socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2015

West Hollywood-based Orbitera , a developer of a cloud-based software product to help companies the sales of cloud-based software and services, including managing leads, trial subscriptions, billing, and operations, has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The company disclosed the funding Thursday.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

According to Local Markte Launch, it is developing a "local presence solution" which helps businesses get found easier by search engines, by optimizing business listings on the local level. in funding, including an earlier seed funding. The company said it has now raised $2.7M READ MORE>>.

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Search Engine Optimization Marketing Santa Barbara Seed Funding 178

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree has been around since 2016 and has more funding than its up-and-coming competitors. But for creators seeking to monetize their following, these newer platforms may be more attractive to some creators, since they already have built-in tools to help them monetize their followings. With its $5.5 With its $5.5

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Platform Commerce Startup Tool 286

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

The startup has developed a system which uses information from online forums, source code sharing, technical communities, and the like to help find and rank technical talent. We help rank the talent pool, objectively, by their accomplishments in the ecosystem. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today.

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Sites Startup Tool CTO Hire 240

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need.

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Incubator Startup Help Resource 98

socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2011

According to Serious Business , it has raised a second round of seed funding from Brave New Ventures to fund the effort. The firm said it will work with creative talent to "produce television formats with a web sensibility" and also help develop digital platforms into TV and digital projects.

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Entertainment Funding Seed Funding Web 157

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. After an initial round of seed funding of $500k led by Pasadena’s Idealab, Mingly saw great success as they built up their Gmail user base. Finally, some solid relief.

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Web Social Network Email Networking 74

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Los Angeles-based ShareSquare , a new startup focused on the QR Code creation area, has launched its services this week, focusing on helping musicians and entertainers create QR codes. QR codes are three dimensional barcodes which can be recognized by mobile phones to connect users with web sites and other information. READ MORE>>.

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Seed Funding Entertainment Los Angeles Web 154

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

According to the Tech Coast Angels' Richard Sudek, Chairman of the TCA, the group is looking to hold bi-monthly mixers which will help entrepreneurs connect with its angel investors, after a successful mixer in late 2009. The angel group also mentioned a web site design as part of its initiatives this year. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Orange County Seed Funding Santa Barbara 157

SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2012

Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. In the mean time, if you need some extra help, get some contractors to test out specific things. In other words, they come in asking for help with sourcing and hiring. Far from it.

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CTO Hire Outsource Development CTO Coach Develop 205

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need.

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Organization Incubator Startup Resource 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need.

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Resource Startup Incubator Seed Funding 159

socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based Sidevision (www.sidevision.com) has developed a set of tools--aimed at content creators, multi-channel networks (MCNs), and others--to help connect online videos with e-commerce. We also helped launch a company Pluto.TV. We helped them at an early stage. as part of that company''s Warner Media Camp accelerator.

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Commerce Content Downey Media 153

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

The Amplify partners are dedicated to helping their entrepreneurs build the best companies possible and they throw themselves into it with great passion. We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011.

Web Design 103

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

At Upfront when we know we have a winning hand we prefer to put more capital to work, which both helps the entrepreneurs succeed and drives more aggregate financial returns for our LPs. For start, there are many types of businesses that are large or complex “considered purchases” that have higher close rates over the phone than on a web form.

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Venture Capital IP Startup Google 223

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Right from the beginning, we also partnered with a young web development agency for development and technical consulting – they are now more than business partners, they are friends and part of the team. Any funding yet? ExploreB2B Wants To help You Network With People Of Your Profession appeared first on TechZulu.

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Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

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

JUNE 1, 2012

We caught up with co-founder Michael Wong , who told us about how the company is looking to change the model for local check-ins, and also help businesses with getting the word out about their services. It helps local businesses, events, and brands to promote themselves, based on the location of their users. What is MergeLocal?

CTO Coach 223

CTO Coach Startup Mobile Artificial Inteligence 223

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

If you watch this I think you’ll agree with me that you can’t help but really like this guy. This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Fandango 230

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

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Entrepreneur Startup Seed Funding Incubator 101

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Forum December 9th Lineup - Startup Houston , November 27, 2010 When to step on the gas and go for it?

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need.

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Incubator Startup Resource Seed Funding 87

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. That was left to the realm of friends and family. Early-stage startup.

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Startup Funding Seed Funding Incubator 92

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps. Most people really hadn't tapped into the mobile web. That helped tremendously, and was part of our secret sauce. That enabled us to set up the organization in a fashion that really helped us succeed.

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Mobile Startup Content Advertising 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. To find what’s available in your area, take a look at the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) web site, and use the lookup tool provided.

Entrepreneur 86

Entrepreneur Incubator Startup Seed Funding 86

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. To find what’s available in your area, take a look at the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) web site, and use the lookup tool provided.

Incubator 93

Incubator Startup Seed Funding Mentor 93

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2015

Good news, Fixed , the San Francisco app that helps drivers fight tickets has just launched in Los Angeles after raising an additional $650,000 in seed funding last February. You know the ones, they go something like this; if it is a full moon on Friday, you can park here for 2.5 Yeah, purposefully vague.

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Los Angeles Angel Software Review Seed Funding 40

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2010

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as shared facilities and space. To find what’s available in your area, take a look at the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) web site, and use the lookup tool provided. Marty Zwilling.

Incubator 93

Incubator Startup Seed Funding Mentor 93

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

We're providing seed funding, office space, and put them through a three month, structured program. If you're familiar with YCombinator or TechStars, you know that companies also get access to a deep network of top tier mentors and advisors, who help them with a variety of things, such as product marketing, go-to-market, and funding.

Technical Advisors 176

Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

The Amplify partners are dedicated to helping their entrepreneurs build the best companies possible and they throw themselves into it with great passion. We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are - Chris Dixon , July 5, 2010 Paul Kedrosky recently speculated that there might be seed fund “crash&# looming.

Startup 217

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

What are the details on your seed funding? However, our users and target audience are really the younger, web-savvy, college educated, and very technologically comfortable consumers. He got his MBA here, and went back to help start this company. That''s what our seed round is about, to help us achieve that goal.

Services 215

Services Technical Review Startup Pricing 215

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. billion). . <Note:

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with helping build Huddlewoo, Ferres is building a web marketing agency called Ciplex and also runs a company called Creative Priority that helps web marketing companies become more successful. Any funding yet? We have received seed funding from a friend and it is personally funded.

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Mentor Platform Social Network Chief Technology Officer 94

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. The expanding pool of angel, seed, and super seed funds is another.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. in initial seed funding for an early stage company. How tough was it to start up a new fund? Brian Garrett: Fundraising was absolutely brutal, and still is.

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. Index Seed : Index Ventures carves out seed fund from existing $400mm fund. SV Angel / Ron Conway closes $20mm venture fund. Over demand led the SV Angel team to double the size of the fund to $20 million. We had a nice debate.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270