SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

Okay, so now you have it narrowed down and have determined that you need: Part-Time CTO or Technology Advisor to help guide you and close a bit of the Startup Founder Developer Gap , and Equity-Only Cofounder Developer - the first real developer that will work for equity and produce the bulk of the application.

CTO Hire 211

CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

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. We're focused a lot on the e-commerce site, because we're not a social network, and we're really a social commerce platform that connects into everyone's favorite social networks.

Help 113

Help Commerce Platform Orange County 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2013

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. For crowdfunding, seventy to eight percent of your funding will come from your primary and secondary social network. Josef Holm: Equity-based crowdfunding.

Content 231

Content Platform Sites Web 231

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. Why did you decide to start yet another social networking site? Our demographic is the 22 to 32 year old.

Social Network 100

Social Network Entertainment Startup CTO Coach 100

TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2018

Mostly, the aim seems to be providing something affordable for working professionals willing to accept a smaller private living space in exchange for a choice location, easy move-in and a ready-made social network. At Starcity, residents pay $2,000 to $2,300 a month, all expenses included, depending on length of stay.

Startup 272

Startup Los Angeles Demand Social Network 272

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

We spent our future since the equity was artificial. It is also a result of pent-up demand. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary. It affects even B2B companies because ultimately most must sell to companies who sell to consumers and if they suffer they cut back on suppliers. So why the ’09 bounce?

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Startup Funding Technical Review 269

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

…” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regularly use along with Twitter. You are either bought for stock or for equity. Think about it.

Venture Capital 316

Venture Capital Pricing Social Network Acquisition 316

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Delivering a superlative experience is the only way to get truly loyal clients, repeat business, and expansion through social networks. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth.

Startup 97

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Starting a business may be fun, but it’s not easy. Marketing is top priority. Start even before the product is ready.

Startup 100

Startup Patents Competition Social Network 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Starting a business may be fun, but it’s not easy. Marketing is top priority. Start even before the product is ready.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Patents Startup Ideas 102

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 5, 2016

With Shark Tank , The Social Network , and all of these “unicorns” with quick exits and huge payouts, I can understand why the sentiment is skewed. Too many people think they can become an entrepreneur overnight and establish a real business in a 1-2 year window, but it’s just not realistic. Where’s that discussion?

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Social Network Startup Ideas 40

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Barter services and use equity to get things done for minimum cash. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Make every effort to do things “in house”, rather than rely on outside services, accountants, and law firms. Create intellectual property.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Social Network Startup Patents 98

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Delivering a superlative experience is the only way to get truly loyal clients, repeat business, and expansion through social networks. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

They did it entirely through social networking. 20k from StartEngine, and a lot of sweat equity from the founders. TripTrotting recruited thousands of local travel guides for their site. You can go to virtually any city in the world and meet a local who will tell you about their city. No wonder they just raised $1mm.

Incubator 91

Incubator Entrepreneur Web Santa Barbara 91

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. At that point, you can't really just try to find someone to build it on the side, do equity only, etc. Along the way, this gradually turned into hunting programmers in the wild. It needs to be funded to be successful.

Guide 349

Guide Startup Mobile Framework 349

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Barter services and use equity to get things done for minimum cash. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Make every effort to do things “in house”, rather than rely on outside services, accountants, and law firms. Create intellectual property.

Tips 102

Tips Help Startup Blogging 102

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Here is the inverse, sometimes called reverse due diligence, describing what you should do to validate your investor before signing up for an equity partnership. Check track record on the Internet and social networks. I’ve had startup founders tell me that it’s only about the color of the money, but I disagree.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Offshore Invest Social Network 96

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company.

Company 290

Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Barter services and use equity to get things done for minimum cash. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Make every effort to do things “in house”, rather than rely on outside services, accountants, and law firms. Create intellectual property.

Mentor 100

Mentor Startup Social Network Patents 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Delivering a superlative experience is the only way to get truly loyal clients, repeat business, and expansion through social networks. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

To do that, the firm has combined the world of social networking and personal finance with its newly launched service. Scott Saunders, the CEO and co-founder, of the company is hoping to change that, by providing tools to consumers to help pay off their debt and achieve their life goals. Tell me the story behind Payoff.com?

Startup 197

Startup Ideas Southern California Social Network 197

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Starting a business may be fun, but it’s not easy. Marketing is top priority. Start even before the product is ready.

Startup 88

Startup Patents Competition Social Network 88

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. At that point, you can't really just try to find someone to build it on the side, do equity only, etc. Along the way, this gradually turned into hunting programmers in the wild. It needs to be funded to be successful.

Guide 296

Guide Startup Mobile Framework 296

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Delivering a superlative experience is the only way to get truly loyal clients, repeat business, and expansion through social networks. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth.

Sales 96

Sales Metrics Startup Guide 96

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

On the one hand it denied Facebook from enormous amounts of web traffic that Google controlled at the time but in the longer-run due to network effects of social networks it made Facebook significantly more powerful. It is a really big historical decision that Facebook made not to have Google index its pages.

Startup 150

Startup Google Software Review Snapchat 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Line up an experienced team. Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” Define some intellectual property.

Angel 104

Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here is the inverse, sometimes called reverse due diligence, describing what you should do to validate your investor before signing up for an equity partnership. Check track record on the Internet and social networks. I’ve had startup founders tell me that it’s only about the color of the money, but I disagree.

Offshore 89

Offshore Entrepreneur Invest Social Network 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2010

Barter services and use equity to get things done for minimum cash. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Make every effort to do things “in house”, rather than rely on outside services, accountants, and law firms. Create intellectual property.

Guide 92

Guide Startup Social Network Patents 92

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In the beginning, when there is nothing, it’s easy to make promises or throw around equity. 5) As an investor, I frankly find it tiresome the degree to which entrepreneurs attempt to hype their companies by integrating “social networks and social media” into their pitches. Write it down…. Question is, ‘How is it used?’

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Line up an experienced team. Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” Define some intellectual property.

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

This drove Mike to follows his passion in lieu of returning to the private equity world he had been in prior to business school. But it is really the secondary social layer that makes this new technology incredibly exciting. To take on such a daunting industry Mike knew he needed a co-founder with bill pay experience.

Conference 96

Conference Orange County Technical Review Software Review 96

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

In addition, we use primary and secondary social networking information, in order to verify they are who they say they are. Shivani Siroya: I started out pretty traditionally in investment banking, doing equity research at UBS. Do that have the capability, and the second piece is around behavior and their likelihood to repay.

Startup 100

Startup Santa Monica Custom Customer 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations.

Funding 112

Funding Entrepreneur Startup CTO Hire 112

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

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. I did that, and the company was acquired by Disney to provide the Go Network, and I became part of Go Network at Disney. I then moved on to Infoseek, which at the time was just a search engine. We sold that to IAC.

Southern California 245

Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. This is how you will make money, who pays you, and gross margins.

Competition 113

Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Line up an experienced team. Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” Define some intellectual property.

Angel 89

Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations.

Startup 104

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 104