InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Organic Academia.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2016

At the Upfront Summit this past week there was an electric interview of Fred Wilson led by well-researched and artful Dan Primack of Fortune Magazine that ended up making news. Why could blockchain be a foundational technology that yields many great companies? Do you need to be technical to be a great VC?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. If you need VC, no better time than the present.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The startup is headed by Robert Flynn --a former VC, and co-founder of Liquid Audio, and most recently head of Modern Feed, the company that is now Clicker--who talked with us about his new company. On the other side, we had about one third of our investments in early stage, technology driven companies. What is Aggregage? at that time.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Pinguino Kolb – Owner of Spelunk.in , an online crypto currency magazine. The next portion of the discussion moves into investments into Bitcoin: the currency, technology, and in startups in the space. Adam Draper – Of Boost VC, an SF Incubator/Accelerator. Bitcoin’s PR War. Some rapid fire discussion points.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

“As voice API, voice broadcast and text messaging technology advances and cloud computing becomes increasingly sophisticated, more and more business – across all core market sectors — are discovering why cloud telephony is the future,” said Dinesh Ravishanker, CEO and co-founder, CallFire.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer).

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. An ad:tech Innovation Award-winning company, SteelHouse is the technology industry’s real-time marketing solution for online retailers. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA.

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AUGUST 21, 2011

When I first got into VC I decided I better have some investment themes. So my strategy was to focus on technology heavy companies who could bring measurability and performance to inefficient parts of the digital media landscape. Early online newspapers and magazines were merely digital versions of their physical self.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

Our panelists include: Alyse Killeen – Early Stage Venture Capital Investor and Associate with March Capital Partners. Vishal Lugani – Venture Capital Investor and Associate with Greycroft. YouTube, Microsoft and SyFy. All companies are not created equal, nor do they travel similar paths.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

How to create a technology start-up inside a large organization - based on how we are doing it right. Bootstrapping marketing, Start-up, Technology. . Web and mobile technology have developed differently in Japan than any other country with hardware, Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, japan, Localization. .

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

Today Blodget is running one of the most successful financial online magazines, Business Insider. The site also has the backing of some prominent technology investors including Jeff Bezos the founder and CEO of Amazon, who just sunk $5 million into company and joins the likes of Mark Andreesen and Allen and Company as co-investors.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

Today Blodget is running one of the most successful financial online magazines, Business Insider. The site also has the backing of some prominent technology investors including Jeff Bezos the founder and CEO of Amazon, who just sunk $5 million into company and joins the likes of Mark Andreesen and Allen and Company as co-investors.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

We sat down with Wong--professor emeritus at UCLA--and Liu to talk about the company's roots from research at UCLA, and how it's trying to get past the poor reputation of products in its segment, the debate over whether radiation from cell phones does or does not affect humans, plus its private equity backing by Bridgewater Capital Partners.

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MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. I need to take some VC meetings. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. Him: “I know, I know. Me: “Bullshit.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2009

The second we started talking, I said -- wow, they've really got something here, have a great base, a very good team, and good technology, and the pieces were all in place. Eden Jarrin: We're privately funded, at this time not by venture capital. We were constantly on the Today Show, CNN, Entrepreneur, Time Magazine.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Dan Gould is the another founder of Chill and leads the technology team. Previously, he co-created Farmville, and was the CEO/co-founder of MyMiniLife, Inc.

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MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Optimization technology is not new.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. While I agree that many VCs are crummy seed investors, I think there are some that are excellent seed investors. m the f%*kin’ boss.”.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We found a way to make our venture capital last when it shouldn’t have, at around the same time one of my all time favorite New Yorker cartoons was published on this topic. I thought that, too.

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OCTOBER 25, 2014

When you’re an early-stage business every dollar matters and because many startup teams these days are very product & technology centric they often miscalculate the importance of PR. Fund Raising – No self respecting VC would admit (even to themselves) that they are influenced by what they read about you in the press.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

Strictly for example sake I’ll take our mission at Upfront Ventures. We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get).

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures. He is a frequent public speaker. gigaom.com. . Paul Grahm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

These trusted sources are a new breed of professionals who may soon carry the new title of “information curator,” evolved from the “museum curator” role, where a domain expert filters and communicates the important elements of a past civilization or technology. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.”

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Blogging Java 92

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

But I guess you could say the same about VC. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC. If you want a comprehensive summary of the industry in this era it’s worth a read: VC Ice Age Part 1 – What Happens When a Market Comes to a Standstill? VC Ice Age Part 2 – Why the Market Started Moving Again?

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