Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you’re funding the same stuff as everybody else and if you started your activities when the clues were obvious you’re much less likely to drive enormous returns. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Online education. Far from it.

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

We are often asked how companies get funded, why VCs make the decisions we make and what we’re looking for in entrepreneurs. At Upfront we’re totally fine funding entrepreneurs who have done multiple businesses in the past – in fact we like it. But I’m guessing the narrative is similar elsewhere. The results?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. It’s why I wrote this article about Invoca (formerly RingRevenue) that the most obvious mobile Internet ad unit is, in fact, a phone call. Higher education. THE FULL STORY.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. The firm just announced that new fund, and a new name, Upfront Ventures (www.upfront.com). Tell us about the new fund?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To understand how one local company is making that transition, we talked with Los Angeles-based All About Addiction (www.allaboutaddiction.com), a company that grew out of Adi Jaffe's work at UCLA as a trained psychologist. First, what is All About Addiction about? The idea was to make it simpler for people to find rehab.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2022

It’s not about necessarily building something for a hardcore buyer today,” co-founder and CEO Alex Perelman told TechCrunch. “We Users can also view listings on a map, then click to see a video about the home. It’s not too outlandish a claim, seeing as “House Hunters” has been on TV since 1999. What are the neighbors doing?”.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Jennifer Schwab, the founder and CEO of Entity, has built the business since 2016 on virtually no outside funding, but said that this latest financing is a precursor to the company working on its first, more traditional VC-led equity round. Often speakers will donate their fees to scholarship and childcare funds, she added.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. Of these 19 have received funding (10 have received significant amounts of VC funding) and 5 have been acquired (2 for more than $30 million).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. We gained so much knowledge about our own capabilities and potential when we began developing KidGuard. The Fund has expertise in technology development and data management.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Sound Ventures , the Los Angeles-based venture capital investment firm of Ashton Kutcher, is one of the lead investors in a funding round for LearnLux , a startup which develops software that helps employees of companies with financial wellness. LearnLux is based in Boston. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 16, 2020

UNest , a Los Angeles provider of financial planning and savings tools for parents including college savings plans and other beneficial investment vehicles for various life events, has raised $9 million in a new round of funding, the company said. .

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We will have two well-funded companies educating the market on why this market opportunity for the $24 billion US storage market is ripe for disruption. When we funded Sam , Rahul and team at MakeSpace > 2.5 More consumers and businesses will hear about our solutions and want to learn more.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Amir Tehrani, the company’s co-founder and chief executive spent, his life in the cookware and kitchen business, while his wife, Shiza Tehrani, is the co-founder of the Malala Fund, supporting educational initiatives for young women around the world, and Now Ventures, an impact seed investment fund based in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

The firm operates an online video education service helping people to learn how to use all kinds of software, ranging from Adobe Illustrator to AutoCAD and more. To get the story behind the new funding, we spoke with Eric Robison , the firm's President and CEO, last week. What's next for the firm now you have this funding?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2013

The firm operates an online video education service helping people to learn how to use all kinds of software, ranging from Adobe Illustrator to AutoCAD and more. To get the story behind the new funding, we spoke with Eric Robison , the firm's President and CEO, last week. What's next for the firm now you have this funding?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Los Angeles-based Next 10 Ventures , a $50 million fund focused on the creator economy, is launching an incubator program to support YouTubers. The only requirement is that they focus on educational video content targeting children and young adults. Former YouTube exec unveils Next 10 Ventures, a $50M fund to back online creators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2019

Image via Flickr by ivanpw Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. Phantom fund investors. Work at home to fund your startup. Cash transfer assistance funding.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2015

Carpinteria-based lynda.com , which is led by Eric Robison, has raised a huge, $186M funding round, led by TPG. The company said it will use the new funding for accelerating acquisitions, growth, and new content intiatives. As part of the funding, TPG''s David Trujillo will join the company''s board of directors. in the deal.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome Tech , which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s s SB Opportunity Fund. Its efforts are initially primarily focused on the Hispanic community in the U.S. the company says.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 19, 2019

The startup has raised $1 million in seed funding from RXBAR founders Peter Rahal and Jared Smith, CXT Investments, and Lean Luxe founder M. . “For us, the broader mission is A+ personal care for guys everywhere — not just guys in New York or guys in the Bay Area or guys in Los Angeles,” he said. Paul Munford.

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

People who live outside of Indiana probably know a few things about it: The Indianapolis 500, a.k.a. But people might not know much about Indiana’s economy and its culture of innovation. Here are three things you probably didn’t know about the Hoosier State: 1. billion in exports during the 12 months ended Sept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you. Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: 10.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

We talked about what startup CEOs should do in these situations and how to think about these renegotiations. B2C Companies We talked about how some companies saw an immediate decline in purchasing (for example if you’re in travel or hospitality). We Talked About VC Reserve Strategies This is an “inside baseball” topic for VCs.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Kraft, who co-founded Thrively with fellow startup veteran Girish Venkat, sat down to talk to us about Thrively, as it emerges out of beta. Tell me about your new company? Once we get that strength profile, we match them to a whole world of extracurricular and educational opportunities for them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

So why do I see some many funding requests for products along these lines? Therefore, it takes time, sometimes whole generations, of education, communication, and incremental proof to get momentum going and overcome old fears. That’s the great thing about being an entrepreneur. Change is hard for most people. Marty Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Every startup needs to think hard daily about what problem or challenge is holding back progress, what really matters today, and what entirely new possibilities exist. Startups funded by rich uncles rarely think about productivity. Subtraction leads to simplicity, better usability, and easier education of your customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2023

It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education. With the Internet, you can quickly test your new business concepts, with crowd funding and social media, and get quick feedback from around the world at low cost. Relationships are a test of your learning readiness.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

The firm has about 90% of its clients in India today, something it intends to change in the coming quarters. “60% When asked about what he thinks of major giants such as Google and Amazon also expanding into these fields, Vaish said these companies are largely making solutions for users — and not businesses.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Neither candidate has said a lot about how he or she would address cybersecurity issues as president, although Hillary Clinton has offered more details than Donald Trump. “I He’s talking about updating everything from e-mail servers to mainframes and network infrastructure.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. If your startup went belly-up (the Brits have a much more crude slang term for it) there wasn’t likely somebody lined up to fund your next attempt at a startup. I talk about it often including in my own personal narrative. Failure is critical.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2021

Los Angeles-based Bright said on Thursday that it has raised $15M in a celebrity-packed funding round, for its online, livestreamed classes. The startup also said that it has added Jessica Alba, Kane Brown, and Maria Sharapova as advisors to the company as part of the funding.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Santa Barbara-based 15desks , a developer of software-as-a-service for educators, said this morning that the firm has launched a new product for course management. The firm said it is privately funded, and first launched in 2007 at the University of Santa Barbara. Tags: 15desks software saas education school university.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. Phantom fund investors. Work at home to fund your startup. Cash transfer assistance funding. entrepreneur funding investors business' Ignore these.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2011

DonorsChoose let’s you “ hack their data &# in creative ways to create offerings that may be relevant to helping with education projects in America. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Charles Best , the founder of DonorsChoose.org to talk about his startup. Help support a project they’re passionate about.

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