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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Venture and angel investing has long been considered a man''s world--with domination of the industry, executives, financiers, and others by men, with only a few exceptions. The Pipeline Fellowship--founded by Natalia Oberti Noguera--says it has been running angel investing bootcamps for women, looking to active more female angel investors.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

There is a structural reason that VCs are investing at early stages, 2. Many (Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, True Ventures, GRP Partners, Mike Hirshland at Polaris Ventures) do it the right way – we treat it as a normal investment and we don’t have a “options&# strategy with our investment.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Len Short is truly an online marketing pioneer, heading up marketing at Charles Schwab, AOL and then (PRODUCT)RED. Before his career moved online, Len worked on major marketing campaigns for credit card companies and rolled out MCI’s highly successful “Friends and Family” marketing campaign.

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MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). All of this has fundamentally changed the efficiency of the market, with prices anywhere from fifty to seventy-five percent lower. com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. Brett Rossman: ConsumerTrack is a performance-based, online marketing company. What is ConsumerTrack all about?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. We then allow them to understand the true potential velocity of markets online.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

But it highlighted the misperceptions many people have had about serving urban markets. And of course African Americas and Latinos over-index in spend and consumption in many categories including many health & beauty products, movie theater attendance, mobile phone usage and even social media. The story was nearly universal.

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MAY 28, 2013

Our current categories are electronics, photo equipment, cameras, lenses, appliances, music equipment, and baby products. I owned and ran my own search marketing company, and started and ran a digital consulting company. Way back in early 2000, I invested in Priceline, because I always liked that model and have been a fan of it.

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APRIL 1, 2019

For this morning's interview, we had a chat with Eli Portnoy , the CEO and founder of Culver City-based Sense360 (www.sense360.com), Eli Portnoy: We started with food as our first category, and we have been very focused on it, specifically with quick server restaurants. Why it is that you've seen the most uptake in the food sector?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take. I was in the midst of sizing the mobile handset markets in 3 regions: US, Europe and Asia. They were more scientific. I encourage it.

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Statistics Startup Report Research 415

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APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. Are you thematic in your investing or entrepreneur focused? (11:40-14:15). So it is a combination of markets and people. The contextual ad market was attractive. 11:40-14:15).

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Unlike the thirty five different categories on sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter, we only have video projects and YouTubers who need to raise money. We''d invested a lot of money in that, uploading clips to Youtube, and that went very well. What''s Tubestart? We had our own video channel, focused on comedy clips. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We sat down with Scott Morrow President of Curatemedia, to hear more about the firm's strategy and the thinking behind the acquisition and new investment in the firm. Scott Morrow: Sports/outdoors is quite interesting, that's the fastest growing lifestyle category in e-commerce. What verticals are you thinking about?

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MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment One: Jim’s background and Clearstone’s investment strategy. We also talked about Elevation Partners who invested in Palm and how this deal really salvaged their investment, which was a VERY big bet on Palm.

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MARCH 28, 2014

To hear how he bootstrapped the company to that size, we caught up with Asher earlier this week for a quick interview. We organically invested in Bangalore and India, and that''s the reason we are profitable. As someone with a good view of the mobile ad market, are there any things you think about at the industry level?

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Startup Mobile Advertising Organization 196

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Scott Cannon , the CEO of BigRentz (www.bigrentz.com), which is creating an online marketplace for big equipment--an industry known notoriously as not adopting new technology. We bring value to those small guys who can't compete against a $60 million marketing budget. One of my partners was St.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We set up a digital media fund, which had the goal of investing in new digital media properties, ideas, and concepts. Why did you decide to incubate this firm--rather than fund something already in the market? We're still actively seeking those out, and continuing to find those investment opportunities and invest in them.

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

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JANUARY 17, 2017

In emerging markets and the developing world, access to banking, capital, and financial resources is fare more difficult than here in the U.S., Shivani Siroya: Tala is a data company that is working in emerging markets. What we've developed, is an Android app that allows us to open up financial access to customers in emerging markets.

