TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2018

On a mild Thursday night at the Los Angeles Forum , Nike’s public relations team and a group of journalists from some of the country’s leading lifestyle, tech, and general interest websites gathered to see the debut of Nike’s most ambitious SNKRS stash drop. At least on the first night, things didn’t go as planned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

As a simple example, the Wal-Mart website now shows shoppers more products that they may like, based on previous purchases. That means that many companies are now forgoing the rush to go public (IPO), in favor of major equity investments from specialized venture capital funds, such as Japan’s SoftBank.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

Innovation must be applied to your business model, your processes, as well as your product offering. Aim to obsolete your own products with new, before competitors do it. You may start with prototype products, but you need rock-solid processes for successful growth and agility. Don’t let that communication fade post-launch.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

This week, we saw the interconnectedness of major institutions as crypto lending protocol Celsius stuttered and brought down Ethereum prices with it as investors feared a price collapse brought on by reportedly over-leveraged players like 3 Arrows Capital. This week, we’re looking at a new layer of crypto doom and gloom. crash redux.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Many of the growth equity firms have had outbound dialing programs for years. Growth equity firms typically target profitable businesses that are often not technical in nature. Perhaps outbound dialing / emailing programs worked well for growth equity firms in their core business. “Hi [entrepreneur], I hope all is well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The newest equity model was passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability in the USA, waiting for the rules to be defined by the SEC: Startup equity crowd funding. Kickstarter is the big player in this space. There is no concept of ROI other than product.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company? Turns out like most things there are no simple answers. Let’s set up a framework. Here’s overall what you need to know. Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

There are lots of products that might look for any mention of a product name or company name, and yes, we do that--but more importantly, we are also analyzing situations that arise. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. A good example of this, we can keep track of a supply chain.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2018

We charge zero, and take no equity, and really there are very small operational costs for us to support startups. Lots of other programs for startups are not great players, so what we want to be is to be that support cohort to help startups get to the next stage. Explain how a pre-accelerator is different compared with an accelerator?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We wanted to create as much value for the existing players in the ecosystem, the existing lender, and existing borrowers, and existing investors. As opposed to other players in the real estate arena, is we're very focused on a specific kind of asset. in a funding round. Photo: Brew Johnson on left, Brett Crosby on right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Providing your product or service free to customers may sound attractive in marketing materials, but you need revenue sources to survive. Make sure you name your key players and advisors, and include any prior startup experience and prior leadership in the relevant business domain. The details can be added later.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

Nick Hedges: Level Equity led the most recent round, have Sigia Ventures in Menlo Park, and we have DFJ Frontier, those are the main investors, but we do have a variety of other investors. Car rental companies, retail, all of the big chains have a need to be discovered locally. Those are proximity-based searches.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

While all of this is going on you are trying to get customers to use your product, enterprises to sign contracts that don’t leave you with unlimited liabilities and landlords to take you in with limited deposits or guarantees. In a word – you are truly vulnerable. If you have success you have to make hard choices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

The newest model was passed into law recently via the JOBS Act , and won’t even be available until the end of this year or maybe mid-2013 in the USA, while waiting for the rules to be finalized: Startup equity crowd funding. Kickstarter is the big player in this space. There is no concept of ROI other than product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

As a model, think high-quality marketing collateral, with text and graphics in columns and sidebars, but focused on the value of your business, rather than selling your product. Make sure you name your key players and advisors, and include any prior startup experience and prior experience in the relevant business domain.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

As some of the last generation of startups have gotten bigger many VCs have also chased later-stage investments that were traditionally dominated by growth equity or mezzanine funds. And of course hedge funds and growth-equity funds can’t resist trying to get earlier-stage exposure again. The Blurring of Investment Lines.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 5, 2011

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked also netted in new customers such as Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital, and Equity Partners, NextView Ventures and crowd-funding service AI Verified which will take advantage of its iPad compatibility, bulk uploading, and reporting tools. iOS Compatibility. According to Eric M. The innovation is in line with the industry trends.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We can even do things like tell you the most popular, Gemini basketball player, yet another way to connect with famous people. We also sold one of our largest sites to a private equity firm in the real estate niche, and narrowed our focus down to FamousBirthdays.com. What is FamousBirthdays.com? The first, is popularity rankings.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

And when it comes to timing, wait until you’ve come up with a working prototype and developed your product before you seek external funding. If you’re raising funds from angels you’ll likely need to get investments from several different players. This can be a great way to test your product and get customer feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2013

Lack of confidence in your self, your product, and your startup is a surefire recipe for disaster. Also written plans are much more effective communication to your employees, lawyers, accountants, and other key players in your rollout. “If At the other extreme, too much confidence or arrogance can kill you just as fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

In all cases, an investor will ask to talk to all key players, and will likely follow-up by calling references and prior associates to verify background, commitment, and experience. This is the mysterious and dreaded due diligence process, which can kill the whole deal. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

You might be aware of their products – perhaps having seen their digital media signs in your favorite local restaurant or bar, but what you might not know is their compelling founders’ story and unique company culture. “We want to innovate the digital ad space in a whole new way.”. Meet Nanxi Liu, CEO and a cofounder of Enplug.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

And human food production is just one aspect of agricultural technology—a vast field that also includes animal food and more. At Xconomy, we have seen growing investments in the sector—both in a rash of new agtech startups and by bigger players such Monsanto, Bayer Crop Sciences, and Syngenta.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Lack of confidence in your self, your product, and your startup is a surefire recipe for disaster. Also written plans are much more effective communication to your employees, lawyers, accountants, and other key players in your rollout. At the other extreme, too much confidence or arrogance can kill you just as fast.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Jackson added that the firm was proud of its product, and even uses its own software to manage their capital raised from investors. Cloud-based business transactions platform, CapLinked ,today announced additional investors and the final results of its Series A financing round totaling to $2.1 Over $3M Raised. million in the Series A round.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

You might be aware of their products – perhaps having seen their digital media signs in your favorite local restaurant or bar, but what you might not know is their compelling founders’ story and unique company culture. “We want to innovate the digital ad space in a whole new way.”. Meet Nanxi Liu, CEO and a cofounder of Enplug.

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Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 81

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2011

Lack of confidence in your self, your product, and your startup is a surefire recipe for disaster. Also written plans are much more effective communication to your employees, lawyers, accountants, and other key players in your rollout. “If At the other extreme, too much confidence or arrogance can kill you just as fast.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

We''re all about communications, outreach, and consumer facing products, in addition to those core business solutions built around the enterprise. Ticketing and registration are starting to collide, and all those monopolistic playersthe Ticketmasters, Cvents, and Eventbriteswere all created 20 years ago. What is Events.com all about?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

There has recently been a common theme among the entrepreneurs I have interviewed and the conferences I have attended: despite the relatively weak state of the world economy, now is a great time to create a high-tech startup. As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, I will recruit independent distributors and they will sell my new and innovative products on my behalf. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! 1) Expect Independent Channel Sales Reps To Perform Missionary Sales. Rationale: I cannot afford to hire a direct sales force.

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From the Venture Trenches

MAY 21, 2013

In a recent update on LinkedIn Jason Calacanis recommended raising money on the promise of an idea, before a company launches its product. Since investors are looking to minimize the risk they are taking the more you prove your model works, the higher the price an investor will pay for equity in that business.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). VC Financings: 1. 15mm in Series A.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

draws closer, more gene therapy players are entering the public markets. Its three lead products, for Pompe (AT982), Crigler-Najjar (AT342), and X-Linked myotubular myopathy (AT132), are expected to produce preliminary data from their first trials in the second half of next year.

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