TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. Founders and investors circling the space suspect a wave of Silicon Valley interest is coming, however, and that it will alter the category entirely. Naturally, these were also the first business to get funded. Last month, the product launched with $1.2

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Using its proprietary printing technology, Relativity says it can slash the time it takes to develop a rocket from design to launch by up to two years. It also doesn’t hurt that the company has developed sophisticated manufacturing technologies that have terrestrial applications, if the rocket business fails to take off.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

One of the hardest things to know when you’re new to fund raising is what you’re supposed to send to an investor, when and will they keep your information confidential. This is part of a series on how to improve your fund raising game. As a VC and former entrepreneur let me offer you some advice. Compelling. whether they invest or not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

Entrepreneurs looking for investor funding often fail to realize that all money comes with strings. For example, if you have watched the Shark Tank TV series, you probably noticed that the Sharks always ask the entrepreneurs for their intended “use of funds.” Funding for founder salaries at this stage is a red flag.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2018

Entrepreneurs looking for investor funding often fail to realize that all money comes with strings. For example, if you have watched the Shark Tank TV series, you probably noticed that the Sharks always ask the entrepreneurs for their intended “use of funds.” Funding for founder salaries at this stage is a red flag.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2015

One of the big questions that every entrepreneur struggles with is how much funding they should request from investors in the first round. If your financial model projects a negative cash flow in this period of $400,000, you should buffer this amount by 25 percent, and ask for $500,000. Be prepared to explain your business model.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

One question everyone asks is what investors look for when deciding whether or not to fund a startup. That means you need to develop credible financial projections that demonstrate the viability and future potential of your target market and clearly spell out how investing in your business will achieve their return targets.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

In emerging markets and the developing world, access to banking, capital, and financial resources is fare more difficult than here in the U.S., due to a less developed financial system, lack of credit tracking, and oftentimes and informal economy. Explain what Tala is, and how it works? They just don't have data for that.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We set up a digital media fund, which had the goal of investing in new digital media properties, ideas, and concepts. The digital media fund funded the company, and it's unique, in that Ross Levinsohn and I are incubating it ourselves in our office, and are running the company today. Mickie Rosen: The link really is financial.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. One of the best ways to achieve a stable cash flow is to offer prepaid retainers or ongoing payment plans.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

No fly by night startup -- the company is backed by the founders of Skype -- we talked with COO Stephen Sesar about how FreedomPop can provide free wireless Internet, the firm's expansion plans, and how the company hopes to turn the telecom industry on its head. There's massive inefficiency in this category. GB of data each month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

By Akira Hirai The thought of preparing a business plan for the first time can be very intimidating. The task becomes much easier if you think of your plan in terms of four essential cornerstones that serve as the foundation of all business plans: Opportunity, Solution, Execution, and Outcomes. Now, start brainstorming.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2013

Like most professionals, when I get a business plan, I flip first to the founders section to see if it is a balanced team who has been there and done that. Financial risk. Under-developed countries may have a strong need for your product, but are often unstable and dangerous. Market and opportunity risk. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. One of the best ways to achieve a stable cash flow is to offer prepaid retainers or ongoing payment plans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2012

Like most professionals, when I get a business plan, I flip first to the founders section to see if it is a balanced team who has been there and done that. Financial risk. Under-developed countries may have a strong need for your product, but are often unstable and dangerous. Market and opportunity risk. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

To grow faster businesses need resources in today’s financial period to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. One of the best ways to achieve a stable cash flow is to offer prepaid retainers or ongoing payment plans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Like most professionals, when I get a business plan, I flip first to the founders section to see if it is a balanced team who has been there and done that. Financial risk. Under-developed countries may have a strong need for your product, but are often unstable and dangerous. Market and opportunity risk. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Examples Entrepreneur Social Network 89

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

This section of your Venture Value Scorecard should summarize the important advances you have made recently in research and product development. Customers: A company’s only sustainable source of cash is sales, so you need to keep track of your business development efforts. Detail isn’t important; tracking your progress is.

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. And this is one thing that should NOT be the focus of the CTO / Founder during the company's development phase.

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