Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Barter your services for their services.

Tips 104

Tips Startup Technical Review Equity 104

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

With the firepower of TPG behind the combined entity, Integrated Media could bolt on other media companies and then monetize them using the sales engine developed by StackCommerce. TPG’s in-depth media expertise will make for a brighter future for our partners through further investment in our industry-leading commerce tools and services.”.

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Media Commerce Company Companies 134

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

MuckerLab's model is based on the TechStars incubation model, and the group is an affiliate of that startup accelerator. MuckerLab has been fairly successful in attracting venture capital interest in its prior class of companies, with a significant chunk of the group's inagural class gaining venture or angel funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Barter your services for their services.

Startup 128

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 128

Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. In 1998, Hinshaw sold another health IT consulting firm, Resources in Health Care Innovations, to Daou Systems, a San Diego-based provider of health IT services.

San Diego 67

San Diego CIO Incubator Startup 67

Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Founded in 2013 by de Haaff and Chris Waters in the Bay Area, the company announced in July it had surpassed $40 million in annual recurring revenue from the subscribers to its software-as-a-service. Aha makes a program that helps project managers develop new product roadmaps, which are used by others in the customer’s business, from sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Barter your services for their services.

Startup 87

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 87

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Barter your services for their services.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Equity 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Barter your services for their services.

Entrepreneur 113

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Barter your services for their services.

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Develop Development Product Startup 70

Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 22, 2010

Once you have some skin in the game, if you personally can’t get to some level of revenues in the business, or at a minimum, pre-sales or letters of intent, then on to round two – asking family and friends for help. If you are pre-revenue, have pre-sales, letters of intent and/or customer commitments. Friends and Family.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 13, 2015

Shelon currently serves as a Managing Partner/Investment Advisor at Turnkey Partners and the Founder/CEO to BizTechIQ™, a hands-on Tech Startup Incubator + Pre/Post – Accelerator for students, entertainers, athletes and professionals.

Journal 70

Journal Incubator Networking Education 70

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Barter your services for their services.

Startup 123

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 123

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. Barter your services for their services.

Startup 53

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 53

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

If you were a big company like Proctor & Gamble, for instance, you'd have a whole side of your business with IT, for your sales, marketing, and financial folks. Paul Myer: Veracity was originally part of Frost Data Capital, as part of their incubator. We've now exited the incubator and actually have an office at Microsemi.

Networking 124

Networking Startup Incubator Orange County 124

Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

In San Diego, the Irvine Company provided the entire second floor of its Broadway Street building at no cost for the downtown EvoNexus incubator. A number of tech startups that graduated from the EvoNexus incubator have moved into other offices in the building. We’re not doing this to position a building for sale,” he said. “We

Develop 40

Develop Development San Diego Startup 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Bartering services for equity. Partner with distributor or beneficiary.

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Technical Review Equity Incubator Venture Capital 103

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

If you''ve ever ordered flowers from one of the big floral services, you know it''s an impersonal, cookie-cutter, and heavily commoditized area. The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Those that try generally agree and remain customers – but since we are initially asking Clinicians to change the format of their practice delivery, the initial sale can be challenging. My first company, Web Elite, provided high-end Web and application development services for the Automotive community (suppliers and OEMs).

Competition 122

Competition Mobile Startup Technical Review 122

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

” Last year, I was introduced to Karma’s company and services from a friend. Amidst the search she found her way working with NYC based incubator Techstars as an associate. Amanda talks a bit about life working for an incubator. One simple idea: “Getting online should not be that difficult.”

Outsource Development 108

Outsource Development Startup Incubator Press 108

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

. —Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) paid over $400 million in August to acquire Nervana Systems , the two-year-old San Diego startup offering its machine learning technology as a cloud-based service. million in a Series D round of investment capital, according to founder and chairman Tony Farwell. I widened my net this year.

San Diego 40

San Diego Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Bartering services for equity. Partner with distributor or beneficiary.

Startup 93

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 93

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

It''s much like a sales team might use software to find leads. Athletes are bombarded by scouting services, by third party services, who promise to get your information to the right coaches. Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. We thought--there has got to be another way.

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Coach USC Statistics Startup 252

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

I understand both of you came out of Science Inc, the startup studio/incubator? Our head of client services, head of sales, and our head of data science all come with the highest level of experience and qualifications. Dave Fink: I was one of the original partners at Sciences, and Jonathan was CTO of the e-commerce staff.

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CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha served a lengthy tenure fulfilling multiple roles at Wells Fargo, most recently as VP of Consumer Financial Services, where she led the mobile payments strategy and implementation for the credit card business. She is particularly interested in applications that leverage AI to automate existing workflows or create new services.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Spread through word-of-mouth as the company has no sales team, all engineers. It’s awesome. Foursquare. -A

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

in sales last year, what he learned from his experience at TechStars, and where he's going with Fanmix. million in sales last year, with great margins, and it's profitable, with a team of ten people. Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version.

Startup 242

Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. I don’t believe that one exists.

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CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

And just like any other business, you need capital to grow faster, services to make you more money, tools to manage it all.”. The program, called The EduCator Incubator, planned to seed 25 to 40 “emerging video creators” with $25,000 to $75,000 in seed funding. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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Platform Marketing Tool Venture Capital 170

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Blippy is a service that allows you to automatically share your credit card transactions as you make them. As with any new service that makes information more transparent there is obviously going to be some public concern. My own view on these services is nuanced. 15mm in Series A. Read more: TechCrunch. Wildfire Interactive.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

According to OrthoWorx, a community-industry partnership in the global orthopedic sector, the cluster of orthopedic businesses in Warsaw has more than $11 billion in annual sales, which is almost one-third of the industry’s world sales volume. The results?

Patents 67

Patents Research Anthem Education 67

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. Dinesh Ravishanker , CEO & Co-Founder at CallFire.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Explain how your service works? Wilson Sonsini, in fact, represents us.

Startup 124

Startup Zag Venture Capital Equity 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Bartering services for equity. Partner with beneficiary company.

Funding 59

Funding Startup Technical Review Equity 59

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

MuckerLab has already secured its reputation as one of the hottest startup accelerators in town with a particular emphasis on product for incubation-stage software, services and media ventures. The Black Tux online tuxedo rental, which is reinventing the customer experience in the antiquated $10B+ tuxedo rental and sales industry.

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Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100