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MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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JULY 9, 2019

in Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences from West Virginia University, and told us a bit about the fund, its investments, and his advice to entrepreneurs looking for investment from the company. What are you looking for in a company and entrepreneur? What's your biggest advice to an entrepreneur? What is OCV Partners?

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

How did you get the idea to start the company? Josef Holm: I had the idea to start Tubestart with my partner, Paul Shires. We are hoping to change that next year, with free crowdfunding, to go towards an equity/royalty funding model for YouTube channels, which will be exciting. Josef Holm: Equity-based crowdfunding.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

And, the equity markets are certainly a more challenging environment. Mike Napoli: Actually, we are seeing entrepreneurs. The ideas and people seeking money are out there in quantity. Mike Napoli: I think it was the entrepreneur. Mike Napoli: Obviously, it's still tough. The environment has gotten more constrained.

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APRIL 10, 2018

Most of our mentors are people who have been successful entrepreneurs and investors, who have been there, and understand how to get a company to the next sage. We charge zero, and take no equity, and really there are very small operational costs for us to support startups. We do that by galvanizing the community to help out.

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JUNE 2, 2010

What is the idea behind Invested.in? If you want to return equity in a company, that's actually illegal, which requires you to register with the SEC, so we're not doing that right now. Where did the idea come from originally? Tags: alon goren investedin startup interview entrepreneur demo investment project music.

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APRIL 13, 2021

Dave Eastman: For one thing, although we're not completely unique in this, is we don't take equity. Those are faculty members who have a commercialization idea and want help with that. We also provide a lot of other training, such as here's how you form an entity, how equity works, etc., but the key thing is customer discovery.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

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MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish.

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JUNE 27, 2011

When I shoed up with a few pages of conceptual, early stage ideas around consumer finance, it was immediately captivating, and it really lined up with what he wanted to do. The idea is that if you put those dreams up, it will give you some context and make paying attention to your finances worthwhile.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Every so often--particularly in Southern California--you run into a serial entrepreneur, with multiple successes and great track record-- yet, who very few people are aware of. Instead, after a private equity firm offered to buy YLighting, we negotiated to keep the technology that we had developed. We sold it to a private equity group.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. That''s really where the genesis of this comes from, and we have patents around the idea of continually analyzing both structure and semistructured data from a wide variety of sources, simultaneously. How did you end up raising both?

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I explain to her that, like the contestants on the show, we work with very early startup entrepreneurs to build the next great product. We invest time and money into helping them develop their ideas, and help develop those companies and the entrepreneurs as leaders. percent equity. Noramay Cadena: We do.

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JUNE 20, 2012

We caught up with Sam Teller , who is directing efforts at the accelerator, to help fill entrepreneurs in on where the program fits in the world of technology and startup acceleration. It was really just something built for the community to help support entrepreneurs. We're not investing in ideas and trying to turn them into companies.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

accelerator--which only inspired him to keep working on making his startup a reality and go from just an idea, to a real company. The idea for FloQast really came from the experience we had in that department, which grew to about 50 people. What's the biggest lesson you've learned so far as an entrepreneur?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Next → As startup ecosystems evolve and mature, validation of their viability comes in waves from entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers alike. Rather, we will provide a platform for them to get interim office space and sophisticated legal services, and to ultimately grow their ideas from business concept to funded startup.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

Nikhil Jain: Clean Green Guy is an online platform, which allows entrepreneurs and inventors with green business concepts, ideas, and companies connect with investors, financing, and service providers. I got involved in government agencies and job creation, and ended up working with lots of entrepreneurs. Coming into the U.S.,

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Our interview today is with serial entrepreneur Neel Grover , the CEO and founder of Indi (indi.com). That's where I first started getting the idea to create what is now Indi. In between that, I was formerly at the private equity firm Clearlake Capital, out of Santa Monica, which manages 8 billion in private equity investments.

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MARCH 10, 2010

One of the more successful serial entrepreneurs here in Southern California has been Robin D. If you have a good idea, a good marketplace with certain characteristics, every company needs technology, every company needs finance, sales, marketing, and operations--that's the hard part. com, and managing director at Tickets.com.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

K5Launch (www.k5launch.com) is modeled after the successful Y-Combinator and TechStars acceleration programs, and invests equity, provides mentors, and runs a three month program to get very early stage startups off the ground. However, the main benefit is the one-on-one assistance of entrepreneurs, and access to capital.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

When companies come into our incubator, we take no equity, we take no stake in the company, it's completely free for the participant. We're providing a very unique benefit, which is an entrepreneur-friendly incubator. We though that because of the demographic and the excitement level, that would be a great idea.

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MAY 25, 2016

At Idealab, we saw many shots on goal with companies who were consumer focused, and we have found the quality of entrepreneurs going to consumer Internet companies has changed dramatically, which represents a real opportunity. Big ideas rule the day. It's all about the entrepreneur. The second, is don't back yourself.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

I thought I would be an investment banker, and I decided I was probably going to move to San Francisco to enter private equity, venture capital, or a startup. What is the idea behind that effort? Jonathan LaCour: The idea, is there is a huge amount of resources around student video games.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

We sold that to a very large private equity company. Entrepreneurs are great at coming up with ideas, but it takes a different kind of person to really scale a business quickly. Scott Cannon: I ran an international logistics company, MNX. One of my partners was St. Cloud Capital.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

It was their idea that created Startup Exchange. They saw similar exchange funds offered to them when they took their companies public, and they thought -- that would be an even better idea for startups. They like the idea. Tags: capital venture equity startupexchange fund startup interview barton michael. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

The firm is backed by more than $100M in funding from private equity firm Great Hill Partners. I have to believe, fundamentally, in the entrepreneur and the team. Ideas come and go, most startups start with one idea, and are successful with another one using a completely different approach. I have one criteria.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Participating companies get between $4,000 and $8,000 in addition to mentorship and office space while participating in the 12 week program, and have to give up zero equity in exchange. Love the student entrepreneur scene in LA right now! socaltech socalcto Others will create something viable and pursue follow on financing.

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JUNE 17, 2009

I became general counsel, an investor, and an entrepreneur, and played a bunch of different roles at companies--so I know security laws intimately. SharesPost was one of the first ideas we had. We came to it, because we'd been around private equity, and it's always surprised me how inefficient the marketplace is.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Do they have positive equity in their home? Jack Ryan: One, is how excited the market is about this idea. They have to go out and find buyers. That's the same thing with Zillow or Trulia. We're targeting buyers using their digital foot print. How long have they livedin their home? What are their recent purchases?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Jed Simon: The idea came from recognizing a pain point in the ad tech ecosystem. But, we have a non-equity dilutive product, and we accelerate cash flow. We spoke with Jed Simon the firm's CEO and founder, about the company. Tell us a little bit about what FastPay is about? On one hand, you've got publishers, on the other, advertisers.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Where there are lots of players focused on different types of equity, different types of investments, different types of debt, they're doing it in a very unfocused manner. I came up with this idea due to a deep obsession with the mortgage industry. Those loans are very mis-priced, in our opinion. We're also 100 percent focused on debt.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Dat Do: We produce valuation software that solves a lot of complex valuation issues for privately held companies, backed by venture capital and private equity. I came up with the idea, mentioning it to the PwC partners a few years ago. What does your company do? That's my background in valuation. Dat Do: That's a great question.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Shivani Siroya: I started out pretty traditionally in investment banking, doing equity research at UBS. In addition, microfinance revolves around group lending, using the idea of hedging risk on a group, rather than on an individual. How did you end up starting Tala?

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