TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2022

If Playhouse facilitates a sale, the app gets a cut of the transaction. million in seed funding from groups like Agya Ventures, Gaingels, Goodwater Capital, Nomo Ventures, PKO Investments and Y Combinator — Playhouse was a member of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 cohort. It’s already secured $2.8

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

At Upfront, our partners have been fortunate enough to be part of 18 companies that have reached north of $1 billion and the average tenure of an investment that exits at this scale is more than 10 years. We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 15 million first checks but we also have three growth funds.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2020

Sharon had already made an investment in the coffee world through a small stake in Blue Bottle and was ready to take the plunge into startup land. The company started off as a direct sales business, giving away coffee to friends and friends-of-friends. Then they started delivering to what Sharon called micro-kitchens.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

These sales allowed us to prove the efficacy of robotic surgery and ultimately led to the creation of the medical robotic industry. If we had waited around for an investor to fund our vision, we’d still be waiting. Banks are precluded from speculative investing, but proven business models with hard assets (e.g.,

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

Our model evolved over time as the landscape changed, from ticket sales and sponsorships to online advertising, content marketing, and consulting. to MVF, while we continue our work advising, investing, speaking, and consulting with some of the most innovative organizations in tech and media. memories on my personal website.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2012

The firm just announced its seed funding round, from the founders of Groupon as other last week, and has launched into Chicago as its latest market. We spoke with Tony Adam , the firm's CEO, about the company's new funding round. Tell us a bit about this seed funding? is trying to figure out.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. If you have raised a limited amount of money from angels, accelerators or seed funds be very careful about having a high burn rate.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

We are in phase three of the influencer economy,” Bain Capital Ventures senior principal Jamison Hill, who led the firm’s investment in the influencer shoutout marketplace Cameo , tells TechCrunch. 2020 will be a watershed year for investment in businesses around the creator economy,” Neil Robertson tells TechCrunch.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

My other co-founder, Rusty Jenkins, was also with that company, doing sales. Can you talk about how your company is funded? Michael Wong: We're with StartEngine, and have received a small amount of seed funding from them. We're also funding it out of pocket. Based on his number, we decided to pivot.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I say, one of the things I'm most product of, is that we're still at it, we've not changed our focus, and we're seeing the same number of companies funded on a fairly predictable cadence. We're on our third fund, and are now investing out of that fund. We basically trebled in size.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Too bad, as the initial funding round has increased over 4,000 times in value, making a $250,000 investment worth more than $1,100,000,000. However, passing on a killer investment is not the worst error an investor can make. However, passing on a killer investment is not the worst error an investor can make.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

So my simple advice is to start PR as early as possible (and certainly earlier than most of your investors will advise) when you have your head around your product plans and are well into execution (or ready to launch) precisely because your recruiting, seed funding and initial user base may depend on it. I have no money?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

.&# This means that the investment does not have a valuation placed on it. If no financing happened then this “note&# may not be converted and thus would be senior to the equity of the company in the case of a bankruptcy or asset sale. He had raised about $500,000 in seed funding that lasted a long time.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

And the end of the story was ultimately a successful sale of the company … so much of entrepreneurship is not sexy but brutal. You’re trying to get you contacts to get you that introduction to Ron Conway to sprinkle his legitimacy on your company through an angel investment.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

Our model evolved over time as the landscape changed, from ticket sales and sponsorships to online advertising, content marketing, and consulting. to MVF, while we continue our work advising, investing, speaking, and consulting with some of the most innovative organizations in tech and media. memories on my personal website.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. Obviously they see big things in Wildfire. 4mm in Series A.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

VCs are looking to make investments that pay off big. That means you need to develop credible financial projections that demonstrate the viability and future potential of your target market and clearly spell out how investing in your business will achieve their return targets. But the bottom line is that it comes down to the numbers.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV. One day, after they made their first investment, a six-figure sum, we figured out we needed to take this money seriously and not be in school. Three years later, there's no looking back, and we've now raised around $2M in total funding. The company has raised $1.9M

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

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. What is BloomNation? It''s all about empowering the florists, and have them show up on local results.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” At Upfront we invested in such a company. I’m just pointing out that it’s not for most people. ” (Warren Buffett).

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. Linktree has been around since 2016 and has more funding than its up-and-coming competitors. Image Credits: Snipfeed. With its $5.5

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

SlantRange, a San Diego company founded almost three years ago, is a drone-related startup already generating sales. SlantRange raised $5 million less than three months ago from a consortium of investors in a Series A round of venture funding led by The Investor Group, a San Diego investment firm.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Club Cooee uses a freemium service model, with the upsell focused on the sale of virtual goods. Club Cooee was founded in 2007, and has received an undisclosed round of seed funding from Aurelia Private Equity. Club Cooee was founded in 2007, and has received an undisclosed round of seed funding from Aurelia Private Equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. So far at the company I have raised seed funds of $500,000 of which $470,000 is still in the bank so I’m in pretty good shape. We have invested heavily in this.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. They know that the money they invest may be lost. Make sure these people understand the nature of early-stage angel investing. How much do they like to invest?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Some of the big milestones we did, include a seed round of financing in the fall of 2015, which was led by Upfront Ventures. That was an insider round, where ssetnailly, Upfront led and angel Brian Spaly, the former co-founder of Bonobos and the CEO of Trunk Club ended up investing. That money was meant for us to expand.

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MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Bottom of the sales funnel. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

You raised your seed funds. You build a team, ship your product, more tech press, more funding. I don’t know if I should keep investing in them. Our inner script is heroic and the struggles are mere battle scars on the inevitable journey to slay King Joffrey. But reality sets in after the first few battles.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! We invested the first $1 million to develop version 1.0 ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. How investors’ risk differ (0:22:45).

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are - Chris Dixon , July 5, 2010 Paul Kedrosky recently speculated that there might be seed fund “crash&# looming. At some point it will be quite obvious whether the super angels’ investments and strategy succeed or fail. at a $2.5M

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