to wait for family money or venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. university in math or science — instead of subsidizing their educations and then sending them home&#. Crazy, huh?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. Topics we discussed in the first 45 minutes of the video include: What is VC like in NY? We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

As a startup we have “ access to educated, entrepreneurial, machine learning talent,” Kaufhold said. Combine this with the increasingly active angel investment and venture capital communities and you’ll discover that Arlington is at the hub of an emerging startup ecosystem,” Wellman said.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

When this first ran on TechCrunch I got the greatest comment in the world that I had to repeat here, “VC’s are like martinis: the first is good, the second one great, and the third is a headache.&# I understand the appeal of having many VC firms on your cap table. In my second company I had only 1 investor. I love that.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Not to mention the great weather, beaches, and beautiful people. He blogs here and tweets here.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. Performance marketing also demands accountability. We met with a ton of VC’s and angels.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

It’s not only the publishers; writers need to be educated too. We are hoping to educate new writers. We have to educate everyone to make sure the terms are known and you can plan accordingly. They know everything about startups and know every VC contact in the world. You have Demand Media here. I’m the opposite.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand. Summary notes, as always, provide below.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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