Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. What is the investment focus for this fund? All of that represents opportunity, as well.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

These are industries where structural impediments to technology adoption have only recently been broken down by the advent of incredibly powerful mobile devices. As Fifth Wall’s newest partner Greg Smithies noted last year, there’s a massive opportunity in building retrofits and startup technologies to improve efficiency.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Physicists invent the technology. Electrical engineers design and make the hardware. Software engineers write the programs for computers to process the data. Venture capitalists fund the entrepreneurs to commercial success. Mathematicians create the algorithms. Angels start the entrepreneurs on their way.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

James (chairman of the Althea Foundation) and appointed Adam Sroka as Senior Vice President of Technology in a move to make business transactions simple and secure. . Jackson , “This financing round, coupled with hiring Adam Sroka as our head of technology, puts CapLinked in a position to further enhance our enterprise product offerings.”.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. We spoke with Rami Rostami and Gerard Casale , who are behind TYLT Labs, and who told us a bit about their new fund, its investment criteria, and where it sees the promise here.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Mark Harris is back with new details on Uber’s autonomous vehicle technology program. The upshot: Uber was spending $20 million a month to develop self-driving technologies. Uber is in talks with Softbank Vision Fund and Toyota to raise $1 billion for its self-driving unit Uber ATG. And yet, something was different.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Working in the film and event industry for many years, Taylor Freeman decided to put his career on hold and travel around Europe reflecting on what is important and discovering his true passion, technology. “My Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. And UploadVR was born.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? At the time, I was looking for a book to teach web design to my students, but figured out that one had never been written.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. I think this is a combination of being realists as venture capitalists that outsized returns in our funds must come from taking on bigger, more impactful projects that can move markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

Venice Beach-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com) has created sofdtware designed for those application developers to help protect those web applications. There are a whole lot of companies outside the realm of Silicon Valley who you need to build and design for as well. Let's talk about your funding.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

While current technologies are not quite advanced enough to make Westworld a reality, startups are attempting to replicate the sort of human-robot interaction it presents in virtual space. Let AI write the script. Or Apple, which designs its own devices to carry out superior software experience,” explained Ma.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Will Henshall: Focus@will is the first, ever music service which helps with focus and distraction, while writing, reading, and studying. The second thing, is I've been a technology inventory. If you think about that, it's entirely logical, because commercial music is designed to be engaging. How is your company funded?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Jeff told us of his life-long passion for technology and start-ups, which spoke volumes about the drive, dedication and focus needed to make any business a success. Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

Everywhere, technology is starting to percolate into an otherwise prosaic, non-tech industry—apply big data, apply machine learning—and revolutionize it.”. Just over a year later, Jurvetson led the Series A round of venture funding for Nervana Systems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Use a simple accounting tool like QuickBooks, get away from co-mingled funds, and you have the first business process you need. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Funding process. Leverage information technology. Develop your business plan. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

I got started in investment banking, focused on helping medical companies buy technology companies, and then later in the enterprise space and in the cloud. If you look at the rise of enterprise technology here in LA, there's a great opportunity. I went to business school in between all of that. It's a great event.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. Tell us a bit about lynda.com’s mission and how it has impacted strategic decisions, such as raising outside funding, entering new markets, etc. Hello Kitty!”.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. Tell us a bit about lynda.com’s mission and how it has impacted strategic decisions, such as raising outside funding, entering new markets, etc. Hello Kitty!”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The outcome was especially impressive, as the company was entirely self-funded for its first 17-years. I had problems with reading and writing and comprehension and a lot of social abilities. In 1995, Lynda wrote one of the first books on web design, Designing Web Graphics. In 2015, LinkedIn purchased Lynda.com for $1.5

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

What's you believe is your biggest technology risk, if any? Or how are you funding the next few milestones? We can help across a wide variety of types of systems, but once you get into hard core sciences (designing a new compound, bioengineering, etc.) Do I have to write up the overview? Can you help me get funding?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

What's you believe is your biggest technology risk, if any? Or how are you funding the next few milestones? We can help across a wide variety of types of systems, but once you get into hard core sciences (designing a new compound, bioengineering, etc.) Do I have to write up the overview? Can you help me get funding?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. Efforts to discourage scope creep are not designed to punish creativity. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. Creative – we’re a place of writers, directors, producers, musicians, costume designers, make-up artists, graphic artists, 3D modelers. An innovator in technology, especially monetization.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2014

For Friday''s interview, we spoke with Terry Kay ithe new Chairman of the Pasadena Angels (www.pasadenaangels.com) on the group, and its relevance in the technology funding world today. How is an angel group like the Pasadena Angel relevant in today''s world of accelerators, incubators, crowd funding, and more? READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Yet we took this document, the business plan, because we knew nothing else and said, ‘Go write one of these.’. My definition of a startup is, ‘a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.’

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Use a simple accounting tool like QuickBooks, get away from co-mingled funds, and you have the first business process you need. Funding process.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

Gabe Grifoni: At Rufus Labs, we are focused heavily on building wearables and technology in a wearable platform for the enterprise. Gabe Grifoni: I had actually transitioned to the writing side, and focusing on tech. That got me to CES for some technical writing and journalism, and I started checking out the scene.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures wrote a great post the other day that reminded me I’ve been meaning to write about this topic. I use technology precisely to try and develop an intuitive feel about what will work and what won’t” The management team got it. To ignore FourSquare would be dumb. Check it out.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. And for the record, GRP has funded YC alum. They are designed to help good companies to get access to investors but also to make bad companies look good. ” Fair play. Because my nuanced views will be read wrongly.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2015

Computers are designed to complete tasks, and even the most advanced AI is designed to learn only the information needed to better complete their task. For example, AI has been designed to play Atari games better than humans. The advancement of technology improves a person’s abilities rather than hindering it.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

SVP at Cloud Technology Partners. Linthicum, senior vice president at Cloud Technology Partners, is an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader. He keynotes leading technology conferences on cloud computing, SOA, enterprise application integration, and enterprise architecture. Dave Linthicum (moderator).

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