socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

There's been a sudden surge in accelerator in Southern California, looking to help get startups off the ground and funded. One of the clients we started working with was TeleNav. They started running campaigns with us, and were excited about the performance, and started talking about ways to work closer together.

Startup 225

Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. File sharing?

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you can meet a partner up front it’s always best but sometimes it’s not possible. If you don’t, make sure you follow up and ask for feedback. If they say yes you get a term sheet and once this is signed it is usually 3-6 weeks until your legal docs get signed and you’re funded. What is the VC process?

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Venture Capital Slides Doc Startup 340

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2014

Los Angeles-based Chideo , the new startup which combines charity, videos, interactive voting, and more to help celebrities raise money for their charities, has recruited an advisory board with a long list of notable names. The board will help provide "expert knowledge" in their fields to the company, according to Chideo.

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Doc Content Hollywood News 166

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

The program is designed to keep employees on the payroll so ultimately it’s up to you to decide whether you are a worthy recipient and to weigh the benefit to your company and your employees against the potential perception the market may (or may not) have in the future. In this instance they would need to give up the right entirely.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Doc 279

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Every so often I find myself caught up in a really hectic 3-4 week schedule where it seems like I float endlessly betweens meetings. And I get flooded with legal docs, end-of-quarter financial administration, recruiting, whatever. I get sucked up in “Do” mode. Startups Are for Doers. Board Meetings.

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Venture Capital Conference Ideas Entrepreneur 400

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The startup says its service is already being used by California Pizza Kitchen, Living Spaces and Ross Organics. Los Angeles-based ContractSafe is taking on the online, legal documents storage market, and has launched a new online legal document storage service.

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Doc Services Los Angeles Organization 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

To address that disaster, Ken Button and Randy Bishop�two veterans of the startup industry�created ContractSafe (www.contractsafe.com), a new online service aimed at helping companies to tame that mess and manage and store their contracts in the cloud. So how'd you end up starting the company?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Los Angeles-based Aspiration , and online banking startup which calls itself "the financial firm with a conscience", said on Tuesday that it has raised $47M in a Series B funding round. Aspiration lets users pay what they want in terms of fees they pay to the company. READ MORE>>.

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Rustic Canyon Doc Coach Los Angeles 124

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2011

It was overly intellectual, had too many competing ideas, didn’t have enough catch phrases that would be picked up in the press, emphasized some facts that made us look smaller than we were, was too long and had terrible quotes. I then asked for editing rights to his Google Doc and I rewrote a version of it. That’s OK.

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Press Venture Capital Doc Summary 337

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

And a key point is that when it comes down to “negotiations&# you need to turn up your personal heat and dial back the middle man. Let me start with an example. She told me, “start with the price you want but the move in date he wants.&#. I said, “If I start with your position I have nowhere to go but down.

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Venture Capital Pricing Startup Outsource 319

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Remember the first time you used Google Docs? Tags: Business Culture Entrepreneurship Startup Brian Robinson Cloud Computing Codeita FIDM Kyle Ellicott ndmweb. Magical, right? Visit TechZulu for full story.

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Web Development Web Doc Cloud Computing 99

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2012

It should also be noted, 16 terabytes is a whole lot of space… Getting Started. If you want the application to only sync certain sections of your Google Docs / Drive, specify that in the box below. The opportunity to activate Offline Viewing is a bonus, but will take up more hard drive space. It’s like magic.

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Google Doc Startup Web 78

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The competition is set up to award $50,000 to the best team each year, and is also tied to a class on entrepreneurship for engineering students. What I thought we would do instead, was to try to come up with a business plan competition for only engineers and innovators that came through the engineering school.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

It's already a great technology center for lots of different areas, but when compared with Silicon Valley, the activity level needs to go way up in order for Southern California to be on par with Silicon Valley. I spent my professional career starting and running tech companies in Silicon Valley, and have been really successful at it.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 170

Xconomy

JULY 27, 2020

Telemedicine isn’t just another way to connect patients with doctors. AristaMD has carved out a niche in connecting doctors with, well, other doctors.

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Doc San Diego Software Venture Capital 84

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2012

If you weren’t able to make it out to Wokcano to mix and mingle with the hottest startups this week, you missed out. Not to worry because we’ll recap the night with some information on the demos from these up and coming companies located in LA. He went through Start Engine and after 6 months launched their beta.

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Startup Doc Ideas Mobile 73

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 1, 2012

It should also be noted, 16 terabytes is a whole lot of space… Getting Started. If you want the application to only sync certain sections of your Google Docs / Drive, specify that in the box below. The opportunity to activate Offline Viewing is a bonus, but will take up more hard drive space. It’s like magic.

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Google Doc Startup Web 63

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

Let me start the post with three statements. Many people with ADD don’t work well in corporations & with bureaucracy, people with ADD have a bias towards action, people with ADD often speak up & take action and have strong bursts of creativity. My wife is a saint for putting up with me. As are my work colleagues.

