Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Your product demo crushed. This is a very common scenario when entrepreneurs pitch VCs and frankly is a very common scenario when VCs try to raise money from LPs. 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. The dialog was great.

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Software Review Startup Email Conference 381

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Ideas 176

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Deal screening. Great networking skills, which are critical when you want to be about to reference entrepreneurs & concepts and bounce your ideas off of other people in the industry. And we’ve begun relaunching our “platform services” for entrepreneurs. Portfolio company support & analysis.

Help 365

Help Invest Venture Capital Technical Review 365

Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

This corporate partnership has proven well for these startups in helping them launch their products and services into another galaxy. Through inspirational content, online classes, and products, Brit + Co enables their audience of over 125 million to use creativity to shape their best lives. Meet the 11 startups for 2017: Ambidio.

Artificial Inteligence 108

Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on.

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Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. Like any sale you first need to plan your “prospects” and qualify whether or not they’d be a good fit for your product?—?an

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Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. The importance of screening this film is to raise the awareness of bias within men!” You don’t get it.

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Venture Capital Examples Screening Help 256

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Traction can simply mean showing that you’re making progress with customers, product development, channel partners, initial revenue as a proof point, attracting well-known angel investors, winning industry awards / recognition. They tell you they’re going to ship product and they do. They hire key staff.

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Venture Capital Guide Startup Technical Review 309

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

If you have content, APPLY to screen your < 10 min video made in the past year. Email mfgorman@gmail.com if you’d like to demo your gadget, hardware, accessories, etc. Business Entrepreneurship Events Silicon Beach Fest Digital LA Entertainment Entrepreneurs Hollywood Startups Technology' Register for a 5-6?

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Hollywood Entertainment Content Email 81

Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

Finding potential customers continues to be a huge challenge not only for established marketing and sales teams but also for startup executives and solo entrepreneurs. It offers a variety of conversion-optimized templates, which B2B firms, agencies, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and universities can use. Pricing: $9/user/month.

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Tool Startup Help Template 79

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. MuckerLab has already secured its reputation as one of the hottest startup accelerators in town with a particular emphasis on product for incubation-stage software, services and media ventures.

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Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 21, 2014

All of the LA Hacks sponsors were displayed around the outer ring of the stadium and the students were greeted by a large glowing LA Hacks logo on the big screens. On the upper lever in the bleachers, sponsors held booths to tell attendees about their products and help students with their programs. “We

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UCLA Los Angeles Snapchat USC 108

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. Trust doesn’t come from one 45-minute Powerpoint pitch or 30-minute demo.

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Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

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. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. The product focuses on the in-store behavior of consumers.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. 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.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. It gives music companies a direct pipeline to market their products and services to music fans. 7:10 – 8:00pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company (approx.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Peter Csathy – CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures, accomplished media and digital media entrepreneur. The company hopes to prepare advertisers for varying screen sizes. The more intriguing topic becomes what’s happening around the products. Peter Csathy jumps in to answer questions about content.

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Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Participating in this event also included world recognized security expert and Co-founder of Fonality , Samy Kamkar , Danny Schreiber (Managing Editor of Silicon Prairie News) and Rob Jadon (serial-entrepreneur and angel investor). Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking.

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