Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. with the clips.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. even if it’s just a web conference call walk through. If a VC “ghosts you” (i.e. I wrote about it here. Sometimes?—?best

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Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. We track and record every call, email, post and tweet and we constantly bring our sponsors into the mix to share in the exposure.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

. “Let us come together and celebrate…” The mashup theme was reflected in the SBF programming, which included panels highlighting accelerators, VCs, startups, developers, movies, TV, music, web content, art, fashion, social good, surf & skate, and more. Demo Day / Angel Pitch. Tons of info and tons of fun!”

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. to actionable user feedback, "Just went through the demo. You definitely have a nice start. Hacker Downside. Share and Enjoy.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. Mobile Web America, Inc. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. Crowd Seats is the only Group Buying/Daily Deals site for sports fans. Price: $25 (Early Bird).

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

We spoke to Daryl about the firm, the founders, and their use of Amazon Web Services as its back end. The system also does the sometime annoying job of tracking down parties, and follows up automatically via email, and finds people where they are. It looks like you're using Amazon Web Services heavily in the service?

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Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then). People+ , developed by 3-person startup (Pro Populi, Inc.) pulls assumably free and public data from the CrunchBase database to provide a mobile accessible directory of contacts and company info.

Technical Review 74

Technical Review Startup Software Review Google 74

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2011

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Tech Coast Angels Southern California Los Angeles Santa Monica 80

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. 8:00 – 8:25pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. Leveraging mobile application and online platform. View Larger Map.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. What: A Startup Demo event. The Sponsors. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

7:10 – 8:00pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company (approx. Critique^It is peer-review without barriers—feedback without managing emails, commentary and document versions. daqri is an augmented reality and mobile web content publishing platform that utilizes QR codes to deliver content.

CalTech 100

CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Alex Quilici. gigaom.com. . Paul Grahm.

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

7:10 – 8:00pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company (approx. daqri is an augmented reality and mobile web content publishing platform that utilizes QR codes to deliver content. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. What: Spotlight Series Event.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

7:10 – 8:00pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. What: Spotlight Series Event. Price: $15 (Early Bird). RSVP: AGENDA.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

The first couple of weeks, we were almost like a startup--getting things set up, infrastructure, email, and also doing lots of networking to get back in touch with the guys I've worked with in Southern California. Are you now out looking for opportunities, and are you seeing any good ones?

Southern California 113

Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Just a month ago they were all email you! There are moments like being on stage when your demo crashes, reading about your competitors raising a ton of cash or having one of your top team members resign that test your will. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Team losing a bit of confidence in you.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 384

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It seems the focus on “virtual&# goods has been both the demo of the consumer as well as the fact that by definition virtual goods have almost no marginal costs to the seller so giving a huge slice to the carrier (and Zong) isn’t a problem since actual costs are ~ $0. It’s a hot but still relatively nascent market area.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Groups rehearsed in every way possible, making sure their presentation covered the Problem, the Solution, How it makes Money along with showing off a killer demo. Also we would like to thank our global sponsors: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Ven Corps, Twilio, Vertical Response, oDesk, Elance and OpenTok.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Just a month ago they were all email you! There are moments like being on stage when your demo crashes, reading about your competitors raising a ton of cash or having one of your top team members resign that test your will. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Team losing a bit of confidence in you.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 176

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. Most VCs I know these days answer emails on vacation.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. More tiers = more complication = more confusion. Same goes for television.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. So, what Quigo would do is analyze a web page for Overture and tell them what they thought it was about. How is that unique?

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Suggestions for Angel Investors - Feld Thoughts , June 2, 2010 I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. You can also email us at ha@hackerangels.com. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. And be generous.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me first address VCs or anybody else who is likely above the age where they “get” Snapchat but whose customers are likely in the age demo who use it religiously. It will be a follow on from my “App is Crap” or “Web Second, Mobile First” blog posts but in short, video, updated, digestible formats.

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Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Who are you on the web? Historically you are your email address. Think about your local news anchor saying, “if you want to get in touch email me at xxxx.” Nearly every day now I see public figures telling people their Twitter identity in stead of Facebook, email or other forms of identity. ” Sure.

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