socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

We caught up with Julie Schoenfeld , the firm's CEO, to hear about how the firm's offerings have evolved, an interesting comparison of the firm's software to what Demand Media is doing, and what this new funding will go towards. It's some of the kinds of things Demand Media does, except, for the newsroom. Congrats on funding.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

“As content production continues to accelerate across the globe, visual effects studios are increasingly turning towards the cloud to keep up with demand for high-quality content,” writes Google product manager Todd Prives in today’s announcement.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Profile Blurbs and Writing Prompts Let’s look at our job matching site in more detail. An empty textbox, demanding to be filled with a concise, compelling summary to impress potential employers is daunting. This gives Mark more control over the process, without requiring him to write much, and gives the LLM more to work with.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

All of that charging infrastructure and grid upgrades are in part designed to help meet the increased power demands that the proposal expects to bring onto the grid through another $25 billion in government funding for electric vehicles of all types. There’s $25 billion in money set aside for public transit and $12.5

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 2, 2020

As Mucker Capital co-founder Hsu writes, “There are far more great companies than there are venture dollars here in LA. The need to reduce people in warehouses has propelled demand for robotics/automation for companies like inVia Robotics and the need for remote monitoring has helped LA-based DroneBase.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Yesterday I saw a Tweet from Chris Sacca fly by that prompted me to want to write a blog post helping entrepreneurs understand why they should push back against VCs asking for “super pro-rata” rights. They might own 8% of your company after the first funding but demand up to 33-50% of your next round of financing.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

Quarterly--which currently has closed its subscription services "due to high demand", delivers interesting gifts to people every three months, based on the style and whims of "cultural icons" users decide to follow. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 12, 2014

For starters some funds are small and thus while they put $750k into your company to own 10% of your company they might not be able to write another $2 million if you then raise a $20 million round (10%). New investors sometimes want older investors NOT to participate so that the new investor can take more of the round.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2019

Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter rental startup Bird has backed off on legal threats against a local, LA journalist, Cory Doctorow, after widespread outroar over what was perceived as a censorship threat , saying that the company's legal team "overreached" in issuing a takedown letter.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

In the words of my friend and a CEO with whom I work, “Yeah, I know I need to make some cuts because our demand has changed, but I want to do this with a scalpel and not with an axe.” He showed industries where demand was likely to hold strong and he outlined a case for how he could protect as many jobs as possible. you should do it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2010

As a startup entrepreneur you’ll have many demands for your time. “Thank you for writing to me – it’s nice to hear from you (or meet you) via email. Especially if you start to have a degree of success or build a high public profile. Everyone will want you to speak at conferences.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. I’ve been involved with SaaS companies with VCs who don’t understand demand generation, lead qualification, sales coverage ratios, sales forecasting or frankly when deals should be inside sales vs. outside sales.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

Santa Monica-based eHow, an online "how to" site owned by Demand Media, said Wednesday that the firm is seeing an increase in economy and personal finance related articles, due to the economy. Demand Media is the well funded Internet media venture of former Intermix CEO and MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2013

Well, a down round is even more complicated than having no demand for your investment round. They should either believe in you and your business or not, but I promise you I’ve seen this type of behavior repeatedly over the past 15 years. And what’s worse than being under-subscribed? A down round. That’s why.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

So VCs started writing some smaller A-rounds. Entrepreneurs started demanding that VCs call their first-round financings “seed” rounds even if they were $3 million. If you''re newer to VC math here''s a great primer]. If you want a great primer on how the VC and startup funding scene changed here’s a great primer.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

What does the role demand? Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? Increasing competitive advantage? The answer is: it depends. The role of a CTO varies as the company matures.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. Will these norms change? 36:30 Eric: Social media is great for people with social capital. 38:00 Should you use avatars? 40:05 What happened after Imvu. 42:20 Did agile development influence you? 46:18 iOS Vs. Android.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. As an early stage investor you’re often planning around 10x your investment at the time your write your first check so in this case you’d be going into your investment expecting an exit of $800 – $1.2

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Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

This risk can be mitigated by finding a customer willing to purchase as soon as a proven model is completed, and willing to state this in writing. Will the public respond in numbers to buy, license or rent your offering?

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2014

Securing a meeting with Adam Cheyer was no insignificant feat, given the ceaseless demands on his time and the number of entrepreneurs who would welcome a chance to chat with him. Adam worked with different teams in each venture and only focused projects that demanded his particular skill set. Meeting Adam Cheyer. Benedikt Scholz.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

I thought I’d write a post about how to talk about valuation at a startup and give you some sense of what might be on the mind of the person considering funding you. How you talk about valuation will of course depend on how well your business is performing and how much demand you have from other investors. Want to read more?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Was there consumer demand? No brainer.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The WD Blue offers capacities of 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB, and are performance driven, with 545MB/s and 525MB/s sequential read and write speeds. Western Digital said the branded drives come due to "significant demand" from its resellers and consumers for flash-based storage. The drives start at $79.00. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So the goal should be to have some formats that require talent who have become large in their own right and can demand rev shares of 70-90%. I would argue that the strongest visionaries have been TasteMade, who were originally running video at Demand Media. To produce content that people want to watch takes unique skills: Writing.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 18, 2013

In order to extract value beyond your Angel investors' cash, you must first assess three important parameters: (i) the relative strength of their personal brand, (ii) their ability to add operational value, and (iii) the amount of care and feeding they will demand from you.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

For those who still don’t know the origins, the Harlem Shake started as a small skit from a YouTuber named Filthy Frank (10 million views as of this writing) on January 30, 2013. As of this writing nearly 50,000 versions have been created and uploaded and watched by some 200,000,000 people. Harlem Shake. million views).

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APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2018

If you don’t act in demand, people will subconsciously know you’re not in demand. This is part of a series I’ve been writing on fund raising. Investors are human and humans want what they can’t have and what they perceive other people want. It’s human nature?—? just read Cialdini and others on this topic. it will go a long way.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I do not often write blog entries which reference other blog articles. However, I recently came across a truly delightful post entitled, Jeffrey Aaronson’s Improbable Journey with Steve Jobs, the Guy Who Changed His World (and Ours). Image source: ©Jeffrey Aaronson.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

All Raise chief executive officer Pam Kostka, who joined the business earlier this year, says demand for an All Raise presence in local geographies continues to increase: “Women are hungry for the support and guidance we provide,” Kostka tells TechCrunch. “I I think the movement is just gathering momentum. “We

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 17, 2020

. “As Impact continues to evolve the way that global talent is discovered, projects are developed and how the creative industry connects, this partnership demonstrates both companies’ commitment to improving the development system in order to generate more original, quality IP to meet the growing demand.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. Mo’s other degree was English, mine was Political Science. Total raised: $129.0mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

VCs have also gone back to writing checks because as an industry we can’t be seen as “sitting on the sidelines” for years at a time. The government had a tax incentive for first-time buyers that expired April 30 th , which many people believe “pulled forward” demand rather than improved the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

Thus you end up with Demand Media that booms until Google algorithm changes (Panda) changes send it off a cliff along with many other companies overly reliant upon one “place” and one “promotional” method. Simply write a great book? If you have NO network of promotion for your story?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2020

Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification. But if you are looking for investors, team members, and demanding customers, it helps to understand what their biases might be in committing to and helping the ideal partner. Creating a new business means tackling one difficult problem after another, until success suddenly appears.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

As a teenager he experimented with writing & producing his own rap music and received a lot of feedback from elders that he had a talent with words. He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. He created demand.

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