SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 5, 2018

At our next Orange County FundingPost event at the Eureka Building in Irvine, the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing (VCs and Angel investors), and a fireside chat about ICO basics: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! ICOs raised a global record 6.7

Orange County 100

Orange County Tech Coast Angels Angel Oracle 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). There is one source that was always problematic for me – intros from investment bankers. This is no criticism of the investment banking industry (although I’m sure some will read it this way) for which there are very useful purposes. I hustled.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Startup Pricing Invest 347

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

So I would go to lunch with our senior architect and ask 50 questions about the differences between Postgres , MySQL and Oracle databases. At my first company we went with Oracle because it had better handling of “ clustering &# at the time where we could have multiple instances of databases that we could keep synchronized.

Startup 308

Startup CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 308

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). There is one source I never liked and no early-stage VC should – investment bankers. This is no criticism of the investment banking industry (although I’m sure some will read it this way) for which there are very useful purposes. I hustled.

Startup 361

Startup Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review 361

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

How much investment capital will you need to pull this off? When you sit down to start working on a business plan, grab four blank sheets of paper and write the words Opportunity, Solution, Execution, and Outcomes across the top. What could go wrong, and what can you do to mitigate the risks? Now, start brainstorming.

Startup 91

Startup Oracle Entrepreneur Ideas 91

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I had the former head of Oracle, UK, Philip Crawford , on my first board and I found his advice and experience invaluable. I was a SaaS company and he had been on the Executive Board and the Strategy Council for Larry Ellison at Oracle and he taught me some key lessons about sales and he served as a useful buffer between my investors and me.

Startup 187

Startup Writing Venture Capital Oracle 187