socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2013

The Hunt says it is developing a community-driven, online shopping site, focused on making social media photos "shoppable". The site--reminiscent of Pinterst--helps users find products features from other social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr.

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Hollywood Sites Social Media Seed Funding 164

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The seed round was led by investments from Richard Chino, a key early member of GoTo.com and Smarter.com; Dan Murray, CFO of Machinima ; Derek Draper of Wildfire by Google; Nikhil Srivastava of KKR ; Angel Investor Andrew Schwartz and other angles from LA and Silicon Valley. 750,000 for Scaling & Product development.

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Seed Funding Product Draper Develop 79

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Los Angeles- and Austin-based Moonshots Capital , the new venture investment fund founded by Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings, is on an investment roll, and has made another investment from its fund. As part of the funding, Craig Cummings, co-founder and General Partners of Moonshots Capital, has joined Complai's board.

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Capital Invest Develop Development 113

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

However, we''ve developed a formula of what, and how we look at deals, and have built out our own advisory network, where we use domain experts to vet deals out. My background, is I''ve been designing and developing accessories for the top carriers in the country, companies like Sprint and Verizon, as well as others.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet , a developer of software to help manufacturers monitor their channel and e-commerce sites--and in particular, minimum-advertising-price (MAP) policies--has raised $2M in seed funding, the company said Wednesday.

Commerce 124

Commerce Artificial Inteligence Seed Funding Santa Barbara 124

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The two investments, both announced in January, were cyber-defense firm Threatcare , and bot detection developer New Knowledge. seed funding in that firm. Moonshots led the $1.4M presidential elections in 2016. presidential elections in 2016. Moonshots also led the investment in New Knowledge.

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Invest Capital Seed Funding Social Network 150

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

However, in the technical arena--as a programmer, developer, or software engineer--it's hard to tell from a resume how good you really are. The startup has developed a system which uses information from online forums, source code sharing, technical communities, and the like to help find and rank technical talent.

Sites 240

Sites Startup Tool CTO Hire 240

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Emerson Investment Group. According to SOurce Audio, it has develops a business-to-business, professional music licensing catalog which helps music publishers, ad agency, radio stations, entertainment marketing, and others connect. The company is led by Geoffrey R.

Seed Funding 164

Seed Funding Entertainment Los Angeles Tool 164

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. contributes more than $25 billion to fund 70,000 startups every year. Early stage research and development won’t excite angels.

Venture Capital 106

Venture Capital Angel Seed Funding Invest 106

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

San Diego-based GoMeta , a new, augmented reality startup being led by serial entrepreneur Dmitry Shapiro, has raised $2M in a seed funding round, and launched its app out of beta. The funding came from Mike Jones (Science Inc., MySpace) as well as Michael Eisner (former CEO of Disney). READ MORE>>.

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Veoh Tool San Diego Santa Monica 100

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2014

San Diego-based TaxJar , a developer of online software which helps manage sales tax payments for online retailers, said this morning that it has raised $600,000 from angel investors.

Sales 159

Sales Software SaaS Seed Funding 159

socalTECH

AUGUST 14, 2014

Vadio , the developer of a platform which helps match music videos and ads with streaming music , said Thursday that it has raised $2M in a seed funding round, which included Mucker Capital, Amplify.LA, as well as other LA investors. READ MORE>>.

Capital 138

Capital Funding Seed Funding Incubator 138

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2012

in a seed funding. Santa Monica-based Retention Science , a new startup out of the MuckerLab accelerator, is announcing this morning that it has raised $1.3M

Software 140

Software Santa Monica Seed Funding Commerce 140

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

Altly detailed its plans to create an alternative to Facebook last week, complaining in a lengthy manifesto from Shapiro that an alternative to Facebook was sorely needed due to privacy and other issues with the social networking site. Shapiro was the former founder of Veoh Networks and head of MySpace Music. READ MORE>>.

Veoh 174

Veoh Draper Seed Funding Venice 174

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

Resource 159

Resource Startup Incubator Seed Funding 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. contributes more than $25 billion to fund 70,000 startups every year. Early stage research and development won’t excite angels.

Angel 126

Angel Funding Venture Capital Seed Funding 126

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

Startup 106

Startup Capital Equity Funding 106

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

Funding 174

Funding Startup Equity Examples 174

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

San Diego-based RealGifts has a new take on earning dollars from Facebook applications: allowing users to purchase real, tangible items from the popular social networking site. RealGifts is one of nearly 600 startups competing for funding from Facebook's fbFund, the $10M seed fund run by the Founders Fund and Accel Partners.

Seed Funding 100

Seed Funding San Diego Social Network Sites 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

Incubator 87

Incubator Startup Resource Seed Funding 87

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

I will repeat my appeal from last week: Maybe you’re a startup founder, a safety driver at an autonomous vehicle developer, a venture capitalist, engineer or gig economy worker. The feature was developed to turn unused vehicle fleets into an on-demand solution to get essential workers to their destination. Here’s one.

Layoffs 136

Layoffs Startup Newsletter Santa Monica 136

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

Incubator 106

Incubator Startup Help Resource 106

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based MySocialNightLife.com (www.mysocialnightlife.com) announced a seed funding round, and its technology platform for the nightclub and bar industry. I also helped launch the Blu Ray format, and have been involved in many major technology launches, from a business development and production standpoint.

Social Media 174

Social Media Seed Funding Startup Design 174

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Don’t expect angels to invest in work-at-home schemes, gambling sites or debt-collection type business proposals.

Angel 106

Angel Startup Venture Capital Seed Funding 106

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. We want to develop characters and we want to tell fictional stories rooted in reality.”

Social Media 261

Social Media Content Media Artificial Inteligence 261

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

Incubator 98

Incubator Startup Help Resource 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Seed Funding Incubator 101

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Funding 96

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs. For evidence of this you need go no further than Jason Xu, the founder of Battlefy.

Web Design 103

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

Funding 107

Funding Startup Equity Examples 107

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

Startup 113

Startup Entrepreneur Funding Equity 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

It's not all that often that you hear of a local startup being acquired after only raising less than $1M in funding, because the company was growing so fast, rather than because an idea didn't pan out. Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps. We saw this firsthand.

Mobile 100

Mobile Startup Content Advertising 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 20, 2015

But the real surprise was the business development opportunities.” million dollars in first round seed funding earlier this year. Business Business Development Festival NewCo recruiting Startups Tech Conference' ” The L.A.-based based meditation startup Headspace was chosen to host last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. I’ve already started the business modeling. Venture Financings we Discussed. Total raised: $18.3mm.

Venture Capital 230

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Fandango 230

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Any funding yet? We have received seed funding from a friend and it is personally funded. Our revenue stream will come from huddles that are paid for on the site. If a person is willing to give their time away on the site, there is no charge. That’s cool! What is your business model? Future plans?

Mentor 94

Mentor Platform Social Network Chief Technology Officer 94

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Building a standout destination site for video gamers takes moxie in the highly competitive and lucrative on-line game industry. Jeff looks for these same qualities in the companies he backs. For evidence of this you need go no further than Jason Xu, the founder of Battlefy.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40