Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. Create company measures for success that go beyond financial metrics. You manage what you measure so be careful about having too narrowly defined of performance metrics. And importantly we’ve had revenue.

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

Shane Bernstein: We look at actionable data points and data metrics which are quantifiable across the web, and we qualify them and normalize that data, and sort them based on what they've done. So what's the status of the company, and what kind of funding have you received? We've just started to go out to look for a seed funding round.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

There were no metrics. Him: On metrics. In finance they call it “terminal value” but the truth is the price is as arbitrary at your A round as it is at your seed round. If we priced it based on any metrics your company would likely be worth less than 7 figures at your A round. So a convertible note was easier.

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Venture Capital Capital Pricing Doc 417

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

Can you talk about how your company is funded? Michael Wong: We're with StartEngine, and have received a small amount of seed funding from them. We're also funding it out of pocket. We're seeing all of that growth from friend invites, with at least one of those four joining so far.

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CTO Coach Startup Mobile Artificial Inteligence 223

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. Talk a bit about your funding, and how you got to it? Three years later, there's no looking back, and we've now raised around $2M in total funding. The company has raised $1.9M We spoke with CEO and co-founder Spencer Price to learn more about the company.

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Pricing Startup North Hollywood Platform 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Let's start with an overview of the fund. We closed our fund in August of 2008. How tough was it to start up a new fund?

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

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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Steve Reich

AUGUST 15, 2015

If you can’t raise from a few strong angels, from seed funds or from a VC then raising from a ton (let’s say 20+) angels is a perfectly acceptable strategy. The company I work for, Malauzai Software, was initially funded by a small group of industry insiders, and later rounds were all done with strategic investors.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

One question everyone asks is what investors look for when deciding whether or not to fund a startup. VCs are interested in funding companies with large potential markets…enough to provide them with a ten times return on their investment. Having a high-caliber team with a good track record and a clear value proposition are givens.

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Seed Funding Course Metrics Invest 40

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. Metrics availability. Not so bad. Performance.

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