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MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. What are the biggest challenges today for your company?

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SaaS Startup Customer Custom 113

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. Who are your ideal customers and market?

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Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203

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APRIL 22, 2016

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Jason Reid , CEO and Co-founder of Giftagram (www.giftagram.com), which announced a $3.2M How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. How does Giftagram work?

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APRIL 14, 2010

Our interview this morning is with Lolita Carrico, founder of Gloss Network for Women (www.mygloss.com), an online network of sites focused on women. Those are our three biggest categories as far as sponsorship and readership. Brands are definitely investing it in the women and mom's space. We're also investing a lot in video.

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Networking Social Media Startup Search Engine Optimization 230

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MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. But it’s more atypical for investors located in this market.

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JULY 18, 2011

I must say I’ve become a regular user of ShopperSeeks every since this interview. And you will to after this interview. I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: What’s been the most after sought category of items?

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MAY 21, 2013

Darren Clark: It was officially May 9 of 2012, when David and I and others within YP and AT&T decided that given where we were with AT&T, their core focus on wireless, we should figure out how to take the business out of AT&T, so that we would not be constrained on our investments, and we could go after markets in a more strategic way.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

A small percentage of people in each free-market society generate the jobs for everyone else. Thus, you can pursue new markets that are further from the mainstream and too small to interest a BDC. Exercise II: Your Fortune Magazine Interview. How did you establish and maintain your leadership position in the market?

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MAY 21, 2013

I think their number is a bit higher than that, but it also skews towards the lifestyle category--restaurants and retail. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. We''re now figuring out to take that to market and driving it through our sales channel. READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

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APRIL 13, 2011

The following is a brief series of quotes from just ten of the approximately 30 different topics discussed in this incredible interview. I decided well if I am going to be investing in this stuff at least I need to understand what it’s like to have a blog, to be generating content, and it was quite interesting at the very, very beginning.“.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

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JUNE 9, 2010

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. Stay Tuned.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This morning's interview is with Billy Fried , co-founder and CEO of Kijubi (www.kijubi.com), a new startup which is looking to help people find travel activities. We've really set out to solve the problem we saw, which is a vast category of travel information which is not aggregated well on the web. It's down in Laguna Beach.

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JUNE 9, 2010

To understand why investors are finding the firm so interesting, and why the company raised such a large round, we spoke with Adam Bernhard , CEO of the firm, about the company and funding, how email has allowed the firm to get past the "Google trap" of marketing on the web, and where the firm is going. Adam, thanks for the time.

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MARCH 26, 2009

We handle all of the online distribution, marketing, and lots of seemingly small, but very important things that have to be done. We're investing pretty heavily in people and upgrading systems and tools those folks use to do their job. So, we're happy to make those investments in our operations. Our platform allows that.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Our technology, instead of having your remember a password, instead has you remember three categories of images. It has nine pictures or more on screen, and in each location there are pictures that contain pictures from your category or have different letters in different locations. That might be a car, boat, or an airplane.

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JULY 8, 2009

So we quit our jobs about two years ago, and invested hundreds of thousands of dollars of our own money, and developed a prototype and started knocking on doors. We knew we were onto something big, and starting knocking on VC doors because we realized if we wanted to syndicate our data, we needed the investment.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Two Wharton students needed new suits for the dreaded MBA interview season. The two Founders then offered their security software for free on the Internet and it quickly became one of the most popular open-source security solutions on the market. Investors invest in people, not ideas. What is the market? Fashion Show.

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Ideas Startup Pricing Entrepreneur 153

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MAY 21, 2009

Brian Nilles, the firm's CEO, is no stranger to the 3D animation and computer graphics market, having served for ten years as CEO of Vicon Motion Capture, and he sat down with us to chat Darwin Dimensions and what's special about the firm's avatar software. There's a broad set of categories, and even others we hadn't anticipated.

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