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JANUARY 5, 2021

The massive geographic footprint of the region has always been a limiting factor in our work as a Super Connector, but we soon realized that virtual platforms actually allow us to more effectively bring people together than solely relying on live in-person convenings.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Ian talked to us about the rewards and challenges of being an entrepreneur, plus how important it is to manage lifetime value (LTV) of a customer versus customer acquisition cost (CAC) in making a successful company. (We Ian Chen: In my previous life, I was working in private equity in LA. The big driver for us was the guest list.

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JANUARY 15, 2014

In another boost to the reputation of Los Angeles for financial technology startups, Common Assets LLC , a financial technology startup focused on investment platforms for individual investment in solar power technology, has been acquired by SolarCity. Common Asset was backed by Los Angeles private equity investor U.S.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Josef Holm: Tubestart is a crowdfunding platform for YouTube creators, web series creators, and for digital video in general. The main difference between the mainstream platforms and us, is first, that we have really, really great hands-on support people who only do video all day long, which has a significant impact. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Apparently, that push comes thanks to another, local startup-- Convertro , which said today that Dollar Shave Club has been using its platform to measure its ad campaign effectiveness, including the effectiveness of those TV ads for Dollar Shave Club. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 21, 2013

Instead of equity, the company is aimed at profiting profitable small businesses with business debt funding from investors, to help those businesses grow and get to the next level. Why did you decide to focus on debt, not equity? What is Dealstruck? They face only two options for financing their companies with debt.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers. Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Our interview today is with serial entrepreneur Neel Grover , the CEO and founder of Indi (indi.com). We make it really easy for you to add tags before you post something to your own social platform, and before you send a quick reply to your friends on what you've bought. Indi stands for individual. How long has this been available?

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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 we are looking for is platformable, scalable technologies.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

We caught up with Sam Altman, the firm's founder, to hear more about the company, and how we went from working in private equity to heading up a company all about finding nightlife. When I finished school at Stanford, I knew I wanted to run my own company, but ended up moving to Los Angeles to join with a large private equity firm.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Alon Goren: Basically, what we've done, is we've built a platform where anyone can raise money for anything. 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. What is the idea behind Invested.in? Where did the idea come from originally?

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MARCH 1, 2017

We sat down with Jamie�who has been part of LA's technology industry, either as an investor or advisor since its very early days--to get his perspective on where we are today, especially as it relates to all of the companies he's worked with over the years on a more global stage and in Silicon Valley, and his advice to entrepreneurs.

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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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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Frank is a successful, serial entrepreneur, and tells about his experience growing Rubicon from a small startup to a much larger team. I run a very different company today than I did a year ago. In short, I've had to go from playing "running back", to "quarterback" to now "coach." Read the rest of Frank's post. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Ross Weber: ClickTripz is an advertising platform for travel advertisers. What''s different about your platform that more general advertising platforms? Ross Weber: We''re not here to replace ad platforms like Google Adsense. ross weber clicktripz travel advertising publisher interview entrepreneur' READ MORE>>.

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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. We also have executives who have built and sold companies, and have experience as entrepreneurs, who can help walk teams through the startup process, and save them from making the mistakes we have made building or growing our own companies.

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MARCH 21, 2012

The standard model for an accelerator is, they provide a tranche of equity, along with a suite of services that varies by different accelerator. Because of that, you get to meet slots of people in the community, because there's such a prolific number of entrepreneurs. The amount of capital varies by accelerator.

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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. Do you make an investment in those startups?

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Keith Bonnici: We have created a platform that lets standard web publishers tap into the growing pool of money being spent by app developers to market their products. All of the sudden, there was a growth in users coming from mobile platforms. You see users moving to a platform that doesn''t monetize advertising as well.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

It's called Flyte Bike and it was created by an entrepreneur that works out of HUB101 with me named Robin Palmer. He also created a white label fundraising portal for individuals and businesses hoping to crowdfund ventures independently of major platforms. Alon Goren: I am loving all of the ai products out there and use x.ai

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

What's the biggest lesson you've learned so far as an entrepreneur? The very first product we built got us into Amplify, but we ended up scrapping that entire platform. We put a lot of work, and took in money, but ended up scrapping that platform and building a complete new one.

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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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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors. One, is how to create a more scalable and efficient platform. There's lot of great stuff happening here.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have started five companies. Our web software platform lets those groups address a younger generation, deal with micro billing and donations, and communicate in the new medium more effective than they used to. What's your background, and how did you get into this? Finally, what's the business model here?

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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. Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming. Share on Twitter. Share on Google+.

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MARCH 4, 2021

It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. That's what's exciting about Wavemaker Labs, we're building multiple companies on the same platform and raising capital into them to enter different industries. What is Miso Robotics?

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MARCH 1, 2012

While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. That was a rocket ride as well, and that took us to a top 10 website, and NBC took an equity steak in the company. After IAC, I started my own company, MerchEngines, which was a search marketing platform for local businesses.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Ultimately, we expect those to be ad-funded by different advertisers involved in our platform. You mentioned you had been on the investment side of things -- what pushed you to become an entrepreneur? But, at the en dof the day, the value is created at the entrepreneur level. Scott Saunders: It's where the action is.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. That's the entrepreneur we get excited about working with.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. That's the entrepreneur we get excited about working with.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

But, we have a non-equity dilutive product, and we accelerate cash flow. If you are a publisher, and have receivables from agencies, ad networks, sell side platforms, we'll aggregate them and give you a single payment every month, and put cash in your business on an ongoing business.

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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. OTHER DEALS.

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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.&#. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio?

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