Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active. So what can you do to get to the head of the venture capital investment queue? Mass mailing your business plan to every VC in the book won’t get you any credibility or traction. Massachusetts and NY states also have high numbers.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. Many businesses that pitch to me have White Elephant issues and I’d like to tell you how to deal with these when you’re raising venture capital. But the VC is thinking about the issue whether you address it or not. You raised $1.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking. Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Don’t corner and barrage that heavy hitter you heard about with your life history at a social gathering.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Pasadena-based Idealab has led a round into LA-spawned Mingly , a developer of software which connects Gmail with a user's social networks. Mingly said it raised $500,000 in a seed round of financing from Idealab, Allen Morgan, Alex Karelin, and other angels Wednesday. and Startup Nights here in LOs Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2010

And this is my chance to give back to all of those people for whom I don’t have enough time in the week for that “15 minute coffee meeting&# that many people wants with a VC. The event is Startup Matchmaking Night organized by William Belk. Tags: VC Industry. Hope to see you!

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2013

Helping solicit new business ideas and patents from individuals, federal research labs, universities and other R&D organizations countrywide. Social network for investors. El Segundo, CA based JumpStarter Inc.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2016

The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking. Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Don’t corner and barrage that heavy hitter you heard about with your life history at a social gathering.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. Quick caveats: having fewer investors (3-5) is better than many investors (10-15) and PLEASE make sure you hire a great lawyer who has experience in doing start-ups to avoid pitfalls that will make VC harder down the line. They might be as hard as raising VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2013

The answer is still the same, but I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking. Join and actively participate in local business organizations. Don’t corner and barrage that heavy hitter you heard about with your life history at a social gathering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. It powers over 1,000 investment Angel and VC groups in 80+ countries. This one claims to be the world’s largest single Angel investor network, with 1,100 accredited investor members throughout 27 chapters on t3 continents. Keiretsu Forum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In fact, he had four development co-founders, built a relationship with Peter Thiel, a top VC who invested early, and enticed Sheryl Sandberg to fill the COO role he sorely needed. With the pervasive internet, and global social networks, it’s easy to be visible and connect to your customers, and they expect it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. The very smart Chris Fralic of First Round Capital is on the board and the angel list is a who’s who of early stage investments. Solve Media is that.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2012

I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking. There are other networks that also work, depending on where you are in the world, like Ryze, Plaxo, and Facebook, but setting up an account on MySpace probably won’t help you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

David: I’m also a serial entrepreneur who has founded half a dozen companies, including Angelsoft, which provides the underlying Internet infrastructure for most of the world’s organized angel investing ecosystem. My first Internet venture in the early 1990s took about $20 million in venture capital to get to our product launch.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In his quest to better connect with new friends, Alex Capecelatro had a problem: none of the existing social networking sites were really designed to connect people with who you didn't know, and might share your hobbies and interests. Alex Capecelatro: Hyphos is a social discovery platform. Was that funding an angel or VC round?

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UCLA Culver City Startup Social Network 187

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. Ever since grade school I've been told organization is my number one problem. Social Networks and Citizen Commerce: Reinventing Ecommerce. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . Having the.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

I have learned over the years that there is an etiquette to this process, just like there is for social networking. There are other networks that also work, depending on where you are in the world, like Ryze, Plaxo, and Facebook, but setting up an account on MySpace probably won’t help you.

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Networking Startup Activity Entrepreneur 97

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

SimplyEvents is a social media website that enables a community of members to shout out location based events and stay connected by tracking fellow friends, family, public figures, organizers, bands, artists etc. is the easy, fun and social way to get together with friends. Organizing a group of friends is hard!

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In attendance we had startups galore with VC's and Angle's mixing and mingling all through the night. TechZulu captured the entire VC/Angle panel and we also had a chance to interview every StartupDemo startup company that participated. VC/Angel Panel. is the easy, fun and social way to get together with friends.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2009

Our company, Jute Networks, is a startup that is about a year and a half old. We build web software that improves the ability of people to manage their networks. We're specifically not a social network. Many times people have extraordinary amounts of relationship capital inside their organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I’d link to it but it’s behind a paywall.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It is an opportunity to get frank feedback from VCs, angels, peers and the technolust. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel. Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

They want a means of representing themselves that is animated, and changeable, and actively communicates in places like MySpace, Facebook, and other social networks. The effort to bring all this to market has taken longer than originally thought when the company was founded and organized, but it's been a steady march of progress.

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Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Pierce is an advisor to Casual Connect, GamesBeat, and Digital Media Wire, an active angel investor and member of BitAngels and an active supporter of non-profit and advocacy organizations and is a member of Clinton Global Initiative. Peter Csathy - CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures. He continues to sit on the board of Sorenson Media.

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

We help them identify products that are safe and health for them and their families, from organic baby food, to household items. For lack of a better word, it's really social shopping--not in the way of using social networking to drive sales, but because moms are social, to allow them to share information regularly online.

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Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many adds came through organic SEO? How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? I got him talking about this on This Week in VC including a quick demo of his dashboard - I think I'll shoot a separate sequence with just a walk-through of their analytics.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

File the Articles of Organization and an Operating Agreement with the Secretary of State’s Office. Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Create and manage your social media presence. Creating a corporation?

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Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Jake Wood serves as President of Team Rubicon , the organization he co-founded following the massive earthquake in Haiti. Team Rubicon unites the unique skills America’s returning veterans offer with the expertise of medical professionals; all while interactively engaging donors through social media. He is the founder of eMinutes.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. What is the True Sentiment of VCs? Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! Now for every dollar a VC raises $2.50

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. I'm Tired of Creating Your Content - Babbling VC , November 12, 2010 Jeff triggered this post in regards to his Check-in Fatigue on Foursquare.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." The government is a Byzantine, reactive organization plagued by its self-imposed hierarchy. government.

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Education Technical Review Research Web 2.0 45

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. Asymmetric – Before Twitter most social networks had “symmetric” relationships meaning that when somebody wanted to follow you, you had to follow them back in order for us to be connected. Not so on Twitter.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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