SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). It’s a weekly email we send to AngelList, with 3 high-quality startups who want intros.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Please fill in your email. And in addition to streamlining biofuel production, Reversion is also developing ways to improve energy storage for when supply exceeds demand, taking a multi-pronged approach to sustainable power generation. . This April, the startup raised a staggering $4 million in a seed funding round.

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MAY 9, 2012

I met with local seed fund investors like Mike Venerable who is the MD of CincyTech (a local seed stage fund), Tony Shipley who is a director of Queen City Angels as well as some local entrepreneurs including Blake Shipley of CoupSmart and Sameer Mungur of ZipScene. I mention this for a reason. He said yes.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

So to be clear I think in the overwhelming majority of cases these are diligence calls to feel out the opportunity in which price discussions exchange hands more as a by-product of the call than the intention of the call. When I was fund raising for my second company we had agreed a company-wide deal with Salesforce.com to use our product.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

Alex Nocifera: We help the enterprise, large brands, working with brands like US Cellular, Panera Bread, Square, Uber, and help them generate demand for their products and services in a local, acute manner. Alex Nocifera: We're lucky in that we have LA's best seed funds. What is Field Day? Talk about your financial backing?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. After an initial round of seed funding of $500k led by Pasadena’s Idealab, Mingly saw great success as they built up their Gmail user base. Maybe we just have too many tools at our disposal.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Jason laughed when he told me that he has rattled off inspirational emails to Paul Bricault, Amplify’s managing director, at 11:30 at night only to find an equally enthusiastic response in his in-box five minutes later.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Right now, there are no real efficient products in the dating market. What we saw that was really interesting, was in mid-May, we started seeing lots of emails and phone calls for membership. Constance Curtis: We just opened up our $2M seed funding round, which just opened last week. more) READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

It’s why I believe PalmPilot missed the important shifts to email that RIM (Blackberry) saw. You’ve got less than 6 months’ cash in the bank and your product isn’t really fully baked. In turn Blackberry missed the Internet and still has a sucky browser after all these years.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service. We also will be providing more product information and fresh inventory, and pass that information on to consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There are too many deals to look at, too many seed funds or angels asking you to look at deals and weekly “demo days” with manicured and monocultural presentations crafted by experienced story tellers to help even the mundane idea sound like it will. For investors life is no different. These days I find myself doing less.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

We send you reminders by email, and deliver as many times a year as you prefer. What are the details on your seed funding? The way we represent our product, how we merchandise it, and how we price it, and our UX is really targeted towards the younger clientele. It''s premium, fresh cut product. million round.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. > -jeff.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Jason laughed when he told me that he has rattled off inspirational emails to Paul Bricault, Amplify’s managing director, at 11:30 at night only to find an equally enthusiastic response in his in-box five minutes later.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Remember the whole controversy over Facebook’s Beacon product where a guy bought an engagement ring for his wife and it was published to a stream and ruined the surprise ? So my gut says this will be a youth-oriented product. The investment will be used for product development initiatives. We had a nice debate.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals. What I’m saying is that you can’t spend all of your time in email working your inbox. ” What do I mean? It’s inbound.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. I developed a technology product called DHARMA (stood for Dynamic Hybrid of Advertising and Response Management Applications). Build a SWAT team 3.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

But even if a VC is nasty a rant email back isn’t the right way to channel your frustration. “If my objective is raising capital and I’m struggling, what can I learn about those who do get funded and how can I improve my odds by changing? You raised your seed funds. You get invited to speak on panels.

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APRIL 27, 2010

I learned how to better run a product management process. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. I wrote a large check to one of them for a startup with no product and no real plan. They seed funded my second company and even let me buy some IP in exchange for debt to get started.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

When I meet with Tom offline it’s obvious that he immediately is thinking about product issues, technology trends, funding rounds, etc. At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. How investors’ risk differ (0:22:45).

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