Funding Media Seed Funding Writing 
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
In the past 5 years some of the best investors in the country could simply anoint winners by giving them large amounts of capital at high prices and then the media hype machine would create awareness, talent would race to join the next perceived $10bn winner and if the music never stops then everybody is happy. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Assess potential for funding or bootstrapping. If you will need to supplement your own funds and assets for your business, don’t wait for a crisis to enlist family, friends, angel investors, or start a crowdfunding campaign. Remember that investors tend to fund entrepreneurs, not ideas. No presence gives you no credibility.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2014
In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. I have no money?
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 14, 2009
Very few people fund individuals. Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2019
The first check I wrote was just over 10 years ago into a company called Invoca who just announced a new $56 million in funding led by Scott Hilleboe at HIG Growth Partners. We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 15 million first checks but we also have three growth funds.
TechCrunch LA
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. The first phase was the rise of the media platforms: YouTube, Instagram, etcetera, that allowed creatives to build audiences.
From the Venture Trenches
APRIL 30, 2013
Although the first draft of this post began when Kluge was a proud member of NextSpace; as of this writing we have moved to a bigger office to accommodate our expanding team. Jeff Solomon and Chris Olson are often the last guys to turn out the lights and the first ones in the door on any given morning.
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