TechCrunch LA

APRIL 24, 2020

However, he did confirm to TechCrunch that he had to reduce staff due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company developed an additive manufacturing platform designed to make it easier and faster to design and build new cars at a fraction of the cost — all while reducing the environmental impact that traditional factories have.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review ! While Meta is managing to ship more and more Quest headsets, there anecdotally hasn’t seemed to be much interest in the company’s Horizon Worlds platform and there are few shortcuts towards finding an audience on an unproven hardware platform.

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Marketing Newsletter Technical Review News 246

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. Similarly I liked to keep myself apprised of the technical decisions we were making. Dipping: As a decision maker you rely on information being passed to you by the people who report to you.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2021

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, sposors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. As you may recall the Alliance's mission is to elevate the region as a global leader in innovation, technology & entrepreneurship. We've been posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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Southern California SoCal Technical Review Startup 202

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “ Growth Hacking is Bull ” written by Muhammad Saleem. If you are early in a platform (Zynga to Facebook, AngryBirds to iOS, Maker Studios to YouTube) you catch a major marketing wave where acquiring customers and growing revenue is exponential.

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Technical Review SEM SEO Marketing 384

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s the whole basis of my investment philosophy, which I call “ The Entrepreneur Thesis.&#. It is often the fortuitous mixture of new technologies, customer awareness and then acceptance of the technology and then the slow adoption into our daily lives that leads to markets exploding. He was tech.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. And just when I thought I had the deal that was worthy of bringing to investment committee the world changed. Let’s review all of our existing investments. Eventually you have to invest. It was September 2008.

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Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. As an angel you can look for the social proof in deals “Dave Morin is investing …” to make your decision. Less investments, more active. This is what leads do. If I commit to a $2.5

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Venture Capital Invest Course Technical Review 356

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata rights are one of the most important rights of a private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. They often create the biggest tensions between investors who are investing at different stages in the business. Put simply – if you invested early in Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful to move slowly and not break anything. One issue is do we need regulation on the full platform companies.

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Technical Review Startup Chief Technology Officer Social Media 144

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. And all the platform stuff. So What Does All This Mean? Yves enjoys the same things I do?—?investing

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Venture Capital Startup Invest CitySearch 361

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Before booking a hotel I always check out Trip Advisor and read reviews. Nowhere is social proof more prevalent than in angel investing.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

Los Angeles area entrepreneurs, investors, and startups have gotten to know Paige Craig fairly well over the last few years, as he's made many investments in the local ecosystem. What we're giving companies, is a platform to create, manage, and measure perks for all of their employees. There's a fairly complex platform we've patented.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. The ingredients are all here.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Most investors wait to see who else is investing. &# Social Proof&# weighs heavily on investors in making their decisions. Paul Graham’s assertion that “any startup founder can tell you the most common question they hear from investors is not about the founders or the product, but “who else is investing?&#

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Venture Capital Pricing Technical Review Startup 286

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The service--currently only available on iPhone and Android--allows users to find reviews and information about consumer electronics products. Mickie Rosen: Tecca is the easiest and most helpful independent service for mainstream consumers to learn, shop, and make the most of their personal technology.

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

It’s the first EIR that we’ve had in the years that I’ve been with the firm and I hope will be the start of our investment in this program. We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. ” “Sam?

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Startup Course Ideas Invest 372

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

Visions pan of endless cold emails and long days attending meetups and pitch nights while your operations/tech team grind away. 2013 was a huge year for startup investing to say the least, and with how things have been shaping up in Q1 of 2014, things are going to get a whole lot crazier. From Finance to Crowd-Investing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia).

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2013

The platform allows investors to do their due diligence on their own time, network with other investors and execute deals with little overhead.” The platform carefully vets every company applicant and only presents less than 2% of opportunities to its investor base.

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Software Review Platform Equity Tool 69

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Deena Varshavskaya: Wanelo--from Want-Need-Love-- is a community platform for shopping. I started my first startup right out of school, which failed due to a partnership that did not work out. The next goal is to find advisors, some technology partners, and to seek investment. What is Wanelo? READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Sites Advertising Design 200

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. 1) Mobile web.

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 James (chairman of the Althea Foundation) and appointed Adam Sroka as Senior Vice President of Technology in a move to make business transactions simple and secure. . CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Thus investing in startups should always be approached as a low odds game.

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Invest Angel Funding Startup 111

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 3, 2018

The company’s technology works as a middleware including an SDK and a contract notification and monitoring service. ” Contracts could also be disputed if their execution was triggered accidentally or due to the actions of attackers trying to hack a platform. Thus, we are dispute process agnostic.”

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Software Review Outsource Development Services Technical Review 159

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I have never felt prouder of the team & product at awe.sm ( please visit to check out our latest & be ready for our next big product announcement due out in next month or so) and yet we just brought in a new CEO to the company, Fred McIntyre. Do we price for volume of consumption or for enterprise integration with other platforms?

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Startup Technical Review Product Blogging 303

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. It’s a gathering of friends and tech enthusiasts of all stripes. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech).

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

For starters Uber itself has had to lay off 27% of its workforce due to the pandemic and has been severely impacted financially from the crisis with no immediate respite in sight. Even more likely is eventual technology disruption where drones deliver foods and make it hard for existing car delivery services to compete. Enter ChowNow.

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SaaS Customer Custom Technical Review 242

TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

They’ve also had suppliers sell perishable goods as well — a vendor sold 80,000 dates on the platform a month ago. “We’re Ghost is not alone in developing technology focused on inventory. Last week, Syrup Tech raised $6.3 Syrup Tech bags $6.3M to develop some sweet inventory-planning software.

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Product Funding Technical Review Equity 191

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. But now, those taking assignments have to be rated and reviewed, and have expertise in that area.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2020

However, as a business owner, you know that resting on your laurels can be dangerous, which is why staying up to date with the latest business technology is a necessity. And if you aren't making good use of this business tech, you're missing out. Digital Marketing Platforms. Get started with a digital marketing platform today.

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Technical Review Software Review Social Media Platform 91

Xconomy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Call them tech hubs or startup capitals, they are drawing in our nation’s venture capital dollars. But when it comes to new investments, venture capitalists can’t be so short-sighted. The opportunities beyond these markets may be richer than many realize. We liked the market opportunity.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review Platform 97

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The 29 year-old CEO has, indeed, built a decentralized ghost kitchen — and managed to convince Softbank’s latest Vision Fund to invest in a $120 million round for that the company announced today. In some ways, Nextbite couldn’t exist without Ordermark’s delivery aggregation technology.

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Funding Los Angeles Technical Review Training 263

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

In the “long tail” you can become enormously valuable if you’re a platform. It had the effect of greatly reducing the industry size but also of allowing some less known artists to reach audiences that previously would be unthinkable due to cost constraints. Sadly, no Kindle edition).

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Media Netflix Content Hulu 302

Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. The Case Foundation invests in people and ideas that can change the world.

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Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 137

socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Earlier this week, Good Growth Capital (www.goodgrowthvc.com) announced it has started looking at investments in Southern California, adding Krisztina Holly as West Coast Venture Partner for the firm. What kinds of areas does the fund make investments in? We do pre-Seed to Series A deals. We love coinvesting with great investors.

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