socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2013

The new funding was led by Rincon Venture Partners, and also included 500 Startups, Daher Capital, Floodlight Ventures, Cooley LLP, Drummond Road Capital, and Eric Hammond. The company said its software is based on the open source Bootstrap framework which was developed by Twitter. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

When racism is built into the technical framework of a company, it perpetuates a false idea that white people are superior to Black people. . Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area – GeekWire. The latest in the battle over Prop 22 and AB 5.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

His framework seems to be picking up some traction, and is already in use informally by several entrepreneurship platforms, universities, and even high school programs. You go all over the country, the world, and the Web searching for “best practices” in marketing, finance, planning, and funding. Internal forces (your startup team).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Your idea will attract the funding you need. Will key funding be your family’s entire nest egg, or just half? Mix personal and business funds. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Never commingle personal and business funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media News 104

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2021

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. These can easily result in CEO/Founder replacement or funding freezes if not handled openly and above-board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

I like their recommended framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. The initiator funds the innovators’ development activities and gives them the flexibility to work independently.

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Organization CTO Hire Outsource Development Startup 132

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

.” This historical look at Uber and its self-driving tech unit, Uber ATG, should be considered alongside more recent news, including that it’s in negotiations with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, to secure an investment as large as $1 billion for its autonomous vehicles unit. Deal of the week. Megan Rose Dickey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Your idea will attract the funding you need. Will key funding be your family’s entire nest egg, or just half? Mix personal and business funds. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Never commingle personal and business funds.

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Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 127

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

Investors are looking for breakthrough solutions to fund. But we all know that these are not solutions by themselves, but require integration into an innovative framework to solve real customer problems. That integration is the breakthrough that you should be looking for as an entrepreneur. Try that mindset next time!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. By fund II (2007) he was able to raise $15 million (if you watch the video you’ll hear an interesting story of how he did this) and he had a proper fund. I think they were all brand new or just forming.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. When times are really good for fund raising many teams delay to maximize their valuation. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. It seems to me that we obsess too much with product features, sales pipelines, competitive pressures, fund raising and such.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital. The company is all about data solutions which combine meaningful application frameworks together. You're received some funding lately? David Loo: Yes, we recently landed our Series B, our second round of funding. What is Perspectium? How did you get into this?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Let’s set up a framework. We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

We track which investment firms and which investment partners are a good fit for each company we have back so that we don’t have a scattergun approach to fund raising. The reality is the best angels, the best seed funds and the best A-round investors have choices about whom they will refer deals to and are very selective.

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Venture Capital Startup Invest Course 150

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

They funded their new company with their own money and started some serious ad testing. What if we could build ads that people actually like on the same framework advertisers are used to?” The founders bootstrapped Lyfe Mobile and plugged away until they received their first round of funding. “We had this crazy idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. Perhaps the best they can do is to help fund their successors. It is not a beach novel to be sure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

They over think the decision framework. And when we didn’t ship product on time, didn’t get the biz dev deals we wanted competed, didn’t get our market messages out and the founder says, “sorry, I had too many other priorities – like fund raising” they know it will fall on deaf ears with me. Check your legal framework.

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Startup Technical Review Framework Entrepreneur 335

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2015

Your idea will attract the funding you need. Will key funding be your family’s entire nest egg, or just half? Mix personal and business funds. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Never commingle personal and business funds.

Startup 109

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 109

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

The company recently raised $8M in a funding from Evolution Media, Aspect Ventures, Upfront Ventures, as well as a long list of angels. An example was Rob Thomas, the Producer of Veronica Mars, where we helped him partner with Kickstarter to help fund the Veronica Mars movie. Talk about this funding and what's next for you?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

Today I’d like to give that advice in more tangible terms and with a framework to think about your tasks – the funnel. VC meetings are easy to come by but money in the bank is the only thing that will fund your next 12 months. We all know the type of person who lives in the top end of the funnel.

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Startup Framework Sales Venture Capital 150

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the article: Mithril had its best moment yet last week when a portfolio company, Auris Health, sold to Johnson & Johnson for more than $3 billion — returning at least $500 million to the fund. Will “Diet CA-HSR” even get done as feds look to pull back California funding. All appears well. billion it has already coughed up.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. That way the strategic isn’t as involved in the early-stage messy stuff when you need to quickly change direction when your strategy isn’t working and need to get more funding rounds done.

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Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur Framework 279

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

There is much talk these days that startup valuations have decreased and may continue to do so and that the amount of time it takes to fund raise may take longer. months for fund raising start to finish and make sure you have at least 6 month’s of cash if it takes longer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2018

Your idea will attract the funding you need. Will key funding be your family’s entire nest egg, or just half? Mix personal and business funds. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Never commingle personal and business funds.

Startup 63

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 63

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

If you’ve read any of my ongoing series on fund raising from venture capitalist (episode 1?— ?controlling Decision Dynamics Each firm makes decisions in different ways so understanding the firm’s decision framework matters. How does the partnership typically make its final investment decisions?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Invest Slides 314

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

Your idea will attract the funding you need. Will key funding be your family’s entire nest egg, or just half? Mix personal and business funds. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Never commingle personal and business funds.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Framework 106

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.” It’s harmful and hurtful to the startup and those that lead it. ” Of course I agree with this.

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Startup Sales CTO Coach Course 150

Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

Just over a year later, Jurvetson led the Series A round of venture funding for Nervana Systems. Nervana says the souped-up capabilities of its Neon software framework enable it to run 10 times faster on Nvidia processors—faster even than Nvidia’s own software framework.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

Last week, the firm announced a funding round and a couple of key advisors, as the company looks to ramp its social gaming efforts and leverage a deal with Zynga. Finally, what are you doing with that new funding? What does it take to take a social gaming firm to the next level? We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It needs to be funded to be successful. It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. There's a cutoff point once you reach roughly 3 person months of development time. The grind is too much and too long if it gets beyond that size.

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Guide Startup Mobile Framework 349

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2019

and China, as thought leaders in this area, so their framework for reinventing your business organization, with some of my own insights, is definitely worth a look: Environment: Fund a group to track market changes. These authors are widely recognized, both in the U.S.

Organization 57

Organization Framework Resource Customer 57

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup News Framework 105