Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

San Diego-based IO Semiconductor , a semiconductor firm which is one of the firms in the CommNexus EvoNexus incubator program, has raised $1.0M The firm said on its site that the funding is part of a "multi-stage funding agreement" with an un-named private investor. According to the filing, the funding is part of a $14.0M

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

El Segundo-based iChange , the online community site focused on nutrition counseling headed by Stuart MacFarlane, has raised another $500,000, as part of an ongoing $600,000 funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. iChange has previously raised funding from business mentoring firm and incubator Momentum Ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. only accredited investors can use crowdfunding sites such as EquityNet to buy ownership in their favorite startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Join a startup incubator. In the early days (25 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Last Monday a group of millionaires and billionaires took a trip to an industrial site in Lancaster, Calif. For Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab and brains behind the excursion, the unveiling was simply the latest in a string of demonstrations for new technologies commercialized by his nearly three-decade old startup company incubator.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

the startup incubator headed by Mike Jones, has just tossed its ring into the another e-commerce category: women's activewear. Science just launched Ellie , a site which offers up clothing for activewear for women, via subscription. Science, Inc., READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2017

StartEngine's site lets investors browse investment opportunities for a wide range of companies, with background on the founders of those companies, their products and technology, as well as tools to manage the actual equity crowdfunding efforts. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2009

SharesPost's site features in-depth analysis of privately held firms such as Facebook, Twitter, Tesla Motors, eHarmony, and other popular privately held firms. Research and VC Experts. SharesPost is the latest company funded and started by BrightHouse, an incubator of early stage businesses started by Greg Brogger and Scott Painter.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based WittleBee , the children's clothing site headed by Sean Percival, announced Wednesday afternoon that it has raised $2.5M The round was led by Rincon Ventures, and also included. SoftTech, Google Ventures, Matt Coffin, CrossLink, and Morado. in a seed funding round. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2012

Pagewoo--which is in private beta--was part of Howard Marks' StartEngine incubator earlier in the year. Financial details of the angel funding round, which closed earlier this year, have not been announced.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Beverly Hills-based OVGuide.com , an online site focused on video discovery and search, disclosed today that the firm has received $5M in funding from Baroda Ventures LLC, the investment firm of former GeoCities founder David Bohnett. OVGuide.com has previously received funding from Baroda, which helped to incubate the firm.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2009

Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of Disney, is one of the investors in Bay Area-based mobile games advertising firm Greystripe , which raised a $5.5M Greystripe said the funding round was led by Incubic Venture Capital, and also included Monitor Ventures, in addition to Steamboat Ventures.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2009

Burbank-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of Disney, is one of the investors in Bay Area-based mobile games advertising firm Greystripe , which raised a $5.5M Greystripe said the funding round was led by Incubic Venture Capital, and also included Monitor Ventures, in addition to Steamboat Ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Solicit venture capital investors. This popular funding source, where anyone can participate, per the JOBS Act in the US, is exemplified by online sites like Kickstarter. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. TripTrotting recruited thousands of local travel guides for their site. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. Get Angel capital and build a prototype.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Solicit venture capital investors. This popular funding source, where anyone can participate, per the JOBS Act in the US, is exemplified by online sites like Kickstarter. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , the equity crowdfunding site led by serial entrepreneur Howard Marks, told its supporters on Friday that it is planning to launch a new, equity crowdfunding effort: for itself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

According to a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

Agtech investment firm Finistere Ventures; private equity firm Cloud Break Advisors; and Israeli venture capital firm OurCrowd contributed to the new accelerator. In Michigan, the Great Lakes Ag Technology Business Incubator is helping farmers turn their ag ideas into businesses.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. It seems like that background matches well to the popularity of crowdsourced hardware on Kickstarter and other sites, do you play there? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Join a startup incubator. In the early days (25 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2017

Those companies will be formed through Versant’s network of laboratory and incubator spaces, a network that is now adding a new site in Europe. Versant takes. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso? Buck Jordan: The story is, I was at the tail end of my last fund, Canyon Creek Capital, and I wanted to try something different. It's equalized finance, and it's equalized an elite, walled-off section of finance, venture capital. What is Miso Robotics?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

This offline event was successful in helping Kaviani find his own cofounder, Culin Tate, and a new venture. Together they envisioned a Match.com type of site for entrepreneurs to find each other and make things happen. s first accelerator called The Fort and raised VC funding. Soon after CoFoundersLab was accepted into D.C.’s

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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. Are you transacting sales through the site yet? Explain how your service works?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. You were most recently in venture capital, what drove you to move down here to Los Angeles and start this up? Erik, thanks for the time. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Zeroblock , the highly successful mobile and web app was recently acquired by the world’s most popular Bitcoin site and online wallet, Blockchain.info. Adam Draper – Of Boost VC, an SF Incubator/Accelerator. Joyce notes one Bitcoin company that Freestyle VC has invested in, and hints there are more on the way.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

There are lots of incubators here-- practically every school or municipality has some kind of incubator--but they don't have an accelerator. The incubator isn't really as focused, and sometime might be more focused on low cost space. This last month was really building out the detail of the product, and launching our web site.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Make Millions: Re-Invent Global Sites for Local Markets. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . Birds of All Feathers: Creative Industry Incubators. Brian Williams, Viget Labs.

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