From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Filed under: Accelerator , Blogging , Branding , Design Agency , Digital Strategy , Entrepreneurs , Founders , Responsive Design , Seed Funding , Startup , User Experience , Venture Capital , Web Design Tagged: Amplify , Eric Garcetti , Greenberg Glusker , NextSpace , Social media marketing , Sony Interactive , Staples Center.

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Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 103

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Think about the retailer e-mails we receive daily or the ads that appear on Google or our social media sites. Though based on our Web searches, those ads don’t necessarily represent what we would like to buy. That’s the struggle many retailers have in an age of data analytics.

Commerce 72

Commerce Social Media Google Web 72

Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. He ended up building a digital agency that did everything from custom apps and web development to branding and digital marketing. Taylor started pushing out content through social media and share what was happening in the industry.

Startup 70

Startup Web Development Design Education 70

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Filed under: Accelerator , Blogging , Branding , Design Agency , Digital Strategy , Entrepreneurs , Founders , Responsive Design , Seed Funding , Startup , User Experience , Venture Capital , Web Design Tagged: Amplify , Eric Garcetti , Greenberg Glusker , NextSpace , Social media marketing , Sony Interactive , Staples Center.

Web Design 40

Web Design Social Media Seed Funding Design 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. in initial seed funding for an early stage company. How tough was it to start up a new fund? READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

For start, there are many types of businesses that are large or complex “considered purchases” that have higher close rates over the phone than on a web form. Of course the media doesn’t do nuance well so this is an emotional topic. Why does that matter? But here’s the big “aha.” When you think about what makes Google so valuable?—?it’s

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Venture Capital IP Startup Google 223

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2013

What are the details on your seed funding? round changes things for us, and will let us invest in infrastructure, build our team, invest in media, and also invest in technology to better leverage our spend on media. It''s completely customizable. John Tabis: The announcement today is a $1.1 million round. Closing this $1.1M

Services 215

Services Technical Review Startup Pricing 215

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps. Most people really hadn't tapped into the mobile web. I sold businesses for Evolve Media. It looks like you guys only raised less than a million in seed funding? We saw this firsthand. That teaches you a lot.

Mobile 100

Mobile Startup Content Advertising 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Right from the beginning, we also partnered with a young web development agency for development and technical consulting – they are now more than business partners, they are friends and part of the team. Any funding yet? What inspired them to find it? How unique are you from the competition? Any strategic partnerships?

Networking 71

Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 22, 2009

The founders, who come from gaming, decided to apply their knowledge of the space to IM in a way that would put social media in a more personal, 3D environment. The client installs at just 3MB, but the downside is currently that the service does not support incoming text messages or Web interfaces.

Seed Funding 40

Seed Funding Social Media Conference Equity 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. We're providing seed funding, office space, and put them through a three month, structured program. For those not familiar with accelerators and MuckerLab, explain what it's all about?

Technical Advisors 176

Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Along with helping build Huddlewoo, Ferres is building a web marketing agency called Ciplex and also runs a company called Creative Priority that helps web marketing companies become more successful. Any funding yet? We have received seed funding from a friend and it is personally funded. What Inspired You?

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Mentor Platform Social Network Chief Technology Officer 94

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. Index Seed : Index Ventures carves out seed fund from existing $400mm fund. SV Angel / Ron Conway closes $20mm venture fund. Over demand led the SV Angel team to double the size of the fund to $20 million.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

million in seed funding, Snipfeed plans to build out its e-commerce tools so that creators can sell physical products on their link-in-bio (Beacons and Linktree are also working on this with their recent funding rounds — but Beacons’ and Snipfeed’s seed rounds are small compared to Linktree’s Series B ).

Platform 286

Platform Commerce Startup Tool 286

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today we’re online 3.1

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Both Sides of the Table

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. You need to make it an effort by researching on the web and going and doing 50 coffee meetings with people. This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. The expanding pool of angel, seed, and super seed funds is another. Same goes for television.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

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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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). Today, we’ll cover web design marketing best practices and tips for small business.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217