SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

- SoCal CTO , January 13, 2010 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 No Accounting For Startups - Steve Blank , February 22, 2010 Startup Advice In Exactly Three Words - #StartupTriplets - OnStartups , January (..)

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

In the same way that Black founders are unfairly overlooked in venture capital , Black content creators have had their work stolen and earn fewer brand deals than white creators, studies have shown. Black influencers and startup founders alike face systemic barriers to their growth. ” Once again, TikTok apologized.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2019

The company is currently in an ongoing, Phase 2B study. According to the company, the new convertable loan will support that Phase 2b study, as well as for expansion of its platform into other mucosal diseases, and operational growth. AFYX Therapeutics is lead by CEO Nishan de Silva, M.D., and previously known as Dermtreat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It’s coming from Leif , itself a startup that provides financing services to edtech platforms so that they can offer their students income share agreements (otherwise known as ISAs, arrangements where students are not required to pay back tuition loans until they find jobs).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

is an HR tech platform that makes it very easy for companies to source diverse talent. Companies can get on the platform and set up a company profile, and post jobs, and source candidates for those jobs. We found that those communities exit on many different platforms, like Slack, GroupMe, Facebook Groups, Google, and elsewhere.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Despite the Q1 correction in valuation, and subsequent drop in VC funding, we saw numerous LA companies not only survive, but thrive - despite the macroeconomic trends. I studied East Asian religions in college and was intrigued to hear that a Buddhist monk was delivering meditation and mindfulness via a mobile app.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. Angel vs VC? - Here’s why. Not so bad.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here, we have the thoughts of Clinton Foy , General Partner and Managing Director of Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscut.vc). Venture Capital is a Long Term Game. This year, we focused on diversifying and strengthening our team by recruiting Maureen Klewicki as an investor and senior associate, and Nick Kim as our head of platform.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2019

What we are looking for is platformable, scalable technologies. How did you get into venture capital, and how did you make that leap from scientist to venture capital? What are you looking for in a company and entrepreneur? Our initial checks are between $3M and $20M. Chris Bostick: That's always a great question.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. I'm a bootstrapper, and super-scrappy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. And more recently he has turned that into a fund called CrossCulture VC such that many in Silicon Valley and beyond now know Troy as well. It’s the same story.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

I never asked Marc why he stopped blogging but I presume it is some combo of having started a venture capital firm (which you might guess takes a bit of time) and also allowing some air time for his then-less-well-known compadre. My advice always follows along the line of: Twitter is part media distribution platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. We haven’t hit that wall yet for three reasons: 1) not enough elapsed time, 2) the VC market is frenzied now, too and 3) we haven’t seen a market downturn since the volume picked up.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The company said that its research was in part driven by stories of investors with an "infinite amount of regret"--quoting Los Angeles venture capitalist Mark Suster, who passed on an investment in Uber's seed round with a massive amount of regret. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

“We had originally planned to spend more time with in person care and then actually launch our digital platform — telehealth — in 2021. ” It looks like a timely moment to build such a platform, with telehealth seeing a huge demand spike as a result of the coronavirus. “There’s a huge need.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

“Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator. You should, too. (no,

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2015

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Study your history. Market Size.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 17, 2016

It was joined by two other new backers, Ervington Investments and Alexandria Venture Investments, and previous investors WuXi Healthcare Ventures, Bregua Corp., and San Diego’s Avalon Ventures. Inbio Ventures, a venture capital management company, represented Pharmstandard in the deal. Carmine Stengone.

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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. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

There’s nothing wrong with these businesses but as a VC you tend to see 5 similar ideas all at the same time and knowing that it’s going to just come down to who executes the best it’s hard to pull the trigger on a A-round until you have more data on who’s winning. So Why Imbellus?

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2019

San Diego-based Wheels (www.takewheels.com) was co-founded by Jon and Josh Viner, who were the co-founders of Wag, where they raised nearly $400M in venture capital. One in three riders on our platform are over the age of 35, and many people who wouldn't try a scooter are enjoying our device. That's the consumer side.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). Building on top of platforms. Upon graduating, he went to work at Microsoft.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2016

The business tenants of the sharing economy, with alternative names including collaborative consumption, peer-to-peer economy, or “we-conomy,” always imply these five basic principles and assumptions: Sharing economy platforms create reciprocal economic value. Chefs are beginning to offer peer-to-peer dining platforms or cooperatives.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

s first accelerator called The Fort and raised VC funding. In November 2011, they launched the CoFoundersLab.com platform. They teamed up with Dr. Julie Edge, who received a grant from The Kauffman Foundation to conduct the first study on cofounder relationships. Soon after CoFoundersLab was accepted into D.C.’s

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2009

Vicon makes motion capture devices--reflective markers, along with specialized, high resolution, high speed cameras--which use dots to reproduce motion on a character or to study the movement of a clinical subject. We got started after our seed funding on August first of last year and immediately went to work with platform companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Pitch Session, Startups / Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital (VC) / Angels / Investors. . From an introduction to value pricing to case studies to client relationships, how value pricing can. Funding / VC. Having the.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

But what is unique about Bird is that with each generation of scooter platform we launch our unit economics get better and better. And there are cities like New York City who are desperately in need of new transportation solutions and are currently studying the best way to accommodate electric scooters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

In a study by the US Department of Commerce , women in STEM jobs earn 33 percent more money than women in non-STEM positions. They built the world’s most agile crypto library, and regardless of programming language, platform or market, they can help developers deploy end-to-end encryption and protection within one’s application.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

We built that to 50 people with funding from a VC in Ireland closely connected with the European company. ISPs are looking to differentiate themselves with value added services, beyond just telecom and entertainment services, and you are starting to see themselves looking at a platform and what they can add.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

I studied it, and very much enjoyed it, but by the time I got to my fourth year of school, I figured out I really didn't want to be that engineer in the lab, designing microprocessors. So, I tried to figure out what I could do with my skill set, in engineering, investment banking, and operations, and figured out I could do venture capital.

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