socalTECH

MAY 26, 2011

Jake Winebaum is a veteran of the Southern California technology industry, having run and sold a number of successful, Southern California startups. We raised funding in January from Mayfield, on top of the seed funding we raised at the onset. Jake Winemaub: What we did is we leased a cost containment network.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. Michael Kleist: We''re seed funded, and have already raised money from twelve investors.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Operates a ‘Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising Network’ called MobileAd Xchange that delivers in-call voice advertisements and follow-up visual engagements (SMS, MMS).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Sure, there will always some seed funding (10% of overall deal flow), but you can bet that this money goes to entrepreneurs who have been there before and won. Get introduced via one of the social networks, or a professional organization, before you approach a VC with a business proposal.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Technology has given us the ability to connect with others like never before, but personal access still remains uncommon. Our focus is providing anyone who is active online already with the ability to leverage their existing social networks for monetized one-on-one conversations. Any funding yet? What do you do and Why?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. 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. I hadn’t thought about the fact that he would become aware of my link.

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MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Each of these pocket computers is payment ready & social linked. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Back then Michael Arrington accused some of Silicon Valley’s top seed funds of “colluding” by meeting secretly to talk down the valuation of startups.

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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. The expanding pool of angel, seed, and super seed funds is another. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. believe that is certainly true.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Great technology firms were built during the last dry period and we saw the huge wealth creation of Facebook, Twitter, Tesla and others. Boom and bust. Markets are markets.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves).

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