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Reflections On 2019: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

socalTECH

Leaseville, the pioneer in the virtual lease-to-own (LTO) space demonstrated strong metrics on its new product this year and is now poised to scale significantly. One of our SaaS companies made great strides with a new product. What is the biggest lesson you learned this year? Two lessons learnedand relearned!

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Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

SoCal CTO

Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. The problem is you don't yet have product/market fit, and until you do, you don't really know what to build. These companies are very early-stage and definitely have not shown product/market fit.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

socalTECH

We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online. We went from no suppliers to now over 160,000 suppliers, over two million products online. Michael Kleist: We''re seed funded, and have already raised money from twelve investors.

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Reflections On 2017: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

socalTECH

The attractive by-product is that I am reading more and working out more. I continue to be surprised by some clever SoCal entrepreneurs who are creating out-of-the box companies that are opportunistic and reflect our markets ingenuity. Overall I am optimistic for 2018.

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Armorway Picks Up $2.5M For AI Platform

SoCal Tech Calendar

in a seed funding round. The funding came from Aristos Ventures, private angel investors and investment from serial entrepreneurs, founders and executives from several high tech companies, according to the company.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

Last month, the product launched with $1.2 million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). This relates to another great post Freemium Founders: Start Charging for Things Today!

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