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Startup Writing Class Orange County 150

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

Today's interview is with Ruben Schultz, the co-founder of Swoop (www.swoopapp.com), a new startup which develops software for limousine, party bus, and other transportation providers. How did you start this? wanted to start my own thing. We use a Notion doc. The company recently announced $3.2M in a seed funding round.

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SaaS Startup Tool Doc 113

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2015

But through all of this I’m always reminded that in tough times some people pull up their socks and help get the job done while others turn to being critics: Even some who don’t actually take risks or accomplish things but love to opine. I had a very big negative surprise which I’ve mostly worked through but will take time.

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Doc Help Design Invest 150

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

Apart from the app directory, SGL has also created a Press Release publishing tool for developers to upload their docs during the submission process easily, making it even better for SGL to send it to its network of industry connection. Comprehensive App Directory.

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Google Technical Review Press Software Review 87

Jason Nazar

APRIL 6, 2010

Follow us and you’ll receive up-to-date tweets! Just join Docstoc and start uploading and selling your professional documents! So hurry up and follow us , before you get left out! Docstoc’s New Twitter Design. Not only that, we will also help and promote your own profile and documents.

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Design Doc Press Startup 45

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

They are starting to expect their name to appear at the top of Web sites, personalized e-mails, and even advanced checkout options that suit their habits. Examples include Google Docs, Salesforce.com, Slideshare.net, and Box.net. Tags: entrepreneur startup opportunities web 3.0 Examples include Second Life and Funsites.

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Web Web 2.0 Doc Examples 88

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Usually this stage only really starts after an investor has expressed serious interest, or already informally agreed to invest. My best advice is to put some structure and discipline into your due diligence preparation, including the following steps: Schedule a team meeting to bring everyone up to date.

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Invest Startup Doc Slides 59

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

They are starting to expect their name to appear at the top of Web sites, personalized e-mails, and even advanced checkout options that suit their habits. Examples include Google Docs, Salesforce.com, Slideshare.net, and Box.net. Meetings are conducted in these spaces, and trade shows are being replaced with virtual reality shows.

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Web Entrepreneur Doc Examples 95

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Planning on starting your new business during your final years of college, or soon after? You need a laptop that can easily carry you threw school while still providing everything you want to start running your first venture. Prices go up to $1,600. Microsoft Surface Book. That’s in addition to an ultra HD 13.5-inch

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Startup Screening Pricing Doc 40

Tech.Co

JANUARY 19, 2016

To sum things up, if Dropbox is to cloud based sharing, CapLinked is to an enterprise sharing vault. Prior to cofounding CapLinked, Jackson worked with PayPal up to the acquisition by eBay. We have clients that will upload 10K docs at a time. For tech startups, bro culture is still a thing. Gigs and gigs of data.

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Doc Invest Screening Capital 108

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

LawPivot is a legal Q&A website enabling companies, especially startups, to confidentially receive crowdsourced legal answers from highly qualified lawyers for a fraction of the cost. We have helped many other startups through our carefully designed investment model. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Alon Schwartz

MARCH 25, 2012

Google is coming fast from behind with Google Docs and Spreadsheets, conquering the Microsoft Office market share and not just on the consumer space, but also in Microsoft’s backyard, the Enterprise space. Microsoft was also late for the tablet/slate market and is working extra hard to catch up but with the iPad.

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Web 2.0 Google Doc Software 74

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This works if you base much of your work on online platforms or cloud software like Google Docs, Dropbox, etc. It has up to 64GB in an SSD, up to 16GB of RAM, choices up to an i7 processor, and around 12 hours of battery life. Another point to remember is that these lightweight laptops tend to skimp on specs.

Startup 40

Startup Doc Cloud Computing Design 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Me: Then why don’t you take that same Series Seed doc and stick a price in it. I can’t imagine any rational investor would sign up to that. If it’s important to you wouldn’t you discuss it up front? That way you don’t have a max or min price but you have a price. Me: Did you have a cap?

Venture Capital 417

Venture Capital Capital Pricing Doc 417

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Let me start with a story. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5 We had people hearing through the grapevine that we were about to raise money and new investors started calling us to get in on the deal. Guys, I accept that we could probably shop this around but we could also end up with nothing. I was resolute.

Venture Capital 301

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Technical Advisors 301

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

If I check Twitter it’s usually because I’m waiting for a meeting to start and I never write posts during the day. Other people felt sure there was nothing out of line – just friends talking about topics, catching up on what is the latest or blowing off steam. They could start to form an opinion. I enjoy that.

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Email Blogging Venture Capital Writing 287

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Let me start out with my premise: “Data rooms are where fund-raising processes go to die.” I have to back up and give you more context. I’m going to start with the reasons and then explain how to use your best data to your advantage. I never thought of this until I became the Founder & CEO of my first startup company.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Email 336

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

Simply don’t bring them up. Follow Up Engagement. There is no reason to part with your cap table or legal docs until you’re convinced that they’re actually committed to doing work with you in due diligence. You’d be surprised the stuff that comes up: Major lawsuits. You’ll just sound cagey.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Customer Custom 316

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42