Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I am taking the lead from GRP and we also invested alongside a number of friends including Dave McClure, Dave Tisch, Ben Smith (Merchant Circle), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Jason Calacanis, Evan Rifkin, Jennifer Lum, Jay Weintraub and a whole host of other angels. I first met Ethan in 2005. The company was called Red Beacon.

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SoCal Delicious

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. Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Much like the model employed by TechStars and Y-Combinator, MuckerLab will recruit Internet software, services, and media entrepreneurs through an open, but selective, application process. At the end of the program, companies present their businesses to potential investors at a Demo Day event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2013

Entrepreneurs often put off the hassle and the cost of filing a patent until first funding. Finding a lawyer early is easy these days, through local networking or even online services like LegalZoom. entrepreneur startup legal shortcuts investor founder business' Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

So much so that when a friend of my family was looking for an internship at a local Boston company I contacted my friend Jeff Bussgang at Flybridge who hooked him up with interviews and he stayed in Boston rather than working in financial services in NYC for the summer. It creates recycled capital + 2nd-time entrepreneurs … on steroids.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

The more conventional VP of Marketing role should cover branding, as well as other marketing advertising, design, public relations and customer service requirements. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet. Chief Risk Officer. Chief Security Officer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. on the entrepreneur side of the table) when I raised at too high of a price. This is wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2012

Entrepreneurs often put off the hassle and the cost of filing a patent until first funding. Finding a lawyer early is easy these days, through local networking or even online services like LegalZoom. Then you will only have pay tax on the increasing value of your shares when they are sold. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

How has the attorney response been to your service? Michael Chasin: We initially started with $30,000 in angel funding from an entrepreneur here in Los Angeles. That''s why people turn to Legalzoom and Docstoc, and use those free documents because they just don''t want to deal with lawyers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The more conventional VP of Marketing role should cover branding, as well as other marketing advertising, design, public relations and customer service requirements. If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet. Chief Risk Officer. Chief Security Officer.

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socalTECH

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. Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. Jeff Zwelling is one of those. What kind of customers are using the tool?

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

We thought we'd get the background on the new effort directly from Jason Nazar , CEO and founder of Docstoc, to learn more about the new service. We want to make sure the marketplace is for professional content, so we screen to make sure the seller is a professional or small business owner, or a startup or entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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