From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

The value that is being “added” is often at arms length or via a specialist who interacts with the entrepreneur. But like a Darwinian experiment, the extent to which these gifts are utilized remains entirely up to each individual entrepreneur.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. The product right now is like basic Facebook, and we are updating it to a new format we think more people will want, sort of a hybrid between Pinterest and Reddit, so that you can have any combination of features between those two. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

I’ve been loving the product even if it sucks up some of my time. They need to have the right tools, social status, rewards and stickiness to your product because they don’t want to abandon their creation. Design the product to accomodate needs of all three. Two days ago I wrote about Quora.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Atlas Powered has raised $700k from Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, LaunchpadLA, and Clark Landry. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products. . · YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Much of this is unfounded – some is not. the link is here.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Over the past ten years, the rise of the consumer web and the availability of better measurement too. Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. .

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Adam Bell (@datatv) - Web Design and Branding with an attitude! CarmenElena Mitchell (@therealgirls) - Creator, "The Real Girls Guide to Everything Else" Web Series. Cash Warren (@cash_warren) - producer, entrepreneur, president of Verso Entertainment. Derrick N (@ashong) - musician, artist, activist, and entrepreneur.

Social Media 40

Social Media Journal Media Education 40

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. More Products. Web Design Software. Web Hosting Software. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Acquisition. Venture capital. Developers. Infographics. Management. Electric cars. Hybrid cars. Renewable energy. Streaming media. Digital Cameras. Game Consoles. GPS Navigation. Headphones.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

So I invested in Maker Studios , which is now the 3rd largest producer of Internet video on the web. But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. He then of course launched the FOWA (future of web apps) conference , which was very successful. Full product out shortly. Full stop.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. So I asked her this: “What do I do with my 1,000th post?”.

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